#also the bit of me leaving the twins alone while I went to play salmon run for like two days is funny to me and only me

[gardenofhope]

played mario party with my friends tonight and it made me remember this silly ass doodle I did. yes lula and luca would get way too serious about mario party and fight over it. I think it’s very funny

[vidkid20ssimblrlair]

Episode 24: A Special Job

"Audrey?" I heard Matthew’s weak voice call out to me. He stared up at me from bed. "Everything ok?"

"Yeah."

I looked over my shoulder and flashed him a reassuring smile. I nodded and went back gathering more clothes. He watched me fold them and put them in a small pile. T-shirts, blouses, pants, jeans. An array of choices to choose from.

"Who's are those for?"

I paused and cut my eye at the door. I knew she was out there waiting for me. Listening. Maybe even watching through the crack.

"It's for Gemma. Our new housemate."

He narrowed his eyes. "The redhead?"

"Yes."

He reached out his hand to me and I came closer. He pulled me towards him and whispered, "Be careful."

I nodded and glanced back at the door. The more time I took, the more she had time alone to do who knows what but I knew she wasn't stupid. She had got what she wanted. A golden ticket to infiltrate this house. She would just watch and listen for now. I hurried towards the door and spotted my katana leaning up against the wall next to the door. It had been sitting there since I had last slept in this room. I grabbed it, revealed it's blade, and yanked the door open.

As I expected, she was standing there eavesdropping with her ear to the door. She jumped backward and screamed in surprise. She looked down at my katana as the blade of it was inches away from her torso. A look of shock and wonder on her pale freckled face.

"What is that?" she gasped.

"My katana," I said still brandishing my weapon. "Come on let's go."

"No. Wait. What's a katana?"

I lowered my sword and rolled my eyes. "A Japanese sword."

"Oh. Interesting. Who's that in there? Is that...?" she started, but I knew what she was about to ask and I didn't give her a chance. I poked her lightly with the sharp tip of my blade interrupting her. "Ow!"

"You can change your clothes in the bathroom. I'll show you."

I pushed her forward and dug the tip of my weapon into her back. She quickly followed my lead. I placed the clothes in her arms and ordered her to change. She entered into the bathroom begrudgingly. She started to pull the door close, but I stopped her.

"Keep the door cracked," I barked.

She frowned. "I would like some privacy."

"Well, sorry. That's not going to happen. I'm a woman just like you anyway, so no need to feel uncomfortable."

She groaned loudly looking even more annoyed but followed orders. She looked the clothes over. She picked through clothes much like a messy teenager and threw any clothes she didn't like to the side on the floor to my displeasure.

"Hey!" I cried staring at the cleaned garments. "Don't just throw them like that!"

"Oh, sorry," she said dryly. She then proceeded to throw any others she found undesirable at me. A muffled scream escaped my lips as a shirt and a pair of jeans hit me in the face. 

I could have sworn I heard her laugh, but she apologized again. "Sorry about that."

I pulled the clothes off my face just in time to see her put on a pair of pants under her dress. She also seemed to have picked out a shirt as she grasped it in one hand. She looked over at me as she studied the shirt again and glared at me. She then proceeded to pull the dress over her head. I looked away hoping to escape an eye full. When I looked back I was sure she was dressed, but she stood there shirtless covering her boobs. A menacing look on her face.

"What are you doing?" I asked half annoyed and half confused.

"I need to wash up," she hissed.

Then without warning, she slammed the door shut and I heard the lock click. The sound of rushing water followed. For a second I stared at the door in disbelief. She had caught me off guard completely, but I shook it off and began pounding on the door. I screamed her name over and over again. I even try to push it open with all my might, but it was no use.

"Gemma! Gemma! Open the door!!!"

I heard the door across the hall from me open and Nathan suddenly appeared at my side. He looked angry. "Is she in there?"

"Yes."

He pounded on the door and yelled, "Open this door! Open it now or I'm going kick it in!"

This seemed to do the trick and the door swung open immediately. She was fully dressed. Her bloody white dress replaced with a billowing salmon pink blouse and loose-fitting pants. Her frown replaced with a smile. She laughed. "Calm down."

"Calm down?!" I fumed. "I said crack the door! Not close it and lock it!"

"I just wanted a little privacy. I couldn't go around with clean clothes and blood all over my body could I?"

"You... you...!"

"You weren't supposed to close this door. I don't care if you have maggots all over you, you do what you're told. Rather if she's in charge or I'm in charge," he roared. He pointed his finger at her. "Either you follow the rules or get out!"

She was speechless. I was speechless. I don't think I've ever seen him that mad before. From what I gathered he was supposed to be the calmer twin. He looked over at me and soften his expression. "You ok?"

"Um...yes. Thank you," I said quietly.

He looked back at her and then from where he came from. Aaron's room. The doctor stood in the doorway watching the scene play out with concern.

"I'll be downstairs if you need me," he said looking at me and then at Aaron. He looked down shyly. "Just yell or something."

He hurried downstairs leaving me and the doctor alone with the redhead. While the awkwardness didn't dissipate, it was a convenient situation for me. The next stop on my prisoner's to-do list was a checkup with the doc. I grabbed her arm and pushed her towards him.

"Um... Madison wanted...," I started.

"I'm already aware, Ms. Anderson," he said sounding less than pleased. "Come in Ms. Ryan."

We both entered and Gemma was instructed to sit down on the couch. I stood by watching her. The anger and embarrassment of moments before still simmering within me. If I could just say "no" some days. "No, I will not watch Gemma." Ugh.

I watched Aaron examining the redhead. He seemed to be doing an honest examination much like he did with me. Checking her pulse, studying her eyes with a light, and the usual things doctors do. Despite everything, he seemed to take his job seriously.

"Say ah," he mumbled sticking a popsicle stick in her mouth. He inspected inside. When he was done, he threw it across the room towards the trashcan and missed by inches. He then felt her head. "Well, you seem healthy. No fever. If you were bit, it would be evident by now. You are a bit on the skinny side, but overall you seem quite healthy."

"Ah, what a relief," she gleamed.

"Yes," he said clearing his throat. "So you say you're pregnant? How sure of you of that?"

"Very sure. I'm definitely pregnant."

"How many weeks?"

"I don't know, but I know," she said winking. "Trust me."

Aaron furrowed his brow. "Well, I'm going to have to take your word for it. Would you mind being subject to a pregnancy test eventually?"

"Um...yeah," she said hesitantly.

He pointed to her stomach. "May I?"

She nodded her head yes and he felt her stomach. She cringed uncomfortably as he prodded and pressed on it. She then recoiled. "That's enough!"

"I'm sorry. My apologies, Ms. Ryan," he said quickly.

"Whatever," she scowled. "Are you done?"

"Are you experiencing fatigue or nausea?"

"What?! No."

"Are you experiencing breast tenderness?"

"No. What are you? Some type of pervert?" she spat reaching peak annoyance.

"No. I'm a doctor," he said bluntly. "I think we're done here. Audrey..."

"Yeah, yeah. I got her," I sighed. "Gemma. Downstairs."

Next on the agenda, the last on the list. Hand her off to Madison downstairs and be done with her for the evening. At least till they pawned her off on me again. Lucky how I happened to be the one other able female Gemma hadn't grown to detest yet. We headed downstairs and into the dining room where Madison stood waiting.

"How things go?" she said eyeing Gemma. "No problems?"

I shrugged. "Not really. Well, she did lock herself in the bathroom."

"What?!"

"I wanted some privacy," Gemma snarled. "That's all."

"You're don't get privacy here. You..."

"Madison!" Wade shouted entering the room with a tray of food. He smiled at Gemma. "Let's try to be polite to our new housemate."

"But..."

"Gemma is one of us now. Remember?" Wade said winking at Madison. "She's entitled to a little privacy. She's also entitled to a little lunch."

"Oh, is that for me?" Gemma squealed.

"Yes. Mr. Jones was saving this for a special occasion in the back of the fridge and he considers this a special occasion. Now have a seat and eat up."

Madison scoffed. "We have a food shortage and you’re wasting food on her? She’s also on probation as well, so she’s not entitled to anything yet. DJ explained that much. Remember?"

The two of them stared each other down before turning their attention back to Gemma. The woman had sat down in front of the large tray of food and was stuffing her face as if she hadn't eaten in days. Her jaws full. Her face a mess. Madison gawked at the sight of her and even Wade stared.

She stopped and looked up seemingly noticing she was the center of attention now. She swallowed the contents in her mouth and grinned. "Uh...sorry. I was starving."

She went back to filling her face and the three of us looked away in disgust.

I shook my head. "Well, what now?"

"Well, Wade will stay here with his little girlfriend and we adults are going upstairs."

"Ha. Ha. You're so funny. Not!" he said rolling his eyes. "I'll keep my eye on her. Just fill me in later."

So we took our leave and headed back upstairs. She approached Lin’s room and knocked on the door. Tao answered and she gestured for him to come here quietly. He did and he seemed surprised to see me waiting in the hall. He straightened his posture immediately and smiled from ear to ear just from the sight of me. Something he often did when he wasn't staring at me from afar creepily.

"You didn’t tell me Audrey was here too,” he said. He smoothed back his hair. "So um..whatsup? You need something?"

"I need you and Audrey for a special job."

"Special job?" I perplexed.

"Yeah. I need you two to spy on Gemma. Follow her around. See what you can find out."

"But why us?"

Well, why not?" Madison smirked. "You're the most stealthy in the house. Tao is good at pick-pocketing and stealing. You're quiet and smart. Seems like a good combination."

"Sounds like a good team to me coach," Tao beamed. He could hardly contain himself. He stepped closer to me and put his arm around me. "We’ll be a super spy team."

Madison chuckled. "Well, I guess something like that. All I ask is that you keep this to yourselves."

"But why?" I asked ignoring Tao and pushing his arm off of me.

"Because Vince and Lin would flip their lids if they got word. Just keep this under wraps for now."

"Sure thing boss," Tao exclaimed.

I nodded. "Yeah fine."

"Well, then that's it. Report to me if you see something or hear anything."

She saluted us and went downstairs. The two of us stood in silence. Tao nervously fidgeted in place.

"So.."

"Well, I..uh," he stuttered. "We should do this in shifts. I'll take the night shift. You take the day shift."

I shrugged. "If you want. Doesn't matter to me."

"Cool. So super spy team is a go am I right?" he said sticking out his hand.

I shook it reluctantly and sighed. "Just try to stay out of my...er...stay out of each other's way. Got it?"

"For sure! This is gonna be dope!"

Previous Episode

Sorry for taking so long. Writer’s block keeps trying to sabotage me. I’m also trying not to speed into the crazy that’s about to go down. I’m so excited to get to the action that I have to make myself reign things in. xD

[coleymari-blog]

Cyber Space is Always Sweeter : Chapter 6

Summary: Lucy is a down to Earth, studious, responsible runaway attending Magnolia College.

Natsu is a rambunctious, intelligent, pyrophilic fraternity boy going to the same school. They don’t exactly run in the same circles and they have one hell of a history. What happens when the names and facades disappear and all that’s left are words blinking on a screen? Modern day, College/Pen Pals AU. I’m sorry I suck at intros. Rated M for Language, Adult Situations, and future sexual situations. Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 

5:30am.

That’s when Lucy finally went to sleep. She was astonished by how long she’d managed to stay up chatting with DragonSlayer. After giving him a chance, they both found that their conversation flowed freely, organically, like she’d known him all her life. They spoke about everything from their favorite colors to the fact that she was a runaway (the reasons why still too personal to share). He’d told her about being adopted, that he was obsessed with Chemistry, and that he’d slept with a few girls (hence why she knew his gender). The young woman had been conflicted about replying with her own sexual status, virginity never really opening up that many doors to great conversations.

Her favorite part? About two hours into the conversation, he had insisted she change her username. That’s when he’d taken to calling her “Starfire”. Apparently, she was so ‘fiery’ that he felt as if the new name fit her better. She never did change it, but he called her by that moniker for the rest of their chat session. Every time she read it, her stomach would flutter. Honestly, she attributed it to the alcohol that had to be flowing through her veins still. Opening up her e-mail application, she typed the newly acquired address into the message.

To: dragonslayer666@chatmail.com

From: celestialbeauty42@chatmail.com

Subj: Good Night/Morning

Thanks for a great night, and for swapping e-mails with me. For once, I'm kinda appreciative for a stupid ad on FaceSpace.

Talk to you soon?

-Starfire

When she'd finally crawled into her twin XL bed, Lucy set the alarm for her lab and immediately grimaced. She'd have to see Natsu in the morning and after their little run-in at the Sabertooth house, that was one of the last people she felt like seeing. And as it turned out, Levy had a different lab, so she'd be alone. Maybe she'd get lucky and someone she knew from over the summer would be there, and hopefully, that didn't include any of them. It wasn't long before the blonde was drifting to sleep, memories plaguing her as she shifted around below the covers.

“Look at all of you. So pitiful,” Milady spat, thick, black perma-marker twirling between her fingers. The sisters of Lily Heart stood behind their self-imposed queen staring blankly at the mostly naked pledges. They all wore beautiful dresses, sparkling jewelry, and skyline heels while their wannabe sisters stood in a line, stripped down to nothing but their underwear.

Some of them were crying, the tears causing the marker to smear black stains across their skin. A few were trying to cover themselves up with their extremities as much as possible. Most just stood there in utter silence, unable to put words to what had just happened to them. Not Lucy. Oh no. She stood there staring Minerva down like the insulting bitch she was.

She didn't have to look down to see what had been done to her, she'd felt every single swipe of the marker against the most hated parts of her. Every roll, every wrinkle, every blemish was now circled in black ink for the world to see. All Lucy could see was red.

“Have something to share, fatass?” Milady oozed, closing the gap between them as if daring Lucy to talk back to her. Before Lucy could reply, she felt the gentle brushing of fingertips against the back of her balled up fist and she knew it was Yukino trying to calm her down.

Shaking her head, she sighed. “No, Ma’am. Please continue."

Lucy woke up in a terrible mood. She lifted her blanket and subconsciously checked for black circles and allowed herself to breathe when she found none. Eventually, she’d forget what happened but it was all still so fresh in her mind despite the mask she wore. It killed her that she’d allowed that to happen to her, all for the sake of “making friends”. In the end, it didn’t matter if her mother had been a member of the same organization, the doe-eyed freshman had walked out when enough was enough and never looked back.

Shaking her head slightly, as if trying to shake the thoughts loose from her head, Lucy rose from the bed and shut off the alarm. She grabbed the phone from her bedside table and scrolled through the notifications, noting a couple messages from Levy asking how she was feeling and an e-mail back from DragonSlayer. Excitedly, she sat back down on her bed cross-legged and got to reading it.

To: CelestialBeauty42@chatmail.com

From: DragonSlayer666@chatmail.com

Subj: RE: Good MORNING

Morning Starfire!

Glad you ended up giving into your new name. And I wouldn’t have given you my e-mail if I didn’t want you to have it, Weirdo.

Hope you have a good second day of classes. E-mail me later?

-DragonSlayer

Lucy caught the corners of her lips curling at his reply. She wasn’t even upset about the ‘Weirdo’ thing, surprisingly. Glancing down at the clock on her startup menu and seeing she had more than enough time, she jotted down a quick response.

To: DragonSlayer666@chatmail.com

From: CelestialBeauty42@chatmail.com

Subj: RE: Good MORNING

Well it was kinda hard not to when you kept insisting.

Here’s hoping. It’s going to have a bit of a rough start, but nothing I can’t handle. Hope yours goes well. I mean, I hope your students aren’t too terrible.

-Starfire

Shutting down the laptop and shoving it in her bag, Lucy got up from the bed and started getting dressed. She only had about 45mins until lab started and she wanted to make sure she looked exactly how she felt, fantastic.

5:30am. Gods be damned.

How they had managed to stay awake that long was beyond Natsu. After she’d logged off, he’d still stayed online, reading through practically their entire conversation. The last time he had stayed up all night talking to a girl it had been with Lisanna before they got together. He’d forgotten how nice it felt to lose oneself in conversation, not that he’d ever admit it. He'd also made sure to send her one last message before finally drifting off to sleep, dreaming of some faceless girl.

The only thing Natsu regretted was the lying. Instead of telling her he was a grad student, he had told her he was an adjunct professor at the local college. After he'd found out she was a college aged co-ed, he'd wanted to seem more impressive, so he'd lied. In the long run, it wouldn't really matter anyway right? She was a random girl he met in a random online chat room. The chances that they were even in the same country were astronomical. So what if he fibbed a bit? Makarov was already working on getting him an adjunct position when he graduated at the end of the year. He just sped up the timetable a bit...

Grabbing his beeping phone, he shot up in bed when he saw he had a message from Starfire. The name really did feel like it fit her better than something cute like “celestialbeauty”. Throughout their conversation, the one thing Natsu liked most was how passionate she seemed. It reminded him of the fire in his own belly. At least she liked it, supposedly.

It didn't take him long to respond so he haphazardly threw his phone on his bed and began getting dressed and gathering his things for the day. Unfortunately, showering would have to wait, seeing as how it was later and the showers were bound to have lines by that time of morning. At least he had a break after the lab he had to lead, he'd used that for a midday shower while no one was home. Little snapshots of memories played rapidly in his head of what he used to do with Lisanna while no one was home but he quickly got over it while shrugging on his scarf. It was then that he realized Starfire had contacted him again.

Natsu’s stomach flipped when he read her name on the screen, and when he read her acceptance of his lie. In his defense, he was a TA, he did have to teach, that wasn't bullshit. She didn't have to know that it was basically just so he could graduate.

To: CelestialBeauty42@chatmail.com

From: DragonSlayer666@chatmail.com

Subj: RE: Good MORNING

Thanks for the vote of confidence. It's the first session, so let's hope I get to be the “cool” professor instead of the asshole this semester

Have a great day, Starfire.

-DragonSlayer

Shoving his phone in his pocket, Natsu ran his fingers through his salmon hair. He could hear Gray and his “mystery woman” next door as they woke up and started the awkward ’Post One Night Stand Morning’ procedures. He shook his head as he grinned wickedly, leaving his room to bang wildly on Grey’s door before taking off in a mad dash for the science building.