Author's Notes: A long-overdue chapter, and a rather meta one too. ;-)

"Ugh!"

Gi let out a mangled cry of rage as she threw open the door to the Planeteers' Parisian suite, throwing herself into the first chair she came to and grabbing her head in her hands. "I cannot believe those two!"

Kwame followed her into the room, but seemed reluctant to actually come close to his enraged teammate. "You must calm down, Gi," he said carefully.

"It's not all that bad," Ma-Ti agreed, though he seemed to be half-hiding behind Kwame as he said it.

"Well, it's just—ugh!" Gi let out another frustrated sigh, waving her arm dismissively. "Every place we go, those two just keep—stealing the limelight! We're supposed to be educating the public about the environment, not posing for the paparazzi!"

"To be fair, Linka wasn't doing nearly as much posing," Ma-Ti said, smiling nervously at his attempted joke.

Gi gave a low growl. Kwame just sighed. "I am tired," he muttered, rubbing one eye with his fist. "I think I am going to go take a nap for a few hours."

"Don't sleep in too late," Ma-Ti called as Kwame dragged himself slowly into one of the bedrooms. "Don't forget we have that dinner tonight with the Minister of Ecology."

Kwame waved vaguely as he closed the door behind him. Gi scoffed. "Why bother even going? Nobody will even notice us there with Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood in attendance."

"Gi..."

His friend simply slumped down in her chair, her face less enraged but still pouting sourly. Ma-Ti had to admit, though, she did have a point—ever since that movie about the Planeteers had come out, Wheeler and Linka had been getting a lot more attention than any of the others. Except that it wasn't really the kind of attention that the team had been trying to get when they agreed to the production—the movie had had an environmental message like they wanted, but the director had apparently decided that the story needed a romantic subplot as well, and that "sub-" part had quickly been dropped until about half of the film was nothing more than Bambi Blight and Wheeler's actor staring into each other's eyes, kissing, and doing...other things that in retrospect probably explained the film's PG-13 rating.

To everyone but Wheeler's chagrin, the movie had been a smash hit. And then the gossip magazines had started following them around...

"We are supposed to be here for the European Environmental Summit," Gi grumbled, breaking Ma-Ti out of his thoughts. "We called that stupid press conference so that we could get support for Prime Minister LeBlanc's air emissions law. Instead, all we got was a photographer from Femmes asking Wheeler and Linka about their sex life! Which I'm pretty sure they don't have, outside of Wheeler's imagination," she added.

"Well...those interviews usually have something about the environment in them."

"Oh, yeah, for like, one question! I'm sick of those two's love life hogging all the attention." Gi slumped in her seat; she looked more depressed than angry now. "We're supposed to be doing something important," she said miserably. "I didn't agree to that stupid movie just so we could be shoved to the sidelines and let those two become movie stars!"

Ma-Ti was silent for a moment. "Well...we could look at the bright side."

She scoffed again. "What's that?"

"We're not in the limelight."

She rolled her eyes. "Oh, lucky us."

"No, really. Think about it. Does Linka seem to be enjoying her new-found fame?"

Gi had to laugh a little. Wheeler was certainly enjoying all this, but so far Linka was far less enthusiastic—she spent a good portion of these events trying to convince people that the two of them weren't an item, though that never got into the magazines without being twisted into some sort of "breakup" story. "No."

"And did she seem to enjoy when Wheeler pulled her along with him to meet that photographer from—um, whatever that magazine was called again?"

Gi was smiling now. "Not really, no."

"And does she have an entire afternoon free in Paris today?"

Gi raised her eyebrows as Ma-Ti gave her an uncharacteristic, almost Wheeler-esque smirk. On the flight over she had regretfully mentioned that the group probably wouldn't have enough time to actually do anything fun on this trip...but with that press conference a bust, they had hours to kill now before the dinner, and their hotel was only a few blocks away from the Eiffel Tower and this beautiful park called the Champ de Mars...

"...Ma-Ti, would you like to go sightseeing with me?"

He grinned. "Sure!"

And despite her previous anger, Gi could only grin back.

A/N: I'm pretty sure they're in Paris because I'm still obsessed with the Phineas and Ferb special that was on last week. Is anyone else familiar with that show, by the way? Because I have an intriguing crossover idea...;-)

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