Karen, Chea and Jack reached the mall of america around noon. The trio pulled up to the mall in a reverent kind of awe and astonishment.
"Okay that is a huge mall." Jack said.
"Thats the understatement of the year, possibly the decade." Chea muttered.
"How on gods green earth are we going to find the other clone in there?" Karen asked. "With Livvie we at least had a man power advantage but now I don't know."
"You're forgetting something sweetheart." Jack said smiling. "Us clones are tuned into each others minds." He reminded her. "I can tell you where the other one is, roughly." He said looking at the mall. "We may have to visit a lot of lingerie stores...."
"Don't even...." Karen said pointing a finger at Jack. "Wait, did you say other one? There are three of you guys."
"Catfish is totally out of my mindsight right now." He said. "I can't get ahold of him at all."
"I wonder if that means anything." Chea said.
"I don't think so." Karen said. "We were not able to read the third clone from Las Vegas. Distance must be a factor in this."
"I suppose so." Chea nodded. She looked at her phone. "Someone tried to call us."
"Must be Brianna." Karen said.
"Should we call her back?" Chea asked.
"Nah, it will be just be more of her asking whats going on." Karen said. "It'll be better to find the other girl clone first, then we can talk on the way home."
The manor
Brianna had just spent a sleepless night watching the clone chamber to see if Catfish would be coming back out. Brianna was about to nod off when she heard the mail being delivered through the front door. She popped off her crouched position on the ground very slowly, after all she barely moved from the spot all night, and hobbled along to the front door. She picked two magazines off the ground and a tv guide for this week.
"Ooooh Angels on the cover!" She cooed. "Its a keeper for sure." Brianna walked by the clone machine. She turned to it as she heard a buzzing sound. The magazines that had been on the ground before were suddenly sucked back into the machine. It was like they were just beamed up by Scotty from Star Trek.
"What in the..." She started to say as a hand reached out of the chamber and grabbed the tv guide out of her hand. "...hey! I wasn't done with that. The machine churned for a second or two, then stopped cold in its tracks. Whatever theory the girls might have had about the clone machine being completely down was now wrong. Catfish, wearing a pair of shorts and a white "I'm with stupid" t-shirt came out followed by a younger man with deep blue eyes. This man she had seen before.
"Uh oh." Brianna muttered. "I just made a clone."
The young man smiled at her. "Hi."
"H-h-h-i." Brianna stammered as she realized who this blue eyed wonder was. It was Elijah Wood, but didnt have his long curly hair from the Lord of the Rings movies, even though she knew it was probably some sort of extensions or wig. It still looked good on him. His shorter hair was like that of the real Elijah.
"I guess we should introduce each other." The Elijah clone said. Brianna dumbly nodded.
"Brianna." Brianna said. "And I if I get my guess right you don't have a name yet."
"Yeah." He smiled. "Kinda makes it tough to tell you who I am if I don't have a name."
"Hmm." Brianna thought. What is a name, she managed to think for some strange reason, but a temporary label? the only movie she had seen with Elijah Wood in it, besides the rings movies was Flipper. But would he really want the name of an animal?
As if reading her mind, "Elijah" answered her question for her. "I wouldnt mind any name you think of, it would be just perfect coming from you."
"How about we name you Paul
?" Brianna said. "Its the best of both worlds, its from your movies and its the name of a singer I like*."
"I think I love it." Paul said smiling. "And I think I really like you as well."
Brianna felt her kneecaps melt in her legs. Davy was never this smooth.
"I think we should go after Catfish." Brianna said finally able to form a solid thought in her head. "Hes not old enough to be left alone."
"But hes like thirty or something isnt he?" Paul asked with a little doubt on his face.
"Physical age yes, mental age I'm not so sure of." Brianna laughed.
"Sure." Brianna said as she let herself be pulled along by her newly made clone friend. "This makes number three on the list of things to tell the girls." Brianna thought. As they followed the man-chld, Brianna noticed that Catfish now had his room back. Seeing Paul must have momentarily distracted her from whatever rumbling sound accompanied the reappearance of the room. But she noticed something else, Paul now had a room. They walked by it quickly but it seemed to resemble the Shire in Rings movies.
"I'm gonna have quite a story for the girls when they get back." Brianna smiled.
"The storys just begun." Paul said as they found Catfish in the living room. "Here he is, he shouldnt be too much trouble now." Paul said still holding her hand.
"Not so fast." Brianna said. "He's gotten into the Captain Crunch again." Brianna pointed out. Catfish was tootling along on a yellow submarine whistle. "How appropriate."
The Mall
If Brianna thought she had a tough time keeping Catfish in line, she never had to deal with a Jack Nicholson clone. This particular one seemed to have double the real Jacks charms and motives. At least one salesgirl slapped him already. After leaving the particular store they were in, Karen pushed him against the wall.
"Now you listen, we cannot get thrown out of here before we find the other clone so you better keep your mind squeaky clean. No dirty thoughts at all." Karen said. "Do you understand?"
"Livvie was easier to deal with. I think she was starting to like me, all girls start to like me after a while." Jack said.
"Its gonna be a long while before that happens." Chea laughed.
"It all takes time." Jack said. "Who knows, maybe before we get back you can tolerate me."
"Do you feel anything?" Karen asked. Jack smiled, letting her know she walked right into that one. "I meant on our fugitive clone."
"I'm not sure you want to know, I mean you just pushed me up against a wall and I'm not getting anything for it." Jack said.
Karen rolled her eyes as Chea browsed a local news area. She was about to pick up a new copy of the USA Today paper when she heard a english accented voice speak to her.
"Will you buying that?" Chea turned to see what looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones talking to her. "I just got this job and I'm about to lose it due to shoplifters."
"Oh my." Chea said quietly.
