LILLY! *glomps* Where have you been? *huggles*
I hope you didn't go to Carly's butt reconstruction camp, lol.
*warns China's law enforcement* Okay, they're expecting the gang. Gee, should we really be calling them a 'gang'? :lol: Well I guess it is because once you join, it's next to impossible to leave.
*writes down list* Nightgown. Got it. *wink wink nods nods back*
*sings* Like a rock ooooh like a rock.
Okay, I think I need sleep. :lol:
Anni, you know how many times I had an entire chapter written out (And I'm talkin' half a page of pure awesomeness -- Well in my opinion anyway) and then I had that stupid "Form not submitted" thing? Yikes I swear I had a coronary each time. *huggles Anni* I copy and paste everything now.
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China, market
Calleigh: *pokes fish* Is this real?
Chinese Woman: *shouting*
Calleigh: *steps back* Apparently yes.
Katie: HEY SPEED! I FOUND YOU SOME LEATHER PANTS! THEY'RE PINK!
Speed: *grabs Katie* Yeah I don't think all of China heard you.
Katie: Aren't they cute?
Speed: No.
Katie: Aw how come?
Speed: I don't wear leather pants for the last time.
Katie: Fine. How about one of those ninja China hats?
Speed: No.
Center of market
Chinese people in a circle touching Horatio's hair
Horatio: *looks around* Uh guys?...GUYS!
Delko: You must be quite the commodity. I hope they don't shave your head and sell the hair.
Horatio: *screams*
Lora: *flicks car* Look at this crazy car!
Colton: It's not that crazy.
Lora: But it's in CHINA.
Colton: Why are we Americans so wrapped up in ourselves that we don't see other nations as equals?
Lora: I see them as equals. With cool cars.
Chinese guy: *shouting from market*
Lora: Huh? *lifts head*
Colton: I think this is that guy's car.
Lora: So?
Colton: *looks at car* ...What does...Box with sideways tree and scarecrow-lookin' tree symbol mean?
Chinese guy: *takes out nightstick*
Lora: THE FUZZ! RUN! *runs*
Colton: AH! *runs*
Back alley
Lora: *leans against wall, huffs and puffs* I think we lost him.
Colton: You know there's probably more than one cop in China.
Lora: How many you think?
Colton: A lot of Chinese people live here.
Lora: Okay I'll use you as a shield and I'll be safe.
Colton: What if they shoot me?
Lora: Life isn't fair.
Colton: *frowns*
Lora: Okay here, let's climb up this fire escape ladder.
Colton: Be my guest. God forbid the Chinese learn to look
up.
Lora: *jumps* Ah, it's too high. Give me a boost.
Colton: Give yourself a boost.
Lora: I tried. I'm too short. Have you been listening?
Sirens are heard
Lora: QUICK!
Colton: *bends over*
Lora: *jumps onto Colton*
Colton: OW!
Lora: *climbs up ladder*
Colton: How am I supposed to get up there?
Lora: Jump!
Colton: Where are you going!
Lora: I don't know!
Cop: *runs over, shouting in Chinese*
Colton: DON'T KILL ME! IT'S HER YOU WANT!
Lora: *slips* AH! *falls onto cop*
Colton: ...
Lora: *looks down* That was lucky.
Colton: Let's go before we get shot.
Market
Katie: Hey what's this voodoo doll-lookin' thinger?
Speed: That's an ancient fertility doll.
Katie: ....*puts doll down*
Speed: I'm kidding.
Katie: *slaps Speed* Jerk.
Speed: *laughs*
Katie: *narrows eyes* I hate you.
Speed: Right back at ya.
Calleigh: *walks over* Have you guys seen Colton and Lora? Horatio wants to round everyone up and find a hotel.
Speed: I haven't seen them.
Katie: Couldn't tell ya where they are.
Calleigh: That's weird.
Speed: Cal, it's not weird. We always get separated. They're probably in jail or swinging over a volcano.
Calleigh: Volcano?
Speed: *shrugs*
Katie: You...Are the most unimpressive person I've ever known.
Speed: Thanks.
Katie: Hey where's your darling wife a.k.a my best friend?
Speed: *scratches head* I'm not sure.
Katie: Maybe you two need beepers or something.
Speed: We have a very...Open relationship.
Katie: So we're missing three people. If this was an attendance list, the principal wouldn't be very happy.
Calleigh: Well the 'principal' has been mobbed by the Chinese because of his red hair so we have some time to look for them.
Katie: Let's start with the sewers.
Calleigh: Sewers?
Katie: Why not?
Ten minutes later, sewers
Speed: Remind me again why we listened to you?
Katie: I'm very authoritative.
Speed: *rolls eyes*
Katie: *shines flashlight in Speed's face* You want to take this outside?
Speed: I didn't want to be down here in the first place. Please, ladies first.
Calleigh: Guys can we concentrate for two minutes?
Katie: Okay if you were Colton, Lora and Anni, where would you hide in China?
Speed: Are we thinking collectively or seperately?
Katie: ...How would they act collectively?
Speed: It might be a bit chaotic.
Katie: Okay chaos. We can work with that.
Fifteen minutes later
Speed: Okay I smell and we haven't found anything except a shoelace and a miniature buddah.
Katie: Not to mention this muck. *lifts foot* These boots w-
Speed: Don't.
Katie: ...Be that way. *puts foot down, slips* AH! *falls over*
Speed: *grabs Katie*
Katie: *looks up*
Speed: Watch where you're going, you could get killed.
Katie: *stands straight* I'm invincible.
Speed: *frowns*
Calleigh: Hey guys....
Katie: Yeah?
Calleigh: Does this water seem like it's getting higher?
Speed: *looks down*
Katie: ...Wow we picked the
wrong tunnel.
Five days later, hotel room
Horatio: *rubs eyes* ...Okay, I'm not sure I want to know.
Colton: *rubs wrist as handcuffs dangle*
Lora: *attached to Colton's wrist*
Katie: *covered with blanket* ACHOO!
Calleigh: *picking muck out of hair* Gosh this stuff sure is difficult to get out.
Speed: *looks down at wrinkled clothes*
Anni: *rubs black eye*
Horatio: And what happened to you?
Anni: I thought you didn't want to know.
Horatio: Humor me.
Anni: ...I walked into a temple and the guy doing tae-kwan-do accidentally got me in the face.
Horatio: Missy, JC, Lilly...Good work. You stayed out of trouble. You get to order room service.
JC: YES!
Missy: I want a burger so bad.
Horatio: The rest of you...At least you got out alive.
Colton: ...Does this mean we get room service too?
Horatio: *frowning*
Colton: ..So that's a no.
Horatio: I wanted a nice vacation. And what do I get? This. Again.
Delko: Hey I didn't do anything wrong this time.
Horatio: You will.
Delko: But...I haven't done anything...
Horatio: *walks away, slams door*
Katie: Pfft, he's the one who wanted to go to China.
Texas, treatment facility, cafeteria
Gavin: *walks over to nurse* How's she doin'?
Nurse: We got her detoxed, she's finally eating.
Gavin: Can I see her?
Nurse: Sure.
Gavin: Thanks. *walks over to table, sits*
Lori: *picking at carrots*
Gavin: Hey.
Lori: *staring at plate*
Gavin: *lifts brows*
Lori: I look like crap, I feel like crap and I don't like vegetables.
Gavin: You look beautiful.
Lori: *shakes head*
Gavin: So, tough so far?
Lori: Ask the doctor with the broken nose.
Gavin: *laughs*
Lori: I'm serious.
Gavin: Uh...*clears throat* Alright. So what do they have next for you?
Lori: Oh a whole array of activities designed to make you feel like you're part of the greater good. Sharing circles, pow-wows and dear diaries.
Gavin: I hear they have animal therapy here. You ever think of joining that?
Lori: I think I'll pass.
Gavin: *grabs paper from table* Well, what about...Chapel?
Lori: *rolls eyes* Please. *rips paper away*
Gavin: What?
Lori: I don't need to sit there and hear how my body's a temple and that I'm going to hell.
Gavin: I don't think that's the idea.
Lori: *holds stomach* I think I'm gonna blow chunks.
Gavin: Y-
Lori: *pukes*
Gavin: ...
Lori: *coughs* ...Well there goes lunch.
Gavin: Lori, you need to join one of these groups if you want to be helped.
Lori: First of all, puppies and horses scare the crap out of me. Secondly, sharing circles are a load of crap.
Gavin: So do the chapel thing.
Lori: *stares blankly* Are you serious? God doesn't exist.
Gavin: It couldn't hurt. I mean, you wouldn't have to talk to anyone.
Lori: No, I'd be expected to talk to myself and confess about how lousy I am.
Gavin: I didn't know you were so against religion.
Lori: Religion is man-made. It's there to make people think they belong to something bigger. It comforts them.
Gavin: Point taken.
Lori: Besides, those statues freak me out.
Gavin: *nods* So don't go.
Lori: *sigh* Stepping in horse crap or sitting alone...*tilts head* I prefer to steer clear of the horse crap.
Gavin: Good. *stands* I'll see you in a few days.
Lori: *stands* A few days?
Gavin: Yeah I have to fly back to Miami for a bit.
Lori: Okay.
Gavin: See you later. *leaves*
China, 7pm
Delko: *flipping channels*
Calleigh: Stay on one channel, I'm starting to become epileptic.
Delko: So close your eyes and think of it as lightening.
Calleigh: But I keep hearing blurbs of Larry King and Jerry Springer.
Delko: Okay...So lightening with great reception.
Lilly: I'm so BORED.
Delko: Welcome to the club.
Lilly: What do you guys usually do on road trips?
Delko: We usually stay in the Hummerhome. It's much more fun there.
Lilly: Well it's not here.
Delko: I know. What a bummer.
Anni: Too bad H took out all the alcohol.
Katie: He's such a...A....Spoil joy. Wait...Kill sport? No..One of those are wrong right?
Delko: Wrong right?
Katie: No, wrong. Right?
Delko: Left?
Anni: NORTH!
Chapel, 7:30 pm
Lori: *looks around, sits down*
People walk out
Lori: *looks around*
Priest: *walks out of confessional*
Lori: *rips corner of music books* What are these, a hundred years old?
Priest: *walks over* 64, actually.
Lori: *looks up* Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize someone was there.
Priest: *smiles, sits* You must be new here.
Lori: What tipped you off?
Priest: What brings you to God's house?
Lori: Lack of options.
Priest: *chuckles* He certainly gave you quite a gift.
Lori: No disrespect to you but uh...I'm not into this kind of stuff.
Priest: His house is open to anyone.
Lori: *looks around*
Priest: You mind if I ask why you're here? At the facility?
Lori: Drugs. But I bet you hear that a lot.
Priest: *nods*
Lori: So, how does this work anyway? Do I just sit here and feel sorry for all the bad crap I've ever done and a ball of light comes down and makes me better?
Priest: *smiles*
Lori: You must think I'm an idiot.
Priest: A little lost, yes, but not an 'idiot'.
Lori: So explain to me how staring at wood carvings and singing from little green books heals people.
Priest: Everything here is a representation, symbols of faith. It isn't so much the ritual of mass or of prayer that heals one's soul but the connection we feel with our own spirit. To recognize that part of our own self can in many ways heal wounds and make us stronger.
Lori: In the end, we're all a bunch of meat racks with grey matter. It doesn't mean anything.
Priest: *stares at Lori*
Lori: I don't have a
spirit and there's no God. If you want to live in that dillusion go ahead. *stands, leaves*
Priest: *shakes head*
TBC...............
ETA: Oh my goodness, I can't believe I initially spelled 'fut' instead of 'foot' :lol: Where'd my brains go?
