The Fortune Cookie Affair

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Okay, I hope I'm doing this right!


“Aha.” Napoleon took a fortune cookie from the bowl and broke it open. “Life is but a dream,” he read, raising an eyebrow.

“I doubt some people would feel that way.” Illya took a third. As he opened and read it, he frowned in bewilderment.

“What is it?” Napoleon asked. “Does it predict you’re going to meet the girl of your dreams?”

“Hardly. I can’t even understand what it is predicting.” Illya held it so Napoleon could see.

“459E725S.” Napoleon looked up. “In all honesty, it sounds like an address.”

“Which doesn’t belong in a fortune cookie.” Noticing something else, Illya’s eyes narrowed. “And that man over there seems interested in our discovery.”

Napoleon followed his gaze to a man at the counter. He was reading a newspaper, but was clearly studying them. “He doesn’t care much about being conspicuous, does he.”

Illya took in the man’s trenchcoat, fedora, and dark glasses. “Napoleon,” he said after a moment. “I think I killed that man in England.* Mr. Ecks.”

Napoleon looked at the enemy spy with new, stunned eyes. “He’s looking rather healthy now!”

Mr. Ecks folded the newspaper and came over to their table, hand extended. “Kuryakin. Solo. The paper.”


*Mr. Ecks is from The Odd Man Affair, the last episode of season 1. Illya stabs him in Hyde Park. That's him in my icon, the blond, in the company of his partner and probable friend Mr. Wye. I have a headcanon where they survived the episode and escaped London.

Comments

[jkkitty.livejournal.com]

The bad guys back, love those

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The Fortune Cookie Affair

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

You have gotten us off to a fantastic start! Well done. Now let's see where selyndaep goes with this tomorrow! Maybe if the story really unfolds well we could go another round...but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Brava!

Re: The Fortune Cookie Affair

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you! :) I'm very happy I did it right.

I hope the next poster received my PM.... LJ has been acting up all day. I didn't get one email notification about the comments to this post....

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Nice start. Very stylish move, Ecks.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

We're off to an intriguing start. Great job!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a license plate to me, but then I'm not next ;) Nice start, or technically, second installment.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[otherhawk.livejournal.com]

Excellent start, can't wait to see where we end up!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was not expecting that! Great job!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

I love to surprise. ;) Wow, LJ really is acting up today.... I didn't get one email notification of any of these comments.

Thank you!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It was being a problem yesterday!

[selyndaep.livejournal.com]

This was a really smooth segue from Mrua7's start--nicely done! The mysterious fortune, the reemergence of Ecks and Wye, the change of mood from relaxing off-time to threat and intrigue...yes!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed it and it provided inspiration for your segment!

[pactnmmt.livejournal.com]

I'm rather late in commenting as I was out of town and decided to wait and read the whole story up to my turn. I love the idea of a mysterious message in the cookie as well as the involvement of a THRUSHIE Illya thought he had killed.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you like. :) Ecks actually isn't THRUSH in canon, but he seems to have joined THRUSH following his return from the dead. ;)