CHAPTER 1 - LINE IN THE SAND

As promised, this is the Stoked fanfic that heralds the return of Rebekka Drake, Kelly's old enemy from their high school days and the villain of "Old Rivals", my earlier Kelly-centric story. For that reason, although there'll be the occasional humorous moment here, this tale will lean mainly toward drama as Rebekka seeks to bring lots of it to Surfer's Paradise as the story progresses (hence the T rating). It also picks up where the last chapter of my previous fic, "Butter with Your Popcorn?", left off.

With that said, fasten your seat belts, folks...


Early on Monday morning, just before their shifts were to start, Reef and Fin ran through the front doorway of the Surfer's Paradise staff house, carrying their surfboards with them as they prepared to go on dawn patrol at the Office. "WOOOO-HOO!" Reef whooped gleefully as he got outside. "Great day in the mornin'! The sun's up and the surf's gonna be high today!"

"You might wanna speak up, Reef," Fin quipped as she glanced at him while raising an eyebrow. "There's a few folks down in Australia who didn't quite hear you."

"What? Oh, sorry Fin," Reef replied with a chuckle. "Lookin' good, though," he added while checking out Fin, who had abandoned the yellow rash guard and purple bikini bottom she had worn for surfing at the beach last year in favor of a new yellow one-piece tank suit, similar in design to the swimsuit she had worn when she and Reef won the Staff Tandem Surfing Contest against Captain Ron's hotel that year.

"Glad you think so, but you might want to keep your eyes more on the waves than on me when you're out on the water," Fin reminded Reef. "Otherwise you'll be feasting on surf instead of feasting your eyes on me."

"Yo, bras," Broseph then said as he and Lo came outside next to join their friends, followed by groms Greg and Ash. "You as set to hang ten as we are? Kahuna said we can expect triple overhead out there today."

"You know it, dude," Reef said, eager to get out to the Office. "Never saw surfable waves here that I didn't like."

"It'll give me a chance to try out my new short board too," Lo joined in as she checked over the board she was carrying. "Your mom got me a great deal on this one at the surf shop in town, Broseph."

"Glad you like it, chiquita," Broseph said with a grin. "So, what're we waitin' for, dudes? Let's head out there and..."

Broseph did not finish his sentence, as he was interrupted by the sound of a piercing scream nearby. "What the heck was that, a seagull mating call?" a surprised Greg quipped after hearing the scream.

"No, but it sure sounded familiar," Ash, the grom with the purple-dyed dreadlocks, then said just before a second scream pierced the air.

"If you're right and that's who I think it is, we better go get the emergency equipment. Come on, Broseph," Fin said as she and Broseph dropped their boards and ran back inside for a moment while Reef, Lo, Greg and Ash ran over to the edge of the woods where the trail to the Office started to see what the commotion was. The gang did not have to go far before they saw - and heard - the source of the problem.

"AIEEEEE!" Sabrina screamed while she clung like an octopus to a tree branch about fifteen feet up from the ground while a bear growled and roared at her from ground level. "AIEEEEE! Somebody HELP MEEE! GET THIS BEAR OUTTA HERE!" she screamed again as the bear, which she was far out of the reach of, roared at her again while Reef and the gang watched from a safe distance, waiting for Fin and Broseph to return.

Moments later, Fin and Broseph came running from the staff house toward where the bear was, both yelling while Fin sounded an air horn and Broseph fired a starter's pistol in the air. The bear, who did not like the sound of the air horn and thought the sound of the starter's pistol (which could only fire caps) sounded like a real gun, decided not to stick around and quickly took off back into the woods.

Sabrina, who did not yet know that the bear had left, was still screaming when Fin tried getting her attention. "Sabrina? Sabrina? SABRINA!" the blonde tomboy called, finally getting the snobby girl to stop. "You can stop screaming, the bear's gone."

"What're you doing up there, anyway?" Reef asked.

"What do you think I'm doing up here, my monkey imitation?!" an unimpressed Sabrina said curtly.

"Sure looks that way to me," Ash said jokingly.

"Were you trying to sneak a look at the Office again when you're not supposed to?" Lo then said to Sabrina. "You know no one who fails grom initiation is allowed to see the Office, and that means you, Miss Cheater."

"Maybe that explains the bear chasin' her up the tree," Greg guessed. "It figured she didn't belong in the area."

"It only goes after those who haven't been successfully initiated to scare them away from the way to the Office," Fin said. "It never goes after those who've passed initiation - those who do belong. That bear's pretty perceptive for some reason."

"I know," Reef agreed. "That's what happened to me before I passed initiation last year."

"Hey, will you forget about that stupid bear and get me down from here?!" Sabrina then snapped at the gang. "I'm not gonna spend all day up in this tree, you know!"

"So come on down then," Greg said. "If you can climb up that tree, then you can climb down too."

"Not without a ladder, I won't!" Sabrina retorted.

"Then you got one other choice," Greg said next. "Drop down from the branch and lemme catch you."

"No! Forget it!" Sabrina said tersely when she heard that choice. "I'd rather stay up in the tree than let you catch me!"

"Okay, your call," Fin said with a shrug, calling Sabrina's bluff on her bravado. "If you want to stay up there and take your chances on that bear coming back, be our guest. Come on, guys," she added as she went back to get her surfboard before starting toward the Office with the rest of the gang.

"No, WAIT!" Sabrina yelled, stopping Fin and company in their tracks. "Okay, I'll do it your way! You promise you'll catch me if I let go?"

"Hey, you really think we'd let anything happen to you, even if you are a pain in the butt?" Greg said as he and the others turned around. "Now just let go, I've got you."

While Reef, Fin, Broseph, Lo and Ash watched, Sabrina, doing as she was told, let go of the branch and dropped from the tree with a scream, hoping for the best but expecting the worst - but as promised, Greg caught her in his arms. "There now, didn't I tell you?" the big Hawaiian said.

"You're not gonna try to sneak off to see the Office again, are you?" Broseph asked Sabrina. "If you do, you only got yourself to blame for the consequences."

"Okay, fine, I won't try to sneak a look at the Office anymore," Sabrina said with an exasperated sigh. Turning her head to look at Greg, who was still carrying her in his arms, she then said snarkily, "Hey, do you mind putting me down now?"

Looking to the rest of the gang, Greg smirked. "As you wish," he said, then he let Sabrina drop the rest of the way to the ground.

"OWW!" Sabrina yelped when she landed butt-first. Getting back on her feet a moment later, she then pounded Greg on his right arm with her fist in retaliation, though the hit did no damage. "You butthead!" she snapped at him while she rubbed her butt where she landed. "I didn't tell you to drop me!"

"Hey, you just said to put you down," a grinning Greg said in his defence. "You didn't say how to do it."

Letting out another sigh, Sabrina rolled her eyes upward. "Whatever, I'm going back to bed," she grumbled before turning to head back to the staff house.

Walking up to Greg, Fin said to him, "You know, on one hand, I should give you heck for dropping Sabrina like that. But on the other hand, the only thing hurt was her pride, and she did kinda have it coming for all the crap she pulled on us since she came here."

"You think she'll really keep her word not to sneak a look at the Office again, though?" Greg asked.

"Good point," Fin said after giving it a moment's though. "This is Sabrina we're talking about. Well, we've wasted enough time on her already," she then said to the gang. "Come on, let's go rip up some waves!" With that, the four seniors and two groms grabbed their boards again and took off for the Office, gladly looking forward to their dawn patrol session.


Later on in the Surfer's Paradise lobby, some of the staff were busy taking down the last of the decorations from the science fiction convention, which had wrapped up yesterday after four eventful days (one of which, the movie feature at the Paramount Theatre in town on Friday night, was also somewhat chaotic thanks to Sabrina's disruptive pranks). "There, that oughta do it," Fin said as she took down a life-size cardboard standup of Darth Vader brandishing a light saber. "Much as I like sci-fi, I'm sure glad the convention's over for another year."

"You got that right," Emma agreed while putting away some tiny scale-model starships in a shoebox. "I heard the convention guests really kept the weekend shifts at the Pirate Ship hopping over the weekend. Too bad I'm not working there weekends because I also heard many of the guests who ate there were also good tippers and the weekend crew really cleaned up on tips."

"Tough break there, Alberta," Fin quipped. "Gotta remember though, one of the reasons for our rebellion against Bummer last year was so we could start getting weekends off again after he imposed a seven-day work week on us without our consent and without Mr. Ridgemount's knowledge. Take advantage of your time off when you have it."

"Yeah, good point," Emma said before she heard the sound of a dog barking, then she turned her head and saw Lo coming, accompanied by Brianna and a small dog she had on a leash. "Hey Lo, how come you're not dressed for work right now?" the redhead asked, noticing that Lo was wearing her strapless white sundress instead of her Pirate Ship serving wench outfit.

"I got asked by Erica and Brianna's mom to babysit Brianna 'cause she was taking Erica to see a nutrition specialist in Courtenay, and she figured Brianna would've been bored going there with them and having nothing to do but wait around," Lo told her friends. "Carter cleared it with Kelly, so I got the day off from waiting tables today. But don't worry about missing me at work, you'll see me there later when I bring Brianna for lunch."

"That's okay, I think we'll manage between me, Kelly and Bonnie," Emma said. Looking at Brianna and her dog next, she added, "That's a cute dog, Brianna. Where'd you get it from?"

"Mom and I got her at the animal shelter on Friday," Brianna said proudly about her dog, a poodle-terrier mix. "Her name's Pepper."

"I met Pepper earlier when I came to meet Brianna and her family up at their room," Lo said as she bent down to pick the dog up. "It's okay, she's friendly." A moment later, Pepper began enthusiastically licking Lo's face, making the rich girl laugh. "Okay, okay, I love you too, Pepper," Lo said in between laughter.

"Mind if I check her out, Lo?" Fin asked. When Lo passed Pepper over to Fin, the dog began licking her face as well. "Wow, she really likes people, doesn't she?"

"Like I said, she's a friendly dog," Lo said as Fin laughed while Pepper continued licking her face.


Meanwhile at the front desk, Bummer was checking in a guest who had just arrived at the hotel. "All right, there you go," Bummer declared to the guest. "The Royal Suite's all set for you, Miss Drake."

"Perfect," the guest in question, Rebekka Drake, said. "I assume the mini-bar there's already stocked?"

"With everything you requested," Bummer confirmed. "And if your stock runs low, call us and we'll have your mini-bar refilled right away."

"Just like I wanted," a pleased Rebekka said. "Thanks again, er... Name?"

"Andrew," Bummer said. "If there's anything else you need, just ask for me personally - that's what I'm here for," he added, already attempting to suck up to Rebekka as he usually did other hotel guests.

"Yeah, sure thing," Rebekka said absent-mindedly while she turned her head to look around the lobby. From the moment she arrived at Surfer's Paradise, she had checked around the lobby while expecting to find Kelly, her rival from their high school days, so she could surprise her unexpectedly. Her main reason for coming to the hotel was with the intention of resuming their feud, which Rebekka had started over her belief that Kelly had "stolen" her old boyfriend, high school sports star Bobby Foreman (though in reality, Bobby had dumped Rebekka for Kelly because the blonde queen bee had cheated on him with another guy).

Another, more sinister reason for Rebekka's arrival was because she sought payback from Kelly, who had punched her in the nose and given her a nosebleed during a confrontation in a restaurant washroom, in retaliation for stalking and harassing Kelly while the latter was spending the day out with her current boyfriend, David Hughes (who had also been a target of some unwelcome advances by Rebekka before Kelly quickly found her out), around Victoria during a weekend trip there last year.

Although she had not seen Kelly since then, Rebekka had tried several times to put the moves on David with the intention of stealing him away from Kelly, looking for any excuse she could find to be around him so she could work her charm on him and win him over. David, however, was loyal to Kelly and loved only her, and he refused to be swayed by Rebekka, making it clear to her each time that he had no romantic interest in her, but it did not stop her from trying. If anything, each of David's rejections had made Rebekka more determined to get him for herself, but she also knew that she had to be careful in case she was again found out by Kelly, who she knew could inflict another hurting on her if she did not watch her step.

In the meantime, though, Rebekka spotted a small gathering of girls in the middle of the lobby. Being the social butterfly she was, she decided to go see the group and ingratiate herself with them.


"Hey, that tickles!" a giggling Emma said as Pepper the dog licked at her face while having a turn holding her. "You're right, Lo, she's a friendly dog all right."

"I'm going with Brianna to walk Pepper around the hotel grounds in a bit," Lo said. "We'll throw a ball around with her too and give her the exercise she needs. You got the ball and the other stuff handy, Brianna?" she added, turning to look at her young charge.

"Sure do," said Brianna, holding out a rubber ball, a water bottle and small dog dish, and a couple of plastic bags and a scoop for whenever Pepper needed to "do her business" while out walking.

Just then, Rebekka came along from the front desk to see what the girls were doing. "Hey there, is this a private party or can anyone join in?" she said, initially feeling in a congenial mood. She was caught by surprise a moment later, however, when Pepper, still being held by Emma, suddenly snapped and growled at Rebekka.

"Like, what's that dog's problem?!" an offended Rebekka said curtly, displeased at being snapped at unexpectedly by Pepper.

"I don't know, she hasn't been like that with the rest of us," Emma said in Pepper's defence.

"I've heard that dogs are good judges of character," Fin said. "Maybe there's something about you she doesn't like," she added, directing her comment at Rebekka.

"Well, keep that flea-bitten mutt away from me, then!" Rebekka said in a snappish tone.

"Hey, don't be mean to her!" Brianna shot back at Rebekka. "She's not a flea-bitten mutt, she's my dog!"

"Oh, is she, now?" Rebekka said condescendingly, turning her attention to Brianna. "Okay then, you keep that flea-bitten mutt of yours away from me, if you know what's-HEY!" she snapped suddenly as she felt her right arm grabbed and she was yanked aside from Lo and her friends. Right after that, Rebekka saw who had pulled her aside - Kelly.

"So, going after a kid less than half your age now, huh, Rebekka?" Kelly said while putting her hands on her hips disapprovingly. "Is there anything you won't stoop to?"

Like she did when Kelly caught her trying to put the moves on David at his father's restaurant in Victoria last year, Rebekka gasped in mock surprise. "Why Kelly, I had no idea you'd be here at Surfer's Paradise," she said insincerely, putting on a show for Lo, Fin, Emma and Brianna. "Are you working here now?"

"Can it, Rebekka, you knew I was working here all along," Kelly stated, not being fooled in the least by her rival's act. "Someone must've told you I was here."

"Honestly, I had no idea until just now," Rebekka said, playing innocent while still denying that she knew Kelly was working at the hotel, thanks to her sister Sabrina telling her. "I just came here on a little vacay and it's complete coincidence that I saw you here."

Kelly was not convinced, however. "No, really - why are you really here?" the Pirate Ship manager demanded to know.

Right then, Rebekka leaned over and told Kelly the true reason for her appearance at the hotel. "Remember last year at the restaurant in Victoria when you punched me in the nose and made it bleed?" she said under her breath.

"You had it coming for those stunts you pulled on me and for threatening to steal my boyfriend from me," Kelly replied through gritted teeth, sotto voce.

"Well, now you got payback coming," Rebekka then said quietly. "You won't know when and you won't know where or how, but it's coming and I intend on collecting." Returning to her normal speaking voice and going back into two-faced mode, she added, "Besides, I just saw your friends standing around and wanted to see what they were, like, doing. No law against that now, right? And if I want to talk to them too, what's wrong with that?"

Knowing Rebekka's history and how she operated, Kelly was not pleased to hear what sounded like the queen bee's implied intent on dragging Kelly's friends into their feud. "You stay the hell away from my friends if you know what's good for you, or..." she hissed at Rebekka under her breath.

"Or you'll what, hmm?" an arrogant Rebekka cut in cavalierly, making her retort sound like a subtle taunt toward Kelly. "I think you're hardly in any position to decide what I can or can't do." Having made her point, she then turned around and casually walked away to head to the Royal Suite where she would be staying. "Toodles," she said non-chalantly as she turned her head to look back at Kelly and the others, raising her hand and moving her fingers up and down in a wave.

A moment later, Fin walked up beside Kelly, who was glaring at the departing Rebekka. "What was that about?" Fin asked.

"Don't ask," Kelly said with a sigh as she turned around to return to the girls.

"I just realized who that was as soon as Kelly said her name 'cause I thought she looked familiar," Lo said. "That's Rebekka Drake, isn't it?"

"Yep, that's her," Kelly confirmed, not sounding thrilled to do so.

"Wait, who's Rebekka Drake?" said Emma, who knew that Kelly had had problems with someone in high school but was not familiar with the name. "How do you know who she is, Lo?"

"She's been a catalogue model for several years for Pembroke & Drake, that high-end department store chain," Lo explained. "They're like Canada's answer to Saks Fifth Avenue."

"That figures," Fin quipped.

"She's also the oldest daughter of the current owner of Pembroke & Drake, and of its parent company, Drake Industries," Lo said. "She's the heir apparent to her dad's fortune."

"It's a big part of why she acts like she does," Kelly said. "The whole entitlement thing."

"I don't like her," Brianna said, telling what she thought of Rebekka. "She sounds mean."

"You and me both, Brianna," Lo said, nodding her head in agreement.

"No argument from me," Kelly also agreed. Turning to Emma and seeing she still had Pepper, she then asked while indicating the dog, "Is that what Rebekka was getting in a twist about?"

"Who, Pepper?" Emma said. "Yeah, she's Brianna's dog. She's friendly with the rest of us, but Rebekka got all insulted when Pepper growled at her."

"Hmm, sounds like the dog's got good taste," Kelly said half-jokingly.

"Here, you want to hold her?" Emma said to Kelly, offering Pepper to her. As soon as Kelly took Pepper, the dog began eagerly licking her face. "Hey, looks like she likes you too, Kelly," Emma added while watching the scene.

"I figured as much," Kelly quipped while Pepper continued laying on the dog-kisses. After a few moments of laughter, she then said, "Okay, okay, that's enough, Pepper," before passing the dog back to Brianna.

A moment later, Reef walked by and saw the girls with Pepper. "Hey, I see you've already met the dog, eh?" he said.

"Sure did," Fin answered. "Sounds like you already met Pepper too."

"Cool," Reef said. "The dog looked kinda thirsty earlier when I saw it, so I took it for a drink."

"Aww, that sounds nice, Reef," a pleased Lo said. "Where'd you take Pepper to drink?"

"Over at the public washrooms," Reef said.

"Wait - you mean..." a wary Emma then said.

"Yep, it drank right outta the toilet," Reef said with a grin.

"What?!" Fin said in shocked disbelief.

"EEEWW!" Lo, Emma, Kelly and Brianna all yelled in disgust, wiping at their cheeks with the backs of their hands. "Thanks a lot, Reef!" Kelly snapped at the cocky surfer afterward. "Now we all have to go wash our faces thanks to what you did!"

"That was so gross, Reef!" Fin griped as she punched Reef in his right arm in response to what he did with Pepper, right before she and the other girls started toward the public washrooms. Lo and Emma gave Reef dirty looks as they walked by him, then Brianna came up to him and kicked him in his right shin. "You're a pig, mister!" an unimpressed Brianna said as Reef yelped in pain and grabbed at his shin while hopping around on his left foot.

After Reef stopped hopping around a moment later, Broseph, who saw what happened, walked up to his friend. "Dude, what was that about?" he asked.

"Man, those girls got no sense of humor," Reef complained. "I told them I took that girl's dog to get a drink out of the toilet at the public washrooms."

"Did you really?" Broseph said.

"No, I never did," Reef said. "I just told 'em I did 'cause I was playing a prank on them. Wanted to see how they'd react after I saw the dog licking Kelly's face earlier."

"Oh, I think the girls might get you back for that later," Broseph cautioned Reef. "They're already pretty gunshy about pranks thanks to Sabrina, and they ain't gonna appreciate the rib you pulled on 'em."

"Found out the hard way already, dude," Reef said, thinking back to Brianna's kick to his shin moments earlier, before he started off for the hotel beach. "Catch you later, I gotta go to work," he said, walking with a slight limp as he left.

When Reef was safely out of earshot, Broseph let out a snorting laugh at his friend's misfortune. "So funny, though," he said as he thought about what he saw Fin and her friends do to Reef earlier.


A few minutes later, Rebekka was up in the Royal Suite unpacking her bags when she heard a knock on the suite's front door. "Housekeeping," a female voice called from outside the door.

"Housekeeping? Seriously?" Rebekka said to herself as she walked over to the door and looked through its peephole to see who it was. When she opened the door, she found Sabrina standing there. "Surprise!" the younger Drake sister greeted Rebekka as soon as the door opened.

"What the...get in here, will you?" Rebekka said as she took Sabrina's left elbow and led her inside, then closed the door. "I hope no one you're working with saw you come up here," she told Sabrina.

"Chill, sis, those losers don't have a clue," Sabrina said confidently. "In fact, none of them even know what my last name really is. I gave a fake last name when I filled out my job application and no one's the wiser for it."

"Good," Rebekka responded. "Last thing I want is for Kelly or anyone else she works with here to find out you're my sister, otherwise you're, like, really going to have problems with her. Guilt by association, you know?"

"Yeah yeah, I get it," Sabrina said. When Rebekka started snort-laughing while looking at her, she asked, "Okay, what's so funny?"

"That maid's outfit, that's what," Rebekka said with a smirk. "Never figured you for that type, hmm? Hang on, let me get my cell phone so I can snap a picture for a souvenir," she added as she made a show of turning to walk toward her bed.

"Don't you dare!" Sabrina said as her voice rose, not feeling like being embarrassed. "I don't want anyone we know knowing I had to work as a maid!"

"Hey, take it easy, lil' sis," Rebekka said, turning back to drape her left arm reassuringly over Sabrina's shoulders. "You know I'm just pulling your leg, right? I wouldn't really do that to you, okay?"

Sabrina let out a small sigh and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know," she said, relenting as she put her right arm around Rebekka's waist.

"There now, that's the spirit," a pleased Rebekka said. "Come on, tell me what you've been up to here so far," she added as she and Sabrina walked into the Royal Suite's main room. When the Drakes sat down on Rebekka's bed, Sabrina then told her older sister about the prank she pulled on Kelly, Fin, Lo, Emma, Ash and Bonnie last week by tying their room doors together at the doorknobs with a rope to keep them from getting out of their rooms.

"Now that's priceless," Rebekka said with an amused laugh. "Never occurred to me to do that, but it would've been great to try at least once."

"So, haven't you ever wanted to pull a prank that gets as many people as possible?" Sabrina asked.

"That's where we differ a bit in that respect with people we don't like," Rebekka said. "I'd rather target one person at a time and make it more personal. I do whatever it takes to embarrass and humiliate my target, and it never hurts to rub it in and make them know you got the better of them. I've done that to Kelly in the past and I never get tired of it. So far, I've thought just about paying back Kelly for what she did to me last year in Victoria..." After a pause, Rebekka got a sly look on her face. "But after what happened down in the lobby a few minutes ago," she added, "I think I'll play the cards as they're dealt to me."


Only a few minutes into her stay at Surfer's Paradise, and Rebekka's already made an impact thanks to the incident with Brianna's new dog. I think it's a safe bet that she's just made her first impression with some of the gang because of it, but it's only the beginning...

So what will Rebekka have up her sleeve for her renewed vendetta against Kelly, and how will she do it? It remains to be seen, but one thing is certain in the next chapter - Reef won't know what hit him. (Slight spoiler alert for ReeFin fans - there'll also be a bit of ReeFin in this chapter)

Stoked (c) Fresh TV Inc. and Teletoon. I don't own the show or any of the characters except my OCs.

Comments and reviews are welcome.