'Author's Note: I don't own Grease nor Grease 2 or any of the Character. The only thing I own is the plot to the story and a few characters of my own
Summary: Grease 2 Au. One Shot. What if the T-Birds and Pink Ladies hadn't turned up just as Michael was about to reveal the true identity of the 'Cool Rider' to Stephanie? How would that have changed the course of the movie?
AN: Alright here's Chapter 30. Thank you to those that reviewed the last chapter.
Chapter 30
14th June 1969, Rydell California
I cursed under my breath when I was woken up by the phone ringing downstairs. I looked at the clock on the bedside table on my side of the bed. It was just after six in the morning. Who the hell would ring at this time in the morning?
I managed to disentangle myself from Steph before heading down stairs to answer the phone.
"Carrington Residence" I said irritated that someone had woken me up. The nightmares or dreams of Vietnam where a little less frequent after I had opened up to Steph about the dreams or rather nightmares I was having about Vietnam. The dreams had come to a boiling point a month ago.
"Hello Michael. Look I'm sorry to be ringing so early. But um a few of your aunt and uncles are coming to visit from England with your cousins. "My father said from the other end of the line
"Right. So when are they supposed to be in town" I asked generally knowing that this was going to be an interesting family reunion of sorts.
"End of next week. I suppose you're going to be out of town at the end of next week." My father explained.
"I don't know yet" I said after that we said our goodbyes. I put down the receiver and headed back to bed. I was halfway down the hallway when I heard BJ or Rebecca crying from their room.
I walked into the room. Rebecca was awake. I walked over to her cot. She smiled at me and looked at me with her mother's eyes.
"Don't you give me that look young lady" I said teasingly as I picked up from her crib. I moved to sit down in the rocking chair.
An hour later.
Stephanie woke alone to find her husband not in their room. She checked on Connor as she went in search of her husband. He was fast asleep with his dog Sarge lying at the foot of his bed.
She checked on Benjamin or BJ as they called him and Rebecca. Michael was fast asleep with Rebecca in his arm; whom was also asleep in her father's arms.
"I can feel your burning into me you know" I said with my eyes still closed. I opened my eyes and blinked a few times and got up from the rocking chair. I placed her back in her cot.
"She's got you wrapped her little finger."
"There's no doubt about that babe. She takes after her mother in that retrospect about having me wrapped around someone's finger" I said as I wrapped my arms around Steph.
"Oh really" Stephanie said smiling into my bare chest.
"Yea. I might have to invest in a shotgun when Rebecca gets older to keep her future boyfriends in line. Though I won't go as far as your dad the first time I met him" I said chuckling at that particular memory of when I had Marie and Anthony for the first time.
"Hey. He didn't threaten brake your neck like you and Patrick did when Josh and Rose first started to date" Steph pointed out.
"Yea. But me and Patrick where way more nicer about it. Then your two older brothers Bobby and Wayne where when I first met them." I said slighting grimacing at that particular meeting.
"They were only looking out for their younger sister"
"Fair point. Come on. I'll cook breakfast this morning." I said as we walked out of BJ and Rebecca's room.
"Since when did you know how to cook? Or I should say the last time I ate something you cooked I got food poisoning." Steph said teasingly.
"I'll have you know Stephanie Marie Carrington that my cooking skills aren't as bad as Patrick's at least" I pointed out as I pated her on the head patronisingly. Steph elbowed me in the mid-section for my troubles.
An half an hour later. I was half way through cooking breakfast when the infernal phone rang.
"Steph phone" I called from the kitchen where I was cooking bacon, eggs, sausages and a few other things.
"It's for you 'dear'. It's your dad on the phone" She said emphasizing the word dear.
"Thank you darling" I said sarcastically as we were just play a game with each other.
"Yea dad what's up" I said picking up the receiver.
"Look I'm sorry to be a pain. But can you come over and fix the bloody tap in the kitchen. I don't how yea bloody mother did it." My father said.
"Have you tried calling a plumber or do it yourself." I said not really wanting to go over to my parents place.
"No one's open today. And I have tried calling your brothers" My father said. I groaned in annoyance.
"Ok fine. I'll be over in half an hour. Bloody nuisance parents are" I said muttering the last part under my breath after I hung up the receiver
"What did your dad want" Steph asked when I walked into the kitchen again. Connor was sitting at the table playing with breakfast.
"Besides being a pain in the ass. Nothing much. That's the second time today he's rung" I said rubbing the back of my head while I grabbed a piece of bacon and sausage.
"What did he want the first time?"
"He rang to tell me that a few of my relatives from England are coming to visit at the end of next week." I explained mid chew.
"Oh joy"
"Yeah my thoughts exactly. I better go before he rings back to see if I've left yet." I said giving her a quick peck on the lips.
"See yea later little man" I said kissing the top of Connor's head and ruffling his hair as I walked out of the kitchen. I grabbed my old T-Birds leather jacket, keys, helmet and goggles.
Half an hour later. I knocked on the front door of my parents' house. My mum answered the door and let me inside.
"So where's this tap that need fixing apparently" I said as we walked from the hallway into the living room.
"Well the tap didn't need fixing per say Michael" My mum said as we walking into the living room. My eyes met those that of my two oldest friends Adam and Gary Coleman. I hadn't seen either of them since I had moved to America nearly eight years ago.
"How yea going boyo" Gary asked with his thick Irish accent.
"Oh yea know. Taking each day as it comes" I said taking a seat on the couch.
"Yea Ma said you're an old married man" Adam said sitting beside his twin brother.
"Yea we've been married for three years in March" I said stretching out my buggered up right leg.
"Please tell me it is not that Sarah Hamilton." Gary asked.
"No. It is not Sarah. Definitely not. I'm not that daft Gary. Steph's ten times the woman that Sarah is or rather was. And trust me when I tell you this. I love her a hell lot more than I ever did Sarah or so I thought I did" I said as my father handed me a beer.
"Steph. That would be short for Stephanie wouldn't it" Adam asked as I took a sip of my beer.
"Yea it would" I said taking another small sip of my beer.
"Where did you two meet? If your don't mind me asking" Gary asked taking a sip of his own beer.
"It's fine. Steph and I met the first day of high school back from Summer Break. You see I had arrived here in Rydell a week before classes started. Stephanie and her ex Johnny had broken up during the summer break before school started back for the year.
It was love at first sight. The first time she talked me was when she asked me if I was alright after the boys shoved my head in a locker." I went on to explain the chain of events that lead to me and Steph being together.
"So you where over in Vietnam" Adam asked.
"Yea for three years. I was wounded a few months after I deployed over to Vietnam. I didn't go back until May-June of 1966. I came back again in January of the year after that for the birth of Steph and mine first child Connor. I went back and stayed for the remaining 17 months of my enlistment that was left.
Billy was over there for a nearly year before we both came back stateside." I explained to both Adam and Gary what had happened in Vietnam well the short version of what had happened over there.
"When did Billy enlist in the military" Gary asked.
"June of 66 after he found out that his girlfriend Nancy was pregnant. Nancy ran out on him and their daughter Jessica a year later" My father explained before I could say a word.
"Poor bloody bugger" Adam said.
"He was pretty cut up about it. He's raising Jessie on his own." I said taking another sip of my beer.
21st June 1969, Rydell California.
Allan Carrington glanced over at his older brothers Edward and Herbert. Edward was three years older than him while Herbert was a year and a half older then him. Their younger sister Evelyn and her husband Ralph where here also.
Allan had not seen his older brothers since Christmas of 1957 he thought it was. The twelve years since he had seen his older brothers had been somewhat kinder to Herbert than Edward at least.
"Allan where is that eldest boy of yours Michael" Edward's wife Phyllis asked. Phyllis was about a year older then Allan.
"He's over there with Patrick and Billy" Allan pointed out to his sister in law.
"By god he has grown up. Wouldn't you agree Evelyn" Herbert's wife Norma asked.
"I would say so Norma seeing as he is Twenty Five now. He no longer the lanky thirteen year old we remember" Evelyn pointed out.
"Allan didn't Millicent say that Michael's married." Phyllis asked.
"He's been married for three years in March" Allan said before going off to speak with Anthony and Jake.
"Millicent who are those men that Allan's talking to" Herbert asked his sister in law. He knew very little of the people here. Save for his younger brother, sister in law along with his nephews and niece.
"Oh that's Jake and Anthony. Anthony is Michael's father in law and Jake is Anthony's brother." Millicent pointed out before she went off to speak with Edna about something.
I walked over to the cooler to grab a beer for myself, Billy and Patrick. I had seen a few of my cousins around the place along with my Aunt and Uncles but I hadn't spoken to any of them yet.
Adam and Gary where here also. They had hit off with the boys and everyone else in the tight knit groups of former T-Birds and Pink Ladies.
"It's been a while lad." I looked up to see my Uncle Herbert standing near the cooler I was grabbing three beers.
"Yea it has. How's Colin" I asked. My cousin Colin was an only child due to some reason or another.
"Oh he's fine. He's around here somewhere if you wanted to talk to him" My Uncle Herbert said.
"I'll um try and catch up with him later. I've got to deliver two beers to my lazy bone younger brothers" I said before walking off back over to where Patrick and Billy where standing talking Kenickie and Danny.