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When Dan was done cleaning, he decided to go into the living room and watch some TV like the perfect lazy person he was. About half way through 'When Animals Attack' Dan started to fall asleep on the couch, so he slipped off his socks and shoes and laid his head back against the pillow. Then he soon fell asleep.
Dan woke with a start, when a high-pitched noise cascaded throughout the rooms. Dan jumped to his feet in an instant and followed the sound into the bedroom, where he knew Natalie was.
"Nat! What happened? Is everything alright?" Dan yelled as he slammed the door open. Natalie was on the bed screaming, pointing towards something on the floor.
"Sp-sp-sp-spider!" she shrieked. Dan looked down to where she was pointing to see a small, fuzzy spider about the size of his thumb. Dan walked over to the tiny creature and bent down to see it better.
"Hello, Mr. Spider", Dan said. He could feel Natalie's eyes piercing through the back of his neck as he continued. "You happen to be scaring little Natalie over there, so now she is annoying me half to death screaming because of it. So, I'm very sorry to tell you this, but I'm going to have to kill you".
Dan picked himself back up and dramatically waved his hands in the air. Then after about ten seconds of holding his foot over the spider, Natalie screamed, "Kill it already!"
Dan chuckled and smashed the spider under his foot. He took the spider in his hands, guts and all, and seemed to study it for a second.
"Hey Natalie, I bet I can throw it in the trash from over here", Dan told her. Natalie looked over to the trashcan that was on the other side of the room, right behind her.
"Don't even try it", she scolded, but it was too late and he was already lining up his aim towards the trash.
When Dan finally threw the spider it ended up flying straight towards Natalie. She screamed in fear and jumped before it could reach her. There was only one problem. Natalie was still standing on the bed and ended up jumping off and hurtling towards the ground.
Dan, seeing what was happening, ran towards her and caught her in mid air before she fell. "You know, for a cold hearted Lucian, you're pretty squeamish when it comes to spiders and jumping off a bed".
Natalie rolled her eyes at him, as he went over to the bed to see where exactly the spider landed. The squashed bug lay flat on the floor in front of the garbage can. "Damn it! I was so close!" Dan wined leaning down a bit to look at the length of the area between the spider and the trash.
In less than a second Natalie squeaked again while wrapping her arms around his neck and pressing her body closer to him, trying anything to get farther away from the dead spider. Dan lifted her back up and laughed. "Don't worry I wont let the tiny, cute, and dead spider eat you", he told her mockingly.
She lifted her head up to glare at him. Her nose ended up bumping into his and her head was less than an inch away. Dan ended up being forced to stare into her amber eyes for about one full minute before they both simultaneously realized that Dan had never let go of her after he caught her jumping off the bed.
Their eyes both widened and their arms immediately released the other, causing Dan to drop Natalie flat on her back with an "oof".
"What time is it?" Dan asked releasing the awkward pressure that was building up.
Natalie rolled her eyes as she got up and brushed off her dress. "Let me guess. As soon as you were done cleaning up your mess, you fell asleep on the couch in the living room and woke up when I discovered that disgusting little creature crawling around".
Dan looked at her in awe, wondering how exactly she knew that, but quickly realized that it was the only story that made any sense, unless he destroyed the clock and spent the length of his time in a room without a clock.
"You never answered my question", Dan pointed out.
Natalie rolled her eyes, "It's five forty five. You've been asleep for over five hours", she told him.
"Well then what did you do all that time?"
"I did a little online shopping", Natalie told him smugly. Dan scoffed. Of course that's what she was doing. She never does anything else. "Oh yes, and I went through your laptop".
"What!" Dan ran over to his laptop and opened it in an instant. It turns out Natalie was telling the truth because the screen was open to a new file filled with images of dresses and a list of the pros and cons of each one.
"Why did you do that?" Dan asked her exasperated.
Natalie gave him an 'uh duh' look and said, "Because you can't do that on my phone".
Dan deleted the file even with Natalie's arguments and locked his laptop with a new password. Dan pushed past Natalie into the kitchen with her quickly following behind.
"What do you think you're doing?" Natalie asked him.
"I'm making dinner", he told her. Natalie looked scared for a second or two. "Just because I'm a slob, doesn't mean I'm incompetent".
"Ooo, a big boy word".
"Shut up".
Natalie laughed at him. "Anyway", she started, "What exactly are you going to make that won't blow up and or poison me where I stand".
Dan rolled his eyes. You didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know about her horrible opinion of him. You didn't even need to be a bus driver. Hell, you didn't even need to go school your entire life to notice this. "I was going to make some spaghetti because that is, like, all we have in here", Dan finished sheepishly rubbing his neck. He wasn't even lying. There was a two-foot pile of boxes full of spaghetti inside the cabinet.
Natalie looked over his shoulder and noticed that he was right. There was nothing in the cabinet, but a large pile of noodles. "Oh my", she stated, "Well, at least don't overcook mine. If you do, I know where you sleep, eat, live and pretty much everything else you do because this week you are stuck here and I am sadly stuck with you".
Dan stuck out his tongue and started to cook.
An hour later Dan heard the buzzer go off and he came out of the bedroom where he was playing scrabble on his laptop. He turned off the oven and poured in the pasta sauce.
He smiled at his masterpiece. Natalie didn't know this, but Dan was really good at cooking things that came in a box and had detailed instructions on the back. That may have not been something he should have been extremely proud of, but when it comes to Dan and cooking he would take anything he could get. Where was Natalie anyway? He thought.
Dan looked over to the kitchen table to see Natalie sitting down in the chair, passed out asleep and drooling. At times like these Dan wished that he had his phone on him, but all he had was his laptop, which sadly did not come with a camera.
He had been asking for a new laptop for months now, but Amy kept on repeating the same thing. 'You are not getting anything new until your birthday, Christmas, or if you can somehow make it a whole month without getting into any trouble'. They both knew Dan couldn't last a day without trouble so he was being forced to wait till his birthday.
Dan sat down in the seat next to her and rested his chin on his arms so his head was even with hers. He stared intently at her head as if it could possibly wake her up quicker. He wasn't going to go right out and wake her because that would end with someone getting shot in the butt with a dart gun. And that 'someone' just happened to be Dan.
He watched as Natalie mumbled something inaudible under her breath, then in less than an instant her hand shot out from beside her and grabbed his wrist in a tight hold.
Dan got scared. Her grip continued to tighten and he knew that if she weren't afraid to shoot him when she was awake, she wouldn't be scared to break his wrist when she was asleep. And then… she stopped. Her grip softened and he thought she was finally going to let go.
He was wrong.
She pulled on his arm in a swift motion and cradled it like a teddy bear. Dan was now hovering over Natalie, trying everything in his power not to touch her, while she hugged his arm and rested her head upon his elbow.
Dan noticed Natalie's nose start to twitch and he knew she could smell the pasta sauce that wavered off of him. Her head started to shake awake and she let go of his arm. Dan pulled his arm out from under her and ran over to the stove where he pretended to be doing something useful with his time.
"Good morning sleepy head", he told her as she opened her eyes grudgingly. Her hair was in perfect condition, and you couldn't even tell that she was asleep from her clear, clean face.
"What time is it?" she asked.
He simply dropped her bowl of spaghetti in front of her and said, "Dinner time".
She stared at it oddly for a few seconds. She probably thought that Dan poisoned it. She started to eat it, but somehow in that minute she went back to total brat form.
Dan didn't understand how Natalie could one second be snuggling her head into his arm and the next making fun of the way he cooked pasta. It was unnatural. Yeah, yeah, she was asleep and probably thought my arm was her pet rabbit, he told himself, but its still counts as snuggling! Dan continued to eat his dinner in complete silence still feeling awkward. He sighed.
What is wrong with girls?!
A/N: Hooray! The Natan has begun! I would just like to state that no fuzzy spiders were harmed in the making of this chapter. Oh, and there is nothing 'wrong' with girls (I'm a girl myself so I should know). It is just all in the mind of the weirdness that is Dan's brain. The next chapter we are going back up top with Amy and Ian in the control room.
