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 Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:02 pm
He was exhausted when he finally got home. He fumbled with the key to his house and finally got in, pocketing the key and locking the door behind him. It was late, nearing midnight, and he expected his parents to be in bed already.
Much to his surprise, though, they were still up and having what looked to be a miniature party with a white haired main in a leather trench and goggles, and a-- He stared at the short muscular creature with the beard for a long moment, trying to figure out what it was.
"A dwarf?" he finally asked. His mother must have heard him because she looked up with a grin.
"Chris! You're home!" she said, racing over to give him a hug. "You've missed so much!"
"Yeah, I sortta figured that," he admitted. His eyes were still on the people visiting, and he finally noticed the tiny little moving thing in the middle of the floor. "Rory's got a little sister," he said as Missy tugged him into the room. "Her name's Rayne."
"Oh? Is she like Rory?" Missy asked.
"No, she's a fox girl with two tails," he said. "She tends to poof when you scare her and change into a fox."
"I can't wait to see." She turned, motioning to the dwarf first. "This is Ker, she's our new neighbor, and her daughter Jordan, and the cabbage, of course. Do you know what gender it's going to be?"
"No, not yet," the dwarf said, flushing a bit.
"And they're our new neighbors," Missy said.
"She's doing that deliberately, isn't she?" the man asked, looking over at Chris's dad.
"Absolutely," Tyler agreed. "Chris, this is an old friend of mine, Axle Pryor. He's Jordan's dad."
"Nice to meet you," Axle said, standing and holding out a hand to Chris. Chris took it, barely touching it to keep from breaking anything, then let go. The baby dwarf was now standing in front of him, a frown on her chubby face.
"I sowwy," she said finally.
"Huh?" Chris asked, blinking down at her. "For what?"
"You is ginormous."
"Ah, yeah," he said, sitting down so he was a bit closer to her height. It didn't do anything. So he held out a hand, letting her climb onto it. She didn't even hesitate to do so. She sat there quite comfortably, as if his hand were the perfect size for a chair, and even came with a back, he thought as she leaned against his fingers.
"You gots trains?" she asked him. It was weird, how the world seemed to shrink to just the two of them. He found it a bit awkward, too. But he just shook his head, since she was expecting it. "I sowwy bout that, too," she told him. "You come see mine!"
"Right now?" he asked. He couldn't stop the yawn that hit him. "Think I can do it tomorrow, instead?"
"Oh, okay," she said. "You fit through door?"
"Ah, well, most of them," he said. "Some are a bit too small."
She nodded. "Most tooooo big," she said, waving her arms out to show just how big they were. He couldn't help the little laugh that escaped him.
"I Jordi," she told him, jabbing a thumb at her chest.
"I'm Chris," he said. It was only expected, of course, and she nodded in satisfaction that he had replied correctly.
"That brudder sister," she went on, twisting to point at the cabbage on the ground.
"I see," he said.
"You got brudder sister?" she asked.
"No, no I don't."
"Oh, I sowwy."
"Yeah," he said quietly. "Me too."
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:52 am
Library Trolls
Players: Trinityblue, Ice Queen
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There were so many books in this place! Rayne looked around in silent awe at everything. Her big sister had brought her to a new place and then sat her down with a group of other kids.
"Don't worry, Rayne," Rory said, crouched down to baby level. "You play with the other kids, and listen to the story teller, and I'll be right back." She promised, petting the baby on the head, then heading off to find her research books.
Rayne looked around her, now abandoned with the others. There was going to be a story?
"Well, boys and girls," the golden haired man in a white suit said as he stepped in front of them. "How would you all like to hear a story?"
"Wait, wait, I got da lichen for da story time," a deep, rumbly voice said as the world seemed to shake beneath them. Winstead glanced up, surprisingly not bothered at the sight of a troll carrying a dwarf baby towards the circle. He stopped a good ten feet away and sat down, gently placing the little girl on the floor and prodding her forward. "Go hear da story, lichen."
Rayne was immediately taken to the nice looking guy who came to tell them a story. He wasn't scary looking at all! She crawled a little closer, until a biiiig -thing- came. She was glad he didn't go nearer to her!
He said something she didn't really understand, then set down another baby. The fox-girl blinked. She was... small! But so not threatening looking at all. Wow she was brave!
Jordi looked at Mortar, then patted him on the knee before heading for the circle as she was told. There weren't any trains there, but she was with Mortar, and if she asked too many questions she might break him. Or that's what her daddy had said, so usually she just did as Mortar told her to. She didn't want to break him! He was her Mortar!
Without a thought she dropped down next to the fox girl who was bigger than her, and looked at the very pretty blonde man in front of them. "You tall," she told him. "I sowwy."
"Thank you," Winstead said with a little smile. "So what type of story do you want to hear, everyone?"
Rayne looked at Jordie for a moment, before looking back at the pretty man. They were supposed to choose the story? .. She wanted something she hadn't heard before. That's be nice! But if it wasn't, then it would be fine.
She looked at the tiny girl next to her. "Ello," she offered, then gave a little smile.
Jordan finally looked at her, then at the tails. Her hand went out to touch without a thought. "Pretty," she said.
"Now, now," Winstead said. "We should keep our hands to ourselves. And who wants to hear the story of The Little Train that Could?"
Jordi's attention went back to the blonde man like a paperclip to a magnet.
Rayne's attention went to the man as well. She wouldn't have minded the tail-touch. SHe liked touch, even if the hands were sticky. With the fur, she wouldn't have been able to tell till later, anyway.
But stories were always good! She settled in, looking up at the man.
Winstead opened the book, showing them all the picture of the trains on the front page as he launched into the story. Jordan was enthralled. She loved the pictures and thought the story was the most perfect thing ever, although she had always known that little was better.
She didn't even remember the fox girl was there until the story was over and Winstead stood. "Now," he said. "Time for everyone to make something to take home to their parents!"
Rayne listened to the story, not nearly as enthralled with it as the smaller girl, but then, she didn't have the love of trains, either. But she still liked it!
At the announcement that they were going to make things to bring to their parents, her ears perked up. Were they going to play with play dough? She liked play dough!
"We're going to make windchimes today," he said as he led them to the table. There were all sorts of wondrous things for them to work with laid out. Several straws in different colors, string, construction paper cut into shapes. And silver bells.
Jordan looked at the things on the table, her eyes lighting up as she dropped down in one of the chairs and looked at the fox girl. "We make stuff!" she told her happily.
Red-brown eyes lit up with interest at this. There were so many interesting things here! She wanted to make these windchimes! "We make stuff!" she replied to the little girl, sitting down on a chair as well, then she reached for one of the bells.
"Now to make windchimes," Winstead said as he stood at the end of the table. "You take the taped string and thread it through the straws, then through the hoop on the bells," he explained, going from table to table to show the kids. He wound up at the girls last, since he figured they'd take the longest.
Jordi was focusing hard on threading the string through the straw, her little tongue poking out of the side of her mouth.
Rayne wasn't having any luck either. She kept trying to put the string through the straw, but it kept clumping up! At this point, the string was more frayed. On seeing him approach, she offered up both items with a little pout. "It no going in," she told him.
"Why don't we start with another thread," he said patiently, crouching down between the two of them to help them out. "So what's your names?" he asked.
"I Jordi," Jordan said, still fighting with her thread with a determined look. She seemed quite intent on doing it by herself.
"I Rayne," the fox-girl replied, reaching for a new string to work with. As she did, someone caught her attention. She glanced at the big troll man that the little girl came with, then to the girl her self.
"What that?" she asked, pointing at Mortar. She looked both at Jordie, then at Winstead.
"Is my Mortar!" Jordan said cheerfully. "He my nanny."
A troll for a nanny? Winstead tried not to laugh as he glanced back at the patiently waiting rock man. Go figure. "Have you known him long, Jordi?"
"Always!" Jordi said. "He big and good for running into!"
"Good... for running into?" Rayne asked, tilting her head and lowering her hand. Well he was big! But he was also scary. "You not scared...?" she asked, tilting her head the other way now. Her tails waved as she considered this. "You brave!"
"He not scary," Jordi said dismissively. "He Mortar!" And that summed it up for her. As far as she knew Mortar could do no wrong. He was the ultimate playground, too! "He take me places and tell me stories!"
"I like stories," Rayne replied immediately. She looked back at the Mortar, considering him again. He wasn't scary? He just looked it? Well, okay. This girl spent more time with him and she was fine... So, it was fine.
She went back to trying to thread her straw again.
"Do you need help, Jordi?" Winstead asked her, glancing over only for a second. Everyone else was doing fine.
"No," Jordan said. It would take forever, but she'd do it herself, and it was obvious to everyone around her. "I gots!"
Rayne gave a little bit of a huff, at herself, as she tried again with the string. One more time! She'd get it too! Then she made a happy sound as it finally got in.
"I did it!" she announced proudly to Winstead, flashing him a little foxy smile, then went back to the string. It needed to go all the way in now! She started to stuff it.
"Good job!" he said with a smile. Jordi finally accomplished it as well, so he congratulated her and stood to see if anyone else needed some help.
"I gonna make train chime!" Jordi declared happily.
"Bells," Rayne said. "Mine gonna have bells." She reached for some of the said bells, pleased with herself. They were pretty sounding! And not to loud either. Her mommy would like, because they were moos'ical! Or.. whatever that word was.
"Me too!" Jordi decided happily.
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:20 am
Burgers and Slides: Chris takes Jordi out for a babysitting day on the town, they run into Shiraz and her older brother, Bailey.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:22 pm
Art in the Park: Jordi meets Darsh and makes a massive mess of herself while finger.... body painting.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:23 pm
No Boys Allowed
Players: Trinityblue, Ice Queen, Rosemilk
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They all received a very pretty, formal letter from Missy, delivered by Tyler at school or at their homes. It was an invitation to a tea party, and at the bottom of the letter (that had pretty pink flowers on the front) there was one dooming, dreadful sentence.
No Boys Allowed.
Axle was at home whining about it even as Ker stepped up to the Deakon's door with Jordi on her hip.
The door was answered by a short blonde girl in a frilly pink dress; her hair was a bleached platinum with chunky streaks all the colours of the rainbow, and she had over the frock a little white apron. She looked only like the waitress you might get out of a Barbie Fold'n'Fun Playhouse set, but she beamed immediately at seeing the unfamiliar faces -- and held the door open for them, seeing the invitation.
"Hey!" she said, in tones of infinite attempted tea-party sweetness. "Wow, you must be Jordi, hi! Welcome to the tea party, I'm Miss Darnell."
She had a number of rubber-band bracelets on her wrists, assorted sparkly beads which sort of ruined the demure hair-pulled-back waitress look -- but she winked at Ker, in a stage whisper. "Hi," she said. "I'm Wisp! Hello, hi. Sorry, I'm in major waitress mode."
Then she called over her shoulder: "Rory! Arrivals!"
Rory, for the fun of it, had on a matching outfit. She didn't look so Bardie-ish though, being black haired, pointed eared and tailed. Her black hair seemed to have purple streeks in it. So, she was like punk-waitress. But that didn't seem to matter. "Welcome! I'm Mis Zee," Rory said, full on, then whispered with a wink. "Or Rory, if you'd perfer."
"Hey Jordi! Rayne's in the other room. You remember her from the library? The fox?" she asked the tiny girl in Ker's arms. Then she looked to Ker. "The others are at the table, would you come with me please?" she said.
"Oh, yes, yes of course," Ker said politely, if a bit bashfully. She wasn't used to dealing with teenage girls. In fact she was surrounded by males ninety five percent of the time and was still getting used to Missy, much less--well, this. What did one DO at a tea party, anyways?
There was a little table in the middle of the front room with a cute little set of tea cups and pot, along with a plate of snacks. Carmel was already seated, her eyes staring longingly at the snacks in the middle of the table, her tail wrapped around the chair leg that she was sitting on.
"Oh, Ker! How good of you to come!" Missy said, standing from where she had been pouring the tea. She wore a dress that would have fit in perfectly in the twenties, complete with a big poofy skirt and a bodice that was fitted. "We were just about to start, so please, help yourself to a seat!"
The snacks really were cute; Rory and Wisp and Missy had spent a long, fruitful afternoon icing cupcakes for maximum cuteness. Some of them looked slightly too cute to even eat; both the teenagers had gotten very involved in the idea that you could mould almond paste to look like other things and then dye it with food colouring, and the table had been so perfect that Wisp had taken a couple photos. She took the teapot over just to fill up the remaining cups -- most of the little girls had what Missy had called 'cambric tea', which was mostly warm milk with a little bit of tea in it.
"No fair," she sighed, "everyone has a little sister but me, what's with that. When I'm older I'm going to have twenty children." (She had already fallen deeply in love with Carmel.)
Rory couldn't help but snicker as she got a little plate set out for Ker, and the baby paper plate out for Jordi, setting it down. Rayne sat between the two and was very happy to see Jordi again.
"Jordi! Hi. This Carmel," the little fox girl said, gesturing to the other girl beside her. She nudged her glasses up her nose again, as they tended to slip. "Carrrmell, this is Jordi. Say hi."
"Hello Ker," Ze'zee said, sitting at the table as well. Ze was dressed up in one of her nice performing dresses, not having anything theme related here. But she still looked nice, for a Zard in a dress, anyway. "Missy's been tell us about you. It's nice to finally meet you!"
"Ah, if it's about my mate, I apologize in advance," Ker said, feeling rather underdressed in her regular leather and cloth outfit. Her dress shirt even had a stain that she couldn't seem to get out on the shoulder. She should have worn her chainmail, she thought.
"Hii," Jordi said shyly, feeling as awkward as her mother was in this situation.
"Do you like choc'late?" Carmel asked, going straight to the point. "Cuz I loooove choc'late. So if you don't like choc'late--"
"Carmel," Missy said with a hint of warning.
"Mom did say she was sorry she couldn't come," Wisp apologised -- for the twentieth time -- "but she's been busy with work. So. I'm the only momless one. I guess you'll have to be my mom for the teaparty. Carmel will share, right?"
It looked as though she herself were more than willing to pretend Carmel were her little sister for the duration anyway -- she had been cooing over and stroking the little ribbon-girl's hair for the entire time, obviously struggling for the 'apple of her eye' stakes between her and Rayne. She tapped the little star just beneath her cheek and said, "Sandwiches before chocolate anyway, Miss Deakon!"
"Carmel realllly like chocolate," said Rayne to Jordi, it was her own little warning too: Watch out with your dessert.
"I'll go get the sandwiches," Rory told them, heading for the kitchen now to bring out the finger foods.
"You're from Vega, correct?" Ze asked Ker. "I have never been able to meet a Vega dwarf before! What brings you to Gaia?"
"Oh, well, we have a ship," Ker said, feeling a little less awkward. "We do deliveries from planet to planet, and across Gaia. But while we were in the neighborhood we decided to look in on an old friend of Axle's. Then we found out about the cabbages and, well, one thing led to another." She shrugged.
Jordi nodded, understanding the warning very well. Her Daddy took their snacks if they were too slow, too. "I like choc'late," she declared, a clear sign of war between the two girls.
Brown eyes met red over the tea party table, and lines were drawn.
"Of course, Wisp, I'd be happy to fill in for your mother," Missy said with a smile that showed she meant it. "And thank you Rory!" she added as the other teenager returned with the food. "Why don't you two start filling plates and I'll--" She stopped, catching sight of something at the back door, "be right back."
"Okay," said the petite blonde girl, who had noticed neither the battlefield being drawn nor the disturbance at the door -- she had taken the plate of sandwiches and was filling up Ze's plate first, as Ze was an adult who could make her choices easily. She moved to Rayne next, dropping down so that the tiny foxgirl could see what was on offer: "Do you want ham or cucumber, Miss Zee?" she said, "okay, junior Miss Zee, Rory's still Miss Zee -- Miss Rayne? Veggie or not veggie? Want one of both?"
She was in her element; Wisp loved kids. Also dressing up. All of the little girls looked really, really cute. She kept on mouthing it over their heads to Rory: ohmygod, SO CUTE.
Rory had to nod in agreement with a grin on her face. She was serving up the other finger foods: veggies, cheese cubes, fruits; with a little picker-upper thing. "If you don't want anything, just let me know, Mrs Ker," she told the dwarf.
"Uuummm," Rayne looked at both, then pointed to both, since she couldn't make up her mind. "Both!" she told Wisp. The battle lines between the other two, she had noticed. Somehow, she felt as though she was going to lose her desserts over this...
"Oh, so you've been able to go to other planets? Now that is interesting. What's your favorite place to go to, so far?" Ze asked Ker, thanking Wisp for the food.
Kar sighed, thinking of the various planets they had been to, and the various hangovers that Axle had wound up with. "Not Vix," she said. "Absolutely not Vix." Because Axle was far too fond of the foxy people's planet. "I think you can't really beat home, to be honest. Vega's the best planet out there."
"Wisp? Choc'late sammiches?" Carmel asked, giving the blonde her heart-meltingly cute look.
"No," Missy said in a hiss out the door. "No boys allowed. Now go play with your Father," she told Chris, shooing him away.
"But I'm hungry."
"Carmy, there's no such thing as chocolate samm -- sandwiches," said Wisp helplessly, who tried to be strict and came out the wrong side of jelly-spined. Carmel's big-eyed look was killer. She'd given Rayne one of each, and was putting a cucumber sandwich down on Carmel's plate. "Chocolate sandwiches would be pretty cool, I mean maybe Nutella, but -- just one sandwich and you can have a chocolate cupcake. And you can drink some tea, you can have a sugar cube, yo!" (They'd gotten sugar cubes in the shape of tiny flowers.)
"No choc'late yet," Rayne said promisingly. "Choc'late come later. Sandwiches good." And she promptly bit into one of the two she had. They were tiney and child sized (at least the ones Wisp gave her).
Rory frowned slightly, hearing the voice. Chris. Why did Chris have to show up? This was a girls only thing! But she did feel bad for him.
Obviously he left, (with some cash for fast food) and Missy came back with a brilliant smile. "How's everyone doing?" she asked, moving the plate of cookies out of Carmel's reach with a smooth gesture and placing a cucumber sandwich on the little girl's plate before Carmel could try and sucker Wisp again.
"I want both," Jordi said, nodding at the plate. "Please," she added a bit belatedly.
"Everyone has such wicked-cool manners," said Wisp, with the rosy eyed visions of a teenage girl who was already imagining her own brood of perfectly behaved little girls in tiny frilly dresses. "Of course you can, do it to it. There you go."
She whispered hurriedly and loudly to Missy, "We should do this more often!" as she passed by in a flurry of pink frills. At least the dress was making her wear something. That was a good point to it. Wisp usually wore two handkerchiefs and some shorts.
"This is fun! We should have more of these!" Rory agreed happily, enjoying herself.
"And perhaps some more casually dressed ones? I do feel awkward in the dress," Ze said bit bashfully.
"Absolutely!" Missy agreed happily. It promised to be a very good bonding experience for them all! Besides, the little girls were just so adorable at a tea party that she was going to have to take pictures!
"Now let's have some chocolate!"
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:30 am
Rambler Daycare
Players: Ice Queen, Trinityblue
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The air ship that was Jordi's home was something else. In Rayne's short life, she had never seen anything like it! The baby fox-girl stared up at the place in awe. This place was neat looking!
Zee went up the ramp with her baby girl in arms and the bag of her things over her shoulder. Talk about a different kind of house! So this is what Ker had meant. She knocked on the door.
The door opened a few seconds later to the largest bald white man with a goatee that you'd ever seen. He looked at Zee, then down at the baby in her arms, and moved out of the way, motioning them in.
"Jordi!" Axle bellowed, his voice echoing through the halls. "You gotta at least put some pants on!!"
Just then, the little girl in question streaked in front of the two newcomers, naked as could be and giggling madly.
Rayne started up at the big, bald man. Interest in the place died as she was confronted with someone new, and not nice looking.
Zee was about to say something to him when the streaking child came running through. She couldn't help but smile. "I'm here to drop off Rayne," she said, crouching down to grab Jordi if she tried to streak out of the place.
"Jordi!" Rayne called.
"Wah!!" Jordi yelped as she was grabbed. "No, no no!" she said, trying to squirm free. "Nakie time!!"
"Ah, thanks," Axle said as he caught up to them. "I've never seen such an immodest dwarf in my life, but she's a streaker baby. Must have gotten it from me." He paused. "I'm her dad. Axle Pryor."
"Ahh, so you're Axle," she replied, arms full of babies. "I'm Ze'zee, Rayne's mom," she told him with a smile, entertained by this whole thing. "And I'm here to drop off Rayne for the day."
"Jordi nakie," Rayne snickered at her friend, two tails waving with entertainment. There were scary looking people here, but as long as there was someone she knew, it'd be fine.
"Nakie good! Nakie fun!" Jordi said, still struggling. Then she stopped, looking up at Zee. "I kiss, you let down?" she offered.
"I really have no idea where she learned that from," Axle said quickly, taking his daughter from the zard female. "Seriously. Not a clue. Come on, Jordi, let's get you dressed."
Rayne went into a fit of giggles at that. Ze grinned. "Maybe from one of the girls? Not Rayne. When she knows she did something wrong and gets picked up, she rather goes limp. Unless it's nap time, then she fights."
"No nap!" Rayne said quickly. She didn't like naps! You missed things!
Axle grinned at them, then buzzed a kiss against Jordi's temple, only glancing up as the same, gigantic bald guy came forward with a cute set of brown and white overalls and some shoes.
"Oh, so you washed them?" he asked as the bald guy got a loving grin from Jordi and flushed slightly, rubbing the back of his head as she reached for him. "No you don't," he said. "Every time Boki holds you you pull the kiss deal and get loose," he told his daughter sternly.
"Well, that would work on some," Ze teased with a grin. Jordi was a cute baby! "Unfortunately, I do have to be going soon. You don't mind so much, do you?" she asked, crouching down to set Rayne on the ground.
Rayne looked at the bald guy curiously now, then to her mom when she was set down.
"We don't mind at all," Axle said. "Ker went over to get Carmel, since Missy was getting ready for a date, but Boki and I can handle it! Probably. Well, for a few minutes, at least," he said honestly.
Boki gave her a sheepish grin, then said in a deep voice, "I'm the daytime sitter."
"But more often than not, he's the one getting sat on."
"See? There's nothing to worry about," Ze told her youngest, petting her on the head. Then hugged her. "Now, you be good! I'll be back later," she promised. "Thanks again!"
Rayne had to watch her mom go, holding her hands and fiddling with her fingers up close to her face. Then she looked back at Axle and Boki.
"I don't bite," Boki said, crouching down in front of her. "You wanna come see the trains?"
"Trains! Trains!" Jordi said gleefully. "We go see trains!"
"After we get you in some clothes," Axle told her.
"I kiss, you let me down?"
Rayne gave him a very uncertain look. Then she looked to Jordi. "Jordi get dressed, then we see trains?" she asked them. She still wasn't sure about him, but slowly took a few steps towards him to be picked up.
He was as gentle as could be as he picked her up. "See up there, sugar?" he asked, pointing to the rails on the wall near the ceiling. "That track goes through the entire ship."
"Aww, man, you do know how to tempt a guy!" Axle complained, seriously thinking about it.
Rayne's ears were perked up as she looked at the track. It went throughout the house?? She then turned on Jordi. "Jordi!! Dress! Wanna see trains!" she said, pointing at the track even as she settled in Boki's arms. She was a cuddle-me-baby. Cuddles were good things.
He was a bit hard for cuddles, but it didn't mean he wasn't warm and gentle. He hugged her, more subconsciously than anything, because he always hugged Jordi in the exact same way.
"Chuuuuu," Jordi said, puckering up. Fast as a wink, Axle had her dressed in her overalls and kissed her on the lips. She pouted once she realized what he'd done.
Rayne relaxed more with the cuddles, even if he was hard, which didn't seem to bother the fox girl. "Jordi dressed, we see trains," she said seeing what Axle had done. Finally
"And then we saw choc'late show and there was cakes an' cookies an--" Carmel's voice was sweet and innocent, but seemed to carry a bit too far as Ker walked up the ramp and into the ship with her. "An' I got hungry," she finished.
"I bet," Ker agreed with gruff amusement. The little girl had her entire family wrapped around her fingers but her greatest love seemed to be the food network. "But it's not quite dinner time yet."
"Carmel!" Rayne cheered, bending to look over Boki's shoulder. "Carmel, trains! We goin ta see trains," she told the other girl, now that she was here.
"Jordi is dressed and clean!" Axle bragged, holding up the baby to his girlfriend proudly.
"What about a shirt?" Ker asked.
"Well... she's dressed and clean!" he repeated, since it was obvious no one had bothered with the shirt. The overalls covered everything important anyway. She was a baby, after all!
"Trade me and I'll get her shirt on her," Ker said, sighing and handing Carmel over to Axle as she took the half dressed baby. "Hi Rayne, Boki didn't scare you, did he?" she asked, looking up at the little fox girl.
Rayne gave Boki a hesitant look. "Ah.. little?" she offered honestly, showing just how much with her fingers. "But he okay now," she then added, settling into the hold again, from her looking over his shoulder.
A rumble of laughter shook his chest against her back, since he was obviously not bothered by the scaring statement. "Let's go see the trains," he told her.
"You got choc'late?" Carmel asked Axle, not bothered in the least by being handed over.
"No shirt," Jordi complained as one was slipped over her head.
"No choc'late," Rayne replied. She was so going to lose any dessert if it was a chocolate dessert. It made her a little sad. Then she looked up at Boki for his laugh. She grinned up at him. At least he found it funny! "We wait for Jordi, then trains?"
The funniest thing was happening. Jordi, now dressed (sans diaper and shoes, but her mom hadn't noticed the diaper thing yet) was glaring dangerously at Carmel. "Daddy," she said, reaching for Axle.
"Hmm?" Ker asked.
"My Daddy!" Jordi said, now struggling to steal her father back from her greatest enemy.
"You can share," Carmel said. "I share mine!"
"My Daddy!"
Rayne huffed a sigh and looked up at Boki. "They fight over daddy? I no have daddy," she told them. But smiled. "I have mommy and I have sissy!" she said proudly. She was the only one to have a sister (for now).
"Oh?" he asked. "But it's good to have a sister, right?"
"Jordi," Ker said sternly. "He's just holding her. Now let's show the girls the train, how does that sound?"
"Train?" Jordi asked, distracted. "Train!"
"Uh huh! Sissy takes me places, and plays with me," she told Boki with a shy look over her glasses, holding on to one of her two tails as it wrapped around her. "But we go see trains now, Yes? Jordi here!" she looked to the two.
"That's right," he said. "We'll go see the trains."
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 5:36 pm
Delivery Dwarf
Players: Ice Queen, Trinityblue
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There was a knock on the door of the Zee household, followed by lowered voices. A few seconds later there was a knock again, louder this time and more insistent, until it was continuous and downright irritating.
Ze had been practicing her violin playing and thus, obvious to the knocking as her ears were filled with music. Rayne, on the other hand, had been watching cartoons in the front room. She heard the knocking over the tv and the muffled music in the other room.
The fox girl got up and ran to where her mother was. "Mama! Door!" she called out. A moment later, Ze appeared and followed her youngest out to the door. She opened the door after peeking through the peep hole. "Hi! what brings you here?"
"Not me," Boki said with amusement. "Her." He pointed down. Even though Rayne and Jordi were about the same age, Jordi was still a good bit shorter.
"For you," Jordi said, shoving a packet of letters to her friend.
"No they aren't," Boki said. "They're for her mom, remember?"
"For you!" Jordi repeated.
Rayne first looked at Jordie, since she was at a smaller height. She waved only to pause as she heard Boki's voice. The little fox girl went shy, hiding more behind her mother's leg. Which didn't last long.
Ze crouched down so she was more at level with Jordie. "Hey, what's this?" she asked, taking the letters.
"Delivery!" Jordi exclaimed happily, handing over the letters that she wanted to give to Rayne. "Delivery delivery!"
"She's ah, doing her first job," Boki admitted a bit sheepishly. "She's been looking forward to it ever since we got home from Zard. And she refused to let her parents come, so--" he shrugged, indicating that was why he was there.
"From.. Zard?" Ze asked, feeling a bit of dread as she took the letters. "Thank you, Jordie," she then told the girl, standing up again. "Do you wanna coming in and get some drinks and snacks?" Jordie was still a little girl, so full out deliveries should have snacks as well.
Rayne reached out for Jordie to come in, her two tails waving behind her. "Jordie's no been to my house," she told the girl. "Come see?"
"Okay!" Jordi said cheerfully, then promptly hugged her friend. "I saw big green people," she told her. "They too big, was sad, but was fun!"
"Well, I suppose," Boki said, glancing over his shoulder and waving to someone. "If you don't mind, that is."
"No, it's fine, if you have the time," Ze said. She didn't want to address the letters yet. She walked in, letting them in.
"Mama big an' green! I was on Zard," Rayne said proudly. Never mind that was in the early part of her life. She remembered some of on. Like being scared of Chris. "Grandparents on Zard!"
"Uh huh," Jordi agreed. "They is big," she added, having met her grandparents. "They gave cookies!"
"That's, ah, where the letters came from," Boki told them. "As well as this," he added as he pulled a stuffed lizard girl out of his pack and handed it down to Rayne. "This is from your Gramma and Grampa."
Rayne's eyes widened at the toy then she broke out into a smile, reaching for it. "Thank you," she told him softly, looking up at him over the rim of her glasses and through her lashes.
"My parents?" Ze asked, and that feeling of dread grew. She led them into the kitchen.
"Yeah, your parents. Somehow they found out that we're planet hopping delivery guys and called us up. And since Jordi knows Rayne," he said, glancing at the two little girls, "the Cap'n decided this would be Jordi's first job."
"I make delivery!" Jordi said happily, clapping her hands.
"You make good delivery!" Rayne said, hugging Jordie now with her new stuffed toy. Then she took her hand to lead her into the other girl to the kitchen.
"Ah, well, at least it was good for her first job," Ze said, setting the letters on the table. "Do you travel around often? And do you mind Kool-aid?"
"All the time," Boki said. "And kool-aid is what the entire ship drinks now that Jordi's around," he admitted a bit sheepishly. There was a hint of red in his cheeks and he reached up, rubbing the back of his head. "It's a bit hard to believe, to be honest."
"Babies have a way of changing everything around," Ze said knowingly as she poured kool-aid for herself and her guests. Sippy cups for the little girls incase of spills.
Rayne looked at the chairs, then looked at Jordie. They were taller than she and her mom was busy with the drinks.. someone had to help Jodie up! That only left Boki. She went over to him and gave his pant leg a tug, looking up at him through her lashes.
He looked down at her, smiling. "What is it, sweetheart?" he asked, wondering, not for the first time, when he had become such a sucker. He used to be the toughest guy on the Rambler! Or at least one of them!
Jordi went over to the chairs and started to climb into one, using her upper body strength to make up for her height issue.
"Jordie--" she started, then noticed the movement. Rayne glanced over at her smaller friend and noticed how she was getting on the chair. "Ne'ermind," she said softly. "Thought Jordie would need help. But she okay."
Ze noticed this interaction and couldn't help but grin. Rayne liked Boki! It was really quite cute, if you asked her.
Boki moved forward, just in time to grab Jordi as the chair started to tilt forward. "No, you were right, Rayne," he said as he placed the little girl in the chair properly. "Jordi needed help."
"I was doin' it," Jordan complained, crossing her arms over her chest and pouting slightly.
"You were doing good!" Rayne replied, encouraged not that Boki told her she was right. "But chair didn't like, I think," she told the other girl, then started to go for her own seat.
"Now, would you like some cookies?" Ze asked, letting them work out the seats.
"Cookies!!" Jordi cheered, once again happy at the suggestion. Over all, this had been the perfect first delivery!
She was quite proud of herself.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:40 am
The Neighbor Wars
Part 1
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It was a passion that burned with the heat of a million suns. Or it would be. If she could work up enough energy. As it was, Carmel found herself staring at Jordi yet again as they were set out in their back yards to play. There was a fence between them, but that made no matter. She could still see her.
Carmel reluctantly got to her feet, walking with childish grace to the fence and wrapping her fingers around the metal to stare better at the grumpy dwarf girl. Jordi, never one to back down, got to her feet and toddled over to stand in front of her.
The problem with that was Carmel was a good foot taller than the other girl, so Jordi found herself glowering at a dancing bunny on Carmel's shirt. It's feet, to be precise. Reluctantly she tilted her head back to glower into the other girl's eyes.
"I no like you," Carmel told her.
"I no like you more," Jordi said promptly.
"You stinky shorty."
"You stinky too tall."
"I not too tall, you too short."
"You too tall, I just right!"
They glared at each other, brown eyes meeting red and refusing to look away. Then Jordi did the most horrible thing possible. She reached up and picked a booger, then stuck her hand through the metal fence and wiped it--yes, WIPED it on the stupid bunny's face.
Carmel was so stunned that she stared down at it for a good ten seconds before she started to scream. It was a pitch that threatened to break glass and it was no wonder that the back door of her house slammed open and her mother raced out as if her feet were on fire.
It really didn't help that Jordi was laughing so hard that she fell over, grasping her belly as she tried to get her breath back.
And no matter how hard Missy tried, she couldn't get an explanation. She wound up picking the little girl up and heading inside to see if there were any wounds.
Jordan: 1, Carmel: 0
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:04 pm
Calliope Dreams: Jordan and Carmel are taken to the fair. There they meet Anise and Touda in a bounce house. Boogers, singing, and dancing commences.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:59 am
Floaties of Folly
Players: Ice Queen, Trinityblue
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Ker looked down at the newly grown Jordan, her eyes narrowing on the blatant look of innocence on the girl's face. They were walking down the street towards Rayne's house, where Jordan, Carmel, and Rayne would be having their weekly party while the free sets of parents went out for a date, or in Ker and Axle's case, stayed in for a drinking party with the boys.
"You're going to behave yourself," Ker said.
"I'm not a baby anymore, Mom," Jordi said, not actually answering that comment.
"Mmmhmm," Ker said as they reached the door and she reached up to push the doorbell.
"Welcome!" Rory said, first looking out, then down for their guests. It was a new habit she was forming when answering the door. "We've been-- Ohmygosh! Jordie! Look how tall you've gotten!"
Never mind the tall teenager still crouched down to see if better. But she wasn't -as- tiny any more.
"I'm two feet and three inches," Jordan bragged. "The perfect height for a dwarf."
"Actually it's still short for a dwarf," Ker said. "You need another two feet before you're the right height. I can't say how much we are grateful for this, Rory, regardless of what the boys say. She's still not old enough to join the drinking parties," she added with a pointed look at Jordan.
"It tasted like strawberry," Jordan said evilly.
"That's the problem," Ker said with a sigh.
"We're here!" Missy announced from behind them, carrying Carmel in her arms.
"Oh, it's not a problem," Rory said, having to bite back a laugh at the strawberry problem comment when Missy called. She couldn't help but glance for Chris, but he wasn't around. He was probably off working.
"Hello, Mrs Missy!" the teenager greeted them. Okay, so now only Rayne and Carmel were small-- take that back: Jordie was the same height as the other two girls now.
"She got bigger," Carmel said irritably as she caught sight of Jordi. "Means bigger boogers."
Jordan gave her an evil look, that quickly turned to a smirk. "I'm older than you now, I win," she bragged.
"Well I brought her swimsuit," Ker said quickly before the two could start. "And some clean clothes for after swimming. I hope you've got plenty of floaties, she's never swum in a pool as big as yours before. If there's any problems just call and we'll send Boki or Mortar over to pick her up--"
"Carmel," Missy said. "What did we tell you about being nice to Jordan?"
"She's the disgusting one," Carmel muttered, glowering at the older girl.
"Jordie!" Rayne called, having spotted her first: she was now eye level while Carmel was up in her mother's arms. She was in a red, flower printed swimsuit, with her two tails swinging behind her. "You grew!"
That seemed to be the topic today.
Rory took the swimsuit and things. "Okay, but we'll look after them. We have a big floaty thing too, if she just wants to float," she said reassuringly.
"Okay, then I need to get going," Ker said. "We can walk back together if you want, Missy," she added a bit shyly.
"That sounds great!" Missy said happily, handing Carmel over to Rory along with a bag of her things. "She's wearing her swimsuit under her clothes and there's clean ones in the bag. Bye bye, sweetie!" she added before she and Ker took off.
Jordi smirked up at the chocolate scented girl, still gloating in her more advanced age. Then she looked up at Rayne. "Hi."
"You come swim?" Rayne invited, reaching out and taking the now older's hand, leading her back in. "Carmel swim too?" she asked, looking up.
Rory set the other girl down with the girls, going to put up thing.
"Yep, we're gonna swim," Jordan said. "Carmel might not want to get her hair wet, though."
"I swim better than you," Carmel said as she reluctantly walked on her own. She grabbed Rayne's offered hand, not wanting to get stuck holding hands with Jordan. Who knew what that girl did with it!
"I got a pool," Rayne said logically, leading the two away.
"Jordie, you wanna get changed into your swim suit?" Rory asked.
"Yeah," Jordan said. "I can change myself, though," she added, holding up her hands for the suit in question. It was a strange set of boy swim trunks and girl swimming top, but looked as if it would work for the dwarf girl. It was in brown and black, and came with bronze colored goggles.
"Dad picked out the top," she added, flushing slightly because there was a black bow on the back.
"I got watermelon suit," Carmel bragged. "Mommy say it make me the cutest one EVAR, but Rayne can be as cute as me," she added graciously. "Jordi can't," she went on, sticking her tongue out at the dwarf.
Rayne gave a sigh. "Well, I think it'll look nice," she told the dwarf girl, trying to relieve any hurt Carmel might cause. Then she turned to the chocolate girl. "Can I see your suit while Jordie changes?" she asked.
Rory handed off the swim suit things and goggles to Jordie. The girl knew where the bathroom was, if she wanted to change there.
Jordi shrugged. "I don't wanna be cute," she said honestly. "Seems a pain in the butt." Then headed for the bathroom to change. She wasn't like these two others, and they all knew it. But that didn't mean she wasn't gonna torture Carmel for that comment shamelessly.
Tormenting Carmel was one of life's little pleasures.
Carmel smiled up at Rory. "Okay! You can help me put it on!"
"Arms up," Rory said, having to smirk at that. It was like changing her was a pleasure one should have, rather than a chore.
Rayne watched Jordie go. Now she felt a bit guilty, but still bet it would look nice. Not that she was going to say anything. Instead, she waited for both girls to be ready.
Carmel deemed herself ready once she was changed, admiring herself in the swimsuit for a moment before looking to Rayne. "We go now?" she asked, her hips twitching ever so slightly to make the skirt of her swimsuit sway.
Jordi came in then, wearing her swimsuit. In all honesty, it looked adorable on her, even with the shorts. But she didn't seem to notice. "I'm ready," she said, tugging her swimming goggles down with a grin. "Let's swim!"
"We swim!" Rayne said now that all were finally ready. She took her friends by the hands and lead them out to the back.
"Don't forget your floaties," Rory said, following the three. "Mom's got extra's out back, for you, Carmel."
Carmel nodded, looking over the floaties as they got outside, then promptly heading for the one that looked like a chair. "I borrow this?" she asked Rory, already picking it up. Obviously her idea of swimming consisted of napping on the floaty as everyone else did the work.
"I want..." Jordi drawled out, eyeing the floating devices. "This," she decided, heading for the pile of noodles.
"Okay, but I still want you wearing the arm floats," Rory said. At least until all of them were kids and she was sure of their swimming abilities.
Rayne was already putting on a set. She knew the rules, even if the others might think them silly.
Jordi sighed and grabbed the green set, pulling them on. Her only other choice was pink, after all, and she hated the color pink. "Okay, okay," she said. "But I'm not a baby anymore, got it?" It seemed imperative that everyone understood that fact.
"You're not bigger than us!" Carmel told her. "You no big deal!"
"You think I'm not?" Jordi demanded, moving so she was eye to eye with the younger girl.
"Yeah!"
"But Jordie is eye level now!" Rayne said quickly, as if that was the most important thing in the world.
"Alright girls, remember what your mom's said about being nice and stuff like that," Rory reminded them.
"Rayne's always nice," Jordi said, giving Carmel a dark look.
Carmel smirked at her. "That make one of us," she said, crossing her arms over her chest.
Rayne handed the pink floaties to Carmel. "Can we swim now?" she asked the two girls. Obviously that was all she wanted right now.
They looked away from one another, forcing a smile for the little fox girl. "We swim!" Carmel announced.
"Yeah, we can swim," Jordi agreed, heading for the pool. It was even more obvious that they wanted to make Rayne happy, no matter how much they might dislike one another.
Rayne stopped for a moment, then smiled as the two just dropped their argument to swim. That... that made her happy! "Yes!" she said, heading for the water and jumping in.
Jordan followed suit, jumping into the pool without a second of hesitation. Carmel, on the other hand, picked up her floaty chair and sauntered to the side of the pool, taking a second to delicately poke a toe into the water before she put the seat in.
Then, with a look of vast concentration she got into the floating chair, lounging for all the world like a queen in her throne. If she had had pink heart shaped sunglasses it would have been perfect. And a martini.
Rayne came up, shaking her head, happily soaked. She had also forgotten that her glasses were on and now everything was spotty with water droplets. The fox girl paddled over to the edge. "Sissy!" she called, holding out the black frames.
Rory crouched down and took them without question, letting Rayne go back to her water playing. She wondered when someone would get it in there head to tip Carmel from her 'queen' position.
Jordan was not the world's best swimmer under any means. It was a really good thing she was wearing the waterwings, because she would have sunk like a stone the moment she jumped in. As it was her arms were keeping her head over water.
And it took her a few moments to orientate herself enough to notice what Carmel was doing. But when she did she started working hard at her swimming. She was gonna dunk the little brat the moment she could get close enough.
"Jordie, noodle," Rayne called to her, seeing the trouble she was having. "You hold on like this, and kick with your feet," she said, demonstrating with her own swimming noodle.
She had no idea what Jordie was planning.
Jordi nodded, using the noodle as a floaty and kicking her way straight for the now sleeping Carmel. An evil grin crossed her face as she took in the peaceful expression on Carmel's face. She was pretty, Jordi admitted silently. Pretty arrogant, pretty annoying, pretty pushy. And-- she thought with an evil laugh as she knocked over the floaty, pretty wet.
Carmel came up spluttering, a look of shock on her face.
Rayne started to laugh, unable to help herself. Carmel's expression was just tooo funny! The fox-girl pulled herself up on the noodle, using it as a seat in the water rather than a floatie.
"You--you--" Carmel spluttered before throwing herself at Jordi. Soon a war had broken out, each trying to drown the other, the water wings keeping it from happening. Even Rayne wouldn't be able to stop this one.
Good thing she wasn't trying! Instead, she was laughing at it all from her perched on her noodle. Of course, she couldn't see the looks on their faces very well, or she'd see how serious it was.
It was a water fight!
Carmel gave up first. She was far weaker than the other girl and was never one to exert herself without reason. She bobbed to the surface, pouting hugely as Jordan surfaced next to her.
"I no like you," she said sullenly. It wasn't the same mood as their shouted "I hate you!" moments, and it made Jordan blink as she wiped the water off of her face.
"Oh, come on, Carmel," Jordi said.
"I no like you!" Carmel repeated urgently. "I no like you and I never ever ever will!"
Rayne blinked at this, the joy of watching the water fight gone now with the tone of Carmel's voice. She paddled over with her noodle, still sitting on it. "Caarrrmeeellll," she called. "It's okay. I can join the water fight this time!" she said, as if that was the problem.
Carmel turned her back on them, only to yelp as Jordi pulled her into a hug from behind. "I'm sorry," Jordi said, even as Carmel tried to squirm free. "I shouldn't have done that." Then, following her father's example, she kissed the other girl on the cheek.
"Ewwww!!" Carmel said, shocked out of her pout. "She kissed me!"
Rayne, cheered up once again with Jorden's apology, started to giggle once more. "But she apologized!!" she said happily. A kiss from another girl meant nothing to her. Her sister and mother kissed her on the cheeks all the time!
"That my big brother cheek!" Carmel complained. "Chris kiss me there! You ruin Chris kiss spot!"
"Brother lover," Jordan said, letting go of the other girl and shaking her head. Then she grabbed Carmel's floaty chair, hauling herself into it and promptly overturning it.
Carmel started laughing.
Rayne paddled over to the chair too. "Poor Jordie!" she said, and promptly turned the chair back over to crawl on it too. Her double tails were soaking and no longer fluffy.
Jordi grunted and started pulling herself up into the seat as well. Carmel, never to be left behind, joined in, the water fight forgotten.
Maybe the kiss had worked better than she would ever willingly admit, because she treated the other girl nicer for the rest of the day.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:43 am
They were halfway to drunk when they noticed. Well, Axle was. Ker was in the middle of outdrinking Mortar, which takes a lot more effort unless you've got the right minerals on hand. Axle, though, stumbled past them, heading for the kitchen with some vague idea of calling up Jordi and telling her how much he loved her. She had been gone too long! Of course, it'd only been a few hours, but dammit, that was too long!
He was going to have a hell of a time getting used to school.
He walked right past the cabbage sitting on the table, only noting absently that something seemed wrong with it as he reached for the phone. And failed to grasp it, I might add. Or the one right next to it, or the one that was on the other side--no--on top--no, other side again!
Dwarven Ale could kill a man if he wasn't used to it. As far as it went for Axle, it just sent him a bit off bala--BAM! he hit the ground.
For a moment he just laid there, staring up at the ceilings and wondering when they would decide which was the right one. It occurred to him that he had spent a lot of his life in this position.
Something crackled over his head. He blinked as a piece of rock hit him in the face, and tried to reach up and wipe it away. He wound up slapping himself in the face.
Then a demonic face glanced down at him. Faces, actually. It looked to have three heads. He cocked his head slightly, looking up at them as they blinked down at him.
"Kerrr?" he called out slowly.
"Not now, Axle!" his cute little dwarf called back irritably.
"But Ker... they're lookin' at me!"
He almost had a heart attack as the monster jumped down, landing on his chest. Unfortunately he didn't have the body control he wanted to toss the little three headed demon off of him. In fact, even as it curled up into a ball on top of him and let out a happy little sigh, he was resigning himself to be demon food.
Then Ker--there were four of her, by the way, stepped over his head, looking down at him. "Oh my," she said.
"It's gonna eat me," Axle said pathetically.
"How cute," she said.
"Eating me isn't--isn't cute," he said between a belch and a hiccup. "It's downright rude."
"Oh get over yourself you big baby," she said, kicking him in the shoulder before she reached down and removed the three headed demon from his chest, cooing to it like it was the cutest thing since sliced bread.
His heart broke a little at that, honestly. But not nearly as much as his head did.
He promptly fainted, having no clue that his second child had just been born.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:04 am
Dinner and a Gargoyle
Players: Ice Queen, Trinityblue
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"She's going to be here any moment!" Ker called to the boys. "And I'm not traumatizing poor little Rayne with a streaker baby boy! Catch him!"
The little gargoyle was having a blast. It didn't help that he could walk on walls thanks to his claws, and was now walking on the ceiling, giggling as he smacked people in the head with his tail. He gleamed in the light, thanks to the cream they had applied earlier to keep him from turning into stone.
And someone had decided he could have candy.
"She won't notice," Jordi said, watching her brother skitter past. "She's short."
Just then, the door bell rang. Outside stood Ze'zee, dressed up in her formals and holding Rayne in her arms. There was a bag of things, like normal, for her.
Rayne's ears were perked up as she heard all the commotion going on inside. There was giggling and didn't sound like Jordie. She hung to her mother more.
"Don't worry, sweet pea," Ze said reassuringly as she listened too. "You know how they are. There's no one different than before." As far as she knew.
"Still no reason to let him streak through the house," Ker said, like the mother she was. "Cobalt if you don't--" she stopped as she heard the doorbell. "Mister if you are not down here and dressed by the time I get to the door I will ground you for life!" she said in her best "mother" tone before heading for the door.
"Hello, Ms. Zee, Rayne," she said a bit shyly. "Don't worry about the commotion, it's just my son--"
"Son?" Ze asked, then her face brightened. "Oh! You're cabbage! He's finally hatched??" She asked excitedly. "Congratulations! Rayne, looks like you do get to meet someone else, after all," she said to her daughter, starting to set her down.
"Sadly, though, I can't hang around to meet him right this minute. I have to get to the opera house, and the sooner the better," she apologized, then kissed Rayne on the head. "Be a good girl now."
Rayne looked totally unsure of the situation.
"You can meet him later," Ker promised, picking Rayne up. "Right now he's being a little... playful," she said. "Break a leg, right?"
"Right, thanks!" Ze said, turning over the bag before heading off.
Rayne was looking around for this other boy, hearing him but not seeing him.
"I gots him!" Mortar called out, making Ker breath in a sigh of relief.
"Put some clothes on him!" she ordered, deliberately heading away from the troll and her son. She didn't want Rayne's first exposure of her son to be full frontal. "Has anyone seen the captain?" she added.
"He went shopping," Jordi said as she trailed behind them. "Hey, Rayne," she added. "You look cute today."
"Jordi!" Rayne said on seeing her friend, and immediately brightened. She wiggled slightly to be let down. "Your new brother is LOUD!" she informed.
"It's cuz someone gave him red koolaid," Jordi said as Ker let the little fox girl down. "And he's a streaker baby, so he's been climbing the walls and running all over the place."
"He got loose again," Mortar said. "But I got some shorts on him!"
"Good job, Mortar," Ker said, having given up on Coba's being clothed.
And then he was there, hanging down so he was face to face with poor Rayne, his toes and fingers digging holes in the wall.
Rayne meeped, taken off guard by the sudden appearance of the boy when she was looking from Mortar back to Jordi. And there she went, into a little poof: Rayne the fox cub. She was hiding in her clothes this time.
He blinked, then blinked again before a beautifully evil smile crossed his face. "Fuuuunnnn," he said, dropping to the ground and crouching down to look at her.
"Quit tormenting Rayne," Jordi ordered, rubbing his head roughly. "Rayne, this is my little brother--" who was as tall as she was, "Cobalt. He's a gargoyle."
Rayne peeked out of the pile of clothes, really not inclined to get out of there to meet the new boy now. He scared her! But she would have to come out sometime, right? She started for Jordi, who would save her.
"Pet?" Coba asked his sister. "She's furry."
"No petting," Jordi said. "You don't deserve to pet her for scaring her like that," she added, holding out her hands for the little fox to climb into her arms.
"But she looks like she need it," Coba said very logically. "Koolaid?"
Rayne shook her head at the boy. No koolaid for him, and if it did that too him, she didn't want any! But she went into Jordi's arms now. She was perfectly small for the girl.. sortta. Then she looked at Coba again. So this was her little brother? Her head tilted.
He looked like he was dying to pet her. His hand even reached out, only to be moved aside by his sister's. "No you don't," she said. "Not only does she not want it, but your hands are sticky."
He looked at his hand, then licked it to clean the stickiness off.
Rayne's mouth opened at this and if she was a girl, she would have giggled. It didn't change the fact she was still scared of him, and if his hands were sticky, she didn't wanna be petted! Instead, she settled into Jordi's hold, not wanting to turn back just yet.
It was safe like this.
"Well come on," Ker said. "We need to wash hands... and paws," she added with an inward sigh as she saw Rayne's form. She came back, pulling Coba into her arms and heading for the kitchen. "Jordi, bring Rayne, please."
"Yes, Ma," Jordi said, scooping up the fox girl's clothes and chasing after the other dwarf.
Rayne stayed right where she was, and tilted her head. She was clean! Why did she need to be washed? Heck, she wasn't on the ground that long! Now she did want to change, but couldn't here, in Jordi's arms. That would be bad...
Coba hopped onto his big sister's back, completely uncaring that he was actually taller than she was, and weighed almost three times as much. Jordi didn't even grunt, though. "I tell story?" he asked, then kissed his sister's cheek, much like Jordi had kissed Carmel's.
"Now you're just trying to kiss up," Jordi said, still heading for the kitchen.
"I love youuuu," he agreed happily.
Rayne looked up at him. She liked stories! But he was still sticky and she didn't trust that he wouldn't try to scare her again. But still, Jordi was strong! She was walking and carrying him at the same time!
"I'm good at stories," he bragged as Rayne looked up. He wanted to pet her!! She was so cute and fluffy and-- The koolaid was wearing off. The gleam that lit his eyes calmed and a tiny smile pulled at his lips as he hopped off of his sister's back and headed for the sink to wash up.
"No more koolaid for my little brother, guys!" Jordi called over her shoulder. "You want to change back yet?" she asked Rayne.
Rayne nodded to her friend, even if she liked being cuddled and carried around. At least Coba was now calming down. Maybe he wouldn't scare her now!
"I'm gonna take Rayne to my room to change back first," Jordi told her mom.
"I wanna go!" Coba said.
"Nope, this is a girl thing."
The little fox turned to the boy and stuck her tongue out at him. She was sitting pretty in her friend's arms, and safe from any trick he might play. Soon she'd be dressed and back to normal!
He pouted, only to be picked up by one of the crew and put in his chair at the table. Jordi disappeared into her room, carrying the little fox with her. "Okay," she said, closing the door. The room was a mess, with trains and pieces of machines scattered all over the floor. The low bed in the corner was covered in books she had stolen from the ship's library. They had pictures of engines in them.
"You can change now."
Instead of changing right away, Rayne went to the books, curious about them. Then remembered how much of a pain it was to turn pages with paws, so she went back for her cloths.
Now.. she needed to sneeze. She looked at her tail for a moment before deciding that would work, and tickled her nose. After a moment, she sneezed back into girl-shape.
"You can look at them after dinner," Jordi said. "If we don't go soon they won't keep enough for us."
"Oh, okay," Rayne said, now remembering the last time she had dinner here. She dressed quickly. "You're brother is weird," she informed once dressed.
Now, was Boki around? She liked him! Boki was good to be protected by and cuddle.
"He's fun," Jordi said with an evil grin. "He can reach all sorts of high places. But we can't give him red koolaid or he goes crazy I guess."
"Yes, no red koolaid for him," Rayne agreed. She still didn't think he was okay, yet. He had scared her! "But I happy your brother hatched!"
Jordi grinned and opened the door, not even jumping as Coba dropped down in front of her, hanging from the door frame. "No," she told him sharply.
"But--"
"No."
Rayne didn't see that, as Jordi was leading. If she had, she would have been annoyed about poofing again. "We get dinner. I hungry!" she informed the two. Maybe then Coba wouldn't try to startle her till after they eat.
"Coba!" Ker called. "Get in here!"
"Yes Maaa," Coba called, heading to the table again. Jordi followed, pulling Rayne along behind her, then pulling out a chair. But before she could pick the little girl up, Boki reached down to help her.
"Hi, sweetheart," he said. "You don't mind sitting next to me again, do you?"
Rayne immediately brightened as she was picked up. Boki! She had missed him! "It's okay, " she told him almost shyly, letting him place her in her seat.
This was a good day now!
For Coba, though, the day had just taken a definite downturn. He scowled slightly as he realized that Boki would keep him from playing with his latest toy. No, this wouldn't work...
He needed to convince her he wasn't scary so he could scare her again.
Not that Rayne realized that. She was having a happy dinner! "Jordi, what are your books?" she asked, feeling more comfortable this time at the dinner.
"Mechanics," Jordi said. "I want to learn to fix the ship like Ma does."
"When you're grown," Ker said firmly. "Remember the train?"
"It only blew up a little," Jordi muttered.
"Trains are boring," Coba said. "Jordi can have them. What you like?" he asked Rayne.
"Books," Rayne answered. It was probably a very boring answer, actually. "And swimming, and play dough," she added after a moment of thought.
"Stories?" he asked, getting excited. "I love stories," he told her. "Lots and lots of stories."
"Stories! I like stories!" Rayne agreed. Okay, so maybe he wasn't so bad after all. It was just the effects of the koolaid.
"You can talk about it after dinner," Ker said as she doled out the food. "It's too noisy to have a proper conversation over dinner."
And as if cued, the crew began to sing their usual roaring songs as they ate.
Rayne's ears went down at the singing, but at least it didn't catch her off gurad this time! But boy were they loud! How Jordi stood it, she didn't know. But she was Jordi, and Jordi was strong like that.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:59 am
Father son bonding. That's what Tyler told him to do, but every time he saw the kid, the kid had his nose buried in either a book or a pillow. It only took a conversation with Mortar to realize what the problem was.
"Oh, he like lookin' at da stars, cap'n. We do it every night!" the rock troll said proudly. "He likes night da best, o'course."
And of course he would, Axle thought, kicking himself for being a dipshit. He was a gargoyle. Ker had laughed at him when he realized it, then shoved him out of the room. "I'll bring snacks," she told him gruffly before disappearing into the kitchen.
For a moment Axle stood there, wondering what he should do. To be honest, while he had clicked with Jordi right off, he still didn't feel very confident about Cobalt. Hell, he hadn't even named Cobalt. Mortar had. It sometimes felt like Mortar was more the boy's dad than he was!
"You comin?" Jordi asked from beside his knee. He jerked, looking down at the little dwarf girl. "Or are you not?" she demanded in that brisk tone she had inherited from her mother.
"Jordi!" he said joyously, picking her up and rubbing his cheek against hers. Her beard was already starting to come in, even if she was only a child.
"You're going to go watch the stars, right?" Jordi said, shoving him off of her. She was a strong little thing, he thought as he barely managed to keep a grip on her.
"You, ah, shouldn't you be in bed right now?" he asked.
"When this is the best time? No way," she said, squirming out of his grasp and landing on the ground. She didn't even shake the impact of the fall off, she just headed for the door.
"Wait, I'm coming," he said as he followed her out.
Then he saw his son. Coba seemed to gleam in the moonlight, glowing gently with the stars reflection, and his movements were bright and sharp, a brilliant smile on his face as he turned to look at them. "Jordi!" he said, jumping off the rock he had been sitting on and racing towards them.
But he didn't throw himself at his dad, Axle saw. He threw himself at his big sister.
Mortar glanced over and Axle finally realized that the rock Coba had been sitting on had been the troll's shoulder. "Cap'n! You come for da story?"
"The story?" Axle asked.
"The story," Jordi said.
"Mortar's telling stories?"
"No," Jordi said patiently, obviously seconds away from calling him a moron.
"Coba tells the stories," Ker said from behind him. Axle turned, looking down at his dwarven girlfriend and wondering how he had never realized any of this. Sure she hadn't been getting to bed a bit late lately, but he had figured she was working on the ship.
"What's the story tonight, Coba?" Jordi asked as she headed for Mortar, her little brother riding on her back. He was bigger than she was, but he didn't seem to notice.
"The howling wolf and the--the--killer woodsman!" the gargoyle decided.
"Can I hear it, too?" Axle asked, hesitating as the boy looked at him thoughtfully. His eyes gleamed in the night, far more brilliant than they were during the day, and Axle, for the first time in his life, wondered what he had gotten himself into.
"Yeah," Coba said finally. "Okay."
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:55 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:07 pm
The Sleepover
Players: Ice & TB
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Coba crept to Jordi's door, peeking around the frame, his pillow hugged to his chest. Rayne was over for a sleepover! That meant that Coba should be in on it for sure! Not that anyone had offered to let him join the sleepover. It was probably his own fault. The first thing he had done when she got there was try and scare her.
He jerked as his big sister looked right back at him. "No way, little brother," she told him. "The last thing we want is for you scaring Rayne in the middle of the night."
Rayne gave an empathic nod to that statement, making her large glasses almost fall off her face. "No more Coba scaring me," she told him seriously, nudging her glasses back of her face.
They were watching a cartoon movie and eating snacks. It was a girls only thing.
"But I lonely," Coba said, pouting adorably (for a gargoyle) in his batman PJs and bare feet. "I just woke up!"
Jordi groaned, a sucker for the pout even though he WAS her annoying little brother. "The moment you try to scare her is the moment you're out, got it?"
He was already in the room by the time she finished that statement.
Rayne rolled her eyes at this, but he had promised not to scare her. Well, he didn't in so many words, but he had because he wouldn't be able to stay if he did. "We're watching a movie," she informed him, taking another handful of popcorn. Her two tails curled around her more as he took a seat.
"Is good movie?" he asked as he dropped down on the floor next to her, putting his pillow behind him so he could lean back on it. "I have some?" he added, looking at the popcorn.
"It's a cartoon," Jordi said as she walked back in, dropping down on her blanket. "You've seen it before, you know, the one with the talking train?"
"Oh," he said. Honestly, it wasn't his favorite movie, but if he complained she was going to kick him out again.
"It almost done," Rayne told him as if this was his fault for coming in on it so late. She was just sweet enough to pass him the pop corn bowl. "I have other ones too, we can watch! It's a movie night!"
"Any scary ones?" he asked hopefully.
"You know Dad said no scary movies until you're older," Jordi said, ever the lecturing older sister when it came to him. "And Rayne doesn't like scary."
"But scary the best!"
"Not-ah," Rayne said, shaking her head. "Scary the worst! You get bad dreams from them and everything! Don't like scary."
"I no get bad dreams!" he bragged. "I get good dreams!"
Jordi rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay, but we don't have any scary movies, so that's out. Let's watch the Incredibles, will that work? It's got a creepy short guy with big hair?"
"Yes!" Rayne cheered happily and her tails swished, hitting against Coba. She didn't even apologize for it. Nor did she seem afraid of the man with big hair.
Obviously the guy with the big hair wasn't scary enough by Rayne's reaction. He sighed, though, and shrugged. Well at least he was part of the sleepover! That was the important part!
Jordi put the Incredibles in once the movie they were watching was over, and skipped to the first scene. Basically she was acting as babysitter, with their parents checking in once in a while to make sure no one was dead. But it was alright. She liked the part where Mr. Incredible lifted the trains.
Where the guy with the big hair wasn't a problem, Rayne apparently didn't like the big robot that knocked Mr Incredable around. She had shifted position so she was laying on her stomach and hugged her pillow tightly, eyes glued to the tv.
"Hmmm," Coba said, getting bored. His attention was drawn to the little girl next to him and he reached out, touching one of her poofy tails hesitantly. They were soft! He grinned and started petting the tail, watching the movie as he did so.
He touched right when the character got slammed into the floor and Rayne jumped with a little yelp.
Poof.
Now she was a fox cub, buried in her clothes. Her eyes were still clued to the tv once it was done, however.
"Cute!" he said, scooping her out of her clothes and hugging her happily. "Fox!"
"Cobaaa!" Jordi said. "Let Rayne watch the movie!"
Rayne wiggled around until she could both see and was comfortable. She also gave him an irritated-fox look, her two tail swishing. Then she looked at Jordi.
Jordi sighed and pried the little fox from his arms, putting her down on her blanket. "No," she told her little brother.
Coba pouted, crossing his arms over his chest in silent protest.
Rayne gave a little sight, getting to her feet and walked over to him. The fox-child gave him a look that said if he did anything, she'd leave again. Then she laid down beside him and watched the movie again.
His hand reached out, hovering over her head, then he slowly pulled it back again, using every last bit of self restraint that he had.
This night was going to be agonizing! Ah-go-niii-ziiing. He had always wondered what that word meant when he spied on people watching horror movies, but now he was starting to understand!
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