Spot the TV show name in this which one of the Mag. 7 actors stars in! Added while I was editing.

Mag 7 Jungle Adventure Part 10: Nearly Night-time

Chris and Vin are now soaking wet from their fooling about in the stream. Shirley comes riding along and Chris imagines her as a beautiful princess, then goes to help her dismount, tying the horse's reins to a nearby tree.

Shirley looks at Chris and frowns; "You're all wet!"

Chris answers her, "You can blame Vin for that. You look beautiful!"

Shirley blushes.

Vin speaks up, "I wonder where the others are?"

Chris answers him with a slight grin, "I think they're playin' at cowboys."

"I wonder if they found Buck?"

"Or if he found them?" says Chris, his smile growing.

"Are we in the game as well?" asks Shirley, enthusiastically.

"We're not kids!" states Chris, feeling too old for playing games.

"Speak for yourself, I wanna be a kid with them," says Shirley, surprising the two men.

Ezra and Nathan come riding along. Ezra looks at them and asks, "Is one of you two the miscreant outlaw who's wanted for a large bounty?"

Vin and Chris look at each other surprised by Ezra's question and that he would be part of this game.

Buck and the rest of their group come along and Buck points to Chris; "That's him - the one they call The Bad Element!"

The blonde looks at Buck and answers almost shouting, "I'M NOT AN OUTLAW. I'm a good guy."

Buck shoots water at Chris, with an evil grin on his face. Shirley gets a Super Soaker out of her bag and shoots Buck for revenge, surprising the man by being prepared for this. Dorothy shoots at Shirley with the water pistol that she's suddenly got.

Nathan looks at the mayhem erupting, states, "This is ridiculous!" and tries to stay out of the way. Ezra not having a water pistol, picks and throws daisies at Nathan instead, laughing as they hit the man. Krys laughs and Ezra throws daisies at her as well.

Lu and Josiah stay out of the way preferring to stay dry.

"This isn't ridiculous, Mistah Jackson. I am enjoying every minute of our merriment," Ezra says to Nathan, grinning.

"You fight like a girl," says Nathan, picking off some of the daisies which have stuck to him, and throwing them back at Ezra.

"At least I don't look like one, Mistah Jackson," says Ezra, now resorting to name-calling.

Their team leader looks around at the wet people and asks, "Have we quite finished now? I'm tired."

They all get back on their horses, take them back to their stables, then walk back to Dorothy's house. It's starting to get dark now.

Chris pulls Shirley aside for a private chat. "You wanna have a date at the house? I'm too tired for going out."

The pretty young woman answers him with a smile; "That would be great. How about we wait until everyone's gone to bed? Then we can sneak downstairs and raid the fridge."

"Won't Dorothy mind if we eat her food?" asks Chris, not wanting to make his host angry.

"I'll buy her some more tomorrow," answers Shirley.

"Okay, sounds like a good plan. Let's keep quiet about us going on a date," says Chris.

Buck is talking to Dorothy in her room, while everyone else is upstairs getting ready for bed, as they are really tired. Buck sits next to Dorothy on the bed. "Did you have fun today?" asks the dark-haired man with a smile.

"Yes, I never had so much fun in all my life," answers Dorothy, smiling at Buck.

Buck looks at her, before saying, "You married the wrong guy, darlin'."

"Course I didn'," she answers, "from what I've heard lately, you'd rather be datin' than settlin' down." Dorothy frowns at the man disapproving of his lifestyle.

"Oh, I don't know. If Miss Right comes along, I might be persuaded to settle down with her," says Buck, ignoring the disapproving frown.

"I'm sure Miss Right will come lookin' for you one day, Bucklin," says Dorothy with a smile hoping that Buck will get the message that he should find a Miss and not a Mrs.

"I don't ever date no Mrs'. I could make an exception for you though, darlin'"

"Don't you darlin' me, Bucklin Wilmington," says Dorothy standing up and throwing him an angry look. She walks swiftly out of the room upset.

Buck leaves the room angry, wishing that Dorothy hadn't married someone else.

Meanwhile, Lu's in her room feeling lonely. Everyone else seems to have forgotten her.

Josiah comes into the room and notices the forlorn girl sitting on the bed. He decides to make his move and cheer her up, "You know I've got a TV in my room? Want to watch TV with me?"

"That would be fun, I don't feel very tired yet," answers Lu, looking up at him and smiling at the large man.

Josiah offers his hand and helps her up, "Follow me then."

She follows him to his room. JD and Ezra are there, chatting loudly.

"We'd like to watch TV," says Josiah, hoping they'll take the hint.

"We were here first," says JD, not taking the hint.

Josiah looks stern at JD, and he and Ezra quickly leave the room.

Ezra and JD storm into Chris's room. Ezra laughs loudly and says, "What's the point of storming in here, if he's not even presently at this location?"

JD answers him, "At least we can't annoy him."

Ezra looks at JD; "That was the whole point of storming in here." The southerner grins mischievously, not feeling the need to keep his feelings inside while he's on vacation.

Chris comes into his room and looks at the two standing around. He raises his eyebrows in question; "Did you two want something?"

Ezra answers him, "I would like a holiday romance one of these days. All of our associates seem to have one except myself and JD."

"You'd make kind of an odd couple," says Chris with a smirk. "Besides, Josiah and Nathan don't have girls either," answers Chris.

JD answers Chris in a low voice, "Josiah's working on that."

"I need to get some sleep. Go back to your own rooms," says Chris, shooing them away with his hands.

They head back to their own bedrooms.

Ezra waits in the hall for Lu to go to her own room, as he is sharing with Josiah and doesn't wish to interrupt anything.

Inside Ezra, Josiah and Nathan's room, Josiah is sitting next to Lu on the bed. He moves to put his arm around her.

"What are you doing?" she asks, startled.

"Nothin'," answers the man, quickly pulling his arm away.

Lu gets up and leaves.

"Come back - I didn't mean any harm," shouts Josiah after her. She doesn't come back.

Josiah turns off the light and falls immediately asleep. Ezra creeps in and goes to bed, shortly followed by Nathan.

Lu goes back to the room she's sharing with Krys.

Krys looks at her and asks, "Where've you been?"

"I was watching TV with Josiah," she answers.

"Yeah, there's somethin' 'bout older men," says Krys, with a smile.

"He's quite nice," says Lu, now feeling bad about storming out on him.

They are all soon asleep except Chris and Shirley who stay chatting quietly in Chris's room unable to sleep.

Later in the night…

Chris and Shirley creep down to the kitchen. Shirley opens a cupboard and takes some crisps and cakes out. Chris gets some beer out, which he finds in the fridge.

Chris has got six cans of beer out because he wants to make Shirley drunk.

Shirley eyes the beer suspiciously, "Why have you got so much beer and where did you get it from?"

Chris smiles at her and replies, "I bought it earlier. We're gonna drink one each and see who gets drunk first. "

They eat the food and drink beer. Chris has had two and Shirley's still on her second one.

"You're behind. How you gonna get drunk first if you drink slower than me?" asks Chris, grinning at her.

Shirley downs the beer fast, then reaches for her third, which she drinks down faster. She's starting to sway a bit.

Chris, who's still sober asks her, "How are you doing?"

Shirley answers groggily, "Fine."

Chris holds another can of beer to her mouth, making sure not to tip it up too much.

"Everything's spinning," answers Shirley.

Chris laughs and helps her to HIS room, but not before he's drunk the last of the beer.

The morning comes and Buck gets up noisily. He sees Vin sleeping across the bedroom and wants to wake him up just for a laugh. He shouts "Breakfast is ready!" really loudly and Vin jumps up.

"What?" asks Vin.

Buck laughs loudly.

"I'm not gettin' up yet," says Vin sleepily.

"I'll give you fifty bucks," says Buck.

JD wakes up then and replies laughing, "One Buck is quite enough!"

Vin laughs at this joke, then sees Buck glaring at him - 'He's almost perfected the Larabee glare!' he thinks to himself.

"That ain't a funny joke, kid," says Buck, taking offence at JD's joke.

Buck and JD get up and race each other for the bathroom. Buck beats JD and goes into the room locking the door behind him. JD stands outside, hopping about. Vin stays in his room.

Josiah comes along and smiles at JD; "Did Buck beat you yet again?"

"Yes," says JD, his face showing his discomfort.

Josiah still has a smile on his face and says, "You should have got up earlier like I did."

"Why did you get up so early? We're meant to be on vacation."

"I just felt wide awake when I woke up," says the older man, who's just made amends with Lu in her room.

Buck comes out of the bathroom and JD rushes in.

Buck and Josiah go downstairs. Dorothy and Shirley are eating breakfast; Shirley stops eating and goes over to Josiah. "Can I ask you something?" the young woman asks. Josiah nods.

Meanwhile, Buck sits down at the kitchen table and Dorothy gets him a bowl of cereal for breakfast in an attempt to apologise for getting upset at him yesterday.

"Thanks," he says to her, giving the woman a big grin and accepting the unspoken apology.

Dorothy smiles back at him.

Shirley asks Josiah quietly; "Do you think Chris would let me come back with you guys and stay at his house with him for a while?"

"You could try asking him," suggests Josiah, thinking that maybe Chris would say yes to her.

Krys comes downstairs looking for Vin, as he's not in his room. "Have you seen Vin?"

"Not since yesterday," remembers Josiah, who hasn't seen Vin yet that day.

"I already tried his room and he's not there," says Krys.

"Bathroom?" suggests Josiah.

"No, he's not there either," says Krys, beginning to grow concerned about Vin.

"A different bedroom?"

"I tried everywhere, he's disappeared from this whole house," says Krys, tears beginning to form in her eyes. "Why would he leave?" asks Krys, trying to suppress her tears, worried that either Vin has run away from her or he's in danger.

"Maybe he's planning a surprise for you," suggests Buck, not wanting her to get worried.

"I suppose - just seems odd."

Chris comes downstairs slowly, trying to hide his hangover. "Morning everyone. Where's Vin?" he says in a quiet voice.

"I can't find him anywhere," replies Krys.

"He'll turn up somewhere," says the team leader, wanting desperately to get rid of his hangover ASAP.

Nathan and Ezra come downstairs, having overheard that Vin is missing.

"Aliens got Vin?" suggests Nathan jokily.

"No, of course not," frowns Chris.

The rest of the group come downstairs (except the missing Tanner) and get some cereal to eat. Buck still sitting at the kitchen table sees the cereal box on the table and puts his hands in the box trying to find the free toy.

"BUCK," says Chris.

Buck ignores him.

Chris calls him even louder, "BUCKLIN!" The blonde puts his hand to his head, feeling pain.

"WHAT?"

"There's no free toy in that cereal," says Chris.

"Why not?" asks Buck in anger.

"You have to collect the tokens from the boxes and send them off to get anythin'," says Chris, his voice quieter.

Buck takes his hand out and looks at the back of the box. Then he looks at Chris; "Chris? D'you wanna collect tokens for some flowery cereal bowls?"

Chris shakes his head in disbelief, "NO, BUCKLIN!"

Shirley puts a cup of coffee and two aspirins on the table for Chris.

"Somethin' wrong, Chris?" asks Nathan in concern.

Chris gets up after taking the two aspirins with the coffee, ignoring Nathan; "I'm gonna go and find Vin, If I'm not back in thirty minutes come and look for me."

Buck nods, still disappointed that he couldn't get a plastic toy from the cereal before Vin could get it. That would've really annoyed Junior.

Chris goes out the back door wondering where Vin is and hoping his hangover goes soon.

"Do people usually disappear without a trace from your group?" asks Shirley, concerned.

"No, Junior should've told us he was going somewhere," says Buck.

"I hope he's okay," says Krys, close to tears. Ezra moves to her and pulls her into him for a comforting hug. "You have to find him," the girl quietly requests, and Ezra nods.

To be continued...