Plagiarize or sue me and I'll be seriously, SERIOUSLY pissed. My fics are for those who have common sense and know better than to take credit for something that's not theirs. The only parts of this story that aren't entirely mine are a few of the characters, the characters are either mine, Chanda's, Delia's, or the property of MIB The Animated Series. Just thought I'd let everybody know that I'm serious about these things. See ya next warning…on with the story! ^_^

Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance

Chapter 20: N-volved in Ziphron's Plan

N moved carefully down the hallway waiting for Elle to leave her room. What she saw, crushed her. Her green honey bunny sauntered out the door, IN HIS PAJAMAS! Elle followed him to the door and they talked for a minute.

"Thanks for uh, letting me sleep on the couch." X muttered, scratching behind his ear as he did so.

"No problem," Elle…BLUSHED?! "I would've offered you the bed but, Chassidy's using it while she's here and I really don't mind the sleeping bag."

X smiled at her, she hadn't seemed this nice before. Maybe because he'd never been this nice to her before?

N grit her teeth as X left the doorway and went back to his rooms. Elle leaned against the doorframe and watched him leave. She turned to go back into her own rooms when N made her move. Well---she TRIED to make her move---but a hand reached out and caught her arm.

"Agent N?"

"What?!" she shrieked as she spun around.

"Um…" the agent just stared at her for a moment and said nothing. "I'm Agent O, your partner."

"Oh, OH!" she hadn't anticipated this…"Uh, you startled me. We've got paperwork to do and it's in the office just outside sector 42 in HQ."

"Okay, I guess we should get to it." O felt so embarrassed, why couldn't he just talk to her?!

"Uh, I have something to take care of here so, you go ahead without me. It'll only take a minute." N lied.

"Alright," O muttered and headed off down the hall, N stared after him a few minutes. He looked so disappointed. Like she had just turned him down. And she had to admit that this made her feel…guilty.

N turned back towards the hall and saw R and Delia approaching. Delia's face was as red as a tomato and her fists were clinched as she hurried down the hall. R, on the other hand, wore a very smug expression and managed to keep up with his flushing partner easily. 'What was he so happy about?' N wondered.

She then saw Elle and Chassidy leave Elle's rooms right behind the two other agents. 'Rats!' She'd never be able to get at Elle now. She'd just have to try again…at role call!

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"R, just DROP IT!" Delia ordered her partner as they entered the room where role call was taken.

"I haven't said one word to you all morning," R replied casually.

When his eyes didn't leave her face Delia snapped, "Well it's not like it actually happened!"

"But your dreaming about it means you wish it did…"

"Why's that?!" Delia demanded.

"Subconsciously you must want to kiss me, or else you wouldn't have dreamed about it."

"Oh you are so full of yourself!" she turned and crossed her arms.

"If it's any consolation, I dream about kissing you sometimes." R said softly.

"Really?" Delia didn't know what to say about that, she knew that R flirted with her and all, but now he was sharing his dreams with her too? 'What was with that alien?' In spite of herself, Delia smiled. "You're so darn silly."

Out in the corridor, N was waiting to get another shot at catching Elle. She couldn't fail this time. Elle made her way towards the room and then something shiny and metallic on the floor caught her eye. "A neuralyzer?" she thought out loud, "What's this doing out here?"

N saw her moment and held up the tiny, Noisy-Cricket like, device that she had been concealing in her jacket. She fired and a tranquilizer dart hit Elle in the back of her neck. She fell gracelessly on the floor with a brief thud.

'YESSS!!!!!' N thought to herself, her plan was working perfectly. She knelt down and picked the neuralyzer up, Elle had taken the bait and now nothing was going to stop N from getting her rugged spaceman!

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Inside the room, Zed started role call, each agent stood at attention, in alphabetical order, as their name was called.

"Delia, E, F, Gee, H…"

Even X stood in his appointed spot, instead of next to Elle like he had done so many times before, using the excuse that 'X' came after 'L' in his planet's alphabet.

"Jay, Kay, El-" Zed paused. He raised an eyebrow for a moment and then glanced down towards the end of the line, "X. Is Elle down there with you?"

"Why would she be?" X scoffed. "L doesn't come directly before OR after X in Earth's inferior alphabet."

"A simple 'No' would've sufficed." R muttered.

"Then where is she?" Zed demanded.

The agents all looked at each other and either shrugged or shook their heads. No one had the slightest clue where she had gone to.

"I'll check the hall," W volunteered, "Maybe she's just running a little late."

"Typical," X murmured, "humans are never punctual, with those scrawny legs it's no wonder that she couldn't make it down here on time." Still, she shouldn't be THIS late?!

W peeked outside the door, Chassidy came down the corridor and waved. "Have you seen Elle?"

"Laurel? Yeah, she was headed down here, I stopped off at the bathroom, these human suits are awful! I nearly wedged myself between the stall walls!" Chassidy laughed.

"Ha, gotta be careful about that. But seriously, she's not in here and no one knows where she is?" W explained.

Chassidy paused, a grim look crossed her face. "What do you mean? She can't just disappear?!"

W shrugged, Chassidy raced past her and into the room. There her gaze met her brother's. X had a horror stricken look on his face, Elle was gone, and only ONE alien could be responsible…Ziphron!

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