Enjoy! ^_^

Chapter Two -

Once outside, Doodah relaxes against the side of the PI firm building with his back against a wall. He casts his eyes upwards towards the virtual sky and sighs gently.

"I do not mind working alongside Diggums and now the LEP since they need all the help they can get with the Koboi Case. The pay is really nice too. There really wasn't anything out there for me when I was smuggling seafood. I didn't have the guts to be a real criminal back then and I still don't" Doodah thinks to himself.

For no real reason at all, he glances at a wanted poster tacked on the wall next to him. Three pixies wanted alive; the mad genius Opal Koboi and her two henchfairies; Mervall and Descant Brill.

"It all became different in a terrible way when you left me for her," Doodah says aloud in a whisper.

From across the street, Mervall Brill waits for the heavy Haven City traffic to become less congested and dangerous before he dares to cross.

His pierced pointed ears have headphones clamped to them. "This AF_is_Magic band is stellar!" he exclaims as if he is the only person waiting for the wave of vehicles to stop.

Once they do come to a halt, Mervall crosses the street with other folk of Haven City. Now on the opposite side of the road, he slips off his headphones and tucks them into a tote bad slung across his shoulder. His sandy brown eyes search the surrounding area for a few seconds until they rest upon one of a few private investigation firms in the city. He lowers his gaze on the building until they land upon something more interesting than the building...well, a someone.

A wide and bright smile spreads across Mervall's childlike face and he hurries over to the pixie leaning against the building.

"Doodah! Doodah Day!" he shouts at the other pixie hysterically, flailing his arms about like a loon.

Doodah is quickly pulled out from his thoughts about the past when a familiar voice calls out to him in a very excited way.

"Oh my Frond..." he mumbles while absorbing the scene before him.

He tries to move but for some D'Arvit-able reason, his legs will not obey him and so he braces himself for whatever is to come.

Mervall stops a few inches in front of Doodah, any closer he would have collided against him and pixies are simple to knock over.

"I am so lucky that I caught you here! Okay well...I heard you are working here so I guess luck has nothing to do with it," Mervall says in his chatty way to Doodah. It seems like he is just starting up a conversation with the other that he could not finish before. Doodah on the other hand does not feel as chummy.

"You were a brunette the last time I saw you," Doodah replies evenly. He could have said something harsh and blunt but he felt like giving Merv the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

The goofy grin on Merv's face decreases a few inches and he twists a blond lock of hair from his head. "Well, brunette with electric green highlights. I could not stand looking like Descant so I went blond."

Doodah arches a brow. "Blond with black tips," he corrects.

Merv smiles gently, "Blond with black tips."

Doodah decides to switch their conversation around to a more serious route.

"Why are you here, Mervall?" he asks the other, as if Mervall visiting him after so many years is forbidden or something.

The question hurts Merv a bit but he brushes it off. "Duh, to see you!" he answers brightly.

"Well, you see me so good-bye" Doodah says in a matter-of-fact tone and heads to the door of the PI firm.

Not many things annoy Mervall since he use to work for Opal Koboi and so he learned to tolerate a lot but Doodah's lack of cooperation never ceases to annoy him.

"I have a another reason," he snaps and grabs for one of Doodah's arms.

Doodah lets out a heavy sigh and turns back to Merv. "Which is?" he asks impatiently.

Merv lets go of Doodah's arm. "Well, with how things use to be and are becoming, I am planning on leaving Haven to find somewhere to live above ground," he explains calmly.

Doodah's input on this is complete silence which pretty much means that he wants Merv to continue.

"Eh...and I think it would be nice if you would come with me," he finishes shyly with a soft blush across his face.

"I don't think that's possible," Doodah replies sternly.

"And why not?" Merv asks in a slightly disappointed voice and holds one of Doodah's hands in both of his.

Doodah frees his hand and says in the same stern way, "Because I have a well paying job here and..." His voice becomes softer towards the end of his reason and he fixates his eyes on the ground below.

"And?" Merv whispers, caressing Doodah's face lovingly.

Doodah glares at him and slaps his hand away from his face. "And we aren't like that anymore!" he snaps and storms off and back into the building.

"Is that truly what you think?" Merv sighs and notices the wanted poster for the pixies that traveled from their time to this time and grins. "They got my bad side," he comments jokingly on his picture and heads down the sidewalk.

Lawl, there are probably a bunch of typos for this one but I will read it later to check. xD