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IN ADDITION TO THIS LONG CHAPTER IT WILL BE BROKEN UP INTO IN A COUPLE OF PARTS WITH THE HELP OF LINE BREAKS
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I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF WORDS FOR THE INTRO NOTE
ANNNNND I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY GRAMMAR ISSUSES
ANYWHO WITHOUT FURTHER ADU I GIVE YOU THE LAST CHAPTER OF BAIT FOR LOVE
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It was quiet in the halls of a sophisticated business. Everyone was off doing their own thing in their respective areas of professions. Some where in the labs testing people and other things. Some were in a cubicle typing away on the computer.
Where as some people were meeting with their boss, on how to plot against certain other people. And this just so happens to be true with a Mr Hector Garica.
He was sitting in front of a long shiny red wood desk.
The figure across from him wasted no getting to the point. "What are your intentions Hector?"
The other shifted nervously. "Mr Connie, I have thought about an idea that will work out for everyone ."
"I ask again, what are your intentions. I must know ahead of time before I can approve."
"I know how you love to make money, and I know how much this program lives off of the test subjects it gets. I think-know of a way that will guarantee you more money, and more test dummies for the company."
The portly man leaned forward in his chair. "I'm listening."
"I have a plan that will cause a revolution amongst everything that dares to call himself a mythical creature. I can get all four of the LaMerran countries to come crawling to us willingly and from there we can gain endless amounts of power."
Mr Connie tapped his stubby fingers against desk as he thought over what the man had just said.
"More money? You're planning on getting me more money from claiming the other three LaMerran countries? Might I just hint that your son, and his friends are trying to protect the single most important LaMerran that could ruin your fool proof plan?"
Hector sat back. "Possibly. I see your hint, but I don't think it's anything to worry about." he took in a deep breath before swallowing his pride.
"Should something go wrong you can do whatever it takes to make sure you never see my face again."
Mr Connie smirks at this. "Then it's a plan, I trust that you know what you are doing."
"Thank you sir." Hector nodded.
"Well then Agent Tyler, I suggest that you get started right away, for time is money."
Carlos woke up in the spot that he had been in the previous day. He tried to shift but he couldn't as a weight was on him. He looked up when he felt something tickle his face. Upon closer inspection, it was his Logan, resting on his chest and his hair on Carlos' face. Whatever Carlos could safely move of his head, he managed to turn it to the side to see his other two friends.
They were snuggling against each other in one of the lawn chairs just to the side of where Carlos and Logan were.
Kendall was starting to wake up, he stretched his arms and legs as he shimmied out of James' hold, not waking the pretty boy up.
Kendall smiles softly down to Carlos. It was a smile that held a little sadness to Carlos' position.
He crouches down to their level and he whispers,"It takes practice to sneak away from a hold like theirs."
Carlos softly chuckles, "You think you could show me sometime?"
"Sure, remind me later."
"What are you going to show to Carlos?"
Of course to no ones surprise, there stood James with his arms crossed and a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing that I would show you, James." Kendall answered.
"Oh, ok." James said. James looked at the position I was in. "I don't think Logan will up anytime soon." he observed.
"He won't" Kendall confirmed. "You have to make him get up."
"How?" Carlos asked, eager to know what to do.
"Logan is very ticklish on his sides and feet. If you tickle him on his sides, he'll defiantly wake up."
"Will he like attack me for doing that?"
"No, he won't."
Carlos nodded. Sometimes it's a great thing to be friends with Kendall. With the blonde knowing just about everything about Logan.
Taking a deep breath, Carlos sat up a little bit. He slipped his hands from under Logan, to the brunette's hips and his began to lightly drag his his fingers against the pale skin. Logan started to shift.
Carlos took advantage of this and wiggled his fingers harder on Logan, who was laughing in his sleep and was moving around. A few seconds later his eyes popped opened.
"C-Carlos...stop... it!" Logan, chokes out in between laughs.
Carlos smiles evilly,"Are you going to get up?"
"Haha,s-sure...just stop!" Logan agreed.
Carlos stops allowing Logan to catch his breath and roll off of him. It was only a few seconds after, did Carlos continue his assault on Logan.
Kendall and James laughed at the two's interaction with each other. Logan laughing so hard his face is red, him not really making sounds and Carlos enjoying himself with a big smile on his face.
"Aww isn't this adorable?" a voice mocked.
Carlos snapped his head up at the sound the familiar voice. "Dad."
The older Garcia just smiled in response. "Having fun with your friends,son?"
"Yeah," Carlos says slowly.
"Good good, hey listen since everything is up in the air now, there's no need to lie anymore. You know about me and I know about you."
"I would ask what are you doing here in tis room but I don't think you'll answer."
"I'm here because I wanted to talk to you, Carlos. I know you're here because you wanted to rescue Logan. And you know that I'm here because I have been going behind your back this whole time."
Carlos glares. "Yeah I've noticed. What's left to talk about?"
"Oh you know, just how this building is going to explode in the next Forty five minutes." Mr Garcia says casually.
This catches everyone's attention. "What?"
Mr Garcia smiles. "Have a nice day." with that he walks away as if it meant nothing. Before he actually leaves he turns back to Carlos saying, "By the way Carlos, I'm not really sorry."
Carlos bawled up his fists in anger when his father left. "I can't believe this."
"Which part?" James asks.
"All of it! He has the audacity to show his face to me and then says he's not sorry. Of course if you throw in the whole building's gonna blow up soon."
"Well what are we going to do? He wouldn't tell us that unless he wants to do something with us later." James pointed out.
"Yeah, and he wouldn't tell you anything that you already know." Kendall agreed.
"So then our only real concern is getting out of here before we all turn to ash."
Logan was laying on the ground as the others discussed this. He only listened, not really having anything to say. His thoughts roamed around in his mind as he placed a hand to his forehead.
Carlos noticed his distress as he went to sit next to the boy.
"Everything alright Logan?" he asks bringing Logan out of his reverie.
"Huh? Oh yeah all is well." Logan half answered.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I just feel like crap from the inducing serum yesterday."
"Oh, well I uh hope you feel better then."
Logan's response was than a grunt as he rolled over onto his stomach.
"If the place really is gonna blow up shouldn't we be making our way out?" James asked.
"Yeah, maybe. But what if it's a bluff?" Kendall pointed out.
"If it was a bluff then wouldn't we have less time to leave?"
"We're wasting time right now trying to figure out what we're going to do." Carlos deadpanned.
Logan felt something was a little off from this whole situation. He wasn't sure if it was because of the possible bluff of the building blowing up or if he was supposed to feel this growing concern for something or someone who wasn't even there.
Upon a small realization, Logan stands up and starts walking off to the side exit.
"Logan?" Carlos calls out to him.
"Huh?"
"Where are you going?"
"Just," Logan struggled to find a half valid excuse. "Just need to go and talk to someone real quick. I'll just meet you guys outside."
Kendall, James and Carlos all looked at the retreating pale form, before giving each other confused looks and then leaving the pool area.
As they were walking down the halls, they saw all kinds of chaos. People were running around trying to match papers with papers and documents with documents. If anything the boys would say that it's like a mad house in the middle of the hallways.
Kendall managed to catch a panicking employee. "Excuse me, what's going on here?"
The man looked scared and startled. "We have to get rid of everything before they come and get us. There can't be a trace of information here or we're all dead!"
"Who's them?"
"...MAKE SURE THAT YOU SAVE YOURSELVES! I can't afford to go through the processing again." he muttered the last part as if was not important. He didn't say another word as he stumbled back into the messy rooms.
"Ok, weird is what that was."Carlos concluded.
"Seriously." James agreed.
"We'll think about that once we get out of her-"
"Guys!" a shrill voice interrupted Kendall's train of thought.
They turned around to see Gia, running towards them, looking very distressed.
"Gia, what's wrong?"
"He wants to see you!"
"Who is he?"
"Mr Connie, the boss, our boss."
"Why?"
"Does it look like I know? He called me to tell you three that he wants to talk to you at once." Goa managed all of this in one short breath.
The three lifted up and eyebrow. But nonetheless nodded at the message that was delivered to them.
They followed Gia to the long hallway that held a cherry wood door.
Logan walked around the lab, were most of the "regular" experiments happen. He noticed for the first time -since he hasn't been here in a while- that it was empty. There was no chatter between scientists, there was no machines beeping, and there certainly was no Morty. Logan figured that even though the man was not working he would still be around somewhere, it was his lab.
Logan saw a light from the corner of his eye, he turned around to see the man in question working at a desk.
Now how did he not notice that Logan was in there was past him, but he was going to make his presence known.
"Morty? Can I ask you something?" Logan tried walking up to the other.
He didn't look up from his tinkering. "Of course Logan, what's on your mind?" Morty answered.
"Remember how you talked to me about Dak and to report to you anything that happens?"
"Uh-huh?"
"I think everyone here knows that my first impression on him was high, but then as I started to think about it, it dawned on me that I can't love someone artificial."
Morty sat back from his project. "Artificial? Are you calling my creations artificial?"
"No, no of course not. Dak is a real person, as real as can be. What I'm saying is I think that because he was a hand made clone, he can act and behave as he was programed. That "spark" that we had when we first met became nothing afterwards."
"So you admit that the test worked? You were able to figure out what you really wanted?"
Logan meekly nodded. "I think so. I mean I know who I want but I'm not sure if it's right. It kinda goes against what I stand for, as a LaMerran."
"The whole LaMerrans can only be with other LaMerrans regardless of what country they are from?"
Again Logan nodded.
"Have you ever heard the Foura Legend?"
Logan thought about it. "I think I heard about it one time at school."
"Ahh so you're a little familiar with it. Well let me give you a more in depth version."
Logan looked at the man with awaiting ears.
"Yes you are correct, your kind has very high standards when it comes to relationships, and one of those standards being you should not be with anyone who is not of your kind.
"However, there were two LaMerrans who were able to overcome this. Keep in mind that this was back in the olden days when there was a king and a prince. Anyways, the prince already had a pre chosen partner and was ready to be forcefully married to someone he didn't love.
"To "avoid" this problem he decided to run away to the surface world, were he found his true love. The prince brought him back to the under water world, where he was disgraced among the people.
"Of course with the help of love, the prince was able to convince his lover to transform into one of his kind."
Logan held a look of confusion, he wasn't entirely sure what to make of this. "And you know all of this because?"
"Because I happen to be this division's of SWIM's creative scientists so therefor I am required to know of all myths and legends."
"So what you're saying, is that love could can anything such as change another's appearance?"
"Exactly. Dak already told me about your little incident, and he's ok with being friend zoned. I'm sure he would want to hear that from you though."
If Logan was able to, he would stomp his foot in annoyance and tell the man in front of him that he already did that. But Logan kept his composer and said,"I'll be sure to tell him that."
Logan turns to leave but Morty calls out to him. "Hey, I might be a crazy creative scientist, but I'm still person enough to tell you that you and your significant other will find a way to be together with no issues."
Logan gave a small smile at the other's words and he nodded happily as he walked out of the office.
Kendall, Carlos, and James hesitantly followed the bouncing blonde curls to the tall cherry wood door.
Gia gave a tentative soft knock on the door, to which a hearty voice said, "Come in."
Gia held her hand up, silently telling the boys to wait outside as she disappeared behind the door.
It wasn't until five minutes later did she come out and told the boys to go in and she also told them good luck.
"Boys," Mr Connie greeted, "Have a seat."
The others picked up on how unnaturally happy the portly man sounded, but sat down anyhow.
"Let's not beat around the bush, I wish to tell you all something that requires your attention."
The boys look ahead.
"I know you three snuck inside my building to get one of my most important and favorite LaMerran. I'm sorry you boys had to get involved with my employees and it's sad really, that one of them turns out to be a family member." Mr Connie turns to face Carlos directly.
"It seems that no one can do anything right, as you were supposed to be taken of a long time ago. I hate to be the guy with the dirty hands but it has to be done."
"Wait, what do you mean-?"
Mr Connie held a darker look on his face. On his desk there was a plastic casing, underneath it was a red button, and his pudgy little finger was about to press it.
Kendall had first sensed that something was off when the distressed woman came and got them. But now that he sees the boss of this government controlled company about to press a dangerous looking button, he had safely come to the conclusion that it was time to leave.
"RUN!" was Kendall's command, none of the others knew what he meant until they saw the button and the door, they jumped up from their seats and joined Kendall in running to the exit.
"You're caught, so you should give up. You can run all you want but you're not guaranteed an escape ." Mr Connie grunted evilly after the retreating forms.
"Where are we running to?" James asked.
"Away from here!" Kendall said.
"Oh yeah, that's real specific." Carlos said sarcastically.
The three of them were racing against the clock and the smoke, they saw no time to vastly wander the huge building in hopes of finding the way out. They thought it was like an endless maze of rights and lefts.
The smoke was starting to catch up to them a little bit, Carlos knew he really shouldn't be worrying about this but he couldn't help it. He just had hopes for his sanity that Logan made it to the lobby at least.
"Ok, this is getting us nowhere!" James declared.
"I think everyone knows that James!" Kendall says.
"Dudes wait!" Carlos called, slowly stopping.
Kendall and James crashed into each other, screeching to a hault.
"What?"
"Why don't we just leave the same way we came in, instead of running around in circles."
The taller of the three hadn't even considered this at all.
"Yeah, let's just do that. But what about Logan?"
If Carlos didn't like Logan (which does) he would have said who cares about the other boy, in this case he does so he can't really say that.
"We'll meet up with him later-" Carlos stops in mid sentence as he sees the brunette in question walking and talking with the guy they had seen earlier, Dak.
"So, if that's the case why would they put anchovies with it?" Dak asks.
"It's to give lame dull flavor, diced kelp works just as well if not better." Logan answers.
"It's Logan." Carlos says. Kendall and James turn around to see that it was indeed Logan walking towards them.
"Logan!" Carlos call out to him.
Even though Logan was looking forward he didn't really pay attention to who was in front of them.
"Carlos?" he asks as he and Dak walk up to them. "What are you guys doing in the hallway, I thought you were supposed to leaving?"
"We are and currently doing so, because it's not a bluff, Mr Connie pressed a button earlier and smoke is everywhere behind us and it will probably catch up soon too." James explained.
Logan looked at the three of them before shaking his head sadly. So they've basically been going round and round in circles the whole time.
As often he and Kendall have been here, he would have thought Kendall knew about the obvious and quickest escape.
Logan walked over to one of the side doors, that held a picture of something on it.
Kendall went wide eyes in realization. "The stairs! I forgot all about those!"
James and Carlos look at Kendall with their best "really" face.
"What? In the event of all this craziness happening, anyone could forget about stairs." Kendall said in his defense.
"Oh whatever, can we just make our decent now?"Logan asked rolling his eyes a bit, walking ahead of the other boys.
It took them all a moment, to figure out that Logan just left them again, so this time they followed him downstairs.
It was a comfortable tense quiet amongst them, like they were fine with each other they were just tense from all of the smoke and mini fires that were cracking against the walls.
The group swiftly made their way down the stairs and into the lobby, they made it out the door.
The boys are standing outside, just watching the building slowly be engulfed with smoke and flames.
Logan squatted on his knees, he was stroking the air, expecting to feel a rough shell like surface, but he didn't.
Logan started to freak out, on the verge of hyperventilating and crying. "No! No no no no!" he cries out gaining everyone's attention.
"Logan," Carlos started instantly at the brunette's side, "What's wrong?"
Logan gripped Carlos' shirt, with an upset confused tear streaked face. "Tell me he's not still in there!"
"Who's still in there? Who are you talking about?"
"Look at this picture, Carlos what's wrong with it?!"
Carlos felt uncomfortable in this position, he tried to shrug but he failed because of the grip on his shirt.
"My turtle, cannot still be inside of a burning building!"
Kendall grew wide eyes once he heard those words escape from Logan. "H-he might be, the last time I saw him was when I was holding him during your tests."
"No no no. If he dies in there..." Logan was hysterical at this point.
Carlos thought about the unfinished train of thought. He was upset that Logan was freaking out because his beloved pet turtle was still possibly in the burning building.
Himself, Kendall and James all knew how attached he was to the sea animal. If Keysmi was a person, then the owner and pet relationship would mean a lot more to Logan.
The way that Logan cared for his turtle made humans look like mediocre pet owners. It really hurt Carlos to see Logan like this, he didn't like to see it and he wanted to do everything he could to get the other to calm down a little bit.
"Want me to go back and get him?" Carlos whispered gently.
Logan looked up at him, surprise written all over his face. "Y-you would do that? Carlos that's really dangerous. If you go in there you might not come back..."
Carlos hugged Logan closer to him, he kissed the top of Logan's head. "That's a risk I'll have to take to make you're happy. I'll be back I promise ok?"
Logan looked anywhere but Carlos' face as fresh new tears made their way down his cheeks. "O-ok." he softly said.
Before leaving Carlos bent under to kiss Logan on the lips.
Logan looked at the retreating form as he made his way back into the burning building. He could hear the up coming sirens from behind them.
The four boys turned around to see the firetrucks coming and they were coming fast.
Logan held a hand to his chest, "Please hurry Carlos."
Carlos blindly made his way back into the almost collapsing building. He remembered seeing the turtle in question back in the pool room. So chances are he's still there.
Carlos had to feel around as he kept as close to the ground as possible, trying not to get smoke in his lungs. By the time he found the rooms he was looking for, just about everything was pitch black from the smoke. Of course in hindsight, doing this was not such a good idea, but Carlos wanted to do something.
He found the pool room, and he could a wailing of some sort. He followed the sound to an empty lawn chair.
"Keysmi!" he called out, hoping for a louder response.
Keysmi heard his name being called and he started to snap louder.
Within a few minutes he was able to find the turtle underneath the lawn chair, he picked him up in a firm strong grip as he raced out of the smoke filled room.
He couldn't really do much but cough and stumble through the blackness. He wasn't entirely sure when, but he knew he was on the ground coughing and wheezing about.
It wasn't until exactly a minute later dis he hear voices.
"You sure someone's still here?" one asked.
"Yeah, I can just feel it in my gut, someone is still trying to get of here."
Carlos thanked whatever was out there because he was sure he was a goner. He felt someone kick him with a heavy boot.
"Hey, I think I stepped on an arm." the voice said.
"Here let me feel." the other responded.
More tiny kicks. "Yep that's defiantly a body. Come on, let's get them out of here."
Carlos felt himself being hoisted up into the arms of the rescuers, and he kept his iron grip on Keysmi. Carlos was happy when he was able to breath semi properly again. Keysmi squirmed out of his hold and faster than any other turtle he has seen, Keysmi practically ran to his worried owner.
Logan scooped him up in his arms and cradled Keysmi like he hadn't seen in forever. "Keysmi, I was so worried about you, I'm so glad you're safe." Keysmi licked Logan in the face in return.
Carlos sat on the ground and watched this take place. He had an ever growing smile on his face. Even if he was covered in ash, he was able to see the happiness radiating off of the shorter.
Logan turned his attention to the collapsed Carlos. He bent down to his level and hugged him, Carlos returned the hug.
"Thank you so so much Carlos. I really appreciate this. I wouldn't be the same if I had lost him." for the first time in a while Carlos actually received a genuine smile from Logan.
"My pleasure Logan. It was tough but I managed." Carlos smiled.
Out if sheer joy, Logan pulled Carlos in for a kiss.
And once again the sparks happened while they were kissing. They would have gotten more into it had Carlos not been trying to hack up a lung.
A paramedic came and checked Carlos over saying that he should go to the hospital to get checked out first to make sure he was alright.
Logan rode with him to the hospital. Neither couldn't stop smiling, even if the situation was a little dull.
It turns out that Carlos was ok, he just needed to take it easy for a bit before doing anything too strenuous. During Carlos' evaluation he asked Logan to be his boyfriend officially. Logan squealed in happiness and said yes.
All five of the guys were at James' house just relaxing with each other. They were happy that all of this was over and they could be together and hang out.
Of course this was easy thinking, Logan and Kendall knew that this wasn't over over just yet. They both were waiting to see what was going to happen.
But all in all everything was good again for now.
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Oh my gosh, everything has changed since I last been here. And these were not good changes.
I floated there, in plain obvious shock. What the hell happened? I-we were only gone for two months, how could so much change be possible?
I felt someone place their hand on my shoulder. I turn my head to see my boyfriend Carlos giving me a sad look. I turn into his embrace, and let him hug me.
"How could this happen?" Kendall asked, he was just as broken up about this as I was.
"Who would do this?" Carlos whispered.
What we were looking at was a mossy town, full of darkness. The citizens were filing in the streets, going to their "day job" and they all looked miserable.
There was trash and smog everywhere, the usual schools of fish that would swim by were gone, any color that was here before hand, was drained into a sad, dull, depressing gray.
Was this my home? The city of LaMerra? One of the four other sea countries in the whole world?
What happened?
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