Fandom: FAKE
Pairing: Dee/Ryo
Rating: Work safe. Sorry for any kind of wait for something yummy. I'm trying to build up to it though. I don't think there is any language but I'm saying there is just in case.
Spoilers: After Vol. 7
Timing: First year of being together. Just after the end of the last volume for sure. I think somewhere in the middle of May maybe since I want it to be spring. Probably just a couple of months after getting together.
Summary: Dee and Ryo are now a couple and Ryo is trying to understand about this new kind of relationship. It's now time that they're on their way to Japan.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Dee or Ryo. They belong to Sanami Matoh. I just like to write stories about them and play with them a bit. I do not make money for writing this.
Authors Notes: This chapter has a mix of two original chapters in it because my first two chapters were so short. But seeing as it's still only 2,752 words and 6 pages long, I think things worked out fine. Plus I'm going to use a lot of time zones starting from here. This chapter starts with Eastern Time Zone. I'll let you know when the time zones change.
Not betaed by anyone. I still don't have anyone to be a beta for me. If you're interested, please let me know. My hubby can't be my only beta forever. He's never around long enough to read my stuff anyway.
Previously in chapter 2: We left our three guys going to Dee's apartment to help him start packing. Things are starting to look up for their vacation.
At around 4:30 pm the three of guys finally arrived at Dee's apartment. When they enter, Bikky's eyes roam around the spacious living room in admiration. He hasn't been here for quite some time.
"Looks like the perv isn't as messy as he acts," Bikky states as he stares around the neat looking apartment.
Dee glares at the back of Bikky's blond hair and makes a face. "Well I'm sure it looks way better than that trash heap you call a room."
"Dee," Ryo intrupts before Bikky could make a come back, "Where are your suitcases?"
Dee scratches the back of his head and gives a goofy grin. "Well that's pretty much the reason why I haven't started packing my things yet," he chuckles a bit, "I'm really not too sure where they are."
Ryo and Bikky sigh at this statement and Bikky even rolls his eyes in an 'I told you so' fashion.
"Okay," Ryo's voice is assertive as he takes charge of the situation. "We have less than three hours until our flight takes off and Dee here," he gestures in aggrivation, "hasn't even begun to pack for this trip. Here's what we're going to do," he begins to take steps to Dee's bedroom, "Bikky, would you please look in the coat closet? Dee, look in your linen closet. I'll take the bedroom closet."
"Why do you want to search in my room, huh?" Dee asked with a hint of a chuckle behind his words, "You wanna make sure I didn't leave anything naughty out?"
"Maybe and maybe not." is all that Ryo says as he retreats into the room.
While Ryo hears the other two rumaging around in thier areas, he goes straight to the closet and opens the sliding door. His first reaction is shock when he sees the disaray that the closet is in. On one side was Dee's good clothes which were, oddly enough, hung in a much more managable fashion. The other side was another story. Even the shelf on top was a disaster.
"How on earth do you find anything in this hazard you call a closet?" Ryo calls out. "I'm amazed that you don't have anything living in here!"
"Hey," Dee answers back with fake hurt in his voice. "I'm doing very well with that 'hazard', thank you very much. And I don't have anything living in there either."
Bikky laughs out loud from inside the coat closet and then continues to search. He looks up onto the shelves and pulls down some light boxes. Behind those boxes he sees a black rectangular shape but he's not too sure what it is since he can't really reach up to touch it.
"Hey guys," he calls when he pokes his head out of the closet. "I think I found a suitcase. But it's so far back and high that I can't reach it. I need some help getting it down."
Ryo and Dee come over to investigate the situation. Ryo decides to let Dee reach up to the shelf since Dee is taller. Without words Dee reaches up and pulls down a large black suitcase.
"So that's where I stuck this thing." Dee grins.
Ryo and Bikky are not amused by this at all and the three of them head back into Dee's room to start packing. Ryo opens the suitcase and finds a smaller black matching suitcase inside. He pulls it out and opens it as well. He then goes back to Dee's closet and begins to pull out a couple of nice suits for Dee to have just in case. He looks around in the neat part of the closet first to find a special portable suit rack and when he couldn't see it, he glances at the rest of the closet in dread.
"Dee, don't you have a portable suit rack for your suits?" Ryo asks instead of trying to search in the closet for fear of everything falling on him and burrying him alive. "How do you expect to have your suits looking good if you ever need to wear them?"
"They'll be fine in the suitcase, Ryo," Dee replies absently as he wanders over to the clolset to start gathering civilian clothes.
"I disagree, Dee. They'll get all wrinkled and then you'll have to iron them out again. Never mind," Ryo sighs, "I'll just put them with mine when we get back to the car."
Meanwhile, Bikky is at Dee's dresser and opens the underwear drawer. "Aww, come on man," he sinckers, "you don't have nearly enough underwear in here to last you the two weeks you'll be gone because you're such a dirty old man."
"You had better watch what you're saying you hight chllanged chimpanzee." Dee snears back.
Bikky picks up navy blue pair of half folded boxers and throws them at the suitcase. When they land on the bed because they're no longer folded, he laughs out loud.
"Hey brat!" Dee yells when he sees what Bikky is doing. "Don't throw my stuff around like that. I took the time to fold them just right for my drawer."
"Well your folding sucks, perv," Bikky states as the throws two more pairs of boxers at the suitcase. They also landed on the bed as they unfolded in the air. "If you did such a great job on folding these, I would have them all in the suitcase instead of them floating down to the bed."
Ryo once again sighs at the bickering and begins to pick up the thrown items and refold them to be placed into the suitcase.
Dee pulls out his his jeans and tosses them onto the bed without a care to what happens to them. He doesn't seem to notice the glare he recives from Ryo as he continues to throw more clothes onto the bed from the hazordous closet.
Ryo continues to glare at Dee as he folds all of the clothes that are being thrown onto the bed. Suddenly his head is assulted by a flying undershirt. He pulls it off of his head and changes his glare to the young boy and realizes that Bikky is no longer aiming at the suitcase, but instead, aiming for Dee's head. He watches in aggrivation as the two beging to have an undershirt war. He grabs stray shirts as they either land on the bed or fly past his head. He finally sighs and decides to makes a statement in a very strict voice.
"If you two don't stop all of this horsing around right now, I'm going to call off the whole trip and we'll be spending our time here in the city instead." He smiles in satisfaction as this gets the results he wanted.
After a half hour of fighting and packing, everything is finally done.
"How on earth did we finsih this so fast with all of the crap we did?" Bikky wonders aloud while looking at the clock.
"Ryo did a great job at folding the clothes and then he got our asses moving to speed things up," Dee replies.
All three laugh at the truth of the matter.
"Are you guys going to drive to the airport?" Bikky asks glancing at the time again.
"I really don't want to leave my car at the airport," Dee explains looking at Ryo. "Think of how much I'm going to have to spend to get back out once we come home. We should just catch a cab instead."
Ryo comprehends the words that Dee said and nods his head in agreement. "You're right. The cost to come back out would be pretty outrageous."
"Thanks for understanding, Babe," Dee grins. He turns his gaze to Bikky and says, "Do us a favor and go down to hail us a cab. Ryo and I will bring all of the bags down. And, for a change before you get all huffy," he stops Bikky from making some nasty coment, "We only have two hours until our flight takes off. If we miss it, we'll be here in your hair longer. So please be quick about it."
What ever Bikky was about to say was taken from him as he shoots out of the apartment and down the staris two at a time. He knew Dee was right about what would happen if they missed their flight. Outside, he uses his loudest whistle and flags down a cab driver. "I have some people coming out in a few minutes with some luggage." He tells the Indian driver.
Dee grabs the two suitcases and leaves the one carry on bag for Ryo to handle. Ryo grumbles about how he feels like he's being treated like a girl but he doesn't say it loud enough for Dee to hear him.
Outside, Bikky has finished talking to the cabbie and then begins to help Dee and Ryo to pack Dee's luggage into the trunk of the cab.
"Dee, give me your keys.I have to get into the trunk of your car to get my things."
Dee throws his keys to Ryo who catches it deftly and jogs off with Bikky close behind. The two of them grab all of Ryo's luggage and two carry on bags and go back to the cab where the three guys try to get all of the items into the trunk. The cab driver even gets out to try to help but to no avail. Fianlly it's agreed upon that the carry on bags will have to be in the back seat so one person will have to sit in the back and one person will have to sit in the front. Dee opts for the front seat.
"Hey, Bikky," Dee calls before climbing into the car. "Do me a favor, will ya?"
Bikky looks at Dee wairly but doesn't say anything rude yet. "What's up?"
Dee hands two sets of keys to Bikky and looks at the young mixed boy seriously, "Please take care of the place for me. Also," he continues after Bikky takes the keys, "move the car once in a while. You should know why. And yes, I trust that you know how to start a car and drive it by now," he winks.
"You got it. Make sure you place stays free of intruders and your car in the possesion of you and not of the streets."
"Thanks brat. See you in two weeks. Hopefully you'll have grown a couple of inches by then."
"Yeah and I hope I tower over you when you get back so I can kick your perverted ass!" Bikky yells back as Dee gets into the cab.
Bikky and Dee give each other the bird as the car drives off and Bikky even stays on the curb to watch the car turns a corner and disappear from his sight. He sighs and sits down on the steps of Dee's apartment with a crestfallen look on his face. "I'm going to miss the both of them," he mutters to himself. He feels his eyes begin to burn with the desire to cry but pushes the feeling away. Instead, he gets up and heads into the building to go back upstairs to lock Dee's apartment.
A normal ride to La Grardia airport in Queens from Manhattan is about an hour and a half. But with Dee in the passanger seat, he pushes the cabbie to drive faster.
"If you get us to La Grardia in less than an hour, I'll give you extra for your troubles."
"But what if I get pulled over for speeding. I really don't want to have points taken off of my licence for this." The cabbie interjects in his thick Indian accent.
"Hey don't worry," Dee grins, "We are cops and we'll back you up if anything happens. It's all right. I won't say anything and neither will my partner back there."
"Okay, if you say so." The cabbie gets a determined look in his eyes as he begins to move expertly through the trafic of New York city.
Fifty minutes later and they reach the airport and Ryo looks a little disgruntled but he keeps quiet since he knows that they made it just in time. He pays the cabbie the fee and adds a nice tip for the trouble that was caused, Then he goes into the terminal and gets a luggage trolley while Dee gets the luggage out of the car and trunk.
They load everything onto to the trolley and head inside to get to the ticket claim. The line to the prepaid tickets is free of people and it takes no time to get their luggage checked in to be placed onto the plane. The ticket teller says that there is a window seat and a seat next to it free and they agree to take those seats and then head off for the security check point. The line for the secrity check takes only twenty minutes of their time and then when they reach the security guards, they show thier badges and are admited through without too many extra problems.
By 6:10 pm, the two dectives are making their way down the halls to get to thier flight termianl so that they can get thier tickets checked in. Once checked in, they find a seat to wait to board the plane.
"Hey, Babe," Dee leans over to whisper to Ryo, "You want something to drink? Some coffee maybe?"
"Not today, Dee." Ryo looks thoughtfull for a minute. "How about some hot Earl Gray tea?"
"You got it. Be right back."
Dee gets up and heads for the food stands to find something for the two of them to drink. He comes back a few minutes later carrying two steaming beverages and carefully sits back down next to Ryo. He passes Ryo his tea and he sips at his overly sweet rummages around in one of his carryon bags and produces a book about Kyoto, Japan and begins to read it. Dee takes an interest in the book as soon as he sees it.
"So where exactly are we going to stay once we get to Japan?" he asks while sipping his coffee again.
"I thought it would be nicer to stay in an area called Kyoto since I didn't want to be in Tokyo. I felt that Tokyo would feel too much like home for us and I wanted to get away from that." Ryo then rambles some information he finds interesting to Dee about the area and the style of hotel they're going to stay at called a ryokan. He explains that the ryokan is a traditional style of hotel with some modern luxuries added in for comfort.
Finally at 6:40 pm, an announcement sounds over the PA for the flight to ATL, Georgia is now boarding. Dee and Ryo finish their drinks, pack the items they took out, and board the plane.
Seeing as this is Dee's second time on an airplane, he's extra happy to have the window seat. Before sitting down, Dee and Ryo place their carryon luggage into the luggage rack and then settle down into their seats. Ryo is next to Dee in the middle seat and then a nice looking young Caucasian woman comes up and sits down in the aisle seat. She smiles at the two men next to her as she puts on her seat belt. Dee has some problems with his belt and gets aggravated with it and Ryo just chuckles at him as he helps Dee get things in order.
Soon the seat belt sign lights up overhead and a stewardesses' voice is heard on the PA system telling everyone to turn off all electrical devices and to remain seated as the plane prepares to take off. As the plane begins to move, she begins to explain emergency procedures and Ryo pays attention to what is being said while Dee is busy watching the moving pavement below his window.
The stewardess finishes her speech and takes a seat as the plane enters the runway. As the plane picks up speed, Dee begins to get excited and a little jittery. Ryo glances quickly at his isle seat companion to make sure she was occupied and then gives Dee an affectionate pat on the hand as the noise from the wing flaps gives the announcement of takeoff. Once in the air, Dee gives a silent but very excited cheer for now the vacation was just beginning.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm working very hard to get to a tastey lemon out. BTW, lemons are very hard and I was hoping that one of my readers would like to help me when the time came for me to get this lemon down without getting me kicked off of this site. Thanks for reading this and don't forget that reviews are so much love.