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One Wild Night in Vegas: Chapter Five
"Ember! Wake up! Can you hear me?" A voice said through the fog in her mind. The rock star slowly slipped back towards consciousness. A sharp pain erupted from the back of her head causing her to groan. "Ember?" The voice asked again and she felt hands on her shoulders.
"Keep your hands to yourself Gene." She mumbled incoherently.
"That's a good sign." She heard a female voice state.
Slowly her eyes opened. She shut them tightly as the bright lights from the ceiling pierced into her vision augmenting her headache. "Ugh… The damn lights." Ember said. Suddenly a shadow came over her face causing her to tentatively open them again. Her vision began to clear and as the colors and shapes found their correct alignment, Ember found herself staring at Danny.
His hands were on either one of her shoulders as he stared at her with concern. Her thought process was slow to kick in as she thought. "Dipstick? What the hell is he doing?... Wait… That's right, we're in Vegas… And I fainted… Because..." Ember's eyes widened as her memory smacked into her. "OH HELL NO!" She yelled out, punching Danny in the face and scrambling into a standing position.
"OW! Damn it Ember. What the hell?" Danny said, stumbling backwards and holding his cheek in pain.
"You… You… Damn it! There aren't words to describe how much I freaking hate you!" Ember screamed out.
"Uhh. Despise?" Johnny suggested.
"Loathe?" Kitty said.
"Ooh ooh! Abhor?" Tucker said with mock excitement.
"Ooh. Good one." Johnny said.
Danny and Ember barely heard the exchange of words between their other companions. "Me! What the hell did I do?" Danny asked.
"You married me! That's what you did!" Ember said as though it was the most repulsive thing her mouth had ever uttered.
"Not to be the bearer of bad news "Mrs. Fenton" but you obviously agreed to it. Hell, for all we know it was your idea!" He exclaimed angrily.
Ember's voice became low and had a note of danger in it. "First. If you ever call me that again, I will smash your face through a car windshield. And Second. There is no way it was my idea!"
"Oh really. And what makes you say that?" Danny scoffed.
"Because no matter how drunk I was I would never be hammered enough to marry you. Ever." She said.
Danny laughed and said. "Oh yeah? Well you might be right about that. But I know you were at least drunk enough to have sex with me."
"One more word Baby-pop. You say one more freaking smug ass word and I will push my fist down your throat and rip out your heart." She said as she stepped towards him with a deadly stare.
Danny stepped forward as well with a gaze just as dangerous. "Is that a fact?" The knuckles in his fist popped.
"That's a damn fact." Ember growled as they stood mere inches away from each other.
They stared silently at one another for a full minute before they heard someone beside them whisper. "Alright. Now kiss her."
The pair broke off their staring contest to look at their group of friends. All three were struggling to keep from laughing. Danny and Ember looked back at each other, realized how close they were, and with a small blush, quickly moved to distance themselves.
Ember subconsciously looked at the ring on her finger, then at Danny and shook her head in utter disbelief. "That's it. I'm done." She said walking out the doors.
"Done? What do you mean done?" Danny said following after her.
"I mean I'm gone! Outta here! Leaving! Take your pick." Ember replied as her feet crunched against the gravel.
"Leaving! You can't leave." Danny said running after her.
"Yeah? Why not?" She said as she reached the car and pulled out her guitar.
"We need you here. What if you remember something important?" Danny said.
"Well I guess you'll just be screwed then. Look I was willing to go along with this because I didn't have anything better to do, but life commitments to my nemesis is where I draw the line." She said looking around to make sure no one was watching before tossing her guitar into the air and leaping onto it. "See you around Dipstick. It's been pure hell." Ember said as she started to fly away.
"If you leave I won't divorce you." Danny called out to her. The guitar froze in midflight as she hovered.
He smiled as she floated back down to ground level and hopped off. "Come again?" She said in disbelief.
"Stay with us and help me find Sam. If you do, then I promise you, we'll get a divorce so quick your head will swim." Danny said.
"And if I don't" Ember asked with a hint of worry.
"Then I will refuse any attempts to separate and will drag this out as long as I possibly can." He replied with a smirk as Ember's eyes widened. "I will be the most caring, loving, and attentive husband you have ever seen."
Ember gasped at this. "You… you wouldn't."
"I wouldn't? Oh dear. I was wondering. Do you prefer the yellow paint or the floral wallpaper for the dining room?" He said scooting up close to her and putting on his cheesiest grin.
The ghost shivered and pushed him away. "Alright. I'll help you… Man. I never thought you had it in you to blackmail someone."
"I prefer the term extortion." Danny said as his friends walked out.
"Vinnie gave us two addresses. One is a tattoo parlor and the other is a wedding chapel. They're within a mile of each other and apparently we went to both last night." Tucker said walking up to them.
"Ok. Let's try the tattoo place first, then the chapel." Danny said as the group got into the hummer.
They drove out of the parking lot and onto the freeway in silence. This held for about twenty minutes before Kitty cleared her throat and said. "Out of all the people I would have guessed would get married, you two are the last."
Danny groaned as Tucker said. "Well to be fair they were drunk."
Johnny nodded in agreement. "They'd have to be. I mean, like, really really drunk."
Ember growled and said. "Could you please stop talking about us like we aren't here? And seriously, I'd rather not talk about that so let's just… pick a different subject." She paused in an attempt to control her boiling anger. Her gaze wandered to the radio, and her hand pressed the on button.
All five pairs of eyes went wide as the song blared through the speakers. "Marry me Juliet, you'll never have to be alone! I love you an... krrzzzt."
The last sound was due to Ember ripping the radio from its console and chucking it out the window. Tucker looked in the rear view mirror and said. "Huh. She got three bounces with that one."
"Man. Chuck Norris is gonna be pissed." Johnny said.
(Twenty minutes later: Outside of Stinton's Gym)
Chuck walked out of the gym, clutching the slip of white paper in his fist. The guy inside had given him directions to exactly where they were going without incident. He must have missed them by just a few minutes based on what he had heard from the owner.
Chuck stepped over the Harley Davidson that was serving as his vehicle and slipped a sleek black helmet over his head. With a distinctive roar the motorcycle turned on and ripped out of the parking lot, spraying gravel behind it. Those punks were going to get it. Nobody steals from Chuck Norris. Nobody.