Sorry for the long wait. There's some family health issues going on. Also, guess who got to see U2's ONE HUNDREDTH concert on Saturday? ME! THAT'S RIGHT! THEY WERE RIGHT HERE, IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE- AND THEY WERE AWESOME!
Well, another reason why I didn't get to update this is because on Sunday, I was in a car crash. I'm fine, but I had a killer headache afterwards, so all plans to get started writing this chapter died. Again. Well, enough excuses! On to the story.
Chapter 11
Well, Sora thought as she looked around at her friends, here we all are. Sarah and Kalos were now married, and Ken and May's wedding had been a few days after theirs. Mia's relationship with Andy was going wonderfully and Anna and Rosetta had finally reconciled after Derek's trial. Everybody had gathered around Mia, Anna, and Rosettas' rooms for a celebration on how well their last show had gone- unfortunately, the adults were all more than a little drunk, and Sora and Rosetta had found it quite difficult to keep Fool from taking off Layla's clothes. She was too far gone to notice a tiny flying ghost struggling with the buttons on her shirt, so of course, Fool had been trying to take advantage of the situation for over an hour. He kept finding his way out of all the traps Sora and Rosetta put him in, including a desk drawer and a water bottle.
Ken attracted Sora's attention by pointing at Yuri and Leon and laughing out loud. "Look at them," he chuckled, getting out his cell phone to take a picture. "I am so using this as blackmail." Sora looked over at her shoulder at the two as well, then smirked as Mia started giggling.
Yuri and Leon had passed out on the same couch, originally sitting next to their dates. But with Sora chasing after Fool and Layla dancing drunkenly somewhere, the two had slumped onto each other, Leon lying across Yuri's chest and Yuri's arm draped over his body. "How much you bet one of them screams when they wake up?" Anna asked, chuckling and rolling her eyes as others started to take pictures as well.
"Oh, a hell of alot. I just wish we didn't have to wait for them to wake up," Ken said, shaking his head in disappointment. The others laughed at his comment, but May just rolled her eyes as she approached the two men from behind, holding a glass full of cold water.
"We don't," she said simply, and before any of them could stop her, she had dumped the glass's contents on Yuri and Leons' heads and jumped away from them.
"What the hell?" Leon shouted as he woke up, raising his head, while Yuri jerked back. The room just all stared at them eagerly, awaiting their reaction when they figured out that they were lying on each other. Leon slowly looked over his shoulder, freezing when he saw Yuri. The two stared at each other for a moment, then Leon threw himself to the other side of the couch with a shout of alarm and ended up toppling onto the floor while Yuri shot halfway across the room in the opposite direction. Everyone in the room who was still sober started laughing as Yuri and Leon tried to catch their breath, staring around in shock.
"What the hell?" Yuri demanded, staring at Leon before looking at the others. "What on earth just happened here?"
"You were drunk," Rosetta explained between giggles, "and passed out on each other. Don't worry, we all took pictures so show Layla and everybody else later."
Yuri and Leon stared at each other, horrified, then Leon gasped, "You took pictures? Delete them! Now!"
Sora, Anna, Mia, Rosetta, May, and Ken all backed away from them, shaking their heads. "No way, you two. You know the rules- if you pass out, anything we do to you is fair and square," Anna stated, then pointed out the obvious. "The only way you could destroy those photos is if you held us down and stole our phones- and there's six of us and only two of you. So, good luck getting rid of any of those photos."
Yuri and Leon glanced at each other, then nodded. "I'll block the escape routes, you hold them down," Leon said before dashing towards the door.
"Hey!" Rosetta exclaimed, trying to get to it before him, arriving a second too late. "No fair! I can't stay here all night!"
Anna sighed, then said, "Rosetta, this if your room. You'd be staying here all night anyway!"
Rosetta looked around in surprise, then chuckled. "Oh, yeah. It is my room. In that case, do whatever you want but don't break anything. I'm going to stay and watch this play out." She leaned back against the wall next to Leon, chuckling as Yuri advanced on the others.
"Oh, thanks, you're a real help, Rosetta!" Sora exclaimed as Yuri backed them into a corner.
"Okay, new plan!" Anna said quickly as Yuri closed in on them. "Ken, you hold him off. Everybody else- run!" They all split up, leaving poor Ken to face his adversary all by himself.
Everyone else made for the window, stopping when Rosetta cut their way off, standing between them and freedom. "Come on, I have to even up the odds a little bit here!" she exclaimed at their shocked expressions.
"Traitor!" Mia accused as she tried to find a way around either Leon or Rosetta.
"Face it, you guys!" Leon called from his spot by the door. "The only way you're getting out of here is if you delete those pictures!"
Sora hesitated, then dashed towards Yuri, knowing exactly what would work and thanking god that Layla had told her his secret. Yuri watched her uncertainly, then gasped when she started to tickle his stomach. "Oh, god, Sora, stop!" he cried, falling to his knees, struggling to both breathe and remove her hands at the same time. With Yuri effectively rendered useless, it was up to the others to somehow keep Leon back and fight through Rosetta to the window.
Fortunately, the dilemma was very quickly solved for them when Kalos came staggering through the room, half-conscious and drunk as well. He fell on top of Leon and slurred, "Sarah? That you?"
"Run!" Mia cried, and everybody dashed for the window. Rosetta immediately dived out of their way in fear for her life, and they all swung outside. It was no trouble for the most of them, though May had a little difficulty because of her slightly enlarged stomach, but Ken froze on the edge, staring down anxiously.
"Ken!" May shouted. "Hurry up!"
"I can't!" he called back. "I'm... I'm scared of heights!"
They all chuckled at him before Anna called, "We can blackmail him later; Sora, give me a boost." Sora sighed, then crouched down, allowing Anna to crawl onto her back and wrap her legs tightly around Sora's stomach. After Sora stood up again, this time with Anna on her shoulders, Anna grabbed Ken's hand and yanked him out of the window, moments before Leon and Yuri had reached the window. Ken fell back on Anna and Sora collapsed, and the trio fell back on poor Mia and May.
Yuri and Leon appeared at the window, and when they saw the group crumpled on the ground, Yuri shouted, "Get them!" Everyone struggled to their feet and ran off in different directions, hoping to at least get one of them out with the pictures.
As it turned out, Yuri caught Anna, Leon caught Mia, and the rest escaped. Sora sent them to Layla before deleting them, knowing that since she was practically living at Leon's place anyway, he would delete themselves, pretty soon.
Sora chuckled to herself as she opened the door to Leon's penthouse. He, as well as the Killians and the Eidos*, would have horrible headaches from tonight, and everybody else, being the sweet and kind people that they were, would take every opportunity possible to make them regret drinking so much.
However, just five minutes after Sora had relaxed back onto the bed, she found herself headed outside yet again. "Yeah, thanks, Jean. Tell Marion I said hello," she said before hanging up her phone with an exasperated sigh and groaning. Apparently, Leon and Yuri had found their way back to Kaleido Stage, where Jean had run into them on his way out. Layla wasn't answering her phone- probably because she was unconscious- which left Sora to get them both home. "Just when I thought I was home for the night, they suck me right back in," she grumbled before wondering idily how the hell she was going to get to the two men home. Normally, Sora either borrowed Leon's car- which was somewhere at Kaleido Stage and she sure as hell wasn't going to bother finding it- or walked. She wasn't sure how she was going to walk both Yuri and Leon home when they were drunk- especially because Yuri lived several miles from Kaleido Stage and she didn't have a key to his house.
When Sora arrived at Kaleido Stage's entrance, she found Jean waiting for her, his car running, Leon and Yuri inside. "Hey, Sora," he greeted her tiredly.
"Hey. How long have you been waiting for me?" she asked as she approached his car, glancing at the two unconscious passengers.
He shrugged as he unlocked the doors and got out to help her with their drunken friends. "Not too long, only a couple of minutes." The two were silent for a moment, struggling to get them out of the car, then asked, "Sora, how're you planning on getting these two home without a car?"
Sora sighed uncertainly. "Um, I wasn't really thinking. Would you mind letting me borrow your car, and I'll drive you home afterwards?"
Jean nodded. "Sounds great. I'm sure Marion's already asleep."
Sora was driving down the street, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she tried to remember the exact way to Yuri's place. Eventually, she just changed direction- she wasn't exactly sure where Yuri and Layla lived and besides, there was no guarantee she'd be able to get him inside. She wasn't about to spend all night hunting for a spare key which may not even exist.
She was headed around the last turn when she heard the screeching of tires and, before she could react, something had collided with her side of the car with enough force to knock her out. She was tossed to side roughly, only stopped from going through the window by her seatbelt, and slammed back against the door as the car spun to the right and skidded across the street. Sora screamed as she was pinned back against the seat by the centrifugal force and when the car finally came to a stop, the momentum threw her towards the dashboard, her head knocking against the plastic and she fell back into unconsciousness.
Jean survived, both conscious and too shocked to know if he was injured or not. Leon and Yuri were both still out, and one glance at them told him that they had both escaped probably unscathed, but Sora? Probably not.
"Sora!" he gasped in a panic, unbuckling his seatbelt and reaching over to shake her shoulder. "Sora? Come on, wake up! Sora!" His efforts were of no use. She was out cold.
(First of all, I'm pathetic, I actually had to look up Kalos's last name. I thought Kalos was his last name.) Yes, yes, I know, so cruel of me to leave it off here. Don't worry, I will continue it... in PART THREE! That's right, I'm abandoning you with a cliffhanger like this, but I don't really have another choice. I start driver's ed tomorrow, I still have coursework for English 2 honors, advanced Algebra 2 honors, and AP World History due in less than one month. *sob*. Plus, I don't know how long it's going to take these family health issues to be resolved. And this time, I won't put it off for months, I promise- I've got two other sequels to write- SVU and House- but I'll put off my NCIS fic, just for you guys. I decided to kill the four-way crossover idea because it was really too much work, so it'll be popping up here eventually. Until then, adios!