JELLY WORMS

Damage Control

Part: Ten

Author: Jacey

Rating: PG13 - R

Disclaimer: Krit, Syl, Max, Alec, and known characters belong to James Cameron, Chuck Eglee, and FOX. The names of Jondy and Zane also belong to them, but their personalities and characters belong to me. The story idea belongs to me, along with any additional ideas. I own, Lex, Ash, Rai, Trey and Bram. Tawny belongs to Kara.

A/N: I generally write M/L fics, (even though now I'm a total M/A shipper) but Lexie and Ash got me obsessed with Krit and Syl and I made myself obsessed with Jondy and Zane...The title of this fic, was allllll Lexie's idea :D.

Dedication: For Lexie and Ash who made me realise that there's more to DA than there seems, and that the other X5's are just as interesting, if not more so than the main characters. SO, for Lexie and Ash. May you both find your own Krit's. :) (btw - save me one ;) )

Characters: I modeled the character of Jondy, mainly off Lexie ;)

A/N: Every third part (i.e. Part's: 3, 6, 9, 12, etc..) will be a P.O.V chapter.

A/N: On recent info from Lexie, I take back any claims I made for Lexie, saying that she created TAWNY. Kara did. So, thanks Kara. He rocks!

On the road to Seattle

The Girl's car...

'I'm bor-red.' Wined Jondy.

'Sing a song.' Suggested Lex from the front of the car.

'Ugghhhhh. Please, no.' muttered Syl under her breath.

Jondy turned to Syl, 'ARE YOU SUGGESTING I CAN'T SING?'

'Yes.' Stated Syl.

'I can too!' muttered Jondy.

'Not.'

'Too'

'Not.'

'CAN TOO!'

'YOU CAN NOT!'

'QUIET!' shrieked Rai, who was sitting next to Lex, in the front. 'Quiet, NOW! Syl, let her sing. Jondy, leave Syl alone.' She stated, then turned back around in her seat, and muttered, 'Why, do I suddenly feel like a mother?'

Lex laughed, 'Yeah, well get used to it, I overheard Trey saying to Tawny that he wants kids.'

Rai gasped, 'Ohmigod, you're kidding right?'

Lex smiled, 'Nuh.'

'Wow...' murmured Rai, before she lapsed into silence, presumably considering what Lex had just said, and Jondy and Syl, obviously having made up, burst into the first verse of 'Bye Bye Bye' by N-Sync.

'Oh save me Blue Lady' muttered Lex. 'WHY, did I suggest singing? WHY?' she wailed.

On the road to Seattle

The Guy's car...

'WHY?' wailed Krit. 'Why, does that sheep follow me EVERYWHERE. I just want to,' he snuffled, 'be left alone...'

Zane rolled his eyes, for what felt like the hundredth time since they'd started this journey. Krit had been crying the whole way so far, and while not normally an emotional person, he seemed to be taking Moxie following him, personally.

Tawny pulled over into the far right lane, and then exited the freeway, and stopped outside the gas station. 'OK, anyone want anything? Krit?'

Krit wiped his eyes, 'Uh huh.'

'What would you like?' Tawny asked gently.

'Um. Can I have,' he sniffed, 'Some jelly worms?'

'Sure little brother. Anyone else?' he asked, looking around the car.

After receiving requests that added up to at least a whole sheet of A4 paper, and personally cutting the list down in his head, Tawny walked into the gas station, to be confronted by a man, wearing VERY tight jeans, and a pink tank top.

'Hiiiiiii sweetie! I'm Brucie. I was just wondering,' he said ducking his head, 'Uh, is your friend, in the car over there, well, available?'

Tawny opened his mouth, and then closed it again. 'Um?'

'Brucie' smiled at him, 'Oh honey, don't worry, I'm not coming onto you, I'm just asking bout that tall, dark and handsome one over there. The one who looks like he's been crying...'

'Uhhhh.' Said Tawny, 'Well, uh, Bruce.'

He was cut off here, 'It's Brucie, honey.'

'Well, uh, Brucie,' said Tawny, ' Um, my friend, in the car, he has a girlfriend.'

Bruce looked shocked. 'Oh. But.' He stammered, 'But. I was so sure. Oh.'

Tawny looked at him with sympathy, 'Look. I'm sorry. Really I am. And don't worry, other people have thought that about him too.'

Bruce shuffled away, looking incredibly disappointed, and Tawny headed towards the snack isle.

Ten minutes and $43 later, Tawny exited the store with 3 full bags of snack food, to find Brucie sitting on the curb, crying.

'Oh dear lord,' he murmured, and started edging away. Slowly, so that Brucie wouldn't hear him, Tawny backed back into the gas station store, and went up to the counter.

'Uhhhh. I don't suppose you have a, uh, back door do you?'

Five minutes later, after climbing out the restroom window, extracting himself from the dumpster, which luckily looked like it had been emptied that morning, and scaling the wire fence with a bag in his mouth and a few over his arms, he arrived at the car.

While he'd been in the shop, Syl, Jondy, Lex and Rai had arrived, and were now sitting in the back of the van, attempting to play with Moxie, who was apparently, much more interested in sleeping.

After dividing the junk food between the two cars, ( an idea that Trey was fully against, and spent a full 20 minutes grumbling about) they all set off.

Half an hour later, Krit turned around, and then said, 'Hey! The girls took Moxie with 'em!'

'Really?' questioned Zane. 'OK. Maybe we should ring Jondy on her cell, just to check.'

'Nah.' Said Tawny. 'If they didn't have her, they'd ring us.'

'How,' asked Trey, 'Does THAT make sense? I mean, why would they ring us? Wouldn't they just assume we had her?'

'Well' said Krit, 'I don't care. As long as she isn't following me.' And he opened his bag of jelly worms.

'You know,' said Tawny, with a sly grin on his face, 'There was this movie I watched last week with Lex, called Saving Private Ryan. It's a pre-pulse movie. And anyway, there's this one scene, where this guy gets like totally mutilated by a grenade,...'

Krit scowled, 'NOT, ' he stated, 'while I'm eating!'

Tawny grinned, 'And yeah, so he's like lying on the beach. And he's alive, right. But his guts are like sitting on the sand next to him... kinda,' he said turning to look at Krit, 'Like jelly worms.'

'Oh ew!' said Krit. 'I'm done with these.'

Tawny grinned, 'Pass 'em up here!'