A/N: Nothing belongs to me except Birchwood, Numbuh 178, and Numbuh 563. The KND belongs to Mr. Warburton and Holly belongs to Eoin Colfer.

Chapter 4: Mr. Boss's gulp Dinner Party

Numbuh 2 was sitting on Numbuh 86's bed. He was being filed in on the names of various family members. In other words, he was totally bored.

"And this, it Aunt Edna." Numbuh 86 said holding up a picture of an old woman.

Numbuh 2 couldn't hold back a yawn. Numbuh 86 glared at him.

"Sorry this isn't exactly a good book." She said sarcastically. "Yes my family is very boring, I'll admit it. But you better not yawn at the party. Got it?"

Numbuh 2 nodded.

"What are we supposed to wear?" He asked looking bored.

Numbuh 86 smirked. "Ready to wear a dress Gilligan?" She asked tauntingly.

"WHAT!? I AM NOT GOING TO WEAR A DRESS!" Numbuh 2 yelled.

"It's not exactly a dress." Numbuh 86 said getting up and going over to her closet. She looked around a bit before pulling something off the rack.

"This is what you're going to wear." She said holding up a long green skirt that almost reached the floor and a sleeveless white blouse.

"No way." Numbuh 2 muttered. "I'll trip!"

"I believe Numbuh 4 wore a dress to the School Dance last week." Numbuh 86 said. "If he can do it, then you can."

"Yeah but that was his second day as Numbuh 3. I just turned into a girl. I'm not ready yet." Numbuh 2 said scowling at her.

"If you don't than daddy will get suspicious. Besides mother bought me this outfit particularly for tonight. If you don't wear it, then she'll be sad." Numbuh 86 had a sad look on her face.

"Please, Numbuh 2?" She asked actually pleading.

Numbuh 2 groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Fine." He muttered. "But we NEVER EVER speak of this again, agreed?"

Numbuh 86 nodded. "Of course not. Now do you have a suit I can wear to the party?"

Numbuh 2 reached out a hand to ring Numbuh 86's doorbell when she caught his arm with hiss.

"What are you doing? You're supposed to live here. Just walk right in! Don't blow our cover already!" She said letting go of the lanky boy's arm with a glare.

Numbuh 2 rolled his eyes at her and pushed open the door. As soon as he got in he stopped in shock. The party had barely started but it was bursting with people.

"I thought you said it was a family party." He said quietly looking hard at Numbuh 86.

"It is. My relatives came from Ireland for the 5 year reunion. It's just our luck that we had to switch now." Numbuh 86 said looking sorry.

"FANNY!" Came a shriek from the top of the stairs.

Numbuh 2 looked up to see a little girl with blood-red hair in pigtails.

"Who is she?" He whispered as the girl came bounding down the stairs towards them.

"My cousin, Caroline. Carrie." Numbuh 86 whispered looking away. "She adores me and is currently training at Arctic Base to become a KND operative."

Numbuh 2's face suddenly turned a nasty shade of red as Carrie threw her arms around the poor boy.

"Er...hi Carrie." He said looking down at the freckled face.

"Fanny! It's great to see you!" Her voice dropped into a whisper. "My training is going great! Numbuh 60 wanted me to tell you something...um...oh yeah! He wanted to get together on Sunday."

Numbuh 2 scowled and felt a strange feeling coursing through his veins. Could it be jealousy?

Numbuh 86 who had overheard this jumped in. "Of course! Tell Numbuh 60 that Numbuh 86 will go." She said smiling.

Carrie, who had stopped hugging Numbuh 2, frowned. "Who are you?"

"I'm Hoagie Gilligan." Numbuh 86 said wincing at the strange phrase. "But you could call me Numbuh 2."

Carrie's face cleared. "You're part of the KND?"

Numbuh 86 shook her head. "No, the TND like Numbuh 86."

"COOL!" The excited 9-year-old screeched causing many strange looks to be directed in their direction. "Oops, sorry. C'mon Fanny! Karla wants to see you."

She grabbed Numbuh 2's arm and dragged him through the throngs of people. Numbuh 86 followed, laughing silently at Numbuh 2's expression.

"KARLA! Fanny's here!" Carrie screamed.

"Could you stop yelling, please?" Numbuh 2 complained.

"I thought you liked yelling." Carrie said.

"Um I kind of out grew it." Numbuh 2 said helplessly.

"Ok then. Hey there's Karla!" Carrie said waving over a young woman with long brown hair.

"She's Carrie's older sister." Numbuh 86 whispered. "She was part of the KND before the TND was created so she was decommissioned."

"Fanny. Nice to see you." Karla came over grinning broadly.

Numbuh 2 judged her to be about 17.

"Oh! So you finally got a boyfriend. Good for you!" Karla teased.

Numbuh 86, as Numbuh 2, blushed red.

"He's not my boyfriend! He's just... OW!" She cried as Numbuh 2 accidentally on purpose stepped on her foot.

"What he means is that we're just friends." Numbuh 2 said blushing slightly.

"If you say so." Karla shrugged and then looked over Numbuh 2's head.

"Oh boy. I'm outta here." She muttered hurrying off into the kitchen.

Numbuh 2 and 86 turned around and Numbuh 2 couldn't help but assume a battle position. That is until Numbuh 86 trod heavily on his foot.

"Yeow!" Numbuh 2 screeched. He was wearing sandals after all.

"Numbskull! He's supposed to be your dad!" Numbuh 86 hissed as Mr. Boss came up to the two, switched teens.

"Fanny? Why didn't you say you were here?" Mr. Boss said looking down at his 'daughter'.

"Er... Carrie interrupted me. And then I went to see Karla." Numbuh 2 said hoping Mr. Boss wouldn't suspect anything.

"Ok then. Why don't you say hello properly? I haven't seen you in what? 2 weeks? It's because of the KND thing right?"

"Er yeah, sorry daddy." Numbuh 2 said.

"Well? Come and give your dad a hug." Mr. Boss said smiling.

All color drained from Numbuh 2's face before Numbuh 86 shoved him into Mr. Boss's open arms. As Mr. Boss hugged his supposed daughter Numbuh 2's face went beet red.

I swear to God that this is the MOST awkward position I've EVER been in. He thought as Mr. Boss released him.

"Now is this your friend?" Mr. Boss asked gesturing at Numbuh 86.

"Yeah. Hoagie Gilligan." Numbuh 2 said, face still a vibrant shade of red.

"Fanny, come with me! I want to show you my rainbow monkeys." Carrie said pulling Numbuh 2 away from Numbuh 86.

"Hello Mr. Fulbright." Numbuh 86 said holding out her hand nervously. Mr. Boss was still looking at her so she thought it would be rude to follow Numbuh 2.

"Aren't you one of the KND?" Mr. Boss demanded.

"Not exactly. I was once." Numbuh 86 said carefully. Most adults didn't know about the TND after all.

"Your leader was Numbuh 1, wasn't he? Your teammates included that boy and girl who spoiled the plan to send all my employees daughters to Pluto, and the quiet girl who was always there right?" Mr. Boss scowled. "You're the boy who designed all those fancy-pants inventions."

"Guilty." Numbuh 86 said feeling guilty at lying to her father.

"Well no causing any trouble, you hear? This is a family party and I won't have you ruin it." Mr. Boss growled before stomping away.

Numbuh 86 gulped. "Now I know why everyone gets nervous around daddy." She muttered. She suddenly gasped as she felt someone slap her on the shoulder. She spun around, acting completely on her TND reflexes and did threw the person over her shoulder.

"Ow." The person groaned and Numbuh 86 gasped, as she looked down into the face of... her cousin, Edward.

"Jeez, what's your problem?" The black-haired boy demanded a hand on his forehead. "All I wanted to do was introduce myself."

Numbuh 86 blushed as she extended a hand to help her 16-year-old cousin up.

"Sorry." She mumbled. "TND reflexes."

Luckily for her most of her cousins were part of either the KND or the TND so she didn't have to worry about explaining. Edward's expression softened.

"Ok, I shouldn't have slapped you like that, sorry. What's your name? And what are you doing here? You're not part of the family."

Numbuh 86 cringed as though she had been slapped. Coming from her favorite cousin; that hurt.

"I'm Hoagie Gilligan and I came with Fanny. She and I are in the same Sector." She murmured.

"Oh. Nice to meet you Hoagie. I'm Edward. What's your Numbuh and position? Fanny and I are pretty close. Maybe I've heard of you."

"Numbuh 2. I'm the 2x4 technology officer of Sector V." Numbuh 86 said smiling a bit.

"Oh so you're the guy Fanny endlessly talks about." Edward said cheerfully.

Numbuh 86 flushed. Maybe there was a blessing to switching bodies. At least Numbuh 2 wouldn't hear this.

Just then Numbuh 2 skidded to a stop in front of them.

"How could you leave me alone with her?" He demanded not realizing that someone else was present. "She brought a million rainbow monkeys and told me to guess the names of all of them. Seriously the names are dumber than Numbuh 3's names for her dolls..."

He trailed off as he looked at Edward.

"Oops." He whispered.

"Hi Fanny! I was wondering when I'd see you." Edward said smiling.

"Er yeah... um." Numbuh 2 said utterly at a loss at who this boy was. He wasn't a family member Numbuh 86 had shown him a picture of.

Numbuh 86 jumped in. "Edward was just introducing himself to me."

Numbuh 2's face cleared. "Thanks Edward."

"No prob. Your friend here's nice if a little jumpy."

Numbuh 2 gave Numbuh 86 a look, which said, what did you do now? Numbuh 86 ignored him but suddenly all color drained from her face as her ever oblivious cousin went on.

"I see why you always talk about him."

Numbuh 2's eyes widened.

"I do?" He asked ignoring Numbuh 86's glare to drop the subject.

"Yeah, don't you remember our conversation last summer? You said..." Edward stopped as Mr. Boss tapped on a glass.

"Attention! Dinner is served." He called.

Immediately people began filling into the dining room. Edward shrugged and left to.

"See you later Fanny, nice talking to you Hoagie." He said before disappearing into the dining room.

Numbuh 86 sighed. Saved by the bell.

"Um Numbuh 86? What was that about?" Numbuh 2 asked curiously as they slowly walked into the dining room. "Do you really talk about me all the time?"

Numbuh 86 glared fiercely at him.

"Uh or we could just drop the subject." Numbuh 2 squeaked.

Numbuh 86 nodded and flounced into the dining room. Numbuh 2 shuddered. Having your own body glare at you was incredibly freaky.

"To bad." Cupid murmured. "That boy almost did all our work for us."

Holly smiled. "But then it'd be over Grandpa. This is interesting."

"These kids not admitting to each other that they love each other give Cupid heartburn." Birchwood said. "So the sooner they confess the better."

"Spoilsport." Holly muttered.

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