No more replies. My apologies but I want to finish this quickly Nano is just around the corner ... I'll reply at the end with a hearty hurrah and ladeeda I love you all for reading. If you don't want to comment I won't be offended. Let's marathon this into the ground shall we? Explosions and monkeys and crazyness here we come. It starts ...

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Clucky was a plucky chicken, but she was also technically a free-agent. She didn't belong to Ottery's group, not technically, she just happened to be Seamus' favorite chicken. Neither did she belong to that cocky rooster back at the barn but that didn't mean she didn't like him. It simply meant, when you're in Paris it's okay to fall in love, isn't it?

Clucky felt so happy in that rooster's arms. They were roosting together at the top of Notre Dame watching the city around them. The sunrise had come and he had cockadoodledoed her a beautiful serenade. It was time to be going but she didn't want to go. Clucky did not want to leave him. Still, soon she must. The plucky hen looked at her watch. The time was nearing.

"Cluck," she said.

"But I love you, my lovely feathery egg laying chicken you," Armand said, in French of course.

"Pu-kawk!"

"I know, my sweet dove of love. But stay with me another moment," he clucked.

She pecked at the roof of the old church. Surely, Seamus, Ottery and the others could handle things ... boys weren't completely stupid, as exampled by Armand. Still, her duties called.

"Pukaaaak!"

"My sweet love," he said, "Thank you. You make me so happy spending these moments with me."

It was hard to resist a chicken who knew French, Clucky knew. Especially, in the city of love. ♥

Because love makes us stupid

The Requisite Car Chase

Teddy swerved the car wildly to the left sending his passangers to the slamming into the left back door. Giovanni had his head in Freddie's stomach and the boy was gasping for breath. The car quickly turned down another street and they were slipping down the car seat in the opposite direction and Freddie slammed into Giovanni.

"This is ridiculous," Teddy exclaimed.

"I think I broke a rib," Giovanni complained.

"I'm so glad I didn't have lunch. Teddy WTH are you doing?" Freddie asked as he slid in the back seat of the Ferrari.

"I got me a little side job that's all, thought you boys could help me out," Teddy replied before spinning the car's wheel crazily in the other direction. The boys in the back knocked over and around like pins in a bowling alley.

"Can I open a window, I want to jump out," Giovanni exclaimed.

"I thought you were depressed or something? Isn't a high speed chase just the thing to get your mind off of your worries? It is for me." Teddy shot back.

"Only if you're a psychotic, megalomaniac with an adrenaline addic--oh, sorry forgot who I was talking about," Giovanni said flatly.

"If you kill me before I get to kiss Madison again," Freddie complained.

"If I kill you smart bum you can kill me back," Teddy replied. "Or haunt me forever, which ever's more fun for you."

"Howzabout I just drive you mad?" Freddie replied.

"That's arguing that he's not already!" Giovanni interjected.

"Can we be having this conversation later boys? I've got me a crazy dame with a very ... aw poo. And I really liked this car," Teddy exclaimed before flooring it and slamming the Ferrari into the Mini Cooper crashing it into a muggle cafe.

The back seat of the car exploded and filled with something soft and white that covered the boys completely as the car crashed. Teddy popped out the front door in an instant, wand in hand, and out of the other tiny car a blonde haired girl in shades popped out.

"Gimme the box, Cindy," the brown haired boy exclaimed, but the girl only smiled and blasted the wand out of his hand.

"The first words out of your mouth should always be expelliarmus, you daft idiot. I would have thought by now--," before she could finish however, Teddy had slugged the woman and laid her flat.

"I always did say you talked too much." He looked through her purse for the object.

Meanwhile Giovanni cracked open a window. "Gah, me ... I can breathe."

From the other side of the car, the door flew out in an explosion bouncing off the floor and slamming into the ceiling where it imbedded itself like a knife on wood. It would remain there the remainder of its days, in the cafe of Dangerous Driving, it would be the same for the Mini and the Ferrari which were later incorporated into the decor. From out of the blasted doorway popped out Freddie cursing up a storm and I don't mean hexes.

Teddy walked back to the boy triumphant, smiling as he held a box in his hand, the cafe owner screaming at him in French over his shoulder. Freddie ran over to the other side and freed Giovanni from the wreckage of the car.

"Marshmallow. Seriously, marshmallow!" Freddie exclaimed.

"Is that what this stuff is? I thought this was that airbag stuff the muggles are always on about," Giovanni said. "If I wasn't so sick I might actually try some."

"You can thank me for my quick thinking later. I got what I came for. We better scram before Cindy wakes up and gets ornery." The boy smiled gleefully and Freddie fought hard every urge to slug him. Poor Giovanni however lost the battle with his stomach and threw up all over the cafe owner's shoe.

Don't ride the rides, if you can't hold your fries

"Mr. Simian, you will of course be manning the entrance. No undesirables, please," Tiffany explained, happily in her element. Clipboard in hand she was showing the giant talking gorilla where he would be stationed as the official 'bouncer' for the ball. He towered over her and about everyone else being a tall beast but his manner was entirely gentlemanly.