Rick's Past

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"What was up with that in there?!" Rick yelled at McCarran once they reached the deck. McCarran was blushing a bit still, he seemed to be in a daze. Then Rick slapped his face and McCarran yelped.

"Oi! What the 'ell did you do that for?" McCarran said rubbing his reddening cheek.

"I asked you a question! What was that look you gave Riley?"

"Riley? What a beautiful name…"

"SHUT-UP! Gosh! You stay away from her, that's all I have got to say!" Rick said as he checked his pocket, his ticket still there he went back to his side of the ship.

"Hey! Are you two going out?" McCarran yelled after him. Rick just responded with his middle finger. "Yeah, well fuck you too!"

Rick just walked on. And McCarran went back in the ship.

Rick stalked all the way to his suite and opened the door quietly, walked in quietly and then WHAM! The over hanging light shook and the pictures on the walls too as he slammed the door shut. Dr. Pietz ran up to the door

"What is it?" He asked. Rick just scowled and stalked off to his room. Pietz turned to him.

"Hey, answer me."

"Nothing, Doc, it doesn't concern you."

"I'm your father -"

"JUST SHUT-UP ALRIGHT! You're not my dad, I'm just a bastard."

"Hey! Don't say that!"

"I HAVE NO FATHER! I'm going to stay in my room for the rest of the damned trip. Don't bother trying to get me out of my room."

Pietz opened his mouth to say something then changed his mind and walked back to his study.

Rick slammed the door to his suite room and flopped on the bed. He is going to run away, only McCarran ain't going with him. But where would he go? There are lots of places. How about a place with treasure, adventure, beautiful girls, and fun? Rick thought hard…Egypt! Definitely, he was fascinated by it, of course there was the lore of curses and what not, but he didn't believe. He believed that something was only real if he could see it and touch it. (Sound familiar? Hmm, I wonder where?) So that was it, it was going to be Egypt. And luckily after Britain, this ship's next spot is Egypt.

---4 days after ship off, 3 hours till arriving in the UK ----

Rick decided to pay McCarran, Riley, and Jake one last visit. From the day that Rick had grown jealous he had gotten over Riley. He rarely ate though. Riley and McCarran had become an item and Jake had just stayed the same, though he was quite the lady's man on the ship. Rick would have been one but he stayed in his room. Rick had found the three at the back of the ship.

"Hey guys, Riley," Rick said coming up. They all smiled and said hi to him. Rick looked at McCarran, "So you still going to runaway?"

"Nah, I think I'll stay in London, with Riley and Jake," McCarran said putting his arm around Riley's waist.

"Well, then I'm on my own," Rick said leaning over the Stern rail.

"What d'ya mean, Rick?" McCarran asked. Rick smirked.

"I mean that I'm still going away, I don't want to stay with the Doc and Winnie, even though Winnie is pretty cool, I want to be on my own," Rick said.

"How thick headed are you? Rick, you don't even know what it's like in the world!" Riley snapped. Rick scowled.

"Oh? And you do eh?"

"I didn't say that Rick-"

"Fuck off alright? This my life, not yours, you've chosen to live your life with McCarran!" Okay so he wasn't really over Riley yet…

"What's wrong wid you? Why are you so angry?"

"Just shut-up alright. I want to live my own life, with my own experiences, I don't need help from people. And I especially don't need help from you! So why don't you just let me live with my decision okay?!" Rick stomped off.

"What did I do, Rick? What did I do to make you so pissy?"

"it's not what you did! It's McCarran, his fault, now just go off with your new boyfriend and leave me alone!" Rick shouted back and walked off quicker below deck. Riley had a worried face on and she wasn't sure what to do for Rick. McCarran seemed to have noticed this.

"Just let him live with his decision, Riley. He's like me, once he wants to do something, he'll do it."

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Short huh? Well I'm getting bored of this story, I'm BORED…I need new ideas from you, the reviewers. So please feel free to e-mail me at my e-mail addy and give me ideas. Please don't put them in the reviews I don't want the story to be spoiled for the other readers. In fact send in a character, male preferably but female too, to spice it up. But only one character! I only want like maybe five to ten, and gimme ONE bad guy to throw in the plot, and liven this story up a bit. But please when you address me in e-mail call me 'Incredibly stupid person' because I am working on at least two other stories as well. Tata!

Jester