Reunion Royalty Take 36

(Outside of Castle Rodigan)

Mary and Sheila are next to each other as they stand outside as the Conner helps Connie up onto a small horse. They watch as he gives her a soft pat on the head and gets up on his own royal steed.

Sheila leans over to Mary and whispers, "He sure is good with children isn't he?"

Mary nods and says, "He's got a good heart, I think the children really respond to that."

Sheila does a little wicked smile at Mary before she walks over to Conner and says, "Hey Your Majesty, do you think you have room for one more?"

Conner looks at Sheila with confusion and says, "Who do you have in mind?"

Sheila turns to point at Mary, "How about Mary, over there?"

Conner looks at Mary in surprise and says, "Well, I don't know... what do you think Connie?"

Connie takes one look at Mary and nods says, "Sure! She's nice!"

Conner laughs and says, "Well I can't ask for a more glowing recommendation than that. However, if we're going to be back in time to see Jamie off on her date, there is no time to wait for another horse to be saddled so..." Mary looks down as she says, "I understand Your Majesty, maybe another time." He clears his throat and says, "I do wish you wouldn't interrupt me Mary. Now as I was saying, you will simply have to ride with me on my horse."

Mary gasps and says, "Your Majesty! I couldn't, the rules..."

Conner puffs himself up and says, "Am I or am I not the King? I give you royal permission to ride on the horse with me. So, now are you coming or not?"

Mary looks over at Sheila who nods at her before she turns and walks up to Conner's horse. She looks up at him and sees him holding out his hand for hers. Blushing a little, she puts her hand into his and cries out a little as she gets lifted up onto the back of the horse.

Conner looks back as he says, "Hold on tight now. I don't want you to fall off, ok?"

Mary nods as she wraps her arms around his waist and says, "Yes, Your Majesty" She then leans forward, putting her head against the back of his shoulder as Conner and Connie begin to ride their horse with Sheila waving and saying, "Have fun kids!"

(Meanwhile in Castle Rodigan)

Jamie is running around in the room given to her by King Conner so that she could get ready for her date. She had a variety of servants as well as the Golden Knights' daughter trying to help her but no matter what she looked at, it seemed like nothing was perfect!

Jamie pouts as she tosses aside the latest dress and says, "No! I want this date to go perfectly! Oh, what will he like to see on me?" She walks over and plops down onto a chair and says, "Oh, what kind of clothing will work? I have no idea what he likes!"

Alison says, "Calm down, he will love you in whatever you decide to wear. Besides, I think I just found the perfect dress for you." She turns to face Jamie and holds up a royal blue strapless silk dress with a ruched bodice and empire waistline. Its knee-length skirt flared gracefully from a black satin sash tied at its waist.

Jamie's eyes light up and she cries out, "That's perfect!" One of the servants then says, "We have you covered for the rest, now please try on the dress so we can make any adjustments if any are needed."

Jamie nods as takes the dress from Alison and changes into she turns to Alison who had turned to discuss the jewelry and shoes to go with the dress. She nervously says, "So tell me the truth, how do I look?"

Alison's eyes go wide in surprise and says, "He's going pass out when he sees how you look in that beautiful dress! It looks absolutely perfect on you!" Making Jamie blush in response.

After that, the hair stylists went to work where her black hair was piled into soft ringlets at the back of her head and pinned into place with shimmering pearls. A soft sweep of bangs hung low over one eye, giving her an air of mystery.

As soon as the hair was done, Alison is handed a box before she then turns to Jamie as she says, "Jamie, I think these jeweled earrings will go just perfect with that dress." She opens the box to reveal sapphires that start in the same dark blue as her dress with it going down in a string to then change with each other sapphire until they are as white as the white pearl that hangs off the end of it.

While Jamie is putting on her earrings, Alison says to her, "Tell me, what do you think of this?" She holds in her hand a sapphire and diamond in silver-gold bracelet. She smiles big at the sight of it and says, "It is just so beautiful, it is perfect!" She takes the offered bracelet and slips it onto her wrist.

Another servant girl walks up with a pair of shoes that had little blue sapphires that started between the big toe and other toe and flowed up over the foot to wrap around the ankle. Jamie slowly puts the shoes on and the then walks over to a full-length mirror where she saw just how amazing she looked.

Alison steps up behind her and says, "How do you feel?"

Jamie is still looking at her own reflection and says to Alison who could also be seen in the mirror, "I feel... amazingly beautiful. I didn't know I could look so beautiful."

Alison smiles and nods softly as she says, "He's a lucky guy. Now let's get you to your date. Oh, and one last thing." She brings up a camera that was in her hand and snaps a picture. "So you have something to remember this moment by." She says as Jamie turns around to face her and she snaps another picture.

Jamie poses for some more pictures for a bit before making Alison join in for some pictures and then even the servant girls got into the picture as they did a couple group shots.

(At the Castle Entrance)

Gary looks at the big group waiting for Jamie and Alison to show up and fidgets since he could see the ever watchful and glaring eyes of Jamie's father. He was beginning to have second thoughts about going on a date with Jamie as he knew that her father would most likely hurt him if he was anything less than a perfect gentleman and he did not want to find out what his plant powers were capable of doing to him since he had already seen what Jamie's were capable of.

Gary turns to see the Golden Knight with his helmet off and looking at Gary with a bemused expression before the Golden Knight says, "Don't worry, it is natural for women to be late when a guy is waiting."

Jesse softly says to himself, "That's not true for all women." As he recalls a date that he had once before where his date had actually been early at the meeting place, even though he had gotten there five minutes early. He found out that she'd been there ten minutes early for their movie date. He smiles as he remembers how Cindy and Mindy had 'conveniently' shown up for the date and sat behind them to make sure his date went smoothly.

Cindy and Mindy are with their parents who are each holding the hands of Connie and Ronnie so that they can't sneak off and get into more trouble. The last thing that Kim and Ron wanted was anything to spoil Gary and Jamie's date, plus they knew Sheila would go on the warpath if anything happened as well.

Even Vania was there watching and waiting since this was at the moment, the hottest spot at the castle for anything to happen. She smirks as she waits to see just how badly Gary is going to mess up and fall flat on his face somehow. That itself was worth the wait for her as she knew the kind of person Gary was from having lived and worked in the castle. She looks around and has to admit to herself that she was surprised that Gary even had anyone other than that harlot's parents around to see the two of them off. So to see just about all those weird strangers that had shown up recently out there, it was just very unusual.

Just as Vania hears the sound of a horse being rode pretty quickly, she sees that black guy walk up towards her with some weird gizmo in his hands and a pretty serious expression on his face. She decides to ignore him as there was no way she was going to miss the upcoming show.

A moment later, there are bells ringing and Jamie steps forth from the castle looking very much like a beautiful princess in her royal blue dress and Vania was shocked to see that the little tramp was wearing some royal jewels too! She growls in jealousy as she had never been allowed to even touch such stuff in all her time and now, this strange girl was wearing the jewels!

As Jamie walks forward, her eyes locked onto Gary's face so she could remember this moment and to forget that all her friends and family were there as well. However that plan went down the tubes as Sheila loudly says to her husband and everyone else there, "That's my little girl... Doesn't she look beautiful?"

Even as Sheila's words fade away, Gary could only help but stare at the vision before him. Sure she was lovely before, but dressed as she was now in front of him. He couldn't help but say aloud in awe, "Wow... she sure does." He watches as Jamie gets closer with every step and some part of him tells himself to say something but he finds himself too stunned to say anything.

Wade stops next to Vania and turns to see Jamie and Gary, with a low whistle as he says, "She looks good!"

Jamie walks up to stop before Gary and wonders why he isn't saying anything to her except to just stare at her.

Conner rides up on the horse and says, "Gary... GARY!" snapping Gary out of his staring of Jamie and then says, "You better fix that jaw of yours and say something already." This gets a small bit of laughter from nearly everyone around.

Gary's jaw is still hanging until Connie rides up on her small horse and taps his chin up before she looks up at Conner who gives her a pleasant smile as her reward with Mary giggling.

Gary says, "Um... you look... you look beautiful. Are you ready? I mean, to go on the date?"

Jamie smiles and nods as she says in a teasing voice, "I am, are you sure you're ready for this?"

Gary nods and turns, offering her his arm for her, which she slips her hand through and together they walk over to the limo even as Conner gets off his horse and then helps Mary.

Connie gets off the horse by herself and the three of them walk together towards the limo, along with everyone else slowly moving in as well.

Gary opens the door to the limo and assists her getting in with a hand holding hers. This gets a small smile from Jamie that Gary misses before he shuts the door and then goes around and enters the limo from the other side.

Everyone begins to shout various things that overlap the other while waving and hoping that Jamie and Gary can see from within the limo.

Jamie looks back as she could hear her father shouting, "Don't you dare kiss! I want a full report when you get back!" All this makes her blush and is glad that the limo drives away before anything else could be heard. She looks over at Gary who was just sitting next to the window on the side he got in at and staring at her even as she says, "Well Gary, we're off onto our date. Are you excited?" She starts to get angry when she gets no response and leans forward, smacking the side of his head with her left hand.

Gary had been mesmerized at just how unbelievably beautiful Jamie looked all dressed up like that and even though he had heard her words, he couldn't find the brainpower to respond. He couldn't help where his eyes wandered down when she leaned forward and so when he got smacked on the side of the head, his first thought was, "Did she notice where I was looking?" before he then remembered her question and quickly says, "Yes! Excited! I am very excited about our date!" He relaxes as her angry expression softens and she pulls him closer as he hears her say, "Good, that's the right answer." He feels her pulling his arm up against her body and remembers the warning he'd gotten from her father about doing anything of the sort but he couldn't help it... she felt so soft and smelled so nice, that he didn't resist and even just tilted his head as she laid her head upon his shoulder to touch his head upon hers but didn't dare lay it upon hers.

The two of them stayed like that for the rest of the ride, not talking until they got to their restaurant and even then, they didn't move until the driver got out and opened the door for them.

Back at the castle, shortly after the two of them left a hand grabs Drew to stop him from climbing onto Conner's horse. Drew turns to face the person with full intent on yelling at them but such fiery words quickly fizzled out when he saw even more fiery eyes coming from his wife as she says with her voice dripping in acid, "Drew honey, you weren't thinking of riding off and spying on their date. Maybe even doing something to ruin it... were you?"

Drew gulps as that is exactly what he had been planning but he also knew that he couldn't exactly tell her that or he'd spend the next month in traction. He quickly says to her, "N-No Sugarplums! I was just thinking of riding this back to the stables for Conner! H-Honest!"

Sheila stares at him for a second as if deciding on whether or not he was telling the truth before she says, "Ok, then how about I join you? It has been a while since we rode a horse."

Drew just nods and gets up onto the horse with Sheila proving that she still had her agility by leaping into the air and landing right behind him before she wraps her arms around his waist. He blinks before he smiles a little at the closeness of his wife as she leans against his back and then starts to ride off, not really knowing where the stables were.

Jesse watches as his parents ride off and walks up to his best friends to say, "Cin, Min, Why do I get the feeling I'm not going to see them again until it is time to leave?"

Both Cindy and Mindy look in the direction of his parents and then laugh together before Mindy says, "You're probably right! They're off on a romantic horse ride to who knows where?"

Cindy looks over at Jesse and smiles at him with tenderness and romantic feelings of her own before Jesse says as he looks at the direction his parents went, "I wonder if I'll get a new sister or brother out of this adventure?" She jabs him in the side and says, "So what if you did? Would that be so bad?"

Jesse looks over at her and says, "No, but it does make me wonder what kind of powers they would end up with."

Cindy and Mindy both look at each other, wondering the same thing for a moment before realizing something. So together they say, "How would that matter?"

Jesse just shrugs and says, "Not sure but I was just curious. After all, I have the ability to heal myself and now it seems that my sister has powers like father. So would that mean the next one could have powers like my mother? Or something different like mine?"

Mindy says, "Yeah? I guess you have a point but no matter what I know one thing's for sure."

Jesse says, "What's that?"

Cindy smiles at Jesse as she says, "You'll be an awesome big brother just like you are to Jamie."

Jesse chuckles at the way they do that twin-speak and says, "Thanks you two."

They both say, "You're welcome!" and then the three of them begin laughing.

Even as the three of them enjoy a laugh, Wade brings up his scanner and says to Vania, "Do you mind if I scan you? It is uh, to check something that I noticed when we were all in the dungeon."

Vania knew that dungeons could be very gross and dirty, so she became worried that she might have caught something and nods a bit eagerily, "Yes, scan and let me know if I caught something!"

Wade understands what she means and makes a quick adjustment to the scanner to scan for DNA and diseases. He watches as the scanner scans her twice, once for DNA and once more for any diseases before turning and walking away with Vania quickly saying, "Wait! What about the scans?"

Wade turns to look at her and says, "It will take a little while for the computer to process the scans."

Vania crosses her arms and "hmphs!" in frustration.

Wade taps at his scanner device and sighs as the results were already coming up for him. He then says to no one in particular, "Time to talk to Conner about the results."

AN: Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I wonder what you thought of Mary and Conner riding off on horses together? Could love be in the air for Mary and Conner or Jamie and Gary? Or anyone else? *chuckles* Long time readers will know the answer to this one. What do you all think of Jamie's look for her date with Gary? I had help from Sarah Gwynn in picking out what she should wear. What do you think of Gary's reaction from seeing Jamie? After all, it is one thing to see a girl in normal clothing and a whole thing together when you see them looking at their absolute best. Wouldn't you agree? What do you think of Jesse's words? And lastly, what do you think Wade found in his scans?

As usual all reviews, Kinect speed race results, and thoughts of who your favorite redhead (in story, comics, tv, movie) is are all welcome.