76Hey guys. I am really, really sorry I haven't but up any stories more recently. I genuinely haven't had any plots for stories, but I've been practising and improving my technique with my own small stories, so I wasn't doing nothing.
Now, I know other authors have done this too, putting their OC's into the stories and having them along the journey with Seth and Sara, so I thought I might try my hand at it, see how it goes. The dialogue is mostly copied from the movie, but some of it I couldn't make out so I made it up.
Reviews/favourites/alerts would be greatly appreciated.
Pairing: Seth/OC, Jack/Alex
Chapter One: Meeting Alex, Seth and Sara
"These space nerds give the Star Wars fans a bad name." Leslie told Jack, stretching back in her seat with only one earphone in her ear, the other left out so she could listen to Jack and everything around her. They had one last run to make before it was the end of Jack's shift.
"And you're an expert on this now, are you?" Jack smirked at the fifteen year old.
Leslie rolled her eyes but didn't look at him. "No..."
The taxi arrived at the airport, where a woman about Jack's age was waiting for them with a small bag and a larger suitcase.
One of the workers from the airport put the woman's bag into the boot of the car, while she climbed into the back of the car herself. The boot closed with a bang.
"Planet Hollywood please." She instructed politely, pulling on her seatbelt.
"Are you an over-obsessed alien fan too, or are you one that just likes the science part of aliens?" Leslie asked casually.
"Leslie!" Jack hissed. "Sorry. I'm still training manners into her." he said to the woman.
"It's perfectly fine. By the looks of you, I would say you were a Star Wars fan." The woman commented, smiling to Leslie.
Leslie looked at her with curiosity. "I like your attitude. I'm Leslie." She grinned, reaching over the back of the seat to shake the women's hand.
"I'm Alex." She replied with a smile. "Alex Freedman."
Before they knew it, Jack pulled up outside Planet Hollywood, as he had done many times before that day.
"They're not helping our cause." Alex said, looking at the overly dressed fans outside the convention.
"Your cause?" Jack asked, turning around to face her.
"Trying to educate the public on the possibility of there being life forms on other planets, rather than fictional characters in cliché movies." Alex put a hand on Leslie's shoulder and gave her a joking sympathetic smile. "I'm sorry Leslie, but Han Solo doesn't exist. Sorry to crush your wildest fantasies of meeting him and living happily ever after."
"Huh?" Leslie feigned confusion, trying to avoid Jack's inquisitive look that he usually gave when it came to Leslie's romantic interests.
Alex smiled. "Your descriptive summary of the fourth, fifth and sixth movie gave you away. I doubt it was just the Millennium Falcon you're interested in." she winked and left the taxi after paying Jack and giving him a leaflet on the talk she'll be giving.
"Keep the change." she added. Alex left the car, and Leslie saw Jack looking after her, without blinking, but he quickly turned back in case he was caught, which he was.
"Don't think you got away with it Jack Bruno." Leslie told her uncle. "I saw you staring at her as she left. I know you fancy her."
"Just like you fancy Han Solo?" Jack replied. Leslie didn't answer, her neck and cheeks burning. "Thought so."
"Jack, have you seen my other shoe?" Leslie asked, walking into the main room with one shoe on her foot, the other only covered by a sock.
"I thought I saw it on top of the fridge." Jack replied over his shoulder, looking for his own wallet.
"Thanks." Indeed, the missing shoe was on top of the fridge. How it got there was a mystery to her, but that's for another day.
She pulled on the other shoe, and checked herself in the mirror to see if she looked ok. Leslie's not fashion conscious, but she didn't want to look ridiculous either. Her hair was up to her jaw-line, and it was quite layered at the back, and was dark brown. She had her favourite 30 Seconds to Mars t-shirt on, and a pair of jeans that she hacked off to the knee. Then her adventurous shoes. That's all there really was to her. Jeans, t-shirt, shoes. Oh, and a pair of fingerless gloves because her hands are always cold, despite hot weather.
"Come on Leslie! If you don't hurry up you're not coming in the taxi." Jack threatened, putting his wallet into his jeans pocket and standing in the doorway, waiting patiently for her. "Leslie, we're not going to run into Han Solo so there's no need to dress up. Come on."
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Leslie replied, grabbing her small bag with a load of stuff in it. Mainly food because the taxi drivers don't have long enough breaks for her.
They got to the taxi place, and Leslie went to the taxi while Jack went to collect the keys from Dominic.
The door was already open to the taxi, so Leslie threw her bag into the front seat of the car. A large black SUV pulled up in front of the taxi, blocking the exit. Two men stepped out of the car and approached the taxi, just as Jack arrived back from Dominic's office.
"I told Wolfe I was finished." Jack told the two men as he came over. Leslie raised an eyebrow at the scene, not knowing what was happening, or who Wolfe was.
"Jack, Jack." the first guy grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Wolfe thinks you're being rude. Why don't you come with us and we'll get you sorted. He doesn't want you wasting your given driving talent on transporting old folks and bratty kids to school." he said, indecating Leslie, who was beside the taxi, looking on at the scene.
The two men were standing on each side of Jack, when he suddenly lashed out at them, hitting on in the face and the other in his stomach. In one swift move, Jack had the two large men's faces pinned down on the bonnet of the car. He leaned down to their level to hiss at them.
"You tell Wolfe than when I said I was done, I meant it. And don't call my niece bratty either." Jack added on afterthought before relasing them.
They were about to fight back when a siren blared, interrupting them. The cops' car pulled up to the taxi rank.
"What do you think you're doing? Don't you know you don't block a taxi rank? Now get out of the way before I give you a ticket." the driver said out the window to the two men who owned the SUV.
The two men left, and Jack got into the taxi, as did Leslie.
"Well that was fun." she said sarcastically.
"You can say that again." Jack agreed, pulling away towards inner Vegas, where the day's work began. They drove along the road, and Jack was checking all of his mirrors on the car. The last one he checked was the rear view mirror, and when he did look through.
Jack slammed on the breaks, throwing Leslie forward and nearly knocking her iPod out of her hands.
"What the-" She looked and saw two blonde teens about her age or maybe a year older sitting in the back seat of the car.
"Who the hell are you?" she asked, looking between them.
"Forget that." Jack cut off. "Where did you come from?"
"Outside." the boy answered, a little shocked at Jack's loud reaction. Leslie glanced out the back window and saw a line of traffic queueing up behind the stopped taxi.
"I know that. How did you get in?"
"Through that portal." the window pointed to the door, in the same state as the girl. Leslie looked at them curiously, but didn't show it.
"I'm Seth and this is my sister Sara." the boy, Seth, spoke again. "We reqire your transportation services immediately."
Jack opened his mouth to say something else, but Sara cut across him.
"Money transaction." she told Seth, who fished out a big wad of cash and showed it to Jack. "Will this amount suffice?"
"What'd you do? Rob a bank?" Leslie questioned. Seth looked at her with a glare, then focused back on Jack.
"Will this amount suffice Jack Bruno?" Sara asked.
"How'd you know my name?" Jack asked suspiciously. Sara pointed to Jack's taxi driving license, which was on the dashboard.
Jack continued to drive the taxi onto the road. Leslie glared back at Seth, and although he didn't see her, she's pretty sure he knew about it.
"Just stay quiet Leslie." Jack told her. "Is your parent's ok with spending this amount of money?"
"Our financials have already been discussed with our parents." Seth told Jack shortly.
Jack then left the topic. "Where are we going?" he asked, unsure of which direction he was going.
There was silence as the siblings began talking between each other.
"I need an address." Jack told them, his way of telling them to hurry up.
"We must go in that direction." Sara said, pointing over Leslie's head.
This is ridiculous. Leslie thought. They have to be pranking us.
Jack was getting annoyed too. "I need more than that direction."
Seth started calling out latitude and longitude numbers, when Jack cut him off. "We'll stick with 'that direction'."
I rolled my eyes, put my back to the door and crossed my legs under me, trying to listen to my iPod. This could be a long day.
I hope you like this. Please review.