A fish truck outside was passing the hotel and stopped in an alley. Marv and Harry were revealed to be inside, as they broke out of jail and they felt relieved to be on the outside world again and starting a new life in New York. It was embarrassing enough being arrested by an eight and eighteen year old.
Harry grinned as they looked out and the van was filled with fish with the dangerous duo. "You smell that Marv?" he asked his partner in crime.
Marv took a whiff and nodded with a cheeky smile.
"You know what that is, Marv?"
"Fish."
"No, that's the smell of freedom."
"No, it's fish..."
Harry rolled his eyes, getting out of the van. "Just come on!"
Both men left the van and were cooking up another plan as they wandered the streets with passer-byers not even batting an eye at them.
"So, what're we gonna do here?" Marv asked. "Rob houses?"
"No, no, something bigger than houses." Harry replied. "We should do something bigger in the small fry of New York... And we need a new name, Wet Bandits doesn't sound threatening enough."
"Bigger than a house," Marv pondered. He then stuck his still glued up hand in a donation bank and took out several coins now attached forever on his hand.
"Really, Marv? Our first day out of prison and you rob 37 cents?"
Marv shrugged as they continued to think of plans to rob in a big city like New York. Robbing houses was just passe to the men since they had a lot to think about after spending a year in jail, avoiding the nineteen extra.
"We need to rob something bigger than a plain old house..." Harry thought, sadistically.
"Candy Store!" Marv beamed.
Harry grunted and shut his eyes tight to out grow an incoming aneurysm. "Nine-year-olds rob candy stores, Marv. I was thinking of the toy store!
"The Toy Store..." Marv nodded with a grin. There was also an article about the owner having toys to give to sick, needy children at the hospital every year out of selflessness.
"And we're the most needy," Harry grinned. "No one will be dumb enough to think a robbery is coming on a toy store on Christmas Eve."
"Oh, yes there is." Marv replied, pointing to himself and Harry, laughing.
Harry rolled his eyes and laughed evilly as they kept looking at the precious toy store.
Back at the hotel, Kevin and Chelsea agreed to go to the pool. Kevin got in his blue swim trunks while Chelsea wore a rather revealing bathing swimsuit. It would make Kevin upset probably, but hopefully it would give Hector a rather big shock. Kevin and Chelsea remembered what Max told them about the pool and they went in the direction of it. Chelsea dipped her feet in the pool, sitting on the edge and kept her hair in a bun to keep it from frizzing and was looking forward to to the man in charge of the place to see her now.
"Would anyone mind if I do some cannonballs?" Kevin asked the lounging adults.
"Go ahead, kid." one of the men shrugged.
Kevin dashed back a bit and rushed back to do a cannonball in the pool making a big splash for someone his size.
"Jerk!" Chelsea laughed teasingly as she got splashed. She slipped into the pool to start splashing him.
Kevin laughed and splashed her back. He then noticed his shorts were floating beside him. "YIKES!" he quickly grabbed them to avoid embarrassment.
Chelsea covered her eyes and slightly giggled.
"At least Buzz didn't see that, I'd never hear the end of it." Kevin said, sliding his shorts back on.
"That was fun." Kevin wrapped his towel around his arms as he got dried up and dripped some water on the lobby carpet. "Sorry, sir." he told the concierge and kept going to the floor.
Max felt a cold stare at her. "I'll get that." She got on her hands and knees to clean up the mess.
Chelsea gave Max an apologetic look at Max for the dripping from Kevin. She glared at the concierge and decided he needed to be knocked down a few pegs as she helped Max clean up the mess.
Max smiled at Chelsea to let her know it was okay and continued to get the mess out.
"Do you need some kind of help?" Kevin asked.
"I'm fine, really, how about some ice cream on the house?" Max offered. "The chef does an excellent job and will personally make you any kind you want."
"See if you can bring it up," Chelsea smiled, then dropped her voice low to a whisper. "We'll share some with you." She smirked, seeing how affronted Hector looked, though it wasn't noticeable.
"Oh, I couldn't." Max smiled sheepishly. "I'm weird around sweets..."
"We insist, you join us and tell your boss you're cleaning up." Kevin offered.
Max smiled and ruffled his hair. "Okay, kiddo."
"See you in a few minutes." Chelsea smiled, taking Kevin upstairs to get their ice cream and a late movie.
Max did some cleaning as it was getting late. Hector kept a sharp eye on her as he noticed how close she rather was with the McCallister siblings.
"Sir, I'm going upstairs to clean up a bit." Max told Hector, a little uneasily.
Hector looked at her, giving a narrowing eye. "Fine."
Max made it upstairs to join Chelsea and Kevin to their late night screening of Angels with Filthier Souls, the sequel to the movie they watched last year together alone. Chelsea was on the couch and Kevin had the bed to himself. He got three scoops worth of ice cream and felt like this was a real vacation. Max came in and smiled at their movie choice.
"Grandma watches these movies all the time." Max chuckled, sitting next to Chelsea.
"Yeah, Kevin really got into them." Chelsea told Max as she took her ice cream of triple chocolate, mint chocolate and strawberry. "Sorry, I had to hang up that time, by the way."
Max tried to remember that time but shrugged with a smile. "It's okay. I'm just glad I get to hang out with you again, it's been hard since we graduated, plus your little brother's so cool! I'd settle for a sibling..."
"I know." Chelsea smiled.
Kevin flinched and covered his eyes slightly from the shooting. even though he was now ten years old and knew this was a movie, it still bothered him but not as much as it did the first time.
"Aww, Kev, he won't hurt ya," Chelsea pulled him into a hug.
"Oh, I know that," Kevin said, calming down a bit. "I was just worried he was gonna get you."
Chelsea sat back down with Max. Chelsea told her the story of Christmas last year and what happened with the "Wet Bandits" and she even gained a slightly distant and longing look as she mentioned Marv, though she didn't recognize it.
Max listened and noticed Chelsea's daze once Marv came up in conversation. "Chels? You awake?" she laughed a bit.
Chelsea smiled softly only distantly hearing Kevin's reply. She found it sweet. She then blinked and looked at Max. "Huh, what?" she asks looking slightly confused. She pouted when Max was laughing at her.
Max smirked a bit. "You were mentioning that idiot Marv and went to Lala land."
Kevin ate his ice cream, ignoring the girls and tuning them out as he was finishing the movie.
Chelsea blushed as Max teased her. "Well, I can't help that he stole my first kiss..." she muttered, not wanting to admit it, but over that year she had started to long for Marv. His kiss had sent butterflies flying in her stomach and made her feel strange, but in a good way.
Max smiled now in a non teasing way. "Your first kiss... I had my first kiss by accident once in middle school... I don't know if you remember..." she blushed in memory. She was having too much fun having old fun time with Chelsea like they used to and didn't care how late it was getting.
Chelsea smiled and enjoyed the time with Max. She tucked Kevin in while he was in his sugar coma. She was enjoying this so much. She talked about how they were and how the life went, and listened to Max's.
Time passed quicker than they all thought. Hector came up the elevator since Max had been gone a long time and went to the room the group was and knocked on the door. "House keeping!" he called, disguising his voice.
Kevin's eyes flashed open and he had to think fast. He told Chelsea to pretend to be asleep on the couch quickly, Max to hide in the bed to make it look like him sleeping and he would go in the bathroom for a plan of his own. Hector quickly stepped inside and everyone was quickly was in position and he heard a recording of Kevin and Chelsea's uncle singing in the shower and used the pool clown to make it look like Peter was with them in the shower.
"Uhhhh..." Chelsea muttered, pretending to shift a little in her sleep. She then groaned like she was just waking up.
Hector examined the room carefully. He heard singing in the shower with the water running and poked his head in and saw someone singing and dancing. It was really Kevin operating the clown toy with a shower cap on its head. Hector looked dubious of it, until it turned to him and frightened him.
"Get out of here, you nosy little pervert or I'm gonna slap you silly!" Uncle Frank's voice said.
Hector gasped in alarm, and rushed out of the room and tripped near the couch where Chelsea was.
Chelsea's eyes snapped open as Hector fell, like he fully woke her up. She looked around and then looked at him. "What are you doing in here this late? My brother is asleep!" she whispered harshly, but still quiet enough to not wake 'Kevin'.
Max snored a bit to sound convincing.
"Oh, sorry, I'll get going!" Hector sounded nervous and quickly left the suite, hitting his knee against a small table. He stumbled and put it back in place and quickly left the room.
When he was gone completely Chelsea started to giggle. "Wake up 'Kevin'" she teases Max, now that Hector was definitely gone. She then smiled at her real brother.
"I guess I better get back out there real quick." Max laughed sheepishly, getting out of the bed.
"That worked better than I thought." Kevin added.
"Just like old times eh, Max?" Chelsea asked, giving her friend a quick hug. She smiled at Kevin.
"Yes," Chelsea replied and playfully bundled Kevin over to the bed while tickling him.
Kevin giggled loudly and calmed down a little. "Night Chels..." he yawned and curled up in the bed. Not thinking of their family in Florida.
Chelsea hugged Kevin and settled down next to him as she often did when they shared a room. She fell asleep wondering if the family were worried again, and thinking of Marv.
A/N: I know Chelsea kinda having a thing for Marv is Mary Sue-ish, but its what AnnaleaseTurner wanted, don't judge me :) and don't judge this story by its title. Read & Review, please and thank you