Chapter 14: Where Eagles Dare

It's now the next day, and oh goodness, things couldn't be more messy than they are.

Double D was thinking about last night, and although he had sorta tried to get normal with Marie, he couldn't help but wonder if there's a bigger picture to what's happening to Marie that makes her that way that she is. Of course, beating up Eddy, although wrong in Double D's mind, is more understandable. But, the thing that got him thinking was more of how he had never seen Marie act in a way that wasn't her chasing him for 50 trillion miles, or giving him the most lustful affection in existence. That's greatly exaggerated, but to Double D, that is how it felt all the time. But still, Marie to Double D, was a mystery he wanted to understand a bit more of possible.

"Hmm..." he thought to himself, while getting generally prepared to begin his day.

However, a bell basically dings in Double D's head loudly, as he remembered something very important. He had still left Marie's diary at Chris's house and had forgotten during the whole operation yesterday to return it. Double D sprinted to Chris's house in what seems like less than half a microsecond, and hit his doorbell.

"I'm coming! Wait up!" Chris said, inside of his house.

"Oh hey Double D, what's going on?"

"Chris! We have to get Marie her diary back, this instant!"

Chris was not exactly expecting Double D to be speeding at 900 miles per hour into his home, and explaining things at a pace beyond his comprehension.

"Hey dude! Slow the heck down!"

"Chris! If we don't give-"

Double D's random mumbojumbo of information was cut off by Chris, who said,

"JUST SHUT IT! First off, SLOW DOWN. I can't stand it when someone spits out information in a manner that is nearly impossible to understand normally! Second of all, did you forget what occurred yesterday? We have no idea if Marie's still angry!"

"But Chris! We have to return the diary now!"

"Dude, think! If she went all 'Get This' on Eddy for just insulting her, which I'll say right now was really dumb on Eddy's part, HOW DO YOU THINK SHE IS GONNA REACT TO HER DIARY BEING IN MY HANDS OR YOURS!? Do you truly think that she well just be like,"

Chris changes his voice to sound like Marie, before saying,

"Thank you so much sweetie! Let me just love you forever and ever!"

Chris returns to his normal voice before continuing,

"And then proceeds to give you kisses, hugs, and that other stupid stuff!? No! We are not going to do that. Not right now."

"Chris! You cannot seriously think that I'm going to stand here and let Marie's diary not be in her rightful hands! We must do this, NOW!"

Chris, at that point, basically admits defeat and decides to try to think of a plan to return the diary back to Marie. Although, he first had to get Double D to keep quiet for a second in order to think of a basis for a plan.

"SHUT IT! Dude, just shut up, and let me think! Golly..."

Chris thinks for a bit, inhales and then says,

"Okay, because you and I are clearly the only ones capable of doing this, as, well, Ed doesn't fully understand what in the world we are trying to do, and honestly I kinda owe him something in the end. Eddy, okay, let's not even think about him, good lord, his mouth doesn't seem to know when to stop throwing gasoline to the fire, and he's not gonna want to do this anyway. So, since it's just the two of us, I'm going to return the diary, but you're gonna bring Marie out of the trailer, and bring her to your house, and you can just talk to her about 700 million different topics you wanna do. Got it?"

Double D responded to Chris saying, "I appreciate your approach Chris, but my question is how will this be done exactly?"

"Just a second."

Chris ran upstairs and got two earpieces for him and Double D to use.

"Here. These are earpieces. Once you get Marie, I'm gonna talk to you through here, as phones are obviously not gonna work, and neither of us are telepathic. Right? Anyways, I'm gonna talk to you through here okay? BUT! Here's the thing, NEVER respond to me when you are near Marie, as she is gonna catch you very quickly and question what on earth is going on. And you are lucky to be alive after that. So yeah, say you're with Marie, and I say something, I'm not gonna know for obvious reasons, but if you are near Marie, DO NOT SAY ANYTHING responding to me, got that?"

Chris then went outside to test the earpieces, in order to make sure the earpieces didn't run into issues. As an issue with them would be the end of this plan.

"Hey, you hear me?" said Chris through the earpiece.

"Loud and clear, Chris." responded Double D.

"Perfect!" said Chris.

Chris came back from outside and back into the living room, and said,

"It seems as though we are now prepared to do this!"

Double D, however, didn't exactly feel 100% prepared for what was going to happen, as he had a question that was important to the plan, which he ends up asking Chris.

"Chris, can we stop for a moment?"

"Oh? What's up?"

"Am I supposed to automatically know what to talk about with Marie? Suggestions?"

Chris responded with, "Just use anything you have in your mind. After all, I can tell Marie is really into you." He laughs a bit before continuing, "But seriously though, it's mostly up to you, just avoid any romance stuff, and you should be 100% fine."

Double D got curious as to why Chris was specific about the whole romance thing. "May I ask why?"

"Double D, if you know the difference between obsession and compassion, this should be something easy to understand. Marie is the former. Look, I won't say she is always gonna be like that, but for now? Don't give her any ideas, stay safe. Okay?"

Double D understood his point, but he couldn't help but feel like Chris was being unnecessarily harsh on Marie. But he says,

"Chris, I can assure you that I'll try to avoid any romantic advances."

Then again, Double D, although he thought Marie was pretty cute... hang on a moment! Cute!? Why was he thinking that? It might just be that he never exactly took the time to consider the outside, but even Double D himself didn't understand this. Because, NOT ONCE, has Double D even considered the way Marie dresses or anything like that. Clearly, he would have to try and understand this a bit better. Anyways, the boys decided to just start this plan, although this is very difficult thing to get perfect, as they both would admit.

2:00 PM

Double D went to the trailer, and Chris followed him too, but Double D had to go alone to the front door, as, well... Chris being there is gonna raise questions to what's going on. Chris told Double D before he approached the door,

"Alright dude, it's time for you to go and do your part. Get Marie and take her to your house. ONLY MARIE, okay? We do not need the other sisters knowing of this. Let's hope they don't..."

Double D then went to the door, and knocked on it in order to hopefully get Marie's attention, who was inside. Double D might just be the luckiest guy on the planet, as Marie is the one who ends up answering the door. Double D was nervous, but Marie was shocked, seeing as she was not even expecting him to show up. At All.

"Double D?" said Marie, confused.

"Greetings Marie, I wanted to ask you if it's okay with you if you were to... c-come with me to talk about a thing or two!" Double D asked in an obvious sheepish tone.

Add to the luck jar, as good thing for Double D, Marie was not in her "Get This" attitude from yesterday, so he wasn't at a high risk of a beat up. Heck, he might be in store for something else entirely. Anyways, Marie makes an odd smile at him and says, in a rather calmer tone than normal,

"Sure, why not? Let's go."

Double D was shocked at the fact of how Marie didn't even seem to care about what was going on, or didn't even raise an eyebrow at him. Double D realizes that this might be because she probably trusts him, but why? Aside from that, he now has his part to do.

"Did you get her? Great! Now, go to your house and start having a conversation that lasts long enough to give me time in order to return the diary. Oh, and remember, NO ROMANCE. Oh yeah, don't respond to me, you'll eat yourself out. I'll get to work now, so you go on ahead to your home." Chris said through the earpiece.

When Double D Marie arrive...

Double D and Marie go into Double D's living room, and they both sit down.

"So... Marie, I have to ask..." said Double D.

"Yes...?" Marie says, again, with a weird smile,

"Are you doing alright from yesterday?"

Marie's face, strangely, turned to a normal expression, as she then proceeded to say,

"Yeah. I'm doing just fine. Why do you ask?"

"Well, I just wanted to ensure that Eddy's insults didn't leave a bad expression on you, as I felt as though Eddy unintentionally painted me and Chris in a negative light. So, it's as... s-simple as that." Double D said nervously.

Marie moves in closer (not THAT close though) to Edd's face and says in a calm tone,

"Well, you're seemingly caring, hmm...?"

Double D was almost going to respond, until Chris, seemingly out of nowhere, spoke into the earpiece and said,

"About to start this whole, 'return the diary', thing. And Double D, you better not be flirting with Marie! Remember what I said, you dingus. Oh yeah, and remember aswell, DON'T RESPOND TO WHAT I SAY THROUGH THIS! This should be beyond obvious. I'll catch up with ya later."

Double D's mind was busy dealing with 2 people at the same time. Marie, who again, while he catches himself "liking" her a bit, he still sorta has his doubts. But then again, he has seen like, 3 sides or so that he has never seen in her nearly 2 years or so of knowing her. And then there was Chris, who, again, Double D was wondering why in the planet he was being harsh on the idea of him and Marie being "together", per se. While, once again, Double D understood Chris's doubts to an extent, maybe Double D thought in his mind, that he can prove these doubts wrong. Maybe.

Even then, Double D had to respond to Marie's little question she said earlier, and so...

"Yeah... I suppose you might be on the right side."

Marie got curious as to why Double D brought her to his house, as... she didn't fully believe that him being concerned was 100% the reason as to why he all around invited her to his house.

"So, why exactly did you bring me? Not that I mind of course." A curious Marie said.

Double D, at that point, decided that, maybe he could get one of his questions about Marie answered. That is, if she doesn't revert to "Lovey" or "Angry" Marie. But, Double D still proceeded to say,

"Marie, I would like to ask something, as I've been curious, why have you... changed the main way you express things... so to say.

Marie thought about how to explain herself, and in the end she decides to say,

"Well... I wasn't really enjoying the whole 'chase you around' thing as much as I used to. I mean, yeah, kissing you was fun, but it got less... 'fun' as I thought about it. But then, you and Chris's schemes came up, and I thought... you simply didn't like me at all. At least you cleared that up."

Double D couldn't even believe that Marie actually started to like her chasing around act less. But then he asks,

"Why couldn't you have said this sooner?"

"Eddward! Think about it silly, you, a nerdy type, going with someone who you clearly didn't exactly like? Sounds logical, right?" said Marie, in a playful tone.

Double D understood her point, but then he says, "Well... that's understandable enough. Marie, when you consider however, everything that has occurred between not just me and you, but between say, Ed and May, and Eddy and Lee... it's kinda ludicrous to think of either of us together. No offense meant there, but do you see what I mean? Of course, I am always willing to let go of grudges, and make amends, but your sisters generally aren't really known for that."

Marie kinda was a bit hit by what Double D, but luckily for him, not in anger inducing way. Marie instead decided to do something... oh boy... that will be hard to believe. Marie moves up to Double D's face and leans in and says, quietly and calmly,

"I'm sorry."

...and kisses Double D, but not in ridiculous rapid way, rather, slowly. At this point, Double D doesn't understand what in the world he just got himself into... but he knew at this point that... quite simply, there was 0 turning around and restarting, or anything of the sort. Instead, Double D does the unbelievable. He gives the kiss back, and essentially, this makes something that no one is going to be able to believe.

Wait... what will Chris think of this? Speaking of Chris...