Here's the first chapter! This basically gives all the information about everybody, and don't worry, the real stuff will start happening next chapter.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Big Time Rush or Tower Heist.
It's 5:00 in the morning in Brooklyn, but that is a regular day now for Kendall Knight besides his playing time for the New York Rangers on the weekends. He puts on his uniform and hears the radio while grabbing a cup of coffee. However, before he leaves the house, he walks to his computer, and enters a chess move as he plays with Arthur Shaw online.
"You can have my rook, but I will take that. Boom."
As he walks outside, every morning he is always annoyed by a man named Slide who is about the same age as him, but he always acts likes he's stealing something. However, Slide still has time making rude comments to Kendall in the morning.
"Get that bike around back. Come on, empty the truck. Hey, it's the man in the suit. Hey. What are you doing walking on my side of the street?"
Kendall scoffs at the comment. "Very funny."
Slide keeps going with his comments. "Punk-ass bitches walk on the other side of the street."
Kendall tries to ignore him. "Same jokes as yesterday."
Slide threatens him. "Walk by me again and I'm going to whoop your ass."
Kendall just walks away casually like always like the incident never even happened.
Meanwhile, Arthur Shaw is originally portrayed to be a normal billionaire who lives in the penthouse of the Palm Woods Tower. In the morning, he reads the newspaper and casually eats breakfast nicely prepared by the staff. After, he walks downstairs to go to work and is happily greeted at the door by none other than Gustavo Rocque.
"Good morning, Mr. Shaw. You are looking lean and mean today."
After Big Time Rush became a huge success, Gustavo realized he made his way to the top, and that was enough for him. He finished making music, and decided to go with the boys to New York, to work at the Tower as a doorman, so he can just relax when he goes home.
Shaw answers. "This is why I love you, Gustavo. You're the best liar in New York."
Kendall walks by Shaw on his way to work, he opens the limo door for him.
"Morning, Mr. Shaw. Everything is set for your dinner party. I'm sending up some bouchon paired with a '77 sauvignon blanc."
Shaw is impressed by Kendall's planning. "Very nice."
Kendall questions. "If you don't mind my saying, are you sure you want Secretary Lowe and Janet Ramsey at the party together? They were mentioned again on Page Six.
"Jesus! I totally forgot they were screwing. Nice save, Kendall. What the hell would I do without you?"
"You would have to read the Post yourself.
"No, I'm serious. I am kicking the tires on a couple deals. I might buy a hotel in Saint Bart's. I'm looking for a GM. I'm going to try and steal you away.
Kendall happily jokes. "If I could bring Gustavo, we might have a deal."
Shaw jokes along. "Okay, deal."
"All right. Have a good one." Kendall starts walk to into the Tower until Shaw calls him back.
"Kendall, one more thing." Kendall turns around. "What is that, sir?"
"Checkmate." Shaw smiles as he drives away. A disappointed smirk is on Kendall's face once he realizes he's been defeated in another game of Chess.
Kendall walks inside the Tower and then into the staff area where is greeted by everybody he met at the Palm Woods in LA, including Guitar Dude who now provides the security reports at the Palm Woods Tower.
"Hey, Guitar Dude. You got a security report for me?
Guitar Dude answers back. "Not much, Kendall. A car alarm, two homeless and a really loud dog."
Meanwhile, Blond Jennifer walks by holding a couple of folders pleasantly greeting Kendall.
"Good morning, Kendall."
"Hey, Jen. How was your weekend?"
"Good. I was here. Me, Guitar Dude, Tyler steam-cleaned the garage, had some killer take-out from Punjab Palace.
"You are a wild man." She says humorously.
"That's me." He agrees sarcastically.
As he starts to bring everything into order, he is addressed by none other than Carlos' ex-girlfriend, Stephanie King. She and Carlos broke up amicably back when Big Time Rush started but she still hangs out with the guys whenever she can. She even became good friends with Carlos' current girlfriend, Alexa.
"Kendall." Kendall turns to see Stephanie's face. "Hey, Stephanie."
"My work visa's about to expire. You must find me a husband." Stephanie addressing the issue seriously.
Kendall responds with an awkward look on his face. "Okay. Can I have my bagel first?"
"I need a man before these pricks throw me out of the country."
Kendall still surprised. "All right, and what about Guitar Dude? He's a catch."
"I tried. He couldn't handle me."
Kendall, of course shocked from the comment. "Okay. Jen, don't write that down.
"Morning." Tyler's mom finally understood that he wanted to be a real kid and not act, so she allowed him to go to New York with the guys, and he became a part of maintenance along with Buddha Bob.
"Morning, Tyler."
Jen keeps going with the upcoming events. "We have birthdays in 3714 and 4399. The Jameson twins like the cupcakes from Magnolia, Mr. Causwell likes the hot fudge sundae at Sardi's and Mrs. Hightower landed three days early from Cairo, be here in an hour."
"Does Mr. Hightower know?"
Before Blond Jennifer could answer his question. The owner, Arthur Griffin walks into the staff area. When he found out that the Palm Woods decided to make a building in New York, Griffin got the chance to buy out the building and moved to New York with the others for a change of scenery plus he loved Gustavo and the guys. He walks in, he calls Kendall over.
"Kendall, a word, right now."
"Yes, sir, Mr. Griffin."
"Where's Logan? I got an empty concierge desk." Griffin hastily asks wondering where his concierge is.
Kendall, not knowing what to say, tries to cover for Logan. "I think he's checking on Mrs. Cronan."
Griffin calls Kendall on his bluff. "Now that's bullshit! Mrs. Cronan is at physical therapy. He has got three minutes."
After that whole fiasco of covering for his best friend, he walks over to the staff desk. There, he proudly sees Gustavo's old assistant and good friend Kelly Wainwright studying for her bar exam. When the guys and Camille left for New York, she realized that she helping Big Time Rush was enough for her in success but again she also wanted more. So she went to New York to finish her long held-off law degree, since she realizes she loves calling people on their bullshit.
"...can only be convicted if the prosecution proves all the…" Kelly concentrates on her studying until she is unfortunately interrupted by Kendall.
"Kelly."
Kelly is startled by Kendall. "Holy shit! What?"
"We do this thing, you and I, where you pretend not to study for the bar exam and I pretend not to notice."
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about, sir." Kelly plays along with Kendall, like they do everyday.
"See, we're doing it." Kendall tries to show he's not playing along.
"Doing what?" Kelly still plays along.
"Right now, we're doing the thing, where you pretend not…"
"No." Kelly still defends her position.
"I know the exam is coming up this week, so study in my office during your lunch break, okay?
Because I never use it." Kendall offers that to Kelly, knowing how much this bar exam means to her.
Kelly smiles at the offer but still plays along. "Okay, but I'm not studying, so it would not make much sense."
Their conservation is abrupt due to a faint sound of a cellphone going off. Kendall tells everybody to be quiet as he tries to figure out where its origin.
"Wait. Shh! Hear that? Someone is buzzing. Hey, shush! Everybody, shush!"
The cellphone is still vibrating, even with the dead silence in the area.
"Who's buzzing? I hear it. It's faint, it's muffled, but I hear it. Fess up! Who's buzzing? Come on!"
"Who the hell is buzzing?" Stephanie yells out trying to get the person to confess.
Little did he know, Kendall puts his head to see his best friend Carlos walk in holding the vibrating phone.
"It's me, my bad. I had it on vibrate."
Griffin walks excitedly to give Kendall great news. "Good News Kendall! We got Carlos to be our new elevator operator."
Kendall just surprised to Carlos in the first place, knows how he can be hyper when it comes to simple tasks. "I love you 'Litos, but I didn't hire you."
Griffin whispers to Kendall. "He's Latino, you know we need one of those. So give him a shot."
Kendall walks back to Carlos. He knows that he didn't hire him in the place because of his busy Police Academy schedule, but when it comes to his friends, he never turns his back on them.
"Ok, show me what you got."
Carlos jumps for joy as his best friend decides to give him a chance. "Thank you so much Kendall, you won't regret it!. I've spent the last two years at Police Academy and working at the BK, and I'm ready for the big leagues."
"BK? What is that? A building downtown?"
"No, it's a Burger King in Times Square." Kendall stares at Carlos with great confusion.
"All right. Carlos, walk with me. The average apartment at The Tower costs $5.6 million. It's the most expensive real estate in North America. We have the best views, the most advanced security system, keyless entry, 24-hour video vibration detection. But you know what these people are really buying?"
"White neighbors?" Confused by the question given to him.
"Us. The staff. They pay for our full and undivided attention seven days a week. So there's no cell phones, iPhones, blackberries, texting, or tweeting."
"They didn't have this rule at the BK."
Kendall agrees with Carlos. "No, because it's not the same, your phone can stay at home. So don't hide it in your pocket or tuck it into your sock, don't tape it under your balls or stick it up your ass, because, eventually, I will find it.
"This never happened at the BK." Carlos looks around, wondering what this new job will provide.
"Morning, Judge Ramos. How did you do?" Kendall greets residents as he does every morning.
Judge Ramos, another resident, happily greets. "Better than yesterday, Kendall, I ran the Reservoir, 15 flat."
"Nice."
"Where's Logan? I need my cigars."
Kendall scoffs at the fact that he still has to cover for his best friend. "I think he took Mrs. Cronan to physical therapy. I'll bring them up the second he gets here."
"Thank you."
"Morning, Mr. Hightower. Sir, that package you ordered from Cairo arrived three days early."
"Is that so?" Hightower having a nervous face while being with his mistress.
"Yeah. It's on its way from the airport right now."
Hightower knowing Kendall's code for his wife coming back from the airport finds a way to leave the hotel. "Kendall, can you have the chauffeur pick us up at the back, please?"
"Already done."
"Thank you. Darling, let's go." Hightower walks away with his mistress.
"That guy's daughter looks like a prostitute." Carlos says bluntly, not knowing the woman is actually his mistress.
"We're all about discretion here, Carlos." Kendall states the rule to his best friend.
"Right, right. How do you guys split up the tips?"
"We don't. We never take tips at The Tower."
At that moment, Logan hastily runs into the Tower, putting his work jacket on while on the phone with Camille.
"No, I don't really want to talk about it right now."
"Logan." Kendall shoots Logan a disappointed look on his face.
"Camille! Kendall's coming, I'm at work and I can't talk right now." Logan rapidly tries to hang up the phone before Kendall walks over.
Kendall runs toward Logan, angry for his best friend being late. "You're 20 minutes late! Where are Judge Ramos' cigars?"
"Right here. Kendall, I'm freaking out. Logan hands him the cigars while being ready to explain Kendall his dilemma, is delighted to see his best friend now working at the Tower. "Hey Carlos! How you doing, man?"
"What?" Kendall calls Logan's attention needing him to see what he needs to say.
"We just went to the OB/GYN, the baby is in the third trimester, its head is six inches wide, Camille has a tiny vagina. Everyone tells me to stop worrying. I said, "Stop worrying?" In labor its head is going to get crushed or it's going to blow out my girlfriend's vagina.
Kendall whispers to Logan with great disgust. Not needing all that information. "Don't say the "V" word in the lobby."
"I called her Uncle Marty. He said all the women in her family have teeny tiny vaginas."
Kendall, annoyed by Logan's comments, tries to bring him back to the main problem. "I've been covering your ass all week. Griffin is breathing down my neck. What are you doing?"
"I'm worried."
"Did you hear what I was saying? Griffin is going to fire you." Kendall being annoyed by Logan ignoring him.
"Griffin is not going to fire me today. I got the red flowers." Logan, pretty sure that his plan will work.
"Red flowers?" Kendall surprised that Logan thinks that red flowers will fix the problem.
"Yeah, it's Chinese New Year. Mrs. Jin will be down here any second. It's crucial the first thing she hears be something positive. Her entire year depends on it. Mrs. Jin!"
Logan runs over to Mrs. Jin, and happily in Chinese hands her the red flowers.
"Happy New Year." Mrs. Jin chuckles at the gesture, even though she is not Chinese.
"Did you see that smile?" Right before Kendall tries to tell Logan his mistake, Griffin calls him over to his office to discuss a certain problem.
"Wanted to see me?"
"Yeah. James is refusing to leave. We've never had a forced eviction at The Tower. If they drag James into the street, it's bad for all of us."
When James went to New York with everybody, he bought an apartment for him & Lucy in the Tower, so he can stay close to the others with their work. He went to a CUNY school (City University of New York) to study business so he can follow his mother's footsteps in cosmetics but also learn how to invest responsibly in Wall Street. Unfortunately, his investments fell through and eventually went bankrupt.
Kendall, not wanting to break the news to his best friend, pleads with Griffin. "Why don't you talk to him?"
"This is your responsibility, Kendall. Plus, you're his best friend so that'll lighten the blow. The bank comes in the morning. Get him out." Griffin, showing no remorse for the old band member, walks away.
Kendall, dreading the walk up to James' apartment, regrettably knocks on his door and waits for an answer.
"James, man, it's me."
After a couple of minutes, James finally opens the door. Delighted to see Kendall's face.
"Hey man, what's up?"
"Are you alone?"
"Yeah. Lucy left to go drop off stuff in the new apartment. Hey, did you see what the market did today? Went up 106 points. Ask me why it did that?"
"Why?"
"I don't know, but I used to know. That's why they hired me at Merrill Lynch."
Kendall tries to go back to the subject as James digresses.
"James, you know this apartment is now owned by the bank. They'd like you to vacate immediately."
"I begged Lucy to take me in to the apartment she bought, but she said she will once I start getting my shit together."
Kendall, still trying to get through to James. "Jay, the bank will be here tomorrow morning."
"Can't wait til the Palm Woods School reunion. They're gonna find out i'm a squator."
"Hello, nice to see you. I squat. What about family? No, I invested all their money. They won't return my calls. I'd sleep in my car, but they repossessed it three months ago. So, you see I have to stay here, because we have nowhere else to go." James is on his knees, with a tear coming down his face pleading for his friend to change his mind.
"It's illegal for you to be here. You're committing a crime." Kendall sadly says to James with a sad look on his face wishing there was something he could do.
"I understand that." James stands up, understanding the consequences.
Kendall wholeheartedly tells James, still caring for his best friend's welfare. "But we might be doing some elevator maintenance tomorrow. I'm thinking that the elevators will be shut down and those people from the bank will just have to come back another time.
"Thanks Kendall." James says with a small smile on his face, being grateful for his friend's decision.
Kendall says, while giving James a big hug. "I never turn my back on my friends."
"...because, it's like you go down one." Shaw laughs at his own joke along with Carlos while drinking coffee. Kendall comes down the elevator to see the two conversing.
"Hey, Kendall." Shaw greets Kendall as he sees him walking towards him and Carlos.
"Mr. Shaw, I see you met Mr. Garcia."
"Kendall! This guy owns his own island with jet skis. How cool is that?" Carlos is obviously impressed by Shaw's status as well as his assets.
Kendall properly introduces Carlos to Shaw. "He's our probationary elevator operator. He's still very early in the interview process."
Shaw suggests to Kendall. "Why don't we finish the job interview right now, Kendall? Suppose I ask you to pick me up a cheeseburger, Carlos, what would you say?"
"How do you like it cooked?"
"The thing is, I like a certain kind of Brie on my burger, and they only sell it at Danny's Cheese Shop downtown." Shaw says being particular with his food choices.
"I'm on my way."
"And the beef has to be grass-fed."
"The best butcher shop in New York is on Bleecker Street, sir." Shaw chuckles as he is clearly impressed by Carlos' knowledge of the best New York food.
"Kendall, hire him."
Kendall right away agrees with Shaw. "Yes, that was my gut, sir." A big smile forms on Carlos' face.
"And, Carlos, one other thing. I like to get my own burgers whenever possible. I may have my own private island in Belize, but deep down I'm just a Brooklyn boy like Kendall here. We even come from the same neighborhood in Minnesota as well."
Kendall reluctantly comments. "That's right, Shakapee Elementary. Go Lions!"
Shaw concludes his story. "My first real job was shoveling horseshit at Aqueduct Racetrack. Don't you ever let me forget it."
"I won't, sir." Carlos says to Shaw with enthusiasm.
Kendall looks at Carlos extensively, finally giving an answer. "All right, go downstairs and get a nametag from Jen."
"Thank you, Kendall! Thank you!" Carlos runs away to get the nametag, grateful for the opportunity Kendall gave him.
The work day has ended and Gustavo and Kendall casually make their walk to the train station and limo.
"Why don't we hit it tonight, Kendall? Raise some hell."
"We have to be back here in nine hours." Kendall laughs at the idea while trying to be responsible.
"Remember that time you danced on that bar in Los Angeles? I almost fainted."
"That's a drunken dream you had five years ago."
"You were shaking your ass up there like Tina Turner. Running half naked on Broadway telling tourists you were Mufasa from The Lion King."
"That's ridiculous. It never happened."
Gustavo stops, and pulls Kendall aside. "I was waiting to tell you. This is going to be my last year at The Tower."
"What?" Kendall stops, now surprised by Gustavo's plans.
"With everything Big Time Rush did, and with the money I made here, I finally got enough to retire early. In a few months, I'm headed to San Diego to spend a little time with some old friends. I might even cruise around the world if that's possible."
Kendall told him with a proud look on his face. "Wow. That's great. That's really great. I'm going to miss you. You've done a lot for me and everybody else, you deserve what's coming."
Gustavo comments while putting a hand on Kendall's shoulder. "I'll be thinking about you Kendall, and the others. You guys may have been a pain in my ass, but you're still my dogs."
Kendall smiles, glad to know that he and the guys meant so much to Gustavo during these five years. They came a long way from first being the dogs that he didn't like to the dogs that became his family. "Here's your limo."
"Be thinking about how you danced on that bar. Yeah! I got it all up here."
Kendall jokes around with Gustavo. "I don't know where you got that."
"Circle of life, Kendall. Circle of life!"
Kendall laughs at Gustavo's jokes and walks down the street to the train station, going home and preparing to start his day over again.
PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW! I just merged the two chapters cause I thought it would be better!
