The girls and Mike arrived in the living room. There were two people standing in front of Peter Micky and Davy. Davy was standing next to the short woman while the taller man was on the other side of him.
"Wow, a woman who I'm taller than." Davy said to Peter. "This must be a dream."
They turned. Karen knew them almost immediately.
"Oh my god." She said.
"You know us?" The short woman said.
"Yeah." Chea said now catching on. "Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. From the FBI, X-Files division."
"Fox?" Micky chuckled. "Does he have a sister named raccoon?"
Mulder looked at Micky, in the end he ignored him. "Yes but also in our spare time we patrol space time continuity." He said.
"We need to talk." Scully said.
"Why can't they do it here?" Mike said leery of letting Karen out of his sight again. "Everyone here knows about the time gadget."
"Yes, but this doesnt concern you." Mulder said. "Out on the deck will be good."
"Ok." Karen said. "We will be right back."
"I'll be counting on that you know." Mike said.
Karen and Chea walked out onto the deck with the FBI Agents. Mike went to the couch with the guys.
"I got a bad feeling about this." Peter said.
"Why? Did your palm reading tell you about this too?" Davy asked.
"Yeah, but I only stuck around for the good news." Peter sheepishly admitted.
"We understand your uncle made the time gadget." Mulder said. "And that he went into a world of his own."
"Do you know how or where we can contact him?" Scully asked.
"I'm sorry, no you can't." Chea said.
"Why is that?" Scully said.
"My uncle Jessup, the inventer of the device, is dead." Chea said. "He went into the west, and got gunned down in a showdown." Chea explained. She still missed her uncle. Besides Karen, he was the person she truly considered family.
"I'm sorry." Mulder said. "That must be really tough."
"Thanks." Chea said.
"The device is being used too much." Scully said. "Continity is being disrupted here. Everything runs in this universe a certain way. We spend our time off looking after it."
"Wait a minute, after all the X-Files and everything in between, you have time off?" Karen asked incredulously.
"Believe it or not." Mulder shrugged.
"I was saying..." Scully stepped in. "When you went to Friends and discovered that Chandler and Monica were together, and weren't surprised. Thats the way it was supposed to be."
"I knew that." Karen said.
"But what do you want with us?" Chea asked.
"Like Agent Scully said the device is being used too much." Mulder said.
"We are here to tell you that you have one more day with it before it goes back with us." Scully informed you. "This will force you to make a choice."
"What would that be?" Karen asked.
"I think you know." Mulder said. "We gotta go. We have a runner in Dave's World. What could happen if they made that show funny?"
"Improve it maybe? It sucked!" Chea said.
"What?" Mulder said.
"Nothing." Chea said.
Chea looked at Scully and Mulder. "I wanna ask you something?" She said. "I am dying to know, you guys are so good together, why don't you ever get together?"
"Us?" Scully looked at Mulder. "Get together?" They looked at each other for a second. Then they burst out laughing.
"I think we'll take that as a no." Karen said while the duo still laughed. It seemed like that they were laughing forever. Scully actually burst into tears.
"Oh man." She said. "That was a good one. I needed that." She said.
"Get together." Mulder agreed. "As if!"
Later
Mike and Micky got up as the girls came back in. The agents have already taken their leave.
"What did they want?" Mike asked.
"And is that foxy Dana bird coming back?" Davy asked.
"Davy, focus!" Peter said flicking his ear.
"I can't, a beautiful bird was in our cage. I must see her again, I must!" He said. He spies a magazine on the table. "Oohh, hello Janet!"
Micky rolled his eyes. "Whats up?"
"They need to take the device back after today." Chea said. "Agent Scully said its being used too much. Some baloney about continuity."
"Anyway they said we have to make a choice, and that we know what it is." Karen said.
"Call me stupid, but what?" Peter asked.
"I think we have to choose. Here or there." Karen said. "We either leave for good, or stay for good." She looked at Mike. He folded his arms.
"I guess you have to do what you have to." Mike said. He turned and stormed off. Karen followed him.
"Mike!" She said trying to get his attention. She turned to the gang. "I'll be back."
Davy and Peter left the room, deciding to let Micky and Chea have some time to themselves.
"Oh man, do you think you are gonna leave?" Micky asked the pain obvious in his voice. He went to Cheas side. She looked at him.
"I think thats what shes saying, but why come back if she thought she was gonna have to leave?" Chea asked.
"I don't think anyone could have predicted those two weridos coming into the picture." Micky said.
"I know." Chea said she grabbed Micky around the waist. He was taller than her. "I'm not leaving. I don't care."
"Then if you don't want to, no one will force ya." He said. "I'll make sure of that."
Chea sighed. She thought for a minute. "Wait a minute. Micky." She looked up at him. "They never said we couldnt use it again before they take it."
"What do you mean?" Micky asked.
"I mean lets have some fun with it." Chea said. She got a weird look in her eyes. "There is something I been DYING to do."
Micky knew that look, she got that look the other day when they had the food fight. But unlike Karen, it didnt alarm him like it does for her. "What do you have in mind?"
"Remember the movie I talked about?" Chea said grabbing the device from the table. Karen had put it there after the meeting with the agents. "Its crazy enough to work." She said. She quickly punched in some numbers and grabbed Mickys hand. "Here's hoping we don't get seasick." She kissed Micky on the lips before they vanished. Davy and Peter emerged from the other room.
"People coming, then going, and coming. It's getting worse than Grand Central Station." Davy muttered.
"Where were you in New York?" Peter asked.
Davy gave him a look and went to where the instruments were. Everyone was everywhere, might as well do a little practice.
Karen found Mike on the beach.
"Is it me or do we run out here a LOT?" Karen asked as she caught up with him.
"I think we just go where our legs take us." Mike said tossing his hat in the sand. "Great, sand NEVER comes out." He muttered retrieving it.
"Ok." Karen said. She sat down. "Darn it, if I knew there were people who were watching us, I would have never come back."
"I hope you don't mean that." Mike said.
"I do." She said. "We might have to leave again."
"Why?" Mike asked.
"We have real lives, thats why! In the real world. Television might have meant a lot to Chea but not to me." Karen said. "She's a real pop culture nut, I'm lucky if I get to see more than two movies a year in a theater."
There was a long silence between them. Mike turned to her.
"How long have you been here?" Mike asked.
"What?" Karen responded.
"No think." Mike said. "If everything is like it is, then in the real world during all this time hopping, two months have passed." He said. "Consider this, do you still have a job? How about where you live, is it still your place? I mean if you didn't pay your rent, you must have been evicted." Karen nodded. "I don't mean to be such a downer, but theres a lot to think about here."
"I know." Karen said. "I think me and Chea should talk this over. I got a feeling what her answer would be."
"Shed want to stay with Mick." Mike said reading her mind.
"Exactly." Karen said. "Its got to be both of us staying or both of us leaving." She said to Mike as they went back into the house.
Peter was singing one of his songs with Davy playing bass guitar.
"What a minute." Karen said. "Wheres Chea? And Micky?"
"Dunno. They were gone when we came back." Davy said.
Meanwhile, there was a chill in the air. Chea stood at the bow of the mighty ship. Micky was beside her. They were really lucky. They magically changed into the clothes of the era when they arrived.
"So this is the Titanic." Micky said. "Man this thing was huge."
"I know." Chea said. "I don't think we'll stick around for the iceberg." She smiled at him. She got up onto the bow of the ship. Micky stood behind her.
"This is how its done?" Micky said outstretching her arms.
"Exactly," Chea sighed. "I think you know more than you let on Mr Dolenz."She chided him.
They stood there for a few minutes.
"Ohhh I'm flying Jack...Micky!" She corrected herself.
"Whos Jack?" Micky raised his eyebrow.
"In the movie. Jack was in love with Rose. Leonardo DiCaprio." Chea said. She turned to look at him. "I don't think Jack is half as charming as you are."
"Thanks, babe." Micky said. Then he pulled him to her and kissed her on the lips. Even though she got kissed by him before, she felt like it was for the first time. She had to keep herself from swooning. After all, they were on the bow of a ship. It wasn't quite the smooch on the Titanic, Chea though as they got down, but she believe this one was like a thossand times better. She punched the buttons and vanished before anyone could catch them.
Mike and Karen were awaiting them when they returned.
"Where were you?" Karen asked as they reappeared. Both Micky and Chea were soaking wet from the spray of the ocean.
"Let's just say were were playing a little What would Rose and Jack do." Chea smiled.
"We were worried sick guys." Mike said. "We thought those people had come back.
"Oh chill out Papa Nez." Chea said. "We wouldnt have done anything you too wouldnt have done."
"I would have never gone on the Titanic." Karen said.
"Of course not, Mike gets seasick." Micky said.
"Remember Hitting the high seas?" Chea asked.
"Oh yeah." Karen said having a very vague memory of the episode.
"Did you guys have fun?" Peter asked.
"We left before the boat sank." Chea said. "But we did have fun if you can call it that." She joked.
"Oh man." Karen said.
"I'm kidding." Chea said.
"I know." Karen replied.
Mike looked at the clock. "Oh man, we're gonna be late to a gig."
"Do you want to come?" Micky asked the girls.
"Sure, we need a change of scenery to think." Karen said, she leaned into Chea. "And talk." She whispered.
Chea looked at her with worry in her eyes. Karen winked, but somehow that didn't seem to make it any better.
The Key Spot
Karen and Chea danced for the first few songs, Let's dance on, Papa Genes blues and Valleri. Karen then took her by the arm and let her through the crowd of dancing teeny boppers. They kept going till they got to the outside of the club.
"What is it?" Chea said. "You said you wanted to talk, so lets talk."
"Ok." Karen said. "Please let me finish before you say anything ok?"
"All right." Chea said.
In between sets the guys looked outside.
"They been talking for a while." Micky said.
"What are they talking about?" Mike asked the guys.
"Its pretty obvious. Whether to stay or go." Peter said.
"Can you tell if they decided yet?" Dave asked.
"Well, judging by body language: its been decided that they go. You can seen by Cheas slump that she isnt happy about it." Mike said.
Micky muttered something under his breath and started drumming on his kit going faster and faster until he was just beating them. He then hit the cymbols and tossed the sticks on the kit.
"I'm all right." He said as the others looked at him. "Let's get this gig over with."
Mike nodded, and they started to play another song, "The Kind Of Girl I Could Love." It was the song he first played when he first knew his feelings. The girls came back in.
"Man, they are so subdued." Karen said. They could both see the looks Micky and Mike gave them from on stage. "Think they know?"
"It all depends on all they think they know." Chea said. "I'm gonna have a seat." Chea said and sat in an empty seat. Karen soon joined her.
The agents were waiting for the group when they arrived from the gig.
"That was fast." Micky said.
"Well it seems someone made a side trip onto a well known oscar winning movie." Scully said directing her gaze at Mike and Karen.
"Don't look at me." Karen said. "I get seasick, and I NEVER liked Titanic!" Mike nodded with her, even though he had never seen the movie.
"We need the gadget. But we have to know, are you staying, or going back?" Mulder asked.
"Our decision is made." Karen said. Micky and Mike winced, thinking the worst.
Chea handed Scully the device. "We're staying."
Micky and Mike looked at each other.
"Oh my god!" Micky said and picked up Chea and whirled her around. "We thought you would leave."
"Yeah." Mike said looking at Karen. "We saw you talking, Chea looked upset."
"Its called acting." Karen said. "I think we can get another emmy."
They looked at Chea and Micky but they were engaged in a long kiss.
Scully looked at the two.
"Well, I guess that does it for us." Mulder said. They hit the buttons on their own device and vanished.
"Oh man." Micky said. "But what about sleeping arrangements."
"Micky, always thinking of others." Davy laughed.
"Since we're staying, we'll sleep here till we can get our own place. Its only natural." Karen said.
"Plus we'll be right next door." Chea said. "Short walk."
"So what do we do now?" Mike asked.
"The beach!" Karen said. "I can't believe we've been here so long and havent gone swimming yet."
"Sounds like a plan to me." Micky said. "I know where we can get a swimsuit."
"Let's go." Chea said. "We got all the time in the world now."
The gang split up and ran off to the beach. It was a sunny day, time for some fun in the sun, at last.
