Chance
Chance favors the prepared mind. Can the NIH team handle each other when an April Fools day prank-a-thon goes larger than life? Please review!
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Chapter 1: Let the Games Begin
Rules:
1. Do nothing that could get someone killed, preferably the person you are pulling the prank on.
2. Do nothing that could get someone fired, preferably the person you are pulling the prank on. If they do get fired, oops.
3. No duplicating pranks.
4. No cheating.
5. All cheaters will suffer.
They are the five rules of April Fools day. Follow them or pay the price, but remember, try to have fun.
It started off as small pranks: salt in coffee, switching important papers with not so important papers and so on. Nothing big, nothing to fume over. Simple pranks; planned out in five minutes, pulled out in five seconds, and laughed at for about a minute. Not much else could be said. Everybody was against everybody else and no one was safe. Things died down pretty fast.
Or so they thought.
Eva didn't know where she got the idea, but she knew that she would need help. She could ask Frank and so she actually did, but he said no. She could ask Miles, but then who would she pull the prank on? Eva could even get desperate enough to ask Stephen, but she wanted to keep her head. So she asked Natalie.
The four words, "Will you help me?" changed everything. April Fools day was back in motion and was spinning faster then ever. Little did they know, it would start out small, the two women pulling a prank on Miles and Stephen, but it would escalate into something much bigger.
They would need flour. Lots and lots of flour. And envelopes. Fake names would come in handy, too, and they needed a bizarre return address. Natalie came up with the perfect plan and it was so simple. Simple, but perfect.
Natalie and Eva would take two envelopes. In the envelopes they would put a small letter. A letter saying something so obscene that the women were surprised they had thought of the words. Along with the letters they would dump flour in the envelopes.
Instead of sending the mail through the post office like good American citizens, Eva would slip the envelopes in Miles' and Stephen's cubby holes just minutes before they would come in to check them.
Natalie and Eva would then proceed to watch in interest, not knowing that they would inadvertently start a Prank War.
It was the perfect crime and no one would be the wiser.
Little did they two women know that the men had their own agendas. They sat in the conference room on either side of the round table. Miles and Stephen had decided that one more prank couldn't hurt. Better yet, they would have the last laugh. They conspired and planned and plotted for almost a half hour before deciding that they should put their plan into motion before April Fools day was over. All they needed was a whoopee cushion and ample timing to strategically place it before the big afternoon press conference. It would be perfect.
At the same time Frank wandered around the NIH building looking for some work to do. It seemed quiet. Too quiet. He looked around and found Natalie talking to Eva and Miles doing the same with Stephen. He didn't want to interrupt any conversations, so he decided to get some coffee. Little did Frank know that he was about to be caught in the crossfire of the biggest prank war the NIH had ever seen. It was going to be a prank war of epic proportions. They would one day be making movies and documentaries about the survivors and Frank would be first in line to give his side of the story. But, as of now, little did he know…
Not even he would be untouched by the crossfire.
No one would be safe once they unleashed the fury.
Now, when you look at the five rules of April Fools day you will see in small, neat handwriting the sixth and final rule, in pen. The cursive is decidedly feminine and puts the final touch on the prank-a-thon constitution.
6. No backing out!
A.N.: Wow! The first chapter of our collective story! Most of this is Sydney's, so most of the compliments should be directed at her. We promise that the next one will be at least a little bit longer. I leave you with this thought: PLEASE! Do NOT try these pranks at home. They are hazardous to your family life as well as national security. Please review! -Sydney and Julia-