Fever

Disclaimer: That's right, I don't own 'em.

Author's Note: I love love love old music! Give me Sinatra, or Ella Fitzgerald any day. It great music to relax to. I highly suggest some of you try it. There's a song in this chapter (and in up coming chapters) that is sung by Ella Fitzgerald and like my disclaimer says "I don't own it".

az4ever: Comment and you shall recieve ;) ShadowShard: throws home-made chocolate chip cookies Hurray for big vocabularies! heart of flame: tosses some cookies your way Yay! I remember that show. I hated it too. Freddy was the most annoying with his little "Red Herring" accusations.

Chapter 3- New Woman

The lights on the stage were bright. So bright in fact the audience was completely shadowed from Riza's view…it was so dark in the audience that Riza couldn't even tell if there was anyone in the house. An empty room. Suddenly any butterflies she had were gone. The jazzy, seductive music began to play and all traces of the old, dull Hawkeye melted away and a brand new woman exposed herself.

"Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear" Riza sang seductively. With every lyric she became someone else. Someone who was beautiful and knew it. With every note played a little more of her suppressed side came forth.

"You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever
In the morning
Fever all through the night" she continued. The more she sang the more comfortable she was on stage. She began to move around the stage making her presence more substantial.

"Sun lights up the daytime
Moon lights up the night
I light up when you call my name
And you know I'm gonna treat you right" her voice resounded in the room absorbing the small audience into her own little world. Hughes and his wife sat spellbound. 'Who knew Hawkeye had it in her!' Hughes thought to himself, 'Roy wouldn't believe this!'

"You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever
In the morning
Fever all through the night

Everybody's got the fever
That is something you all know
Fever isn't such a new thing
Fever started long ago

Romeo loved Juliet
Juliet she felt the same
When he put his arms around her,
He said Julie, baby, you're my flame." As Riza said it she couldn't help but think of Roy. 'He'd never believe this…he'd never let me live it down!'

"Thou givest fever
When we kisseth
Fever with thy flaming youth
Fever, I'm a fire
Fever, yay, I burn forsooth

Captain Smith and Pocahontas
Had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him,
She said daddy, no, don't you dare
He gives me fever,
With his kisses, fever when he holds me tight
Fever I'm his Missus
Daddy, won't you treat him right" Her presence invaded the room and many members of the audience felt the temperature rise.

"Now you've listened to my story,
Here's the point that I have made
Chicks were born to give you fever
Be it Fahrenheit or centigrade
They give you fever
When you kiss them
Fever if you live, you learn
Fever, till you sizzle" she lingered on the last word, saving the suspense for the very last line, "What a lovely way to burn." The lights dimmed and she disappeared behind the curtain.

When the lights came up Riza seemed to have disappeared as if she'd never been there. For a moment Hughes seriously wondered if the whole thing had been some sort of elaborate dream. He was stunned speechless. Clapping suddenly filled the room as the audience came out of their bewildered spell and jumped to their feet.

"Oh Maes! That was wonderful! I haven't heard a rendition of 'Fever' that good in years!" Gracia said to her husband who was still stunned looking at the stage. When he didn't respond at first she said, "Darling? Are you all right? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"Gracia, did that woman look familiar to you?" he asked never taking his eyes from the stage. He was starting to doubt it'd really been Riza and maybe this new woman had just looked like Roy's subordinate.

"…now that you mention it, she did look a lot like that Lieutenant that works for Roy. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if that was her."

"At that Hughes jumped up, "Where are you going?" his wife asked.

"I want to see if that really was Lt. Hawkeye." He said as he walked toward the stage door.

"Well if it is her, tell her I thought she did a wonderful job!" Gracia called after him.

Never heard this song before? If you want to hear it, please email me. I've got the song on my comp.