DISCLAIMER: I don't own Hoot. Sadly, I had to return it to movie gallery because we all know how upset they get when you don't return the movies.
Hook-Jah! Chapter 6 Remix! I love you guys! You've all be great to me. I hope I worked out all the mistakes but you never know.
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Chapter 6: Plots and Complications
Roy walked back into the kitchen, after he had hung up the phone. Now all they could do was wait for Bea to make her grand appearance. Roy went over to Mullet, who was sitting on one of the stools beside the counter. Mullet gave him a puzzling look as he approached.
"What are you up to?" he raised an eyebrow.
Roy smiled deviously "Oh, you'll see, soon enough."
Mullet realized that was all he would get out of his boyfriend, so he withdrew into his thoughts. Garret looked about nervously, troubled by his own thoughts.
"Roy…" he began, a look of uncertainty on his face.
"Yes Garret?"
"Why did you call Beatrice?"
A slow smile inched across Roy's face, "I'll be needing her help."
"Help for what?" Garret slowly began to realize what Roy was up to.
"You of course." Roy smiled playfully.
Mullet had been listening intently and it suddenly dawned on him.
"You and Bea are going to play matchmaker."
Garret looked horrified but Roy looked extremely pleased. Roy gracefully moved over to Mullet and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Correct!" he beamed.
"Wait!" Garret had snapped out of his daze.
"Is there a problem?" Roy asked, not deterred at all.
"Yes!" Garret looked at Roy shocked.
Mullet rose from his seat and placed himself between the two.
"Roy?" he asked staring down at the brunette.
"Yes"
"Are you feeling well?"
"I'm feeling perfectly fine. Why do you ask love?"
"You're not acting like yourself."
Mullet received a glare from his smaller boyfriend. Roy was about to say some choice words but the doorbell rang. Mullet moved past Roy to go answer it. Roy had a dark look on his face and it scared Garret a tad bit. He avoided eye contact with the infuriated boy.
Mullet opened the door to be greeted with a huge hug from his sister. She let go and smiled at him.
"So where's the victim?"
Mullet jerked his head in the direction of the kitchen. Bea excitedly rushed to the kitchen, with Mullet dragging slowly behind her.
Roy was still glaring daggers at the kitchen wall. He couldn't believe Mullet had said that. Then his face softened as a thought crossed his mind. I guess he's right though…. I have been feeling off lately. He was snapped out of his thoughts by Bea bounding into the room.
"Hi Roy!!" she rushed up to him and hugged him.
She then turned her attention to Garret. Who she rushed up to as well and gave him a choking hug.
"What are you on, Bea?" Mullet asked as he resumed his place at the counter.
"Nothing! I'm just in a really good mood!" She smiled brightly.
"Well at least someone is..." He muttered under his breath.
Roy shot him a dark look but it was gone instantly.
"So………" she looked at all of them and clasped her hands together.
"What's the plan exactly?" Garret asked meekly.
"We don't know yet." Roy spoke up.
"We're plotting as we go." Bea giggled slightly.
Mullet smiled and shook his head. Garret managed a weak smile and gulped.
"I trust you guys"
Roy and Bea brightened instantly and Mullet laughed. "Oh boy."
"How do we get started?" Garret seemed more into the idea now.
"Well," Bea paused. "We need to make some observations."
"Like?" the possibility of spying caught Mullet's interest.
"We need to know where to find him, how to catch his eye, and most importantly of all if he's interested in guys or not." Bea nodded, going over the list in her head.
"So….. We're basically going to stalk him?" Roy raised his eyebrows.
Bea sighed and gave him a disbelieving look. "Not stalking just observing."
"Sounds like stalking to me." Mullet added.
"Its not….its what girls do when they like someone. They follow him and watch until they know enough."
"So girls are like pros at stalking?"
"Ugh! No! I just meant…..just forget it!"
"Well, if we're going to be "observing" him, how do we go about it?"
Bea's face brightened. "Now we're talking! Well, we'll need to take turns. As to not arise suspicions."
"Wait" Mullet was close to laughing. "We're going to be watching this guy in the open, in shifts, and we will be following him around. And you think that's not suspicious?"
Bea narrowed her eyes. "Yes and if you have a problem with it. We can drop you from our plan and leave you out of it all."
"Just saying" he threw his arms in the air defensively.
"No fighting now." Roy scolded. "We're going to have to work together on this."
"Hate to say it but Roy is right." Mullet sighed dramatically, earning another death glare from Roy.
"We'll need to see how well Garret can catch Dana's attention."
"What!" Garret looked scared again.
Roy gave him a disbelieving look and sighed. "We need to know if he has any interest in you."
"How do we do that?"
"Dress you up and take you out." Bea answered for Roy.
"Exactly"
"Wait" Mullet spoke again. "How do we know where he is?"
Everyone looked at him, and Bea smiled.
"Oh no!" he rose "No way am I going out and looking for the guy."
"But Mullet, you're the fastest and me and Roy need to get Garret ready." Bea pouted.
Mullet shook his head. "No, that's final."
Roy walked up to Mullet and looked up at him with pleading eyes. Mullet looked away avoiding Roy's puppy dog eyes. Roy emitted a low whimper and wrapped his arms around his boyfriend. Mullet tried to pry the brunette off but to no avail.
"Oh alright" he gave in and tightly hugged Roy back. "But you owe me now."
Roy stood on tiptoe to kiss Mullet, who leaned down to meet him. They stayed together for several moments until Bea coughed, after noticing Garret's discomfort. Roy pulled away from a reluctant Mullet. Mullet sent a brief death glare Garret's way.
"So how do I find this guy?" he asked as he held Roy.
"He's like 6'5" and thin as a stick, kinda hard to miss." Garret snorted.
Mullet didn't look amused and Roy shot him yet another warning glance.
"You'll know him when you see him." Roy reassured him.
Mullet bent to kiss Roy one last time before he left out the front door. The remaining three looked at one another.
"Ummm….. Is there something I should know?" Bea asked worriedly.
Roy sighed and walked into the living room, collapsing on the couch. Bea and Garret followed him.
"There may be some tension between Mullet and Garret."
"Some?" Garret asked with a frightened face.
"Wait….what happened?" Bea asked before it could go further.
"I kissed Roy." Garret blurted out.
"What?!" Bea turned to face Roy. "Explain now."
"Garret kissed me and I told him there was someone else. So I ran and Mullet caught me. We went back to my house and he made me tell him what was wrong. Then he ran back here to get Garret." Roy let it all rush out and purposely left Officer Delinko out of the story.
"Oh." Bea sat down in the nearest chair, thinking.
Garret averted his eyes and stared out the window.
"Well, Mullet is the jealous and protective type."
"I noticed" Roy said with a bitter tone.
Bea looked up at him. " You can't blame him though. Roy, you're one of the best things that has happened to him. He doesn't want to lose you."
"I know" came the sad reply. "I just want him to understand."
"Understand what?"
"He can't lose me."
Bea was shocked and she gapped openly at him. "….."
Roy sighed and sat up. "I love him too much."
Bea looked on the verge of tears. "You do?"
Roy nodded avoiding her eyes. He was surprised when she came over to him and hugged him.
"Good…..Mullet needs all the love he can get."
Roy hugged her back, slightly puzzled by her behavior. He looked over at Garret, who simply shrugged.
"Well, no sense in just sitting here. Let's get upstairs and get Garret ready." the old Bea was back.
With that she dragged both the boys upstairs.
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Mullet ran until he came along a crowd of people, curious he stopped and joined them. He squeezed between people and ducked under arms. He arrived at the front of the crowd and was met with a disturbing sight. There was one really tall guy, who Mullet figured was Dana, and some shorter boy, facing each other.
"You think that just because your back now. That everything will go back to the way it was. I got news for you Dana, that won't be happening." the shorter boy yelled out as a challenge.
Dana remained calm and simply watched the other. "Show me then"
The shorter one flinched slightly, beginning to look nervous. He then leapt forward to take a swing at Dana. Dana easily blocked it and knocked the other down.
"Just leave Doug, you have no power here." with that the boy on the ground got up and bolted for safety.
Mullet watched on, slightly amused and felt eyes on him. He looked around puzzled as to who would be watching him. He glanced over to see a dark haired boy watching him carefully through narrowed eyes. He didn't like the look and the boy seemed familiar. He could have sworn he'd seen him somewhere before.
Dana walking into the malt shop disrupted his thoughts. He began to push his way through the crowd, back to Garret's house. He knew where Dana was and he had to report back.
"Let the hunt begin." he mused and ran full speed back.
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Sheldon had been watching the two boys argue. Well the one boy argue and the other calmly reply every time. It was getting boring and he was about to leave. Right as he began to turn he saw a flash of blonde. He turned to see the blonde boy from the carnival push his way to the front of the crowd.
He wasn't wearing any shoes and he was dressed down. Sheldon watched him critically and frowned. The boy was watching the other two with an amused looked on his face. Then as the shorter boy ran away, the blonde turned to him. He must of felt the eyes watching him.
Then the Dana kid walked into the malt shop. The blonde watched him then turned and pushed through the crowd. Sheldon followed and got through just in time to see the blonde bolt down the street. Then Sheldon had a thought, that the blonde could lead him to Roy. So he gave chase and tried to keep up.
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Garret looked at himself in the mirror. Bea and Roy had dressed him to kill, or that's what Bea said. He looked and just saw himself looking foolish. He was wearing a hot pink shirt with a black skull splattered across it with some black jeans. They had forced him into the only pair of black shoes he owned. They had styled his hair with gel and Bea had attempted to wrestle him into a black jacket. That was her one mission that had failed horribly. Regarding himself in the mirror, he cracked.
"This will never work" he sighed.
"You have to believe it will or it won't." Roy said softly.
Bea nodded encouragingly at him in the mirror. He smiled back at them both and nodded.
"Well, now all we have to do is wait for Mullet to get back." Roy said as he stuffed clothes back into the overflowing closet.
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Mullet knew he was being followed and he encouraged it. He slowed for the other to keep him in sight. He was curious as to who this boy was and why he was so determined to follow him. He rounded the corner to Garret's house and bolted to the door. He paused and waited for the other to round the corner.
When the boy did, he opened the door and rushed inside. He was sure the boy had seen him. Now to tell the others. As he climbed the stairs, the others ran down them. Roy threw himself at his love and hung on. Mullet didn't mind and he smiled brightly as he wrapped his arms around the slender waist of his boyfriend.
"So?" Bea asked impatiently.
"He's at the malt shop."
"Great! We can get there quickly enough." Bea dragged Garret out the door.
"We'll catch up in a moment." Mullet called after them.
"OK!" with that she slammed the door.
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Sheldon had climbed a tree across the street to watch the house. He had seen the blonde enter the house and now he had to wait. He saw the door open but two people he didn't recognize exited. A girl and boy, they walked in the direction the blonde had come from earlier. He wondered if Roy was actually here or if he had just all this way for nothing.
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Roy eyed Mullet quite amused by his boyfriend's face.
"Something wrong?"
"No."
"Liar."
"I'm not lying, Roy."
"Then stop lying."
"This guy followed me."
Roy paused and thoughts. "What'd he look like?"
"Dark hair and pale, kinda creepy if you ask me. When I was watching Dana, I felt these eyes on me. When I looked he was there staring at me, as if he hated me." Mullet shrugged casually.
Roy had gone very pale and seemed in a daze. Mullet peered at the brunette and waved a hand in front of his face. Roy blinked slowly then looked up at him.
"I think I know who followed you."
Mullet was very taken back by this. "You do?"
"Sheldon."
Mullet furrowed his brow. "Who's Sheldon?"
"Remember who I told you about?"
Mullet frowned, he didn't remember. Then he thought back and his face darkened.
"Him." was the accusing reply.
Roy simply nodded and looked down.
"Wait…how did you know he was here?"
"I saw him at the carnival."
Mullet looked down at him and narrowed his eyes. Quickly, Roy explained what happened. When he was done, Mullet was in a rage.
"Why didn't you tell me before?"
"I didn't want you to worry."
"Oh, so you think I'm not worried now. That because he saw me with you at the carnival that he followed me. Because he believed I would lead him to you."
Roy shrugged and looked down. Mullet sighed and embraced him tightly.
"Its ok" he whispered into Roy's hair "I can deal with him."
Roy nodded and Mullet let go.
"I bet he's watching somewhere outside." Mullet peered out a window. "Yup, he's trying to hide in a tree. Well, it takes more than that to fool me."
He glanced over his shoulder at Roy and smiled.
"Come on, lets give him a show. And call me by my name loudly, since he's probably referring to me as something else."
Mullet rolled his eyes dramatically, making Roy giggle a bit.
Sheldon saw the door open again and he waited. The blonde kid walked out and behind him was Roy. He was right, the blonde had lead him to Roy. He watched them chat animatedly and walk the way the other two had. The blonde reached towards Roy's waist and began to tickle him.
"Mullet! STOP!" came a loud scream from Roy.
Sheldon watched as Roy wiggled away and fled down the street. Mullet, as Roy had called him, gave chase and soon they disappeared from sight. Sheldon decided he should go home before his mom began calling his cell phone and started annoying the hell out of him. He smiled, he'd forgotten to tell Roy, he lived here now.
Mullet quickly caught up with Roy and easily picked him up. He ran down the street with a protesting Roy in his arms. Soon enough, they reached the malt shop and Roy demanded to be put down. Mullet laughed but didn't put him down. Roy didn't want to be carried inside.
He stretched up and brushed his lips against Mullet's. Mullet pressed back and stopped in the middle of the street. He nibbled on Roy's bottom lip, receiving a quiet moan. He smiled and put a dazed Roy down. Roy walked ahead and entered first, scanning the room.
Mullet followed Roy to the booth where Garret and Bea were sitting. Garret was fidgeting with his clothes. They slide into the seat opposite them and looked around. Roy looked around, trying to figure out Garret's behavior. Then he realized why, they were under the curious gaze of none other than Dana Matherson. He had changed, just as Garret had said. He was intently staring at Garret, making it seem their job would be easier than they thought.
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Dana had seen them walk in, Garret and Beatrice the Bear. He remembered them from before, but now things had changed. That Garret kid was quite appealing…. The boy had seen him looking and was now nervously fidgeting with his clothes. He found it so cute how he made him nervous. Then Roy had walked in with some guy he didn't know.
Though something about the other seemed protective of Roy. Just the way they had walked in together and now how they sat in the booth. He had seen Roy look at Garret, then at him, and he smiled. Dana was puzzled and decided his best chance was to just go over there.
Bea saw Dana watching and saw him get up to come over.
"I have to go, time to make lunch for my dad." with that she was gone.
Garret looked up to see Dana walking over to them. He froze and looked to Roy for help. Roy smiled encouragingly at him and turned back to Mullet.
"Can I sit with you guys?" Dana loomed over them, his voice had changed as well.
Roy and Mullet looked at Garret. Me?, he mouthed to them and they nodded affirmative.
He looked up at Dana and stuttered slightly, "Su...Sure."
Dana smiled and sat down beside him. Garret panicked slightly but then Dana spoke.
"Garret right?"
Garret nodded meekly.
Dana then turned to Roy. "Roy and sorry but I don't know you."
Mullet smiled amused, "Most don't know me"
Roy gave Mullet a withering glance. "Dana this is Mullet…"
Dana still stared, wondering.
"I'm his boyfriend, if your wondering." Mullet said and Garret gasped slightly.
Dana nodded but said nothing. They fell into a comfortable silence.
"Anybody want anything?" Mullet said suddenly.
"A vanilla shake would be nice" Roy replied and looked at the other two. "How bout you guys?"
"Strawberry shake" Garret said timidly, almost afraid to speak.
"Me too" Dana said calmly.
"Ok, we'll be right back." Roy smiled and got up and went to order with Mullet.
Garret stared after them in shock. They had left him...with Dana...alone.
"Got a girlfriend?" Dana asked casually.
"No" Garret replied quietly.
"Boyfriend?"
It caught Garret off guard and he almost inhaled sharply. He couldn't speak so he just shook his head and blushed down at the table.
"Which would you rather have?"
Garret looked at him and opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out. Dana saw and leaned in to kiss Garret. The feel of lips on his, shocked Garret. He looked timidly at Dana as he pulled back.
"Would you be my boyfriend Garret?"
Garret nodded slowly, in a sort of daze. Dana smiled and leaned back in to nibble on Garret's neck. Garret sighed contently as Roy came back. Dana pulled away and Roy smiled at them. He placed their shakes in front of them and sat down.
"Where's Mullet?" Garret asked noticing the blonde's absence.
"I don't know." Roy looked around "He was right behind me."
Mullet had seen the Sheldon again. He had been standing outside the malt shop window. Mullet had watched him walk inside and take a seat. He narrowed his eyes as he saw him look at Roy. A low snarl was rising in his throat and he swiftly walked back to Roy.
"Where'd you go?" Roy asked as he sat down again.
"Thought I saw someone." there was an edge to his voice.
Roy caught the meaning and looked around. "Inside?"
Mullet nodded and stretched out some. He could feel the eyes, even if Roy couldn't. He noticed that Dana had seen the boy looking. He gave a knowing look to Mullet, who nodded. They would all be leaving the malt shop together, there would be no chances taken. Roy and Garret remained oblivious to the eyes but Roy knew he was in there, somewhere.
"We should get going." Mullet said as he saw Sheldon stand.
He saw Sheldon walking their way, instantly he became alert again. He tensed and Dana noticed, so Dana glanced over to see the boy coming their way. He knew things wouldn't go over well.
"Yeah, let's go now." he stood and waited for Garret.
Mullet did the same for Roy and turned to leave. Roy saw Sheldon for the first time and instantly froze. Mullet grabbed his arm and began to drag him. Garret and Dana followed quickly sensing the urgency to leave.
"Leaving so soon." came a cold voice.
Sheldon had gotten behind them somehow and was eyeing Roy. The boy in question, was cowering beside Mullet. Mullet placed himself between Sheldon and Roy. Dana sensed the tension and stepped in front of Mullet.
"We don't want trouble." he said calmly.
"Course you don't, you're just a bunch of cowards."
Mullet's face had darkened murderously like the time he had faced Officer Delinko. Sheldon saw and backed away out of the blonde's reach Garret grabbed hold of Roy and dragged him outside as quickly as he could. Sheldon watched until Roy could no longer be seen. Mullet noticed and emitted a growl.
"Jealous?" Sheldon taunted just out of reach.
Mullet stepped forward but Dana held him back.
"You should stop or I'll let him have at you."
"Oh! I'm so scared!" Sheldon mocked him "Why don't you just worry about your own whore."
Dana's face darkened and Mullet had caught the hidden meaning in Sheldon's words. Before Dana could catch him, he leapt forward and slammed Sheldon back into a table. Dana stood back and watched.
"If you ever, EVER, call Roy that again. I swear you'll regret the day you first laid eyes on him." with that he slammed Sheldon to the floor and walked out.
Dana followed him and they were meet by Garret's worried face. Roy was huddled by the wall and shaking. Mullet walked over to him and Dana took Garret into his arms. Mullet sat beside his love and wrapped him in his arms. Roy stopped shaking and leaned into Mullet. He looked up and had tears in his eyes.
"Don't cry" Mullet whispered. "I never want to see those beautiful eyes cry."
He kissed above both of Roy's eyes and then pressed his lips against Roy's. Roy responded instantly and let Mullet enter. Mullet stroked Roy's tongue with his own and traced patterns on his cheeks. They pulled away for air and Mullet kissed his love's forehead.
Roy leaned back in to kiss Mullet again, not caring who was watching. Mullet pulled Roy even closer to him and held him in place with all of his limbs. He gently stroked Roy's soft hair as he probed his mouth with his tongue. Roy pulled back as a silent sob shook his body.
"What do we do?" Roy asked in a small shaky voice.
"We can only wait" Mullet kissed Roy again and held his smaller love against him as he shook.
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