The next day, or rather late afternoon, Rowen was driving in his dark blue jeep. He was returning home from the school library, getting more books to study with so he could best Ami. He slowed his car down as he pulled it into the huge driveway of the house he shared with his friends.
Picking up his bookbag, he got out of the car and walked up the walkway. He knew that if he studied hard enough that he could beat her. He just had to keep at it. Pulling his keys out of his pocket, he unlocked the door and stepped over the threshold. Immediately, he felt that something was very off. The house was way too quiet. Placing his bookbag on the ground, he looked around the house.
"Hello? Anyone home?" Suddenly, Rowen was jumped from behind and he could feel a cloth being put over his mouth. Struggling against the person holding him, Rowen could recognize the smell coming from the cloth as chloroform before he passed out.
***
At about the same time, Ami was returning home from the public library. She had belonged to that library ever since she was a little girl and relied on it much more than the library that was at school, which was much smaller than the public library.
She parked her car in her spot in the driveway and pulled her heavy bookbag out of the passenger seat. She walked to the front door and opened it, not surprised to find it unlocked.
"Hey, I'm home!" she yelled to the house. No one answered. Setting her bag by the stairs, she ventured into the living room. Not paying attention to what was going on behind her, Ami was not expecting the person from behind her that jumped her.
Ami felt a cloth being put over her mouth and had one thought: I recognize that smell. That's chloroform. Ami blacked out, her body going limp, and the person behind her, still holding onto her, smiled.
***
The next morning, Ami woke up feeling very warm and safe. Her eyes still closed, she cherished the warm feeling that surrounded her. She felt like she was home. She felt the arms around her waist pulling her closer and she snuggled into the embrace of the person holding her.
Suddenly, her eyes snapped open. Something is very wrong, she thought.
At the same time, Rowen woke up to the feeling of a warm body in his arms. Not fully awake, he smiled and pulled the body closer to him, feeling the person move closer also. Then, a feeling hit Rowen and his eyes also snapped open.
Something is very wrong. At the same time, Ami tilted her head up as Rowen bent his head down and they looked into each other's eyes. Time seemed to freeze as they looked at each other in shock.
Then, they screamed.
Rowen, in an attempt to get away from Ami, pushed away from her, unaware that he was on the edge of the cot that the two of them were on. He fell off the cot and hit the floor, taking Ami with him. Then, the two of them felt something cool on their wrist.
Rowen held up his left hand as Ami held up her right to show a pair of handcuffs with a two-foot chain connecting them. They looked at each other and screamed again.
***
"Do you have a three?"
"Nope, Go Fish." On the floor in one of the hallways of the Scouts' house, Raye and Sage sat in front of the basement door playing Go Fish while guarding the door to the basement, where Ami and Rowen were. Raye moved in to pick up a card from the pile after Sage told her that he didn't have a three when she heard two voices scream.
"Ah," Raye said, "They must be awake," she said with humor in her voice. She picked up a card and put it in her hand. Moments later, they heard another scream.
"And now, they've noticed the handcuffs," Sage said. He looked up at Raye and smiled mischievously at her, who smiled right back. Following the second scream came the sounds of yelling.
"Do you think this will work?" Sage asked.
"Oh, I know it will work," Raye said, "This whole deal with Rowen had Ami all worked up. Too worked up and I know that things like this don't usually affect Ami. In fact, she usually likes the challenge. But, this time it's different. She wouldn't act like she hates him if she really didn't like him and was just in denial. Ami was almost trained to reject all emotion and love just knocks her senseless.
"But, when she thinks that love could hurt her and drag her down, I think that love could be the thing that would set Ami free." Raye stopped talking and Sage looked on in awe; she really knew what she was talking about. Then, Raye continued. "Besides, those two would look so cute together."
"Tell me about it," Sage said. Raye opened her mouth to give reasons why she thought Ami and Rowen would look cute together when her communicator went off. Both of them were startled by the noise and Sage looked at the communicator skeptically.
"What's that?" he asked.
"Oh, just an alarm that tells me it's time to take my vitamins so I don't forget. I'll be right back," Raye said, coming up with what she thought was a plausible cover story. Walking into the kitchen, she turned on her communicator.
"Mars here."
"Raye, we really need you and all the help we can get." Raye looked on in worry as Mina's face appeared in the screen of the communicator.
"What's wrong?" Raye asked.
"Well, a monster has attacked at the park and it's a strong one. We'd ask Ami to help us, but she's handcuffed to Rowen and Serena has the key. Somewhere."
"Oh boy. Those two are going to be handcuffed together forever if Serena has the keys. But, I'll be down there right away, ok?"
"Great." Mina cut off the communication and Raye closed her communicator.
Sighing, she rushed back out to where Sage was and said, "I'm sorry, but I have to go do something. An errand that I forgot to do yesterday. It's kind of an emergency. I'll be right back. Can you guard those two and make sure that they don't kill each other?"
"Yeah, sure. What's wrong?" Sage asked.
"Oh, um, it's nothing. I'll be back." Without giving Sage a chance to ask any more questions, Raye ran out of the house, grabbing her transformation pen. Making sure she was a good distance away from the house, she ducked behind some bushes and called out, "MARS CRYSTAL POWER!" Jumping out of the bushes, Raye took off in a run towards the park.
***
Back at the Scouts' house Sage was gathering up the cards from his game of Go Fish with Raye. He had put the cards in the box when he heard someone burst through the door.
"Sage?" the voice called out.
"Yeah, Ryo?"
"We need you." Sage walked out towards the front of the house to find Ryo in his sub-armor.
"What's wrong?"
"There's a monster attacking the docks. The others are there. I was sent to get you. Come on, we have to hurry."
"But..." Sage said, pointing in the direction of the basement door.
"Sage, they won't kill each other and if Rowen wasn't handcuffed to Ami, I would ask for his help to. Now, get armed and let's go." Sage nodded and called out, "Armor of Halo!" and suddenly, his sub-armor appeared in a flash of light.
"Ok," Ryo said, "Let's go kick some monster butt." Sage only smiled at him before running out of the front door, leaving Ami and Rowen alone in the basement. Needless to say, it wasn't the best judgment call to leave those two alone for too long together.
***
"This is all your fault!"
"My fault? Do you think I want to be handcuffed to a harpy like you?"
"Me? A harpy? You shouldn't be calling me names, Mr. I-feel-being-an-asshole-to-everyone-I-know."
"Look, I am not an asshole. All I know is that I'm stuck down in a basement, handcuffed to you, and you're sitting here accusing me of something I didn't even do. I mean, I wonder why I even liked you in the first place. When I met you, I thought you were cute, but I guess I was wrong." Ami crossed her arms over her chest and looked away from Rowen.
"Well, you know, if you hadn't stolen the title of first in the class from me, we wouldn't be in this situation."
"I never stole it from you. You stole it from me!" Rowen exclaimed.
"Did not!"
"Did too."
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
"Too!" Ami threw her hands up in the air in frustration. "You know what, we're not getting anywhere arguing like this. Can we come to at least a temporary truce until we can get these handcuffs off?" Rowen looked at Ami, who was looking at him with a hopeful, yet angry look on her face.
You know what, she looks kinda cute...no, those are not thoughts to be thinking when I'm handcuffed to her. Rowen nodded slightly.
"Alright, but only until we get these handcuffs off. After that, the truce is called off, got it?"
"Got it." Ami stuck out her right hand and grabbed Rowen's right hand, shaking it slightly. The action surprised both of them. Ami didn't know why she did it and Rowen was just as surprised.
Their eyes locked and both of them could feel electric sparks running up their arms, starting from the spot where their hands were joined. Ami quickly released his hand and worked furiously to suppress the blush that threatened to spread over her face.
"Ok," she said quickly, "If we want to get these handcuffs off, then we're going to have to try a few different things. My first idea is to try a saw and saw our way through these handcuffs."
"That's actually a pretty good idea," Rowen admitted, "Do you have a saw?"
"Not that I know of," Ami said, "Which means that we're going to have to go to the hardware store to get it. Come on, let's go going." Ami and Rowen stood up off of the ground that they were sitting on and walked over to the stairs, ascending them. Ami was ahead of Rowen and she opened the door to find herself looking at her own house.
"Oh, we're at my house. So, my car should be here." She dragged Rowen to the front door, which was wide open. "Hmm, wonder why it's wide open...oh, never mind." She looked out the front door to see her blue convertible sitting in the driveway.
"Good, there's my car. Now, we just need keys and we'll be on our way to getting these handcuffs off." Still dragging Rowen behind, she walked into the living room and proceeded to look for her purse, which had her keys in them.
"Hey," Rowen said, "Could you be a little gentler? I'm still connected to you here and your dragging me around like an old doll. I don't appreciate it."
"Sorry," Ami said absently. Not seeing her purse anywhere in the living room, she went to the next possible place: her bedroom. Walking up the stairs, with Rowen behind her, she entered her bedroom and started looking around for her purse.
As Ami searched through her bedroom, Rowen looked around, his complaining ceasing.
Hmm, she has a nice room. It's a room that fits Ami very well. Rowen was talking about the very organized room. Everything had a place in Ami's room. There was a light blue rug in the middle of the floor and her bed was covered in blue blankets. He looked around her room, Ami still dragging him around.
As she was looking around her desk, Rowen took the time to look at a picture that was placed on her desk. He leaned over and picked it up, holding it in his right hand. His brow furrowing in confusion, he studied the picture of the Sailor Scouts, all eight of them.
"Wow, I didn't know that there were eight Sailor Scouts," Rowen exclaimed.
"Actually, there's nine. Saturn is missing from that picture," Ami said absently, thinking of Sailor Saturn, who turned into Mistress 9, but was saved by Serena. Now, little Heather was about 12 years old, having grown physically so fast.
"How do you know there's nine?" Rowen asked. Ami turned to face Rowen, her eyes wide.
Oops, I spilled something. No one except for the other Scouts knows about Saturn. How do I explain this? Come on, Ami, think.
"Well, um, I happened to be at a battle once upon a time and I saw Sailor Saturn. Just once though."
"Oh, cool. So, where did you get this picture?"
"After another battle, where they saved my life, I asked to take a picture of them and they said yes."
I remember when Darien took this picture. It was right after the battle with Galaxia and we all wanted to have a picture to remember that victory by. Ami closely inspected the picture and she could notice the fatigue lines on all of their faces.
"Well, that's interesting. You've met the Scouts too. I met them a couple of months ago at the natural science museum after we ran into each other." Ami raised an eyebrow and looked him with a small smirk on her face. She also remembered that day.
"Oh, really? And which scout is your favorite?"
Rowen thought about it for a moment and then said, "I think my favorite out of the four that I saw and maybe out of all of them is Sailor Mercury. I don't know why, though. She just is."
Ami felt her heart skip a beat at hearing that she was his favorite Scout, even though he didn't know she was Sailor Mercury.
Why do I feel so lightheaded and giddy all of the sudden? Ami shook her head and smiled.
"That's nice," she said before turning back to her desk to find her keys. Ok, I know I left my purse downstairs yesterday before I was knocked out. Where did it go? She sifted through one of her desk drawers until she found her purse.
"Ah-ha! Found it!" she exclaimed as Rowen set down the picture back onto the desk. She walked out of her room, with Rowen following closely behind.
You know, even though the chain connecting me and Ami is two feet long, it's not long enough to walk with, Rowen thought as they walked down the stairs and out the front door. They stood in front of Ami's small blue convertible (with the word "Mercury" on the license plate, but Rowen didn't notice that) as Ami dug through her purse, looking for her keys.
"Ooh, there they are." Ami pulled the keys out of her purse and walked over to the right side of the car, where the driver's side was (AN: they are in Japan, you know.). Suddenly, it hit Ami.
Turning to Rowen, she growled, "You're going to have to drive my car."
"Why?" Rowen asked.
"Well, my right hand is handcuffed to your left hand. The only way I'd be able to drive my car while handcuffed to you is if I sat on your lap and that wouldn't work because then I couldn't reach the pedals. You're going to have to drive us to the hardware store." A gleeful smile stole over Rowen's face as Ami held out the keys for Rowen to take.
As he snatched them from her hand, Ami said, "If you wreck my car, you're paying the bill for whatever happens to it." Rowen's smile turned cocky.
"Don't worry, I won't wreck your precious car. Don't you trust me?"
"No," Ami said simply as Rowen got into the car. She sighed at his stupidity when he said,
"Get in the car."
"Rowen, you have to get out so I can get in. I don't fancy climbing over you and if I did, then the chain would get in the way and get all tangled." (AN: I can just see it, Ami trying to climb over Rowen to get to the other seat and ends up falling into his lap...::sigh::)
"Oh," Rowen said as he got out of the car so Ami could get in. Once she was seated in the passenger's seat, Rowen climbed into the driver's seat. They put their seat belts on with some difficulty; each of them reached for their seatbelt with the hand that was handcuffed.
Finally getting their seatbelts on, Rowen started the car and pulled out of the driveway.
Picking up his bookbag, he got out of the car and walked up the walkway. He knew that if he studied hard enough that he could beat her. He just had to keep at it. Pulling his keys out of his pocket, he unlocked the door and stepped over the threshold. Immediately, he felt that something was very off. The house was way too quiet. Placing his bookbag on the ground, he looked around the house.
"Hello? Anyone home?" Suddenly, Rowen was jumped from behind and he could feel a cloth being put over his mouth. Struggling against the person holding him, Rowen could recognize the smell coming from the cloth as chloroform before he passed out.
***
At about the same time, Ami was returning home from the public library. She had belonged to that library ever since she was a little girl and relied on it much more than the library that was at school, which was much smaller than the public library.
She parked her car in her spot in the driveway and pulled her heavy bookbag out of the passenger seat. She walked to the front door and opened it, not surprised to find it unlocked.
"Hey, I'm home!" she yelled to the house. No one answered. Setting her bag by the stairs, she ventured into the living room. Not paying attention to what was going on behind her, Ami was not expecting the person from behind her that jumped her.
Ami felt a cloth being put over her mouth and had one thought: I recognize that smell. That's chloroform. Ami blacked out, her body going limp, and the person behind her, still holding onto her, smiled.
***
The next morning, Ami woke up feeling very warm and safe. Her eyes still closed, she cherished the warm feeling that surrounded her. She felt like she was home. She felt the arms around her waist pulling her closer and she snuggled into the embrace of the person holding her.
Suddenly, her eyes snapped open. Something is very wrong, she thought.
At the same time, Rowen woke up to the feeling of a warm body in his arms. Not fully awake, he smiled and pulled the body closer to him, feeling the person move closer also. Then, a feeling hit Rowen and his eyes also snapped open.
Something is very wrong. At the same time, Ami tilted her head up as Rowen bent his head down and they looked into each other's eyes. Time seemed to freeze as they looked at each other in shock.
Then, they screamed.
Rowen, in an attempt to get away from Ami, pushed away from her, unaware that he was on the edge of the cot that the two of them were on. He fell off the cot and hit the floor, taking Ami with him. Then, the two of them felt something cool on their wrist.
Rowen held up his left hand as Ami held up her right to show a pair of handcuffs with a two-foot chain connecting them. They looked at each other and screamed again.
***
"Do you have a three?"
"Nope, Go Fish." On the floor in one of the hallways of the Scouts' house, Raye and Sage sat in front of the basement door playing Go Fish while guarding the door to the basement, where Ami and Rowen were. Raye moved in to pick up a card from the pile after Sage told her that he didn't have a three when she heard two voices scream.
"Ah," Raye said, "They must be awake," she said with humor in her voice. She picked up a card and put it in her hand. Moments later, they heard another scream.
"And now, they've noticed the handcuffs," Sage said. He looked up at Raye and smiled mischievously at her, who smiled right back. Following the second scream came the sounds of yelling.
"Do you think this will work?" Sage asked.
"Oh, I know it will work," Raye said, "This whole deal with Rowen had Ami all worked up. Too worked up and I know that things like this don't usually affect Ami. In fact, she usually likes the challenge. But, this time it's different. She wouldn't act like she hates him if she really didn't like him and was just in denial. Ami was almost trained to reject all emotion and love just knocks her senseless.
"But, when she thinks that love could hurt her and drag her down, I think that love could be the thing that would set Ami free." Raye stopped talking and Sage looked on in awe; she really knew what she was talking about. Then, Raye continued. "Besides, those two would look so cute together."
"Tell me about it," Sage said. Raye opened her mouth to give reasons why she thought Ami and Rowen would look cute together when her communicator went off. Both of them were startled by the noise and Sage looked at the communicator skeptically.
"What's that?" he asked.
"Oh, just an alarm that tells me it's time to take my vitamins so I don't forget. I'll be right back," Raye said, coming up with what she thought was a plausible cover story. Walking into the kitchen, she turned on her communicator.
"Mars here."
"Raye, we really need you and all the help we can get." Raye looked on in worry as Mina's face appeared in the screen of the communicator.
"What's wrong?" Raye asked.
"Well, a monster has attacked at the park and it's a strong one. We'd ask Ami to help us, but she's handcuffed to Rowen and Serena has the key. Somewhere."
"Oh boy. Those two are going to be handcuffed together forever if Serena has the keys. But, I'll be down there right away, ok?"
"Great." Mina cut off the communication and Raye closed her communicator.
Sighing, she rushed back out to where Sage was and said, "I'm sorry, but I have to go do something. An errand that I forgot to do yesterday. It's kind of an emergency. I'll be right back. Can you guard those two and make sure that they don't kill each other?"
"Yeah, sure. What's wrong?" Sage asked.
"Oh, um, it's nothing. I'll be back." Without giving Sage a chance to ask any more questions, Raye ran out of the house, grabbing her transformation pen. Making sure she was a good distance away from the house, she ducked behind some bushes and called out, "MARS CRYSTAL POWER!" Jumping out of the bushes, Raye took off in a run towards the park.
***
Back at the Scouts' house Sage was gathering up the cards from his game of Go Fish with Raye. He had put the cards in the box when he heard someone burst through the door.
"Sage?" the voice called out.
"Yeah, Ryo?"
"We need you." Sage walked out towards the front of the house to find Ryo in his sub-armor.
"What's wrong?"
"There's a monster attacking the docks. The others are there. I was sent to get you. Come on, we have to hurry."
"But..." Sage said, pointing in the direction of the basement door.
"Sage, they won't kill each other and if Rowen wasn't handcuffed to Ami, I would ask for his help to. Now, get armed and let's go." Sage nodded and called out, "Armor of Halo!" and suddenly, his sub-armor appeared in a flash of light.
"Ok," Ryo said, "Let's go kick some monster butt." Sage only smiled at him before running out of the front door, leaving Ami and Rowen alone in the basement. Needless to say, it wasn't the best judgment call to leave those two alone for too long together.
***
"This is all your fault!"
"My fault? Do you think I want to be handcuffed to a harpy like you?"
"Me? A harpy? You shouldn't be calling me names, Mr. I-feel-being-an-asshole-to-everyone-I-know."
"Look, I am not an asshole. All I know is that I'm stuck down in a basement, handcuffed to you, and you're sitting here accusing me of something I didn't even do. I mean, I wonder why I even liked you in the first place. When I met you, I thought you were cute, but I guess I was wrong." Ami crossed her arms over her chest and looked away from Rowen.
"Well, you know, if you hadn't stolen the title of first in the class from me, we wouldn't be in this situation."
"I never stole it from you. You stole it from me!" Rowen exclaimed.
"Did not!"
"Did too."
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
"Too!" Ami threw her hands up in the air in frustration. "You know what, we're not getting anywhere arguing like this. Can we come to at least a temporary truce until we can get these handcuffs off?" Rowen looked at Ami, who was looking at him with a hopeful, yet angry look on her face.
You know what, she looks kinda cute...no, those are not thoughts to be thinking when I'm handcuffed to her. Rowen nodded slightly.
"Alright, but only until we get these handcuffs off. After that, the truce is called off, got it?"
"Got it." Ami stuck out her right hand and grabbed Rowen's right hand, shaking it slightly. The action surprised both of them. Ami didn't know why she did it and Rowen was just as surprised.
Their eyes locked and both of them could feel electric sparks running up their arms, starting from the spot where their hands were joined. Ami quickly released his hand and worked furiously to suppress the blush that threatened to spread over her face.
"Ok," she said quickly, "If we want to get these handcuffs off, then we're going to have to try a few different things. My first idea is to try a saw and saw our way through these handcuffs."
"That's actually a pretty good idea," Rowen admitted, "Do you have a saw?"
"Not that I know of," Ami said, "Which means that we're going to have to go to the hardware store to get it. Come on, let's go going." Ami and Rowen stood up off of the ground that they were sitting on and walked over to the stairs, ascending them. Ami was ahead of Rowen and she opened the door to find herself looking at her own house.
"Oh, we're at my house. So, my car should be here." She dragged Rowen to the front door, which was wide open. "Hmm, wonder why it's wide open...oh, never mind." She looked out the front door to see her blue convertible sitting in the driveway.
"Good, there's my car. Now, we just need keys and we'll be on our way to getting these handcuffs off." Still dragging Rowen behind, she walked into the living room and proceeded to look for her purse, which had her keys in them.
"Hey," Rowen said, "Could you be a little gentler? I'm still connected to you here and your dragging me around like an old doll. I don't appreciate it."
"Sorry," Ami said absently. Not seeing her purse anywhere in the living room, she went to the next possible place: her bedroom. Walking up the stairs, with Rowen behind her, she entered her bedroom and started looking around for her purse.
As Ami searched through her bedroom, Rowen looked around, his complaining ceasing.
Hmm, she has a nice room. It's a room that fits Ami very well. Rowen was talking about the very organized room. Everything had a place in Ami's room. There was a light blue rug in the middle of the floor and her bed was covered in blue blankets. He looked around her room, Ami still dragging him around.
As she was looking around her desk, Rowen took the time to look at a picture that was placed on her desk. He leaned over and picked it up, holding it in his right hand. His brow furrowing in confusion, he studied the picture of the Sailor Scouts, all eight of them.
"Wow, I didn't know that there were eight Sailor Scouts," Rowen exclaimed.
"Actually, there's nine. Saturn is missing from that picture," Ami said absently, thinking of Sailor Saturn, who turned into Mistress 9, but was saved by Serena. Now, little Heather was about 12 years old, having grown physically so fast.
"How do you know there's nine?" Rowen asked. Ami turned to face Rowen, her eyes wide.
Oops, I spilled something. No one except for the other Scouts knows about Saturn. How do I explain this? Come on, Ami, think.
"Well, um, I happened to be at a battle once upon a time and I saw Sailor Saturn. Just once though."
"Oh, cool. So, where did you get this picture?"
"After another battle, where they saved my life, I asked to take a picture of them and they said yes."
I remember when Darien took this picture. It was right after the battle with Galaxia and we all wanted to have a picture to remember that victory by. Ami closely inspected the picture and she could notice the fatigue lines on all of their faces.
"Well, that's interesting. You've met the Scouts too. I met them a couple of months ago at the natural science museum after we ran into each other." Ami raised an eyebrow and looked him with a small smirk on her face. She also remembered that day.
"Oh, really? And which scout is your favorite?"
Rowen thought about it for a moment and then said, "I think my favorite out of the four that I saw and maybe out of all of them is Sailor Mercury. I don't know why, though. She just is."
Ami felt her heart skip a beat at hearing that she was his favorite Scout, even though he didn't know she was Sailor Mercury.
Why do I feel so lightheaded and giddy all of the sudden? Ami shook her head and smiled.
"That's nice," she said before turning back to her desk to find her keys. Ok, I know I left my purse downstairs yesterday before I was knocked out. Where did it go? She sifted through one of her desk drawers until she found her purse.
"Ah-ha! Found it!" she exclaimed as Rowen set down the picture back onto the desk. She walked out of her room, with Rowen following closely behind.
You know, even though the chain connecting me and Ami is two feet long, it's not long enough to walk with, Rowen thought as they walked down the stairs and out the front door. They stood in front of Ami's small blue convertible (with the word "Mercury" on the license plate, but Rowen didn't notice that) as Ami dug through her purse, looking for her keys.
"Ooh, there they are." Ami pulled the keys out of her purse and walked over to the right side of the car, where the driver's side was (AN: they are in Japan, you know.). Suddenly, it hit Ami.
Turning to Rowen, she growled, "You're going to have to drive my car."
"Why?" Rowen asked.
"Well, my right hand is handcuffed to your left hand. The only way I'd be able to drive my car while handcuffed to you is if I sat on your lap and that wouldn't work because then I couldn't reach the pedals. You're going to have to drive us to the hardware store." A gleeful smile stole over Rowen's face as Ami held out the keys for Rowen to take.
As he snatched them from her hand, Ami said, "If you wreck my car, you're paying the bill for whatever happens to it." Rowen's smile turned cocky.
"Don't worry, I won't wreck your precious car. Don't you trust me?"
"No," Ami said simply as Rowen got into the car. She sighed at his stupidity when he said,
"Get in the car."
"Rowen, you have to get out so I can get in. I don't fancy climbing over you and if I did, then the chain would get in the way and get all tangled." (AN: I can just see it, Ami trying to climb over Rowen to get to the other seat and ends up falling into his lap...::sigh::)
"Oh," Rowen said as he got out of the car so Ami could get in. Once she was seated in the passenger's seat, Rowen climbed into the driver's seat. They put their seat belts on with some difficulty; each of them reached for their seatbelt with the hand that was handcuffed.
Finally getting their seatbelts on, Rowen started the car and pulled out of the driveway.