Disclaimer: 'Step Up' isn't mine. The song is 'Yeah Yeah' by Bodyrox feat. Luciana

A/N: BATHURST WAS EPIC! Just saying. A car rolled on the first lap! From then on… awesome madness. Also loving the Commonwealth Games right now. So yes, I've gone sports mad, forgive me for slow updates…

On another note: The Chilean miners are out! I've been glued to the screen for the last day. How brilliant was that? I hope they all sue and make 10 million dollars from it! ;)

Chapter Twelve;
Trains and Pains

Moose glanced up from the floor at the sound of the announcer calling his train running ten minutes late. His sighing drew the attention of the girl next to him. "What now?"

Holly was rubbing the back of her hand nervously as she asked, neither eager to address what lay ahead. For Moose he was going back to New York if Camille would talk to him, otherwise it was home to his parents, and to be honest that kind of embarrassment made him feel sick to his stomach. "I don't know." He glanced at her. "Back to your dad?"

Holly shrugged. "I thought about it but decided to take my chance in New York. Bright lights and all that. Empire State of Mind." She smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes, and when it fell away she remained depressed.

"Well, there's a great dance program at NYU, if you need somewhere to go." Moose gave a soft smile.

"What would you know college drop-out?" Holly joked. He grinned. "At least this way you can go back and graduate!"

"Silver linings and all that." He dropped his chin onto his fist. "Who would try and burn down a school though?"

Holly sighed. "If I knew that for certain, I'd go kill them, steal their money and then re-open the school. But I don't."

"For certain?" Moose frowned, glancing sideways at her.

She didn't answer but suddenly looked up with a grin. "You hear that?" Moose frowned and then strained to listen. Music. "Bodyrox. I love this song." She jumped up onto the seat and looked around, eventually spotting the guy with the iPod speakers sitting beside him. "Hey!" She waved eagerly to grab his attention. He finally looked up. "Hey, turn it up!" With a soft frown he eventually did and Holly began to dance, launching herself over the back of the bench with one hand then belly-dancing her way off the floor, singing along as she danced.

"You think you got it all worked out?" Rotating with one leg over the body in a gymnastics move called 'the Illusion', Holly grinned as she came back to both feet, pulling at her three-quarters track pants as if making sure they weren't ripped by the move. "But you don't know nothing, nothing, nothing!" She gave a comical shrug as she came up with pants all in one piece and Moose laughed. She did a full spin before the next line and came to a stop behind Moose. "You think that you can rub me out?" Tapping him on his left shoulder he turned left and she ducked right, repeating the move for his right shoulder before rubbing his head like she was scratching a cat for 'rub me out'. "But I'm made of something, something, something." She span again, around the bench this time, before jumping up onto the empty bench opposite and standing tall, rubbing at her shoulders as if brushing dust off. "I can teach you a thing or two." She pointed at Moose then gave a full spin on her right heel and jumped back to the floor, sitting down on the bench. Moose stood up on the bench he was sitting on, pushing his bag to the floor. "I can teach you a thing or two." He span like Holly did then moonwalked across the bench. Holly cheered and clapped. "I can teach you a thing or two." She jumped back up on the bench then, springing onto her hands, gave three steps across the bench before falling back onto her feet. "I can teach you a thing or two." Then, stepping up onto the armrest at the end of the bench, she jumped off, kicking her legs up behind her and fell to her knees, her head dropping so her hair fell over her face. With a grin she flicked back her hair and looked up at Moose. "Your turn."

Moose had an answer for her then, raising himself onto one crooked elbow then rolling over the side of the bench and landing in a crouch as Holly continued with a grin, standing and pressing herself to one of the concrete poles nearby. "One dirty hot track," in time with the words she crossed her arms, raised one hand out sideways, dropped the hand to her cheek and then, tipping her head back, dropped her fingers back to her chest. "Push it in and pull it back." Moose was bouncing like a Cossack into a full flip as Holly held one hand out, snapped both hands up against the wall above her and then fell to her knees. "Amma, Gamma, pushin' it." Moose watched on as Holly bounced twice on her knees then did a full roll over her head and fell flat onto her back. "See if you can top this?" She held one finger out to Moose as if challenging and he dipped his hat, accepting it as Holly pulled herself back to her feet. "Come into the new wave," turning on one foot, he fell forward like he was tripped, straight onto his toes and hands as if about to do a push-up. "Bodyrocker new wave." He did 'the worm' then, a move that was a lot harder than it looked, before flipping over onto his back. "More than just a new craze." Putting his hands over his head and then flat on the ground, he pushed his feet up and jumped back onto his feet before striking a rock-and-roll fist pump and two-finger salute. "I'll show you rock and roll."

Holly slapped his open palm in congratulations as he turned to face a small boy who wanted his attention, the desire to learn some of Moose's moves obviously, but as Holly made to laugh at her friend's newfound fan base, her phone began to buzz in her pocket and she pulled it out to see the number on the screen. She flipped it open and walked away from Moose and the child who were now going through the basics of executing 'the worm'.

"Hi, where are you?" She frowned. "Oh, alright, yeah sure." She murmured a yes. "Okay."

Hanging up she glanced back at Moose just as a group of people started down the main stairs towards them. A train had just come in. "Hey superstar!" Moose turned at her voice and she pointed to the crowd. Moose caught on quickly and gave a smile, giving the child's shoulder a light tap, before following Holly to the stairs. "Basic rule – stay on the stairs. First to the bottom loses."

Moose nodded. "Don't need to tell me twice." He smiled warmly at an older lady walking past glaring at them. "On three."

"Hold up." Holly turned to the guy with the iPod dock. "Some music maestro?" The guy had been watching them dance with a huge grin on his face and he obliged here, turning back to 'Yeah Yeah' and continuing the song. Holly smiled at Moose. "Bring it."

Moose made off, jumping over the case of an older guy who yelled at his leap. Holly following quickly, light-footed stepping around a woman on her phone and then ducking underneath the gap left by a couple holding hands as they descended. "You think you got it all worked out?" Moose appeared nearby, stealing a rose from a woman's bouquet without her noticing. He stuck it behind his ear. Holly was so busy laughing silently at him that she didn't notice she was about to get shunted until the last second, jumping back against the banister just in time. "But you don't know nothing, nothing, nothing." Polishing the banister with her sleeve, Holly glanced up at Moose who wasn't far away impersonating a large, beared man behind his back as the fat guy goose-walked down the stairs. She jumped up on the banister and slid down it before hopping off on the second step just in front of a man in a business suit who jumped at the sight of her appearing out of nowhere. "You think that you can rub me out?" She nicked the pen in his top pocket before jumping back up the stairs around the group. "But I'm made of something, something, something." She caught Moose's attention and held up the pen as her prize. Moose just pulled the flower out and sniffed it comically. Holly frowned before he held it in his teeth and stamped his foot, clapping at the same time as if about to pull off the strangest stair tango ever. Holly was so busy shaking her head that this time she wasn't quick enough to avoid the two people walking right towards her. With a soft bump she was caught between two groups and not released until she came to the bottom of the stairs. She'd lost and Moose didn't let her live it down, sliding down the banister to meet her.

"Epic fail miss Given!"

She glared at him then, sighing heavily. "Fine, fun's over, we should think about getting our things ready for the train." She glanced up at the last of the crowd straggling out and Moose followed her eyes but saw no one he recognized. "Come on." She turned back towards the benches then stopped. "Wait, where's my watch?"

She held up a wrist that was now bare. Moose motioned up the stairs. "If it's up there it's probably been crushed by now."

Holly just shrugged. "I'll take that chance." Then, tuck-jumping over a guy's suitcase, she started up the stairs. Moose crossed his arms and looked on. "I can teach you a thing or two." She paused on the stairs and looked back, seeing Moose was now watching a young couple, barely older than himself, walk past. Holly smiled, pulling back her right sleeve and checking her watch, the one that had been on her right wrist the whole time. "Hey Moose!" He looked up quickly and she held up her watch. "I can teach you a thing or two."

He frowned and then seemed to realise. At the same time Holly felt a tap on her shoulder and she turned to face the figure behind her and smiled. She turned back to look at Moose but he was gone. "Moose?"

Suddenly Moose's bushy head appeared above the crowd – he was running up the banister. With one last exuberant jump he landed on the step in front of her. "Maybe I could teach you a thing or two?" He mouthed along with the words and finished with a cheeky grin.

Holly just shook her head. "No Moose, maybe I can teach YOU."

She stepped aside to reveal a smaller frame behind her. A familiar one too. Moose's jaw dropped an inch. "Cam?"

Camille just smiled. "Surprise."

Holly glanced back at them from two steps down as Moose pulled his girlfriend to him and kissed her, hugging her tightly so she let out a small giggle like a squeaky push toy. Holly smiled then started back down to her bags. Moose had his girlfriend back so half his life was back in order, but what did the rest involve? And what about her? Without the dance academy, without Philadelphia, what lay ahead of her?

She went back her bags, sat down, and returned to just staring at her hands.