The Rescue

[AN: A disappointing amount of reviews...if I don't get many this time I will discontinue...so please review. Sorry for taking so long.

"Well, it's a good thing I am not a man then." Seth commented wryly. "I think Summer would disagree with that." Ryan said, making more than one insinuation. Summer scoffed. "Come on Chino, enough with the innuendo." "Uh, sorry um, Ry, she's kinda right...you guys have to do the dare." Marissa conceded. "But...it's Ryan and..." Seth began, before an idea struck him. Bam. Like that. "Then you two have to make out first. Deal?" Seth queried. "Nice one man!" Ryan grinned. No way they would be cool with that. "Uh, okay, whatever you say." Summer agreed simply. "Yeah, it's so not a big deal." Marissa offered. "What? How?" Seth grappled with that. How could making out with your best friend not be a big deal. "I mean...isn't it like intimate and stuff," Seth mumbled baffled. "Aw, Cohen, being an idiot. Ok..." Summer smiled. "Uh, hello, Sum, Ryan and Seth..." Marissa said gesticulating wildly. "Oh um right. C'mon Coop." Summer leaned forward and kissed Marissa. Kissing Coop was a lot different than kissing Cohen, in Summer's opinion. Marissa had had some practice kissing girls before, obviously, because she seemed pretty good at it. Summer was pretty sure she wasn't that great seeing as she'd only kissed Holly once on a dare. They did some tongue, because otherwise the guys would complain it wasn't "good enough." After about 10 seconds of a not so enjoyable kiss for the participants, Summer and Marissa looked expectantly at Seth and Ryan. "Well..." Summer gestured. "Oh um right. Okay. I think I've lost all ability to function." Seth responded. "Cat got your tongue?" Marissa teased Ryan playfully. "Well, it's Seth whose supposed to have Ryan's tongue actually." Summer pointed out. "Fine." Ryan grumbled. Both Seth and Ryan leaned in. "Wait!" Summer gasped. "Yeah!" Marissa cried in agreement. "Don't do it." Marissa said simply. "Uh, yeah right. I just remembered we're all sick." Summer flatly stated. "Oh. Right." Ryan stated relieved. "Totally." Seth exhaled. "You guys were like so hot though." Seth added with a snarky grin. "Oh. Right. Totally." Summer waved her hand as she and Marissa stalked out of the room.

"Oh my god Coop, what came over me?" Summer whined to her best friend. "I just never would've been able to kiss Ryan again if he'd kissed Seth." Marissa admitted. "Yeah...plus...yeah." Summer agreed. "Let's...just forget this incident." Marissa offered.

Meanwhile, Ryan and Seth were discussing their near escape. "Man are we lucky." Ryan declared. Seth nodded in agreement. As Seth reached onto Summer's bed to grab his cell, Taylor came in through the window. Seth and Ryan ducked behind Summer's bed and watched her walk around the room. "Hmm...some ammo..." Taylor muttered. "Ah...a plastic horse, like Seth's, but in a tasteless color." Taylor cheerily thought aloud. Ryan raised his eye brows. Seth inwardly groaned when she slid it into her purse, with some difficulty. "Uh, yeah hi." Seth said. "Oh. Seth. I wasn't expecting you." Taylor cooly conversed as though it were an every day thing to climb into someone's bed room. "Hello there." Ryan grunted as he stood up too. "Oh. You." Taylor in a dismissive tone. "Well, I'll see you later." Taylor smiled as she proceeded to climb out the window again. "What! No! Come back here!" Seth cried reaching out the window aimlessly. All he saw was a swoosh of dark blonde hair. "Damn." Seth grumbled as he ran down the hall. "Summer, Marissa, Taylor stole Princess Sparkle!" Seth yelled. Soon, Marissa, Summer and Ryan were assembled in the hall.

"Cohen. Explain how this happened." A sick and angry Summer demanded. Ryan sympathetically shook his head. Poor Seth was gonna get beat up. By his girlfriend. "Okay. So Ryan and I were sitting together..." Seth began. "What were you guys doing sitting together. I mean uh never mind. Go on Cohen." Summer added quickly. "So then Taylor climbs in the window says some stuff which I don't remember and jacked Princess Sparkle. Not raining anymore apparently. And um Ryan here can back me up on that." Seth finished. Annoyed but satisfied, Summer grabbed Seth's arm and walked outside. "Where are you two going?" Marissa frowned. "Uh, recon, and we're getting Sparkles, duh." Summer called as she walked down the hall. "You guys are sick, stay home, in case she comes back. Have a date." Summer added. "Yeah, don't wait up!" Seth yelled as they skidded down the stairs and placed their sun glasses on.

"Alright Cohen, what's the plan?" Summer asked expectantly as she turned off the Rooney CD that was in the CD player. Seth turned it back on before making a suggestion. "Well, I have this directory thing of Harbor Kids' addresses' so I think hers will be here." "Uh huh." Summer responded as she turned off the Rooney CD. As Seth reached to turn it on again, there hands collided. As they approached a red light, their eyes locked. Electricity shot up their spines. Summer leaned forward to kiss Seth when someone honked. Apparently, that still moment had been more like a minute. Or two. When Seth and Summer finally made it to Taylor's house, they noticed Taylor sitting on her window sill. "Bingo." Seth dryly commented. "Don't say bingo, Cohen. You're enough of an old lady already." Summer snapped. "Zing!" Seth yelped as he wrapped a protective arm around Summer. He was about to unwrap himself to ring the door bell when Summer raised an eye brow and said, "Remove your arm, I'll..." Seth interrupted and squeezed his arm around her waist tighter. "Yeah, I think I know how to end that sentence Sum." She rang the door bell. "Well, hello there you two. I was wondering when you'd arrive." Taylor stated smoothly. "Come on in." Seth and Summer walked into a super neat McMansion. Pristine marble floors, and walls. "So, where's Princess Sparkles?" Summer asked in a to the point and about to rage black out tone. "Upstairs." Taylor simply replied as she started walking towards the stairs. "Okay. No. This may be your house, but it's my horse, and we need to negotiate like now." Summer demanded, grabbing Taylor's arm with rage black out force. "Um. Okay Summer." Taylor stated, visibly shaken. "So. All I want is for Seth to go on a date with me." Taylor continued with a smirk. Summer shrugged. "That's all?" She asked. Now really taken aback, Taylor struggled to remain as aloof as Summer. "No. I mean no. Obviously not. What I want is for um...I wanna hang out with the core four for dinner tonight!" Taylor exclaimed. Summer sighed. It would've been so much easier if she'd just wanted some dumb quasi date with Seth. "Ok...I guess. But why do you keep calling us the core four?" Summer asked in as non abrasive of a tone she could muster. "Well, four best friends forever...core four." Taylor simply explained. "Uh sure. Um Coop, Seth, Ryan and I are kinda sick so if you wanna do anything, should do it tomorrow, kay?" Summer blurted out. "Oh...yeah, you guys do look kinda sick. Um, here's Princess Sparkles." Taylor handed the horse to Summer. She produced it from behind her back. "Well, we'll be uh moving out now. See ya tomorrow." Seth called as he and Summer skidded down the stairs and out the door. "Bye!" Taylor yelled as she triumphantly turned down the hall and into her room.

Meanwhile, Ryan and Marissa were talking to Sandy on speaker phone. "Uh, yeah I think they'll be back soon. They were kinda on a rescue mission." Marissa explained hurriedly. Ryan's fever was starting to get a little better, so he was resting on the couch. Marissa was still coughing a lot, though. Summer and Seth walked through the door laughing hysterically. "I think I can hear them." Sandy commented. "Put them on." Sandy continued. Seth shssed Summer. She slapped him. "How are you two kids?" Sandy asked expectantly. "We're about to embark on mission impossible." Summer said matter of factly.

[AN: Ok so if you have any ideas for the Taylor/Fab Four encounter let me know I really need some inspiration. Thanks for reading and sorry this chapter is really just a set up for the next one.