Are You Ready For Love
Disclaimer: Take a deep breath just because Lupin the third doesn't belong to you, doesn't mean you have to do anything drastic. (Hides plans to take of Pioneer Entertainment) Oh Alex, a character in this chapter and her father belong to my friend Psycho-Katrina15, oh her mom also, but you don't meet her, you read about her.
Author's Note: Well here's the next chapter.
Chapter Title: Are You Ready For Love
Chapter Summary: Who's Vroomin' Who? Jigen gets a girl I should say that also.
Are you ready, are you ready for love
Yes I am
Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love
Yes I am
Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love
Are You Ready For Love, Elton John
(On With The Story)
Goemon was sitting on the bleachers next to Jigen as he timed Lupin's racing. They had been in Monaco for almost two days and all Lupin was interested in doing was racing. Then again, with Fujiko gone, that was all he could do. They hadn't heard from Fujiko since that night in France. She had left early the next morning without saying a word to anyone.
Goemon still didn't know what to think of that night. That night was almost everything he had wished for, he had held Fujiko in his arms as more than a friend, yet he still knew that wasn't enough. He wanted Fujiko to be with him. To be the person he could hold at night, the person who loved him above all. He now knew he would never be able to get over his feelings for her. She was the only person out there for him and it would always be that way.
"What'd you think of that time," Jigen asked him suddenly.
"Huh?" Goemon said pulling himself out of his thoughts.
"You okay Goemon, you look as if you have something on your mind," Jigen said looking at him under the brim of his hat.
"Yeah, but I'm not sure if I want to tell anyone," Goemon told him truthfully.
"What is it," Jigen said, slipping his hat up a bit to look Goemon in the eye.
"I slept with Fujiko a few nights back," Goemon told him after a deep breath.
"You did what!" Jigen asked shocked.
"Yeah, it was the night before she left to god knows where," Goemon told him.
"Oh, did she talk to you afterwards to tell you where you guys stand," Jigen asked.
"Not really, I don't know what she was thinking, we both fell asleep and she left before I woke up," Goemon told him.
"Damn, that's got to suck," Jigen replied.
"It does, trust me, it sucks big time," Goemon muttered.
"Let's hope next time we see her, maybe she'll tell you how she feels about you guys," Jigen said bracingly.
"That's what I'm afraid of, I'm afraid she might regret it, and it might ruin everything we had," Goemon told him.
"Let's hope that doesn't happen," Jigen told him and turned back to the track.
"Hey," Goemon replied. "Didn't we reserve this track?"
"We did why?"
"Then what are they doing there," Goemon asked pointing to a group of people surrounding a racing car.
"No clue," Jigen muttered looking over at the group.
A young woman was climbing out of the car obviously unhappy about something. She had black hair and looked to be no older than twenty. They couldn't tell exactly what she looked like because of the distance, but they could tell that she was an extremely unhappy person.
"She looks like she's about to kill someone," Goemon said.
"Yeah she does," Jigen replied.
"Oh well, come on, I think Lupin's getting tired of us talking and not timing him," Goemon told him.
"Right," Jigen replied turning back to Lupin's car.
Soon after they were timing the race Jigen was sitting in his room thinking. He had a lot on his mind these days. He always did around Christmas time. Usually he thought back to the Delacroix's. Pierre and Letitia Delacroix was the only family he was happy with when he was a child. He lived with them when he was six, and they treated him like he was there own flesh and blood. He lived with them for six months. He started living them with around Christmas time.
He could remember the last day he spent with them like it was yesterday. He actually didn't spend the day with them; he spent it at a day camp. It counted as one of the worse days of his life and it always would.
(Flashback)
A young kid about six years old clung to a man and a woman as they stood in front of a gate leading to a summer camp not wanting to say goodbye.
"Do I have to go," he asked them.
"Of course you do, you asked to go to day camp and we already paid, so you have to go," the man replied.
"But Pierre, if he doesn't want to go he doesn't have to," the woman said looking at his husband.
"Letitia, you are to soft on him, you know he'll ask us later on why we didn't make him stay," Pierre replied.
"Fine, forget I intervened," she sighed throwing her hands up in defeat, giving the boy a look that clearly stated 'I tried.'
"Fine I'll go, but I'll miss you guys," he told them.
"Alright then, we love you and we'll see you in a few hours," Letitia told him picking him up.
"I love you too mommy," he told her hugging her.
The woman looked surprised but smiled at her husband anyway, she had been waiting for the day that the little boy would call her mom. Pierre picked him up next and hugged him.
"Bye Antori," Pierre told him.
Antori smiled at the man and hugged him back.
"Bye dad, love you," Antori said and jumped down running through the gate.
"Told you he wanted to go, he was just scared of leaving us," Pierre said putting his arm around his wife.
"I know, I just feel so sorry for the kid, he doesn't know his real name, it was always changed when he was a baby, we only call him Antori because that's what the last family called him, so I try to be easy with him," she told him.
"I know you do, but hey, he loves us and is happy, that's all we can ask for," Pierre replied leading her to the car.
Antori took a deep breath from his post beside the gate as he heard the car drive off. He didn't know when he would be leaving the home but he wished it was never. He usually never spent this long with a family seeing as they always got tired of his attitude, and he was glad this family seemed to like him. He hoped they kept him.
(End Of Flashback)
Pierre and Letitia had always had blacked hair and blue eyes. He could remember them as if he had only seen them yesterday. They had owned a nice home in Louisiana and loved him. They adopted him because Letitia couldn't have children. They were both twenty years old the time. He had been waiting for them to pick him up for an hour when he heard the news. He was sitting on a bench in the office when a camp counselor walked up to him. She told them there was an accident and his mom and dad wouldn't be picking him up, that family service was coming to get him.
He later found out that a eighteen wheeler truck had slid on the road during a storm and crashed into them. Pierre had been killed instantly and Letitia had been paralyzed from the waist down. He was transferred a different family a few days later, but no family had been as good to him as the Delacroix's had been. That's why he chose the name Daisuke when he changed his name. Letitia had learned Japanese when they found out they were adopting a boy who had a Japanese father. She thought he spoke Japanese and loved the word Daisuki, because it meant love. She always told him that was her favorite word.
Jigen sighed and stood up. He needed a drink more than anything right now. He walked down the bar in the hotel and sat down in a stool. He pulled out his lighter and tried to light a cigarette but it wouldn't light.
"Friggen light," he said pulling the cigarette out of his mouth and sat the lighter down on the table.
"You need a lighter," a woman's voice asked from beside him.
"Uh yeah," he replied looking the girl next to him.
It was the girl from the race track. He recognized her right away. He was right about her having black hair. It came down to around her shoulders and she had big blue eyes also.
"Here," she said handing him his lit cigarette.
"Uh thanks," Jigen replied taking it.
"So, you're new around her right, like a tourist?" she asked him. "I don't think I've ever seen you before?"
"My friend is in the race," he explained.
"Oh, well then it's nice to meet you, who ever you are," she said with a small smile.
"Jigen," he said.
"What are you having sir," the bartender suddenly said looking at Jigen.
"Scotch, leave the bottle please," he told the bartender.
"And you ma'am," he said looking at girl.
"I'll have the same," she told him looking at Jigen in surprise.
"Alright," the bartender said walking off.
"So you drink Scotch," she asked him.
"Whenever I'm able yeah," he told her. "So I take it you live around here?"
"Sometimes, I was born and lived the first five years of my life here, just depends on where my dad wants us to live," Alex told him.
Jigen took a good look at her for the first time; he knew he recognized something about her he just couldn't put his finger on it. Then it hit him, he knew where he had seen this woman before, he had seen her on plenty of the covers of Fujiko's magazines.
"Alexandra Marriott right?" he asked her.
"How'd you know?" she asked surprised.
"I know someone who's always reading fashion magazines," he told her.
"Oh, well then, thought I would last an hour in here without someone recognizing me," she said with a small laugh.
"So your in the race right?" he asked her.
"I'm racing for my dad. How'd you know that that I was racing," she asked him.
"I saw you at the track, didn't recognize you until just now though," he said.
"Oh, so your friend, he's car number three huh?" she asked him.
"Yeah," Jigen replied. "He's pretty good, didn't know he was a good racer until he signed up."
"Yeah he's good, fastest I've ever seen," she replied.
"Yeah, but he might let his arrogance get in the way knowing him," Jigen said.
"I hope he does, mean to say to his friend, but I really want to win that race," she said with a smirk. "And where the hell is our drinks, come on bartender while we're young please!"
"Here he comes," Jigen told her.
"Finally," she muttered taking her drink. "Got a question, is Jigen your last name or first name?"
"It's my last name," he told her.
"I swear I've heard that name before, I don't know why, but what's your first name, it might click to where I've heard it," Alex told him confused.
"Uh," Jigen said thinking.
He couldn't giver her his first name, it was all over wanted posters. What the hell was he going to tell her? Then it clicked in his brain.
"Antori, but I go by Jigen," he told her.
"Well I guess I'll have to call you Jigen then, but I kinda like the name Antori," she said.
"Sorry," he said with a small grin.
"Okay, if we're going by nicknames, call me Alex, I hate the name Alexandra," Alex told him.
"Why is that?"
"My mom named me," she muttered.
"I take it that isn't a good thing," he asked her.
"Not if you like my mom," she told him.
"And you don't?"
"Can't stand her," Alex said bluntly.
"Why not," Jigen asked.
"Because for the twenty one years I have been on this earth she has made my life a living hell," Alex told him.
"That's never a good thing," Jigen replied.
"No it's not, but she's not here so I'm good," Alex replied taking a drink of her scotch.
"You here for the race only?" he asked her.
"Yeah, then in two weeks we're going to New York for Christmas," she told him.
Jigen nodded and wondered why he was asking all the personal questions. It wasn't like him to get into the thoughts of people, because thoughts lead to emotions and he wasn't a very emotional person.
"What about you," she asked him.
"I'll probably be leaving right after the race," he told her.
"That's too bad," Alex sighed.
"Really?"
"Yeah, you seem like a nice guy and I was starting to look forward to seeing more of you," Alex told him.
If she only knew, Jigen thought.
"Well, maybe you'll see me before the race," Jigen told her with another small grin.
"I hope to," she told him.
So after a few hours of sitting there in long conversation, two more bottles of scotch, and a half drunk Alex, they decided to walk to the hotel that coincidently they were both staying at.
"I don't need an escort," Alex told him.
"I'm not an escort, I'm a friend trying to make sure you get to your room safely," Jigen told her.
"Fine," she told him as they walked to the elevator.
"You seem like your sobering up fast," he told her.
"I'm not a light drinker," she explained.
"So I see," he replied, feeling like he was talking to the female version of himself.
"You going to walk me to my door," she asked him.
"I was thinking about it," Jigen told her.
"Alright then," she said with a smile as the elevator stopped.
Jigen and Alex walked out the elevator and almost got to her room before a guard grabbed his arm.
"Relax, he's with me," Alex said dryly.
"Fine," the guard said letting go of his arm.
Jigen walked Alex to her door and smiled at her.
"Guess I'll see you around," he told her.
"Hey, wait," Alex said as he started to walk off.
"Yeah," he said turning around.
"Just this," Alex said walking up to him and kissing him. "Oh, this too."
Alex pulled out a piece of paper and pen and wrote her number on it and handed it to him.
"Call me, and good night Jigen," she said.
"Night Alex," he said with a smile and walked to the elevator and got in.
Alex walked into her dad's hotel suite and smiled as she leaned against the door.
"You okay," asked a voice from the couch.
"Oh hi dad," she said smiling at him.
Alvin Marriott was a very successful man in his late thirties. He looked like an older male version of his daughter with black hair and blue eyes. Sitting next to him was a brown haired brown eyed girl. She looked to be about thirty something and was going over what seemed to be a legal brief.
"Amber, long night?" Alex asked her.
"Very," Amber muttered.
Amber was Alvin's secretary. She had been working for him for years. She started working for him when she had her son Alexander, who goes by Zander and was downstairs in the arcade. Then when her son was twelve, her husband suddenly just walked out without telling her why. She had been devastated. Alvin was there to comfort her and they had become close friends.
Amber was actually Alex's best friend. The age difference didn't matter. Amber had been there for Alex all the times her mom hasn't which means all the time. Amber was the one that explained the birds and the bees to her. She was the one that was there when Alex was worried about her first date and Amber was the one who cared about her. Not Alex's mother.
About two years ago Alvin and Amber had been held up in the office talking about paper work when Alvin had kissed her. Arista, who was Alex's mom, had been cheating on him for years. In his mind his marriage was over, the only reason why they weren't divorced was she wouldn't sign the papers. Alvin and Amber had been a couple since that night and it didn't bug Alex in the slightest. She was actually happy they were dating.
"Alex, what's got you so happy," Alvin asked her.
"Nothing much," Alex said and walked to her room.
"I'll go see what's up with her," Amber said standing up and walking into the room.
"I should have known you wouldn't let it rest," Alex said from her bed.
"What's his name," Amber asked.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the boy that's made you so happy, what's his name," Amber asked closing the door.
"Antori Jigen," Alex told her with a smile.
"What's he like," Amber asked sitting down on the bed.
"From what I saw today, just like me," Alex said with a smirk.
"Oh great, another Alex," Amber groaned.
"What's wrong with me," Alex asked offended.
"Nothing, so you like him?"
"Very much, I mean he is so unlike the other boys I know. I know all these prep school jerks and he's just not like that. I guess it's like the song Uptown Girl, I had to find someone not from money to actually like him," Alex told her.
"Maybe, so is he going to call," Amber asked her.
"I gave him my number, and that might be him," she said as the phone rang.
Amber reached for the phone and answered it before Alex could even turn around.
"Hello, oh hi Bryan," she said dully as she heard the person on the other line.
"Listen Bryan, Alex is busy, she just met someone and they're up here, and if it was being taped and sold it would be x rated so why don't you call back later, oh you will? That's terrific, bye Bryan," Amber said and hung up the phone.
"How'd Bryan get the hotel number," Alex asked her.
"Because he works for your dad and anyone who works for your dad gets the number," Amber told her.
Bryan was one of the most annoying men Alex had ever known. He had been chasing her around for years and wouldn't catch the hint. She figured that he believed she wanted him because she had gotten drunk at a party and things had gotten out of hand. Then again, he's the on that took advantage of her in the first place.
"Well, let's hope he doesn't call back," Alex muttered.
"Actually if you listen your dad's on the phone with him right now," Amber whispered.
"There's no man in Alex's room," they heard Alvin say.
"She said she met someone, the only person who is in that room with her is Amber," Alvin continued. "Amber and Alex? Man you have got to be kidding me. the minute I get home I'm getting you a shrink. Bye Bryan."
Alvin hung up his cell phone and walked into Alex's room.
"Let me guess, you're responsible for that call I just got," he asked Amber.
"Now how could you accuse me of something like that," she asked innocently.
"Because I know you," he told her with a small smile.
"You're right, I told him that things were turning x rated in her with Alex and someone she just met, is it my fault he thinks I'm gay, or yours for acting like nothing is going on with us?" she asked.
"I'm going to take the smart way out of that and not argue my point," he told her.
"Good," she replied.
"Are you guys done with your paper work yet," Alex asked them.
"Oh I wish, but your dad is a workaholic and I have like three stacks of folders," Amber muttered.
"I'll take care of that, how about you go to bed," Alvin asked her.
"Can she stay in here in and talk to me, we have some things to talk about," Alex said.
"Fine," Alvin said walking out.
"What'd you need," Amber asked her looking concerned.
"Well you wanted to know about mystery man didn't you," Alex asked her.
"Well of course," Amber said pulling her legs up and wrapping her arms around her knees.
"Well we met at the bar; of course you're thinking how great of a guy can he be if he's at a bar. He's a great guy; he's just a big fan of scotch, like I am. I don't know why, but I just feel as if I've known him forever. It's strange how I feel like that, but I don't know," Alex said softly.
"Oh I know how that feels," Amber said with a smile.
"You've felt like that before," Alex asked her.
"Once," Amber replied.
"What happened," Alex asked.
"Well, we started dating and he starting cheating on his cold and heartless wife, and I wound up talking to his daughter about how she felt about a mystery guy," Amber told her.
"Oh," Alex replied. "Amber can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead," Amber told her.
"Why are you still with my dad when you know you guys can't get married," Alex asked her.
"Now that's a tough one to answer. I guess it's because I think that it's better to be with the person I love than to give it all up just because I can't call him my husband. I know he loves me, he's tried many times to get your mom to sign divorce papers, and she just won't do it. It hurts not being able to wake up next to him every day and not knowing he'll be mine for the rest of my life, but when you've been through a divorce I guess those things don't matter as much. Being married doesn't mean you're with someone forever. It just means that's how you felt about them at one point in time. So I just see it this way. As long as I know he loves me, I'm happy," Amber said with a distant look in her eyes.
"Are you sure about that," Alex asked.
"I don't know, it kills me not being able to wake up with him, but I love him and I handle it as best I can," Amber said with a small smile.
"How'd you know you were in love with my dad," Alex asked her.
"Now that ones even tougher. I mean he was my best friend before we dated so at one point I loved him as a friend. Then things got really hard for him when he realized what kind of woman your mom turned into. He knew before Zander's dad left what she was like, but I don't think he wanted to admit it. Then he caught her with some men in your guy's summer home in Florida. It really hurt him because he still loved her. So I was there for him like he was there for me. And I don't know, one day I realized I was in love with him, but I thought, he's my boss and he's married and we can't have any sort of relationship. Then one night we were stuck at the office after hours and he just kissed me, the rest as they say is history," Amber told her.
"Well if he's going to cheat on my mom, I'm glad it's with you, you're more of a mother to me than my birth mom, and hopefully one day I can call you mom," Alex said.
"Hopefully," Amber told her.
Amber smiled at her when the phone rang.
"Hello," Alex said.
"Hi," said a gruff voice on the other line.
"Jigen?" Alex asked with a smile.
"Yes," he replied.
Amber got up and walked out knowing Alex wanted to talk to him alone.
"How are you?" she asked him.
"Good, what about you," he asked.
"Good, what's that sound in the background though," she asked.
"Oh. That's just my roommate he snores like a bear," Jigen said chuckling.
"Really?"
"Yep," he said.
"Hey, can I come down to your room; I think I'm going to leave my dad and his girlfriend alone for the night," Alex told him.
"Sure, you know where it is right?" he asked her.
"Actually, no I don't," she said laughing.
"It's room 32 B," he told her laughing himself.
"Hey, you're room is right under mine," she said.
"Ok then," he said.
"I'll be down there in a few," she said.
"Alright, see you then Alex," he said.
"Bye," she said hanging up.
Jigen hung up his phone and sat there in the chair thinking. He had never wanted to spend this much time with a person. He didn't even spend this much time with the dancer in Spain. Well actually he did, but that couldn't have been helped, he thought she was in danger. Alex on the other hand, he knew she was perfectly safe. She wasn't allowed to go anywhere without body guards. Well at least any where down the street. The hotel she was allowed to walk around on her own. He knew she was famous and he didn't care, for once he wasn't thinking about the money, he was just thinking about her.
Then he heard a knock on his door. He walked to it and opened.
"Hey," he said with a smile.
"Hey," she replied.
"Come on in," he said stepping back letting her into the room.
"Is that the roommate," she asked him pointing to the couch.
"Yeah," he told her.
"Well then, what are we going to do now that I'm here," she asked him.
"I was going to leave that up to you actually," he said.
"Good," she said leaning up to kiss him.
Jigen wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her back. He sat down in the chair with her in his lap deepening the kiss. The only reason why they broke off the kiss was their need for oxygen.
"Wow," she said looking at him.
"That was going to be my line," he replied.
"Well then how about no talking," she said leaning down to kiss him again.
That's when they heard someone clearing their throat behind them.
"Hi Goemon," Jigen replied annoyed.
"Don't let me interrupt just warn a guy next time," Goemon said from the couch.
Alex looked at Jigen her face turning red in embarrassment.
"How about you do that somewhere other than the living room of our suite," Goemon said.
"You know that's a good idea, I know I planned on coming down here, but how about we go up to my hotel suite," Alex said looking at Jigen.
"Sounds good," he replied.
"Alright, let's go," she said standing up pulling him to his feet.
"I'll see you later," Jigen said to Goemon.
"See you in the morning," Goemon replied rolling over on the couch.
Jigen and Alex walked up to her room stopping along the way to kiss every now and then. When she opened the door to her hotel suite she shook her head and turned on the light.
"Can't believe it, they already went to bed, they act like teenagers," she muttered.
"Wait a minute, isn't your dad married," Jigen asked, the fact that she said her dads girlfriend just clicking in his head.
"Who says he can't have a girlfriend because he's married, it happens all the time. Look at Bill Clinton," Alex said.
"Good point," Jigen replied.
"Come on, my room's this way," she told her leading him to her bedroom.
Jigen followed her to her room and wrapped his arms around her when they sat down on her bed.
"You know, I should really feel bad about letting you in here, I feel as if I've known you for a while," she told her.
"I know how you feel," he told her.
"Really," she asked looking up at him.
"Yeah," he said leaning down to kiss her.
Alex wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back.
(The Next Morning)
Jigen rolled over and smiled at the girl beside him. Last night had been one of the best nights of his life. He couldn't believe how close he and Alex were after only knowing each other for such a short time. Part of him wanted to tell Alex what he did for a living and ask her to come with him, but he couldn't do that. He'd already ruined his life he couldn't risk ruining hers as well. He also didn't know if she would call the police on him or not.
Alex started to stretch and opened her eyes smiling at him.
"Morning," he said.
"Good morning to you to," she said leaning over to kiss him.
"It's a very good morning," he told her.
"Why's that," she asked her.
"Because I'm spending it with you I hope," he replied.
"I hope you are too," she said kissing him again, that's about the time the door opened and her father walked in.
"What the hell," he said in shock.
"Dad, haven't you ever heard of knocking," she asked pulling the cover up.
"Uh right, I'll just be going," he said walking out of her room.
"You okay," Amber asked him.
"I don't know really," he replied.
"Alvin, what's wrong," she asked him.
"Did you know Alex had a man in here tonight," Alvin asked.
"She brought him back here, good for her, go Alex," Amber said.
"Go Alex? You're happy about this," Alvin asked her shocked.
"Well one, she's not my daughter so I have no right to be mad, two, she really likes the guy, and three, she's twenty one, she's going to be having sex," Amber said rolling her eyes.
Back in Alex's room Jigen and Alex were sharing a good laugh over this.
"I can't believe it, did you see his face when he walked in," Alex asked.
"Yes I did, and now I fear for my life," Jigen replied shaking his head.
"Don't worry, Amber'll calm him down," Alex told him.
"The girlfriend?"
"And secretary, and best friend, and practically adopted mom, yeah her," Alex said sitting up.
"I take it you like the woman," Jigen said.
"She's cool, she's a lot better than my mom," Alex told him.
"Oh, then it's good she's around I guess," Jigen replied.
"Yes it is, or else I would be a very snobby person, the minute I start to act the least bit snobby Amber said she would kill me," Alex told him.
"Alright then, so what are you doing today," Jigen asked her.
"I have to practice for the race tomorrow and then I have to do nothing, besides have a good time," Alex told him.
"Well, I have to help my friend plan for the race so I'll see you around three?" he asked her.
"Sounds good to me, I'll meet you at the track alright," she said.
"Alright," he said.
"But first, how about a morning swim," she asked him.
"Sounds good," he replied.
(Later that day)
Jigen walked into Lupin's Hotel suite while he was pouring over a bunch of maps of the track.
"You going to give that a break man," he asked him.
Goemon who was sitting on the couch looked up at him.
"Don't tell you spent all morning with that woman," he asked him.
"And if I did," Jigen asked him.
"I'd ask you if that girl had brain problems to spend so much time with someone who is a pessimist and never has anything nice to say to anyone," Goemon said.
"No, she has nothing wrong with her, it's just when I'm around you guys I seem to have a temper, why do you think that is," he asked Goemon looking out to corner of his eye at Lupin.
"Right, I get your point," Goemon replied.
"You're the same way around him," Jigen said.
"Why do you think I don't talk," Goemon said.
"Nice tactic, I prefer to piss him off, though," Jigen said.
"I think you should leave that to Fujiko. She does a better job of pissing Lupin off than we do, all she has to say is "your sleeping on the couch" and he's as pissed of as he can get," Goemon told him.
"And he gets that a lot these days," Jigen replied.
"Yeah he does, especially since India, I don't think she's quite forgiven him for that," Goemon told him.
"I don't think she has either, she's good at holding grudges," Jigen said.
"Always has been," Goemon said.
A few minutes later they got to helping Lupin plan his race tactics and of course Jigen told them all he wanted to go gambling he had planned on bringing Alex with them, and when Lupin agreed he ran down to the race track seeing as it was five after three.
"There you are, I almost thought you weren't going to show," Alex said when she saw him approaching.
"Well I'm here, I got a question, how would you like to go gambling with my friends and I tonight," he asked her.
"Let me guess, you promised and you don't want to back down but you want to be around me," she asked him.
"How'd you know," he said shocked.
"I'm just perceptive like that, sounds good to me," she said with a smile.
"Alright, let's go," he replied and they went to meet Lupin at the Casino.
(At The Casino)
After a few hours Lupin was starting to be everyone at the Casino. People were shocked at how good he was at playing cards.
"Come on, doesn't anyone want to wipe the smirk off my face," Lupin asked everyone.
"I . . . I mean, we will," said a voice from the corner.
Lupin looked up to see a rich man walk out with a browned haired girl holding on to his arm. Her hair was light brown and wavy, she had a slightly tan appearance and her eyes were brown. You could tell she was half Japanese and half English.
"Been a while love," the woman said winking.
"F, F, F, Fujiko," Lupin gasped out.
The man took a seat at the table across from Lupin.
"Fujiko, what are you doing in Monaco," Lupin asked her.
"Visiting Socrates, me and him go way back. Socrates this is the old friend I was telling you about, Lupin The Third, meet Socrates Nexis," she said.
"Enough with the introductions let's get on to some serious card playing," Nexis commanded. "Do you think you can beat me Mr. Lupin?"
"I can beat you with one hand tied behind my back," Lupin yelled.
"Go get him darling," Fujiko told Nexis which predictably caused Lupin to become pissed.
"Did you hear that, she called him darling," Lupin yelled to Jigen and Alex who were standing off to the side.
"Lupin calm down, poker isn't a game for the emotional," Jigen said nervously.
So they started to play. Half way into the rounds Alex went to get drinks for her and Jigen. She was getting annoyed with Lupin. She came here to have fun and he was making them all look like fools because of a woman. She hated it when men did that, although she didn't think she would mind if it was Jigen doing that for her. She had a feeling she would enjoy the sight.
When she got back she heard Lupin say something about a Class A machine outside.
"What, Lupin, NO!" she heard Jigen yelled.
That's when she realized what happened. Lupin had just bet his race car.
"Done," Nexis said.
"In that case, three queens Nexisy poo," Lupin said.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you Mr. Lupin, but once again you have lost," Nexis said laughing.
"What?"
"Four Aces," Nexis said.
That's when Alex realized that Jigen was only in his boxers along with Lupin. Apparently Goemon had shown up in time because he was standing there in a towel.
"What happened to your guys clothes," she asked.
"He got cocky with his bets," Jigen muttered.
"Idiot," she muttered. "Now we don't have to worry about him being on the streets during the race though."
"Yeah, or flirting with you like he did when he got here, I'm glad you kicked him though," Jigen told her.
"Yeah I don't think we have to worry about any girls getting pregnant by him for a few days," Alex told him.
"Yeah come on, we better go before we get kicked out," Jigen told her.
"True," Alex replied.
Jigen and the others made there way back to the hotel and went to there rooms. Jigen said goodbye to Alex and told her that he would be to her room later on though. Which of course made her happy and she walked to the elevator with him where he kissed her bye and walked backed into Lupin's room.
"Thanks for getting cocky," Jigen muttered sitting down.
"You're the friggen devil man, I wanted to study for the race but you wanted to go to the casino," Lupin yelled at him.
"Hey I didn't twist your friggen arm you're the idiot who threw down his clothes and machines," Jigen yelled back.
"I KNOW," Lupin yelled back.
"Stripped down and screaming just the way I like them," said a feminine voice from the doorway.
"How dare you show your face here," Lupin said looking at her while the others just stared.
"I'd say keep your shirt on, but it's a little late for that isn't it," she said to him.
"What are you doing here Fujiko," Goemon said.
"Got a deal for you," she told them.
"Well I came to offer you a proposition, but if you aren't interested in racing tomorrow than be my guest," Fujiko replied.
"How can I? I lost my race car to you new beau," Lupin said eyes shinning with jealousy.
"My beau, oh please but anyway Nexis is willing to bet the farm on you tomorrow but you have to race for him," she said with a laugh.
"Why should I," he asked.
"Well, Nexis has every wealthy person in Monaco in his pocket. They are all betting on who will win the race, but none of them would bet for you. Its pocket change mostly. So if you race he would become rich, but what if we take the money," Fujiko asked him.
"Wait a minute Lupin, since when has a plan from Fujiko brought us anything but trouble," Jigen asked.
"Jigen, that hurts, you know I always thought of you guys as close family," she told him with a pout.
Goemon fought hard to hold in his laughter, he knew Fujiko hated her family.
"So, we take the money and Nexis gets nothing," Fujiko told him.
"Ooh baby, I love it when you talk like that," Lupin said excitedly and walked in the other room to get ready for the race the next day.
"I'm heading upstairs, I'll talk to you guys in the morning," Jigen said getting off the couch.
"Going to see Alex," Goemon asked him.
"Yeah I've been meaning to ask who that girl from the casino was," Fujiko asked him.
"Her name is Alex, and her and Jigen are getting along very well," Goemon said as Jigen walked out.
"You don't mean," Fujiko said and Goemon nodded.
"Wait, I'm gone for a few days and Jigen is sleeping with someone, has hell frozen over is Lupin gay?" Fujiko asked.
"I think the debacle from the Casino speaks for itself," Goemon said.
"True, listen Goemon I know what happened between us in France hasn't been discussed between us. But I need to let you know this right now. I don't know what I think of it. It was amazing and new and completely confusing. You've been my best friend for eleven years and I never thought of you in that way until just a few weeks ago. Until you kissed me in India, I have been thinking about you nonstop since that night. Then what happened in France was completely out of the blue, and I should feel guilty for cheating on Lupin, but then again, he's cheated on me before hasn't he, remember when he had that bet about the safes, and it's not even that, that makes me not feel guilty. It's you. With you it felt so right and so perfect. Like it was supposed to happen and that scares me, so please just give me a chance to think alright," she said looking at him in the eyes.
"Alright," he told her with a smile. "Was it really amazing?"
Fujiko laughed a bit at the question and gave him a smile.
"The best," she said.
Goemon stood up, sat down next to Fujiko, and put his arm around her.
"Why do you have to be so nice to me?" Fujiko asked her.
Goemon looked at her and wondered whether he should tell her how he felt or not but decided against it. She was confused enough by her feelings he shouldn't add fuel to the flames.
"Because you mean a lot to me," he told her.
Fujiko smiled and laid her head on his shoulder part of her wanted to crying in confusion and part of her wanted to cry in happiness. She thought for the past two years that she was in love with Lupin, but if she was why would she be having these feelings for Goemon.
(The Next Day)
Jigen woke up once again in Alex's room and shook her awake.
"Alex, you have to get up, you have a race in two hours," he told her.
"Already," she asked him.
"Yeah," he told her.
"I guess I won't see you after race," she asked him.
"Not in Monaco at least," he told her, he really wanted to tell her why, but he knew he couldn't he didn't know if he trusted her yet.
"Damn, I'll miss you," she told him.
"I'll miss you too," he said and kissed her. "Just give them hell for me alright?"
"I will," she told him.
"Good, but I better go, I'm going to miss you alright, but if you give me your cell phone number I can call you when possible," he told her.
"Alright," she told him and wrote the number down.
"I'll see you soon alright, I'll make sure of it," he told her kissing her.
"You better," she said as he started to get dressed.
Alex got dressed herself and walked him to her door and kissed him bye as he walked out then she let the tears fall. She didn't know how but she had grown so many feelings for him in a short period of time and it hurt to see him say goodbye.
Jigen was feeling bad himself. He walked down stairs and walked into the room Lupin was in.
"So, where are we going," he asked them.
After they got everything decided and everything worked out they made the way to their positions. Part of Jigen thought she was putting a show on for him, but another part of him told him that Alex felt the same as did.
Back at the track Lupin and Alex were getting in their cars. She remembered what Jigen had said and she planned on following that advice. She was going to give them hell.
They started their engines and started the race. It was a close tie between Lupin and Alex from the start and she wasn't about to lose to Jigen's baboon of a friend when he had clearly stated he wanted her to win.
"Blue arrow to pit crew, are you ready," Lupin said into his cb radio.
"Yeah we're ready," replied Jigen's gruff voice.
Standing on the side lines was Zenigata and Lorraine. Lorraine was looking at Zenigata like his was crazy.
"Souta Koichi Zenigata, don't tell me you plan on going into the middle of that track," she said in shock.
"Where'd you learn my middle name," she asked him.
"It was in your file," she said evasively.
"Well it's my job," he replied to her.
Lorraine shook his head and kept quiet. Chasing Lupin so long had definitely drove him off the deep end she thought.
"We'll get him Lorraine," he told her.
"If you say so," she told him.
In another part of town Fujiko, Jigen, and Goemon were standing in front of an oil truck.
"They've had plenty of time to count the money, they will be loading it on a truck now," Fujiko told them.
"Then come on, let's go," Jigen said.
They got into the truck and pulled on fire proof suits, which meant they were planning something that had to do with fire. Fujiko pointed out the van that had the money in it when she saw it. That's when they sprayed oil on the road.
"Here are two shrimps on the Barbie," Jigen said throwing his lighter in the road.
They got out the truck and ran through the fire to Nexis' truck and got the money. On the way back two of Nexis' goons stopped Fujiko and pulled off her mask.
"Why you bitch," said one of the guys who then got hit in the stomach by Goemon's sword.
"Buh bye," Fujiko said to him before getting back in the truck.
In Nexis' booth a phone rang.
"Hello," he said.
"The money's gone boss," said a voice.
"What!"
"It was Fujiko she was playing all along," the goon said.
"Get them you fool, get them and kill them, then get the money and kill them again," Nexis yelled.
Back in the oil truck, Jigen and the others were being held up by the police stopping them from going anywhere. They were barricading every way to possibly leave the city, apparently they found out.
Damn it," he said quickly turning the truck another direction, "Fujiko, hand me the CB handle"
Fujiko picked it up and handed it to him.
He took it with his right hand while steering the truck with his left.
"Lupin," he said.
"Yeah" Lupin's voice answered over the speaker.
"I hate to say it man but we're a little too famous a little too fast. You know when they say that Monaco is a hard place to leave they weren't kidding," Jigen told them.
Lupin looked around the track and saw one of the cars spin in a circle and drive right through a guard rail into the water.
"Right," Jigen said, "Fujiko and I will meet you at the Pit Stall in 10 minutes"
"Ten-four," Lupin said.
Jigen drove a little further and stopped the truck letting Goemon out.
"You sure you know the place he's talking about?" Jigen asked.
"Good luck," Fujiko said.
Goemon nodded and ran off.
"See with Lupin around there's always a plan B," said Fujiko giving him a wink.
Jigen looked at her and shook his head.
"Right, come on," he said.
Back at the track Lupin pulled into the pit stop and saw Jigen and Fujiko standing there.
"Come on," he heard Jigen say, "we gotta change all six tires on this hot rod"
After the pit crew had finished Lupin looked at Jigen and Fujiko winking.
"See ya soon," he said driving off.
Suddenly he saw someone jumping right into the middle of the track.
"Zenigata," Lupin said slamming on the breaks.
"You're under arrest Lupin," Zenigata yelled.
"Didn't your mom tell never to cross in the middle of the street," Lupin said. "What about Lorraine, I'm sure she has her blond moments too, but not this bad."
"You leave them out of this," Zenigata yelled.
"Get out the road you Lunatic," Lupin yelled then sped up and ran Zenigata over as soon as he tried to get out the way.
When he got away Lorraine ran out too see if Zenigata was okay. She may not always get along with the guy, but she didn't want him dead.
"You okay," she asked.
"Did you get the license on that," he asked her.
"Yeah Lupin the third," she muttered.
"I thought so," he said and passed out.
Lupin sped up and drove right into the guard rail a few feet down. Alex who was right behind him saw that eyes wide with shock, but she didn't slow down and think about it, in fact she sped up taking the lead and in the end taking the race.
Meanwhile the gang was getting Lupin out of the water along with the money. Then they made their way to Macao, where Lupin lost all of there money and in the ending completely and totally pissing Fujiko off.
After they completely lost their money and clothes in Macao they went back to the hotel and got changed then made their way to France.
Later that night Jigen went through his pockets and pulled out Alex's number. He was dying to call her. He knew he shouldn't get attached to her, he knew he should leave her alone because in the end it would only hurt them both, but he couldn't. He loved her and that was the only thing going through his mind right now.
He leaned over and picked up his phone and dialed.
"Hello?"
"Alex," he said.
"Jigen, is that you," she asked him excitedly. "I miss you already you know that right, I won the race though.
"Yeah it's me," he told her. "And I'm glad you won."
"I know, so we're in Paris celebrating," she told him.
"You're in Paris," he asked her.
"Yeah why?" she asked him.
"Because, my friends and I are in the outskirts of town, you want to meet up," he asked her.
"Sure, where," she asked him.
"Top of the Eiffel tower," he suggested.
"Sounds good to me," she said and they hung up.
Jigen sat there for a minute thinking. He was going to tell her everything tonight. He hated lying to her and he planned on telling her exactly what he did for a living and who with. He only wished he knew if she would rat him out or not. If she did, it was worth the twenty years. If she didn't he hoped she could handle never being around him. He really cared about her, and for the first time in a long time he felt as if he could trust someone and he hoped he was right.
(End of Chapter)
There you have it. Who's Vroomin Who? With my very own twists, I hope you like it. I'm sorry if you don't and flames are welcome if you want. I am already planning the next chapter. I know what happens in it and all.
Thanks to Psycho-Katrina15, for all your support, you're the best friend a girl can have, and I'm going to need to use Alex for the last chapters, there are six in all sound good to you?
Whitesepulchre, thanks for all the support also. I hope you are able to write your story, I look forward to reading it if you do. I really love that you like my story, it means a lot.
And J. Lucy-Daisuke, I know you haven't reviewed, but when you get the chance to read I am thanking you ahead of time. Thanks for all the support you gave me in Im's also. It means a lot.
Thanks to you all, and those that don't review,
Thanks for reading.
LunasStar
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