The ninth chapter came earlier than expected. I'm a bit sick and have convinced my mother so I could write on faster, fonrtunately. Feeling like I'm about to throw up anytime, though... Thanks to Your Average Gryffindor Gleek,Starkidtheatregeek, azebra117, noelmescher, Take a walk off my knife, Ivy-7208, and Girl with ipod to review on the story. Walker coes to take Jaime back home, and we go two days in the future, seeing how things are going at the Very StarKid Meeting + 'Jason Parker'... I don't know how they act in real, it's mostly considering how they react on the situations I give them. I do not own Team StarKid or their songs. Enjoy!

-Vuraangreg

August 11th 2022, 21:38 PM

Joey smiled. Jaime's reaction was a bit… unexpected. He blamed himself for a part; he was the one to come closer during their first song together in years. And even with his low voice of Joseph, was she able to recognize his real voice.

"How did you knew?" Joey asked her to make sure the reasons were the same. "First; I don't know how your fans can't recognize your voice from our earlier projects," Joey thought about their time at Starkid, "Second: in the obituary in the newspapers from 2017 we could read you lived in Ann Arbor, Mitchigan. Every other American could've told you it was spelled without a 't'!"

Joey still smiled: he knew there was no 't' in Michigan, but in his young years he wrote it with a 't', so he hoped that one of his friends would recognize that and ask questions. Now he knew Jaime did.

"Third," Jaime continued, "your signature and Joseph's are very similar to each other. I've compared them." "And is there a fourth thing how you knew?" Joey asked, hoping it would be something with that she recognized his voice.

"One day I listened to the radio, and I thought I heard Joseph's voice," yes, Joey thought, "Actually, a few fans of yours recognized your voice as Joseph's and asked me to listen to him. They thought Brian asked you to sing to get more listeners, but Joseph could never sing a song like that with his low voice, but a certain Joey Richter could." Joey sighed. When doesn't Jaime figure something out?

"And Jason Parker… one of your other alter-egos?" Jaime asked. Joey smiled.

"Since the ninth he is, so I could help you guys out." Joey answered, "and… do you have something to say to your ol' dead friend of a Richter?"

"Did you think people were too stupid to figure it out. Well, who's stupid now?" "Well, you're certainly not stupid!" Joey smirked. A few moments it was quiet.

"But tell me, how are things going?" Joey asked her suddenly. Jaime shrugged.

"At the moment I'm a detective, and I'm working with a friendly police officer. I'm working part-time, because I have to stay with my son." That was very good news.

"And if you weren't, you could still have figured it out. But how's he doing, and what's his name." he asked curious. Jaime smiled.

"His name's Clark Joseph Stewart." Joey looked at Jaime. "Stewart, huh? Then I'd like to know you're husband's name as well."

"His name's Evan Dillon. Evan hated that back name and changed it to Stewart." Jaime replied. Joey frowned.

"Evan? Could he be he's an actor or something?" Jaime thought of that.

"Yes, he told me once about it, but he quitted." Joey frowned again. "That's weird, because there was a man at the T.M.E. called Evan. He played almost all roles of JoeMo and Nicholas Strauss… did you know the T.M.E. contains almost every production of ours, but the Very Potter Musical and Sequel?" Jaime shook her head. "No, I didn't knew that, because I never went to that event."

Joey frowned and Jaime laughed. "Stop it!"

"Stop what?"

"Stop frowning! You're irritating me!"

"Do I frown? Really?" "Yes!"

"Do you know that for sure?" "Off course I know it for sure, I can see you doing it!"

"Do you know it very, very sure?"

"Off course I do know you are frowning, Joseph Michael Richter!" Jaime said angry, but with a soft smile. "Alright, I just asked it…" Joey muttered.

"Do you think Joe's still mad for my action with the knife?" he asked her.

"Yes, he's still mad, I can tell. I lastly have seen him, he's the police officer I've got to work with." Jaime replied.

"Why am I not surprised?" Joey said, making Jaime shrug. Both burst out in laughter, it was good to see each other again.

"Joseph! You know you can't hide for me, I'll find you!" That was Brandon's voice. He looked scared at Jaime. "He doesn't know I'm Joey Richter!" he whispered fast, pasting the beard against his chin and Jaime put the hat on his head. Right on time!

Brandon pulled away the curtain and saw Joey and Jaime standing there.

"There you are Jaime, someone's looking for you!" Joey and Jaime looked at each other. "Who?" she asked. A man walked in their direction, and Joey thought he had seen him once before. And then he recognized his face: Joseph Walker. Jaime smiled to the man.

"I didn't knew you were watching the concert in the crowd," she said him.

"They barely let me go in here. But Joseph's manager helped me in because I got you here. I wanted to talk to you about tomorrow. First, we can interrogate the citizens or…" Joe looked at Joey like he now saw him.

"New boyfriend?" Joe asked smiling. Jaime glared at him.

"Joe, you know I'm married! From today on just friends," Jaime said. Joey pointed his hand to Joe and lowered his voice. "Joseph Taylor Campbell, nice to meet you." If he kept speaking with that low voice, Joe wouldn't notice it was really him or Jason Parker. Joe shook Joey's hand. "Joe, police officer, father of two." He really hoped Joe didn't know he was Joey or Jason.

After a few seconds Joey noticed Joe wouldn't let his hand go.

"Did you put glue on it?" First Joe didn't understand what it was about, but one look at Joey's hand he knew he had to let that go. "I'm sorry, sir the rock star, I…" Joey put his hand on Joe's mouth to stop him babbling.

"Just call me Joseph!" "Alright, then… Joseph!" Joe said, like he tested the name.

"That's my full name… Joseph, I mean!" Joe said. "Oh, I didn't knew that!" Joey said. Think of the fact Joseph Taylor Campbell watched Starkid, and got his inspiration by watching those musicals. His career as Joseph started when his previous career as Joey Richter stopped.

"That doesn't matter, I'm very unknown here, compared to a few years ago… like you don't that. Well, if you ever need, you know, security… just call me," Joe replied stuttering. Still feeling confused. Talking to the man who ruined 'probably' his career as singer/career.

"I don't even have your number!" "Then you can ask at the police office of Chicago. There I'm known as Walker."

"Why? Because you always walk around without even sitting down?" Joey said, feeling Joseph Campbell would say something like that.

"No, because my back name is Walker. Joe Walker." Joey made sure Joseph didn't make any sing he knew Joe.

"Really? Well, Joe Walker, didn't you have to take the lady to her husband? I guess he's jealous and worried because she met a rock star," Joey said to Joe, looking at Jaime. He had spent most of his first year without his friends to create Joseph Taylor Campbell and to understand him completely, and that's why he sometimes says something 'stupid'; to keep himself IC as Joseph.

"Alright, then. Are you coming, Jaime?" Joe asked. Jaime nodded.

"See you next time, Joseph!" she said and followed Joe to the exit. When they were almost gone, his son Richard came in. He watched the backs of Joe and Jaime, and then looked worried at his father, who still looked at the door.

"Dad, who were those people?" Joey shrieked when he heard Richard's voice, but answered the question anyway.

"You've seen them before, Richard. Jaime as Ginny and Joe Walker as Voldemort in the VPM. Jaime has sung with me on that stage." Richard looked at his father.

"Couldn't you kept them longer? I wanted to meet them once!" Richard exclaimed.

"I can't help it that Joseph has no woman or children. I said that to protect you from what possibly can happen, but," he continued at the look on Richard's face, "but I never said Jason Parker has no woman and children. The only rule is that your name is NOT Richard Richter, but Richard Parker. Got it?" Richard's eyes widened.

"So I can go with you? And I can met more of them?" Joey nodded and Richard begun to cheer. He begun to laugh at the sight at his excited son. In about two they would meet some other members from the Team, as Richard and Jason Parker.

They both knew they were certainly ready.

August 13th 2022, 10:26 AM

"Are you ready?" Joey asked, standing before the theatre building with his son Richard. Richard nodded. "I'm ready to go." He said. Joey sighed when he opened the door. A known man came walking towards them.

"How are you going, Brant?" Joey said to the man without a voice. Brant nodded, what probably meant it was going well. He gave Joey some papers with small messages. These are some of the message:

Good job, Jason! Thanks for joining us and beat the theatre-group. Tyler

Thank you very much for helping us out, Parker! Thank you! Love, Arielle

How did it felt to help us out as a man with the back-name Parker? Denise

Thanks for helping. ~Brian Holden

Brian's message was the shortest, but the most powerful of the twenty he'd read. "Is this everything?" Joey asked when Brant gave him one last paper. Thanks. Don't speak up too much, and try to convince those actors in there you're Jason Parker, and not Joey Parker. There wasn't any name, but somehow Joey knew Brant had wrote this.

"I'll do my best if you don't do some stupid things in there yourself," Joey told Brant.

The place was more cozy then two days ago. Onto the stage were chairs set up in a circle and in the middle of that circle was there a small table. On that table were flowers and at every side of the flowers was there a photo. one was a picture of Richard Campbell, the other was one of Joey with his blue headband chewing on a Redvine. Almost all of the chairs were already taken – there were only three free places – and the people on the chairs in the direction of Richard and Joey.

"Speaking of the devil, Jason, you know when you need to come in! oh, sit down," Denise said in a happy mood. Probably they were talking about him.

Joey nodded and he and Richard walked onto the stage along with Brant. Richard sat down next to Brant, while Joey went sitting next to Jaime, who nodded friendly. I hope she won't betray me, he thought.

"Did you get our messages?" Tyler asked. Joey nodded laughing.

"Yeah, they were awesome! Feeling like Hercules now. From zero to hero…" he began to sing, and the member of the old Team began to laugh.

"Well, Jason, your name brought a lot of doubts along," Nick Lang said. Joey looked confused.

"My name?" "Yes, your back name, Parker. It's strange a Parker likes our productions, when Spiderman in almost in every musical is mentioned." Brain Holden said. Joey smiled.

"My father had the thought of naming me Peter… no, I'm not kidding, I'm totally serious! But my mom didn't like that, thus it has become my middle name: Jason Peter Parker." The team thought the man who had helped them had Spiderman's name in his own name. the truth was that Joey couldn't come up with a back name that fast, so he used Spiderman's.

"And who's this little boy you brought with you?" Walker asked suddenly. The whole time he hadn't say anything.

"Almost forgot to introduce you to my son: Richard Ron Parker." The Team stayed quiet by hearing the name 'Richard'.

"Did I say something wrong?" Joey asked, knowing why the Team was silence. Everybody had Richard Campbell in mind.

"If you watched all of our musicals, you can see Neville Longbottom from our Very Potter-series on that picture, Richard Campbell. He died in 2014." Brian Rosenthal explained.

"Richard was born in that year. Isn't that coincidence?" Joey said, looking at Richard. He never told his son why he's called Richard. A month after Richard Campbell died, his son was born. Then, he hadn't really thought about that, Richard was just a nice name. But after a couple of years Joey begun to believe that he chose that name because the world needed another Richard.

"Can we begin, please?" Joey asked. His son, the Brians, Nick, Jaime, Denise, Tyler, the Joes, Lauren, Meredith and Brant nodded and smiled. They were singing, talking, discussing things and (again) singing until three PM. Richard listened excited and said almost twice he was Richard Richter, and he almost said fourteen times his father was Joey Richter.

In that time, Denise, Brian Rosenthal, Joe Moses, Meredith and Lauren already left the room: Denise and Brian left together to prepare stuff for their children (they both had no children, but they worked at the same school), Joe had to catch his plane to LA, and Meredith and Lauren left to get a private conversation together. The only ones left were Richard Parker/Richter, Jason Parker/Joey Richter, Nick Lang, Brian Holden, Jaime Lynn Beatty, Joe Walker, Tyler Brunsman and Brant Cox.

Alright, this is it, I guess," Walker said half an hour later. Joey looked at Jaime, en Jaime looked back like she wanted to say 'go for it'. it didn't feel good now for Joey – however, 'now' was the perfect moment.

"Wait a moment, guys… I need to tell you guys something. I haven't told anything important about my past, something I should've told you four days ago, but didn't because I was afraid of your reactions," Joey quickly said, nobody knowing what he was about to say but Richard, Jaime en Brant.

"What's wrong, Jason?" "Nick, please, don't call me 'Jason'… that's one of my two alter-egos. I created Jason Parker four days ago, at the stage at the last day of the T.M.E." Their jaws dropped; that was something they didn't expect.

"My other alter-ego is Joseph Taylor Campbell," he turned to Jaime, "oh, and Jaime, can you please come here the twentieth. For you ask, Brandon has changed the day again, this time to August twentieth." "Wait, you are Joseph Taylor Campbell? I thought I recognized your voice from somewhere," Tyler said, saying what was in everybody's mind.

"There is a third man who I am, that man hasn't got any beard… before you ask, Joe, this is a fake beard. You already know this man, however, before a certain event you did. Before that event happened, I was a funny guy of the Team, even if I say it now myself. Alright, I am," he pulled the beard from his chin, making him look like himself again, "Joey Richter, and that's my son, Richard Richter." Now it went quiet and it stayed quiet for a couple of minutes. After those minutes Walker stood up.

"Stay there and don't make any sudden moves. You're under arrest!" Joe said, coming closer to Joey.

"What did I do wrong?" Joey asked. Nick, Brian and Tyler glared at Walker like he was an idiot, while Jaime, Richard and Brant were watching it without glaring.

"You tried to kill people twice, and one of them succeeded." Walker said, pointing at the picture of Richard Campbell.

"But I haven't done anything to hurt him or you guys, I swear!" Joey exclaimed, walking away from the police officer. One second everybody stayed at their place, and that was enough for everyone to get what Walker was up to. Joey ran away from Joe, who is stopped by Nick, Tyler and Brian, while Jaime, Richard and Brant stood between Joey and Walker to create a wall.

"Joseph Walker, stop it! you don't greet your lost friend not like that after all those years!" Jaime said. Joe stared unbelievable at Jaime. Brant nodded.

"You guys knew," both nodded, what made him more hesitating. "How…?"

"The obituary, off course!" Jaime said, "There was written: student from Michigan, and Michigan was spelled with a 't'! Did you really think it was a fault in typing it in?" "Maybe." The officer said fastly. The Team sighed.

"I wanted to tell you guys much earlier, but I had an angry Team in my head so I didn't tell you until now!" "But the obituary…" Nick started, and Joey started explaining.

"I was almost dead! Some idiot driver drove further when I wanted to go to the other side of the street. I decided to let the newspapers publish it anyway, and ow I'm still thinking why I gave them permission," Joey panted while Joe let it sink in.

"You can go," he said. That was unexpected in his state.

"What do you mean?" " You and your son can go now, but the next time I see you outside, as Jason or Joey or Joseph, I will arrest you without a doubt! Would you now leave this room," Joe said, pointing at the door.

"I imagined it to go totally different," Richard said. Joey stroke with his hand through his hair. "Me too, Richard. Let's go, then." Together they walked to the exit, the rest leaving in the room. Joey expected them to interrogate him about his life, where he had left his blue headband, and whatever important happened in his life. He didn't expect Joe to want him to go to jail.

How will te others take it now they know Joey's still alive? Richard and Joey's character of Joseph Taylor Campbell is fictional. Please review; it motivates me to go on with the story. Must warn you, I'm a slow updater - the next chapter might be posted in the next week, or something. I don't have much time to write you see...