Chapter 27 A Slow Kiss and a Grab an a Tickle too

Dylan barely remembered anything after hearing Valerie's pleas. Dylan…Dylan…they have Brenda! Valerie's words echoed in his head. He hadn't even waited for Jonsey, who was still against doing anything stupid. Dylan was running, he was running as fast as his feet could take him. He was dodging people and jumping over stuff that lay in his way. He had to get to her, if they hurt her, he would kill them. He took the steps to Kevin and Suzanne's house two at a time and finally slowed as he saw Valerie bent down hiding with tears in her eyes. When he got to the top of the steps he bent down to her level. He crawled towards her, trying to quietly catch his breath.

"You ok?" he whispered breathy.

She nodded quickly, she looked terrified and worried. He placed his hand on her arm, "Go back to the hotel. Call the London police. Hurry Val."

"They have a gun Dylan, they are roughing her up pretty bad." she whispered.

Dylan swallowed hard, his fist clenched knowing Brenda was in there, possibly hurt or beaten, probably scared to death and he blamed himself, Dylan swore under his breath. "Go Val…go…hurry" his whisper was stern. Her wide blue eyes looked into his, she swallowed hard and nodded quickly, she didn't want to leave them.

She crawled to the steps, "Be careful." she whispered as she made it there out of sight. She stood up and started running down the steps towards the hotel.

Dylan bit his lip as he slowly tried to raise himself up to peak into the window. He saw Kevin pointing the gun at Brenda. Suzanne was talking to a man, Dylan heard her tell him to lock Erica in her room.

"I don't know where Dylan is." Brenda cried. "I haven't seen him since before the summer." Brenda screamed at them. Tears evident in her voice.

"Shut up." Suzanne told her, venom in her voice. "I know you're lying." she said harshly. "Tell us where he is." Kevin moved the gun closer to her.

Dylan's chest heaved as he quickly looked around. He kept bent down as he moved towards the other side of the house. There was a patio door open. He leaned against the wall, peaking around the archway looking to see if he was alone. He didn't see anyone, he heard another slap and Brenda cried out in pain. He squeezed his eyes closed for a second to collect himself. His heart was beating wildly in his chest. He needed to get to her. He moved quickly, hiding behind walls following their voices. He finally came to the wall to the living room, hearing Kevin and Suzanne clearly now.

"You're a stubborn little bitch aren't you?" Kevin seethed. "Well if you wont tell us where he is then there is no other choice but to shoot you." Dylan hears Kevin cock his revolver, he peaks around the entry to see him press the loaded gun to Brenda's forehead, his heart stops beating as she squeezes her eyes shut, waiting…waiting for death…waiting for help. Dylan is about to reveal himself, he isn't going to allow Brenda to die for him and his mess. He hears the cock of a gun again this time it presses against the back of his head.

"Don't you move." a man from behind him says. Dylan slowly brings out his hands, a international sign of defeat. He pushes him into the living room. "A intruder." the man says out loud, making Kevin and Suzanne turn towards him. Brenda's eyes open and hers meet Dylan's in an intense stare.

"Well…well…well…Dylan McKay…long time no see. Thank you Felipe." Kevin says to the man that has a gun pointed at Dylan. He motions his head to join Brenda on the couch. Dylan is still staring at Brenda. Her eyes are red from crying, she has a visible black eye and her lip is cut and bleeding. The man named Felipe pushes him forcibly and Dylan finally moves and falls onto the couch next to Brenda. Felipe leaves the four of them alone.

"Well now we can stop looking over our shoulders, I knew you would eventually pay us a visit." Suzanne says simply. No fear or shame in anything she has done.

"Hell, I would have been here sooner but you guys didn't leave a forwarding address." Dylan says sarcasm and hate in his voice. "Let Brenda go, she doesn't have anything to do with this." Brenda grabs his hand, she will not leave him alone, he grips hers back tightly. "I haven't seen Brenda in months, she is just an old girlfriend." Dylan lies.

Suzanne chuckles, "Nice try Dylan." Suzanne glances down at their entertained hands. "I remember Brenda, the girl you always went out of your way for, she looked at you with those puppy dog eyes all the time and you looked at her even more pathetic, you dragged us to her play, stared at each other. I remember you could cut the sexual tension with a knife, you're whore girlfriend Kelly saw it too. Why she put up with it I'll never know." Brenda squeezed his hand tighter.

"Alright fine…you had your fun, now lets make a deal." Dylan stares at them, looking between them both. He knows his relationship with Brenda is exactly how Suzanne observed.

Suzanne laughs, "A deal? I don't think you have any money to make a deal Dylan."

"And I don't think you want to live the rest of your life running from the law…do you?" Dylan says back to them.

"Yo Ho He…a pirates life for me." Kevin shrugs.

"What are you going to do to us?" Brenda asks, her voice quiet but hard.

"That depends on how you behave." Kevin says still holding the gun at them. "But I can tell you this, people have disappeared in London, even beautiful women." Kevin says as he stares at Brenda.

"We have to get something straight, Brenda here said that she doesn't know a Jonsey or a Valerie. So…where did they go Dylan?"

Dylan looks towards the patio he had came through, Jonsey is sneaking up to the house with a gun of his own. Dylan smirks, "He's right outside." he says honestly.

Kevin is tired of the lies and games, he brings his hand up and back hands him as hard as he can. Dylan's face flies sideways from the motion, Brenda's hands cup his face as they look at each other. "Now…don't get cute." Kevin says through his teeth, their attention goes back to them.

"Tell us the truth Dylan." Kevin holds the gun to Brenda's head again, he knows and can see how much they care about each other. Dylan's chest heaves taking a big breath as her eyes meet his, they are begging him to help her. He sees through her, she doesn't want to die. Dylan looks at Kevin, a serious expression crossing his face as he puts the fear of losing Brenda deep within himself, "I am telling the truth." Brenda's attention goes towards the window by the patio and Jonsey is visible.

Kevin looks towards where she turned her attention, Jonsey flies through the glass window, onto the floor as the window shatters into small pieces.

Dylan moves quickly as he grabs Kevin's arm that holds the gun and pushes him down towards the floor, the gun dropping to their feet. Jonsey fires shots towards the ceiling. Suzanne hearing the shots drops to the floor, as Brenda crawls behind the couch. Dylan flies over the back of the couch for safety, as Jonsey fires straight ahead, shooting pictures and vases that line the table as decoration. Kevin is crawling on the ground trying to escape. Dylan and Brenda hide behind the couch. They are silent as Dylan brings his thumb gently to her face as he caresses the blackened eye. Kevin gets up to make a run for it.

"Stay down Dylan…I got this piece of shit." Jonesey points the gun at his back from across the room.

Dylan's eyes quickly Kevin quickly leaving Brenda as he gets up, Brenda reaches for him, missing him. She doesn't want him to get hurt, she doesn't want him to leave her.

"Oh hell no he's mine." Dylan goes after him. Kevin grabs a sword, a collectors piece thats on display and turns lunging at Dylan.

"Oh your dead McKay." Kevin says a smirk on his lips. He lunges the sword towards him again, Dylan moves to the right, the sword misses him. As Kevin tried to right himself upward, Dylan cuts towards him quickly, pulling back his fist as he his knuckles hit Kevin hard in the face. The sword drops to the ground as the men struggle. Dylan ducking punches and his knuckles connect with Kevin again. "You son of a bitch." Dylan says through his teeth. He punches him again, as hard as he can, for Brenda, a other punch…for Erica, a fist to the stomach…for stealing his money, making him trust him. Dylan is wailing on him uncontrollably.

"Stop it man…Dylan stop it." Jonsey who is closer to them now, points the gun at Kevin. Kevin is barley conscience as he slides down the wall, "That's not bad kid." Jonsey says with a small smirk behind his mouth, and then he laughs out loud.

Suzanne crawls towards the gun that lays by the couch that Kevin had dropped. Brenda rushes beating her to it and grabs it as she stands up straight, strong and points at her.

Suzanne breaths out, "Ok let me go." she begs. "I'll cut you in on the money. It's in a Cayman Islands bank." Suzanne sits up hopeful.

Brenda points the gun at Suzanne's face, "Honey…your horny husband lost all that money this afternoon…right Val?" Brenda says as Valerie smirks and comes into view from where Brenda had been hiding behind the couch.

"That's right Bren." She stands next to her and glares down at Suzanne. Brenda holds the gun steady pointing it at Suzanne as Valerie stands proud next to her, a unified front. She had snuck in during the chaos, coming with Jonsey. Suzanne's attention moves towards the front door, as someone is pounding on it. Jonsey lets the London police through, they come in guns drawn.

"What the hell took you so long." Jonsey says seriously as they move past him quickly. "Jesus." Jonesey shakes his head, this was not the kind of work he was used to. "What a day." he says walking towards the living room.

Dylan rushes towards Brenda, her look fierce still set on Suzanne, her teeth clenched. He reaches for the gun gently, bringing her out of her trance. She lets it go in the possession of Dylan and her arms come forcefully around Dylan's neck as she tightly embraces him. Dylan hangs on to the gun with one hand and brings the other arm around Brenda's waist as he rubs her tenderly. "It's ok Bren…it's going to be ok."

"I'm sorry I ran out." Brenda sobs into his neck."I thought I was going to die…I thought they were going to kill you." she is hysterical.

"Shhh…it's ok baby…it's ok, its over." he continues to comfort her, kissing her head . She pulls away from him her hands cupping his face.

"I don't know what I would have done if something happened to you." She says tearfully.

Dylan sets down the gun on the table and smirks at her. His eyes not leaving hers. His hands cover hers as he brings them lower off his face, holding them tenderly in front of them.

Dylan breaths out, "I don't know what I would have done either." the situation hitting them both like a ton of bricks. One of his hands lets go of hers he traces her back eye, then his thumb caresses her split lip, "Are you okay?"

She nods quickly, still too emotional to form another sentence. They embrace again tightly. The police move around them as they stay in each others arms. Suzanne and Kevin both in handcuffs as the police arrest them. Jonsey and Valerie make their way toward Brenda and Dylan, Jonsey sipping a beer from who knows where. Dylan pulls away from Brenda, he keeps his arm tightly around her waist as he looks at him and Valerie.

"What made you change you mind?" His question is towards Jonesey. He knew he left in a hurry but Jonsey had made it pretty clear he wasn't for coming back here. At least not until they had a plan.

Jonsey takes a deep breath, "Well I started thinking, I watched you rush out of there so fast to save your girl, I knew you didn't have a plan and I thought about how royally you were going to screw everything up. So I called my pal at the London police station to see if he'd roll in the troops."

"It's true." Valerie said as she smiled at him, "I went to call them myself and he reassured me it was already handled. He's a good friend." Valerie said keeping her smile and eyes on Jonsey.

"Of course it helped I told a little lie." Jonsey admits.

Valerie laughs, "Well how little?" she asks him.

"I told them…that the Cavendish's were plotting to kid nap Paul McCartney. Now don't laugh, he's like the prince of England himself over here." Jonsey chuckles and Valerie joins him. Dylan is serious still and so is Brenda…it's too soon for Jonsey jokes. "Anyway everything will be all sorted out in the morning, the FBI is going to ask for extradition on the fraud charges and me…myself are going to take me and my pal from the police department on a little trip to Amsterdam."

Dylan cocks one eyebrow, "That comes out of your end." Jonsey laughs at Dylan as he gulps his beer, bringing it up to cheers with a nod.

"But still you didn't have to come yourself." Valerie says still feeling warm and fuzzy towards Jonsey's help. Everything has happened so fast she was proud of him.

"You could have just sent the police." Brenda chimes in too, grateful.

Jonsey looks at both girls and smirks, "And how was I going to enjoy the spoils…if anything happened to you gorgeous women?" he flirts with Valerie and then Brenda. He winks at her and Brenda giggles. Dylan tightens his hold around her waist protectively. He looks behind him, thinking about the other most important female in his life.

"Well…your timing was impeccable." Brenda says, flirt behind her voice too.

"That's for sure." Valerie flirts too. Jonsey is all smiles proud of the attention.

"A long slow kiss from both you ladies will be thank you enough…and a grab and a tickle too." Jonsey jokes as Brenda and Valerie look at each other with smirks.

Dylan looks between them, "Yeah…no." he shakes his head as Brenda looks at him with a smile.

Valerie looks at Brenda and shrugs as she grabs Jonesey's face and brings her lips to his. They share a creepy yet tender slow kiss. Brenda giggles as she watches them.

Dylan kisses Brenda's temple and lets go of her as he moves towards the back hallway of the house. Brenda, Valerie and Jonsey watch him as he disappears around the corner.

Dylan comes to a long corridor of closed doors, he opens the first one gently. There he sees Erica crying laying on her bed. He moves towards her quickly touching her arm as she looks over at him. She rises to her knees swiftly and wraps her small arms around Dylan's neck.

"I thought they would kill you." she whispers as she clings to her brother.

"So did they." he whispers back as he closes his eyes and hugs her tighter. She pulls out and looks at her big brother, a smile across her face.

"I knew you'd come for me." happy tears spill down her cheeks.

Dylan smirks as he brings his hand to her head, "Piece of cake, I promised you I would."

Her smile widens as she embraces him again. They hold each other as Valerie and Brenda lean in the bedroom doorway. They both stand with their arms crossed with smiles on their faces as they witness Dylan reuniting with his sister. They leave them to have their moment moving down the hallway. Valerie reaches for Brenda, her hand touching her shoulder tenderly. They look at each other, the drama and bitterness they held for each other fading. "I'm sorry Brenda…for Dylan…for the things I said to you." Valerie says sincerely.

Brenda's lips purse together as she tilts her head to the side taking her long lost friends regretful face in. She take a deep breath, "I'm sorry too Val. Thank you." she whispers as she moves in to hug her. Both women close their eyes as they embrace. Their moment is cut short as Dylan and Erica come around the corner.

"Brenda?" Erica says excitement in her voice. Valerie and Brenda let go of each other as they turn towards the little girl. Brenda smiles widely at her.

"You came back too?" she rushes her. Brenda falls to her knee as she catches her in a tight hug.

"I'm here sweetie…oh it's good to see you're pretty face again." Brenda feels Erica squeeze her tighter. She looks up at Dylan, who is watching them with a sweet smile on his face. His hand in his pocket, looking genuinely happy to have both girls there at this moment.

She pulls away from Brenda's embrace, keeping her arms around her neck. "Thank you Brenda, for helping Dylan find me, for the other day at the market place."

Brenda smiles and shrugs and stands up, "Thank my good friend Valerie here. She was the one that did most of the hard work." Brenda says as she looks at Valerie, proudly. Valerie bends down to Erica's level and holds out her hand, "It's nice to finally meet you Miss Erica. Your brother here wouldn't shut up about you." Erica giggled and met her hand in a hand shake. Dylan shakes his head as he moves closer to Brenda. His arms snake around her waist tightly. They look into each other's eyes, happy sighs leaving their lungs. Brenda's arms come around Dylan's neck, he pulls her into him. Their chests warm against one another. Dylan leans into her slowly. Wanting to kiss her. Now that the drama is over and he can finally appreciate the sight in front of him. Their lips come closer to connecting, almost touching…

"Are you guys back together?" Erica has a twinkle in her eye as she looks at her brother who she adores and the women that she always loved as a big sister. The one she had secretly and not so secretly hoped would be in a relationship with Dylan.

Dylan and Brenda look towards her with a smile being interrupted, their eyes meet again. Dylan's eyes searching her for any kind of hint to his sisters wise question. Brenda smile widens and she looks back to Erica, "Yeah…yeah were back together." she answers her sincerely.

"Finally!" Erica cries out happily.

Brenda's eyes meet Dylan's again, a smirk playing on his lips as they finally close the distance between themselves. His kiss is hungry as he caress her mouth with his. Brenda mouth parts as Dylan's tongue enters, it brushes softly against hers, stroking it gently. Brenda moans tightening her grip around his neck as Dylan pulls her tighter against him. Brenda deepens the kiss, melting in to him.

Erica giggles, "Come on sweetie." She wraps her arm tightly around Erica's neck and ushers her into the living room away from the sexual display Dylan and Brenda have immersed themselves into. Erica goes with Valerie but her eyes not leaving the scene of the two of them now openly in a heavy make out, her smile wide and proud.

Erica looks up to Valerie, "I knew they belonged together." she tells her happily.

Valerie looks back at the two still in a heavy lip lock, Dylan's hands grabbing at Brenda's hips and then down her butt squeezing it firmly, passion circling around them. She sighs a smirk spreading across her face, "Yeah…yeah they do." she admits as she continues into the living room with Erica in tow.

There you go! Action packed! Pretty similar to the scene in the real episode, with Brenda though. Hope you liked it. Writing action scenes is so different then what I'm used to. I hope I did an okay job. Please let me know what you think. It's not over yet quite yet. :)