What Goes Bump In the Night
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Disclaimer - Relic Hunter and its characters are not mine, I'm not sure who owns them but it's not me so don't sue! Lol
Dedications - Well I always thought that dedications were sorta cheesy but here I am contradicting myself. I guess I dedicate this story to Aryea, you write the best stories you are my idol when it comes to fanfic.
Authors Notes - Sorry guys this chapter is probubly boring but chapter 3 and on will be 500 better I promise chapter one and two are just setting up the story. This will be a SydneyNigel story but things might not go great all the time.
PS: sorry if my spelling and stuff is bad I'm using my new laptop and haven't set up Word yet so I'm using WordPad or note pad :S I don't know it's the crappy one in accessories.
Chapter Two - Speed Shopping and French Chinese Food
Sydney peered out through a small crack in her closed office blinds trying find to Nigel as he came through the University's courtyard leading to the Ancient Studies Building. She and Karen had turned off all the lights in their office and locked the door so Nigel would think they weren't there. It was a nice spring day outside and there were tons of students outside making it extra hard to spot her assistant.
"Is he here yet?" Karen asked letting herself into Sydney's office.
"No I don't think so, there's so many students outside I can't see the path clearly." Sydney said "at least we'll be able to hear him when he unlocks the door."
"I'm not leaving it to that much of a chance Sydney" Karen said reaching for he purse on her desk. "I can fix this in about thirty seconds"
Sydney was puzzled she wasn't quite sure if this was a good thing or not. "What are you doing Karen?" she asked quickly to her young assistant who was now typing away on her cell phone.
"Giving us a visual signal of when Nigel gets here" she said as she pushed the send button on the cell phone and throwing it back on the desk.
Sydney was still puzzled
"I just sent a text message to my friends out there and told them to pass it on" Karen said looking innocent
"What did the message say Karen?" Sydney asked
"Oh just that Nigel was coming soon and that it was his birthday" Karen said looking away from Sydney
"And" Sydney said she wondered what Karen could say that would tell them when Nigel was coming.
"Oh well I told them to pass it on to all the girls they know and I mean, what would a birthday be without a few birthday kisses?" she said looking down to hide her smile.
Sydney was speechless; she looked out the window again to see the courtyard had just doubled its female occupancy.
Nigel bailey jumped out of the cab as it pulled up to the campus throwing a ten dollar bill at the driver not waiting for change. If he didn't hurry he would be late, hopefully Sydney would let him off the hook because it was is birthday, but it was rude to be late and the English in him forced him to bolt from the car and start jogging towards his office. He slowed down just as he came around the corner into the courtyard. After a deep breath he looked up he had never seen the courtyard so busy. He calmly started to walk towards the crowd that was in his way of getting inside. As he got closer a few girls looked up at him and started saying something to others nothing out of the normal until 75 percent of them looked at him. He looked down at his clothes, they were neat and tidy. Ran his hand through his hair none was sticking up. He looked around him no one was behind him. He looked back at the group of girls in front of him and gulped.
Sydney watched as the path cleared and all the students went into one humongous group. As she looked to the side, she saw him. He slowly walked down the path as he did everyday, she knew because she watched him walk down the path everyday from her office. She laughed silently as a few girls noticed him and he thought he had something on his clothes or in his hair. He was always nervous around females especially the female students. She stopped though as she saw the group of girls swarm around him. It was no longer funny, she could feel her skin getting hotter, and she dug her nails into the window sill why was she angry? Why was she jealous? He was her assistant, not her boyfriend she shook the thought away as she turned around and left her small office. "
"He's here" she called to Karen as she hid behind his desk.
Nigel was frozen on the spot as the girls swarmed around him. All he could here was "Happy birthday Nigel!" as he was smothered in kisses from the University students. Then his feet kicked in as he tried to push his way through the crowd as he rushed for the doors. He ran as fast as he could and when he got through the doors he felt a little safer they couldn't attack he in the building because they could get in trouble if a teacher caught them. He sighed as he walked towards the Ancient Studies office. He reached for the doorknob and found it was locked, and the lights weren't on. He sighed as he pulled out his keys. It looks like I'm not the only one who slept in today he thought to himself.
He walked into the office not even turning on the lights as he walked over to his desk, he put his bag down and nearly jumped out of his skin when Sydney popped out from underneath his desk and yelled "SURPRISE!". Karen jumped out of the closet and turned on the lights.
"Happy Birthday Nigel" Sydney and Karen said in unison. He looked up and noticed that their office was decorated to the fullest extent
"Thank you guys, but you really didn't have to do this" he said giving them both a hug.
Sydney hugged him a little tighter than usual but he didn't think anything of it.
"Oh Nigel what happened?" Sydney asked looking at her lipstick covered assistants face. She knew what had happened but he didn't have to know that she did.
"Oh some of the female students found out it were my birthday." he said looking away so she couldn't see he was embarrassed.
"Speaking of students don't you two have a class to teach?" Karen asked as she grabbed Sydney's lesson for her as she went back to her desk.
"Oh I almost forgot" Sydney said accepting the lesson "common Nigel, just because it's your birthday doesn't mean you don't have to work."
"Coming Mum" he said following Sydney out of the office with a laugh.
The lesson had gone great, they had taught about Cleopatra, a pretty well known topic but they had gone into some unknown parts of Cleopatra's history.
"So Nigel, Karen booked us all a reservation at Le Chinnois so is it all right if we drop you of at home to get ready, Karen and I have a few errands to do before lunch" Sydney said
"Sure that would be great I wouldn't feel right going to a restaurant like this" he said glancing down at his clothes. They had become slightly ruffled since he was attacked in the morning.
"Great I'll pick you up around 1:30 then" Sydney said that would give her lots of time to buy a present and help Karen buy one too.
Sydney and Karen dropped Nigel off at his apartment building at 11:30 am.
"I said we would pick him up around 1:30 that should give us lots of time" she said smiling at Karen quickly then looking back at the road.
If there was one thing Sydney Fox was good at that didn't have to do with teaching or a relic it would be shopping.
"There's this cute little store that I passed one day last week we should look there' Karen said as she counted her money.
"What did it sell" Sydney asked
"Antiques and old book mostly stuff that Nigel would like and its one street away from the mall so if we don't find anything we can head there." Karen said
"Great" Sydney said as she turned the comer towards the mall.
5 minutes later they had arrived at the old little store.
They were greeted by an old lady behind the cash register.
Sydney and Karen split up so they could search quicker. Sydney walked towards the humongous shelf of old books. It was amazing the books were all beautiful with colored leather outsides with gold patterns on there spines and covers. She glanced over all the titles. Famous books such as Moby Dick, and Treasure Island. She was sure that Nigel had read all of these books at one time or another. In the corner of her eye she saw another bookshelf one that she hadn't noticed before it was smaller and older and the books were covered in dust. She wiped the dust of the spines of the books as if they were relics. These books were much older and weren't in great condition.
"Miss?" Sydney was startled when she turned around to find the old lady who owned the shop calling her.
"Yes" she said in reply to the woman
"Miss I can't help but being nosy but wouldn't you prefer one of the books over there?" she pointed over to the beautiful books Sydney had already looked at.
"Oh sorry I didn't know these weren't for sale I just thought they were older." Sydney said as she walked over to the old lady.
"They are for sale miss but nobody ever wants them" The old lady said "you can help yourself but be careful some are not in very good condition"
"Oh thank you" Sydney said eagerly retuning back to the old books.
The books were mostly legends, and fairy tales, but there were some history books. She crouched down to see the books on the bottom shelf and a small black one caught her
Eye.
She pulled it out and blew off the dust carefully. It had a plain black leather cover with a leather string attached at its spine, it actually looked like the leather tie around her neck but this one was used to keep the book closed sort of like an old diary. She sat down on the floor and carefully opened the book to the first page. St. Gabriel the Brave was the title of the book. Sydney smiled at her luck. Nigel's father had told him about St. Gabriel when he was a child and they had found his sword in the stone earlier this year. This was the perfect gift for Nigel. She hurried over to the cash register and bought the book. It was a good thing Karen hadn't noticed. Oh yeah Karen, Sydney thought to herself I'm supposed to help Karen pick out a gift for Nigel. She looked around the store and spotted her assistant looking at some antiques on a table.
"Hey Karen have you found anything yet" Sydney asked as she walked towards her friend.
"Yeah maybe what about this" she said pointing out an old picture frame she knew that Nigel wouldn't want it but she had to make it look like she hadn't picked anything yet.
"MMMM I don't think so Karen" Sydney said too thrilled with her find to notice it was a charade.
"What about this then" Karen said as she walked over to another table and picked up and antique pen set.
"nooo he uses his laptop remember" Sydney said not fully paying attention
"Ohh what about this" she said rushing over to the item she really wanted to buy.
"What is it?" Sydney said meeting her assistant at the other table
It was a fairly large wooden box that was beautifully engraved and had amber stones placed in as a pattern.
"He could put his laptop in it when you guys go on hunts so it's protected" she said as she opened the hinged lid.
"Your right it would fit perfectly" Sydney said
"It's decided then" Karen said as she walked over to the cash register.
"Thanks for helping me pick out a gift Sydney" Karen said as they both got into Sydney's black jeep.
"No problem Karen" Sydney said "Hey we still have an hour to shop before we pick up Nigel want to hit the mall quickly?"
"Sure" Karen said she would never pass up an opportunity to go to the mall.
They only had so much time so Sydney and Karen were doing what they did best speed shopping.
They dropped into a few stores but spent the most time in Le Chateau and Costa Blanca, and Aldo. Karen picked out a cute but casual pink dress from Le Chateau it was a wrap around style dress which tied at the waist and had a plunging neckline it was quite pretty as it had a small cut out pattern at the bottom and around the bottom of the 3/4 sleeves. She also got matching pink high heeled sandals from aldo. Sydney had bought a skirt and shirt combo from Costa Blanca. The Skirt was black and ended just before her knee and the shirt was also black. It had 3/4 sleeves and a plunging neckline it was casual but she would be able to wear it to work again so she bought it. She also bought a pair of black High healed sandals from aldo. She looked at her watch they had 15 minutes left till they had to pick up Nigel.
"Common Karen we got to go now" she said pulling her friend out of the mall with her as if they were running away from armed gunmen. They leaped into Sydney's jeep before they took a breath.
"You can change at my house" Sydney said as she speed out of the mall parking lot and into a more suburban area.
They pulled into Sydney's driveway about two minutes later. They jumped out of the car and Sydney dashed for the door. Karen stood there for a moment taking in her surroundings she had never been to Sydney's house before. She thought it was quite beautiful actually much better then her small apartment near Campus. It was a red brick town house with a small porch. Sydney took great care of a little garden out front considering she was almost never there. There was a small tree and a garden filled with roses and other flowers. Karen shook herself out of her thoughts when she heard Sydney's door open and followed her inside.
"Don't bother taking off your shoes you can change in the guestroom its upstairs on your right" she heard Sydney say as she had disappeared upstairs.
"Okay" she called out as she hurried up the stairs. She found the guest room quickly and started to change. When she was done she sat downstairs in Sydney's living room admiring the gift she had bought for Nigel. Her plan had gone off without a hitch and she had saved Nigel's birthday.
Sydney ran into her room quickly after telling Karen to change in the guest room. She quickly changed and brushed her hair and then grabbed some wrapping paper from her closet. She had to make it look like she had already bought and wrapped Nigel's present along time ago so she would have to make do. She grabbed some cosmetic scissors and tape from her drawer and wrapped the book quickly but carefully so she would not ruin the delicate old book.
"Here" she said throwing the roll of wrapping paper at Karen from the bottom of the stairs and the quickly grabbed some real scissors and tape from her kitchen.
"Thanks" Karen said as she accepted all the items and started to wrap Nigel's present.
"Your house is beautiful syd" she said as she handed back the stuff"
"Thanks" Sydney said as she left the stuff on the kitchen table "Let's go"
They arrived at Nigel's apartment building with one minute to spare. Nigel spotted them and got in the back of the car "Hello Sydney, Hello Karen" he said greeting them with a smile "so where are we going I forget?"
"You're in for a treat Nigel" Sydney said "Karen got us reservations at Le Chinnois"
"Great that's my favorite!" Nigel replied "thanks Karen"
"You're welcome Nigel" Karen said as they drove towards the restaurant.
"You know I can't quite understand why the French can make such good Chinese food" Nigel said after finishing his sesame chicken
"Yeah I don't know maybe you should ask the waitress" Sydney said with a giggle
Nigel blushed as their waitress winked at him as she walked by.
"Oh Nigel you should open your gifts now" Karen said excitedly as she reached into her purse and handed him the large package.
"Oh I couldn't your not done yet" he said to Karen as he set the present down on the table
"Oh I'm full I'll get them to put it away for me, now open you gift" she said
"If you insist" Nigel replied as he started to open the package.
"Oh Karen it's beautiful" he said when he revealed the gift
"I thought you could put your laptop in it when your guys go on hunts, it will help protect it see?" Karen replied happily knowing he liked the gift showing him the inside of the box.
"This is great my Laptop will fit just perfectly" he said as he got up and hugged Karen "thank you I love it"
"Here mine next" Sydney said passing him the present when he sat down again
"Be careful it's really delicate" she said as he started to open it
Nigel carefully opened the wrapping paper around the book. It looked like an old diary. He looked up at her puzzled and she was staring back at him smiling
"Nigel you actually have to open the book to see what it is" she said
Nigel looked back down at the old book in his hands and carefully untied the leather tie around it and opened it to the first page.
A small tear welled up in his eye and he blinked it away still staring at the book. She had remembered how much that story had meant to him
"Oh Syd" he said in a quiet whisper Karen could hardly hear it
"I'm going to go to the bathroom" Karen said as she quickly got up from the table, she could tell her friends needed a minute alone.
Sydney did not even look at Karen when she left the table she just continued to stare at Nigel
"You remembered" he said whispered quietly in her ear as he embraced her in a hug.
She felt so comfortable in his arms so warm, so safe "Of course I did I would never forget" she whispered back.
Whoo wow I never thought that writing fanfic was so hard! Sorry I learned from putting up my first chapter to use underlines not stars over the eight button as dividers lol I no I no I'm sorry another boring chapter but I swear on My Life the real story begins in the next chapter
Please read and review and please try and be nice this is my first fanfic.
-Roxy