Hey guys, here's chapter two of A Tale of Two Cities. Oh and here are some other things, if they don't apply to you, than feel free to blow them off and skip to the chapter.
KittyRBD: Damn, WHY CAN'T I SEE LSTN (Okay, rage under control), yeah, see, I live in America, so here they haven't released a few JN episodes yet, WHY, WHY (Okay rage mostly under control). Anyway, if it was me (James) who you mentioned on your profile, you're my friend, and I know Romeo and Juliet is so over-used, but I'm seem to have temporarily forgotten most plays I know by reading three Charles Dickens' books in a row (Hence this story name). Anyway, I'll think of something, you could always make your own play, you know; distort West Side Story or something.
Disclaimer: I do not own Jimmy Neutron or any related characters, I also do not own any literature titles, the name of my fic, or any song titles or lyrics I may include. I think that covers it. "I'll just have my mom's lawyer look them over to make sure I'm not obligated to pursue a relationship (Stamps valentine PENDING)" – Cindy Vortex (Just a little legal quote there)
A/N: This chapter is dedicated to KittyRBD in honor of her great story ideas and Camp Danger. Also there will be a Latin phrase in this chapter as well. The person to guess last phrase fastest was Acosta perez jose Ramiro, congratulations (is reminded to get to the chapter by random person).
Vacation
Vacation, all I ever wanted
Vacation, got to get away
"Sheen could you change the station." Jimmy yelled over the sound of his laser blowtorch as he fine-tuned the RV's slush-hydrogen, rocket engines (Yeah they can fly in space too, that would be totally wicked).
"Oh, sorry." Sheen yelled back, changing the radio station as he sat idly in the seat next to the driver's seat feet propped up on the dashboard as he waited for Jimmy to finish with the engine so they could go.
Moving forward using all my breath
Making love to you was never second best
I've seen the world thrashing all around your face
Never really comprehending it was all mesh and lace
I'll stop the world and melt with you
I've seen the difference, and it's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I wont do
I'll stop the world and melt with
"Change it!" Cindy and Libby said in unison
Fate fell short this time, smile face in the summer
Put your hand in mine I'll leave when I wanna
"Okay, I know." Sheen said quickly as Libby opened her mouth
I saw your face
In a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
'Cause I'll never be with you
"Hey, that's James Blunt." Jimmy said in recognition.
"Yeah its…HEY, how do you know that?" Libby asked accusingly.
Jimmy grinned sheepishly and answered by returning to his engine.
She could tell from my face
That I was, fucking high
And I'll never see her again, but we shared a moment that will last to the end
You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You're beautiful it's true
"Okay, done." Jimmy said triumphantly, Libby and Cindy looked up and Sheen immediately switched off the radio and hopped Through The Window, it wasn't even that big. Carl woke up from where he had been sleeping for the past 20 minutes.
"Onward me amigos, CHARGE!" Sheen yelled, waving a pole like a sword.
"Wait a minute Sheen." Jimmy said, grabbing Sheen's pole and halting him in his tracks.
"Okay, without charging let's get inside and put our stuff away."
"Fine, take the fun out of everything…SHOTGUN!" Sheen muttered and then broke into a yell that made Jimmy drop the bag he had been holding as he looked at Sheen who was unfortunately less that a foot away.
He immediately grabbed his bags, rushed in and grabbed the bed in the same small sleeping area on the top floor as Jimmy's and promptly began taking stuff out of his hypercube-bag and setting it up in the small room they also shared with Carl. He put his Ultra-lord blankets on the bed, threw his clothes in a drawer and filled the other drawers with stuff he had packed. The next thing on his list was to finish bring in a small mini-fridge he had gotten from Jimmy that year as a gift, it also employed hypercube-technology and was filled with completely snacks and soda. He then dashed down the stairs, grabbed a Flurp and picked up his queen's bags. All of this happened so fast the others had just gotten in.
"Umm, Sheen, I don't want to know how you did all of that, THAT fast." Jimmy said. Cindy and Libby put their stuff in the other small bedroom on the second floor, and came back down. Jimmy led them all on a tour starting on the top floor.
"Okay this is a BIG RV, so keep that in mind. Here is my, Sheen and Carl's room, here is Cindy and Libby's room, here is the movie room, he led them into the third room upstairs which consisted of a big-screen TV Jimmy had built by hand and a couch with a loveseat. Here's the bathroom, he showed them the final upstairs room and led them back into the movie room and down the ladder into the kitchen, which contained a food synthesizer, which instantly cooked/nuked/prepared food, a fridge/freezer that was fully stocked, a sink, and dishes and cups in a small dishwashing cuboard. Sheen opened up the other food cuboard, pulled out some microwave popcorn and put it in the synthesizer, two seconds later it was cooked. "COOL!" Sheen declared, pulling out the popcorn and opening it to snack. Jimmy grinned and continued, the kitchen also, of course, had no wall and had the table off to the side. He showed them a cuboard with board and card games, as well as one with five Neutron-laptops. He continued to the two couches facing each other that they could hang out by, with a small table in the middle. (The downstairs is one big room) and finally he showed the driver's seat and dashboard with no dials, simply a large touch-screen, and the controls in the way of, a steering wheel that worked for flying, pedals for driving, what appeared to be a stick-shift, but was in a flat crack and was the space-accelaration handle. As well as other controls for light-speed excetera…Cindy was named co-pilot and Jimmy Pilot. Sheen compensated for the loss of his shotgun position with another soda, munching on popcorn. Car; asked if there were airbags on his RV and was reassured. Tentatively Jimmy showed them the locked, hidden weapons locker, which was built into the wall and was only to be used in emergencies. Sheen looked at the laser-guns for a while before Jimmy told him to stop, actually he ran into him by accident, carrying some food his mom had given him for his trip clearly being as nice as possible to compensate for making them move he thought resentfully.
"I'll be right back, I just have to get one more thing from my room." He called over his shoulder as, after putting the food away he walked out of the RV.
"Oh, I forgot something upstairs." Cindy said smacking her forehead. She grinned inwardly, she had always been a pretty good actor when called upon.
Jimmy walked over to the teleporter and stepped inside, hitting the key marked My Room and materializing in his closet. He stepped out and sat on his bed, holding his head in his hands.
"Jimmy." He heard Cindy's voice say from his doorway. She walked over and sat next to him, looking at his face and saw it looking surprisingly blank.
Jimmy's composure faded a little and sadness showed in his eyes. "Oh, sorry, it's just that I can't bear having to move, and I don't know what to do. This has never happened, something I can't fix, a problem I can't correct, I just don't know what to do…" He said softly,
"It's okay. You can't fix everything. We'll think of something, I'll always love you, and after high school, we can go to college together, we'll think of something." She said consolingly, lifting his head and kissing him like there was no tomorrow, and for a moment, just a moment, the universe stood still and there was nothing except for the fact that they were truly in love. He embraced her tightly in his powerful arms and she knew that he would protect her, that no matter what happened he would always love her and she would always love him.
As they slowly broke apart she joked "So, what was it you had to get, or was that a lie." Wearing an expression of mock horror at the thought.
"I don't know, what was it you had to get?" He replied jokingly.
She murmured into his ear as they stood up to return to the beginning of an adventure. "You." And he grinned at her words.
"Well, you succeeded." And his soft lips touched hers for another short, loving kiss as they walked back down to his lab.
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know, what a you can't find, why don't you come with me little girl, on a magic carpet ride.
Jimmy walked back in and sat down in the pilot's chair, he punched in a code on the touchpad and the RV's dashboard and heads-up windshield powered up, lighting with displays, speedometers, and gauges. He switched what appeared to be gears with what appeared to be a stick-shift clutch, by moving it sideways and the rocket engines roared to life, humming, the thrust not engaged and Jimmy flashed his beautiful co-pilot a rogueish grin as he shouted over his shoulder, "Atomic reactor to power, thrusters to speed, and,"
"KICK IT HOMIE!" Sheen yelled back, grinning, and jumping up before being flattened to his seat by g-force in takeoff, then the compensators kicked in and he started singing. The others, smiling with nostalgia of their youth let him sing two full renditions of the Ultralord theme song before Carl belted out We're spies.
Jimmy, still smiling reflected that he would never've made it without Carl and Sheen, his two best friends and reiterated his vow that he would never leave them or Cindy, or even Libby, who he had gotten to know better once they got into middle school and now high school.
Sheen yelled over Carl. "Okay, that's enough!" and passed around champagne style glasses he had found who knows where and filled them with soda. "ATTENTION. I would like to have a toast, To Friendship, and To Us." He said uncharacteristically serious.
"To friendship and to us." They repeated, toasting and emptying their glasses.
Sheen cracked a secretive grin, and moments later Cindy and Libby started burping sporadically. Jimmy and Carl cracked up, grinning at how, at heart, they were all their same old selves. Cindy threw a handful of popcorn, from Sheen's bowl on the table at him and they all smiled as they threw popcorn around, glad to have the chance to be kids again sometimes and just have fun.
"Hyper-drive online." The onboard computer said.
"Carl, like to do the honors?" Jimmy asked, making a mock bow from the captain's chair.
"Okay, full speed ahead!" Carl declared and the RV responded by using a device of Jimmy's to open a specified wormhole in the time-space continunuum and the ship accelerated into it. As the ship traveled through the wormhole, Jimmy yawned.
"Well, I'm tired, there's no piloting to be done now, so why don't we go watch a movie?" Jimmy suggested and they all followed Sheen, who was sprinting to the movie area.
"Shall we?" Jimmy asked Cindy, making a bow and kissing her hand. She laughed and he stood up, kissing her soft lips this time. Her lips opened to allow his tongue entry and they stood locked in a passionate kiss.
"Cind', Jimmy, you guys comin'?" Libby called from upstairs.
"Ah well, after you." Jimmy said, grinning.
He followed her through the kitchen area, where Jimmy saw with a smile, the burping soda cans Sheen had undoubtedly found in his lab and picked one up, seeing it plain purple, he used his watch to carve the Flurp symbol on it and grinned. Payback.
As Jimmy emerged last from the ladder he saw Carl sitting on one end of the couch, Libby and Sheen kissing on the other, Jimmy smiled at this sight and went over to an area on the other side of the room. As he made some popcorn he asked over his shoulder, "What do you guys wanta see, there's The Island, IRobot, The Constant Gardener, MI-1 and 2, Miracle as well as Lord of War and The Notebook." He told them throwing said movies onto the table (Yeah, my favorite movies of this selection are totally Lord of War, The Island and Miracle, I play hockey so I like Miracle for that reason, so I made certain characters like them too).
Sheen was all for Lord of War and Libby liked Miracle, Jimmy supported The Island wholeheartedly, but Cindy was in favor of Miracle. Carl, wanted to watch The Constant Gardener or the MI movies, he thought The Constant Gardener was about a gardener (In case you didn't know THAT'S NOT THE STORY AT ALL, okay, sorry about that.) After a long argument no compromise was made so they decided to have a movie marathon and watch all of them except for MI-1 and 2 and irobot as they were nobody's all out favorites.
After Miracle, Jimmy decided to try out his trick. He stood up and went over to the fridge to get sodas, as he pulled out a six pack of Flurp, he also pulled out an empty 2-liter bottle which he filled with the burping soda can he had found downstairs and some more that were in the fridge. As he threw a can to everyone else and Sheen looked outraged he gave him (Sheen) the large bottle. Sheen, being Sheen instantly opened it, poured some into a glass and had a chugging contest with Carl, Carl won, and to prove his "Skills" he chugged the whole bottle in one swallow. A moment later he ran outside and the heard an enormous burp worthy of Carl's superhero self outside. He came back in and pointed an accusing now empty bottle of soda at Jimmy, who was rolling around laughing, a he threw the bottle at him and started Lord of War.
Halfway through, Sheen left and returned two minutes later with a pizza on a platter. He picked up a piece and threw it at Jimmy who retaliated by hitting it with his laser watch.
Later that night, after The Notebook, during which everybody kept on asking Jimmy why on earth he had a copy of this movie and he repeatedly changed the subject, Jimmy walked into the room he shared with Sheen and Carl.
"Long make out session?" Sheen asked in a mock-serious voice, "You know what I think about pre-marital kissing, how inappropriate." He rolled around laughing and got a pillow in the face from Jimmy.
"Guys, I told you that my parents are trying to make us move. But I won't let them, I won't be able to graduate from some high school in New York. I've been looking forward to graduation and the prom since I was in third grade, and every time I imagine it, I can't imagine graduating without you guys. They can't make me leave, I'll never leave you guys, we'll be friends forever. Sheen and Carl smiled, and repeated "Forever." In a near scream that must've been heard all around the RV. Jimmy smiled as he watched his best friends and thought to himself I can't loose that, I can't. With this thought in mind Jimmy fell asleep.
Two seconds later he was dreaming, it was cold, very cold, but space was cold. Space is cold and wet. Wait a minute, space isn't wet. From what seemed to Jimmy miles away he heard Sheen's faint voice "Darn it, Carl, we need more ice water."
"SHEEN!" He screamed. Sheen grinned at him, holding a bucket. Next thing he knew he was being dragged by Sheen, assisted by an already exhausted Carl to the movie area.
"C'mon Carl, hurry up! We haven't even started on the godfather trilogy, time is money!" He cried theatrically. Jimmy groaned and thought same old Sheen, same old Sheen.
Jimmy was exhausted, but had to smile as Sheen bounced up and down. He resigned himself to his fate thinking, he was supposed to on a vacation of sorts.
Hours later, Jimmy, looked around, he saw that even Sheen had fallen asleep, he turned down the volume and walked out of the room. He saw Cindy, walking toward him. "Can't sleep?" Jimmy asked.
"Nope, keep on hearing gunshots and voices, you?" She replied.
"Oh, that would be Sheen's fault. He wakes me up by dumping water on my head and forced me to watch all of the Godfather movies, Zorro and The Last Samurai, in a row." He told her. She silenced him with a kiss. He replied by deepening it, they fell on to the futon in Jimmy, Sheen and Carl's room. They kissed passionately, Jimmy felt the nape of her neck and began kissing down it. She fell on him, kissing passionately again and again. He gave in easily and kissed her passionately, his tongue battling hers. She ripped off his shirt, he lifted his lips from hers as she threw off her shirt. They kissed passionately and boxers, a bra and Cindy's underwear fell to the floor as their kissing made way for something much, much more.
A/N: Yeah, how'd you like that chapter. Go Jimmy and Cindy. (Look if anyone didn't get the not-so-subtle hint, they had sex so…) Anyways, I hope you like reading this chapter as much as I liked writing it, tell me what you thought. R+R