Hello everyone! Me again! Now, all the songs I use in my fics do not belong
to me. Some are oldies, some are modern types, used according to the mood.
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The next day, Andy, Mai and Joe were having breakfast in the dining room and Andy was reading the morning paper, sipping some of his coffee in the process. Mai and Joe were.. Needless to say, busy eating.
"I sure hope Terry'll snap out of it soon. If not, it's gonna' be a long day." Joe said over a mouthful.
Andy took off his spectacles. "Yeah. Me too." The air suddenly hung in silence. Mai decided to break it up.
"I'll go check on him in case he needs aspirin or something." Mai volunteered, going to the kitchen and taking a bottle of aspirin and a glass of warm water.
"Thanks Mai." Andy called out.
"No problem!" She replied happily. 'Gosh, I'm beginning to act like his wife already! Oh.!!! I'm sooo embarrassed!' she squealed in delight to herself, turning a darker shade of red. (My, my..)
As soon as she reached Terry's door, she peeked through the door very, very quietly and to her relief, he was sitting at the edge of the bed, head in his hands, presumably suffering from a hangover. She knocked lightly on the door. "Good morning, Mr. Bogard, how are you feeling this morning? Good?" she asked merrily.
Terry managed a small smirk to her sarcasm. "Morning. Do you have anything to help this splitting headache of mine, Ms. Nurse?" he asked, looking at the aspirin longingly. It's not everyday he gets drunk and suffer hangovers so, he can't stand headaches!!
Mai handed him some tablets and the warm water. After swallowing everything, he gave a brief 'thanks' and messaged his forehead. Mai stood where she was as if waiting for something. 'Well? What are you standing around like an idiot for?! Get out of here!!!' she screamed to herself mentally. As she turned to leave,
"Mai, wait." Mai's heart skipped a beat. 'Ok.. Calm down. take a deep breath, count 1.. 2.. 3... ok, good girl... now turn around...' she turned 'and act normal..'
"What is it Terry?" she asked and put up her brightest smile. 'Ok, so far so good. Damn, why am I feeling nervous over Terry here?! Get a grip Shiranui!!!!!'
"About yesterday.." He buried his face into his hands again. "I don't quite remember but,. suppose I did anything stupid, could you please forgive me? I've never been so drunk before in my life!"
Mai thought it over for a minute. "Nah. You didn't do anything except.." A pause. "You really miss them don't you? Especially Lily."
Terry gave a sad smile and hung his head, "Yeah."
Mai bit her lower lip and boldly went over to sit next to Terry. "You know, mourning over them will only make them sadder. Try letting it go. It's not easy now but, things'll work out. You'll see." She winked.
"Thanks Mai."
"No problem. So, are you coming for breakfast or not?" she asked, standing up.
"Yeah, maybe after a little exercise. Thanks."
"Ok."
She closed the door behind her and went downstairs only to see Joe reading the paper. Not even looking up, he pointed to the main door. "Bye Joe!" Joe simply waved like a grandma to her grandchildren.
Mai grabbed her handbag, slipped into her high heels and jumped into the car, giving Andy a peck on the cheek.
From Terry's room, he watched Mai and Andy as their car zoomed off. They were pretty late for work. Terry smiled, happy for his little brother who can actually love a girl without killing her. He heaved a heavy sigh and bitterly turned away, took a shower and went downstairs. He practiced some punches along the stairs and slowed down when he felt an attacking aura waiting for him. He smiled, straightened his cap and pretended to go downstairs, making a LOT of noise.
"Gotcha!!!!" Joe appeared, holding a pail of cold, cold water, splashing a disappeared Terry. Instantly, he looked up and was just in time to escape from Terry's deadly flying kick. But the fight didn't end there. Not wanting to break anything in the house, Terry made Joe chase him outside and hid in Joe's huge 'backyard' which resembled a maze from Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin's videoclip for 'Nobody wants to be lonely'.
Cautiously, Joe entered the maze, releasing all his 6 senses. Sensing nothing, he decided to bring him to talk, "You're pretty much in a good shape despite gettin' drunk aren't cha'?" seeing Terry in a distant, he ran and caught his cap but the owner wasn't with it. "What the hell?!"
Terry appeared behind him, "Boo." Joe gasped and instinctively, elbowed Terry, which was blocked. He tried kicking Terry's Ehem but was forced to kneel in such a way that both his arms were locked and his legs weren't able to kick or do anything funny. "Well, I haven't recovered from the hangover either. Pretty impressive, don't you think?"
Joe grunted and squirmed around to get off Terry's grip. After half an hour of exhausting squirming, Joe fell onto the ground and Terry sat back, panting. "Man.. pant now I know how worms feel." Terry threw his head back and laughed. Joe joined in soon after. It was a great morning. At least, for Terry and Joe.
Meanwhile, in a business firm, Andy sat in an office, surrounded by a tall pile of paperwork. Like that was not enough, more and more were coming in. Finally, after the 25th clerk submit his/her work, (he didn't look up when they came and handed over the papers) he gave out an exasperated groan and threw himself to the chair, shutting his eyes. In his busy state, it reminded him of a distant memory,
//Flashback//
Young Andy was reading a book on Geography when Terry came pouncing on him.
"Hey Andy! Let's play tag! The guys are waiting for us! Let's go!" he tugged on Andy's arm but Andy yanked his arm away from his elder brother.
"Not now Terry. Tomorrow I'll be having a Geo test. I need to study." He went back to reading his book.
"Hm..." Terry looked at the book from behind Andy. After seeing a lot of words with no pictures, he made a look and pulled the book away from Andy. "This can wait. For now, let's play!" he said happily.
Andy was seeing red which was getting darker. "Terry, leave me alone. You may not need to study but I do!" he said, snatching the book and returning to his studies.
Terry narrowed his eyes and said mockingly, "Well, don't blame me if you wear those freaky looking glasses the Geo teacher wears" enlarging his eyes with his fingers. "And your hair starts turning grey and falling off..." he said, yanking on his hair. "Besides, all work and no play makes Andy a dull boy." He said, winking.
His younger brother looked up from the book, gave it a thought and closed the book. "Ok, you win." He sighed. "But I'm blaming you if I don't score in my Geo."
Terry smiled happily.
//End flashback//
He smiled at the memory. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He straightened up and continued on with his work before answering, "Come in."
"Andy?" Mai's head popped up.
"Not now Mai, I'm busy." He answered, not looking up. Mai pouted and entered. She stood in front of him and waited. However, she was ignored. She pouted even more and took one of the papers filling his table. "Hey! Mai, those papers haven't been checked yet!" Well, THAT snapped him out of it she thought and rolled her eyes.
"C'mon, Andy! It's lunch time. I have a lot of work on my desk too, you know? Being the secretary to the boss is definitely NOT an easy career. I have to make tons of phone calls, deal with old flirts, arrange meetings, even make you coffee and some sandwich! So, let's go out for a while and continue later, please.?" she begged, giving him her cute puppy dog eyes.
Andy looked at her; then at the papers; then back at her. He took off his glasses and sighed. "You're right. These can wait. Let's go to some restaurant and have lunch. How's that?"
"That's wonderful, Andy!!" Mai practically jumped across the table and glomped onto Andy, causing the both of them to fall back Andy's chair in a loud crash. And it was only a quarter to 12.
Back in Joe's mansion, no one was home. The guys went to a 'cool hangout place' - a pub. When the motorbike pulled over near the bar, Terry recognized it straight away. "Here we are!" Joe said proudly.
"Uh. Joe, I don't think we should... "Terry started.
"Aw, you're not under-aged are ya'? Poor boy..." Joe patted Terry's head, shaking and murmuring 'poor kid, not old enough yet...'
Terry rolled his eyes before Joe shoved him in. In the bar, the air was very still and a few Hulk-Hogan wannabe's were staring at each other, looking very pissed off.
"Well, Terry my man," Joe said, putting his elbow on Terry's shoulder, "I'd say we're just in time for the party, don't you think?" he gave a sly smile.
"Let's just let them be, ok?" Terry said, walking to the counter and ordering some drinks. Joe was about to protest but decided not to. Maybe it's worthwhile to sit back and watch after all.
"Ok, but if things get ugly, we have no choice but to..."
A young looking guy suddenly came flying in their direction which they caught effortlessly. "Hey, you alright?" Terry asked.
"Psst. Terry, ugly enough for ya'?" Joe whispered.
"We're not here to fight Joe! But...." he looked up and around "Seeing we're in too deep, I guess..we've no choice." Terry whispered back. "Hey, what's the big idea?" He said to the man who was now advancing on them. He glared and stood up. Next to him, Joe was clicking his knuckles, getting ready for a little exercise.
The beaten up guy was semi-conscious and for the first time, opened his eyes to look at the duo. He saw Terry's back. And the something struck him. He looked familiar. the hair, the outfit and most of all, the cap. (Let's just say Terry seem to have the very same article of clothing everyday) At first, he thought he knew this guy but, as they started to fight, he definitely knew the guy. "Terry Bogard." he whispered wide eyed.
The HHWB (Hulk-Hogan Wanna-Be) charged to Terry in which he dodged by side- stepping but the HHWB took a bottle from the counter and swung it towards Terry and made contact with his face, breaking to thousands of pieces and cutting his face.
"Terry!" Joe called out but as the fight ensued Terry seem to be okay on his own so, Joe simply turned to his opponent(s) - the remaining gang. Suddenly, as Joe stood in his fighting stance, a song was played. Recognizing the music, Joe straight away leapt to his opponent(s) and gave them a nice Tiger kick which sent 3 out of 6 of them flying to the wall.
I cannot take this anymore
I'm saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
They grouped up on him and attempted to use the 'pin and bash' method. (you know, when one guy gets behind you, locking you from retaliating or attacking while his friends bash the living daylights out of you) but was easily broken by his Tiger Knee, bringing the pinner (the one at the back) flying along.
Less I hear the less you'll say
But you'll find that out anyway
Just like before...
Meanwhile, Terry was swerving from side to side, evading attacks and blocked a heavy punch. His head was still slightly spinning. The hangover was really taking too long to go away. He'd use his special technique to end this fight as soon as possible but quickly dismissed the idea as he discovered the guy was not that strong an opponent except for his strong muscles. Terry decided to use speed over power.
Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
He evaded every punch and kick. When a heavy punch came his way, he followed the punch's push, and pushed the guy back with full force. He crashed to the wall and to the bottles behind the bartender. Stuck on the wall and giving it a huge dent.
Joe was about done himself and seemed satisfied with his work. He went over to Terry. "Hey Terry, you okay?"
Terry's face was bleeding slightly thanks to the shattered bottle's remnants. "Nothing that serious." He replied and tried plucking them out. Seeing he can't do anything to his face for now, he decided to turn his attention to the kid. He looked to be around 16-18 years old. "You alright?" he asked.
"Terry Bogard!!! I'm very pleased to meet you!!" the guy sat up straight and shook Terry's hand vigorously. "I'm your biggest fan, man! I saw the way you fight, it was so... cool!" he continued to ramble on and on about how great Terry was.
"Wow, wow. Calm down." He smiled and continued, "I appreciate your kind words but I think my friend Joe here will be the more appropriate person for you to be a fan of."
The punk turned. At the sight of Joe, he was like. @_@ "Holy shit.." He muttered under his breath. "Number one Thai-kick boxer, Joe Higashi?!!!" now, he rambled on about Joe, making his ego (and head) grow bigger until it swelled. Terry shifted his concentration on plucking the glass from his face which was still bleeding and he would look like a zombie should he leave it like that.
'I need a towel and some warm water...' he thought dreadfully.
Suddenly, a voice made all of them turn. "Max, that's enough."
Max turned and beamed, "Hey, sis! Meet, Terry Bogard and Joe Higashi - in person!"
Both Joe and Terry's eyes widen at the newcomer. She had shoulder length, blonde hair, clear blue eyes, baggy pants, an unzipped jacket which exposed an orange, tight tanktop underneath and wore a cute smile.
"Hi, Terry." She greeted, winking at him.
Terry stood up, took off his cap and bowed slightly, "Long time no see.... Ms. Blue." He greeted, smiling back at her.
To Be Continued...
Well, I was thinking of inserting an OC here... well, I'll see how things go. So, REVIEW PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! I DARN RIGHT NEED IT! And tell me what you think of an OC.
The next day, Andy, Mai and Joe were having breakfast in the dining room and Andy was reading the morning paper, sipping some of his coffee in the process. Mai and Joe were.. Needless to say, busy eating.
"I sure hope Terry'll snap out of it soon. If not, it's gonna' be a long day." Joe said over a mouthful.
Andy took off his spectacles. "Yeah. Me too." The air suddenly hung in silence. Mai decided to break it up.
"I'll go check on him in case he needs aspirin or something." Mai volunteered, going to the kitchen and taking a bottle of aspirin and a glass of warm water.
"Thanks Mai." Andy called out.
"No problem!" She replied happily. 'Gosh, I'm beginning to act like his wife already! Oh.!!! I'm sooo embarrassed!' she squealed in delight to herself, turning a darker shade of red. (My, my..)
As soon as she reached Terry's door, she peeked through the door very, very quietly and to her relief, he was sitting at the edge of the bed, head in his hands, presumably suffering from a hangover. She knocked lightly on the door. "Good morning, Mr. Bogard, how are you feeling this morning? Good?" she asked merrily.
Terry managed a small smirk to her sarcasm. "Morning. Do you have anything to help this splitting headache of mine, Ms. Nurse?" he asked, looking at the aspirin longingly. It's not everyday he gets drunk and suffer hangovers so, he can't stand headaches!!
Mai handed him some tablets and the warm water. After swallowing everything, he gave a brief 'thanks' and messaged his forehead. Mai stood where she was as if waiting for something. 'Well? What are you standing around like an idiot for?! Get out of here!!!' she screamed to herself mentally. As she turned to leave,
"Mai, wait." Mai's heart skipped a beat. 'Ok.. Calm down. take a deep breath, count 1.. 2.. 3... ok, good girl... now turn around...' she turned 'and act normal..'
"What is it Terry?" she asked and put up her brightest smile. 'Ok, so far so good. Damn, why am I feeling nervous over Terry here?! Get a grip Shiranui!!!!!'
"About yesterday.." He buried his face into his hands again. "I don't quite remember but,. suppose I did anything stupid, could you please forgive me? I've never been so drunk before in my life!"
Mai thought it over for a minute. "Nah. You didn't do anything except.." A pause. "You really miss them don't you? Especially Lily."
Terry gave a sad smile and hung his head, "Yeah."
Mai bit her lower lip and boldly went over to sit next to Terry. "You know, mourning over them will only make them sadder. Try letting it go. It's not easy now but, things'll work out. You'll see." She winked.
"Thanks Mai."
"No problem. So, are you coming for breakfast or not?" she asked, standing up.
"Yeah, maybe after a little exercise. Thanks."
"Ok."
She closed the door behind her and went downstairs only to see Joe reading the paper. Not even looking up, he pointed to the main door. "Bye Joe!" Joe simply waved like a grandma to her grandchildren.
Mai grabbed her handbag, slipped into her high heels and jumped into the car, giving Andy a peck on the cheek.
From Terry's room, he watched Mai and Andy as their car zoomed off. They were pretty late for work. Terry smiled, happy for his little brother who can actually love a girl without killing her. He heaved a heavy sigh and bitterly turned away, took a shower and went downstairs. He practiced some punches along the stairs and slowed down when he felt an attacking aura waiting for him. He smiled, straightened his cap and pretended to go downstairs, making a LOT of noise.
"Gotcha!!!!" Joe appeared, holding a pail of cold, cold water, splashing a disappeared Terry. Instantly, he looked up and was just in time to escape from Terry's deadly flying kick. But the fight didn't end there. Not wanting to break anything in the house, Terry made Joe chase him outside and hid in Joe's huge 'backyard' which resembled a maze from Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin's videoclip for 'Nobody wants to be lonely'.
Cautiously, Joe entered the maze, releasing all his 6 senses. Sensing nothing, he decided to bring him to talk, "You're pretty much in a good shape despite gettin' drunk aren't cha'?" seeing Terry in a distant, he ran and caught his cap but the owner wasn't with it. "What the hell?!"
Terry appeared behind him, "Boo." Joe gasped and instinctively, elbowed Terry, which was blocked. He tried kicking Terry's Ehem but was forced to kneel in such a way that both his arms were locked and his legs weren't able to kick or do anything funny. "Well, I haven't recovered from the hangover either. Pretty impressive, don't you think?"
Joe grunted and squirmed around to get off Terry's grip. After half an hour of exhausting squirming, Joe fell onto the ground and Terry sat back, panting. "Man.. pant now I know how worms feel." Terry threw his head back and laughed. Joe joined in soon after. It was a great morning. At least, for Terry and Joe.
Meanwhile, in a business firm, Andy sat in an office, surrounded by a tall pile of paperwork. Like that was not enough, more and more were coming in. Finally, after the 25th clerk submit his/her work, (he didn't look up when they came and handed over the papers) he gave out an exasperated groan and threw himself to the chair, shutting his eyes. In his busy state, it reminded him of a distant memory,
//Flashback//
Young Andy was reading a book on Geography when Terry came pouncing on him.
"Hey Andy! Let's play tag! The guys are waiting for us! Let's go!" he tugged on Andy's arm but Andy yanked his arm away from his elder brother.
"Not now Terry. Tomorrow I'll be having a Geo test. I need to study." He went back to reading his book.
"Hm..." Terry looked at the book from behind Andy. After seeing a lot of words with no pictures, he made a look and pulled the book away from Andy. "This can wait. For now, let's play!" he said happily.
Andy was seeing red which was getting darker. "Terry, leave me alone. You may not need to study but I do!" he said, snatching the book and returning to his studies.
Terry narrowed his eyes and said mockingly, "Well, don't blame me if you wear those freaky looking glasses the Geo teacher wears" enlarging his eyes with his fingers. "And your hair starts turning grey and falling off..." he said, yanking on his hair. "Besides, all work and no play makes Andy a dull boy." He said, winking.
His younger brother looked up from the book, gave it a thought and closed the book. "Ok, you win." He sighed. "But I'm blaming you if I don't score in my Geo."
Terry smiled happily.
//End flashback//
He smiled at the memory. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He straightened up and continued on with his work before answering, "Come in."
"Andy?" Mai's head popped up.
"Not now Mai, I'm busy." He answered, not looking up. Mai pouted and entered. She stood in front of him and waited. However, she was ignored. She pouted even more and took one of the papers filling his table. "Hey! Mai, those papers haven't been checked yet!" Well, THAT snapped him out of it she thought and rolled her eyes.
"C'mon, Andy! It's lunch time. I have a lot of work on my desk too, you know? Being the secretary to the boss is definitely NOT an easy career. I have to make tons of phone calls, deal with old flirts, arrange meetings, even make you coffee and some sandwich! So, let's go out for a while and continue later, please.?" she begged, giving him her cute puppy dog eyes.
Andy looked at her; then at the papers; then back at her. He took off his glasses and sighed. "You're right. These can wait. Let's go to some restaurant and have lunch. How's that?"
"That's wonderful, Andy!!" Mai practically jumped across the table and glomped onto Andy, causing the both of them to fall back Andy's chair in a loud crash. And it was only a quarter to 12.
Back in Joe's mansion, no one was home. The guys went to a 'cool hangout place' - a pub. When the motorbike pulled over near the bar, Terry recognized it straight away. "Here we are!" Joe said proudly.
"Uh. Joe, I don't think we should... "Terry started.
"Aw, you're not under-aged are ya'? Poor boy..." Joe patted Terry's head, shaking and murmuring 'poor kid, not old enough yet...'
Terry rolled his eyes before Joe shoved him in. In the bar, the air was very still and a few Hulk-Hogan wannabe's were staring at each other, looking very pissed off.
"Well, Terry my man," Joe said, putting his elbow on Terry's shoulder, "I'd say we're just in time for the party, don't you think?" he gave a sly smile.
"Let's just let them be, ok?" Terry said, walking to the counter and ordering some drinks. Joe was about to protest but decided not to. Maybe it's worthwhile to sit back and watch after all.
"Ok, but if things get ugly, we have no choice but to..."
A young looking guy suddenly came flying in their direction which they caught effortlessly. "Hey, you alright?" Terry asked.
"Psst. Terry, ugly enough for ya'?" Joe whispered.
"We're not here to fight Joe! But...." he looked up and around "Seeing we're in too deep, I guess..we've no choice." Terry whispered back. "Hey, what's the big idea?" He said to the man who was now advancing on them. He glared and stood up. Next to him, Joe was clicking his knuckles, getting ready for a little exercise.
The beaten up guy was semi-conscious and for the first time, opened his eyes to look at the duo. He saw Terry's back. And the something struck him. He looked familiar. the hair, the outfit and most of all, the cap. (Let's just say Terry seem to have the very same article of clothing everyday) At first, he thought he knew this guy but, as they started to fight, he definitely knew the guy. "Terry Bogard." he whispered wide eyed.
The HHWB (Hulk-Hogan Wanna-Be) charged to Terry in which he dodged by side- stepping but the HHWB took a bottle from the counter and swung it towards Terry and made contact with his face, breaking to thousands of pieces and cutting his face.
"Terry!" Joe called out but as the fight ensued Terry seem to be okay on his own so, Joe simply turned to his opponent(s) - the remaining gang. Suddenly, as Joe stood in his fighting stance, a song was played. Recognizing the music, Joe straight away leapt to his opponent(s) and gave them a nice Tiger kick which sent 3 out of 6 of them flying to the wall.
I cannot take this anymore
I'm saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
They grouped up on him and attempted to use the 'pin and bash' method. (you know, when one guy gets behind you, locking you from retaliating or attacking while his friends bash the living daylights out of you) but was easily broken by his Tiger Knee, bringing the pinner (the one at the back) flying along.
Less I hear the less you'll say
But you'll find that out anyway
Just like before...
Meanwhile, Terry was swerving from side to side, evading attacks and blocked a heavy punch. His head was still slightly spinning. The hangover was really taking too long to go away. He'd use his special technique to end this fight as soon as possible but quickly dismissed the idea as he discovered the guy was not that strong an opponent except for his strong muscles. Terry decided to use speed over power.
Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
He evaded every punch and kick. When a heavy punch came his way, he followed the punch's push, and pushed the guy back with full force. He crashed to the wall and to the bottles behind the bartender. Stuck on the wall and giving it a huge dent.
Joe was about done himself and seemed satisfied with his work. He went over to Terry. "Hey Terry, you okay?"
Terry's face was bleeding slightly thanks to the shattered bottle's remnants. "Nothing that serious." He replied and tried plucking them out. Seeing he can't do anything to his face for now, he decided to turn his attention to the kid. He looked to be around 16-18 years old. "You alright?" he asked.
"Terry Bogard!!! I'm very pleased to meet you!!" the guy sat up straight and shook Terry's hand vigorously. "I'm your biggest fan, man! I saw the way you fight, it was so... cool!" he continued to ramble on and on about how great Terry was.
"Wow, wow. Calm down." He smiled and continued, "I appreciate your kind words but I think my friend Joe here will be the more appropriate person for you to be a fan of."
The punk turned. At the sight of Joe, he was like. @_@ "Holy shit.." He muttered under his breath. "Number one Thai-kick boxer, Joe Higashi?!!!" now, he rambled on about Joe, making his ego (and head) grow bigger until it swelled. Terry shifted his concentration on plucking the glass from his face which was still bleeding and he would look like a zombie should he leave it like that.
'I need a towel and some warm water...' he thought dreadfully.
Suddenly, a voice made all of them turn. "Max, that's enough."
Max turned and beamed, "Hey, sis! Meet, Terry Bogard and Joe Higashi - in person!"
Both Joe and Terry's eyes widen at the newcomer. She had shoulder length, blonde hair, clear blue eyes, baggy pants, an unzipped jacket which exposed an orange, tight tanktop underneath and wore a cute smile.
"Hi, Terry." She greeted, winking at him.
Terry stood up, took off his cap and bowed slightly, "Long time no see.... Ms. Blue." He greeted, smiling back at her.
To Be Continued...
Well, I was thinking of inserting an OC here... well, I'll see how things go. So, REVIEW PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! I DARN RIGHT NEED IT! And tell me what you think of an OC.