BOND

5.

Though I know that our time is ending, oh

I'd rather lay forever right in this bed

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Joey woke up to the sound of his ringtone.

Elena and him had gone off to sleep well after midnight. She'd turned up two minutes into the movie, claiming that she couldn't sleep. So an early night had turned into a movie marathon. He had dug out popcorn from the depths of one of the kitchen cabinets, and it was only downhill from there. 

Blindly searching for his phone on the bedside table he picked it up without seeing the caller ID. "Hello?"

"You better start wishing that you were dead. Coach called us here ten minutes ago and you needed to be here then."

Joey, still half asleep, couldn't even place whose voice it was, "Who the heck is this?"

Alex shouted over the line, "God damn it Joey! Are you drunk? Coach will bash your head in if you are!"

Joey shot up on the bed and held the phone away from his ear, wincing at the volume. It wasn't very bright out and his eyes drifted over to the table clock.  "I'm up, man. I'm up. Why are you shouting?" he yawned.

"Coach has something important to tell us, and the captain is missing," Alex replied, his voice carefully held together.

Joey slowly woke up and understood the urgency in Alex's tone. "What is it? Has he told anything?"

"Well right now he's pissed off at you, so no. Nothing yet. You just get here J.P.."

Joey put the phone between his ear and shoulder and wriggled into a pair of sweatpants. He grabbed the keys to motorbike from his side table and rushed out the door. "On my way buddy. Give me ten minutes."

Alex sighed on the phone, "Better make it five or you're gonna lose some pieces of anatomy that are very much of your liking."

Joey chuckled as he entered the garage, "I'm coming. Just tell coach to calm down."

"What do you think I've been doing for the past fifteen minutes," Alex shot in one last sentence before hanging up.

Joey swore loudly as he looked at his ride. The tires were flat. Just like they had been since two days. He had meant to change them but now wasn't the time to do it. He was almost ripping his hair out of his head when he heard a knock on the garage door. 

Elena tapped her knuckles on the metal and watched amusedly as Joey whirled around. "You okay?" she could barely get the words out without laughing.

"This is not the time to joke around Elena! Coach is gonna skin me alive if I'm not in front of him in the next ten minutes."

Elena rolled her eyes and walked out the other end of the garage which opened up into his driveway. When he didn't react she turned back and said, "Well come on then. I'll drive you there."

Joey quickly followed and the second he walked onto the pavement he winced. He wasn't wearing any shoes.

Elena pursed her lips and shoke without a sound, he gave her a glare. "Don't laugh. Please don't. I'm already stressed."

She smiled at him, "When have I ever laughed at you. Now go and wear something you idiot. I'll bring the car around."

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The second Joey strapped himself into the car seat, Elena shot off and he got banged against the head rest.

"Woah, control the Bat Mobile!"