Okay first let me apologize for not updating any of my stories for so long. I'm just being lazy and working on other stuff…like trying to get an actual book published. Of course that means I have to finish one first…*sigh* Anyway, now that I've apologized for ducking out on you guys – which I really shouldn't have done. Besides the fact that you're so awesome in your reviews, I probably am going to lose my audience :S. Anyway, so I got a lot more ideas for this story in the time I was skipping out, and I'm going to try to write more. Because it's summer vacation, and therefore, Phineas and Ferb stories must be updated! Wow I can't believe I forgot it was summer vacation until just now. I'm such a smarty! 3! (that was a heart, in case FF blocked the little pointy thing that I can't remember the name of)
Phineas pov
My name is Damian Carlson. At least, that's what my papers say. My papers also classify me as an eighteen-year-old, and therefore a legal adult. So it won't be unusual to see me on my own. I was walking towards the bus stop to get out of Red Cove for good. Carlos would have to handle things on his own from now on. I wasn't going to be around to hack into the police records for him. Unless he had put something in the I.D. card or the driver's license. It didn't matter. I had run them both through my laptop, and all of my stuff, including the new phone I'd appropriated from a store, was now untraceable. All I had to do now, was get as far away from Danville and my idiot 'family' as possible.
"I'm telling you, he was just here. He couldn't have skipped town yet."
My eyes widened. It was Carlos' voice, and I really hoped he was not talking about me. I ducked into an alley, hiding behind a huge dumpster loaded with crap that really stank. Maybe it was a fast-food restaurant. I held my breath as Carlos and two other men stopped at the head of the alley.
"And you just let him walk out of your store?" A dangerous-sounding man growled. Carlos shifted position.
"Hey, hey! You don't know the guy. He was probably awake all night. He doesn't trust me, he doesn't trust anybody." Carlos protested. I smirked. He had that right.
"You didn't even get anything on him?" A second dangerous-sounding man cracked his knuckles.
"I'm telling you – you can't get anything past this kid. He's like, the world's most-wanted or something. He knows everything. Besides, I owed him." The sound of someone being grabbed by their shirt collar while some sort of animal threatened them followed.
"You're useless, you piece of s**t." The second man said bitterly. "You just let him go. Now we'll never find him. The boss isn't going to be very happy with any of us."
"Will you two keep it down? He's probably watching us right now." The first man said. "We have to get more information, then feed it to our boys back at HQ. They'll figure out a way to predict his movements."
"Predict his movements?" Carlos laughed. "He spent the last five years playing perfect son just so no one would expect him to duck out. The only time in those past five years he did anything illegal was when he vandalized some weirdo's building and it ended up collapsing. Doofinshmirtz Evil Inc., I think it was."
"What? DEI? Do you think…" The second man questioned.
"It's possible. We should review the file back at HQ." The first man said.
"But sir, what about our plan to pick them both up at the same time?" The second man asked.
"How many times have I told you to keep your mouth shut?" The first man hissed.
"Sorry, sir." I heard boot steps walking away, and slid to the ground, sitting with my arms crossed on top of my knees. I laid my head back against the dumpster, smell forgotten. What had they been talking about? It had to be me. But what would people like that want me for? Okay, it wasn't like I was just another teenager, but I hadn't been terrorizing the public lately. And who was the other person they were talking about? Ferb? I frowned. I had pretty much been counting on never thinking of anyone with the name Flynn-Fletcher ever again, but what if he was in danger? I may have been heartless, or even evil, but for some reason I couldn't just stand back and watch someone die. Even someone like Ferb. I sighed, pulling out my new cell and speed-dialing someone, lifting it to my ear.
"Hello?" A bored female voice answered on the second ring.
"Alice, it's me." I said. "I have a job for you."
Ferb pov
I couldn't sleep the whole night. Something was missing, and I knew what that something was. My brother. Phineas Flynn. Of course, the full moon shining through the window onto his bed didn't help. So I was in a pretty bad mood. Candace had been driving straight through the night, and had gotten home at around three am. When she opened the door, trying to be all sneaky and not wake anyone up, I crept down the stairs and made us both coffee, using the normal method instead of the insta-coffee machine Phineas and I had built the first school year after what had come to be known as the summer of the roller coaster.
"Couldn't sleep?" Candace asked. I nodded, watching the dinosaur of a coffee maker heat up. It was old-school even by normal standards. My older sister yawned sleepily, dropping her purse on the carpet and kicking off her white stelletos.
"Man. I have finals this week. Could Phineas have chosen any worse timing to disappear?" I turned to glare at my sister, but she held up her hands. "Sorry, sorry. Just trying to lighten the mood." I sighed, leaning back against the counter.
"No, it's fine." I said. "It's just…Phineas and I had a fight, right before he disappeared, and I think that may have been the reason he ran off." Candace blinked, then sighed.
"Ferb…it wasn't you." She said. "Trust me on this one. Phineas…Phineas has always had some sort of issues with our family, ever since he was old enough to think for himself – which, for Phineas, was like three months. When we were in foster homes, Phineas would always say how much he wished he could reinvent his life. I think it scarred him, and he never really forgave mom for it." She shook her head. "I used to lie awake at night and wonder what was keeping him here. I mean, he could do almost everything, so why wasn't he where he wanted to be. I used to think maybe he was scared, but you know, Phineas was never the one who would get scared. Even though he may not admit it, Ferb, the reason he wasn't running was you."
"Then why didn't he stay?" I asked. The question hung in the air, and in my thoughts long after the sun rose. Why didn't you stay, Phineas?
Tonight I'm so alone
The sorrow takes ahold
Don't leave me it's so cold
Never want to be so cold
I've wasted so much time
Don't leave me alone
Cause I barely see at all
Don't leave me alone
I'm
Falling in the black
Slipping through the cracks
Falling to the depths
Can I ever come back?
Dreaming of the way
It used to be
Can you hear me?
Falling in the black
Slipping through the cracks
Falling to the depths can I ever come back?
Falling inside the black
Falling inside
Falling inside
The black
You were my source of strength
I've traded everything
For this one thing
Don't leave me here like this
Can't hear me scream from the abyss
Don't leave me alone
Cause I barely see at all
Don't leave me alone
I'm
Falling in the black
Slipping through the cracks
Falling to the depths can I ever come back?
Dreaming of the way it used to be
Can you hear me?
Falling in the black
Slipping through the cracks
Falling to the depths can I ever come back?
Falling inside the black
Falling inside
Falling inside
The black
Okay so yes, I edited the song so it wouldn't seem like I was doing a slash here, because I have other couples in mind for this thing. Like maybe Phinbella or Ferbella or Phineas X my oc or Ferb X my oc or Isabella X my oc (I'm going to have A LOT of ocs in this thing) or maybe a combination of all of them. Plus, I don't do slashes. So deal with it. Anyway, what do you think after all this time? Do I still have it?