A Rush of Dog Days Chapter 43: Dance Floors Can Be War Zones, a big time rush fanfic

(A/N): Good news everyone! I have almost nothing to do this weekend! And there are no exams next week! You know what that means…. MORE WRITING! YAY! Anyways, thank you to Dreamer1992 (I can tell you that Logan is not trying to make Katrina jealous… At least, not yet… As for the guy, he's not going to come up again for a while, so he's going to stay as an unsolved mystery for now), Milkamoo97 (Now you get to find out what happens next!) and Cryss'BTRusher (Yeah, Logan didn't really think things through, did he? That boy is really dumb for someone who's really smart. And, yes, James thinks too much about himself, but maybe Katrina can change him…) for your reviews! I do not own Big Time Rush nor do I own the episode Big Time Party where the scenario is in part of this chapter, but not the actual episode (I hope that makes sense…). I also don't own How To Touch A Girl by Jojo nor War by Jay Sean. And I think I've gotten everything, so enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 43: Dance Floors Can Be War Zones

James and Katrina got off the elevator at Rocque Records to find that no one was in the hallways. Everyone was having a good time in the dance.

"Did you want to dance?" James looked to Katrina.

"I've got to get that paper finished," Katrina told him. "If I don't, I'm going to fail. Too bad we can't get out of this building."

"I think Gustavo has a laptop in his office," James replied. "You could use that."

"I totally forgot about that!" Katrina exclaimed, already on her way to Gustavo's office. When she noticed that James wasn't following, she turned to look at him, "Come on. I need your help."

"Isn't this something that Logan would be better with?" James asked.

"I don't want to pull anyone away from having a good time just for homework," Katrina answered, "And you can't go back in without being mauled by girls."

"Good point. Okay, let's go." Katrina gave him a smile as they made their way to Gustavo's office.

"And send," Katrina noted as she clicked the button. "Now, I'm finally done with that school!" Katrina was sitting in Gustavo's seat and James had pulled up another seat to sit next to her. He had typed out her essay based on what Katrina had said. She looked at the clock, "With two hours left to spare!"

"Great!" James commented, "Does that mean that we can go dance?"

"Do you want to get attacked by those angry girls?"

"We can dance here," James suggested. He got up and held out his hand for Katrina. She looked at it, contemplating her options. "You should have some fun tonight."

"Where's the music?" Katrina asked, still a little hesitant to dance with James.

"That's what the laptop is for," James pointed at the laptop that was still on. "We can search for some music on it." When Katrina still looked doubtful, James went on, "You still owe me a date."

"So, a dance with you would count as the date?"

"Yep."

"Just one dance?"

"Well…"

"How many songs?"

James shrugged to Katrina's question, "Until we want to stop."

"You pick first."

"Ladies first." Katrina raised her eyebrows, but didn't argue as she messed with the laptop.

"You do realize that I can't do fast dances due to my broken arm, right?"

"That's the whole point." Katrina rolled her eyes, but finally found her choice. She smiled as she pressed play.

One, Two, Three, Four

James looked confused, "What's this song?"

Katrina got up and placed her good hand on James's shoulder, "How To Touch A Girl by Jojo. Take note here."

Huhum
I think I could like you
I already do
Feelings can grow, but
They can go away too

James raised an eyebrow, but grabbed her waist and pulled her closer. He gave her a cocky smile.

You're taking my hand
Looking into my eyes
Don't be in a rush
To get me tonight
I feel something happening
Could this be a spark?
To satisfy me baby
Got to satisfy my heart

Katrina began singing along right as the chorus came in.

Do you know how to touch a girl?
If you want me so much
First I have to know
Are you thoughtful and kind?
Do you care what's on my mind?
Or am I just for show?
You'll go far in this world if you know
How to touch a girl
Do you know how to touch, know how to touch a girl?
Do you know how to touch, know how to touch a girl?

James gulped, realizing that although he was somewhat of a Casanova, he never really got into a serious relationship before. But that's exactly what Katrina wanted.

I think I could like you
But I keep holding back
Cause I can't seem to tell
If you're fiction or fact
Show me you can laugh
Show me you can cry
Show me who you really are
Deep down inside
Do you feel something happening?
Could this be for real?
I don't know right now
But tonight we'll reveal

Katrina was watching James's reaction to the song carefully. He seemed more nervous than usual.

Suddenly, James looked straight into Katrina's eyes, determination evident in them. Katrina stared back, unwavering as she tested him.

Bring me some flowers
Conversation for hours
To see if we really connect
And baby if we do
Ooh, I'll be giving all my love to you
Oh!
Do you know how to touch a girl?
If you want me so much
First I have to know
Are you thoughtful and kind?
Do you care what's on my mind?
Or am I just for show?
You'll go far in this world if you know
How to touch a girl
Do you know how to touch, know how to touch a girl?
Do you know how to touch, know how to touch a girl?
You'll go far in this world if you know
How to touch a girl

The song ended, but the two didn't break apart. Their intense staring didn't break either.

Finally, James had enough of the silence and broke it, "I have to tell you something."

"What is it?" Katrina asked.

"I don't usually try this hard for a girl," James admitted, "But there's something different about you."

"And what is that?" Katrina pried.

Before James could answer, the door to Gustavo's office suddenly opened. The couple looked over to find Kendall standing in the doorway. He took one look at the couple embracing and it was obvious he was furious.

"James!" Kendall called out.

"Uh-oh," James and Katrina looked horrified. They broke apart.

Kendall walked further into the room and demanded, "Why were you holding my cousin? I thought I told you that you couldn't date her!"

"Your cousin has a name," Katrina pointed out, "And don't I get a say in this?"

"No," Kendall responded, "Now, what were you two doing?"

"Dancing," James shrugged as if it wasn't that big of a deal.

Kendall turned the laptop around so he could see what was on the screen, "How to Touch a Girl?" His fury seemed to grow.

"Yeah, I know the title sounds wrong," Katrina told him, "But –"

"Come on, Katrina," Kendall grabbed Katrina's good arm and pulled her away from James who looked frustrated. Katrina groaned as Kendall pulled her into the hallway.

"Why aren't you with Jo?" Katrina asked, realizing that Kendall wasn't letting her go.

"Because she's in the bathroom," Kendall replied. "And I thought I'd go check up on you since Logan's with Camille now. It's a good thing I did."

"Oh, so now I can't date anybody?"

"Nope."

"I'm the same age as you and you're dating Jo!"

"Your point?"

Katrina finally was able to pull her arm from Kendall's grasp, "My point is that you can't tell me not to date. If you think about it, wouldn't you want me date someone you know rather than someone that you didn't."

"I'd rather you date Logan over James," Kendall admitted.

"Well, it's too late for that now, isn't it?" Katrina spoke sarcastically. "You have to let me make my own mistakes. Who knows, maybe James and I dating will be a good thing. Plus, we're kind of the last two left."

"Give me a chance!" James called out from inside Gustavo's office. Katrina looked behind her to see James peeking out through the open door, ready to duck back in if Kendall got mad.

Kendall sighed, "I still don't like this."

Katrina's head snapped back to look at Kendall, "What does that mean?"

"It means, I'm keeping an eye on him," Kendall responded.

"Yes!" James cheered as he ran out of the office and joined the two in the hallway. He put his arm around Katrina's shoulders, looking down at her, "Should we go dance now?"

Katrina scowled as she removed his arm from her shoulder, "You're on probation." When she noticed that James looked confused, she went on, "That means we're trying this, but it's not official yet. I still can't fully trust you."

"Got it," James seemed depressed, but accepted the terms. "Now, can we go dancing? I've got to parade around my girlfriend." Katrina glared at him. "Err. My trial girlfriend?" She continued to glare at him. "Okay, what did I say wrong?"

"I don't want to be paraded around," Katrina explained. "I'm not a trophy. That's strike one. Keep this up and you won't last the night."

Kendall laughed, "Okay, I'm not worried now. He's going to screw this up."

"I'm right here!" James complained before he turned to Katrina, "Would asking you to dance be a strike?"

Katrina seemed to consider this before she answered, "Nope, let's go. I need to show Logan that he shouldn't expect me to wait around for him while he's with Camille."

"So, you're using me?" James seemed insulted.

"Yep."

James was quiet for a second as he stared at Katrina before he replied, "Surprisingly, I'm okay with that." He held out his left arm and Katrina smiled as she grabbed it with her right hand. James led her towards the dance. Kendall shook his head, still amused, as he followed the couple.

James and Katrina walked into the dance to gasps from the crowd. Katrina noticed some of the girls from the crowd that had chased James. They were glaring at James, but surprisingly didn't do anything about it. Katrina continued scanning the crowd and found Gustavo and Kelly. They smiled when they saw Katrina holding James's arm before they gave each other a fist bump. Katrina rolled her eyes before she looked to the next group to find Stephanie, Jo and Camille. The three girls smiled at each other, knowingly, before they each gave Katrina a thumbs up. Katrina smiled back before she glanced over to see Kendall explaining things to a confused Carlos. And lastly, her eyes settled on a stunned Logan.

Logan was staring at where Katrina was holding onto James's arm. He bit his lip a little as he looked up into Katrina's eyes. They were staring back at Logan as though challenging him to say something. To object to her being on James's arm. It seemed like that's what he was going to do as he made his way to the two.

"So, you two are dating now?" Logan asked.

"Sort of," James and Katrina responded.

"What do you mean by 'sort of'?" Logan pressed, "Either you are or you aren't."

"He's on probation," Katrina explained. "But why does that matter to you? You're dating Camille." Her voice had a challenging tone to it as though she hoped that he would contradict it. "It's not like we were dating or anything. You didn't even want to give it a shot." Logan went wide eyed as he realized the play on words Katrina had used, referencing the song she had sung earlier.

"Come on, Kat," James spoke up, "Let's go dance." Katrina had gone stiff at James's use of the nickname she had before the accident, but didn't say a word about it. She looked up at him, smiled and nodded. As James led her towards the dance floor, she took a quick glance back at Logan. She gave him a sad smile before she and James disappeared in the crowd.

Suddenly, Camille appeared right next to Logan. She smiled at him before she spoke, "Don't they make a cute couple? They're going to put on a slow song next! Doesn't that make you want to ask me something?"

Logan looked at her and held out his hand, "Let's dance." Camille grabbed it and they made their way to the dance floor.

Katrina noticed the interaction right as the song, War by Jay Sean came on. She sniffed back a tear as James grabbed her waist. Placing her good hand on James's shoulder, she snuck one last glance at Logan. Katrina's and Logan's eyes met. She quickly snapped back to look into James's eyes, but Logan kept staring at her from across the dance floor as the lyrics began.

I would march across the desert to defeat my enemy
And I would lie here in the trenches with your picture next to me
And when I told you it's forever, then it's how its gonna be
Don't, won't let him just take the place of me
Does he really know you like I know you, all the little things?
Does he really love you like I love you, how can he compete?
If he makes me fight for you, die for you, would he do the same?
This is turning into way more than a game
Now it feels like soldiers in a war and none of us are backing down
And I will show you victory is mine before we leave this battleground
Cause he don't wanna leave, and I don't wanna go
And I know just how this battle goes
He don't wanna leave and I don't wanna fight this kind of war
You know he's not the man you think he is; he's hiding all his flaws
So tell me what's the point in fighting? Because we'll all end up with scars
But girl if that's what I must go through, then I'm not prepared to lose
Cause I've already bled so much for you
Does he really know you like I know you, all the little things?
Does he really love you like I love you, how can he compete?
If he makes me fight for you, die for you, would he do the same?
Baby this is turning into way more than a game
Baby cause we're soldiers in a war and none of us are backing down
And I will show you victory is mine before we leave this battleground
Cause he don't wanna leave, and I don't wanna go
And I know just how this battle goes
He don't wanna leave and I don't wanna fight this kind of war
Getting kind of sick of this battle
Wish I could take it back to when I had you
I'm almost thinking that he can have you, just let him have you
It's getting kinda hard to convince you
After all the shit that we've been through
Why would you let all this happen?
You got a choice to make it stop
It's already gone too far girl
We're soldiers in a war and none of us are backing down
And I will show you victory is mine before we leave this battleground
Cause he don't wanna leave, and I don't wanna go
And I know just how this battle goes
He don't wanna leave and I don't wanna fight this kind of war
Cause he don't wanna leave, and I don't wanna go
And I know just how this battle goes
He don't wanna leave and I don't wanna fight this kind of war

The song ended and a fast song came on. James and Katrina left the dance floor cause Katrina couldn't do much fast dancing. Logan stayed on the dance floor, dancing with Camille, but keeping his concentration on Katrina. He watched as James leaned forward and whispered something in Katrina's ear. She laughed and pushed him away, teasingly. Suddenly, Logan didn't feel like being at a dance.

The next morning, Katrina walked in the main room to find the guys in a huddle at the dining table. She raised her eyebrows cause there wasn't any food on the table which was usually the only time that the guys would sit at the table.

She got closer before she got their attention, "Hey!" The boys jumped out of their seats and smiled guiltily at Katrina.

"Hey," they responded hesitantly. She noticed Logan hide something behind his back. Katrina's eyebrows went up even higher at this.

"What are you hiding from me?" Katrina demanded.

"Nothing," Kendall, James and Logan insisted.

"Yeah," Carlos agreed, "Nothing to do with your brother!" Logan, Kendall and James smacked their foreheads.

Katrina furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, "Wait a second. You said that there was a dead end in the search for Evan."

"He wasn't talking about Evan," James responded quickly, looking around nervously.

"Oh really," Katrina walked forward and stopped right in front of James. "You really don't want to lie to me, do you James?" She smiled sultrily at him as she let her right hand brush softly across his cheek. "If you tell me the truth, I'll be very happy." James shuddered.

Once Kendall realized that James was about to crack, he spoke up, "He's telling the truth!"

Katrina looked over at him, "Well, then, who were you talking about? Evan's the only brother I have that could still be alive."

"We were talking about your younger brothers," Kendall explained. When Katrina continued to stare, Kendall went on, "We found out where your family was buried and I was asking the others if it would be appropriate if I would go pay my respects since they were my family too, even if I never got to meet them."

Katrina stayed silent for a second before she commented, "That's really weird." Kendall shrugged. "How'd you find out where they were buried? You can't find it online. I made sure of that so their grave wasn't vandalized."

Logan went wide eyed, but Kendall kept his cool as he went on, "I asked Brandon. I hope you don't mind."

"No, I don't mind," Katrina replied, "You should have a chance to visit them. I actually have to get going. Meeting the girls for some shopping. I'll see you guys later." She took a good look at each of them before she left the apartment.

As soon as the door closed, the guys huddled back around the table, Logan placing what he had behind his back on the table. It was the small puzzle box that the guys and Brandon had found in the cave.

"I still can't get this," Logan complained. "And don't even get me started on those coded pieces of paper. Just when I think I have it, something else goes wrong."

"We have to figure this out," Kendall insisted, "This is the last connection anyone has with Evan."

"Where are those papers anyways?" James began to look around for them.

"In our room," Logan answered. James nodded before he left the room, running to go find the papers. Logan slumped down on a chair, "I give up. I can't figure it out."

"Let me look at it," Kendall reached out and pulled it towards him, "These things on top of the box look like they're just plastic shapes."

"Geometric shapes," Logan added, "Yeah, but I have no idea what to do with them. There are no instructions for something like this." He put his hands in his hair in frustration.

"You know what?" Carlos spoke up, "This reminds me of those puzzles that were popular when we were kids."

"What are you talking about?" Kendall asked.

"You remember how we would put plastic shapes together to make bigger shapes of different things like animals or people or cars or other things," Carlos reminded them.

"Tangrams?" Logan identified it.

"That's it!" Carlos agreed as James came back with the sheets of paper.

James put the papers on the table before he asked, "What'd I miss?"

"Carlos thinks that the puzzle has something to do with tangrams," Logan told him. "Which is ridiculous. With the codes on these papers so advanced, why would the puzzle be simple? Let's figure out these papers. Maybe they're the instructions for the puzzle." He pulled the papers closer to him and James and Kendall looked over Logan's shoulder as Logan tried to make sense of the code.

However, Carlos stared at the puzzle box. He began fiddling with the pieces on top of the box when suddenly, one piece broke off.

"Uh," Carlos muttered causing the other boys to look at him.

"What did you do?" James pulled the two pieces away from Carlos.

"Wait a second," Logan spoke up, "Let me see that small piece." James shrugged before he handed the piece to Logan. Looking at the back of it, Logan smiled.

"The brain's figured it out," Kendall commented. "What is it?"

"Carlos is right," Logan replied. James and Kendall looked over at Carlos who had a big goofy grin on his face. "Look at the back of this. It's magnetic. That means that the shapes need to be put together on the top of the box in a certain way in order to open it."

"And what order would that be?" James asked.

"I will tell you that after I figure out this code," Logan held up one of the sheets of paper.

"We're going to be here a while," Kendall sighed.

Katrina knocked on the door to Stephanie's apartment. It wasn't long before Stephanie answered the door.

"Hey," Stephanie greeted the model, "What'd you tell the guys you were doing to get out of the apartment?"

"That we were shopping," Katrina replied, "They seemed to be distracted by something anyways. I probably could have told them that I was swimming with sharks and they would have been like, 'Okay, have fun!'" Katrina walked into the apartment and Stephanie shut the door after her.

"Well, we've almost got the first video finished," Stephanie filled Katrina in, "All we need is to edit your part in and then we can submit it!"

"Awesome," Katrina noted, "I've already gone over the video of James's attempts at asking out girls and have made notes on what was wrong with each of them."

"Then this will go faster than we thought," Stephanie responded. She led Katrina over to her bedroom where Camille and Jo were already waiting for them.

"I think we should start with the whole asking-a-girl-out-through-text-message thing," Katrina suggested.

"Sounds good," Stephanie grabbed her handheld camera off her bed. She turned it on and held it up to film Katrina. "And action!"

(A/N): And time to end the chapter! I know. Bad Spot. But, hopefully, I'll get another one up tomorrow. Anyways, Jamina is now an item…. Sort of…. Unless James messes it up… Did Logan have a realization when he saw Jamina as a couple? Is he having second thoughts about Camille? What's in the puzzle box that Carlos halfway solved? And what about the coded pieces of paper? What do they say? How is the video that the girls are putting together going to go? Is there going to be something special with it? You'll just have to wait to find out! Until then, review and happy reading!