Disclaimer: I, tojju, hereby do not own LWD.

A/N: Uhh, I noticed I never gave Derek's Ex-girlfriend a name in The Odd Couple. So, now I am.

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Chapter 2: Chad and the Ex

"So you all think we've been kidnapped?" Sally asked, grabbing all of their attention. The whole room nods their heads. Sally covers her mouth, "You're kidding me." She tries to shake off that possibility, "There has to be another explanation for this, it just—." Derek walks up to her, "There are two dead people in a room next to this one. There is no other explanation."

"Actually—." A familiar voice echoes from the corridor. "There is."

"Who are you?" Sam asked. Sally turns around to the person, now standing right behind them in the doorway. "Chad!?"

"Lucy!?" Derek bursts out, as his ex-girlfriend from which Casey had a little brawl with earlier that week walks up beside Chad. Casey snaps her neck, and covers her hair with her hands.

"It looks like the introductions are covered, now onto my theory." Chad said locking his attention on the infants cradled in Derek and Casey's arms. "Like I said, there's another explanation, one that might be hard for you all to take seriously," Chad turns his head to Lucy, "It took a few hours for Lucy to accept it."

"Wait," Derek said. "A few hours? How long have you both been awake?"

"Well, it seems we've been awake for awhile. I mean it's kind of hard to tell time when your watch is frozen at a fixed time, so I'm just assuming we've been up for maybe six hours, give or take a few," Chad replied. Derek eyes widen, "My watch froze too!" Derek turns to Casey, "I knew something was messed up about that."

Chad nods his head. "That makes my theory even more plausible," he says, with a serious tone.

Everyone looks at Chad, waiting for him to present his theory. Chad clears his throat and pauses, looking around the room, "Abduction." Chad's audience stares at him as if they had already thought about that.

"We know, that's what we already said," Emily said. Chad looks at Lucy then takes a glance at everyone, clearing his throat once again, "Alien abduction." The entire room is dumbstruck; the baffled atmosphere explodes in to laughter. Chad jerks head between each person, "Hey hey, what's so funny?!"

"Seriously, what's your theory," Sally said.

"That's it." Chad replied, adamantly.

The laughter subsides and Casey speaks up, "You honestly think we were abducted by aliens?"

Chad nods his head, "It explains a lot."

"What does it explain?" Noel replies.

"The unconventional rooms, frozen watches, tremors, and most importantly," Chad pauses to grab every ones attention, "The even number of males and females. This is screaming alien abduction."

Casey looks down at the baby in her arms, "Don't be so sure about that. These could both be the same sex." Casey checks the baby, at the same time motioning to Derek to do the same. Casey looks up at Derek, "This one's a boy."

Derek raises his head, "Girl."

Chad smiles, "You see! I'm not crazy!"

"Hold on there cowboy, that doesn't mean anything. It could be just a big coincidence," Noel said.

Chad throws his hands up in the air in frustration, "its people like you that make people like me seem insane." Lucy grabs onto Chad, "Whoa whoa, calm down." Everyone stares in amazement.

Chad takes a deep breath, "Sorry for my outburst…" Chad looks at Noel for a reply. "Noel," Noel replied.

"Yes, Noel. Everything you've seen here just adds to my theory. I assume you all had a power outage and heard a high-pitched noise before blacking out?"

They all shake their heads. "Exactly, and let's not forget the two dead people you mentioned in the other room. Maybe they didn't survive the probing," Chad shrugs his shoulders. Derek cocks an eyebrow, "Probing?" Derek ponders, shaking off the feeling of being probed. "Now that you mention it, you do make some sense Chad," Derek said. The others stare a Derek, like the way they stared at Chad.

Derek turns his head, "What? He guessed the babies right. And the same crap happened to them also. All I'm saying is that an alien abduction sounds just as plausible as a regular kidnapping." Chad smiles, and looks towards the others.

"Yeah, I'm with Derek on this too," Sam replies. Emily turns to Sam in awe. Sam looks back at her, "Hey. If you've watched enough science-fiction movies like me and Derek, you'd agree too."

"This isn't a movie, this is real," Emily drills.

"Your right, this is real," Lucy says, "But how do you explain the way the doors opened up?"

Emily looks at her confused, "Like regular doors, I don't know, they were already open when I came too."

Derek interjects, "They didn't open up like regular doors. They just appeared, in a blink of an eye."

Lucy nods her head, "Yes, first there was a wall, and then the next second there was a door. No sound." Derek grins at Lucy, nodding his head as well. Casey notices the exchange being given between Derek and Lucy. "Alright, alright," Casey says, moving closer to Derek. "Alien abduction, kidnapping, what ever, let's just find a way out of here."

"But if we are abducted, it would be kind of hard to find a way out. One: We could run in to the aliens. Two: We find an exit…into space! And become human popsicles. Third: Well, I can't think of anything worse," Chad explains. A big sigh envelopes the room.

"We'll take our chances," Noel replies.

"Lead the way Chad," Sally orders. "Fine, but I hope I'm wrong. Humans I can deal with, but not aliens." As Chad turns around to the corridor, every one sighs again. Chad takes Lucy's hand and Derek notices it, "Hey Emily, can you hold her for a second," he says, handing the baby to her. "Yeah," Emily replies, smiling down at the infant. Derek moves towards the front where Chad and Lucy are, "Hey." Chad turns around, "Yo." Derek looks at Lucy then back to Chad, "Were you two together before the blackout."

"Yeah, we were doing the—,"

Lucy nudges Chad in the gut to stop him from saying what she thought he was going to say.

"dishes together," Chad finished, rubbing his stomach.

"Uh….huh," Derek cocks an eyebrow, "Dishes, right. So you two are a thing?"

"A thing indeed Mr. Derek," Chad grins. Lucy gives a slight acknowledgement. She feels somewhat embarrassed over the whole incident(refer to "TOC" ch.5) at the party on Sunday night, and a little hesitant to conversing with Derek. Derek senses her reluctance, "Lucy, don't worry about what happened at the party. The past is the past." Lucy gives a semi-smile. "I'm sorry I overreacted, I guess I was hanging on to some lingering feelings for you, and when I saw you, it just…well you know," Lucy confesses.

"Don't try any funny stuff Mr. Derek," Chad adds, putting his arm around Lucy waist. "I'm in full-awareness mode." Lucy chuckles.

"No worries Mr. Chad," Derek snorts.

Chad suddenly makes a full stop and raises his right hand, making a fist. Everyone bumps in to him.

Chad turns around with a glare, "Tch. Don't you know what a raised fist means? It means to be stop and be silent. You all failed both. Now we're dead."

"What are you on about now?" Derek sighs.

"If you haven't realized, we've been walking in circles, quite literally," Chad spins around. Noel walks up towards Chad and looks at one of the room on his right, "Your right."

Chad nods his head.

"How can you tell the rooms apart?" Emily asks.

Derek points inside the room, where the two dead people are laying, "Look,"

Emily gasps, "So there really were two—." Emily looks up at Casey, who sends a frown.

"Yeah," Derek shakes his head.

"Question," Chad interrupts the little memorial. He captures every ones attention.

"What?" Derek asks.

"You were all paired up in your own rooms, right?" Chad asks.

"Yeah."

"I have another theory," Chad informs. Everybody's heads slump. Chad sadden by their reaction, "Fine, I'll keep my theories to myself from now on."

"Good," Noel replies. Derek shoves into Noel, "Don't listen to this guy, go ahead." Noel makes a facial expression as if he's ready to fight. Derek matches it. Sally intervenes, "Take your alpha male macho crap somewhere else."

"I'm like Helen of Troy," Chad smiles, "With you two fighting over me."

Derek and Noel snap their heads toward Chad. "You?!" They reply in unison. Chad nods enthusiastically.

"Chad!" Sally yells. Chad puts his hands up in defense, "I'm just playing around, trying to lighten up the mood." Sally sighs, "Just tell us your damn theory."

Chad's jester-like demeanor changes into a serious one, "Alright, if we have been abducted, like I think we have. There's chance that all the girls here, minus the infant could be impregnated with an alien hybrid, with the purpose of producing an invasion force that can withstand Earth's harsh environments."

The group stares at him in bewilderment.

"What? I'm serious!" Chad says. Lucy pats him on the back, "A little too early."

"Everyone start touching the wall, and hopefully we'll be able to make a door appear," Derek orders, putting his hands on the wall opposite the rooms.

"Good idea!" Chad joins in. The whole group feels the wall, hoping that just one right touch on the right spot will create an opening. After a few minutes, everyone stops except for Derek and Chad. Chad notices a ripple in the wall, inconsistent with the ripples created by him. He puts his hand over the ripple and vanishes.

"Chad!" Derek yells, running to the spot once occupied by Chad not but a few seconds ago. Everyone gets up.

"What? What happened?" They say.

"I don't know Chad just disappeared." Derek informs, shaken. Derek puts his hand close to the ripple, "He was like this, then he van—." Derek vanishes just like Chad.

"Derek!" Casey cries out, running towards the vanishing point.

"No one touch the wall!" Noel yells, putting himself between the wall and the others.

A/N: Now, I know I wasn't be subtle with where this story is going, lol. I didn't really feel in the writing mood when I wrote this, I just wanted to get something up, so if ti seems mediocre or thrown together, that's why. Next chapter will reveal even more, stuff you probably would have never guessed.

Lates.