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well, RRatedauthor owns Tommy, as Redsandman99 own Connor Lawson
and I also own Nooks aka me! We didn't get paid to make this story.
Day 11:
Nooks and John were cuddling in her big bed in the HOH room while watching the spy TV.
"Can't believe she won. Nice job though." John said.
Nooks sighed, "Yeah, but it would've been better if it was someone on our side. Now I gotta worry about who I may have to put up if she uses it."
"I don't think she will, sweetheart." He kissed Nooks.
"I hope not." They should've been paying more attention to the Spy TV so they would've seen Tigger coming and not jumped when they heard 'Knock Knock Knock' on their door!
"Come in!" Both occupants of the HOH room announced at the same time. Tigger bounced in and took a seat at the table, looking at John and Nooks.
"Well, don't we look cozy?" Tigger smiled. "So, I got veto….let's make a deal."
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Julie: Welcome to tonight's live veto ceremony. Let's join the houseguests as Chris and Becky plead their cases to Tigger, this weeks holder of the Power of Veto.
Everyone was gathered as directed in the living room, some afraid of what was coming next. What if Tigger used the Veto, who would Nooks put up? Would it be me? Those were the questions on everyone's mind.
"Welcome to the weekly Veto meeting. Since I won the veto competition, I'm able to save one of the nominees or keep it as it is. Before I choose, you each get a few minutes to tell me why I should save you. Chris, you're first."
Chris stand. "Tigger, if that's your real name, you should save me because I'm the only one who's truly playing this game. I can honestly say I would take you to the end. Plus, I'm the best in the world at what I do!"
Jeff snorted. "Trust me buddy, it's not that hard to play a guitar and sing."
Chris glared at him. "Nor is it to doodle on pieces of paper."
"Long-hair!"
"Emo!"
"Hippie!"
"Twink!" It quickly degenerated in a name calling session so bad, that Jess had to switch seats with Jeff.
Becky rose. "Tigger you should save me because I would truly fight against Nooks and her little alliance. I wouldn't suck ass and say nice things to her like the rest of you. If she thinks she's gonna go to the end, she is completely wrong. She's an idiot. You should save me so I can truly play this game." Becky took her seat next to Chris.
"Interesting. As the Veto holder, I have decided to use it. Chris, I will save you, but not because I like you or because your speech did anything for me. I figure you will be easier to beat in the end. Nooks, As HOH you need to decide a replacement for the house guest I just saved."
"The house guest I chose is…Erik. Nothing personal." Erik nodded at nooks while Nooks winked back and hid a smile.
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~Few Hours Earlier.~
"So I need someone to put up as a fake nomination, I want to know if you would be fine with it." Nooks asked him. "I mean, I don't think you have any enemies in this house and no one would vote for you. It would be a 10 votes against Becky. Is that okay with you?"
Erik smirked. "Ok, I'm in."
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Julie: Join us tomorrow night for the live eviction ceremony. Who will be the next to leave the Big Brother house? Will it be Becky, or the surprise replacement, Erik? We'll see you tomorrow night at eight o'clock, but now we leave you with a live shot inside the Big Brother house. Good night.
As part of Nooks' plan, no one else in the house was told that Erik was going to be the replacement nominee, not even Johnny. That made it easier for Erik to play the role of pissed off nominee.
"What the hell was she thinking?" Tom demanded, joining him for a smoke. "Putting you up is the dumbest move she could've made!"
"You think there are enough people here who'd vote me over Becky?" Erik replied "I don't."
"Let's see... Nooks can't vote, so that's one less on Becky's side. You can't vote... that's two less. Who do we have for sure... Me, Johnny, and maybe Connor. The girls probably have Megan, Jess, Bella, Tigger, and Shawn. If either Chris or Jeff vote with the girls, you're outta here." Tommy counted the names on his fingers. "After Tigger saved him, I think you might be taking that walk out the door, man."
"I think you're right. I only have one card to play." Erik sighed "And that's my slop pass."
"You think you can?" Tom asked
"Yeah, and I know exactly the person to use it on." Erik sighed and went back inside.
Tom stared at the sky for a few moments. What had just happened had literally torn him up. Just the thought of Erik, his co-conspirator, out of the house this early was enough to make him nauseous. "Good luck buddy, you're gonna need it."
...
"I take back what I said about Nooks earlier. She may be cute, but she ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer." James clicked off the television. "Why put up one of her fellow alliance members and risk having it blow up in their faces?"
"You'd know about sharp knives." Mark answered
"Son of a bitch! What the fuck! Goddammit!"
"Sounds like Cooper agrees with you." Mark reached for his I-pod. He really didn't want to deal with a Lawson tantrum right now.
Cooper stepped into the room and immediately threw a lamp at the wall.
"Cooper, or should I start calling you Connor, what the hell?" James ducked shards of broken porcelain. "It's only a game. I thought you'd be happy that she didn't put up your brother."
"You don't get it, dad." Cooper dropped into a chair.
"Why don't you explain it to your old man, then?" James came over to sit beside him.
"I wish I could, but I made a promise." Cooper dropped his head onto his arms and exhaled loudly. "Fat lot of good it's doing me."
"Well, if you ever want to tell me, I'll listen. I may go out and kill someone right after, but you know I love you." James rubbed Cooper's shoulder.
"He's my boyfriend." Cooper blurted out.
"What?" This was not what James expected to hear.
"Riky... he's my boyfriend." Cooper repeated. Now that he'd said it once, and broken his word, there wasn't much harm in repeating it. "We've been together for nine months."
James' opened and closed his mouth several times, trying to process this new information.
"Nine months? But why? How? I mean, he lives in fuckin' Canada most of the year." James elbowed Mark, then yanked one of the buds out of his ear. "Did you know anything about this?"
"Like Cooper tells me anything." Mark snorted and went back to his music.
"It's a long story dad." Cooper sighed.
"Well, I got time before I go kill a bitch." James crossed his arms.
"It's like this..."
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Day 12:
"You got a minute?" Erik addressed the solo occupant of the bathroom.
"Depends if I can style while we talk." Shawn replied
"Just keep all that stuff away from me. It takes me long enough to fart around with this mop." Erik ran his fingers through the thatch that was his current hairdo. "I have a question."
"The answer is no." Shawn stated "I'm sorry, but I gave my word to the girls."
"You didn't even know what I was going to ask you." Erik exclaimed "Sheesh, no wonder the girls are plotting against you!"
Shawn dropped his brush with a clatter into the sink. "What do you mean? We have an alliance!"
"Who doesn't?" Erik retorted "It seems like everyone in this house has an alliance with everyone else. I'm pretty sure Cooper even has an alliance with his butterfly."
"I don't see what that has to do with me." Shawn replied
"Do you like slop?"
Shawn threw up a little in his mouth.
"That answers that. You know I have a slop pass, right?"
"Yeah..."
"Here's the deal, if you'll hear me out." Erik quickly looked around, hoping that nothing with a vagina was anywhere within earshot, Nooks excluded. "All I need for you is to vote for Becky. I don't think I have anything to worry about, but I'd rather not have it come down to Nooks casting a tie-breaking vote."
"Isn't she part of your little kliq?" Shawn asked
"I'd rather have nothing to worry about that staking my future on one person. I'm sure you see the logic in that." Over Shawn's shoulder, Erik saw Tommy walking by. He looked concerned, and that also concerned Erik.
"Let's say I'm interested. What do I get out of it?"
"As soon as Becky is out of the house, I'll give you my slop pass and as long as it's practical, I'll give you the support of my alliance." Erik replied "If you do this, and the girls find out, you'll be screwed. I've got enough people to get you to the final seven, guaranteed, if this works."
"And if I decide not to?"
"If I don't hear from you by the time we're done dinner, I go to Chris. He's in the same position you are with the girls. There are more of them then there are of you. Think about it." Knowing he'd done everything he could, Erik returned to the backyard for another smoke as the credits to Big Brother 13 scrolled across the screen.
...
"I think my brother made a huge mistake." Erik's brother Joe had come to the same conclusion.
"You think?" His wife Mel looked over his shoulder. "Erik doesn't usually mis-think things this badly, does he?"
"The last stupid thing he did was... well, we're past that now." Joe replied "I wish Big Brother had the season one voting format. Then we could get slam the phone lines and vote out this Becky person. Other than her cooking prowess, I don't think she's contributed much to the game."
"I dunno." Mel answered "You're the one watching this, not me. Here I am thinking you're playing video games... you still surprise me."
"Hey, we're talking half a million dollars." Joe said "So what if my bro realistically has no chance in hell of winning it?"
Mel laughed again. Patting her husband on the shoulder, she went to prepare dinner. "Maybe when this is all over, we'll invite Erik over for some slop and fish eye stew."
...
Over dinner, Shawn felt that the eyes of the entire house, except for Erik who didn't dine with them, still choosing not to eat rather than eat slop, were on him. It made him nervous and also made him rethink what he was going to say to Erik with every mouthful.
"You seem quiet tonight?" Great... she wants to talk to me NOW!
"Just lost in Shawn-land." He answered "It's a lonely place sometimes, but I like it."
Mercifully, the conversation ended right away and the remainder of the meal was eaten in silence, except for the sounds of Erik on the heavy bag that wafted in through the open door.
"I'm impressed. Three days and he hasn't once said anything about wanting food." Jeff said, his mouth full of non-slop.
"Much more of this and I may join him." Bella looked at her plate of gruel. It was designed to have all the essential nutrients, but for what it looked like (diarrhea), she was tempted to go without as well.
Erik returned from his workout and was immediately summoned to the diary room.
"He seems to have more sessions than the rest of us. I wonder what's up with that?" Nooks demanded
"I heard it was since he refuses to eat slop and I guess he pulled a fast one on Big Brother so they've insisted that he see the medical people daily." Tommy answered "At least that's what he told me."
"I hope he doesn't get have not next week. One week is fine, but I don't think he can do two on just water." Nooks was more concerned about her alliance than Erik's health, but she still had to make nice.
"I hopes they don't sends him home." Connor said, shoveling lasagna into his mouth as fast as he could. "I likes Erik. He gave me money signs."
~Diary room~
Connor: I likes Riky but I thinks he should just eat the yucky food. I don't want the meanies to make him leave. 'Sides, I thinks my brother Coopy Poopy loves him. He doesn't think I knows, but I do. I's hear him moaning Erik's name while he touches himself at night... so there! Take that Coopy Poopy."
Erik: Day three and everything is falling right into place. If Shawn doesn't go for our agreement, he's next to go. That isn't saying that he won't be anyway, but that's not gonna be my problem, either way. Three days and I've lost thirteen pounds, if your interested in TV land. Tell your supplies people that they need to restock the big jugs AGAIN!
Shawn: What to do, what to do... I really haven't decided. Tigger 'n Bella 'n them have been nice to me since we all arrived, but maybe Erik's right. It will only be a matter of time before everyone starts turning on each other. Why wait for them to fuck me over?
Nooks: Here's a question. If Rikers was all okay about being put off, why is he running around the house like his life depends on it? He hasn't spoken to anyone all day. I hope he isn't mad at me..."
Tigger: I think Riky is mad at Nooks. I wonder if I can use this to my advantage? Maybe if I promise to vote Becky out, I can use him to get rid of Nooks. It might have been a good move to put the strongest game player up for eviction, but I don't think that's what she intended. My friends, the game is afoot!
...
Immediately after dinner, while the dishes were being cleared away, Shawn finally managed to catch Erik's attention. With his eyes, Erik restated the question. Shawn nodded.
"House guests, please gather in the living room. We go live in ten minutes. Erik and Becky, please make sure your bags are packed."
Keeping their game faces on, Erik and Becky went to pack, but inside, Erik was smiling.
TBC
