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 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:11 am
Set before the metaplot
The day after their parents brought them home, Clementine and Bedovier were in the backyard, poking around. Jocelyn was in the kitchen, working on lunch, and the twins were investigating the fence that surrounded the backyard. Bedovier knew if he wanted to, he could get on the other side of the fence, but Clementine couldn't. And, judging from the movie they had watched with their parent's last night (Frankenstein 2: The Night of the Return of the Undead Shadow of the Mad Doctor, Frankenstein), anything zombie like should have a quick way to escape, and Bedovier wanted to ensure his sister's safety if a mob wielding pitchforks and torches came looking for them.
Clementine had finally found a loose board in the fence, and gave it a push, to see it rock upwards. There was a girl in the next yard.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:09 am
Cambria was sitting in the dirt of Alice's garden in a fluffy prom like dress. She'd be furious. She'd be even more furious when she realized that Cambria was systematically mutilating her collection of vintage barbies.
One by one she ripped the legs and arms off the barbies' bodies and then finally she'd place her thumb under their chins and pop their heads off like one would flick the cap off a glass bottle. A delighted giggle every time the distinctive pop and soon the garden was littered with destroyed dolls.
When the loose board in her fence went up and a pair of toddlers came through Cambria had to look up and peer at them. "Hey. Your metas too."
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:17 am
Bedovier wasn't sure how to respond to something that obvious. He settled for snarky; someone sitting in the dust and pulling heads off dolls was sure to be snarky as well.
"And you're wearing a dress."
Clementine looked through the fence at the other girl. Her dress was even fancier then the one Clementine was wearing, but she seemed to like it a lot less. "This is Bedovier, and I am Clementine. We got adopted yesterday."
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:48 pm
Cambria tilted her head and looked at Bedovier. "Unfortunately." Then she turned to look at the girl. "Hi. I'm Cambria. It'll be interesting to have more of us in the neighborhood. There was only me before." A malicious grin spread across her features as she imagined an army of meta children rulingthe streets.
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:01 am
The twins nodded together. "Our mom is Jocelyn. She says your mom is a little bit weird." Bedovier was content to believe her about that. He didnt' really care about the affairs of humans.
"Are you going to move to the school too?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:24 pm
"My what?" Cambria gave them an increduous look, "Oh, you mean Alice. Yes she is very strange. Strange and unnatural she wanted to give me a lipstick for my item. Freakish woman." Luckily (or very unluckily) Cambria didn't stand for that sort of nonsense and had found her own item.
"Yeah, I'm gonna move to school as soon's I can manipulate Alice into letting me go. Can't wait. I've got a friend already there. He's weird but awesome. He's gonna get me glitter." This was very exciting as witnessed by the huge grin across Cambria's face. "What about you two?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:36 pm
Bedovier responded for both of them. "We will move to the dorms as well, when it's time. I guess they won't let us room together." Bedovier didn't like that prospect - having another person share Clementine's room? Odd and unnatural. They were twins - no one else belonged that close to either of them.
Although he was a toddler, he also understood that at a certain age metas (and humans) paired off into partners, and this was not a partnership of the kind he and Clementine had. Which meant the time would really come when both he and Clementine would have these other partners.
He would have to start thinking long and hard about the right kind of partner for Clementine to have, then.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:42 pm
Cambria wasn't aware of the surprisingly deep thoughts running through the boy's brain. She was thinking about room mates. "I hope I get someone cool to room with." She said with a small frown. What if she got stuck with a complete square? What if they tried to take her shinies?!
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:22 am
Bedovier muled this over. "I expect that if get someone who is not up to your standards, you could get rid of them easily by treating them the way you are treating those dolls."
And clearly they would deserve it; people not up to snuff should not be rooming with superior people. Which obviously included those who were "uncool," as Cambria put it.
Clementine had more attention focused on the board. The whole point of this expedition had been to ensure her safe escape, and now they were busy talking to this other girl - this was fine, but business should be taken care of. But she didn't want to spoil the dress Jocelyn had given her.
She seized the hem of her dress, and pulled it over her head, and stood for a second in her bloomers, tights, shoes, and undershirt, revealing more of the stitches over her body. Then she shoved the board up again, and crawled quickly through until she was sitting in front of the feathery haired girl.
"Hello. May I used the bit's you are done with?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:52 pm
Cambria didn't bat an eyelash at the removal of the dress. It made sense. Clementine obviously could get around a lot easier in the bloomers.
"What, the barbie bits? Well that depends on what you want them for." Cambria said. She had plans for them. She'd pelt the heads at Fluffy and scatter the limbs and torsos around Fluffy's bed. Maybe Alice would blame the cat (unlikely) but at least the monstrous animal would not be able to get comfortable with all that plastic poking him.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:19 pm
"I was going to put them together in all different ways." Clementine wanted to see how many heads she could give one Barbie. She was pretty sure there were plenty of ways to pop them onto the leg and arm parts.
Bedovier had stripped of his jacket, picked up Clementine's dress, and followed her through. He immediately put the jacket back on.
"Clementine, you ought to put your dress back on, now that we're through. I applaud your ingenuity, but Mom will be upset if she finds you out here half-naked."
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:56 pm
Cambria giggled at them. What cute little babies. Cute, macabre, little babies. "Well sure then, you can play with that, I'll just need them back later." She was also pleased with Bedovier's description of how to handle room mates. "So when did you two move in? Alice didn't have anything to say about the neighbors getting new kids. Which is surprising since she likes to know everyone's business."
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:12 pm
"Yesterday. We were busy watching Frankenstein 2: The Night of the Return of the Undead Shadow of the Mad Doctor, Frankenstein, last night, so our Mom and Dad didn't have much time to talk." A very long speech for Clementine, who had paused with the Barbies to pull her dress back over her head. Once it was on, she selected one of the blond heads, fetched some long stems of grass from the ground, and began surgery.
Bedovier nodded. "Mom and Dad were very excited to get us. And they should be. Metas are the best. Alice is lucky to have you at all." Bedovier had a high opinion of himself, and an almost as high opinion of other people like him.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:21 pm
"Heh, you should tell her that. I will laugh." Cambria was already laughing at the idea that Alice should think herself lucky. Especially when Cambria tended to cause very bad luck and Alice was one of her favorite targets.
"She was going to give me a tube of lipstick as an item. Can you believe that? She's always wanted a little mini her so she can parade them around at beauty pageants. Well she got me, and I wanted nothing to do with that stupid stuff. I found some feathers instead. They were apparently magpie cast offs." Cambria tossed her feathers pridefully. "Obviously I made the better decision. She still makes me go to pageants and participate though."
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:41 pm
"That is certainly a problem. I hope you escape from her grasping clutches soon." Bedovier was quite pleased that his parents had no nonsensical ideas like that toward himself or Clementine. He certainly would not put up with it - Clementine might, but she was a sweeter person than he was.
"You should make your escape from her. Our Mom and Dad will let you come over whenever you want. And now there is this board you can come through."
Clementine finished her all-head-limb Barbie, and began crafting one with no head at all. She attached an arm where the head should be.
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