Disclaimer: same as ever!!
@Sharkey: Well, what inspirated me to choose that title…I fear there´s not really a good reason for it, it just kinda popped in my head and I had to think about poor Two and all the torture I planned to swamp the Twins with ;-)
@HyperactiveHamsterofDoom: Shame on you!! I order you to listen at least 2-3 times to the Matrix reloaded soundtrack to get on the right path again (Christina Aguilera *shudder*) !!
And thanks to all of you who reviewed so far!!
And to all those who didn´t : behave or I´ll send Neo to you. With his lady shaver of doom!!
**
Two looked at his reflection in the mirror with admiration.
The pink coloured tutu suited him in uttermost perfection. He stretched his arms above his head, forming an oval.
He smiled.
Then he pattered onto the stage devouring the applause that followed his entrance.
The music of "Swan Sea" kicked in and he started to dance, flicking his hair from one side to the other.
Arabesque.
Pas de chat.
Piourette.
Oh how he loved ballet.
The penguins in the audience flapped their fins and chattered excited. One of them spoke French…and wore a monocle.
Then it was over and red roses rained from the ceiling down on him.
He curtsied.
One of the waiters in the gay leather outfits with the plush bunny ears on their heads approached him. He had the Merovingian's face.
"Your taxi is waiting, master! And the orange slices carry green tulips today. May I polish your glasses? Ladadi ladada!"
The hyenas behind the stage started laughing.
The penguin with the monocle demanded an autogramm from him.
An elephant with rail thin legs, right out of a picture of Dalí stomped over the stage and crushed his roses.
Whimpering, he crawled over the wooden floor trying to save as many of them as possible.
The bunny started to mate with one of the hyenas.
The monocled penguin tugged at his tutu, toring it into pieces and screeching something at him.
He had his brother's voice.
His brother's voice?
"Two!"
"Two! Damn you, wake up!"
"Wake up!"
Two's eyes fluttered open and he blinked owlishly right into One's face.
"It's okay. I just had this nightmare again. No reason to worry!" he managed to say.
"Which one? That with policewoman and the rubber glove?"
"No, thankfully not. Just that one with the tutu."
"Aaah, your ballerina dream…"
"Exactly. What time is it?" Two asked as he fished for his sunglasses.
"Just eight in the morning. Still too early to get up!" One yawned.
Suddenly Two noticed the empty gap between them and looked at One in confusion.
"She's gone!" One sighed.
Two felt his heart sink.
Both of them turned to lie on their backs.
"Well.." started One.
"Yes?"
"Maybe we shouldn't take the whole thing this serious."
"Hmmmm…"
"I mean, she's just another woman. It would be easy to replace her…"
"Hmm."
"Just a piece of the master's cake and we can have every girl we want!"
"Sure…"
"And you have to admit, living together with her would be pretty difficult!"
"I know…"
One sighed and briefly closed his eyes and then turned to Two.
They looked into each other's eyes.
A minute passed in silence.
"Okay, I get the jewellery!" One said and jumped up.
Two followed his example.
"And I get the flowers. Masses of flowers!"
**
Meanwhile in Felices room.
"Let me summarize…you slept last night with One and Two, right?" Trinity asked.
"Right."
"And you enjoyed it, right?"
"Right."
"And why the heck are you here and not with them?"
Felice roamed through her belongings and reached for her pants. No more medieval dresses today!
"Because I have a lot to think about." She said.
"And I don't want them to think that I'm going to serve myself on a silver plate for them. If they want to be with me they first have to prove me that…"
"That what?" asked Trinity curiously.
"Aargh, I don't know exactly! That I can trust them. That they won't let me down. That I'm not another one in a long line of brief love affairs. Such things.."
"Yes, I understand…" Trinity said and patted her back.
"And I can't think about such things clearly when they're near me." Felice complained and threw a blouse back into the mammoth sized closet.
"Distracting you, he?" her best friend grinned.
Felice looked her in the eye and smiled smugly.
"Oh come on, don't you think I didn't notice the look that overcomes your face when you snuggle up to Neo? In such moments I would be able to sell you a fridge, you wouldn't care!"
Suddenly her eyes gleamed.
"You wouldn't happen to notice any strange occurrences out of Niobes and Morpheus´ room last night? I'm curious if she finally succeeded in getting him laid!"
Trinity snickered evilly.
"Now that you mention it, there were some strange…noises out of their room!"
"Oh you have to tell me!!" Felice sniggered.
**
*Flashback*
"Do you hear that too?" Neo asked Trinity.
"What?"
"Shh, listen!"
"There it is again! Don't you hear it too? A kind of bumping…" Neo whispered.
Trinity pressed her ear against the connecting door.
"Yeah, I hear it! That´s out of Niobes room!" She looked at Neo.
"Should we risk a look?" Neo grinned at her.
"Why not? Maybe she's in trouble…you can never know for sure till you take a look!" she grinned back.
Carefully they opened the door just a handbreadth and Neo tried to watch.
"And? Do you see something?"
"Morphiiiii…" hummed Niobe, still wearing her ultra fluffy bathrobe.
"Morphiiii, I know you're somewhere in here! You can't hide from me!"
At that moment Trinity noticed a strange bulge behind the curtains.
She snickered.
The bulge obviously had feet.
The clicking of Niobes heels got nearer and nearer.
"Oh my dear. Hiding behind the curtain again, aren't we? Darling, that even didn't work as we still were together!"
With a "Zzzipp" Niobe opened the curtains and looked at a sweating Morpheus in pink pyjamas with little white rabbits printed on it.
"Oh look, what we got here! If that isn't my sweet little Mr Honey-Bunny!" Niobe chirped and fluttered her eyelashes.
"You promised not to call me like this anymore!!" Morpheus cried.
"I'm soooo sorry. Now get over here!"
"Over where?"
"Over onto the bed, where else?"
"I don't think I'd like that…" Morpheus gulped.
"Have I to get angry again?" Niobe purred.
"But-
"Morpheus, don't make me angry! You remember what I'm doing if I'm getting angry, don't you?"
"But Niobe-
"Over onto the bed. NOW!" Niobe yelled.
"Yes Ma´am!" Morpheus obeyed.
„Now that wasn't that difficult, was it?" Niobe purred.
"But I can't stay angry with my little honey-bunny for long, guess what I have here?"
"What is it, what is it?" Morpheus sounded like a small boy.
"I don't know if you deserve it. You haven't exactly been a good boy the past days…." Niobe said.
"I'll be good, I promise! What is it?"
"Well, that's my honey-bunny! Close your eyes!"
"Neo, do we really want to know…?" Trinity sounded quite scared.
"Ssshh!" Neo hissed and glued his face back into the door gap.
"Oh Niobe its Mr Boo-Boo!"
Niobe held up an old and shabby hand doll, made of a grey sock with two red buttons as eyes.
"But I thought you burned him after I left you?" Morpheus stammered.
"Oh no, how could I burn our little Mr Boo-Boo? Do you remember what we used to use him for?" Niobe purred.
"You mean, how I used to slip him on my…and then you…and then I ….?"
"Exaaaaactly…."
"Should I?"
"Please do it one more time….for me!" Niobe breathed.
"That's enough now Neo!"
Trinity grabbed her boyfriend's shoulder and yanked him away from the door.
"But love…"
"No way! Let them have their privacy. Besides, I fear that I get nightmares if I watch further!" she shuddered.
*End flashback*
**
Later in the morning.
They sat in one of the common rooms and waited for Morpheus to return from his talk with Barney bumble bee.
Felice pulled out her mobile phone.
"What are you doing there?" Trinity asked curiously.
"Just checking my answering machine since I haven't been at home the last days!" she smiled and dialled.
The Twins came a bit closer, eager not to miss something important.
There wasn't anything to do this morning and all of them were extremely bored.
Felice sighed as a small crowd gathered around her.
"Don't you have anything better to do? My life isn't that exciting, believe me!"
Beep Beep.
Click.
"Hello this is the telephone from Felice Guildenstern. I'm sorry but at the moment I'm not at home. Please try again later to pester me or leave a message. But don't expect me to call back!"
"Very… kind!" Two smirked.
Click.
"Felice Anna-Katharina Guildenstern, here is your mother! What do we have to hear from an old dear business friend of your father, you married?? Oh child, how could you do that to your poor old parents? How could you?? What did I do wrong? I know we wished for you to marry soon, but I always imagined you to do it here in Germany by your family. I saved your great-grandmother's wedding dress for you! Your father's not amused, believe me! What's wrong with that husband of yours that you couldn't bring him here and introduce to us? And not even a proper marriage, just a small celebration in a cheap hotel, no friends, no family….! I'm truly disappointed of you, my daughter!" it screeched out of the phone.
Felice paled.
"But my dear, don't think that we will disown you. You, our one and only child! Therefore we will visit you to have a look at this husband of yours. Our plane arrives at Mon, the 17th at circa 17.30 h. Please pick us up at the airport. Love, Mama."
Click.
Everyone was speechless.
"Oh no nonononononono!!" Felice finally managed to say.
"Everything, but please not that! What did I do to deserve that??"
"Anna-Katharina?" Trinity giggled.
"Oh just shut up, or I could get very tempted to give away your middle name!"
"I'm silent!"
"Well, that's exactly what I wanted to avoid! To involve my loving parents into this story!" Felice muttered.
"I don't understand your problem!" Neo dared to say.
Felice looked at him quite furious with an angry glint in the eyes.
Neo backed off and hid behind Trinity.
"That's because you don't know my parents. They're as conservative as anyone possibly could be. They are going to have my head when they discover that I'm married with…with…"
She looked at Two who raised his eyebrows expectantly.
"Never mind. I can imagine how it's going to be. They´ll ask me if he's able to care for me and my expensive lifestyle. And then they'll want to know what he does for a living. And I'll have to answer: ´Don't worry Papa, of course he can care for me, he's a killer. Killers are always well paid!´ !" Felice paced up and down the living room gesticulating wildly.
Niobe looked at Trinity.
"Can they really be that bad? Trinity, as an old school friend of hers, don't you know her parents?"
"Yes, I know them. They invited me once or twice for the summer holidays into their German mansion. They are…nice, but very..strict. Yes, that could get complicated.."
"They will disinherit me!" Felice shuddered.
"Felice, my dear. Calm down please. I'm sure we will find a solution for this problem!" Mr Barney said appeasing.
"But how?"
"Here's room enough for plenty of guests. I lend you a car and you pick them up and bring them to us. We will have dinner and everything will be nice and perfect. And after a day or two, we send them back. How does that sound to you, hm?"
"And what shall I tell them about you and the others?" she asked hopefully.
"Well, they surely remember Trinity. You could say that you invited her and the others to celebrate your ..uhm..marriage."
"And what about you?"
"I'll think of something!" He smiled.
"Oh, thank you. I wouldn´t know what to do else.."
"Okay, then you better start preparing!"
"Why?" Felice asked surprised.
"The 17th is today, my dear!" Morpheus reminded her.
"You have five hours left till they arrive!"
"Oh shitshitshitshit!!"
Two sneaked up Felice and laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine!" he said and smiled.
Felice stopped short and looked at him.
"Two, do you have any problems with your face musculature?"
"No, why do you ask?"
"The corners of your mouth are twitching strangely and your whole face seems to be strained…" Felice tilted her head and studied his face.
"You should smile more often, he said! Of course!" Two muttered ironically under his breath.
One returned from where ever he had disappeared, holding something behind his back.
"For you, my dear!" he said and gave her a bunch of deep red roses.
"Oh thank you! They're wonderful!" she buried her nose in the bouquet.
"And they smell delicious!" she shot One a look from under her eyelashes that made him grin like an idiot. Then she went back to her room to find a vase.
Two snorted.
"Stop that. You're looking just like a love sick puppy!"
"Jealous?" One grinned smugly.
"Not at least. Just wait till she opens her door. I prepared a little surprise!"
One furrowed his brow.
They went upstairs too.
"What surprise?"
"Just wait!" Two grinned sadistically.
They reached the corridor just as Felice disappeared into her room. A second later a surprised and happy cry could be heard.
One fastened his steps and peered into her room.
Felices whole bedroom was decorated with flowers.
Lots of flowers in all colours and shapes.
"You braggart!" One laughed.
A few minutes later an unbelieving One and a mad grinning, because tightly embraced Two returned to their room to fetch their coats.
"Was it really necessary to show off like this?" One grumbled.
"Who was that guy that lectured me about properly courting a woman? No, don't help, I remember! It was you!" Two snickered.
One opened their door.
"Never mind. Just one question, where did you get all these flowers from? We're practically in the wilderness out here!"
Two smirked.
"From the same source as you, I think."
He adjusted his tie.
"I plundered the flower beds outside!"
**
What will Felice´s parents have to say to Two?
What will Niobe and Morpheus do to poor Mr Boo-Boo and does he really wear pink pyjamas with white rabbits on them?
Is Neo a sick voyeur?
What is Trinity´s secret middle name?
Will Kim and Yun finally appear out of their plot hole and actually do something other than just report to their master?
Does Two really know how to dance the ballet and if we would search his wardrobe, would we eventually find a pink tutu?
And what secret nightmares could One have?
More in the next chapter!!