Growing Up with Daddy- E! fan fic

[csikt]

Awwwwwwwww adorable chapter!!! And hehehehe the phantom struck poor ol' Johnny XD ... using poor Jenna like that to lure him, tsk tsk. But least he gets stuck with 1 week latrine duty ;D. GREAT JOB!!!!!! CAN'T WAIT FOR CHAPTER 3!!!!!!

[ladytaz29]

The funeral was so sad. That was pretty low on Chet's part. Especially after everything Johnnie has been through.

Daddy's little girl..

Wonderful chapter CC

[Nik Nak 17]

Awww Jenna has Johnny wrapped around her little fingers! hahah but it makes sense! Great update! Can't wait for more!!

[cutecollege1]

Pigeon's Little Helper

October 1981

It was quite unusual for the Los Angeles area to experience a wildfire this time of year.But what did anyone expect, especially since the rainfall totals had been under normal, and October was being unseasonably warm. The crew of Station 51s A-Shift caught a break and were able to go back to the station from fighting the blaze...48 hours later. They all wanted to go home, but couldn't since by the time they got back to the station, it was still their shift. Luckily for them, the fire chief ordered station 51 out of service for a few hours so the men could get cleaned up and grab something to eat. As soon as Mike and Roy killed the engines on engine and squad 51, Hank immediately ordered "I'm getting the shower first. The rest of you can figure out who goes after."Hank ran to the dorm, leaving the rest standing there in the apparatus bay. They stood there quietly until Marco broke the silence. "I guess it's whoever can make it to the shower first?" Roy answered "Fair deal. I'm too beat to decide who's going next" "Me too" moaned Johnny and Chet.

Whoever made it to the shower first was how it went. After Hank had his shower, Mike went next followed by Marco. After they showered, they got dressed and headed to the kitchen. They sat down when Hank started to speak. "Well I'm deciding on dinner....just let you cook Marco since it's your turn, or just order take out" "Cap PLEASE go with the takeout" Marco pleaded out loud in a tiredish tone. It was after that did the doorbell to the station rang. Mike and Hank stood up at the same time. Hank moaned "I'll get it" as he struggled to pull himself together and walked out of the kitchen to get the door. Mike figured while he was up to grab him and Marco a couple of sodas that were in the fridge with some bananas. As soon as he sat down, Hank walked back into the room, accompanied with a woman that had short brown hair and a slender body build type. Marco started greeting the woman, but Mike didn't realize who it was until he thought about it."Joanne! Sorry I didn't realize it was you. What are you doing here?!?" Mike asked. "Well Mike, I saw on the news that they let you come back to the station here. Well, you guys have been working hard the last 2 days, I figured you guys might be too tired to cook something, and well, you would probably rather a home cooked meal than takeout. Plus me and the kids wanted to do something for all of you since you worked hard, so I was hoping Hank could let us whip you up some dinner..." "Joanne be my guest!" Hank answered happily as he plopped down in his chair. Just then, Chris entered the kitchen with his arms full of dishes and food. "Don't worry, there's plenty more of where this came from." Hank chuckled "I hope so". Marco asked "Hey Joanne? Would you mind if I just ate a banana to hold me over until dinner?" "Go ahead Marco" "Thank you. Normally I wouldn't but.." He was cut off by Jenny's voice as she entered the room carrying Jenna. "See Jenna? This is where your daddy and my dad work with uncle Hank, uncle Marco, uncle Mike, and uncle Chet. Isn't it awesome?!?" Jenna just looked at Jenny as her eyes grew bigger. Jenny then asked Joanne "Mom can I put her down? She's getting heavy!" "No Jenny. I don't want her running around here..." "No Joanne it's fine. Go ahead Jenny" Hank instructed. Jenny put Jenna down, who stood there for a second before running over to Mike. "Well hello Jenna. Are you being a good girl for your Aunt Joanne today?" Jenna started to play bashful when she looked back up at Mike and flashed him a Gage smile. She handed him the sippy cup she had in her hand. "Wow for me? Thank you". She then ran over to Hank. He look down at her as she kept tugging at his leg.He couldn't help but to smile at her."Well hello to you too Jenna." Jenna looked at him before she reached her arms up and started babbling "Up?...up?" "Uncle Hank, that means she wants up" an informative Jenny told him. "I was thinking that Jenny. You want up Jenna?" She shook her head as yes. Hank reached down, picked her up, and put her on his lap. She looked at him, leaned up, gave him a baby kiss on his chin and went "Hi!" "Well thank you" he said as he leaned in and gave her a kiss back on her head. After that kiss, she climbed down and ran over to Marco.

Chet had entered the kitchen. He looked to see Jenna, Jenny, and Chris there. He put on a smile, extended his arms out, and said excitedly "hey hey HEY kids it's Chet, America's favorite uncle. Come here and give me a hug" Jenny and Chris looked at him. They were beginning to move cautiously when Jenna yelled fearfully "NOOOOOOOO" and hid under the table by Marco. Chet's face had gone from a smile to a jaw drop. Joanne, Hank, and Marco kept themselves from laughing out loud, while Mike had spit out his sip of soda from laughing. Chet stood there and went "but...but...but..."

Roy entered the kitchen. He was taken back when he saw Joanne there. "Hey honey" he said as he walked up and wrapped his arms around her. "Hi" she answered back. "Before you ask, me and the kids wanted to do something nice for the station, so we brought over dinner." "Oh wow, well we appreciate it". Joanne was ready to say something when Chris cut in "No we appreciate the hard work that all of you did the last few days. Actually the hard work all of you do every shift." Jenny followed up with Chris' comment with "yeah". Roy hugged and kissed the two and told them "well you did a good job showing it. Hey if you're here..." Roy was getting ready to ask when Jenna ran up to him and shouted "ROY!" Roy looked down at her. "I was about to ask where she was. Hi Jenna!" he said softly. She yelled at him again "ROY!" "What Jenna?" "Hi" she answered him, with a smile. "Hi" he answered her. The smile on her face grew. "Well if she's going to be that way" quipped Chet. "Oh come on! Don't tell me you're mad at a one year old" Mike uttered as he tried doing a one shot into the garbage with the banana peel. "Oh no Mike" Chet said. "I'm not mad...I'm hurt" Roy raised his eyebrow and asked "Should I ask what happened?" "Well Dad it goes like this" Jenny cut in. Chris followed up after Jenny. "Chet came in and said hey hey hey America's favorite uncle is here! Well Jenna...she just about screamed NOOO bloody murder style" "Hey kids go set the table"Joanne asked of them.Roy looked at Jenna, and then at Chet. "So that's what the scream was. I don't blame her." He looked at Jenna and said "I'd scream too". Chris and Jenny started laughing, while Marco, Mike, and Hank were trying to not have Chet see them laugh. "Oh thanks Roy. You're a real help!" Chet snarled. "Oh come on Chet. It's not the end of the world." "Yeah but you see baby pigeon everyday" "Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but she does it to me too. Besides who cares if Jenna gave me a bigger welcome than you.You think I got the warmest greeting..you haven't seen how she'll react to..."

Roy was cut off when Johnny just about dragged himself into the kitchen. "Man am I starving! Wow something smells ..." Johnny was cut off with Jenna excitedly screaming "DADDY!!!" He watched as she hurried across the floor to him. She stepped up on his right boot, grabbed on and snuggled her head into his leg. Roy looked at Chet "Told you!" Johnny looked at Chet and Roy and asked "Told you what?" "Nothing too important junior" Roy answered gleefully as Chet stood there stunned. "Fine suit it yourself" Johnny answered as he bent down and picked up Jenna. "There's the most beautiful princess in the world. Were you a good girl for Aunt Joanne?" "Daddy, I'm always a good girl" Joanne answered for Jenna. "Well I'm glad to hear that. That's what I always look forward to hearing at the end of a long day" he said as he looked into Jenna's face. "Well guys, dinner's ready" Joanne said as she began to bring the food over to the set table.Johnny gave Jenna a kiss on her forehead, put her down, and sat down at the table with the rest of the crew. They loaded up their plates and enjoyed the dinner with conversation about the fire.

While the men started to get into deep conversation and dinner, and Joanne sat on the couch helping Chris and Jenny with their homework, Jenna thought no one was paying attention to her. So she started scrounging through the garbage can, being careful no one was or would look at her. She looked in to see the banana peel and pulled it out. She then put a smile on her face and ran under the table.

After they finished eating, Mike and Hank watched as Chet and Marco got into an intense card game. Roy talked to Jenny and Chris. Joanne cleaned up, while John held and tried to softly sing a lullaby to a groggy Jenna. Finally Chet started to get up. "Hey you may have won that round but..." CRASH! Everyone looked to see that Chet had gone just about face first into the table. Hank passed the comment "Hey Kelly, you drunk or something?" Chet got himself together, bent down, picked up the banana peel, and started yelling at Marco "REAL CUTE MARCO!" "whhaaAAAT? Hey I didn't do a thing man" "Huh huh sure. No wonder you kept bending down during dinner.You were trying to get this under my foot!" "Hey I was picking the food up that YOU were dropping on the floor so the kid and Henry wouldn't get it" "Oh yeah sure" "Really amigo, I didn't." "Well if you didn't, then who did?" They were interrupted with the klaxon going off. "Station 51...possible heart attack...219 Morningside Drive...219 Morningside Drive...time out 20:15" Roy quickly said bye to Joanne and the kids. The engine crew quickly said thank you and ran outside to the bay. Johnny quickly kissed Jenna, handed her to Joanne, and ran to the squad. They all got in to the squad and the engine and left the station.

As they were driving, Roy talked to Johnny. "You know, I don't get why Marco would trip Chet. I didn't get the point in it, but still, it was funny to see Chet go down like that" "Who says Marco really did it?" "What do you mean by that?" Johnny sat there and grinned before he said "Too bad Jenna hit my leg going by. Otherwise it would have been the perfect set up" Roy kept driving and thinking about what Johnny said until he started grinning. "You mean??? Naaaa..." "That's right Roy...the Phantom got pranked on by a 1 year old."

[csikt]

AWWWW SWEET UPDATE!! LMBO The phantom got pranked by a one year old XD!! Great chapter!! Hurry up and write the next one!

[Nik Nak 17]

hahaha Jenna what a prankster!! Great update! Can't wait for more!

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The Dilemma- Part 1

Winter of 1983

"5...4...3...2...1...YES!!!LET'S GO MARCO!!!" Chet cheerfully screamed, as he ran to the dorm so he could change for the three day fishing trip he and Marco had planned. Marco just shrugged his shoulders and followed behind. They both changed and crossed paths with Hank, Mike, Johnny, and Roy as they left the dorm. "Cap, Mike, sure you don't want to join us?" Chet asked. "You know EXACTLY how I feel about fish" Hank growled as he shook his head at the thought. "Sorry guys. We've had this hiking trip planned long before your fishing trip" Mike replied. "Roy?" Marco asked. "I would love to Marco, but I already promised Joanne that I would help do a few things around the house." "What about you Johnny?" "Sorry Marco. I wish I could, but Jenna's sick" "Still?" "Yeah. Nasty cold she picked up. I don't even know where she got it from" "Who cares where she got it from. Why don't you just drop her off at Roy's for the weekend. You drop her off all the other times" Chet interrupted. "Chet, don't be so tacky!" John answered. "Besides, me dropping her off all the other times are different than me just dropping her off over a fishing trip" "Exactly!" Roy cut in. "Fine, suit yourselves then. Have fun painting and taking care of a sick kid. We'll be having fun catching some fish, won't we Marco?!?" Marco just sighed and followed Chet out to the parking lot.

The first day of fishing for Marco and Chet wound up being their last day. They didn't catch any fish, Chet landed in a poison oak plant, and Marco received a few bumps and scrapes when he tripped while running, all thanks to Chet, who accidentally angered some bees when he fell in the plant. They were headed back into the city that night, after the sky looked threatening to rain, and possibly snow in the mountains. "Horrible....worst idea EVER!" Marco pouted. "Oh come on Marco. It wasn't that....oh never mind. You're right!" Chet replied angrily. "Do me a favor" Marco asked. "What's that?" "Never invite me to do anything with you again....EVER!!!" "OH Lopez, come on.." Chet was cut off when Marco yelled "CHET WATCH IT!" Chet looked forward. By the time he realized what Marco was yelling about, he hit a deer that ran into the road. After hitting the deer, the truck rolled to a stop. Chet tried to restart it a few times. "Shit! Kim's going to kill me" Chet said as he got frantic. "Awww rest in peace you beautiful innocent creature" Marco said sadly. "MARCO!!" "Why did you have to be roadkill little deer?!? Why must you have died?!?... Oh sorry Chet. What were you saying?" "Kim's going to kill me!!! The truck won't start! And that's just the beginning" "Well, what about the rest of our problems?" "Well... we're in the middle of nowhere WITH NO PHONE!!" "That's it?" "Yeah" "Oh well...maybe I can help there" Marco replied as he pulled out a map. He opened it up, studied it for a bit, and told Chet "Looks like we're not far from a cabin. Maybe they have a phone we can use" "Oh great! But there's a slight problem to that" "What do you mean?" "I can't call Kim, your wife's out of town, we don't know what part of the forest Mike and Cap are in, and then there's Joanne" "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So who do we call?" They sat for a few minutes until the answer hit them both at the same time.


It was unusual for Johnny to have fallen asleep in the living room, especially in his white -shirt, blue jeans, and with the TV on. He was awakened by the phone ringing. He let out a yawn, got up from the couch, and answered the phone. "Hello?" "Johnny, boy am I glad you're home!" Marco said from the other end. "Marco? What do you want? I thought you were fishing" "Well see it goes like this..." Chet came on after cutting off Marco. "We were heading back to the city, and well....I kind of hit a deer on the way back" "Kind of? Chet, either you did or you didn't.." "Ok I did hit it... but it wasn't my fault!" "Huh huh, sure Chet!" "Really Johnny!" Marco's voice cut through over Chet "He really did Johnny!!!" "Well if that's all..." "Johnny don't hang up. I..we need a favor" Johnny just sighed. "What do you need?" "I need...we need you to pick us up!" "WHAT?!? No way.." "You see, when I hit the deer,the deer killed my truck. And well, we don't know exactly where Mike and Cap are, Rita's in San Diego with Roberto, Joanne will strangle me if I call Roy out this late at night, and Kim's already going to kill me altogether just for the truck, so the only person left I..we can call on this late at night is you, buddy, pal!!" "CHET!! It's 11:30 at night! Besides I have no idea where you two are at!" Chet told Johnny where they were and how they got there. Johnny answered "CHET! That's a hour and a half away from here! So wake me to go out in the rain in the middle of the night to go pick you two up!" "Well if you leave now, you'll get home faster, which then you'll be able to go back to bed!" "Chet, perhaps you forgot too, but I got a sick kid here" "And?" "And? So I should go wake her up, bring her out into the cold and rain with a cold already so she can catch pneumonia, all because of you!!!" "Well, there's no need to wake her up. You could just let her sleep in your rover with the heat blasting" Johnny just sighed before he answered Chet back. "Whatever Chet" "So does that mean you're coming?" "What do you think?" Johnny responded as he hung up the phone. He put his jacket over his street clothes, put his shoes on, and quietly went into Jenna's room. He turned on the light, found her jacket, and tried to put her jacket on without waking her up. By the time he got her jacket on, he realized his attempt to not wake her up failed. He saw two little groggy eyes looking up at him. "bye bye daddy?"she coughed. "yeah sweetie" Jenna started to get herself up out of bed when Johnny stopped her and told her sweetly "Hey you can go back to sleep. We're just going for a ride" "blankie go?" Jenna asked as she pulled the blanket on her bed closer to her. Johnny looked and smiled at her. "Of course princess" he answered her as he wrapped the blanket around her and carried her outside.

It was dark, a little too dark for Johnny's likings, on the winding state road through the mountainous national forest he drove on. Why he would ever go out on a dark road, so late at night in the rain over Chet, is all that he kept thinking about. Finally a harsh cough from Jenna brought John back into reality. "You ok sweetie?" He looked into the rear view mirror on the land rover. All he could see was her pulling the blanket over her head. He just shook his head and kept driving. The ride remained quiet until he saw a curve in the road. He started taking the curve when Jenna scared him with another cough. "Darn it Jenna..." His sentence was cut short when he heard Jenna moan "oww". "Jenna, sweetie, what owie?" All he got in response was a moan. "Princess?" This time, he had turned his head back. All he could see was Jenna continuing to pull her blanket over her head. He faced back to the road. He started thinking to himself "maybe I should stop off at Rampart on the way back. She's been sick for about a week now and she's not getting any better. Besides Chet and Marco wouldn't mind. Actually, it'd be a good way for him to hide from Kim a bit to figure out what he's gonna tell her about what happened" Finally he reached the last bend in the road to the cabin. He saw lights and thought "well at least I'm not the only one out here" Shortly after he thought that he sneezed. He opened his eyes back to the road to see the other car coming at him. He tried to stop and swerve, but it was too late. The other car hit him head on, causing Johnny to crash into the guardrail a few times before the guardrail gave way, allowing the land rover to flip and roll down a hill.

[csikt]

UH OHZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG UH OHZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE UPDATE SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GREAT CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ladytaz29]

oh noooo...please let them be ok...

Don't leave us hanging....

[cutecollege1]

The Dilemma- Part 2

Right after the accident

Johnny opened his eyes to find himself upside down. He didn't remember what happened, or why he was upside down, but his instincts told him to get right side up. He unbuckled his seat belt and tried to slowly lower himself. Unfortunately gravity put a damper on his plan of lowering himself slowly. He immediately fell down onto the roof and yelled in pain. He laid there for a few minutes taking deep breathes and just thought to himself. He was hoping to remember what had happened, but he couldn't. But as he kept thinking, he suddenly remembered Crap Jenna was here.

"Hey Jenna don't worry, I'm going to get you down..." He said as he looked slowly to the back. But once he could see the whole back, he got the shock of his life. All he saw was the back door open and the backseat. No carseat, no Jenna... just the backseat! Johnny started to get a sick feeling in his stomach. Oh my God..please let her be ok wherever she is!!is all he started to think about now as he tried getting out of the totaled land rover. He pushed open the driver side door and fell out, causing him even more pain.But that fall didn't stop him. Instead of stopping to catch his breath, he kept sliding himself out of the land rover and into the snow. He kept sliding in the snow until he faced another problem. Great! Which way is which? It's too dark to see But before he could answer his own question, he passed out.


Half hour after the accident

The cold and the snow falling on her face woke Jenna up. She kicked the blanket off of her and used the reflection of the moonlight that was now overhead to start looking around to see what was going on. She saw the land rover upside down not far from where she was and immediately yelled "UH OH!" She sat in her car seat, shivering for a bit before she started to get herself out. She got herself out, grabbed hold of the end of her blanket, and started walking around the land rover looking around for Johnny.

She kept looking until she got around to the driver side. She saw the door open, and laying not far half covered in the snow was Johnny. She walked up next to him, sat down on her blanket, and started pushing him on his shoulder.

"Daddy...I'm cold"

She got no response from him. She tried pushing on him again.

"DADDY...I'm COLD!"

Still she got no response from him. She tried one more time, this time screaming

"DADDY NO NIGHTNIGHT!I'm COLD!!"

Johnny started moving his head a bit and groaned, but never accomplished the order that Jenna was screaming at him. She sat there and just sighed at him. She looked at him again, but noticing something this time. She noticed that Johnny had a cut on his forehead.

"Daddy....you ok?"

This time Johnny started to wake up. He slowly opened his eyes, only to see things blurry. All he could see was a little girl, with dark brown hair and brown eyes, staring at him. He didn't recognize who it was at first, until he heard her speak

"Daddy...you ok?"

Then it clicked in his brain.

"Yeah Jenna I'm fine. Do you have an owie?"

"No"

"Are you sure?"

She just shook her head yes. She paused for a minute before she said "I'm cold. We go home?"

"Awww princess I'm sorry.... I wanna go home too, but we can't "

"But I'm co..

Her sentence was cut short when she started having a coughing attack. After a minute, she stopped. Johnny's fatherly instinct,along with his paramedic training, kicked in right after telling him something definitely was not right. He looked at Jenna, and noticed she was having a hard time breathing. He sat himself up, slowly and in great agony, and took his jacket off. He looked over at Jenna, who was staring at him, and asked her

"The cold making you feel really yucky?"

She shook her head yes.

"You know what princess? I can't get us home.... but I can make you feel a little bit less yucky. Does that sound good?"

She looked and gave him a faint smile.

"I thought so" he told her as he tried to put his jacket on her. He started to put it on her when she screamed and started to scoot away from him.

"NO!"

He was taken back. He tried putting to reach over and put it on her again, but she screamed again.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"Jenna stop screaming! I thought you said the cold was making you feel yucky. Is it?"

"Yeah"

"Then why are you screaming when I'm trying to help you?"

She pointed at his jacket and responded "yours"

"I know it is Jenna... but I'm letting you use it so you don't feel yucky"

"But.."

"But what?"

She looked at him then put her head down when she answered sadly

"you cold then"

John let a small smile fall from his face as he watched Jenna.

"Honey, are you afraid I'm going to get cold and feel yucky?"

She picked her head up and shook her head yes. He knew she was right, but that was the least of his concern. His concern was only her at that moment. He figured to get her to go along with him, he was going to have to lie to her.

"Aww don't worry about me princess... I'll be fine without it. Besides, I'm not cold, I don't need it, and I don't want it... You like helping me out, right?"

"Yeah"

"Can you help me and just take it for me?"

She just looked at him, and scooted back over to him. He took his jacket and put it on her.

"Thank you princess. Just give me your blanket..."

Johnny's sitting up was beginning to take a toll on him. He felt himself getting tired. He stopped what he was doing and took a deep painful breath. Jenna saw him stop and asked him inquisitively

"Daddy?"

He looked at her.

"Huh?? Oh...sorry Jenna. What was I doing?"

"Blankie" she said as she handed it to him.

"Oh yeah... thanks princess" he responded with a smile as he grabbed it. He grabbed it and wrapped it around her. "There that should help you. Just stay near ..."

Johnny didn't complete his sentence and found himself falling back down to the ground. He hit the ground, gasped, and yelled out "DAMN IT!". Jenna gasped in excitement and went "oooo". She stopped when she realized that Johnny, clutching the left side of his chest, had rolled over onto it instead of trying to sit back up. She struggled to crawl close to him while trying to keep his jacket and blanket wrapped around her, and asked

"Daddy you have owie?"

A few seconds had passed before Johnny answered fatiguely

"Yeah princess"

She sat up next to him, leaned over and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

"Owie gone?"

He smiled at her and answered

"It's not gone, but it feels a lot better now. Thanks princess."

"You're welcome. Go home now?"

"Lets rest for a bit.......then we'll get out of here" he responded getting even more fatigued.

"Ok" She replied as she laid down and carefully cuddled next to him, putting her head next to his chest.

"Hey Jenna?.....you know how much I love you....right?" He asked her as he used his free hand to stroke his fingers through her hair, pushing it out of her face.

"Yeah...love you too Daddy" she said as she closed her eyes with a smile on her face.

Back at the Cabin
2:55 AM

"I don't believe it! He actually left us here!!" snarled Chet as he took a sip of coffee.

"I don't think so amigo. The weather is rough out there. Maybe he's taking his time" Marco yawned.

Chet looked down at his watch. "Marco, I called him at 11:30. It's now....2:55. It takes him 3..4 hours to get up here, even with the weather?"

"It could..or maybe something happened"

"I'll tell you what happened, Johnny stood us up!"

"Chet.."

They were interrupted when the door to the cabin opened. Walking in was no other than Hank and Mike.

"Hey look who's here instead of being in their 'warm cozy year round weather-proof tent'" quipped Mike.

"Ha ha real funny. That's a bit harsh, even coming from you Mikey" Chet retorted.

"Well I do have to admit, you two just caught me off guard" Hank said. "Why are you two here?"

"Well cap, we just wanted to leave because of the weather, but the weather just got so bad..."

"Ohh don't EVEN go there Amigo!!!!" Marco snarled. "Cap, Mike, don't listen to him. You see, the weather was one reason, but it really goes like this. The only thing we caught were scrapes and bruises because out of all the things he could have used as a toilet, he had to use a bees nest! Then we did decide to head home not only because of the weather, but because of the zero fish count and the scrapes. But on the way back.....he had to kill Bambi!!!"

"Marco for the last time, I didn't kill Bambi! Bambi committed a murder suicide!" Chet replied frustratingly.

Mike had just sat down with a cup of coffee. He had taken a sip when he spat the coffee out."Murder.. suicide?" He coughed dumbfounded.

"Yes Stoker, a murder suicide. Bambi decided to run in front of my truck, and well, my truck is dead. Thanks to him, we had to hike a mile here"

"I see but you two are actually staying here tonight?" Hank asked.

"Well see, that's the whole thing Cap. As soon as we got here, we called Johnny to come get us. We've been waiting for him to come, but he hasn't shown" Marco said.

"You called Johnny?? Why did you call him for?" Hank asked.

"Well who else were we going to call? We didn't know where you two were, Kim's going to kill me for the truck, and well, Joanne would have killed me for calling Roy" Chet replied.

"And Rita's out of town" Marco answered.

"Besides, it's not like Jenna could kill me for calling Johnny... or could she?"

"No she couldn't you twit! She probably wouldn't even have a clue what was going on" Hank replied

"Well what time did you call Johnny?" Mike asked.

"11:30"

"11:30??? It's 2:57 now. He should have been here already" Mike said concernedly.

"Exactly Stoker. I was just telling that to Marco before you two got here" Chet quipped. "I was saying Johnny must have decided to keep us hanging...either til the morning or he wants to see Kim get involved"

"Hum...doesn't sound like something Johnny would do" Hank jumped in. "He might be taking his time getting up here. I mean, we don't know how the weather is coming here, or he could have been trying to see if Roy could watch Jenna until he got back into town"

"I doubt it. Roy had "too much paint" around his house... plus Johnny never really did say yes or no"

"What do you mean by that?" Marco asked

"You see...when I asked if he was coming, he said what do you think?....maybe that was another way of him saying no" Chet said.

"But even if he said that, the answer you would have been thinking of was yes" Mike said.

"Exactly Mike" Hank said. "Know what, it's not worth staying around here racking our brains out if Johnny stood you up. Why don't you come back with us right now, and if we see Johnny, we can just signal for him to turn around"

"Know what? That's the most sensible idea I've heard in the last 24 hours" Marco said as he went to pick up his duffel bag.

"Yeah it is....HEY!!!!!!" Chet responded as he also picked up his duffel bag. "Wait a sec, Cap, Mike's truck can only 3 people in the inside, right?"

"Yeah" Mike answered

"Well if it sits 3, and there's 4 of us..."

"Oh don't worry about that Kelly" Hank replied with an evil grin. "I got that all figured out"

Chet laid in the back wrapped tightly in Mike's sleeping bag.Why can't it stop...WHY CAN'T IT JUST STOP!!!! He thought. This is torture...pure torture....GOD MAKE IT STOP!!! He said to himself outloud as he clutched his ears. It wasn't so much the snow bothering him. Since they left the cabin, Mike had opened the back window. All Chet could hear was Mike, Marco, and Hank painfully singing

"Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last know survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger...

Face to face, out in the heat
Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry
They stack the odds 'til we take to the street
For we kill with the skill to survive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last know survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger...

Risin' up, straight to the top
Have the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last know survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger...

The eye of the tiger"

Chet was about ready to pull his hair out when the truck started rolling to a stop. OH THANK GOD!!! JOHNNY'S HERE!!! I'LL RIDE WITH HIM Chet thought until he heard Hank say "Oh my God, what the hell happened?!?" Chet sat up and looked into the truck. Through the windshield, he could see a car had crashed into the side of the mountain along with the broken guardrail.

"There might be a second vehicle involved here. Lopez, help me check the guy in this car here. Stoker, Kelly, go down the hill and see if there is a second vehicle"Hank barked as he jumped out of the truck.

"Chet grab some flashlights" Mike called as he started to go down the hill. Chet went into his duffel bag, grabbed some flashlights, hopped out of the truck and started pursuing Mike down the hill.

After several minutes, Marco managed to open the door on the car. He stuck his hand in and tried getting a pulse on the driver.

"How is he?" Hank asked.

"He's dead Cap" Marco replied grimly. Hank put his head down for a brief moment. He was interrupted when Chet and Mike ran up to him, out of breath.

"Cap... you're not... going to like this" Chet said in between breaths.

"There is ..a second vehicle involved" Mike continued

"DAMN! I thought so!"

"Not just any" Chet cut off

"What do you mean?"

"It looks like Johnny might be involved" Mike said

TBC