A/N: Okay, THIS IS IMPORTANT- I was messing around with my profile and before I knew it, I accidentally deleted a review, and I am sorry. I am at the stage where I start to see what my new Fanfiction powers could do… Like Superman playing with his lasers and X-Ray vision… come on… you know he does it…

Anyhow, the magical plot fairies from mars visit me the other night and I have this sudden need to write this next chapter.

So, the usual, I do not own Mario and all of his members of his Mafia. I just came to him on his daughters wedding day to offer him a deal that he could never turn down… this crummy Fanfiction. He shot me in the face. I was reanimated the next day to write this for you because I want your brain- I mean… reviews.

Oh, and the first half of this chapter was inspired by the Beatles tune "I just seen a face" because I needed inspiration to write. So in honor of this sudden breakage of the writers block, I name this chapter after one of their immortal tunes. Thank you, and now, enjoy.

Consequence

Chapter two: I just seen a face

The walk from boo woods was almost a magical experience. Mr. L tried hard to contain his excitement and continue his cool and calm expression as for the first time he was walking beside his other half, his alternative personality, his… its Luigi.

But it was not just the fact that he is walking next to the man who housed his entity in his head. There were hundreds of things that were running through his mind, making him almost dizzy.

He was free, just like that. He could do whatever he wanted without facing the infamous wrath of the youngest Mario… isn't he considered to be the youngest Mario brother now? Whatever, he doesn't care; he just missed being alive in general. It is a wonderful feeling…especially the breathing part, inside of Luigi's mind he felt like he was in a frozen blanket, it took him the first months of his "life" to learn how to move in the endless and fertile mind that Luigi possess.

That and he could continue his own train of thought without being interrupted by Luigi. Despite the fun he seemed to had, it was hard to keep a thought process going, the green thunder often got so frustrated sometimes that he would take it out on poor Luigi, even more so when he couldn't invent, that to him was hell…But now Mr. L is his own man; he never had to fear of being locked away in someone's mind again…

After all the endless possibilities that was running through his head, his mind kept coming to his newest affiliation, a lovely lady by the name of Pauline. Pauline! Oh yeah, he could now talk to her, hold her, and just be in her presence without having that shadow of Luigi wanting to leave or ending the conversation. He wondered if she would remember him, or even want to be with him, after all, it had been two months since they had been in the same room…that kiss, it now replayed in his mind several times, a warmth began to spread across his cheeks.

The walk out of boo woods were over as soon as it started. Mr. L could bask in the reverence that he was able to get lost to his own thoughts. Luigi turned to him with a peaceful smile "hey, want to go to the castle with me?"

Mr. L gave him a weird look "what!? Are you crazy" he shook his head "if Peach saw me… I would have game ended in a heart beat" he felt a hand on his shoulder, now it was Luigi's turn to shake his head "nope, not at all, because I have one more surprise for you…"

The counterpart shrugged his shoulders "yeah, well, I am the bad guy remember? The villain, the black sheep, and the outlaw" he took a breath realizing that despite his new body he would still have his reputation "listen, I can understand that you wanted me out of your head, and frankly, I love this body. But you can't expect me or anybody who crossed me to drop everything and decide to love each other…"

Luigi stared at him for a moment, with those Grambi awful loving eyes "Mario had dropped everything and decided to give you a chance."

"Well, Mario had hit his head on one too many bricks!"

The Mario brother smiled "Mario wasn't the only one who wants to accept you…"

Mr. L raised his eyebrows "yeah, I am sure Bowser would love to give me a big old, back breaking hug…then throw me a tea party, oh what a jolly-willy-nilly-sugary puff ball day that would be.. "

Despite his protest, he didn't realize that Luigi already led him to the castle and they were on the bridge heading towards the large front door. Now Mr. L realizes that you should never get distracted around a Mario brother, especially one who could be a witty and manipulative as Luigi could be. Don't let that shy and sweet demeanor fool you, under those boyish features and soft blue eyes lies a viper waiting to strike, Mr. L learned the hard way…

How could he fall for something that he obviously taught Luigi to do? Mr. L narrowed his eyes at his counterpart "oh, you're going to play that card, eh?" Luigi smirked and began towards the door "I learned from the best…"

The green thunder shook his head "I think that you are hanging out with the wrong kind of people then, I am supposed to be the smartest one here!" Mr. L called out, not caring about continuing the conversation any more than wanting to see Bowser or even worse Daisy again.

They entered the large foyer and to his surprised, it was very dark "what the heck?!" Now this was starting to make him angry "you said that-"

"SURPRISE!"

Oh… it was a surprise party… Mr. L felt even more stupid, he was never the one for surprise parties. But at least it wasn't an ambush, which was the first thing that they teach you in a Minion training course, never trust dark rooms. Lesson never learned.

He almost wished that he was back in Luigi's head, safe, unseen, mostly because all eyes were on him. Don't get him wrong, he did like the attention, but the people here… he doesn't even know, let alone like to begin with. Where's Mario? Yeah, this situation made him wish that Mario was here too- oh… there he is, by the buffet table… typical.

Minutes had passed and as usual for a party that involved him, people came to meet him, congratulate him and leave him, and with learning that pattern Mr. began to relax.

Once again he is left to his thoughts, which is always a bad thing because it remembered a familiar girl and the realization that he can't find her anywhere… which seem to cut him at some level, maybe Pauline had moved on.

Mr. L sat on a chair and he watched Luigi bow to Daisy and pulled her into a loving embrace, well, at least he is happy…It was when Mr. L decided to spike the punch bowl (just for old times' sake) is when he spotted a flash of red from the corner of his eye. "Pauline?" he stopped what he was doing and decided to follow that color, and follow he did, all over the castle.

Every time he see that red he would go after it, like a cat chasing his prey, he left the main party and ran down the hall where he last seen the bit of red.

Now he was in some back yard, it was large with two separate gardens divided by a concrete patio and a large fountain behind him on either side of the doors hung large flags with the Mushroom Crest. The sun had finally set and everything was draped with the night sky, the fountain was lit a soft yellow illumining the patio and the edges of the garden. Mr. L of course did not pay attention to the detail and continue to look for that seductive flash of red.

There he saw the color and finally he was able to catch up to it. "HA!" he cried out and the creature in red turned to him "ah… what in the Underwhere are you supposed to be?!" He blinked and his confidence once again left him.

With that, Birdo narrowed his…her…whatever eyes "oh!" the egg-shooter approached him and Mr. L felt a twinge of fear as he began to walk backwards. Nearly falling into the large fountain "gah, go away!"

Suddenly he felt a warm hand rest itself on his shoulder and suddenly, that… whatever it was seem to understand and left… which was weird. But then again this whole story is weird to begin with so now we need to stop questioning this story's motive.

He turned to face a familiar set of violet eyes and a warm smile, her hair was pulled up and she was wearing a nice red cocktail dress, completed with a thin scarf and heels, his throat began to tighten "you- Pauline… you came!"

Pauline smiled "of course, I would! You thought I would miss a good party?"

They stood there, silent, just marveling at this new found company "you came all this way to see me?" He was amazed that someone like her could be so….why is there a big… hairy monkey behind her?

The ape in question began to snarl at him in disproval and Mr. L felt the blood leave his face for the third time tonight. Pauline snapped out of her smiling gaze to address the ape behind her "oh, I'm sorry, Mr. L, this is my friend Donkey Kong, he was also invited- he wanted to escort me…"

Who ever thought was a good idea to invite to invite a giant ape to his party is an idiot and deserves to get missiles aimed at his big stupid head.

Mr. L quickly decides to play it smooth, this is his only shot, it is now or never and he is not going to let a freaking ape ruin his first real night with Pauline. "Well, nice to meet you Donkey Kong…" his voice was smooth and he was surprised with himself that he was able to keep this calm.

The ape bared his teeth at him and snarled; he turned his back and decided to sit in a patch of flowers. Pauline found this cute but Mr. L felt like he had been rejected by the ape… can you be rejected by an ape? Nobody knows but now apparently it is a thing…

"He's just jealous" she snapped him out of his thoughts and stroked his jaw "you look different" he frowned "is that a bad thing, because I couldn't help that bit" she smiled "nah, I think it's cute" she tugged on his goatee for good measure, he smirked "awesome, because I thought they did a pretty good job, I don't even need a mask that much because they made me look different than Luigi"

Pauline decided to close the space between them and pulled him into a hug "I think that is wonderful…and I especially like the height thing too" yeah, now they were around the same height.

Hey, he just realized that this was his first hug! He didn't count Luigi because it was like hugging himself and he did not let that weird old man go anymore near him, help or not… the old man seemed to be into poking and prodding with a scalpel and that thought alone made in uncomfortable. The last thing that he needed was to be another lab rat.

Another thing he realized that this is the first real conversation he had in months with Pauline without Luigi being the barrier between them. At last, after months of building up their relationship through line number Luigi he is finally able to hold her, to confirm that she is real. That this whole thing is real and not some alternative reality that he created in the small space he has in Luigi's mind.

Mr. L finally brought himself to wrap his arms around her, his hand buried in her hair, and allowed his body to finally relax, taking in the scent of lavender. Although he just realizing how chilly it was outside and Mr. L begin to wonder if himself and the girl of his dreams should be standing out here in this weather.

He glanced at the ape who he found was sneaking a peak in return, the ape snarled again and like a stubborn child he turned back to watching the wall. He rolled his eyes but then closed him, smiling at the feel of Pauline resting her head on his shoulder…As much as he had loved this moment, bad guys always had that streak of bad karma or just bad luck in general, and his came into the form of Mario barging in, looking for them.

"Hey you guys- I- oh… did I interrupt something?" Pauline could feel that dirty look that Mr. L was shooting at Mario and she couldn't help but to smile, but still, Mario was her friend and he was showing concern.

She lifted her head and turned to the red-capped hero "yeah, but it's fine. Do you need anything?" Pauline asked and Mario gave a weak smile, uneasy at how close the villain was holding her, but he shook it off, now was not the time to dig up old grudges. "Yeah, Luigi and I were looking for you, because we have something and-"

"Oh yeah, I had a party" Mr. L took Pauline by the hand and led her into the warm castle. Leaving Donkey Kong alone in Peach's garden, minutes later he turned to glare at Mr. L again to realize that they were gone!

"?!"

-Page Break-

Not that many people were around anymore and to his relief, what were left were all familiar faces… really familiar faces…. Holy-

"'Ey 'L, guess who that wee Junior Minion 'gain!"

"Golly Mr. L, you're all new looking!"

"It is nice to see you again, Mr. L"

Mr. L let go of Pauline and approached the familiar minions of Count Bleck "guys, it is…" he narrowed his eyes "I am not a Junior Minion! I was the closest to achieving the Counts Goal and-" Luigi hushed him by putting a hand on his shoulder.

Nastasia raised her hand "no, Mr. L, none of us were. I don't know if you remember or not…"

Oh right… Mr. L looked down, remembering how close he really was and remember Dimentio "did his game really end?" The formal assistant gave a small but weak smile, none of them realize that Mr. L's memory is a bit out of date after his barely living but conscious form inside of Luigi was taken over by Dimentio, finally giving the boost that needed him to 'live' in Luigi's head as almost a separate entity all together. Although it came with a price that Mr. L had to once again fight Mario and the others but more like some kind of a sick puppet to the jester "yes, thankfully."

Luigi felt a sadness begin to enter the room at the mention of the deceased jester "Mr. L, speaking of that... Mario had saved something from the ruins that I believe it rightfully belong to you…"

The Mario brother stepped forward and handed Mr. L some long, rolled up pieces of paper. Mr. L gave him a weird look but unrolled it and nearly let out a squeal "Brobot!" to think he had lost the blueprints forever! When he learned that the castle crumbled and that Brobot was not spared left a bit of a hole in his chest. Mario never understood the spiritual connection the green thunder had with the large machine, but thankfully Luigi at least had an idea and decided to leave the subject alone. Mainly because when Mr. L rants…he goes all out and you sit there for several hours just listening to him.

He gave the blueprints a quick squeeze and hid the papers in the coat he was wearing. Mario gave Luigi an uneasy look and Luigi continued by clearing his throat "now, Mr. L, you can imagine that we have to put a bit of a restriction on Brobot right?"

What?

Luigi continued "we're not fighting, and hopefully we don't need Brobot for any combat like situations, okay? So we can't allow you to build any more weapons…"

Mr. L gave a hopeless frown "even the missiles?" Luigi nodded "even the missiles." The mechanic frowned and looked at his blueprints again "fine! As long I got my robotic brother back, I don't care…"

Luigi gave him a smile and an apologetic look "thank you for understanding…"

Mr. L turned and watched as Nastasia and the others converse with Pauline, who you can tell she had never seen such creatures before. Donkey Kong watched in the distance, intimidated by the larger member, O' Chunks. Who needs a couple of lasers and whatnots when you have something like this? Well, if you think of it, missiles does sound a bit nice right now, but maybe he could substitute it with some fireworks… that is not too dangerous, right?

Mr. L turned to Luigi and sighed "yeah… I guess that I could survive…"

End of Chapter

A/N: whoa, that was exhausting, but I did it! A bit longer than what I usually do, but hey, if Mr. L can give of Missiles, MISSILES, then I can give you an extra page or two. Ha, Luigi being a parent cracks me up.