When finally getting everyone and everything unstuck, the Merovingian felt like he needed a medal for it all. In order to get Two's hand unstuck from the curtain without hurting the young twin, the Mero had to give him his phasing power back. That resulted in him having to give One's phasing back too, to keep peace. With the matter of the Twins out of the way, the Mero had gone off to some other part of the chateau to have some of his henchmen help him get the earphones off of his ears while the maids and servants dealt with his pants and the chair. After recovering from the whole incident, the Merovingian felt like strangling the two youngsters, but Perse wouldn't let him come anywhere near them until he had cooled off.
It was a good hour or so before the Merovingian came out of his study. He quietly walked into the room where Perse was sitting on a sofa, the Twins asleep beside her. One had his head resting on her lap while Two was lying stretched out between One's back and the sofa pillow. Both had their eyes closed, Two sucking his thumb. Perse had a book in her right hand while her left hand was busy stroking One's silver dreadlocks. The Mero cleared his throat and Perse looked up from her reading. A grandfather clock chimed from another part of the room.
"See? They can be quiet." Perse whispered, running the tip of her finger gently down One's cheek. The twin twitched his closed eye and sleepily placed his small hand up to rub away the tickling feeling before letting his hand drift back down. He slowly opened his eyes in sleep then closed them again before yawning.
"I'm going to town for awhile." The Merovingian mumbled.
"Why don't you take the Twins with you? I'm sure they'd love to go." Perse suggested. The Mero's eyebrows raised at the suggestion.
"I think not! I'm going there to get away from everything here. You think I'd want them tagging along?"
"Shhhhh. You'll wake them up." Perse looked down at the Twins. Two twitched his nose as he slept. "The poor dears are all worn out."
"They're worn out? What about me! They weren't the ones glued to a chair."
"Two got glued to the curtain."
The Merovingian and Persephone stared at each other for awhile.
"How can I take them with me when they're asleep?" The Mero finally said, breaking the long silence.
"You can wake them up you know." Perse patted One on the shoulder.
After a bit of protesting from the Merovingian, he finally gave in to taking the Twins with him to town. The Twins scampered out into the garage as the Mero made his way to one of the many cars. He would have had his chauffeur to drive him, but he wanted to go alone this time and drive himself. The Twins found it fun to run around and hide between the many parked cars. The Mero sighed and yelled for them to come over to the car he was going to take. Both giggled as they ran up to the Mero's side and stopped.
"Now you two watch yourselves." The Mero glared down at the two. "Get in." He motioned to the backseat of the vehicle. They had seen pictures of cars and even had toy ones, but this was the first time, since they had been created, that the Twins had actually ridden in a car. Both of them stood a moment and stared into the backseat then turned to look at the Mero.
"Get in! I don't have all day."
The Mero bent over and picked up One and placed him in the seat then picked up Two and sat him down beside his brother. The Mero, then, pulled the seatbelts over the Twins and locked them in place. After making sure the Twins were secure; the Mero slammed the door and got into the driver's seat.
"Where are you taking us?" Two muttered softly.
"Who knows? I may decide to drop you off somewhere in town." The Mero chuckled. Of course he was only joking and he knew it, but knowing kids they believe everything you say and take it seriously. A few seconds of silence followed and the Mero turned around in his seat. The Twins were gone. He nervously looked around the garage and opened the car door again.
"One? Two?" he glanced around and spotted the Twins trying to open the door that led back inside the chateau.
"Come here you rascals." The Mero grunted while picking up the two and carrying them back to the car. The Twins kicked and screamed in fear and almost started to cry.
"We don't want you to drop us off and leave us!" they both sniveled at once while struggling to get out of the Merovingian's arms.
"I was only joking with you. I wouldn't leave you anywhere."
One grabbed hold of the doorframe of the car and placed his foot on it too, to keep the Mero from putting him in the backseat. The Mero pried One's fingers away, shoved his foot away and tried putting him in, but One again latched onto the door's frame. Two grabbed onto part of the door and held on too.
"Now see here! Both of you cut that out and behave yourselves. I'm not going to leave you in town. Forget I said anything about it."
"You promise you won't leave us?" One looked up at the Mero.
"I promise. Now let go and get in the car!"
One let go of the car and so did Two, allowing the Merovingian to place them in the backseat again and buckle them up. The Mero grumbled in French as he started and revved up the car's motor and made his way out of the garage.
Once out on the road everything looked like it was going to be fine. The Twins were actually quiet and still. Several times they curiously looked out of the window at the passing scenery and talked in whispers to each other.
"I wanna drive." One of them suddenly blurted out.
"Can we drive?"
"Please?" both Twins said at once.
"No. You can't drive. You're too young." The Mero said without turning around.
"We are not too young!" Said Two.
"We know how to drive." One added.
"Enough! You aren't driving and that's it."
Both Twins crossed their arms and leaned back against the seat and pouted quietly for the rest of the trip.
In town, the Mero suddenly stopped the car for a red light. The Twins looked out of the window at the line of empty cars parked on the side of the road in front of the sidewalk and stores. One turned to Two and grinned. Two smiled and nodded in return. When the light turned green the Mero sped off, not realizing that the Twins had phased from the backseat.
"How do you start this thing?" One said while searching the dashboard of one of the parked cars.
"Is there a key there somewhere?"
"No."
"Then hot-wire it."
"What?"
"Hot-wire it. That's what Cain taught me." Two phased into the front of the car and within a few minutes the engine roared to life. Two reappeared into the seat next to One.
"See? Nothin' to it."
"Now what do I do?"
"You press on one of those things down there in the floor and move this stick thing."
After a few minutes of fiddling with everything, the car suddenly took off down the street at breakneck speed. One grasped the wheel and jerked it to the right to avoid hitting another car, then jerked it to the left. Several cars spun off of the road and onto the sidewalk to keep from slamming into the crazy driven car. One giggled and laughed at the fun he was having, but Two was about to panic from his brother's driving.
"Watch out for that car!" Two shouted while slumping down in his seat. One swerved to the left again. After finding out that he was still alive, Two nervously looked up, but quickly closed his eyes again when he saw One move the car too close to the curb and nearly hit a mailbox. Several pedestrians dove into one of the stores to get out of the way of the runaway vehicle. By now, police sirens were heard coming in the distance.
"I think I'm starting to get the hang of this." One laughed. Two glanced at his brother and rolled his eyes.
"Can you imagine how much trouble we're going to be in if Daddy catches us?" Two said, just before closing his eyes again.
"Who says he's going to catch us?"
At that moment, the Twins' car came to a jolting stop after slamming into the backend of a car in front of them. Two slid out of his seat and into the floorboard from the impact. It took the Twins a few minutes to realize what had happened. One shakily got up and looked forward. The Merovingian was standing beside the car they had run into while franticly waving his hands around. One's eyes widened.
"Two, I think we'd better get out of here."
"Why?" Two groaned while trying to get up.
"I just flattened Daddy's car."
Two's head spun around just in time to see the Merovingian coming toward their car. Several police cars came up to the accident and surrounded the cars, taking the Mero's attention off of the Twins. One of the officers started talking with the Mero, the Mero pointing at the backend of his car.
"Has he seen us yet?" Two whispered to One, who was crouching down in the driver's seat.
"Are you kidding? If he had seen us we wouldn't have our hides on us now." One peeked up over the steering wheel. "Uh oh."
"What?"
"He saw me!" One quickly ducked down again. "And he looks awful mad."
"I wish I was still asleep on the couch beside Mummy." Two whimpered.
The door clicked and opened to reveal the Merovingian and a police officer. One smiled, but the Mero didn't look impressed.
"I'm awfully sorry, officer. Believe me, I do not know how this happened. I'm willing to pay for the damages." The Mero firmly snatched One out of the car. Two looked up at the Mero's frowning face, which told him he'd better get out too.
"Get over there by the car." The Mero said through gritted teeth while firmly shoving the Twins in the direction of his car.
