Note: Shameless self-insertion...and could that have sounded anymore dirty?






Alan set back, hanging up his cell with a satisfied grin on his face that made the other cast members in the room very nervous. They could tell from just looking at him, that he was up to something, now if only they could figure out what that something was.

"Well?" Gary said pointedly, the only one...other than David and Jason...that knew what was going on.
Alan laughed.

"It's all set," He told him.
Gary clapped, practically dancing in his chair. David rolled his eyes at Gary's enthusiasm for their little project. Alan laughed again, this time shaking his head. The others in the room milled closer to hear everything.

"Rather eager to find out, aren't they?" Alan snorted.
Everyone, including Gary and David, nodded. Alan rolled his eyes and sighing, rubbing the bridge of his nose. Thankfully, none of the younger cast members where there to hear this or it would have given up the surprise.

"My Uncle's youngest natural grandchild," He told them, "a sweet thing named Heather has managed to pull off a surprise for the kids."
"What did she do?" said a voice.
Alan looked up to see the authoress herself and smiled.

"Oh, just a little..." He laughed, pausing for a moment, looking as if he had to find a word, "surprise."
Jo Rawling rolled her eyes and thumped Alan on the head with the newspaper in her hand. Alan rubbed his head and glared half-heartedly at her.

"Violent woman," He grumbled.
She gave him a pointed 'get on with it' look. Alan rolled his eyes and sighed.

"She's arranged an event of sorts," He told them.
"Event?" Maggie asked.
"It will be 'catered' so to speak," He continued, "hence all the calling around. Having to call around to the kids' parents and loved ones to find out what food they like, so that way they wouldn't have to pick through something that they wouldn't have really eaten in the first place."
The others nodded in understanding, the comment making sense to them.

"But the main event itself is two things itself," He continued again, "music videos...fan videos of the kids choosing. One each for the main cast..."
Then he got this evil-mr burns-i know something you don't-shit eating grin on his face.

"What?" Jo asked, feeling like throttling Alan for drawing it out.
He laughed. If Heather couldn't scare him, how could she?

"A concert," He said simply.
"A concert?" She repeated in disbelief.
He nodded. She rolled her eyes, deciding to humor him.

"Who did she get?"
He shook his head, chuckling.

"30 Seconds To Mars," He started, counting each off on his fingers, "A-Teens, Seether's doing their song Broken..."
He pretended to count silently while gaging their reactions.

"I seem to remember her talking to Christina Aguilera about something."
Gary chuckled, "About what?"
Alan smirked, feeling very Slytherin at that moment.

"Something about Christina helping her with Lady Marmalade..." He hinted.
David choked.

"Heather's going to sing?"
"What!?"
David and Gary's exclamations were simultaneous, while the comment just confused the others.

"That is if she doesn't die from embarrassment first," Alan laughed.
Maggie's brows furrowed.

"Why would she die from embarrassment?"
"If you had stage fright, piling on top the fact that she's chicken shit..."
Gary snickered.

"And the fact that she's going to be wearing a corset and very short shorts in front of a bunch of..."
"Teenage boys?" Jo offered.
Alan chuckled.

"I just meant the male species all together," He sighed.
Jo cocked her head.

"Who else?"
"Mya, Billie Piper," He nodded over to David Tennant, who snickered, seeing as he was the one who got ahold of Billie for Alan, "Blackstreet is going to do the song from Rugrats that they did with Mya."
"Is that before Billie goes on?"
He nodded.

"Yup."
Gary laughed aloud and the others looked at him.

"He's acting like her."
"Billie?"
Alan snorted.

"No, like Heather. He's drawing it out on purpose cause it's what she does to him sometimes. Plus," He shrugged, "it's the little gestures. You'll see when you meet her."
"And?"
"And what?"
Jo groaned, thumping Alan with the paper again, though not on the head this time, seeing as she couldn't reach it.

"Monica," Alan continued, glaring at Jo, the glare making Gary laughed, the others chalking it up as a 'Heather thing', "she asked her to do the song Angel of Mine for her boyfriend."
Gary's brows furrowed.

"Boyfriend?"
David rolled his eyes.

"Alan teases her about some guy named Jared," He clarified.
Gary shrugged, making a note to ask Heather about it later.

Alan continued, unasked, "Also, Shakira is going to do a few songs..." He counted on a little further before returning to the original count, "Jordin Sparks...well, Billie will be there, but I don't know when exactly she'll be singing, if at all..." He sighed, his head lulling back against the chair, his eyes closing.
"Why is Jordin there?"
"Heather will be singing again."