#Is Kristen my God? SOMEONE GET JAMIE ON THE PHONE

[midnightdemonhunter]

should've worshiped her sooner.

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Quinn’s Code - The Grounded Geek - Part 4

“Let me start by saying that, while I respect the effort that has gone into this... “

Jake interuppted exclaiming. “Oh, my God, I almost forgot!” He rushed forward and grabbed the coffee table. “Sorry, councilor, the court requires this accoutrement.” He dragged the coffee table over and lifted the chair onto it.

“Oh, for heaven's sake...” Helen murmured.

“There. Family court is now in session.”

“Careful. Don't fall off the accoutrement,” Daria said.

“All rise,” Jake paused whilst everyone rose. “Please be seated. The court calls the case of the family versus Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer.”

“Dad, what is this?” Daria asked.

'I was about to ask that, Daria,' Quinn thought.

“Dad? I don't see any Dad.”

“Your honor, may the family proceed with our opening statements?”

After a brief pause in the proceedings, (Jake asking Helen how he looked as the judge.), Helen proceeded with her opening statement. “You honor, let me make it clear at the outset that this is not a witch hunt. Daria and Quinn are two fine girls who have often made us proud.”

“But...” Daria began.

“But...” Quinn also began.

“But that doesn't make them exempt from the simple truth that rules are rules.”

The phone rang. With hardly a pause Quinn ran and picked it up. She glanced at the caller id. “Sorry, Jerry, this is a bad time.”

“It's Jamie!”

“Or boundaries,” Helen said.

“Yeah, really bad time, could you call back in like an hour or something?” Quinn asked.

“Sure!” Jamie said.

“Quinn...”

“Bye!”

“Bye!”

Quinn hung up, dashed back to her seat and made her decision.

“Now, then...” Helen continued.

“I plead guilty as charged,” Quinn said. “I place faith in your parental wisdom.”

Daria glanced at her sister. 'Of course she's going to sacrifice herself,' she thought.

“Daria?”

“No plea, your honor.”

“Daria, you have to make some kind of plea,” Jake said.

“Still no plea.”

“Daria...” Helen began.

Daria sighed. “Then I plea guilty as charged for coming home late on the first night.”

Quinn glared at Daria. 'I'm taking you down with me!' She decided what to say. “She planned that!” she said.

“What? I did not!” Daria retorted.

“Yes, you did!”

“Girls! Stop it,” Helen said, before one of their not-so-usual-anymore arguments started.

Quinn and Daria faced their parents, and waited for Jake to make his judgement.

They didn't have to wait for long. “Grounded for a month,” Jake pronounced.

“What? I wasn't even the one who stayed out late last night,” Daria exclaimed. 'This doesn't make sense.'

“We have to set boundaries, Daria. Nobody said the justice system would be fair,” Helen said.

'I'm pretty sure that someone did,' Quinn thought.

“Actually, I think somebody did say that. Jefferson or somebody...”

“What have I told you about backing me up?” Helen asked Jake.

“Sorry, the sentence stands. You both are grounded for a month,” Jake proclaimed.

“Very unfair,” Daria said as she got up.

“It was fair,” Helen said.

January 20, 2006

Quinn meet her friends halfway to the school.

“So, how did it go?” Kristen asked.

“Grounded! It starts tonight, at 7:00,” Quinn lamented.

“How long?” Cindy asked with curiosity.

“A month. That's overkill!” Quinn said with annoyance.

Cindy gave Quinn a light hug. “That is excessive. The most I've been so was a week and half in seventh grade.”

Kristen smirked. “That was one boring week,” she said.

“I know you got up to something,” Cindy said light heartedly.

Kristen shrugged. “You'll find out eventually.”

“I'm sure I will,” Cindy said playfully.

Quinn chuckled at her friends' playfullness and then added “Fortunately, she hasn't banned online activity, so we can still talk that way,” Quinn said.

“I guess It's time to buy Guild Wars,” Kristen said, knowing that the other two had been talking to her about it for a while.

“Yes, we'll do an instance at eight,” Quinn said.

“Though she has to get through the prologue first,” Cindy pointed out.

“Oh, yeah,” Quinn said. She thought for a moment. “Nine thirty,” she decided.

“That should be enough time,” Cindy said.

Kirsten wondered what she was getting into. 'They wouldn't have recommended it if it wasn't a good game.'

“What else are you going to do?” Cindy asked Quinn.

“Board games,” Quinn said.

“Doesn't sound so bad,” Kristen said.

“But my parents get bored with them easily.”

“I can see how that could be a problem.”

Quinn nodded.

Later on in the day at the school... “Man, this game's gonna be great! I say Mr. D. goes down halfway through the second period,” Kevin Thompson said.

“That's too late. He's gonna blow out early in the game, while the adrenaline's high,” Michael 'Mack' McKenzie retorted.

“You guys are so insensitive,” Jodie said.

“What do you have in the pool, Jodie?” Kevin asked.

“Third period, two minutes in. Prime cramping time,” Jodie said. She then saw Daria come along. “Hey, Daria. What do you have in the DeMartino pool?”

“I'm not going. I'm grounded.”

Jodie, Mack and Kevin laughed.

“What did you do to get grounded? No offense,” Jodie said.

“None taken, especially since I'm the victim of a fairly bizarre experiment in parental justice.”

“An experiment? On you?” Mack asked, with slight humor.

“Yeah, they deliberately exposed me to jurisprudence.”

“Whoa! That's a little twisted,” Kevin pointed out.

“Yeah. The sad part is that these are the people responsible for my genetic makeup.”

Jodie and Mack laughed. Kevin was confused. 'Why would they do that?' he thought.

After talking to Jodie, Mack and Kevin, Daria met her two close friends. “How did it go?” Jane asked.

“Grounded. For a month.”

“Whoa, that's excessive,” Jane said.

“My feelings exactly,” Daria said.

“You must be rather annoyed,” Jennifer murmured.

“Oh yeah. They're going to be annoyed in turn.”

“You're going to play music really loud?” Jennifer asked.

“You haven't heard it at full volume yet.”

“Would I hear it at my place?” Jane asked.

“Not over Mystik Spiral.”

“True.”

Schloss Morgendorffer

6:59 PM

“Great dinner, honey. Right, girls?” Helen asked.

“Now, off to the exercise yard before lockup,” Daria said.

“Hey, that's right!” Jake remembered “Any final words before grounding officially begins?”

“This sucks!” Quinn said.

“What have I said about using that word?” Helen asked.

“That you'll ground me or something?” Quinn responded.

“Hey, I wouldn't want to go back to Family Court if I were you,” Jake said. He chuckled. “I hear the judge is pretty tough.”

The clock chimed.

“See? This will fly by in no time,” Helen said.

“I doubt that,” Daria said as she got up.

Helen sighed.

Ruins of Ascalon City, Ascalon, Tyria

3 years after the Searing

(Main Guild Wars game world)

In the midst of Ascalon City three adventurers met. They were all human females. They were an experienced Ranger, a moderately experienced Warrior and an inexperienced Necromancer.

“So are you ready?” the Ranger asked.

“I am,” the Warrior said.

“I think so,” the Necromancer said.

“Well, you've got this far,” the Ranger said.

“Certainly,” the Necromancer said.

“Let's do it then,” the Ranger said.