Chapter 9: Surprises in Sherwood Forest

The only sound that could be heard in the lavish sun room was the swish of fish fins and the gurgling of water. The four walls were actually 4 tall windows that were made of fish tanks. There was a vast array of different tropical fish peeking out at Jessie, Megha, and Logan who were all apparently out of it, and tied to three large lazy boy chairs in the middle of the room. The door was guarded on the outside by a heavy duty padlock and one of Hood's craftiest men, the one in the red cape...who, as he was standing at attention, was also beginning to snore silently to himself. The only thing about this scene that wasn't entirely true to how it appeared had to do with Jessie. She had, over the years, perfected playing dead.

As Jessie finished mentally arranging her wedding bouquet and pondering her next move, she went over the last week in her head. Their lives had been semi-normal before she decided that her life calling was being a spy. It got much more interesting when she found out that the love of Megha's life was, first of all a CIA agent, and second that Raj was already independently working on the "fashion nightmare" case that Jessie and her and her new boss Logan-who she was going to marry as soon as possible- had just received. Jessie almost smiled as she remembered how the poncho-clad Megha rescued her from the impostor driver that was supposed to take her to the airport in that black BMW. It was nice to stop in at home in Halifax before the little mishap in the Swiss airport with the little tangerine-coloured man and that silly sign he was holding. Her least favourite locale of the week was undoubtedly Sher not's grimy dungeon. It was, ok, maybe a good thing that Raj was keeping an eye on them, and that they were able to teleport it back to that airport only to be captured again in a deserted diner nearby and brought to this old, but very fancy, log cabin deep in Brazil, the Amazon jungle. At least they were finally in Hood's lair.

Jessie was about to open her eyes, when...ZAP! An electrical shock went through the three chairs. Everyone was awake now. Poor Jessie was the only one that had a permanent negative reaction to the electricity, and that was Jessie's hair- it looked like a beach ball. Megha whimpered and was rather weepy for the rest of the day. In the wink of an eye, Megha used her exacto knife to set herself free, and she tossed it to Jessie.

CLICK...CLACK...CLICK...CLACK...the sound in the hallway outside the room was unmistakable. Red shoes. With heels. And sparkles. Jessie and Megha scrambled to appear that they were still tied up. The door flung open. Hood breezed in the room with Little John and the freshly woken Will Raspberry. "Welcome to Sherwood forest my pretties!" Hood greeted them. His make-up was a little smudgy and Megha was sure that he must have hit up the self tanner a little to much in the last little while. "John! Straighten up those clam-diggers of yours...uh, I mean those ca-pris!" Hood bellowed in a forced English accent. "Someone bring me my lipstick!" "You mean your lip conditioning shimmer gloss or your long lasting kissableware?" asked Raspberry expertly. "Duh..." (Megha was positive that she had seen this masculine cluelessness before.) "the first one!" Hood said back. Hood's following was then commanded to leave the room. Once they were gone, Hood breathed a sigh of relief and went over and kissed Megha on the cheek. Megha looked at him, burst into tears, hugged him, and refused to let go. "MEGHA!!!! Stop that this instant!" Jessie hollered jumping to her feet. "Hi dudes, " Raj said casually from underneath Hood's leather outfit. Jessie and Logan were quite surprised to see that it wasn't Hood but Raj!

Before anyone was able to get a word in, Logan finally spoke for the first time since he had entered the cabin. He grabbed Jessie's hand and took her away from Raj and Megha and over to the school of angel fish. Logan looked into Jessie's eyes and said quietly, "Jess, I have something to tell you. The moment I met you, it was love at first sight. Before any more time passes, I have to tell you that I need you to be complete." Jessie stood there wide eyed. "Logan, I feel the same way." Megha just looked on, reading lips from across the room, with misty eyes.

The four of them sat in a cozy circle on the floor and Raj told them what he had been up to in the last little while, that is, after he gave Megha her surprise gift that came in a little velvet box.