Levi and Rebekah
Levi Kereama blinked slightly as he arrived at the mansion.
"Thanks Jules," he said.
"No problem. Say hey to Bek, yeah?"
"Will do."
Levi saluted as his brother teleported out, and he went inside and found Rebekah about to leave the way he'd come in.
"Levi?" she said, looking surprised.
"Hey Bek."
"Oh my God, LEVI!" Rebekah practically knocked him over as she hugged him, grinning widely. "What... what are you doing here?"
"Just thought I'd check up on ya, see how much trouble you've been getting yourself into," Levi replied, pushing some hair out of her eyes. "You don't look too bad, kid. But then, you don't look so hot either."
"Gee thanks, I am so glad you decided to drop by. You may go now," Rebekah said sarcastically.
"You know I don't mean it. How have things been?"
"Not so good. But it happens. Anyway, what about you? How's Jules? And everyone?"
"He's great. He says hi, by the way. Everyone's good... I was hanging out with Matt and Lauren the other day. Loz and I went up to Queensland to harass Matt at work."
"Lucky Matt." Rebekah rolled her eyes. "Anyway, come in, I was just heading out to the city, but I can go anytime."
"Postponing the city for me, I am flattered."
"Now I remembered why I hate you."
"Ha, never!"
Logan & Octavian.
Logan slapped the alarm to turn it off and went to see who this new guy was. He walked up behind Bek and eyed Levi with distrust, looking menacing and nasty.
"And you are, bub?"
"Insane paranoia of the security personnel showing yet again," Octavian quipped, quick eyes taking in Levi and Bek with interest.
Cute guy.
He 'eeped' and hid behind Bek when Logan snarled at him.
"Be-ek! Save me! He won't hurt you, but he doesn't like me!"
Rebekah and Levi
"This is Levi Kereama, Logan. He's my friend and not planning a massacre," Rebekah said, nodding.
"I usually try avoiding them," Levi said nervously.
Logan, Octavian & Jonothon.
Logan eyed Levi off again and leaned in to scent him.
"Hmm. Fine."
He turned and stalked off again, muttering about how was he supposed to do his job when things like this happened. Octavian kissed Bek's cheek affectionately.
"Thank you, Bek. Masterful distraction of the wildly paranoid Wolverine. Isn't he hot though?"
"I heard that!" Logan turned slightly to snarl at him, and let three shining adamantium claws slide out of his knuckles.
Octavian eeped, and hid behind Bek.
"Didn't say a word, Logan!"
Logan growled and walked off. Octavian started to laugh.
"He is going to kill you one day," Jonothon observed as he walked past the fuming Logan.
He slid an arm around Bek's waist, tilting his head slightly as he stared at Levi. He had his black bandages on.
"Ah, but that's half the fun," Octavian said, nodding.
Rebekah and Levi
"Maybe you should try a different approach," Rebekah suggested. "One that doesn't involve being annoying. But, I suppose you picked that habit up from Bobby."
Levi looked slightly confused, but let it go.
"Hey," Rebekah said, kissing Jono's cheek.
"Jono, this is Levi, Levi, Jono."
"Hey," Levi said, smiling in a friendly sort of way.
Jonothon & Octavian.
"Hey, cobber," Jonothon said.
"Welcome to Bedlam."
"Or Mutant High," Octavian said.
"Most of us call it Mutant High. But JOno's all bitter."
"Bite me."
"Oh, you want me to bite you."
"Oh, Jesus."
Bobby, Rebekah and Levi
Bobby came running out of nowhere, laughing evilly.
"What did you do?" Rebekah asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Nothing. Much. Hey everyone. And new guy who looks like Rebekah," Bobby said, nodding.
Levi laughed.
"Levi, this is Bobby. Don't worry, he's on day release. Oh, and he and Octavian and Julie are part of a weird sort of arranged love triangle."
"Am not," Bobby said, shaking Levi's hand.
Octavian & Jonothon.
"It's actually they're in a relationship, me they just have sex with," Octavian said.
"Not that I'm complaining."
Jonothon rolled his eyes.
"Where's Dem?"
"She's sleeping, Dr McCoy gave him her some...sedative thing," Octavian said.
"She went down like a ton of bricks."
Bobby, Rebekah and Levi
"So, how do you know our young Rebekah?" Bobby asked.
Rebekah blushed.
"Let's not..."
"Oh let's," Levi said, grinning. "I have tapes for you too, Dicko said you never came to pick them up."
"Oh yeah."
"Dicko?" Bobby asked.
"Head of BMG records in Australia. Rebekah and I met when we were both part of the Australian Idol competition."
Jonothon & Octavian.
"Never mentioned that, luv," Jonothon said, watching her face.
"Doesn't surprise me," Octavian said.
"Bek's talented. And sexy."
"You have a deathwish."
"No, I have...an appreciation for beauty."
Octavian nodded and Jonothon glared at him.
"Just make sure you do it from a distance."
Rebekah, Levi and Bobby
"It was about two years ago... a year? Something like that. At any rate, I obviously didn't win," Rebekah said, shrugging. "It just sorta slipped my mind, I guess... I haven't seen any of them since..."
"The concert at the beginning of last year," Levi finished. "Have that on tape too."
He turned to Jono.
"If you'd like to see the journey young Rebekah made on the show, I do have all the videos of her."
Bobby wolf whistled.
"I wanna see!"
Jonothon & Octavian.
"Like that."
Jonothon turned and glared at Bobby.
"Doubt they're that type of video, git."
"Ah, but if they were," Octavian sighed, and ducked Jonothon's open handed slap with a bend backwards that meant his hair nearly touched the floor.
"Ha, missed. Ow!"
"Didn't that time."
Jonothon's tone was darkly amused.
Rebekah, Levi and Bobby
"How about we burn the tapes?" Rebekah suggested brightly.
"Nah," Levi said. "You were so shy."
"Shut up."
"BEK PORN!" Bobby cried.
"Shut up!"
Octavian & Jonothon.
"SHOW US YOUR TITS, BEK!" Octavian yelled, then wolfwhistled.
"Oh bleedin' Christ, not that h'again," Jonothon said in disgust.
Rebekah, Levi and Bobby
"Oh God," Rebekah mumbled.
"I won't ask," Levi said, looking amused. "Wanna see the tapes?"
"No, no one does," Rebekah cut in.
"I do... poooooorn!"
Jonothon & Octavian
"They're arseholes, ignore them," Jonothon told Levi.
"Ignore them, we do."
"Yes, let's watch these tapes," Octavian said, nodding.
"Find out what they really are."
Rebekah, Bobby and Levi
"Oh dear..." Rebekah shook her head, starting to blush. "What's on these tapes, exactly?"
"Porn?" Bobby asked hopefully.
Levi chuckled. "No, just cuts of all of us from the show... all our performances, the concert, you know... stuff Holden said he'd do, then didn't. So Dicko did."
Bobby was leading the way to the rec room.
Octavian, Jonothon & Kanika.
"I still say they're porn," Octavian said.
"Shut up, Tav."
They walked through to the rec room and Octavian sat down without looking, jumping up again with a yell and an outraged yowl from underneath him. Kanika zoomed upwards out of her cat shape where she'd been napping happily. Until Octavian sat on her.
"You *sat* on me! I'm telling my daddy!"
She pouted at him, looking close to tears.
"Look, don't tell him and I won't tell him I saw you in the kitchen last night stealing icecream," Octavian said.
Kanika sniffed, then nodded.
"Fine, bub."
Rebekah, Bobby and Levi
Rebekah smiled slightly and sat down in between Jono and Levi.
Bobby grabbed the tapes from Levi and slid the first one into the VCR.
"What's this one?"
"All of our first auditions."
Rebekah put her head in her hands.
Octavian, Jonothon & Kanika.
"You can tell she's Logan's, can't you?" Octavian said as he sat down again.
"It's the tone."
Jonothon nodded slightly as he pulled Bek into his lap. He laced his fingers around her stomach, settling his head on her shoulder.
Kanika pouted, not happy at being ignored and decided to annoy the person she didn't know. She crawled up behind Levi and sniffed him delicately, ears twitching slightly.
Rebekah, Bobby and Levi
"Oh God," Rebekah said as she flashed up onscreen.
The video showed Rebekah's first audition, where Marcia cried because she had been touched.
"You're going to Sydney," Dicko said.
The Rebekah on the TV looked shocked.
"Awww, man, look how cute you are!" Bobby said.
Levi looked at Kanika, then back at the screen.
Octavian, Jonothon & Kanika.
"Oh, you're so sweet and innocent looking," Octavian said.
"You don't look the same since you took up with mr I hate the world and everyone in it can f*ck off and sodding die."
"Shut up, Tav," Jonothon said, watching the screen.
Kanika giggled to herself. She decided he smelt like sun and spices. Smelt good. She wondered idly if he tasted as good as he smelled, so she leant out a little more and licked his ear, then shifted into cat form and climbed over Jono's shoulder.
"Ignore the kitten. That, she gets from her mother. That wonderful lack of personal space."
Levi and Rebekah
Levi nodded and rubbed his ear slightly.
Rebekah blushed as her audition singing in Seymour Centre showed up, and Marcia was narrating over the singing, rambling on about how shy Rebekah was, and how honest her voice was.
"I sound like I'm in pain," Rebekah said, wincing.
"Oh shut up, you do not," Levi replied.
Jonothon, Octavian & Kanika.
"Yer sound beautiful, like yer usually do," Jonothon said.
"Yes, she does," Octavian agreed.
"Still no porn, however."
"Kids, mate!"
"Her mother is a sex goddess, literally. Like she has no idea," Octavian sniffed slightly.
Kanika dropped onto the lounge between Levi and Jonothon and rolled over onto her back in a shameless beg for petting. Jonothon ran his fingers along her tummy gently, and she purred.
Rebekah, Bobby and Levi
"Oh no... oh no... oh no..." Rebekah said, wincing again.
Bobby grinned. "Porn?"
"Ah, top 40," Levi said, grinning, watching as a nervous Rebekah stepped onstage and belted out her own arrangement of "Ex-Factor".
"You should've gotten in with this one."
"No, I'm glad Shannon and Guy did..."
"I think Mark, Marcia and Dicko were all in love with you. You always got nice comments, even when you were feeling sick."
Octavian & Jonothon.
"Probably because to meet Bek is to love her," Octavian said.
"Right, Jono?"
"Shut up and leave me lone."
Jonothon looked slightly embarrassed.
Rebekah and Levi
"I hated my hair that night... oh... wildcards! I loved my hair this night... but that necklace was heavy..."
Rebekah leaned forward a bit, entwining her fingers with Jono's.
Rebekah onscreen went onstage and sang "Shoop", and each other judges told her that it would be a crime if she didn't go through.
It cut to the next night, when Rebekah, Levi and Cosima were all called through into going into the top 12.
"Oh, big performances now," Levi mumbled.
Octavian & Jonothon.
"Look at Bek, she's hot," Octavian teased Jonothon.
Jonothon growled at him telepathically, and Octavian laughed wickedly.
Rebekah and Levi
They watched the first couple of performances, then it cut into the shopping trip they were taken on before the Australian made show, when they were all let loose in Grace Bros.
The TV showed Rebekah and Levi talking by a stack of clothes, then Levi looking up at the camera, pointing to a shirt that said "LEVIS" and saying "That is a good name."
Rebekah and Levi both burst into laughter.
It cut to Rebekah coming out of the change room in long tan pants and a black shirt.
"Another hat!" Shannon yelled, throwing one at her.
"Get out of the girls rooms!" Rebekah yelled back.
Octavian & Jonothon.
"He's hot," Octavian said, nodding at Shannon.
"And I'm guessing he's not at all bent."
"Can you ever think of something not related to sex?"
"Um...I could, but it wouldn't be very much fun."
Rebekah and Levi
"He's married," Rebekah said, eyes not leaving the screen.
Levi chuckled when they showed clips of them in the idol house, and Levi and Millsy were throwing their clothes all around the room. Rebekah walked in and they pelted her with underwear.
"Argh!" she yelled, as she and Lauren charged in and tackled the two guys.
Octavian, Jonothon, Vortigern & Spike.
"That doesn't nessacarily mean something," Octavian said argumentively.
Jonothon glanced at Levi in some astonishment, then back at the screen.
"Spike! Off! Hands!" Vortigern laughed, then fell into the rec room.
Spike saluted Jonothon and Octavian when they turned slightly to look at him, then pulled Vortigern up off the floor.
"I know I'm handsome, pet, but do try to keep your feet."
"If you weren't with the hands, and the touching, it wouldn't be a problem," Vortigern retorted, then came over to the couch.
"Hey, Jono, Tav, Bek. Other person."
"Logan's already done the sniff and growl, you don't need to," Octavian said.
"Ah, but I happen to like scaring people. Comes with being an evil vampire," Spike said, winking at Octavian.
"Yeah, yeah, we know, you're the Big Bad."
"You look sweet, ducks," Spike said to Bek.
"Wot's this then?"
Bobby, Rebekah and Levi
"It's Rebekah porn," Bobby piped up.
"I don't look sweet..." Rebekah argued. "And Spike, Vort, this is Levi."
"Hi," Levi said.
Vortigern & Spike.
"Hey," Vortigern said pleasantly.
He rested his elbows on the couch and propped his head up on two hands.
"Spike's right for once, you do look sweet."
"Hey, I'm always right!" Spike protested.
"One word, Spike. Montana."
"Can't hold every little thing above me head, bloody hell," Spike grumbled, then started kissing Vortigern's neck.
"Spike..." Vortigern hissed, half in arousal, half in annoyance.
Rebekah and Levi
"Don't look sweet," Rebekah said, folding her arms.
"Look tough."
Levi raised an eyebrow and gestured to the screen where Rebekah and Millsy were having a massive pillow fight in their pj's.
"Oh no, you're very tough."
Jonothon & Spike.
"Wotever, she's lovely," Jonothon said.
"Pussy whipped," Spike said.
"Getting a collar for him, Bek?"
"I'd say f*ck off and die, but yer already dead, cobber."
Rebekah and Levi
"I am lovely..."
Rebekah watched herself get voted off the show.
"Your tape ends here... I have the concert video..." Levi said, grinning.
Octavian, Vortigern & Jonothon.
"Aw, how could they not love her and let Bek win?" Octavian said.
"Agreeing," Vortigern said, nodding.
"Obviously, bonkers."
Bobby, Rebekah and Levi
"She was probably mean to people," Bobby said. "Not showing them
her tits."
"Merci, all but Bobby," Rebekah said, blushing.
"I am glad Guy won though."
"Yeaaaaah," Levi agreed. "Even though I thought Millsy would."
"Same. Now, let us burn this tape."
"Why isn't it porn, Bek?"
Jonothon & Octavian.
"No, let's keep it," Jonothon said gently.
"I thought you promised us porn, Bek," Octavian said, pouting.