DAY 3 Crawford woke up early that morning. Something in his mouth. A hair, long and orange. twitch twitch He put on his socks. Something between his toes. A hair, long and orange. twitch twitch He put on his white shirt. Something marred the clean white fabric. It was hair, long and orange. twitch twitch The beige trousers....Orange hair... Twitch twitch twitch He needed to freshen up and stepped to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and saw his own tired face. He opened the fossets, and washed his face, brushed his teeth... Something prevented the water from running away. Yes, it was a big, orange ball of hair which clogged the sink. The brush was still lying in the same corner, though it seemed it had gotten fuzzier in the last 24 hours. Crawford could hear the breathing noises coming from the other room. Still hasn' suffocated on his own hair. Too bad. Now I have to kill him myself. "I'm getting some real nasty vibes. Care to tell me what's wrong?" Schuldig asked while scratching his head. For a moment he looked at some loose hairs entangled between his fingers, then tossed them carelessly around. A big vein was throbbing on Crawford's forehead. One more night and I'm going to buy a pair of scissors, cut off that orange mess on top of his head an shove it down his throat. @@@ Crawford had decided that it would be better -for his own sanity- to split up again. Each of them had chosen one part of the park. Schuldig had chosen the part with Goofy in it. "Hey, got any more of that fairy dust?" "Sure, how much d'you want?" "Make it double. Got any more news?" "Yeah...that Mary girl, she has a past. Her boyfriend fell of the Ferris wheel 5 years ago. Real sad. It was on their anniversary. I think she has been blaming Disney ever since and now she wants to take revenge by ruining its reputation." "Wow, that totally makes sence. Why would any normal girl ever want to date Nagi?" "Yeah..." Goofy said. Schuldig took another purple pill. "So...I guess Nagi is probably with her right now." "That goes without saying." "Maybe she'll try to kill him." "Mmmhm, probably." "You think he"ll need help?" Goofy shrugged, "Dunno, can he fight girls?" "Never have seen him do it. But then again, I don't really pay attention." Schuldig looked around. "Where do you think they will be?" "Let's make a logical deduction..." "Uhhhh...awhat?" The purple pills were obviously starting to work at that moment. Both Goofy and Schuldig were staring blankly at each other. "Where would a girl bring a boy if she _like_ wanted to kill him?" "Maybe ...uh... the hotel?" "Nah, Crawford plants _like_ bugs in our rooms and stuff." "The space mountain?" "Nah, too heavy security belts." "How about the Ferris Wheel?" "Yeah, that would make sence, you know, like...errr....with her past and stuff...." "Yeah....Maybe you should kinda check on them... "Uh-uh I should do that." The two of them stared into nothingness for another five minutes. @@@ Crawford was standing under a tree, half of him hidden in the shadows. He plucked an orange strand of hair of his costume. He needed a vacation. Suddenly a young man approached him. Our target. "Hi," he said,"you're the one following me around for the last two days, aren't you?" In his surprise Crawford nodded. "Wow, you're good, really persistant. I didn't think you would survive riding the space mountain eight times in a row." Crawford turned green only thinking about it. "You wouldn't be my contact? I was to meet you three days ago, but you didn't show up. I suppose it was a test for my loyalty?" Crawford nodded again. This is too easy. "I'm sorry I didn't contact you immediately when I first noticed you following me, but I thought it was part of the test." Should I say something? Nah, this guy's doing all the talking. The boy gave exact specifications about time and place of the cargo. He even wrote them down when Crawford decided it would be fun to let him do that. "Well, that was that," the boy said, "Now I'm going to ride space mountain again." As he turned around, the boy wasn't able to see the mean grin spreading over Crawford's face. The gun with silencer Crawford quickly drew from under his jacket he couldn't see neither. There was only a soft thumb audible when the boy hit the ground. Next thing Crawford did was dump the body in the Indiana River and head to the hotel to pack their bags. He was happy to find Farfarello still tied to the tree they had left him with that morning. Can't bite your way through a metal leash, ne? Crawford chuckled mentally. Now he only had to gather Schuldig and Nagi and they'd be on their way back home. How he missed those corrupt politicians and assassins. Hey, he even _almost_ missed Weiss. @@@ Schuldig was skating around the park, desperate to find Nagi. Ok, Nagi was the kind of boy that could take care of himself. But was a Nagi in love that too..? He was happy he had found these skates. He had bought them of Goofy for a really cheap price. It's amazing what a person can hide inside such a costume. That man was a black market on its own. He spotted Nagi at the Ferris wheel. The boy had little hearts in his eyes and was holding the hand of his future killer. They were about to step into a little cubicle. Schuldig raced towards them, wildly waving his arms. Nagi waved back and smiled, then stepped into the cubicle. Schuldig continued racing towards them, partly to warn Nagi, partly because he couldn't brake. Skating is easy to learn, but braking takes practise. He knocked down some kids and some parents who were waiting for the wheel. Then rolled right into the next cubicle. The wheel started to turn. Schuldig bend out of the window and yelled at Nagi. The boy didn't -of course- hear him. "Nagi, she's trying to kill you!!!" It made no difference. Even trying to reach the boy telepathically was a lost effort. His mind was fogged by luuurrrve and Schuldig's was drugged by those little purple pills Goofy had sold him earlier. I need to save him. Schuldig looked up and saw Nagi hanging out of the cart. Mary's hands tightly around his throat. She's probably waiting for the highest point to toss him of the wheel. He had to go there himself and save Nagi. Despite the fact Schuldig was still wearing his rollerblades he managed to climb on top of the cubicle. Not without any effort though. As he climbed through the little window he had to keep telling to himself he was not afraid of hights. Which he wasn't. Really. As he was standing on the the windowrill he grabbed the edge of the plastic roof firmly. He pulled himself up. One of his skates fell down. It fell deep, very deep and crushed a kid. A little panick started down there. Parents pointing accusingly to the man with the orange hair, wearing only one skate, who was hanging from the side of a cubicle. Nearly at the top. "Don't wory, Nagi, I'll save you!!!" Schuldig was now standing on top of the cubicle. The plastic roof was bending dangerously. Schuldig tried to jump to Nagi's cubicle, which was luckily only the next one. Jumping with a rollerblade on your left foot and only a bright yellow sock on your right one isn't an easy task. Especially not when you're standing on the rooftop of a cubicle from a Ferris wheel on it's maximum point. For a moment Schuldig thought his arms weren't going to hold his weight. But of course he wouldn't be a member of the elite killer team *Schwarz* if he weren't a little athletic. He climbed into the upper cubicle and punched Mary away, saving little Nagi. She fell to the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm saving your life." "Why?" "Because she was trying to kill you." "I could've handled it myself. I'm a telekinetic ya know?" "Then why was she strangling you?" "I thought she was massaging my throat." "Kid, you have a lot to learn." "How did you know I was here...and that she tried to kill me?" "Dumb luck...?" "You were spying on me, weren't you?" "*no*" "Yes you were!! I can't believe you were spying on me. Don't you have the least bit of respect for my privacy?" A quiet cough from behind Schuldig and Nagi. They turned around to face Mary who was now pointing a gun at the two of them. "I was planning on only killing the little one. But I guess I'll have to finish of the both of you." "Noooooo!!!!" Schuldig yelled dramatically and leaped in front of Nagi. It looked like a scene from 'the Bodyguard' horribly gone wrong. Nagi rolled his eyes, then blasted the gun as well as Mary away with his telekinetic powers. She was thrown out of the cubicle and fell all the way down. Then she went SPLAT on some little kids. Nagi blinked a few times then looked back at Schuldig, his eyes all watery. "You were really going to take that bullet for me, weren't you?" "I guess..." "....." Nagi started crying. "....." Schuldig started crying. "You are a real friend!" Then they were both crying and hugging, forgetting all about their masculinity. "It's so nice to have a real friend!" @@@ As they left the Ferris wheel, Crawford was already waiting for them, tapping his foot and holding tightly onto Farfarello's leash. "Brad, what are you doing here?" "How did you find us?" Crawford sighed deeply, like he had done non-stop for the last days. "It wasn't that hard. There was a rumour going around about a rollerblade falling from the Ferris wheel and crushing a child." "How did you know it was us?" "Lucky guess." Schuldig and Nagi looked at Crawford. "Mission accomplished, lets go home. N.O.W. This is the last time I go to Disneyland with you guys." "Is that a promise?" @@@ Finally the drive home. Crawford was going as fast as possible. Quite relieved to see the pink castles and Disney-stuff fade in the background. Nagi sat next to him. The boy looked oddly happy, despite the fact his girlfriend got tossed from the Ferris wheel and splashed in a pudding on the concrete floor. On the backseet Schuldig and Farfarello were playing rock paper scissors. They enjoyed themselves a lot. Probably because they were playing it with actual scissors. "Crawford?" Nagi asked shyly. "Yes?" He fell his usual calm and coolness seep back in, the further they got away from the land of doom...errr Disneyland that was. "Would you take a bullet for me?" "Probably not. Why would I?" "Schuldig would." Nagi pouted. "Schuldig would also put his hand in a wasp's nest if you'd ask him." On the backseet Schuldig sneezed. Someone must be talking about me. "Farfarello, if you keep waving those scissors around, someone might lose an eye." "Hope so." Yes, everything was back to normal. The End That was it. 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