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CHAPTER 18

SWEET TRANSVESTITE

As Frank pushed the elevator button to take them back downstairs, he gave his back to the metallic doors and faced Roxie with a big grin on his face. She could tell he was obviously finding all this very amusing, but she couldn't help feeling worried about what was about to happen. She was imagining what sort of threatening visitors had dared to venture up there to the castle on a night like this. As they descended, however, her ears suddenly picked up what appeared to be the two strangers' voices coming from the atrium.

"Brad, please, let's get out of here…" a shy, quivering female voice begged.

"For God's sake, keep a grip on yourself, Janet!" a polished, distinct man's voice answered reassuringly.

Roxie frowned. Brad? Why did that name right a bell? She was distracted from finding an answer, however, when she noticed Frank had caught her listening to the conversation and was smiling bemusedly at her.
"But it…it seems so unhealthy here!"

"It's just a party, Janet!"

Well, Roxie thought, this certainly doesn't sound threatening. This sounded…scared.

"Well, I wanna go!"

"Well we can't go anywhere till I get to a phone!"

Yes, she nodded to herself, they were DEFINITELY scared.

"Well then ask the butler or someone!"

"Just a moment, Janet! We don't want to interfere with their celebration!"

Roxie looked up at Frank, frowning and shaking her head. Who on earth were these two people? Her initial fear began to quickly fade as she peered over Frank's shoulder and, catching sight of the couple standing below them, she realized that they probably looked like the least dangerous people she had seen in her entire life. She looked back at Frank, whos eyes were now shining brightly with excitement from what he knew he was about to do, and for some reason she began to feel affected by his own amusement. She returned his smile, and he leaned towards her to whisper, "Are you ready, ma petite lamb? Let's have some fun," he pulled back and winked at her. She raised her eyebrow at him in response. Fun.

"This isn't the junior chamber of commerce, Brad!"

"They're probably foreigners with ways different than our own! They may do some more…folk dancing!"

By now, Roxie could see the situation was becoming quite ridiculous – for their guests, at least. The poor couple seemed to be more frightened than she had ever been inside that castle…And that was including the time when she realized it was inhabited by aliens! A part of her felt sorry for them and for the fright they were sure to get from this night, but alas, she couldn't help feeling giddy and participate in Frank's playful 'trap' that he was about to set loose on them.

"What will we do?" she mouthed curiously at him

He whispered back, "Just follow me." And then nodded meaningfully.

Just then, the elevator hit the ground floor, and for a moment Roxie held her breath.

"Look! I'm cold, I'm wet…and I'm just plain scared!" the girl, Janet, cried.

"I'm here! There's nothing to worry about!"

Frank gave Roxie one last glance at this Brad's last sentence, as if to say, "That's what HE thinks!" And Roxie covered her mouth to stifle a giggle. Frank smirked at her and gave her one last wink, which meant, "Let's go!" …before dramatically turning around in the elevator.

Roxie covered her ears as Janet's piercing scream filled the air, and with a flick of his head Frank watched the elevator doors open before him. Roxie was surprised to hear him begin to sing, his voice booming effectively in the atrium.

"How'd you do? I

See you've met my faithful handyman…"

He glanced at Janet, and then turned and leaned on the elevator towards Brad.

"He's just a little brought down because

When you knocked

He thought you were the candyman!"

With a majestic stride, he made his way out of the elevator, leaving the stunned couple behind him as he entered the convention room. Roxie, suddenly feeling caught up in the moment, unexpectedly found herself following his lead: and before she knew it, she heard her own voice, echoing in the atrium loud and clear.

"Don't get strung out

By the way he looks

Don't judge a book by its cover!"

It was as if something had suddenly come over her, and as Brad and Janet spun their heads back around to stare at her, she moved sensually inside the elevator, leaning towards them, placing her hand beneath their chins and looking at them both.

"He's not much of a man by the light of day…"

She jerked her head away from them and stared at Frank.

"But by night, he's one hell of a lover!"

And with that, she gently but decidedly pushed them away, striding inside the room following in Frank's footsteps. Frank, who had by now reached the stage at the far end of the room, was watching her with a glint of satisfaction in his eyes. However, as soon as she finished, without missing a beat her threw off his cape, revealing his alluring physique clad in lingerie in all its glory.

"I'm just a Sweet transvestite

from Transsexual, Transylvania…"

Roxie strutted back to Brad and Janet, who by now seemed either scared out of their wits or too fascinated with what was going on to react properly, and she grinned playfully at them as she placed her hands on their chests and began pushing them towards Frank.

"Let us show your around, or maybe

play you a sound-"

She grinned sarcastically at them, eyeing their perfectly matching clothes and sober attire.

"You look like you're both…pretty groovy!"

She spun them around suddenly, making them face Frank, who picked up right after her without a second's hesitation.

"Or, if you want something visual

That's not too abysmal

We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie!"

Frank picked up a glass of water and turned to stop by a group of Transylvanians, who, playing along with the whole scene, playfully pretended to greet him as 'Doctor Furter'. Roxie stood right besides him, hands on her hips, as she eyed the ever-confused couple from head to toe. She raised an eyebrow when Brad suddenly spoke up.

"Uhm, I'm glad we caught you at home…Could we use your phone? We're both in a bit of a hurry."

"Right!" Janet bravely intervened. Frank gave them a look, and Roxie couldn't help but laugh.

"We'll just say where we are," Brad insisted, seeing that Frank wasn't really paying any attention to them, "Then go back to the car…We don't want to be any worry!"

Frank exchanged a glance with Roxie, who smirked, and then suddenly turned and threw the full water cup right at Octavius, who was standing by the Transylvanians gathered around them. He seemed to do so 'accidentally', but Roxie had to bite her tongue to keep from bursting out laughing once again, especially once she saw Octavious's horrified face. The Transylvanians around them giggled unabashedly. Frank turned back to Brad and Janet.

"Well, you got caught with a flat? Well!"

He looked at Roxie again and raised an eyebrow, "How about that?"

She grinned and then looked at the couple, singing in a mock-worried voice, "Well babies, don't you panic!" She looked back at Frank and nodded approvingly, as he led them back towards the stage and continued.

"By the light of the night

It'll all seem all right

I'll get you a satanic mechanic!

I'm just a Sweet transvestite

From Transsexual, Transylvania…"

With that, he comfortably leaned in his throne-like silver chair, pulling his legs up on one arm and leaning his back on the other. Roxie looked at Riff raff, Magenta and Columbia and nodded, and together they joined in the picture, setting themselves neatly around Frank: Magenta behind the chair, Riff beside Frank's head, and Columbia by his feet. Frank beckoned Roxie, and she sat elegantly on his lap, posing like the rest of them. Frank grinned at her and then turned his head to their two guests.

"Why don't you stay for the night?"

"Night!" Roxie, Riff, Magenta and Columbia repeated in unison

"Or, maybe…A bite?"

"Bite!"

Frank turned to look at Roxie and lazily dragged his finger up her thigh as he looked at her wantonly. "I could show you my favourite…"

He reached the outline of her breast and stopped, "Obsession." He winked at Roxie.

"I've been making a man…"

He turned to Riff and caught a strand of his long blonde hair between his fingers.

"With blonde hair and a tan

And he's good for relieving my…tension!"

Slowly, he started to get back up, and the rest of them followed him.

"I'm just a Sweet transvestite

From Transsexual, Transylvania…"

Suddenly, he busted a move and playfully smacked his own ass,

"Hit it! Hit it!

I'm just a Sweet transvestite…"

He signalled Roxie to follow him as, with a dramatic opening of his arms, he descended back down from the stage, pushed Brad and Janet out of the way, and proudly strutted back towards the elevator, with Roxie following him suit.

"From Transsexual, Transylvania…"

They both reached the elevator, and Roxie leaned her back on the gate, sensually bending one of her legs up beneath her; as Frank leaned both his arms on the metal gate. He looked down for a second, then picked his head up and announced,

"So! Come up to the lab

And see what's on the slab

I see you shiver with antici…

Pation!

But maybe the rain is really to blame

So I'll remove the cause…"

He chuckled maliciously, eyeing Roxie, sensually snaking his arm around her waist, and pulling her to him – to which she promptly responded by wrapping her leg around his waist and then turning to wink at the shocked couple – before reaching out and closing the elevator again with a meaningful chuckle.

"But not the symptom!"

And with a bang of his fist, he activated the elevator, and both of them rose in the air and out of sight, leaving the two poor suckers to stare after them in total awe, with absolutely no idea what they had just witnessed.

As soon as the elevator reached the lab, Frank and Roxie burst out laughing. Frank opened the gates for them, leading Roxie out, and then pushed the button to send the elevator back downstairs.

"Oh, Frank, that was fantastic!" Roxie exclaimed. He grinned with satisfaction.

"See?" he beamed, "I told you it'd be fun!"

He walked past her to the electric control panel and lit the lab up. Roxie looked around, the room had been cleaned and cleared of all the various pieces of machinery she'd found laying around the last time she'd been there. She also noticed that the anniversary room Frank had built for them had been closed out of sight. The tank she'd tried to peer into last time was still there, still covered with a heavy red cloth. She took a few tentative steps towards it, eyeing the container curiously.

Frank eyed her from the control panel, a hand on his hip. He walked up to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Are you curious to see, lamb?" Roxie nodded, "It's a majestic piece of science, if I may say so myself, a rather wonderful creation."

"I don't doubt it," Roxie answered, turning around in his arms, "After all, it's you who made it."

She looked at him languidly, then reached up and kissed his lips tenderly. He placed his hands on her sides and clung onto her, as she snaked her arms around his neck. She broke apart and tenderly placed small kisses and bites on his mouth. "Do you want to know how I named him?" he whispered to her. She nodded, "How?"

"I named him Rocky…" he answered, responding to her kisses, "After you, my love...My greatest invention…In your honour, my life…"

Roxie stopped and seemed taken aback, "…Really?" she asked, incredulous.

Frank nodded, "Yes, love…To me, it is only an experiment…But as I created him, the only thing I could think about was you…And how once this is all over I will be able to marry you, finally…That kept me going, that made me finish my work, and that's what's going to get me through this…You're my reason, Roxanne," he confessed, before capturing her lips in a kiss. When he pulled back, however, Roxie was surprised to see him frown and sigh.

"What's the matter, love?" she asked him.

"I don't want to do this," he mumbled, leaning his forehead to hers, "I loathe having to put on such an act, for the sake of those idiots…. I don't want you to have to see the person I once was, because I'm afraid it will ruin the image you have of me and the person I am now, thanks to you… I wish I could just take you away from all of this, and leave them all behind."

Roxie soothingly stroked his back, holding on to him, "I know, Frank… I know that this isn't what you would've chosen. But the mission was here before me, and you know better than I do that if you pull back now, we're never going to get out of this whole damn situation. Believe me, I don't want to go through this any more than you do, and see you behave like a player just for other's entertainment," she spoke honestly, "But the truth is, you – we – have no other choice, and if we want to free ourselves, we must do it. Whatever happens, just remember why you're doing this – you're doing it for the greater good, so that we can have our happy ending, once this is all done. You're doing a fantastic job so far…And I trust you with my life, that whatever you will do will not be done to harm me." She pulled herself to him and hugged him, and he rested his head on top of hers.

Roxie ran her hands up and down his back, "You're going to make it, Frankie," she said reassuringly, "We'll make it through."

A/N: Does it make sense for Roxie to be so accepting of Frank and his 'mission'? What do you think?

OKAY, so I've been having HUGE issues on deciding if to include the songs in the movie or not - Because, usually, I DON'T like writing a story with random song lyrics in the middle; BUT, seeing RHPS is in fact a musical, I realized that if I DIDN'T include the songs, that would leave me with very little to write about. SO... Yeah. Does it still work, as a story? Let me know!