Yea, I know I'm already working on a story in a completely different genera but the lack of Hangover fics was driving me batty so I decided to throw one out there. Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own personally created characters, all rights reserved to whomever yada, yada, yada...

Chapter 2: The Golden Coast

The second Audrey stepped out the back of the massive airplane that had carried her for the last six hours it was impossible to mistake where she was. California has a certain air about it that no one can truly pin point unless they've been there. The smell of salt water hung in the hot May air and stuck to Audrey's skin for the first time in eight years. The flight hadn't been terrible just long and rough at times. Still she was home. After arguing with the car rental people for over half an hour Audrey finally gave up and pulled out the 'I am a federal agent, please don't make me call my director about this.' She must have scared the people a bit more than she realized because the car they gave her was a very expensive 2009 Dodge Charger.

With her GPS directing the way it didn't take Audrey long to find her brother's apartment. It was already late, pushing five and though the time difference was only a few hours Audrey was going to need some serious caffeine to get use to the new time zone. The apartment complex that Doug called home was simple but still very modern. White washed walls and a small fountain out front along with palm trees gave it a polished Californian look. The sky turned a mix of pastel colors as Audrey carried her tired feet to the front office and upon opening the door the air that hit her was so hot and heavy that it damn near threw her down.

"Hi I'm special agent Audrey Billings," The office wasn't very large but there was a woman sitting behind a counter with a paperback romance novel in one hand and a portable fan in the other. As she pulled out her badge Audrey prayed that the air conditioning worked in her brother's apartment. "I need to see inside apartment room D284."The woman who didn't look a day over 18 pulled herself from her daze and gave Audrey's badge a hard look. Upon realizing it was real her dark eyes widened and her book slipped from her grasp with a loud thud.

"Huh?" Her Latino accent was thick and filled with utter confusion.

"Federal business." The point had yet to click with this woman. Her gaze was still blank and for a moment the D.C native wondered if she had melted into the wallpaper. "The key please." That did it.

"Yea yea here you go. Is Mr. Billings in trouble-" The woman stopped mid way through handing Audrey the key with the bright label of D284. "wait you're his sister." Oh another shocking revelation Audrey thought to herself. Forcing a smile Audrey nodded her blonde head and slipped her badge back onto her belt.

"Ha, yes I am. I was kind of hoping you would tell him and have him freak out a little." The woman cast a strange almost disapproving glance at Audrey's attempts of surprising her brother. The sky was darkening outside the small rooms windows and Audrey's patience was beginning to run thin. Soon her brother would be getting home and though California wasn't her favorite place she was at least the tiniest bit excited about seeing her brother again. Wedding business on the other hand, it just wasn't Audrey's cup of tea.

"You Billings… very strange people." Maybe she meant it as a joke none the less the humor of it was lost on Audrey who turned cold and gave the woman a hard look.

"The key?" Pushing her hand over the cabinet and into the office woman's personal space it was clear that the conversation was over. She was tired, hungry and really needed to pee.

"Oh yes here" Audrey took the key and shoved it roughly into her pocket. She waved at the woman as nicely as she could muster before heading towards the door. "do you want me to tell him you've arrived?"

"No." With that Audrey closed the door behind her and headed back to her car. Complex D was further from the main road and had a nice view of the city below. Pulling the key from the ignition Audrey lent over the steering wheel and peered out the windshield. Breathing a long sigh at the thought of being home she took a minute to take in everything, after this who knew when she'd be back here.

Doug's apartment was defiantly a man's with its dark furniture, large flat screen and mix matched kitchen appliances. Sitting down her things Audrey let out a loud whistle and bent down on one knee. Thundering in came an old border collie with bright blue eyes. Kodak had been Audrey's pet when she was eighteen and when she moved out she was forced to give the puppy to her brother yet in his old age the dog still recognized her. After a few minutes of searching with Kodak at her heels she found the bathroom and then the beloved guest room. Searching through the drawers Audrey found a pair of worn in gym shorts and slipped them on before crawling into the dark bed for a much needed nap.

Audrey hadn't been asleep thirty minutes when the light clicked on above her head. The federal agent shot up in her bed like a bullet with her hand already on her gun. In front of her was a man that was defiantly not her brother and like a flash she was standing up with the barrel of her gun pointed directly at him

"Wow what the hell!" Phil had no idea what was going on, with the divorce and Doug's wedding going on the fact that there was a strange woman asleep in his bed that he didn't remember didn't entirely shock him. Still when she jumped up and pointed a gun between his eyes things turned sour.

"Who are you?" Audrey's voice was demanding and her grip on her pistol's trigger guard would only take one quick move to becoming suddenly deadly. This apartment was Doug's, she knew that because it was littered with pictures of him and their family but this man was far from her short and dark haired brother. He was tall with sandy brown hair and shocked bright blue eyes.

"Who the fuck are you?" Phil held his hands in the air and kept his eyes on the woman in front of him. Her hair was a mixture of blonde and brown and currently in a very messy bun at the side of her neck. Her blouse was less than half buttoned and the shorts she wore were actually his. What the fuck was going…

"Audrey Billings, stay still or the first ones in your knee." The woman's voice was beyond serious; it was deadly and even with sleep still in her eyes she tried her best to not blink. A sudden realization seemed to wash over the man's face and the hands he had been holding high in the air fell to his sides.

"Can't be." Yea, it made sense for Doug's sister be here but she lived miles away and looked nothing like this the last time he saw her. Then again she had been in the middle of a massive fight with her parents and sporting a black eye. Still Phil thought he should be able to find something, some spark that was the Audrey he had grown up tormenting.

"Or your eye if you prefer." There it was; that snarky bitchy attitude that was suddenly insanely sexy. Even when she was young Audrey always had a comeback for whatever her brother's friends would throw her way.

"No Audrey it's me Phil," Phil leant forward and patted his chest. "Doug's best man." For the first time Audrey faltered, her gun dropped slightly from its target and she blinked her eyes hard in attempt at a better focus.

"Phil…Phil Wenneck?" Audrey didn't drop her defenses completely her legs were still spaced perfectly apart, her grip on her baretta still strong as ever. But then the man in front of her nodded and sported a small smirk, a smirk Audrey knew too well but hadn't seen in ages. "God I almost fucking shot you." Dropping her gun down Audrey pointed the barrel at the floor, worked the slide and caught the bullet that popped out.

Phil had to catch his breath from everything that had just gone down in the last minute. Not just the fact that a gun had been pointed at him but it had been pointed at him by a woman in a shirt that was a button away from not existing and his favorite pair of gym shorts. Audrey looked like a completely different person but the attitude hadn't changed like everything else.

"Well thanks for the self control." Audrey ignored Phil as she crashed back onto the bed and put a hand over her beating chest. She had fired a gun a thousand times before and had to deal with what it felt like to put a bullet in a body. Still she hadn't had anyone walk in on her like this since she was a teenager; none the less, the sarcasm in Phil's voice didn't go unnoticed. Looking out the corner of her eye she watched him closely as he sat his bag down on the dark dresser and pushed his hands through his hair.

"What are you doing here?" Turning around Phil leant against the opposite wall and took a second to gaze over the woman spread across his bed before answering.

"I live here." As much as he hated to admit it he did live there. Stephanie had taken everything in the divorce, the house, the majority of what was in it, and she had Eli with her. That hurt most of all.

"No you're married-"

"Was married." The caught Audrey's attention and she shot up off the dark cotton sheets. The room was cold and the breeze created from her own movements gave her goose bumps as well as releasing her long hair from its tie.

"What?" Once again Phil was having to indulge in yet another person about his misfortunes.

"Divorced," Phil made sure to say his words slowly. "single, opposite of marriage." Sure he didn't need to elaborate seeing as after the first word Audrey's eyes immediately softened. She understood but clearly didn't appreciate the sarcasm because all sympathy quickly slipped off her face with Phil's demeaning tone.

"Ok smart ass," Audrey shifted around so that she was directly facing the man in front of her and pointed a finger at him that was still numb from being slept on. "I don't appreciate sarcasm when it's directed to me" Even in her anger Audrey still felt the slightest bit bad for Phil and once again opened herself up to being kind. "and I'm sorry about Stephanie." If there was one thing Phil hated it was pity and his body stiffened at just the mentioning of his ex wife's name.

"Well excuse me but you're in my room." Pulling his shirt over the top of his head Phil tried his best to catch the reaction on Audrey's face and though he didn't see it he was sure it was there. The younger woman quickly sat up straight and refused to look anywhere but directly in his eyes. Strolling over he came to a stop directly in front of Audrey and enjoyed the view he gained from his height. "Unbutton that shirt a little more and I won't have a problem with it." The second he reached out for the collar of her shirt Audrey snatched Phil's wrist and forced him to his knees.

"Phil I just flew in on a C-130 from D.C," Phil bit his lip in pain but didn't dare move. "I've been patted down far too thoroughly at the airport" Audrey's breath was cool on the side of his face as she leant forward to where he sat on his knees beside the bed "and Doug didn't say jack shit about you living here so can you please let me get some sleep." Letting go of Phil's wrist Audrey rolled back over onto the inviting bed and buttoned up her shirt.

"As long as you scoot over." Before she had the chance to shift so much as an inch Phil crashed down on the bed beside her, technically it was more like on top of her. With all the strength she could muster Audrey pushed against the body on top of her long enough to crawl out from under it. Phil watched as she leant over him and grabbed her pistol, once again admiring the view. She stopped for a second and gave him her best 'don't fuck with me' look.

"You do know I will hurt you if you try anything." After retrieving her gun Audrey threw herself down on the other side of the bed. Phil was busy rubbing his sore wrist and didn't notice the woman next to him as she stretched her hands high above herself before settling into her pillow.

"Whatever," Phil's demeanor was sour but he still enjoyed having a woman next to him in bed, even if it wasn't one that was particularly happy about it. Since he signed the papers two weeks ago he hadn't been this close to woman, not so much from lack of trying, something just kept getting in the way. "I've got to go to some rehearsal for the wedding tonight and really need some fucking shut eye."

"The rehearsal's tonight?" Audrey's voice came out almost panicked, not that she hated the idea of having to go somewhere as much as the fact that everyone she had ever known from home would probably be there.

"Yup."

"Damn…" Audrey fell back into her pillow only this time she laid on her stomach and gazed up at the man next to her. Phil's arms were pushed behind his head and his tan skin was something to be desired but Audrey refused to think of him that way. Phil had been the boy that picked on her from early childhood up until she moved out and drove her up a wall with nick names like princess hymen.

"Don't sound so excited." Keeping his eyes on the ceiling Phil tried to keep all the dirty images that had popped back into his mind the second Audrey shifted her body and unknowingly brushed against him.

"No it's just that I'll have to go now…" Pulling her head up Audrey picked at a loose thread on the corner of the pillow. "I was really going to try and get some sleep." As tired as she was Audrey knew there was more to it than just that. None the less Audrey knew how to hide her emotions and hide them she did.

"Jet lag?" This time Phil mustered up the self control to turn to woman at his side. Her eyes looked like they were busy cooking up a plan and she sucked hard on her bottom lip. Dead puppies, Nancy Grace, broken bones! Forcing disgusting images into his head Phil pulled a pillow over his lap. Audrey honestly didn't know how she expected to handle tonight but if she was built to withstand hours of torture without buckling one dinner with the family couldn't be all that bad.

"Phil?" The sound of someone else in the apartment made the two jump out of their skin. If it had been anybody but Doug's sister Phil wouldn't care about the conclusions he could draw from the situation at hand but he knew this was uncharted territory here. Jumping up he grabbed his shirt and slid it back over his head as quickly as he could and just as he was fully clothed again Doug appeared in the door way. "Audrey!" In the blink of an eye Audrey had propelled off the bed and into her brothers arms.

"Hey big brother." Doug wrapped his arms tight around his sister and the happiness that bottled up inside of him shined through in his smile. Even with the prospect of Vegas he hadn't expected her to take him up on his offer but here she was, bright eyed and smiling.

"God I'm glad you're here." Pushing away from his sister Doug held her at arm's length and gave her a hard look just to make sure she was actually there. She had bed hair but her face was lit up, unlike how it had been last time he saw her.

"Doug you saw me two months ago." In attempts to clean herself up Audrey smoothed out her shirt and patted at her wild curly hair. Though Doug was her brother through and through they didn't look that much alike. In a strange twist of irony Audrey had inherited her father's height in a somewhat shorter stature as well as his light hair but her almond eyes were just like here brothers with a slight variation in color.

"Yea but you look different." Well that's off putting. Audrey quickly scanned over herself, she didn't look that disheveled, casual yes but not that bad. Hell she was pretty sure Phil didn't mind what she was wearing, he had after all been staring at her this whole time.

"Bad?" The second he saw the look on her face Doug could tell what idea he had put in her head. Shaking his head he stumbled over his words.

"No, no of course not-" Audrey smiled but the moment was quickly ruined by Phil who leant in and retorted.

"She almost shot me." With the way Doug's eyes practically popped out of his head Audrey took the chance to step back and walk over to her bags. If there really was a rehearsal tonight that she'd have to dress up nice and she really wanted a shower anyways.

"Phil, oh shit" Reaching into her things Audrey grabbed her toiletry bag and searched through her clothes for something appropriate. "Audrey I completely forgot about Phil staying with me." There was her blue dress with the cute buttons, maybe with a cardigan she could style it down.

"Thanks Doug." Phil took his seat at the edge of the bed and watched as Doug's mind went to work at how to handle the situation as well as noticing the cute little strawberry tattoo on the inside of Audrey's ankle, he'd have to ask her about that later.

"You can have my bed." Doug hated the idea of taking the couch but hated the idea of giving it to his sister even more. She was his company and more importantly his baby sister, he wouldn't subject her to having to deal with Phil rummaging through the kitchen in the morning while she tried to sleep. Audrey on the other hand hated to put anyone out and standing up quickly she prepared for the argument that was about to start.

"No Doug don't worry about it." With her dress in her hand Audrey stepped back to her brother with her intimidating eyes. "I can just get a hotel." If the look on his face wasn't enough Doug shook his head all while trying to make a firm stand himself, he knew how Audrey worked and knew she could force him to do what she said with just a few moves.

"No, no you're my sister" Grabbing Audrey by the shoulders Doug held her still while he looked her in the eye. He wasn't going to let her win this one. "I'm not letting you stay in some dingy hotel." Audrey opened her mouth to protest but didn't get the chance.

"She can have my bed." The two siblings head snapped up in shock. Phil didn't understand the look on their faces, kindness wasn't completely unheard of from him, not that his students would agree. Audrey couldn't hold back the smile that pulled at the corners of her mouth and being oblivious to the way Doug watched the two of them Phil returned the gesture with slightly more oomph.

"Dear god…its finally happened." With a hand on his chest Doug mocked his good friend. Phil who hadn't been paying much attention turned back to the only other man in the room. "Phil, he's finally shown an act of kindness on a stranger." Yet again Audrey found herself smiling, even laughing at that. Putting her hand on her brother's arm she leant forward and whispered not so quietly.

"Maybe his heart grew three sizes." Doug responded with a slight jab in the ribs and a small chuckle.

"Shut the fuck up and Audrey is not a stranger, she's your sister." Phil knew Doug wouldn't buy that but maybe Audrey would and when it came down to it that was all that mattered seeing as he had no intentions of trying to sleep with Doug, Audrey was a completely different story.

"Wow Phil I'm touched." Audrey tossed her dress onto the bed and headed back towards her bag, she needed shoes and her curling iron. If this was the first time she was going to be seeing people in years she was going to make an impression.

"Care to elaborate?" That made Audrey stop mid step and cast a death glare at the man in front of her. Instead of returning it he merely grinned wider, every guy likes a challenge.

"Phil I'm right here." With that Audrey headed for the bathroom while Doug cast one last narrow eyed glance at his best friend before heading to his own room. "Enjoy the couch!"

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