Deserea: Hello people of earth and beyond! This is Galini's chapter which I edited because of the OOCness and the inappropriate use of words. She did a GREAT job of writing this chapter but yeah 10% of this chapter is mine but only because of the edited parts which she approved. The funny parts which I would want to take credit for are mostly Galini's but did put a bit or I edited the funny parts a bit. Anyway, we don't own the 39 clues, Galini's going to kill me, and advance Merry Christmas! (I don't know why but I have Christmas fever)
Hello readers! This is Agent Galini (not DesereaFlare)! Hope you like this chapter!
…Reagan Holt…
Take deep breaths, Reagan. You won't die. You're too young to die.
Reagan sighed, and slapped herself in the face. This was so not working. She should already start preparing her funeral, but Fiske wasn't that much of a patient person. In fact, he just sighed when she started begging him to don't tell her parents about this mission.
Guess what? Now she is just walking straight to her death. Better start praying already…
God, I'm a good person. I'm sorry for kicking this little boy when he didn't give me his ice-cream, or pushing Jake the Dork into his locker and for locking there for about… a month, or for hiding Ms. Elli's medicines making her insane which resulted her to go to the hospital… okay, I think you already know all of them. But after that, I'm a good person. Like… when I sent a happy-birthday post-card to my grandma (which happens to be the only words I have said to her for about… six years). Okay, enough with these things! I deserve to go to heaven…
She chose to don't mention that she didn't believe in God. It would just make things more awkward and scary for her. And the poor people that were near by when she told her father.
…
Reagan took a deep breath, and opened the door that was leading where her family was. Her father was sitting in a sofa, which wouldn't be able to hold more people (considering he's weight was like three people put together); her mother was drinking a protein shake, making the elegant woman beside her to flinch when she burped; and for the end, her sister was hitting a boy in the corner of the room, who was crying for her to stop. Reagan flinched. And then got angry. She was getting soft.
Hamilton wasn't there much to her dismay, he probably was the only person in their family who wouldn't kill her, probably would even protect her. She knew why he wasn't there though. He had training in the Ekaterina stronghold. His computer hacking was good, but not good enough according to the Madrigals.
Anyone in the world would agree she wasn't the most amazing actress. Heck, anyone would agree that she wasn't a good actress. In fact, her sister was laughed whenever she tried and failed to act like she was sick, so she couldn't go at school. Madison was the lucky one who got to stay home, while Reagan had to be stuck with Mr. Manafa who was really happy to give her a new test every single day. They were twins, right? They always did everything the same (well, except hip-hop -Madison thinks it's name resembles much of flip-flops and pom-poms so she hates it. Stupid, right? Who hates something by just its name?). Why she didn't inherit acting skills like her?Well, if I did then I would be more like a Janus .She shuddered at the thought.
"Reagan, come here!" her father barked, making the half of the people in the room think an earthquake just started. Reagan hurried beside him.
"H-h-hi father," she stuttered. Stupid Amy,she thought, promising at herself that when she would again see Amy, things wouldn't end up well.
Before her father could respond, her mother was hugging her, making Reagan feel all the air in her lungs disappearing.
"Oh Reagan, I'm so proud of you. Your first mission! Even if you are going to miss your soccer, volley, baseball, and karate practices in Tuesday, going to a mission will give you so much more fame than winning in the basketball competition next week! Think of all the other Tomas' faces when they will realize you were the one they choose, and not this sucker Dorothy –by the way, who names their daughter Dorothy?- who can't even throw a ball to someone's face without hurting herself!" her mother shrieked. Mary-Todd sometimes was like every other mother in the world, but she had a bigger percentage Tomas in herself. Reagan only liked the Tomas part, not the mother one.
"Quiet! Reagan, what's the mission is about? This stupid fish guy didn't tell me anything, but something about going to a stupid wedding and searching for a secret pizza," Eisenhower yelled at her.
"Sweetie, Iwas telling Madison about the pizza, not Fiske," Mary-Todd murmured at her husband.
"Nonsense! I am perfectly capable to understand who is talking to me and what he's talking about," he tried to defend himself. Reagan sighed.
"Dad, first of all, mom's right. The mission hasn't got anything to do with a pizza. And second of all… I want a pizza," Reagan said, trying to change the subject. Just then her sister happened to be coming to them.
"Reagan, you know you're a horrible liar, so just tell us what the mission is. It can't be that bad, right? I mean, not like when this Tomas dude thought the ice-cream seller was a Vesper, and sent you to catch him," Madison said, and laughed at the memory. Reagan glared at her.
"Madison, I should remind you that he ran away. Which means he did do something," Reagan said. Madison gave her an are-you-serious look.
"That's because you said you were going to kill him if he didn't gave you all of his ice-cream," she snapped back. This time Reagan stayed silent. Who could blame her anyway? She really did love food…
"Now girls, don't fight like this Lucians. Reagan, tell us about the mission," Reagan's mother said impatiently. Reagan nodded. She was a Tomas, right? Tomas feared nothing, and this was her time to show them that she was amazing enough to be as popular as the older Tomas. Her family wouldn't ruined her this chance, no matter what.
"Well, I'm supposed to go to a Vesper wedding-" she started saying, but her sister catch her up.
"A Vesper? Now that's a surprise! Who was idiotic enough to put youon this mission?" Madison joked. Reagan glared daggers at her, but continued talking.
"-and while I'm there, I will have to steal as much information on them as I can," Reagan said, trying to seem as much innocent as she can. Her parents were talking to each other like they had just won a competition, so they didn't realize the anxiety in her voice, but Madison was everything but a loveable sister to her.
"You're hiding something, Reg. Spit it out!" she said with an evil glint in her eyes.
"Mad, what makes you think that?" Reagan asked, trying not to look at her family's eyes.
"Reagan, try not to be so horrible in lying, okay? It really makes me ashamed having you in the family," she joked again, but this time Reagan got angry.
"Then go to the Lucians. They're the liars!" I yelled at her.
"Nah, I prefer to be in the best branch. But you seem to." She said. "Just tell us already! This mission couldn't get any worst, right? I mean, it is already bad enough you're there."
"I have to go with a date!" Reagan blurted out. Her mom did a spit take and her protein shake, spraying the woman beside her.
"What?" Dad barked. The other people in the room tried to hide under a table because of his earthquake like voice…
"Umm… yeah… it's a wedding, right? I can't go to a wedding without a date. That's why they put me with… a certain… boy," Reagan continued murmuring.
"And who, might I ask, is the 'certain boy'?" Madison asked.
"None of your business," Reagan snapped at her.
"But it is mine," Mary-Todd said sharply. Reagan got this feeling when you think you're in danger. It wasn't that much often with her family since she was used to it, but there were times when their anger held no limits.
"Ted," she blurted out, closing her eyes. She didn't want to see their horrified expressions when they would realize about who "Ted" she was talking about.
"Ted? Like… Ted Starling? Oh my God, this is epic! And so freaking hilarious!" Madison started laughing like a maniac. Not that she isn't one, but that's not the point.
Reagan turned to look at her parents. Mary-Todd was shocked, but since she had no grudge against the Starlings, kept quiet.
Eisenhower was a whole different story. All of a sudden his face started getting red and if you looked closely you could see smoke coming out of his ears. It would have been funny id it wasn't for the fact that he was Eisenhower Holt.
"WHAT?"
Reagan bet everyone in that room, would always fear people who wore purple uniforms. And the sad thing was so was she. Oh the irony…
….Ted Starling…
Bliss. Sweet sweet bliss. That was all Ted could only think of.
Things could only get better…
Ted should admit his life wasn't pretty normal these days. His mother and father divorced, and his mother is now dating this guy named Chad. Chad.Who names someone Chad?
None of the Starling triplets liked Chad. Sinead was the most respectful to him but only so that her mother would be happy. Ned hated his guts. Especially when Chad said he hated Star Trek, he was ready to kill him right there and then. Ned would always play pranks on him and he always made sure that Chad was aware that their intellect was greater than his. Ted? He was in the middle. He didn't like Chad and would never respect him, but he didn't go out of his way to mess with him. Chad wasn't the one that saw them growing up. Chad wasn't the one who sat beside them before them slept, telling them stories about cowboys and pirates, as childish as that sounds. Their father was the one. Not Chad. Chad will always be… just a person to them. A creepy person who his mother decided to date just months after the divorce. But they didn't care. They only cared about his father. The real one. Not the one their mother is trying to replace with.
In fact, they didn't blame their mother. They would never blame her. They loved her as much as a child would ever love a mother. Not as much as their father of course, but enough to forgive her about Chad. They knew it was also pretty hard for her, considering that even in fights and divorces, she loved their father. Truly loved. And Chad would never ruin this feeling, as much sweet as he was at their mother. Which was creepy enough for him, which gave them the chills every time they kissed or did something lovey-dovey like that. Their mother tried to change their mind, telling them that Chad would always be with them and that he loved them really much. But for them that was just lies. Big lies that hurt, because they couldn't believe their mother just tried to make him think Chad was better. Even his mother should have known that. She was an Ekat after all. A genius. She should have known better about their feelings, but no, her mind is always elsewhere. She doesn't care of them as much as she once did. That started the day she met Chad. Everything changed when she met Chad.
But anyway with the family stuff. Ted now had bigger problems -telling his parents about the mission. When Ned would learn, he would blow a gasket.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Inhale.
Exhale.
He probably just got half of the oxygen in the room…
Ted sat in a couch on the visiting room, waiting for his family to show up. One of the amazing talents his family had, was being always late. Ted couldn't count how many times they had been late for something.
"SINEAD! YOU ARE SO DEAD!"
That got Ted out of his senses. Well… everyone's in the room now. Because no one wouldn't be startled, when someone yells something that loud, in a room that could easily resemble a library without the book cases. Plus the books.
The voice made Ted so surprised, which made his Sprite to fly all over him. A woman saw his mess, and tried to help him by mopping up the table that his Sprite was standing before some moments, while he attacked the sticky floor.
Sinead, who finally arrived, saw his disastrous mess and hurried beside him.
"Oh Geez, Ted, could you be more obnoxious?" she snapped at Ted, and tried to make the woman to stop helping him out.
"That's fine, sweetie. I was the same when I was a child," she said kindly, but Ned just had to find the perfect moment to show up. He –unfortunately- had heard everything. He smirked at the woman.
"Yeah, always spilled your Sprite and letting poor kids clean up for you the mess," he joked at her, following by a stern look from Sinead. Ted couldn't help but wonder if Sprite existed when the old woman was a child.
Ned was thinking exactly the same, and he was going to blurt it out, but then their mother arrived. Fortunately, Chad wasn't with her, so Ted let himself relax just a bit.
Lanett Starling hurried and started hugging her son, making Ned to snicker, and Sinead to smile sweetly. Ted never understood how Sinead could be his sister but DNA never lies.
"Ohh Teddy, how much I missed you sweetie!" she said, horribly close to tears. That was weirding out Ted.
"Umm Mom… I just left for about… four days," he murmured, trying to take a breath against her tight arms. She started working out more, which was also weird, because she always despised sports. Also a change because of Chad. Ted really hated his guts.
"Ohh Mom, just let him regain some of his oxygen. You don't want him dead before his first mission, right? I mean, I'm waiting to see him dead after the mission, not when his teary mother squeezes him to death," Ned said glumly, making Sinead snort.
"You're just jealous," she said.
"Why would I be jealous?" Ned asked her, emphasizing the I.
"Because you haven't gone in your first mission yet," she answered smugly. I resisted the urge to smirk at my brother, and congratulate my sister.
"That's because Fiske doesn't understand how capable I am to turn this little Vespers into hamsters for eating," he said back at her. Ted turned to him confused.
"Hamsters can't be eaten, Ned," he said.
"You sure about that?" he asked, glaring at him. Sinead rolled her eyes.
"I can't believe we're related," she said. Ted laughed.
"The feeling is mutual," Ned said, also laughing. Ted smirked at him.
"Look who's talking? You tried to make me think I was adopted." Ned shrugged. Ted had to remind him they were triplets. There was no possible ways one of them would ever be adopted.
"Enough, kids. Let's not fight," Ted's mom said, with a serious tone in her voice. Ned rolled his eyes.
"Mom, this is not fighting. This is just our way to show our sibling love," he said. His mother lower lip started twitching, but she made herself to stop from smiling at this. Ted was absolutely sure about that.
"Anyway, Ted, will you ever tell us about your mission? Fiske didn't even tell us a bit of information. The suspense is killing all of us. The whole trip Ned was talking about all this idiotic theories of your mission," Sinead said impatiently, giving Ned a glare. Ned glared back at her.
"And one of them happens to come from a James Bond movie," Ned snapped at her. She smirked at him, her sarcasm like a bee to milk.
"Which you stole," she said back. Before nothing more could happen, Ted's mother pushed her hand to Ned's mouth, stopping the argument. She told Ted to start explaining.
"Well, I've got to steal some Vesper files from a wedding they're organizing in two weeks," he explained. All of his family jaws were in the floor. Sinead was the first one to get back in her senses. She ran to him, and with big force, he hugged him.
"I can't believe that Ted! You're going to a Madrigal mission! I mean, this is somuch better than my first Ekat one. They had made me to spy this Lucian, who I think has a crush on Amy." Sinead said, sighing at the memory. Her disgusted face was not hard to understand.
"That's hilarious! What's the name of this Lucian?" Ned asked. Sinead gave him a you're-stupid-and-you-don't-know-it-but-I'm-trying-to-not-hurt-your-feelings look.
"Duh, isn't it obvious? Ian Kabra," she said, making Ned's mouth to fall open. Their mother didn't have idea what they were talking about, but she didn't want to seem stupid, so she just didn't talk.
"Did I forgot to mention that they're now something more from a silly crush?" Ted said, smirking.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Sinead said with a gasp. She smiled, and Ted was sure she was now planning her diabolic plans to torture Amy with this whole thing.
"Enough of this silly nonsense!" Lanett Starling said. "You're going to a wedding, right? Don't you need a date?"
Ted sometimes hated when his mother was acting like a true Ekat.
"Umm yeah… that's why they put me with another agent…" he said awkwardly, try not to make himself look like an idiot.
"Oh really? Who?" Sinead asked confused.
"R- Reagan," he whispered. Nor Sinead or his mother heard him, but Ned would never lose something like this.
"NO! They can't partner you up with that girl! Her family started the explosion! Which I should remind you caused you to be blind, me to have agonizing headaches, and made Sinead crazier than she already is!" he shouted. Sinead hit him on the head for the last part but he didn't really notice."You… with the Tomas girl… as a couple… oh God…"
"Shut up, Ned. It's not like we're dating for real," Ted snapped at him.
"I agree with Ted. I mean, the Holt family made horrible mistakes, like the explosion, but this is Ted's first mission and going as a date with Reagan Holt wouldn't ruin that," she said, trying to sound convincing but you could tell she was still worried.
Ned calmed down and nodded.
"What explosion?" Lanett Starling asked. Sinead, Ned, and Ted looked at her worriedly.
Chad is turning her into an idiot.
This didn't get as funny as I imagined it. Ooops… but I hope you liked it anyway :)
Galini