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Chapter Ten, The Wedding: Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties
Emily dimmed the lights. There was a sharp flash, like a firecracker, and a mad scientist appeared. He held a bubbling concoction, and coughed at the fumes. His face was smudged, and so was his lab coat. He set the beaker down, and coughed more. Then he looked down, and yellow, florescent smudges appeared on the coat.
Emily smiled. So far, Ben was quite entertaining. She hit the button for the music, and funky sci-fi music played.
Ben the scientist screamed, and began pulling the coat off.
"Baby!"
"Like this, so far, Abby?" asked Jenny.
Abby giggled.
Ben slowly tugged the coat down in seductive movements, revealing naked skin.
He swayed his hips, smiling at the ladies, shaking and shimmying.
"Woo-hoo!"
He jumped around, quite athletically, miming out a panic.
"This is quite original," said Eleanor. "Not your usual strip and jiggle."
Jess giggled at the minister's wife's uncouth words.
Ben continued to pull his coat down, flexing his muscles as he danced. He gyrated his hips, shimmying the coat past them, revealing his teeny, tight underwear.
Gray bikinis with neon green alien faces.
Abby burst out laughing. "It's Connor!"
The crowd joined in.
"No way! He has those bikinis?" asked Iris.
Abby nodded. "He parades around the flat in them."
"Unfortunately," said Jess.
The ladies laughed harder.
Ben kept dancing, teasingly inching the coat down his well-defined legs. He finally kicked it off, toward the bride-to-be.
"Yay!"
Abby caught it, blushing. The scientist stood in front of her, in nothing but his underwear.
He danced around, pretending his body was aflame with some scientific concoction gone wrong. He gyrated, and flexed at the ladies, especially Abby.
He moved closer, not too close though, thrusting his pelvis at Abby.
She laughed, and blushed fiercely.
In a neat lighting trick, his skin began to glow. Ben began pawing at it, screaming silently as he wiggled.
Finally the scientist succumbed to his failed experiment, falling onto the floor, pulsating before he 'died.'
Emily, Abby and the others all clapped.
"Ben, you were wonderful!" cried Jess. "Wasn't he Connor?"
"Connor?" cried Abby. She looked back to see Connor, Matt, and Becker, standing in front of the kitchen, waving. "What are they doing here?"
"I'm the hostess. I can break the rules. We snuck him in," said Jess. "We wanted Connor to see the routine."
"Since he's so like it, in character, at least," said Becker.
"Hey, I'm fit! Love the alien faces, Mate. I have a pair just like them," he called to Ben. Ben laughed and shook his head.
"Told you!" cried Abby to her guests.
They laughed.
Jess ran to Becker and kissed him. "I missed you."
"Even with Carlos here?"
"Oh...that didn't go too well."
The guests all laughed.
"Why?"
"Abby liked Monty more than Carlos, and he got offended," said Jenny.
"He thought Abby was trying to steal his python," said Emily.
Abby blushed. "I was, actually."
Connor laughed. "I love you," he said, kissing her head.
"He didn't even finish his routine," said Jess.
"I didn't care," said Abby, lounging across her chair, eating a chocolate replica of a portion of the male anatomy.
"Wait. He left?"
The ladies nodded.
"With Monty," said Abby sadly.
Becker laughed. "I guess Abby's not the stripping kind, huh?"
"Oh, I liked Ben," said Abby, giving him the thumbs up.
Ben had pulled the lab coat back on. "I'm sorry about Carlos. He gets weird where that snake is concerned," he said.
"It's OK," said Jess. "I think we're all entertained."
The ladies all clapped.
"Good. Congratulations, Miss. You too, Mate," he said to Connor. "Excuse me, I'll just go and change."
"No!" cried some of the guests.
Ben laughed, waved, and withdrew to Abby and Connor's room. The ladies clapped and whistled for him as he did.
Ben dressed, grabbed his music player and left.
"Well, you guys are here now," said Abby. "Join the party."
Jess passed out biscuits that made all three men blush. "It's a hen party, " she said, defensively. "It's supposed to be vulgar, or so I'm told."
Becker laughed, and bit into one.
"Ouch," said Connor, smirking.
"Ooh, do the newcomers strip?" asked Mrs. Lester.
"Yeah!"
"Strip!" cried Jenny, laughing hard at Becker's pale face.
"Strip!"
"No, we do not," said Matt calmly. "Or our ladies will have to defend us."
Emily and Jess both nodded. Becker kissed his protector.
"Boo!"
"I'll dance for you," said a fourth male voice.
"Lieutenant Vale? Seriously?" asked Abby, shocked.
Becker shook his head. "Oh, God. I knew it was a mistake to let him come."
"Vale! Baby!" cried Iris.
"Strip!" yelled Beverly. "After all, I've seen him nearly naked before."
Jess laughed at her. "The perks of being a medic," she said.
Meira thought fast and turned on her ipod, playing a fast, rocking number.
And blond, fit Lieutenant Vale added stripping to his impressive CV.
"Oh my God!" cried Jess, as Vale pelvic thrusted.
He dipped, and shook and shimmied.
"Strip!" cried Jina, laughing.
"Take it off!" cried Mrs. Lester, "remind me to compliment James on the fitness routines of his staff."
Jenny laughed.
Vale began to unbutton his shirt.
Jess turned red, and hid her face in Becker's chest. Becker smirked. "He's pretty good, Jess."
"I cannot look at a man who's in my boyfriend's command, undressing."
"I promise you that you'll never get another opportunity," he said, smirking.
She laughed, and shook her head, keeping it buried.
"Whoo!" cried Vale, throwing his shirt to Abby.
She was laughing, turning pink, and covering her eyes. Connor, sitting on the side of her chair, was calling for Vale to "Take it all off, Mate!"
Vale started for his pants, slowly teasing them down. When his underwear began to show, Becker exploded.
"Nice, sexy drawers, Vale! You idiot! You're a lieutenant, my third in command, and you wear ducky underwear?"
The room howled laughter, but Vale, apparently, saw nothing un-sexy about duckies.
He pulled his pants completely off, standing there, shaking his duckies proudly.
Jess was now watching, red with laughter.
Vale put his hands on top of his head and moved his chest around in circles. He jutted the duckies in all directions.
For a big finish, he turned his rump to Abby, and shook it at a dizzying speed. He then turned around, threw his arms up in the air, and posed dramatically.
"Yay!" they all shouted.
Vale put his clothes back on, and Becker handed him a glass of champagne.
"You're an idiot," said his Captain.
"Thank you, Sir. Congrats, Connor and Abby," Vale said to the couple, lifting his glass in a toast.
They nodded, but Abby was still crying.
"Well, I think the hen party was a hit," said Jess, to no one in particular.
End of Chapter Ten
I know Vale just sort of appeared, but I wanted someone to dance that wouldn't mind, and my OC perfect. Also, he was at the bachelor party in my mind. I just didn't see the need to add him. Plus, it's possible he was just hanging out with the guys. I hope you forgive my sudden inclusion of him.