A.N.— Hello, everyone! I apologize for the long wait...But, anyway, here is chapter 7! Enjoy :D

Chapter 7: The Keys!

Adriana looks at Pedro. "The long way?" She asks curiously.

Pedro nods. "Sí, we'll be taking a boat to Brazil and then slide from there to Base R in Peru." He says as he looks back at her.

"You're joking." Adriana gives him a look.

"I wish I was, Adriana. I wish I was." Pedro says with a silent laugh as he starts waddling quickly out of Adriana's house. She is still cuffed to his left flipper and is therefore dragged along behind him.

"Hey! Slow down! You're dragging me!"

"And what if that is what I am trying to do?" Pedro smirks at her with a joking glance and Adriana rolls her eyes. He begins to waddle a little slower so that he is no longer dragging her. They waddle along in complete silence for a while.

"So...Where are we going now, Pedrrrrrrro?" Adriana asks after some time; she has gotten extremely bored of this already.

"Right now? Right now we are going to my hotel room so that I can get some things and plan out our route further...And better..."

"Okay...And I'm to stay cuffed to you during that whole time?"

"Sí."

"But...What if one of us needs to use the baño*?" Adriana asks curiously. Pedro freezes and looks at her and Adriana looks back at him with her free flipper on her hip. "What? Is that an unreasonable pregunta* or something?"

Pedro continues to just stare at her for a moment before a small blush creeps into his face. "Well...Erm...Then I guess the other one of us will just have to turn their head and shut their ojos...Because you're staying cuffed to me until I have got you in a cell." He starts waddling forward again.

Adriana follows him. She had seen his small blush and it had given her an idea. "Alright...But what if one of us needs to take a shower or a bath? What then?" She asks with a smirk and a raised nonexistent eyebrow. Pedro ignores her and continues waddling forward, though his blush has now deepened into a much darker shade. Adriana notices this, too. "Oh? So you're ignoring me now?"

"Yup."

"Haha, I don't think so." Adriana stops waddling and puts both of her flippers on her hips and looks at Pedro. Since he is cuffed to her, his left flipper is on her hip, too; he realizes this and his blush, which he is trying his hardest to keep down and hidden, is now very visible. Adriana looks at him. "I may be your prisoner at the moment, Pedrrrrrro, but I will not be an ignored prisoner. Okay?"

Pedro pulls his and Adriana's flipper away from her hip. "Euhm...We will have to see about that..." He mumbles and starts waddling again forward towards the hotel. He can tell, this is going to be a very long next few days.

They waddle along in silence again until they reach the hotel. A few bystanders give them weird looks as they waddle into the hotel and Pedro tries to ignore them as he drags Adriana into the elevator with him. He presses the button for the tenth floor. When the elevator stops, Pedro leads Adriana into his hotel room and locks it behind them. Adriana looks around the room some and sees a window. She thinks that if she can get loose from Pedro, that she could easily escape through it. She looks at Pedro again. "So...I really must stay cuffed to you while you sit and look at a mapa*?" She asks as she gives him a very bored look.

Pedro nods as he gets out the map. "Sí." He unrolls it on the table in the room.

Adriana looks at him. "But it's not like I can go anywhere...I mean, we're on the tenth floor of a hotel with the door locked..." She says with an expression of feigned innocence.

Pedro glances at her with a slightly amused expression. "Señorita Sombra, I know all of that...I also know that you will find a way to escape anyway if I let you loose." He says and then goes back to looking at the map. Adriana rolls her eyes with a small snort and sits down in a chair next to Pedro with her free flipper on the table and her head boredly rested upon it.

"Finished yet?" She asks looking boredly at him.

"Nope."

"How about now?"

"No more than I was one second ago." Pedro glances at Adriana as she gives an exaggerated groan of boredom. "Was that really necessary?"

"Sí, it was absolutely necessary." She says looking at him.

Pedro rolls his eyes and finishes making some notes on the map. "Okay. Now I'm done." He says giving Adriana another glance as he rolls the map up again.

Adriana stands up with a nod and follows him over to the backpack that he puts the map in. "So, what are we doing now?" She asks.

"How about we go to sleep? Do you like that idea? I know I for one do." Pedro says looking a bit annoyedly at Adriana.

Adriana pretends to think on this for a moment. "Fine...Do I have to stay cuffed to you even when we're sleeping, too?" She asks, looking at the bed and then at Pedro.

Pedro looks back at her. "Euhm...Yeeeessss...Or...Or I guess if you'd rather I could cuff you to the bed, if you'd prefer that..." He says slowly.

"Ooh, could you?" She says as she gets an idea on how she can escape.

Pedro nods. "Sure..." He takes out the flipper-cuff keys from behind his back and Adriana quickly grabs onto them. "Hey! You don't get these!" He exclaims.

"Says who?" Adriana asks as she gives him a look and pulls on the keys.

"Says me." Pedro pulls back on the keys with his free flipper and takes a step back as he does so.

"But, I say that I get them." Adriana pulls back on the keys with her own free flipper and takes a couple steps back as she does so, trying to get them from Pedro's firm grip.

"And I still say no." Pedro yanks on the keys and pulls Adriana towards him.

"And I say sí!" Adriana yanks back on the keys, pulling Pedro back towards her. Pedro pulls on the keys some more and tries to get them out of Adriana's flipper by twisting it, but instead it just twirls her and twists their flipper-cuffs. Adriana continues to pull back on the keys and takes a few steps back, but Pedro, being still cuffed to her and still clinging to the keys as he is, follows after her. He yanks back on th keys and tries to pull them out of her flipper by pulling the keys over her head and behind her. Adriana still does not let go so all Pedro ends up doing is bowing her back. "Stop it! Give me the keys!" Adriana growls at Pedro.

"No!" Pedro yanks on the keys forward now and causes her to stand back up straight. Adriana tugs the keys and tries to waddle to the left with them; Pedro waddles that way with her, still tightly holding the keys. They are getting really close to the window which is a little open since it is very hot in the room. "Let go of them, Adriana!"

"In your dreams, Pedrrrrrrrrro!" Adriana then gives the keys a really, really hard yank and both she and Pedro loose their grips on them. The keys go flying into open air. They bounce once almost in slow motion on the windowsill before falling out the window. Pedro and Adriana stare shocked after it before turning and looking angrily at the other. "Now look what you have done you idiota*!" Adriana shouts angrily at Pedro.

Pedro looks back at Adriana. "What I've done?! If you hadn't started pulling on them in the first place this never would have happened!" He shouts back.

"Well, you shouldn't have let go!"

"I wasn't trying to! You shouldn't have yanked them that hard!" They both look out the window again, seeing if by any chance they can glimpse the keys. They can't. Pedro sighs and looks at Adriana again. "Well...I guess you're stuck being cuffed to me tonight...And all other nights until we've made it to Base R..."

Adriana looks at Pedro slightly aghast. "No! No, no, no!"

"I'm afraid it's a sí. Sí, sí, sí."

Adriana gives a small groan. "Well, this is just gran*..." She mutters sarcastically with a small sigh.

Pedro shrugs a little. "Ah well...I guess we should start going to bed anyway...The sooner we sleep, the sooner we can get up and get to Base R to get free..." He says silently. He then gets into the bed and Adriana gets into it after him with little choice. She sticks a pillow up between him and herself in her attempts to pretend he isn't there. "Buenas noches*, señorita Sombra." Pedro says softly before he quickly falls asleep.

"Whatever..." Adriana mutters as she lays back and states at the ceiling. Pedro soon starts snoring and Adriana gives the pillow barrier between them a glare. "Gran...I'm stuck flipper-cuffed to a snorer..."

*Baño — bathroom

*Pregunta — question

*Mapa — map

*Idiota — idiot

*Gran — great

*Buenas noches — good night