
�ARGH CRAP!� Jess tried to hide in the fridge but failed
miserably.
�Jess!!� Kurt started,
looking concerned. �It was your turn!�
�My turn? What? What!?
What?� Jess twitched.
�At Scrabble!� Kurt reminded
her.
�Oh�yeah.� Jess said
suspiciously.
�Are you cheating?�
�Nooo��
�Ja [yes] you are!�
�Yeah, you are Jess, just admit
it.� Hannah said.
�Shut up!� Jess growled at
her through gritted teeth.
Kurt gasped. �And to think I
believed you when you said it was too hot and you asked whether you could fan
yourself with a dictionary!!�
�Oh for
God�s sake!� Jess stomped off to the toilet.
�What�s going on in here?� Natalie
entered the kitchen and looked around, confused.
�Kurt let himself in.�
Hannah explained.
�Oh.�
There was an uncomfortable
silence.
�I�ll leave�� Kurt said.
Hannah thought she heard a
small, �Good�, float from the bathroom direction.
�BAMF!�
Jess emerged from the
bathroom and walked into the kitchen.
�Hello Jess.� Natalie said,
seriously.
Jess shifted her feet a bit
and shuffled over to Hannah�s side. �We have to get out of here��
Hannah took Jess aside and stared at her.
�Have you forgotten the whole reason why we�re here in the first place?! This is
JAIL! We�re here to do our DUTY! We can�t get out unless we
got serious spy-related undercover action-filled help! Like�like�James
Bond!!"
On cue, outside the window,
Pierce Brosnan walked past.
Jess�s eyes lit up.
�No Jess�he�s an actor. He�s not even the current James
Bond�he�s an old fogey!!�
Jess ran out of the door and
down the street after him.
�JESS!�
Hannah legged it down the
street and rugby-tackled Jess to the ground just behind Pierce Brosnan, who
turned around as he heard the crash.
�What the�?!�
�Hi.� Jess grinned up at
him.
�Jess, SHUT IT!� Hannah
demanded.
�We need your help, Mr
Bond�I mean�BROSNAN.�
�JESS!�
�Yes?� Pierce asked.
�We�re convicted criminals
and we�re hatching an escape plot. Would you like to help us?�
�Noooooo!� Hannah smacked
her head on the floor.
�An escape plot? Criminals?� Pierce considered Jess�s
proposal for about 0.06 seconds before hitting the alarm button on the wall and
running away.
�CRUD!� Hannah smacked Jess around the
head as red lights filled the room and a loud siren rang out, including a voice
declaring: �WARNING: ESCAPE ATTEMPT IMMINENT� every few seconds.
"Oops.�
�Oh, I can�t take you
anywhere, can I?!� Hannah complained.
�What now?� Jess asked,
getting up.
�Run.� Hannah concluded,
scrambling to her feet and legging it towards the cargo bay, closely followed
by Jess.
The red lights and sirens
had filled the entire ship by the time they reached the cargo bay.
�Find a transport ship and
hide in it � FAST!� Hannah said. They ran up to the nearest craft, leapt into
it and shut the door.
�Phew.� Jess fell to the
floor in relieved exhaustion.
�Excuse me.� Said a voice
behind them.
�Uh-oh.� They turned around.
�What are you doing in my
ship?� The man standing there asked. �And why are all the alarms going off?�
Jess looked at Hannah.
Hannah looked at Jess.
They both jumped up
simultaneously and before the man could do anything, they tied his feet and
hands together with Jess�s socks and gagged him with Hannah�s.
He took one look at Hannah�s
socks and desperately tried to crawl away.
�Look, I�m fed up with people making fun of my �smelly feet��it�s
not true!� Hannah said. She grabbed a hold of him and gagged him with them. He
passed out.
�Nice work.� Commented Jess.
Hannah grumbled something
inaudible and they walked off to the main control room of the ship.
�Right�how do we learn how
to fly this thing?� Hannah thought out loud, looking around at the thousands of
controls lining the desks, walls and ceiling.
�Maybe by reading this?� Jess waved a book at her she found in the corner. The
title read: �How to fly this thing�.
�Fabulous!� Hannah took it
and opened it up.
Teeny-tiny writing filled
each page, of which there were around a thousand. �I never was a fast reader.�
Hannah shut the book and handed it back to Jess depressively.
�Give me a minute�� Jess
took it and sat down in the chair. She opened the front cover of the huge book
and literally flicked each page of it over rapidly, reading it all from cover
to cover in an E.T.-on-speed style. She shut it with a satisfied sigh after
about 20 seconds and looked up at a shocked Hannah. �Well, apparently, all we
have to do is press this button.� She reached over and
pressed a small pink button which looked incredibly insignificant. The ship
roared into life, all the controls lit up, the ship lifted up from the
station�s floor about 10 metres and the windscreen wipers started up, giving
the windows a good wipe before the ship zoomed off down the corridor of the
Space Station.
�YEY!� Hannah grinned as
they reached the huge iron doors and whizzed out and to freedom.
�We did it!� Jess whooped.
�We escaped!�
�We�re off the Space
Station!� Hannah added.
�We�re rid of all the old,
boring, defunct book characters!� Jess cheered.
�EHY!� The two girls danced happily.
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Hannah 2003-2004
(Yes, that's right, it took us 18 months)