Prompt 5: Your least favorite character is trapped in an elevator with your darling baby (or your favorite character if you don't refer to them as that) and through the power of friendship or some crap they have to find a way out.

Answer: Richie is my darling baby and I absolutely despise every single thing about Professor Aiden Tanner. Sex Machine was an incredible character in the movie and to make him that creep and to not even do anything good with him…what ever. I hate him. Anyway, they're trapped in an elevator set far off before the start of the show. The power of friendship does not get them out of this one.

The pleasant thing about the elevator as apposed to the stairs is that when empty you can shut your eyes and become one with the Earth as it glides through the never-ending space. It was a secret favorite pastime of Richie's that gave him calm before a big heist or when things were getting too serious in his own head. Sometimes—especially after a fight with Seth—he would pick the tallest building in whatever city they were in and go all the way to the top like a child trying to see how high they could go. He would stand in the middle of the box and go straight down with his hands crossed before him and his head bent down with his eyes completely shut. Around him the walls of the world would fade and it was just limitless space that they inhabited. The slow tugging motion the elevator had on him allowed him to imagine that it was the same weight of gravity the sun and greater things had on the Earth as it pulled them from one end to the universe to the other. It humbled him in ways nothing could.

That was until it came to a stop before the end of the trip.

Ding.

There were over seventy floors in that building but the ride had ended at sixty-three, filling Richie with the uncontrollable urge to pull out his pistol on who ever had intruded. But he couldn't do that. He and Seth were in town on business and though they had just promised the next time they saw each other it would be at a funeral he knew he had to be cool. Usually if only one or two other people joined him and they stayed quiet he could—with much effort—create the same effect for himself. But they absolutely had to stay quiet. He hated small talk and especially hated it when it interrupted his meditation.

The elevator doors separated and a man of similar height to him entered. The man looked totally goofy and in the second they took to size each other up Richie secretly thanked Seth for helping to sculpt him into a good-looking guy. The man in the elevator was an exact example of how being tall could be done wrong but that didn't matter to him. He hardly paid attention to that kind of judgment but sometimes he couldn't help himself. He was a Gecko after all and like their father Seth always had a comment about who ever walked by, good or bad.

The doors shut and with them Richard's sight was momentarily cut off. It was always hard to focus with the creeping sludge of another person's eyes on him but he had done far more difficult things in far more stressful situations. The void, gentle and welcoming, was back to close in around him and he felt the light smile tug on the muscles of his features.

"So, uh…do you come here often?"

Fuck. Richie's eyes flashed open but he didn't look at the man, instead he looked solely at the elevator doors in hope of finding some sort of calm. The gun on his hip was starting to feel pretty heavy and he thought losing a few bullets might lighten the load.

"I'm just here to visit some investors. I-I'm trying to get them to fund an archeological dig in Southern Texas. You ever hear about the ancient civilizations there? Fucking incredible."

Richie's hand shot out instinctually to press the number of the next floor they would be descending upon but as he pushed the button the numbers on the little screen halted in some sort of glitch to create a mangled image. The elevator came to a stop as if hitting a landing but the doors did not open. The metal box was suspended with no appearance that it would change. Richard shut his eyes as he angrily mumbled, "You have to be fucking me."

"Whoa, shit! Are we stuck? What are we supposed to do?" the man dramatically exclaimed.

Never changing position, Richie turned toward his left and pressed the emergency button that made a loud ringing noise fill the space. The man continued his babbling as a voice came over the intercom, "We see you in there, the fire department is on the way but they're jammed up in traffic, it's rush hour."

"What is there estimated time of arrival?" Richie sighed, his hand coming up to rub the bridge of his nose beneath his glasses.

"Uh, not sure. Seeing as how it's not an actual emergency it might take upwards of an hour," the voice answered.

"Not a-" Richie stopped himself. There was no use arguing with the man over the speaker.

"It ain't that bad. I was stuck in an elevator once for two days. Met some of my best friends there," the stranger tried to spin. "Ever play twenty questions?"

Richie glanced at him in a mouth-slightly-opened expression of 'You're fucking kidding me.' He shook his head as he gazed up at the roof, "I'm not staying here."

"Well, there's nothing we can do until the firemen get here but if you're hungry I pack a lu- Hey!"

Richie had already pushed the top panel of the elevator and was climbing up through the hole he had made. From the top he offered the man a hand, "Are you coming?"

"Do you know how dangerous that is!" he shouted.

That was his answer. Richie stood on top of the thing and made sure not to look around him except to find the ladder the maintenance crew used that would lead him to safety. He felt only slightly guilty for leaving the man behind but he just could not do it. He seriously had to rethink his relaxation methods because being stuck with an asshole and having to sweat in his new suit did not cut it. But it would make a nice story for Seth, he thought as he climbed ahead, there's always a silver lining.

A/N; Hey guys, I know this isn't exactly a full story thing so asking for reviews might be a little weird but I'd definitely appreciate some feedback. If you like one of the AUs I created then maybe I can make something out of that but even suggestions of future prompts would be awesome because I'm just making them up as I go along. I'm pretty sure they've been done before but still; I'd really like to have people to talk to about the show and what not and give me challenges.