Elle's Room ~ GMFC ~ Neith-Kia is Mommy

[Neith-Kia]

7pm
The saloon was light and airy, the smells of the various chemicals and hair products lingering in the air. Neith sat in a comfortable chair, relaxed and happy. A woman with a bust to die for was standing behind Neith, fiddling with Neith's blonde hair. Neith's hair stunk of something nice, something to do with 'Mess up' according to the bottle?

Today, Neith had taken the plunge. She'd cut her hair on her own a few days earlier, and now she was going to do what she'd never dared to do- Get dreadlocks.

And it was looking good, too!

once it was done and paid for, Neith headed home. She felt strangely tired and achy, and she'd head for bed when she reached home. Elle could take care of her 'dinner'.



10am
"MOOM! THERE'S A NAKED MAN IN YOUR BED!"

A very loud scream woke Neith from her deep sleep with a start, and she sat bolt upright as fast as she could, confused. Had she gotten drunk and brought someone home?! Was it an intruder?!

...and what had a naked man been doing with her, Neith, who ALWAYS slept naked anyway?!

She jumped out of bed as fast as she could, holding the sheet around her body. Whatever the reason for him being here, Neith couldn't remember it, and there was NO way she'd let him see her naked now!

Elle, who was seriously startled and ready to bolt, held out a iron candle holder. "Get away from me!"

Neith stared at the bed for a few moments, stunned. Where was the man? ...was Elle on drugs? There wasn't any man, just Neith's bed. Neith took a few steps towards Elle, asking, "Elle, do you take drugs?"

"I don't want any of your stupid ******** drugs, you stupid freak... Get away!" Elle waved the candle holder at Neith, wide eyed and somewhere between frightened and angry. She was making an expression that frightened Neith even, Elle's whites of her unusual eyes showing much more than usual, her fangs clear and exposed and the tail behind her lashing from side to side irritably.

"ELLE!" Neith tore her eyes off her angry daughter, trying to step forward. "Don't swear at me, and put that down!"

"No! Get away from me, you stupid ******** b*****d, I'll swear at you as much as I want, you druggo freak! MOOOOM!"

"That's IT! You're GROUNDED TO YOUR ROOM FOR A MONTH!" Neith let go of the sheet, Elle had seen her naked before, and held out her arms. It really did look like Elle was on drugs now, the way she was so ... so... well, Neith had never seen anyone like this before. "Come here, calm down!"

Elle didn't waste time, as soon as the sheet had fallen, she'd fled as fast as she could out of the room and out the front door.

"Damn." Neith's arms flopped to her sides. If Elle really was as doped up as Neith suspected, and didn't come back soon, then she'd have to call the police to help her find Elle. Or someone. Neith decided to shower and get dressed first, maybe Elle just needed to calm down?

Headed for the bathroom, after picking up some of her clothing, Neith paused in front of the mirror to see how the dreadlocks had survived the night. And it was only then that Neith got to see herself.

She was a <i>he</i>.

Neith collapsed in a dead faint on the bathroom floor.

[Neith-Kia]

Elle rushed upstairs as fast as she could, and slammed the attic door as she shut it behind her, locking it and covering it with her metallic purple drawers so that the man couldn't get up there as well. It didn't matter if he was her mother's boyfriend or not, there was something very creepy about that guy!

Picking up her mother's address book, and Elle's phone, she dialled the first number that her eyes laid eyes on. The moment someone on the other line picked up, Elle told the person as loudly and as frantically as she could, "THERE'S A WEIRDOGUY IN MY HOUSE, AND MY MOM ISN'T HOME! You have to come over here NOW!"

Apparently, the past few days had taken a toll on Elle, with her self-educated sex ed, Jokeph and now this. She was shaking now, and somehow had managed to get paler than she usually was.

[Prolixity]

Anen picked up the phone on the second ring. "Hello?"

"THERE'S A WEIRDOGUY IN MY HOUSE, AND MY MOM ISN'T HOME! You have to come over here NOW!""

He winced away from the volume of the yell and blinked, confused. The voice was - half familiar. He put the phone back to his ear and asked, "Uh, who is this?"

[Neith-Kia]

"Elle, who is this?" Elle replied, and added quickly, "I don't care! You're in Mom's phonebook, so you must know her, and you've got to come here QUICK! What if he's MURDERED her or something?!"

Luckily for Elle, Neith was still passed out cold on the tiles, and wasn't trying to talk to Elle.

[Prolixity]

Elle? Why was that - right, Kia's sister. Apparently the ability to panic spectacularly ran in the family. "This is Anen," he said. "Uh - maybe you should get out of the house if there's a strange man inside. I'll be over as soon as I can."

[Neith-Kia]

"I'm in the attic... but okay." Elle hung up the phone, and picked up that candle holder again. She shoved the set of drawers out of the way, crawled down the traphole and snuck outside without, as far as she could tell, letting anyone know she was even there.

Once outside, Elle climbed up a tree and sat there waiting, still shaking.

[Prolixity]

A short time later, Anen dropped lightly out of the sky to land on the lawn. He glanced around and called quietly, "Elle? I'm here - are you outside?" He glanced up at the house cautiously, checking for any signs of movement in the windows.

[Neith-Kia]

Elle crawled out of the tree, and made her way up to Anen. She didn't want to make lots of noise, in case that strange man was in there and watching out for anyone, so just quietly tapped Anen on the shoulder as she glanced up at the house cauciously. "I'm here, I don't know where he is now. He's naked too..."

[Prolixity]

Anen raised an eyebrow. "Uh huh," he said. "I'll go into the house and see if I can find your mom, okay? You stay out here. If I'm not back in - uh - half an hour, call the police."

[Neith-Kia]

"Half an hour?" Elle echoed, nodding. Then she headed for the nearest tree, climbing up as tall as she could with the aid of her tail. Wrapping it around the branch, she waited to see what Anen would find.


Neith woke up, groaning and rubbing her sore head. What a nightmare! She tugged on clothes, odd, they seemed tight and there was something not quite right about the pale pink dress, but Neith's head was spinning too much for her to care.

[Prolixity]

Anen summoned his knife - just in case, he told himself - and turned the doorknob slowly, easing the door open and pulling up slightly on the knob to take a bit of weight off the hinges so that they wouldn't creak. He padded silently into the house, grateful that he hadn't worn any shoes.

There seemed to be sounds coming from the bathroom. He stood against the wall and waited to see if whoever was in there was going to come out.

[Neith-Kia]

Head spinning, Neith trudged out of the bathroom, through the bedroom and into the hall. She picked at the dress as she did, there was something really ... not fitting about it. Maybe it had shrunk, or she'd gained weight?

"I need a drink." Neith muttered, wondering why her voice sounded odd. Was her ears effected too?

[Prolixity]

Anen's eyebrows attempted to lose themselves in his hair. A strange man in Ms. Neith's house. In dreadlocks. And a delicate pink dress. What in the world?

"Excuse me," he said before he could think better of it, and stepped forward, pulling himself up to his full height. "What are you doing in Ms. Neith's house?" He hoped he sounded authoritative, rather than nervous. It occurred to him briefly that perhaps the stranger might have a gun - well, then again, there really didn't seem to be any place to conceal one in the tight pink dress. Yeah. Anen decided that he'd think about that later, if he really had to think about it at all.

[Neith-Kia]

Neith stared at Anen, blinking stupidly. What was a fa'e in her house for? And... what did he mean, what was she doing?! Wasn't it obvious, that she was heading ...

What was Neith going to do?

This had to be some kind of weird twisted dream, Neith was probably still lying in bed or something. She started to pinch herself, maybe that'd work. "What am I doing in my house? ...what are you doing in my house? Kia doesn't live here anymore, but you're always welcome..."

[Prolixity]

... huh? Anen blinked at the unexpected response. The stranger looked bizarrely familiar - and his tone and inflections were familiar too, even if the voice was deeper - It couldn't possibly be - "Ms. Neith? Is that you?"