Chance

What happens when the NIH gets hit with prank fever? Find out here!

A/N: Syd here...now it starts getting personal...more laughs hopefully funnier quotes in our fans' point of view...Guys are so going down! Aren't they? We know...but you don't. Being a writer is great. Very small reference to attached, that is all it is... nothing more. Can't be ruining this story with things from my others.

Disclaimer: If the show was ours then we wouldn't be writing this...it would so be a two part episode! Not ours...pranks are though. Got to love that fact.

Chapter 6: Revenge is Best Served... Mauve?

Natalie was still laughing at her last prank. The large 'L' was still on Stephen's forehead., as was the goatee on his chin. The mustache however was gone, not even a small line remained. Stephen had tried to keep out of view from the team...after his prank on Eva he knew he would be praying for mercy anytime soon. The glares and gleams in both Natalie and Eva's eyes proved this.

Eva had to get them back...had to. She still itched, and Natalie refused to give her anymore of the itch reliever. Natalie didn't want Eva getting addicted, or worse... Natalie wasn't even going to think about it. That was far in the past, well not that far... but Natalie wished it was.

The two were sitting at the conference table, eyes on the door. It was well after shift, but they still weren't ready to take the chance. Pranks are deadly to the givers when the receivers know what is going to happen. Frank had gone home early, probably after he had seen the two women laughing over a rather good idea. He obviously still didn't feel too good about the whole prank war idea.

Natalie was thinking deeply.

"What could embarrass them so much that they would want to die? What could we do that would be hard for them to undo? I don't want to pull Kate into this again. She was good about the last prank but I don't know how much more she will be able to take." She asked aloud.

Eva nodded.

"Yeah, you're right. I've been thinking though. The guys bring spare clothes right?" She inquired.

She didn't know what to do with the spare clothes if they had any, but she knew that they could do something. Something amazing.

"I think they do. Well Stephen does at least... He is probably afraid right now that we would do something to the originals so a back up would be great for him. Have any ideas what we could do with them?" Natalie replied.

"No." Eva said flatly.

Both sat there again in silence. A long silence. A silence so filled with silence that Natalie was going insane. Well, more then she already was.

"What is Miles' least favorite color?" Natalie asked.

Eva knitted her brows and frowned.

"I think it's purple. What's Stephens?" Eva replied.

Natalie smiled.

"Mauve." She said, still grinning widely.

Her half of the plan was already forming, as was Eva's. This was going to be better then they thought. A lot better.

Eva snuck successfully into the men's locker room. It took her awhile but she found Miles' locker. She had gotten the combo from the nurse at the front desk, making some excuse that Miles had forgotten it and needed it. The nurse had looked at her skeptically and muttered something that sounded like "that boy always forgets it, maybe I should write it on his forehead." Sadly the nurse had said it while Stephen was walking by, causing both women to cringe at the death glare he sent their way. Eva received Miles' combo quickly, the nurse threw in Stephen's without complaint.

Eva opened the locker and was surprised to see that it was rather clean. He spare clothes were folded and set on the upper shelf, practically saying "Steal me steal me." At least they were washed. Eva made it to Stephen with the same results, a folded pile of clothes on the upper shelf.

After shoving them into the bag, Eva ran out of the locker room into the women's locker room, where Natalie would be waiting for her.

Natalie was there alright. It her hands she held a large thing of dark Mauve dye. Eva snickered and nodded.

"I got the clothes. And lucky us...they packed extra boxers, we can pull out my half of the plan as well." Eva said evilly.

Natalie smiled and pointed to the back of the locker room.

"Let's go to the showers... I've set up a makeshift tub in there so we can dye the clothes." Natalie explained.

She was already making her way over there, in less of a hurry then Eva was. Natalie didn't fear much right now. No man in there right mind would enter the girls locker room. If you are thinking, well hey, Stephen went in there in the third chapter, then don't... Like I said; right mind. He wasn't in his right mind then, but he was now.

Both women laughed as they dumped the items into the tub... Life was good.

Life was bad, Stephen was still trying to get the permanent marker off of his face... His face! Why did Natalie have to put it there? She was vicious, that's why. Natalie was a vicious woman with a compassionate front. Stephen was afraid of her, he was afraid of Eva... Hell right now he was even afraid of Kate.

So when he saw Eva and Natalie practically prancing down the hall, his stomach flipped. They looked happy. Too happy. Happy and smug. He felt unhappy and paranoid. What a wonderful mix of feelings, it leaves one feeling vulnerable and the damn permanent marker was not helping much.

"Ladies," he shouted, catching their attention.

They looked at him and smiled.

"Stephen." Natalie's voice was normal.

Normal is good. No! Normal is bad, normal is the way she was while sitting in front of his desk as he was sitting in superglue. Eva looked happy.

God he was paranoid.

The clothes had been put back easily. Stephen and Miles wouldn't know about them until they actually needed them. The boxers however, Eva kept the boxers. Those would come in handy. Natalie had somehow come up with some liquid heat, their original plan was to use itching powder, but in a way that was duplicating the guys' last prank... That was against the rules. It was just sad that the guys had beat them to it.

It was early the next morning and both Stephen and Miles were sitting in the coffee room, not suspecting a thing. Well, not suspecting a thing right then. Both Natalie and Eva crept up behind them silently a large cup of liquid heat in both of their right hands. Before the others knew what was coming, the liquid heat was slowly moving down their backs.

Miles jumped up with a cry and started squeaking, Stephen was nearly on the same route but looked as if he were dancing, neither man reacted fast enough. The liquid heat made it to their pants. Miles and Stephen were out of the room with more speed then they could account for.

Natalie and Eva were left in a fit of laughter. They had to hurry, though, the guys would be done changing in a matter of minutes. That was all the time they had to do Eva's half.

They were out in the parking lot seconds later. The flag pole was their destination. Eva carried the mauve boxers and Natalie carried the rather large banner. When they made it to the pole Natalie strung the banner to the string, and Eva followed, stringing the boxers up underneath it.

As the banner (which said "Property of Stephen Connor and Miles McCabe" and had a large arrow pointing to the boxers) and the boxers rippled in the breeze, Eva saluted

"I pledge allegiance,"

Natalie whose hand was to her heart, cut Eva off.

"To the boxers,"

"Who served these fair men well!" Both women finished.

No sooner had they finished when Stephen and Miles came rushing through the front doors, in their new mauve attire. They were both furiously yelling death threats. Eva and Natalie looked at each other, screamed and ran to their cars, locking them securely after they climbed in.

The guys gave up trying to get them after a while and went back to the flagpole where they proceeded to try to bring down the boxers. The only problem was…

They couldn't!

Natalie pulled out her phone and dialed Eva's number, when Eva picked up Natalie started laughing, she was soon joined in by Eva. This was GREAT!

Stephen and Miles stood next to Kate, who was looking at them with a raised brow.

"What happened to you two?" She asked sarcastically.

Stephen groaned.

"That's why we're here. Natalie and Eva have dyed our clothes and are currently letting our boxers fly in the breeze on the flagpole out front." Stephen complained.

Miles nodded and looked down at his clothes. If Stephen had hated mauve before then he really hated it now. Kate looked at them and smiled.

"Eva and Natalie did this?" Kate queried.

Stephen nodded.

"Yes." He replied.

Kate grinned.

"Well then, I guess two promotions and two pay raises are in order. Too bad they didn't use pink, then I might have even given them extra vacation hours," Kate laughed.

Miles was obviously slow to realize what she had said.

"Good! Wait. WHAT!" He shouted incredulously.

"You heard me McCabe, stop crying Connor and get back to work! And you're not to go home. This was a long time coming!" Kate said triumphantly.

Both men's jaws dropped...

Well, that sucked.

Girls: 3 Guys: 2 (Not so even now, eh?)

A.N.: Hey guys! Yup, another chapter already! Sydney is much better at staying on top of this than I am. I hope you like it! Please review! –Sydney and Julia-