TITLE: "Adventures in Clubbing"

AUTHOR: Doctor Strangelove (strangelove317@hotmail.com)
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Um, I don't know. No particular spoilers. Visser Three is still Visser Three.
FEEDBACK: I'd love it.
DISCLAIMER: K. A. Applegate owns the Animorphs.
TO REVIEWERS: Aqua Rhapsody: In order to save myself from getting killed or being yelled at, I decided I wouldn't wait a month to update. Just for you.
Lisa-Ann: Ooh, sorry about the Tara thing. I'll warn about possible spoilers next time. Don't worry about being a season behind on Buffy, this season hasn't been that great anyway. Yep, Marco's acknowledged his feelings for Ax, so now I have to come up with another problem for their relationship. My goal is to give them as hard a time as possible. That's what I do to characters I like. I'm weird like that.
Hater of Doctor Strangelove: Why, yes, I am. Thank you for asking. But come on, if you're gonna flame me at least have the decency to leave your name. Oh, and "YOU ARE WHAT ANIMORPHS COUPLES YOU SUPPORT"? What the hell does that even mean? Nice e-mail address, by the way.
Jinako-Chan: Sorry for reminding you about Tara. But, yay, I'm glad you liked the chapter. Everyone's so happy about Marco realizing his feelings for Ax. So now they'll go off and they'll be very happy together and the next fifteen or so chapters will be about their happy loving relationship. It's all good smiles and good times from here on out. Or not. But now that Be Stupid will be ending soon, what incentive will I have to update? Possibly if you write a sequel?
oobergoober: I like Gilmore Girls too! I just think Buffy is a better show. Well, not this season, but usually. That was one of my favorite lines too.
Larania: I'm glad you like, and the chapters are going to start getting longer.
Aaren: Yay, people like the lines I liked. Sorry for mentioning things you were unfamiliar with.
Kay: Corn Festival! WHOOOO! *calms down* Sorry, that just seemed funny. Your favorite line was This fic is brilliant? I don't remember that line. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your kind words. That's the kind of thing that makes me update. So suck up more! Kidding. And hey, the early seasons of Buffy were the best, they're worth the money.
Azure Blood: Yeah, people that can write plot suck. Oh, you meant me? I'm not that good, I've seen much better. I know! Tobias seemed like the perfect matchmaker for these two. I wish I could do his POV more often. You should try Jinako-Chan's "Be Stupid". It's another Marco/Ax fic and it's really good.
Chibi Bulma: Yay, Marco/Ax fan!
Elrond-is-cool: With all these reviews I can't help but update.

"Adventures in Clubbing"

Written by: Doctor Strangelove

My name is Marco. I'm in way over my head right now, as I'm flying high above everyone else's. Okay, now Tobias said Ax likes me. A lot. Like that matters. It'd be just as weird if he liked me just a little bit. Now, Ax. Likes me. Ax likes me. That's weird. It keeps repeating in my head. Ax likes me.

Now that's nothing compared to what else Tobias said. He said I like Ax. That's crazy. That's absurd. That's insane. That's... did I already say crazy?

Then why are you going to see him? Stupid brain. Stop trying to confuse me with your logic. I'm going to see Ax because... because... Well, why am I going?

Because Tobias was right? Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about. You're crazy. You're absurd. You're insane. You're... did I already say crazy? Like four times.

Okay, I'm going to see Ax because Ax is my friend. And friends don't let friends drive drunk. No, that's not right. Well, it is, but it has nothing to do with this. Friends don't let friends tell other friends secrets about certain friends and their supposed affections for said friend when in reality their may be nothing at all between the friend and the other friend of the friend the first friend originally went to see. That's it.

What the hell did you just say? Shut up, brain. What's that sound? Ocean. Ocean? Why do I hear the ocean? Because friends fly to the beach when the friend they're in love with is there. Shut up!

But I was at the beach. Yep, the beach. Look, there it is. The beach. Sandy. The beach. It's a sandy beach. As beaches usually are. Am I rambling? Well, there's no sign of Ax anywh- Oh. There he is. I looked down and saw Ax's body start to emerge from the water as he demorphed from his fishy likeness.

Okay, there's no need to panic, Marco. You just need to be calm and sta- Ax! Or I could yell. Yelling's good.

Ax looked around and finally saw me floating in the sky above him. Marco?

I landed next to Ax and demorphed. "Hey. What's up?"

Ax briefly looked up before morphing into his strangely attractive human form. "Marco, what are you doing here?"

"I, um, I went over to your place and I ran into Tobias and we got to talking and before he had been giving me all these hypothetical situations which I thought were crazy or absurd or insane and did I already say crazy, 'cause they were and then he said they weren't, hypothetical that is, and that you really did like me, a lot, and that I was repressing feelings for you and that you were at the beach because being fish soothes you."

Ax blinked a couple of times, "What?"

I took a few breaths to calm down, "Tobias said that you liked me. A lot."

"He... did" I nodded. "Oh."

"So..." I struggled for the right words, "Do you?" Those should work.

"I..." Ax looked around, "It's not that simple."

"It really is. It's kind of a yes or no deal."

Ax looked at me for what seemed like an eternity, "Yes."

I was in shock. "Oh thank, God." I threw my arms around Ax and kissed him. Hard. This wasn't like the two times in the club, this was something different. There was passion and heat and love. And then it dawned on me; I was in love with Ax. You just figured that out?

It was weird. The kiss seemed to last forever, but it also seemed to end in an instant. I can't really explain it that well. But Ax pulled away from me and I swear that he had tears in his eyes.

"Marco... I," he began and I knew right then I didn't want him to finish talking. I wanted him to put his arms around me and hold me and kiss me but I did not want him to finish talking. "This is all too much. There are things that you... I don't even understand them. But it's... it's...

"I can't." With that he turned around and started walking and I think I saw him start running but I'm not really sure.

*****

I started walking too. I wasn't really sure where I was but I eventually just got too tired and sat down. I swear I wasn't crying. Reveal my heart and have it broken. Hey, didn't bother me at all.

"Marco?" I looked up and saw Tom standing there. I looked behind him and saw that I had stopped walking in front of the club. Figures. I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or some higher power messing with my life. They do that.

"Oh, hey, Tom." I wasn't really in the mood to deal with the Yeerk and his shit.

"I just got through with a Sharing meeting. What are you doing here?"

"I... um..." I had a little trouble thinking of a good excuse.

"Marco, what's wrong?" He sat down next to me.

"It's all..." And before I knew it I was spilling the whole story to Tom, with heavy editing of course, but he got the gist of it.

"Man, Marco, that's terrible." I barely noticed that he had put his arm around me, "You gonna be okay?"

I looked Tom in the face and right then I didn't see the Yeerk. I saw Tom. Sweet, caring, looking-like-Jake Tom. We sat there looking at each other and it was another of those weird forever/moment things like the kiss earlier. Then it had a lot more in common with the kiss when Tom and I started kissing.

Oh well, I thought, If you can't be with the one you love...

I knew what I was doing was crazy, and absurd, and insane, and did I say crazy? I knew it was wrong and I knew it was stupid. But to be perfectly honest, I really didn't care.

A/N: I'm really going to try to get Chapter 8 up this weekend. It'll be Ax's POV and will explain all his actions.