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pocket-luv101 · 5 years ago

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Strange Events || Chapter 3

Fandom: Servamp Ships: KuroMahi (main), LawLicht (side), Tetsono (side), Jekuni (side) Characters: Kuro, Mahiru, Hyde, Licht, Tetsu, Misono, Snow Lily, Mikuni, JeJe

Summary: When Mahiru’s friend goes missing, he searches through the woods for him. He comes across a boy with psychic abilities. He hoped Kuro would be able to help him find Misono. (Stranger Things AU) A/N: This was an AU that @viconekochan suggested.

Ch.1 || Ch.2 || (Ch.3) ||

“The game is almost ready.” Mahiru said as he plugged the game system into the television. He walked back to Kuro who was sketching on the recliner. He was curious about what he was drawing and glanced at the sketchbook as he stood next to him. The page was blank and Kuro simple glide the pencil over the paper. “Are you having trouble thinking of something to draw?”

“Sensei always told me who to draw.” Kuro told him and put down the sketchbook. He glanced around the living room and found that it was different from the sterile room he knew. The warm colours were welcoming and the plush furniture was comfortable. He didn’t know if he could touch anything so he stayed in the recliner.

“You can draw whatever you want now. If you see something that inspires or intrigues you, you should try to draw it. I’m not an artist so I don’t know what kind of advice I should give you. But I’m a great baker and you can have as many cookies as you want.” Mahiru pointed to the jar of cookies on the table. “Just be careful not to get crumbs everywhere.”

He reached down and took the controller from the table. He sat on the arm of the recliner and placed the controller on Kuro’s lap. As he studied the game controller, Mahiru scrolled through the channels. “You have to be on channel three to play. But if you get bored of the game, you can watch cartoons. Just click this button on the remote to find another channel.”

Kuro changed the channel like he showed him. A movie appeared on the screen and he tilted his head at the confusing costumes the actors wore. “Why are they wearing disguises? There’s a lot of singing and dancing too. Are they trying to perform a ritual?”

“It’s Halloween and the characters are at a ball.” From Kuro’s expression, it was likely he didn’t know about the holiday. He smiled sympathetically and told him, “Halloween is my favourite holiday. People dress up and go around the neighbourhood to collect candy. We’re a little old for trick-or-treating but there are fun things to do like the Halloween Ball.”

They watched the scene where a boy approached a girl and asked her to dance. Mahiru spoke his thoughts out loud. “Isn’t it romantic? You’re sitting alone but then a mystery person comes and asks you to dance. You probably think I’m weird. Most guys prefer action movies over romantic comedies.”

“I don’t think it’s weird. I’ve never been to a Halloween Ball before but it looks like everyone’s dancing.” Kuro thought Mahiru would be able to find someone to dance with easily. He was kind and he made him feel comfortable with his smile. His next words made Mahiru blush. “I can dance with you at the ball. We’re friends now.”

He realized that Kuro didn’t fully understand the concept of asking someone to dance. Mahiru wasn’t sure if he should explain it to him. Instead, he said: “Thank you but the Halloween Ball is held at our school. You’re too scared to come upstairs without the curtains being closed so you won’t be comfortable at the ball. It’s okay, Kuro. Let’s get back to the video game.”

Mahiru switched the channel so they could play the game. He leaned closer to Kuro and taught him how to play the game. He was so close that he could smell the subtle scent of his hair. Kuro stared at the buttons on the controller and thought back to the control panel Sensei showed him once. He wasn’t allowed to touch the buttons no matter how curious he was.

“What does this one do?” He asked but he almost immediately bit his tongue. He was accustomed to people being irritated with him if he asked them too many questions. Yet, Mahiru only smiled and explained the controls to him. Kuro relaxed and played through the level with Mahiru’s help. He quickly learned the game mechanics and beat the next level.

“You’re pretty good at this. Oh, watch out for the fireball.” Mahiru found himself caught up in the game and excitedly patted his arm. Time passed quickly without him noticing as they played and talked. The clock above the television caught his attention and he sat up. “I missed two periods already. I should get going. Feel free to help yourself to anything in the fridge if you get hungry.”

“Okay,” He said despite how much he wanted him to stay. Kuro looked down and saw a lever on the side of the recliner. He became curious and reached towards it. “What does this do? Is it connected to the TV like the controller?”

Kuro pulled the lever to test if it would affect the television. He was surprised when the chair suddenly tilted back and he was laying down. The sudden movement made Mahiru lose his balance and he fell forward onto Kuro’s chest. Mahiru groaned softly and rubbed his head. “Well, it looks like you found the release lever. It turns the chair into bed if you pull it.”

“Was I not supposed to pull it?” Kuro asked, worried that he upset or hurt him. The regret on his face pulled on Mahiru’s heart and he smiled reassuringly at him.

He patted his hair and said, “It’s okay. Next time, make sure you warn me or else I might fall off.”

Mahiru slipped off his lap and gently took Kuro’s hand. He tugged him to his feet and showed him around the rest of his home. After he finished giving him a tour, they returned to the living room. He put on his backpack and then faced Kuro. He was looking over the photos on his mantle. Mahiru moved to stand next to him and said, “That’s a photo of Uncle Toru, Tsurugi, Licht and me.”

“Your family?” Kuro looked at the next photograph and pointed to Mahiru standing with his friends. “You.”

“That was the year we won the science fair. It was a lot of fun.” His smile became sad when he looked at Misono. He was still worried for him and he wished he knew where he was. He sat Kuro’s expression in the corner of his eyes and there seemed to be something troubling him.

Kuro reached out and pointed at Misono. He didn’t say a word and Mahiru asked, “Do you recognize him? Did you see him last night in the forest?”

“Not in the forest.” Kuro shook his head and dropped his hand. “Somewhere dark.”

“Can you tell me about it?” Mahiru didn’t want to push him but he needed to find his friend. “Please, tell me about where you saw him.”

“You said the person called you after I left?” JeJe picked up the phone to examine it. The receiver was charred like he described earlier. He briefly told him about the call already but JeJe didn’t know what to make of it. “Last night’s storm must’ve caused the burn. You should get another phone and check the wiring for your home. For the call, it’s probably a cruel prank.”

“But I heard Misono’s voice! Hyde did too. Misono didn’t say anything but I know it was him. Can’t you ask the phone company for records of incoming calls?” Mikuni insisted and he could see that JeJe was skeptical. “I know I sound desperate but it was Misono’s breathing. If Lily called you, wouldn’t you know it’s your brother.”

“I would be desperate for any sign that he was alive. Mikuni, this is difficult but we need to keep a leveled head.” He reminded him. “If you get more prank calls, you can keep a record of them. I’ll look into them if they become a problem. Let’s focus on finding Misono. Where would he go if he was in danger and he can’t run to his friends?”

“He had a fort in the woods but I already checked it the day we discovered him missing. There’s a short cut through the back fence that he uses.” Mikuni led him to the backyard. He took him to a corner of the fence where there was a small gap in the bars. JeJe was surprised Misono could fit through the hole even though he was small. “Hyde ran his car into the fence and made the hole.”

“I have several questions about that but I don’t want to know the answer. There aren’t any sign of blood. If he used this hole to run away, it means he wasn’t hurt.” Mikuni felt slightly relieved. JeJe glanced up at the top of the gate. “Are the security sensors in the same area?”

“Yeah. Give me a boost and we can climb over the fence. It’s faster than walking around the house. Don’t trip the alarm.” He ordered and JeJe groaned. He didn’t want to argue with him throughout the investigation so he gave in quickly. JeJe cupped his hands and helped him reach the top of the gate. Mikuni placed his hands on his shoulder and stepped onto his palm.

He pulled himself onto the stone pillar at the corner of the gate. Mikuni was careful not to move in front of the alarm’s sensor. Once he was perched safely on the small ledge, he reached down to help JeJe climbed up. The gate was tall and it would be difficult for anyone to climb over it. They were only able to scale the gate as a team because they would often do so as children.

JeJe jumped to the ground first and turned around to help Mikuni down as well. He was taken by surprised when Mikuni leapt off the pillar and into his chest. He managed to catch him without tumbling to the ground. With a groan, he said: “You need to warn me before you do something like this.”

“We don’t have the time when Misono’s missing.” He slid down and took his hand to drag him away. “We already searched the west side of the woods where his fort is. We should look for any clues Misono might’ve left behind in the east side now. It’ll help us organize the search party.”

The search party wouldn’t officially gather until the afternoon but Mikuni wanted to spend as much time searching as he could. They walked through the woods and he scanned the ground. He didn’t know what to look for but he hoped something would stand out to him. He trusted JeJe’s experience as the town’s chief and asked: “How do you know something is a clue?”

“Since we don’t know what happened to Misono, it’s hard to say what to look for. For now, just look for anything that’s out of place.” JeJe told him.

“What about that?” Mikuni pointed to a grate cover laying on the ground. He picked it up and searched the ground around them. A few feet away, there was a pipe tunnel. He walked to the small tunnel and held the grate against the opening. It appeared to fit and Mikuni looked through it. “Do you think Misono could’ve crawled through here to escape the person chasing him?”

“It’s pretty small and you’ll have to be desperate to crawl through here.” JeJe remembered Hyde telling him that Misono was able to hide in small spaces. Would a teenager be able to pry open the grate off the tunnel though? He knelt next to Mikuni to look through the tunnel. “Property of The Servamp National Laboratory. That’s the energy plant nearby.”

“That must be where he is!” Mikuni shot to his feet. “We should go there right now.”

“We can’t go barging into a private, government property, Mikuni. There’s a proper way to do things. We have to call them and explain why we want a tour of their facilities. He might not be there though. If Misono crawled to the other side, they would’ve sent him to the police already.” JeJe reasoned. Mikuni didn’t appear satisfied with that answer and sighed. “I’ll give them a call and we’ll go there tomorrow.”

After school, Tetsu and Lily went to Mahiru’s home. He didn’t go to class so his friends wanted to check on him. They knew Mahiru was kind but they weren’t certain if he should’ve taken in a stranger. Licht was staying with him so they knew he wouldn’t be alone with him. They knocked on the door and waited for Mahiru to answer.

Tetsu noticed that all of the curtains were drawn even though it was the middle of the day. He wasn’t able to think about it much before Mahiru opened the door. A relieved expression appeared on his face the moment he saw them. He unhooked the chain on the door and let them inside. With a hushed whisper, he pointed to the basement. “I need to tell you guys something in private.”

“What is it?” Lily was worried by how tense Mahiru was. He couldn’t see the boy they helped the previous night and he wondered if he told Mahiru something strange. They followed him down the basement where Kuro was sitting in a small, pillow fort. He had the super-com in his hands and he shuffled through the channels.

He heard them approach and he looked up. Mahiru knelt in front of him and gently took the radio from his hands. He wrapped his hands around his and squeezed them lightly. He could see that Kuro saw nervous and he wanted to reassure him. “It’s okay, Kuro. You can trust Tetsu and Lily. They were with me when I found you in the woods.”

“Friends?” He whispered and Mahiru nodded confidently.

“What is he still doing here, Mahiru? I thought you were going to take him to the police.” Lily whispered to him. He thought it was better to let the police help him because they had more resources. He wanted to focus on finding Misono as well.

“I was going to but that might put Kuro in danger. There are dangerous people after him. We can’t let them find him.” Mahiru took a deep breath and hoped they would believe his next words. “I think he knows what happened to Misono as well. This morning, he was able to point out Misono in this photo. We did find him in the same place Misono disappeared. The bad men could be involved as well.”

“Isn’t that even more reason to tell the police?” Lily pointed out. “We should tell our parents at least.”

Tetsu walked past both of them and knelt in front of Kuro. He placed his hands in his shoulders and shook him lightly. “Do you know where Misono was taken? If you know what happened to him, please tell us. Help us find him, Big Brother.”

“You’re going to scare him, Tetsu.” Mahiru knew that Tetsu would never hurt a person but he rushed to stop him. He felt protective of Kuro and placed himself between the two. He could tell that he had been through a lot and he didn’t want anything else to hurt him. “You’re not going to get any answers if you force him like that.”

“This isn’t going to get us anywhere. I’m going to get my brother.” Lily was JeJe’s brother and he thought it was best if he knew about Kuro. He turned to walk up the stairs but the table flew into his path. The three stared at the furniture that began to pile in front of the stairs. Cautiously, Tetsu tried to pull the table away from the stairs. The table flew back to the entrance like a magnet.

“No.” The voice made them turn around. There was a trickle of blood flowing out of his nose.

“Kuro, what happened to your nose?” Mahiru walked to him and wiped the blood with his sleeve. He couldn’t stop picturing the furniture moving and question how they were able to move on their own. In a soft voice, he asked: “Did you just do that, Kuro?”

“I don’t want to go back to the bad people.” His words caused the room to spin beneath Mahiru’s feet. He didn’t know how to process that Kuro was able to move things with his mind. He thought that it was only something he would see in movies. “Are you scared of me now? I can leave.”

“You’re my friend so I won’t let you face those bad men alone.” Mahiru whispered back. He turned to face his friends and said, “Let’s not do anything rash and take a moment to think. We can talk about what we should do after dinner.”

“That demon called me a fake. Can you believe that, Kranz?” Licht complained to his friend over the phone. He laid back on the bed and stared at the ceiling. “He thought I was one of those gossiping jerks when I tried to be nice to him. Then, I wasn’t able to find the music room either! Maybe I can sneak back into the school tomorrow. Hopefully, Mahiru will be able to go to school.”

“If you don’t have anything else planned, do you want to go to a party? My friend is throwing a party and it’s in the town Mahiru lives in. His house is on Mirkwood, near the woods. It’ll be fun.” He suggested. Licht considered it but he doubted he would have much fun. Kranz would likely be the only person he knew at the party. He didn’t have many friends since his family moved a lot.

Then, Kranz said: “It has been a long time since we could talk in person.”

“Yeah. What’s the address?” Kranz was the first friend he ever made and he cared enough to send letters and call. He gave him the address and he wrote it down quickly. He grabbed his jacket and climbed down the stairs. Mahiru was in the dining room with his friend and Licht waved to his cousin. “Mahiru, can I borrow your bike? I want to go to a friend’s house. This is his address.”

“This is close to Misono’s home. That was where my friend disappeared. I don’t think you should go near the woods when it’s dark outside. There might be bad men in the woods or other dangerous things.” Mahiru warned. He looked to Kuro but he didn’t add anything else. Kuro knew Mahiru wanted him to warn Licht about the woods but he couldn’t describe the things he saw there.

“I’m a strong angel so you don’t need to worry about me.” Licht puffed his cheeks in annoyance. Mahiru knew how stubborn his cousin was and that he could quickly become unreasonable. With that thought, he was surprised when Licht seemingly relented. He muttered something and walked away.

He sneaked into the garage and found Mahiru’s bike resting against the wall. Licht told himself he would apologize to Mahiru once he returned. He didn’t know where the house was but he knew its general location. He rode the bike down the street and towards the woods. The street signs helped him find his way to Mirkwood.

The lighting suddenly changed around him and he realized that it was the headlights of the car. He moved closer to the sidewalk to let the car pass. The car slowed next to him and the window rolled down. It was dark so he couldn’t see the driver. Licht was able to recognize his voice though. “You shouldn’t be out at this time of night. Where are you going? I can give you a lift.”

“Keep your eyes on the road, Shit Rat.” Licht snapped back.

Hyde was confused by his tone and he turned on his dashboard’s light. They were finally close enough for him to see him clearly and he recognized him from the school. He pressed the gas and drove forward with the intention of ignoring Licht. He thought he was like the other high schoolers he knew and decided that it was best not to bother with him.

His shift ended early and he planned to search the forest for any sign of Misono. He glanced at Licht in the mirror and groaned to himself. Hyde couldn’t leave him riding his bike alone in the dark when his own brother disappeared in a similar situation. He slowed down until Licht was beside him again. “Do you need a ride? If it’s close, I’ll drop you off.”

Licht was surprised by his offer since he believed he would drive away. He considered it but his pride stopped him. “I think I’m close to the party already so I don’t need your help.”

“You think?” Hyde raised a brow but Licht didn’t respond. He watched him ride away on his bike and he didn’t stop him again.

“Where is Hyde?” Mikuni finished installing the new phone and looked at the clock. His brother should’ve returned ten minutes ago. He wished he could call him but he didn’t have a cell phone. Misono was missing and he didn’t want the same thing to happen to Hyde. The phone rang and he hoped that it was Hyde to tell him he was working a double shift or JeJe with news.

“Hello?” He answered the phone but the person didn’t answer him immediately. The line was filled with static and he remembered the last call was similar. He didn’t know if he was deluding himself but he thought he could hear someone breathing heavily. “Misono, is that you? Please, tell me where I can find you. It’s okay if you don’t know where you are. Just tell me what you can see.”

Mikuni twisted the cord around his finger as he listened for an answer. He almost dropped to his knees when he heard Misono’s voice. “Home…”

He wasn’t able to hear anything more as the static abruptly became louder. The sound made Mikuni winced but he forced himself to hold onto the phone. He closed his eyes and focused on the call for any distinct sounds. Mikuni noticed that the buzzing was from more than the phone and opened his eyes. The lights and electronics around the living room were flicking on and off.

“Mikuni!” Small sparks almost burnt him but he quickly dropped the phone. He saw that the phone was charred like before. The lights all turned off by themselves but Mikuni couldn’t move to switch them back on. He didn’t know if something was wrong with the electricity or if he was losing his mind.

The lights in the hallway flickered back on but its strange pattern caught his attention. He walked down the hall and stopped in front of Misono’s room. Mikuni glanced down where light filtered out from beneath the door. He took a deep breath and stepped inside. The room was empty and the same as how he left it. “I’m losing my mind.”

“Where is your ancient courage?” The cassette player blared to life. Mikuni recognized it as a quote from Coriolanus, one of Shakespeare’s plays. Both of his brothers liked his work and had audio cassettes of his plays. He stood in front of the cassette player and stared at the spinning wheel. He thought he could hear more sounds from the player and his brows furrowed.

“Misono?” As if responding to him, the lamp next to the player began to brighten. He thought it would explode because of how bright it became. The lamp and the record shut off and the room was pitched in darkness again. Mikuni’s hands shook as he grabbed the large player to examine it. He hoped there was a logical reason why it played by itself.

A low grumbled echoed throughout the room and Mikuni thought it was from the player. He looked up and dropped the cassette when he saw the wall start to deform. He stepped back sharply and tripped over the carpet. Mikuni blinked a few times and the light came on again. Everything appeared normal but Mikuni was certain he saw something in the wall.

#servamp #kuromahi #lawlicht #sloth pair #greed pair #servamp kuro #mahiru shirota #servamp hyde #licht jekylland todoroki #servamp snow lily #tetsu sendagaya #mikuni alicein #fanfiction

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ainchaseseiker · 7 years ago

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I ship DLRG so here….

•Modern world AU! Royal guard is a pianist and conductor but retired and is now tutoring music while taking care of his sister Noblesse.

•Dreadlord is a baker who sometimes babysits his boss’s adopted daughter Chiliarch while he works.

•The two meet at the bakery where DL works when RG was asked to buy cookies for NB who tried baking cookies and failed.( she still wanted cookies tho). RG found CH in the counter drawing, Lu blinked when she saw him and called DL.

•Both RG and DL are 24 while CH is around 6 to 7 years old and NB is 8.

•DL thought RG was a girl at first and used miss when he handing him his order. RG froze for a moment, then sent a stiff smile to DL, kindly correcting him and quickly walking out of the bakery after getting NB’s cookies before DL could apologize.

•Cue to DL being red in the face and stuttering an apology but RG already left. Cue to CH laughing her head off and nearly falling of her seat. DL groaned and ran his hand through his hair.

•NB was very confused when her brother got home and was muttering something along the lines of “I’m cutting my hair etc.”

•RG then asked NB if he looked like a girl. To which Lu shrugs and nods as she nibbled on her cookies. RG can later be seen in the emo corner moping.(“even my sister thinks so too……”)

•(might change the names later on) RG will be called Royal (you’ll see why) DL will be called Dread, CH will be known as lili which is taken from Chili and NB will be Blesse.

•NB really liked DL’s cookies even more than RG’s and asked her brother if he can buy some again next time with puppy eyes. RG squealed (like a man) at her cuteness and agreed. He can’t say no to Lu.

•DL jumped as soon as he saw RG back at the bakery and apologized with a red face for mistaking his gender, RG looked surprised for a second before he laughed softly and told DL it’s fine. DL blushed even more when he heard RG laughed, not because he was embarresed but because RG looked really cute when he laughed.

•Dread’s co-worker Timoria (she’ll be called Ria here) noticed this and “smelled a new couple in the future”.

•Royal started visiting more often because (1) Lu wanted cookies and (2) dread offered to teach him more about baking (which he accepted for Lu and “nothing more”).

•What Royal didn’t know was that Dread was falling hard for him, and fast. Royal is a dense dense, dense idiot.

•Ria becomes Dread’s wingwoman and drags him out whenever Royal comes in. Lili also tries to play matchmaker and by that I mean asking about Royal's life and telling it to Ria who uses it to her advantage to make Dread act on his feelings.

•Royal bought Blesse one time in the bakery, one thing to know though, is that Blesse is very observant even if she's a child and sees how Dread acts around her big brother.

•Needless to say, Blesse was roped into matchmaking because of Lili and Ria whom she came to like. Blesse doesn't like Dread that much though but will warm up to him over time.

•Somehow, Lili's dad Abysser, is also dragged in to the ever growing fleet of matchmakers. But he also secretly ships it, going as far as offering a job to Royal as a baker. Yes, he rivals Ria and Lili in terms of who ships the the most. He can't help it, they look cute together.....

• Things are awkward around Dread and Royal for a while, specially after the former apologized for mistaking Royal as a girl. But this dissappears when both discover they have a love for baking when Royal asks for the cookie's recipe. This lead to Dread teaching him every afternoon when customers are low.

•These afternoons will be spent by the duo slowly learning a lot more about each other and thus, strengthening their friendship. Dread will more often than not brush his hand against Royal's who is oblivious to it and continues baking.

•Dread finally manned up and confessed with a plate of cookies and a note. Royal blinked before realizing that Dread was confessing. Ria can be seen capturing the scene where Dread kissed Royal on her phone. A lot of pictures...

•Ria then proceeds to tell everyone but decided against it so she could win the bet against Abysser.

•The two announced it the next day when Royal bought Blesse with her and Abysser was conveniently at the bakery at that time. Needless to say, Ria and Lili were cheering loudly and Abysser sighed and handed his employer the cash she won from the bet. Blesse can be seen shooting a glare at Dread and later threatens that if he hurt her big brother he will pay. But who can take an eight year old who was crossing her arms and pouting at him seriously?

•Dread loves to cuddle Royal while the latter is baking and calls him "Roy" or "Al". Roys sighs at this but doesn't push him away.

I might make this into a fic later on....That's all, it's not much but I hope you guys like it~

#elsword luciel #dlrg #cielcest #elsword ciel #lu elsword #noblesse #royal guard #dreadlord #chiliarch #timoria #abysser #elsword

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writingwife-83 · 8 years ago

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Complicated Little Emotions- 3

Hello! Here we have the third and final part to this little fic. This is somewhat short, but I just thought I wanted one more piece to help wrap things up neatly. Thanks again to @artbylexie for polishing it up. ;) If you haven’t checked out ch 1 and 2, you can read them here on AO3.

Sherlock pushed through the double doors into the early afternoon sunshine, smiling a little as he caught sight of his ride waiting on the street.

“Please tell me I don’t have to ride in the boot this time,” he said with a smirk.

“I think we can make an exception, seeing as it’s a special occasion,” Molly replied with a smile as he approached.

He stopped in front of where she was leaning against the sports car, taking the hand she extended out to him and meeting her eyes. “Hi,” she said quietly with a smile.

“Hi,” he replied, returning her smile before he bent his head down to press a quick kiss to her forehead before pulling away again. “Shall we?”

Sherlock and Molly climbed into Mrs. Hudson’s Aston Martin and Molly began driving.

“Exactly what did you have to offer Mrs. Hudson to use her car?”

“Like I said, it’s a special occasion, Sherlock. It’s not every day we have so much to celebrate.” Molly explained brightly. “Besides, she just trusts me more than you boys. I’ve borrowed her car a few times.”

Sherlock pursed his lips. “I’ll have to have you ask for me in the future.”

“Nope,” she replied instantly with a little giggle. “So how do you feel?”

“Vaguely like…I’d just finished ninety days at an inpatient rehab facility.”

Molly swung her arm over to gently whack him in the chest. “You did, you clot. But how do you feel ?”

He sighed dramatically. “As if I could take on the world! Does that inspire more confidence?”

“A bit,” she laughed.

“I’m also ready to solve every single case that London has to offer, anything from a one to a ten, seeing as I’ve already conclusively deduced every single employee and patient inside that facility…at least five times over.”

“A bit intellectually starved, I’m sure,” Molly stated with a sympathetic smile. “Oh and by the way, I was thinking we’d make a stop before I drop you at Baker St. I wanted to go to the-“

“Yes, I already know exactly where we’re going,” he stated with a small smile. He glanced in the back seat. “You’ve brought flowers. And though I realize you’re pleased to be picking me up, I don’t believe you would actually bring me flowers. Not really my style. And they’re not for your flat either. Not you’re your personal favorite…no, they were someone else’s favorite.”

Molly glanced over at him to give him a gentle smile. “It’s alright with you if we go then?”

“It’s more than alright.” He glanced out the window, enjoying the familiar sights of London. “I’d say you read my mind.”

Ten minutes later Sherlock and Molly strolled along in the sunshine till they reached that small spot near the shade of a tree. That small spot that had become the final resting place for their friend.

Molly bent down and placed the fresh white calla lilies in the small vase attached to the simple headstone that bore the name of Mary Watson. Beloved wife, mother, and friend. Gone but never forgotten.

She stood up again and after a moment more of reverent silence, Molly reached over and felt for Sherlock’s hand, at which point they each did their part to lace their fingers tightly together.

Sherlock couldn’t quite tear his eyes from her name. Just her simple name etched into the stone. Mary Watson…t he only life that was worth living to her.

He blinked and swallowed hard, tightening his grasp on the small hand in his.

“She’d be proud of you today,” Molly said softly.

“Mm,” Sherlock hummed in gentle agreement.

The danger was the fun part, but you can’t outrun that forever. You need to remember that.

Yes, he knew she was right. Perhaps she would be proud of him for taking steps to eliminate one of those dangers from his life.

"Sherlock…” Molly hesitated. “Did Mary know? I mean, about how...well, about me?”

Sherlock raised an eyebrow at her.

Molly shrugged one shoulder. “It’s just that she said something to me once. The conversation was so brief, but she just seemed so sure. I brushed it off at the time, but recently, with everything, I began to wonder if you’d ever talked to her about me.”

Sherlock was intrigued now. “What exactly did she say?”

“Well, I was at their flat one day not long after Mary had Rosie, and you kept texting me questions having to do with a case and I could barely even hold a full conversation. I made some comment about how frustrating you could be sometimes and that I wasn’t sure how I managed to put up with you all these years.” She chuckled at Sherlock’s slight eye roll. “But the point is that she gave me a little nudge and said, ‘oh come on, you know underneath all of that he absolutely loves you.’ And I remember laughing and telling her she was crazy. But she insisted that, no, she was serious and it was so clearly obvious. She said she was sure one day I’d be convinced as well.”

The corner of Sherlock’s lips lifted as he glanced back at the headstone. “She was better than all of us, wasn’t she?” he whispered.

Molly leaned her head on Sherlock’s arm. “She was the best,” she whispered back. “And what you did, what you finished today, that wasn’t just for you. It was partly for her. As well as for John and Rosie and Mrs. Hudson and your family. For everyone.”

“And you,” he stated, giving her a soft look.

Molly looked up at him, her heart in her eyes as she smiled just a little while examining his features. “And me,” she said in barely a whisper.

They stayed for a few more minutes at the serene little spot in the cemetery, then walked back to the car and drove to Baker St. Sherlock took his small bag and bid Molly farewell till later that evening, and then he happily ascended the stairs to his home.

He could still smell the fresh paint and detect the slight changes based on the fact that so much had to be literally rebuilt. There was only so much that was salvageable. But it was still home. This was still his 221B Baker St, and he couldn’t be happier to be back. It was time to get back to his life; to all their lives. He craved a sense of normalcy now, and although nothing would ever be the same in some ways, there were also things that would never change. He happily clung to those things in the midst of riding those frightening waves of change.

He clung to the people he loved.

“So Molly picked you up?” John asked, bouncing Rosie a little on his knee.

“Mm, yes.”

“And how’s that going then?”

Sherlock narrowed his eyes at John. “How is what going?”

John chuckled. “Ok, so I guess you’re still not defining anything.”

“I only just checked out of a rehab facility this afternoon, John. This is hardly the time for all that. Besides, I’d like to think that what Molly Hooper and I are goes beyond what requires an official definition,” he said with an air of pride as he rose from his chair.

“Well yeah, I can agree with that.” He shifted Rosie on his lap so she could see Sherlock as he began playing his violin. “So what time will she be here?”

“Any minute actually. She’s excited to see the flat. Hasn’t seen it since all the work’s been done, seeing as I’ve been away.” He smiled down at the baby who grinned up at him while he played.

As Sherlock’s song came to a close a few minutes later, that familiar pair of footsteps did indeed make their way to his door. And when Molly Hooper stepped onto the threshold of 221B, just for a brief moment, time slowed down for Sherlock.

He recalled many times that he’d seen her in his doorway over the years. Looking radiant and glamorous at that infamous Christmas party, answering his request for her to come help him when he wanted her to solve crimes with him for the day, later when she stood there with another frighteningly familiar looking man on her arm…and so many other scattered times that were engraved on his memory. But this particular moment, it felt different.

Molly beamed as she stood there for a moment and glanced around her at the newly finished but familiar flat. And then she smiled at Sherlock, crossing the room to where he stood by the fireplace. Sherlock returned her smile as she reached him and raised herself on tiptoes to press a little kiss to his cheek.

“Everything’s just perfect!” She grinned at John and Rosie as the baby girl reached out to her and John handed her over. “Isn’t it, Rosie? Isn’t everything lovely? Ooh yes, look at this pretty skull!”

John chuckled as he walked over to where Sherlock stood and they both observed Molly speaking affectionately to Rosie.

“Please just tell me you’re not going to wait around forever,” John whispered to him.

“If you are about to lecture me once again along the lines of ‘High Wycombe is better than I’m currently equipped to understand,’” Sherlock whispered back. “Let me assure you that I am equipped, I do understand, and therefore no, I will not wait around forever.” He grinned at his friend.

“Ok then,” John responded as his brow shot up. “Guess I can save my speeches this time around. Glad you were paying such close attention last time though.”

“It was the sort of speech to remember, for many reasons,” Sherlock said softly and they exchanged a look. He’d certainly never forget that particular day and those specific words that were spoken by his best friend.

John twisted his lips a little as he glanced back at Molly and Rosie. “She’d be glad,” he said. “About everything I think.”

“I think so too, John,” Sherlock agreed and laid a supportive hand on his shoulder.

Yes, there were many things about their lives of late that were far from perfect. Worse than that even. There were things that had happened that were downright horrible and unspeakable. But as Sherlock glanced around his sitting room at the people that he loved that he’d surely never take for granted again, he knew that although of some things it could rightly be said, “it is what it is,” for all that he could see in front of his eyes at the moment…

It was exactly as it should be.

#sherlolly #mollock #my writing #complicated little emotions #aaaand it's done!#next project will begin posting tomorrow #;))

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Completely Harmless Ch. 27

Completely Harmless An SSO SilverGlade Re-imagining Story (Or Fix it Fan Salt fic) By Ginny O.

When Lily and her friends wanted to buy horses and were directed to the Silverglade Manor and its myriad of problems, they didn’t expect to start a revolution. They were just a bunch a stable girls. Completely harmless. Right?

A/N: Things are only canon if I say they’re canon. Pre-Saving the Moorland Stables compliant for the most part. Posted in its entirety on my website. Posted in 2000 to 4000 word bits here. Rated T for Swearing Word Count 177,577

WOW, somehow not in queue properly. Oops.

Chapter Twenty-Seven Planning Rainbow Week Pt. 2

“Okay, Ingrid,” Lily moved on hurriedly. “Plans for Firgrove.”

“Andy is opening up his petting zoo at the sandpit. We have the Red String Ride. So, we’ve decided to use the Friendship Knot as our charm. We have a big field area with a hill. Perhaps, Mr. Wetton could set up his talent scouting show there? We can put out extra balloons and create a backdrop if necessary.”

Lily nodded. “Okay, I think that’s the best. People are going to want to come and see the new talent and I don’t know, we can advertise it as a picnic thing? Maybe have the fireworks and those paper lanterns nearby?”

Everyone agreed that sounded like a good plan.

Violet picked off where Ingrid left off. “We’re also opening the flea market in the village. We’re going to show them how to make big friendship knots. Big enough for wall art out of silky ropes. And Ma Anna’s doing an Italian Rainbow cookie, it looks more like a layered cake with chocolate to me. Andy’s grandmother is doing a rainbow pancake cake. So, that should be delicious. Actually, she’s doing two, one with a heart in the middle and one plain rainbow.” Violet shrugged.

Pia looked panicked. “Are we doing treats? Our cafe relies on Harold for treats.”

“Oh, I’m sure we can have him do something with what he’s got going already,” Kate jumped in to reassure her.

“As long as it’s not cardamom,” Pia shuddered.

“Got it,” Kate said. “I mean, he’s doing these freeze and bake things. There has to be a different way to do it. I’ll get right on him.”

Pia relaxed. “All right. Sorry Lily, moving on.”

Pauline nudged Lily, “better plan something for Moorland too,” she muttered.

Lily glowered at her. Pauline made a note.

They turned to Melissa.

Melissa made a face. “One, our waterfall is still green.”

“It’s your club color, pretend it’s deliberate for now,” Lily said.

Melissa grimaced. “Can you get the Baroness to come out and look?”

“We need to find the Count or Countess,” Riley huffed. “You can’t have a county without them!”

There were some scoffs around the table.

“We can’t make them care,” Lily said.

“If we can get enough attention out here that’s positive, they’ll start paying attention and be horrified that their area isn’t in tip top shape,” Amelia said.

“Or not,” Ingrid grimaced. “If we can get attention without their help, why would they need to do anything?”

“Okay, what do you want to do?” Lily asked.

“We have a lot of roses, so we were going to make rose crowns for our craft. We’ve got yellow.”

“Oh good, because we don’t,” Lily mumbled.

Brooke spoke up. “It’s tied into our treat, our baker is going to do funfetti cupcakes and pipe rainbow roses on them, like individual petals. She’s nuts!” She lifted her hands up in the air.

“We’re using the crossed arrows and a star for a charm,” Melissa said. “And we thought about doing a special orienteering race or trail in the forest. We’re decorating the lake trail and are going to advertise it as a ‘love trail.’ It would be better in a boat, but we’ve got what we’ve got. We have beach picnic areas if that helps at all.”

“We had that thought too about orienteering,” Sonja said. “Granted, Mistfall is very little but riding trails being it’s a designated Jorvik National Park.”

“I think some folk music would go over nicely, if there is any to be found.” Melissa shrugged. “Druids.”

Lily twisted to look at Luciana, “Okay, Dundull, what are your plans?”

“We are so far out of the way,” Sonja murmured.

“Get a ferry going to Dundull,” Lily murmured and added it to the list. This list was getting strange and very political.

“And New Hillcrest,” Ginny added. “I think that is a big part of our problem, it’s difficult to get to us.”

“Kit has her Cuddle Cottage, where you can come and cuddle the animals. She keeps foxes.”

“Because fox babies are called kits,” Lily murmured.

“You are the weirdest trove of information,” Pauline wrinkled her nose.

“Okay, I like crime procedurals and cozy mystery novels, is that a crime?”

“Nooo,” Pauline leaned away from her.

“I mean,” Luciana said. “We’re lots of pretty forest and a big lake.”

“No fishing. No swimming. No boats,” Sonja said.

“I don’t know what we can do,” Luciana bit her lip. “That’s not what everyone else is doing.”

Helen bounced in her seat. “You’re a National Park right? I mean, what do you do in National Parks?”

They all looked at her.

“You go camping. So, okay, you get one of the musicians that’s folk. You advertise that you’re doing a bonfire cook out. Do things on the hour. Have sausages on a stick and s’mores. You can decorate the forest on the way to and from the bonfire. Maybe do a night time ride around the lake when the lightning bugs are out. No one else is doing a night time thing other than fireworks.”

Lily’s phone buzzed. She picked it up. “Mr. Wetton. Really? I understand.” She reached over to Pauline’s notes and scratched out Raptor and DJ Wetfloor. “How does Firgrove for your talent show sound? They have a hill with a big field in front of it. That’s great. We need two,” she trailed off as Kelsey waved to get her attention and held up 3 fingers. “Three folk musicians.”

Kelsey wrote something down and held it up.

“If one is a Celtic group, that’d be great. The moors on South Hoof are big and can carry the sound beautifully. We also need someone for Valedale, and someone to serenade campers in Dundull at a sausage roast.”

Brooke leaned in. “There’s a broken down house in Valedale that if we clean it up, it’d be a great place for a musician.”

“A ruined house for a stage for Valedale, we can make it atmospheric,” Lily said. “You know just the people. A Harpist, really? You are amazing, Mr. Wetton.”

Riley spoke up. “We’ll take the Flaming Trio, since I’m sure New Hillcrest will want to host Syntax.”

Ginny relaxed. “Thanks, Riley.”

“Cape West will take the Flaming Trio. They’ll scout locations, though, I’m sure the Golden Hills Forest would be perfect. Syntax can appear in New Hillcrest, they’ve got the large market square after all. And then, Jarlaheim wants The Miscreants. There’s a theatre, one moment,” Lily put her hand over the phone. “Amelia, what in hell is Talia doing for Rainbow Week?”

“Hopefully not staging Romeo and Juliet,” Amelia flinched. “Her stage isn’t nearly big enough for the Miscreants. We have that town square and garden area. They can use that.”

“Point,” Lily said. “The Miscreants can perform in the Garden in Jarlaheim and DJ Kai can have the Fort Pinta Disco to herself. Do Lance and Lilith have a name? They can play in Silverglade where they’ll be centrally located. Lilith’s Lance? Really? Well, um, I didn’t know Lilith had a lance. Not relevant Mr. Wetton. That leaves us one short for the Stormgarden.”

Luciana waved her hand again. “Charity concert at the Dew’s Farm,” she said. “All proceeds going to help the Dew family. We’d be squatting.”

“And this is me not caring,” Lily said. “Have you heard about the plight of the Dew Family, Mr. Wetton? The G.E.D., you heard. You’re one of the corporate backers. We thought a charity concert. You think Raptor would get out for that. Well, that is the power of good publicity.”

Mr. Wetton was talking.

“An Asian girl group idol pop band? That sounds perfect for the Stormgarden. Oh, that’s why, well, definitely the best for last then. Thank you.” Lily blinked and hung up. “So, Ami, you have a pop group called Filly, he spelled it f-i-l dash l-e, so I’m assuming it’s not only a pun on filly but a pun on French for girl as well.”

Ami groaned.

“But they can play at the Stormgarden.”

“We have a maple grove, we can set them up in there,” Ami nodded.

“Okay, so, Dundull is having a camp out and doing a night time ride around the lake,” Lily said.

“We have a lot of birds, so we were going to use a dove for our charm,” Luciana said. “I don’t know about treats.”

“No one is doing iced biscuits so far,” Pauline said. “Sorry, cookies.”

“Biscuits, are you British all of a sudden?” One of the girls demanded.

“No.” Pauline rolled her eyes. “It slipped out. Iced cookies.”

“Anyone?” Luciana looked around.

They all shook their heads.

Luciana nodded. “Then we’ll talk to our baker about doing iced sugar cookies.”

Sonja twisted her hair around her finger. “Braided headbands, with feathers? Face painting?”

“Those are great ideas,” Lily encouraged her.

Sonja relaxed.

Lily bit her lip. “Okay, we’re hosting the Silversong String Quartet and having a grand opening of the restaurant, ice cream bar, and the gardens. Aaron has designed a special friendship rainbow sherbet Sunday with a sugar cookie that has a rainbow heart in the middle and a white chocolate rose decoration. We’re doing our rose garden trail ride and at the pavilion in the middle, we’re setting up to make old fashioned bead headbands. We’re using a rose for our charm. Riley!”

Riley laughed. “All right, we’re hosting the Flaming Trio now. The Smugglers are helping us set up a treasure hunt where the reward is a crystal sun catcher. We’re going to have others for sale too. But the one for the treasure hunt is special. We’re also going to have supplies to make earrings out of jewelry crystal versions. Going with the crystal theme, we’re doing a rainbow layer gelatin dessert cut into shapes. Captain Brus is refusing to let us near his ship but he has conceded to decorate it. He hates Rainbow Week so I think his sailors bullied him into it. And we’re saving the Light Ride for Happy Horse Week.”

“Fair,” Lily nodded.

Pauline grimaced. “More than fair.”

“We’ve set up the treasure hunt all in that area though,” Riley smirked. “It goes from the Labyrinth area, all the way up towards the King’s Road using the stables as the middle ground. It goes with our charm of a coin with a heart cut out of it.”

“Oh, wow, sneaky,” one of the girls breathed. No one was sure if she meant the treasure hunt or the charm. No one dared ask either.

“We had to nix using cookie crumbs though. Too easily eaten by birds,” Riley rolled her eyes. “Really, right now we’re in the same boat as Ginny is, I think. We don’t have a lot to draw people to Cape West. There are a bunch of shops but none of them ever seem busy.”

“Maybe it’s time for some consolidation,” Pia nodded.

“I think,” Riley leaned back and glanced at Ginny. “I don’t know if this is your problem, but, Cape West lacks a brand, a definitive identity.”

“So, if it was a jolly sailor town,” one of the girls trailed off.

“Right. I mean, the Stormgarden is doing an Asian themed Spa complete with oil pulling, hot stone massage, and chiming bowls or acupuncture and Chinese Fusion,” Riley waved her hands.

Ami grinned. “We are.”

“New Hillcrest is a ‘planned’ town,” Ginny rubbed her forehead. “Except no one seemed to include the stables in the plans. Again, like Cape West, we’re mostly fishermen. We’ve got the Mirror Marsh, a bunch of windswept islands, and the Cauldron. Both the observatory and Fort Maria are closed. Plus, Mrs. X has set up shop in the Observatory since it’s so close to G.E.D. and Old Hillcrest.”

“No news about Old Hillcrest then.”

“Whatever it is, it’s bad,” Ginny whispered. “We haven’t heard anything from them for weeks, and the G.E.D. keeps turning everyone away. There’s a haze around the area.”

Brooke fiddled with a pen. “The G.E.D. has been drilling, right? I mean, that’s what Dark Core and G.E.D. have in common. They’ve been drilling. What if they drilled too deep?”

“Like, the Mines of Moira,” one of the girls said.

“I got that reference,” Luciana brightened.

“Okay, Mr. Kemball never had the proper permits for anything.” Lily glanced over at Ingrid.

“We’re looking into it, ja. We think he’s squatting.” Ingrid smirked. “He’ll be gone before the festival.”

“Ms. Drake seems the type to cross her ts and dot her eyes,” Amelia said.

“Are you sure? Or does she come off that way so you don’t ask questions,” Lily lowered her voice. “You can’t have Herman dig into it. He’ll go off half-cocked. Syntax and this secret organization of his.”

“CHILL,” Susan said. “It’s called CHILL.” She rolled her eyes.

“Theirs,” Ginny corrected absently. “They’re non-binary.”

“Theirs,” Lily corrected herself. “Thank you, Ginny. They’re a hacker, right? Have them look into it? Or have them do it. Give them a challenge. Or say we’ll find someone else if they can’t be useful.”

“Ricky is still pretty hung up on getting enough money to save the stables from his boxing match.”

“I wouldn’t rely on it.”

Ginny licked her lips. “My family is moving to Beauvista soon. I’m leaving Susan in charge.”

“I’m sorry, Ginny. It must hurt to leave the club.”

Ginny shrugged. “I’ll be here past Happy Horse Week. I can help by befriending Mr. Kemball’s daughter too.”

“I’ll make sure the club stays together,” Susan said fervently.

“I believe you, Su,” Ginny smiled at her.

Susan nodded. “I think Riley’s right though. The stable doesn’t have its own identity. The town is so bland. It’s not like Crescent Moon Village or anything where we could at least take advantage of the imagery.”

“Hold up,” Josefina said, she was Amelia’s vice president. “Friesians are an identity. That’s what your main sell stable has, right? Those are exclusive horses. You have to have a license to even breed them. Like Frederick the Great has been dubbed the world’s handsomest horse. And like, if you have any chestnuts, those are super rare. They’re dressage horses.”

“We don’t have,” Ginny trailed off.

Josefina smirked. “You just thought of something.”

“Mr. Kemball wants to buy his daughter’s way into the club. He could build us an arena,” Ginny smirked back.

“People love seeing Friesians as a group in herds and the babies,” Josefina bit her lip. “Start a J-Tube channel, get on Friend-Fund, and offer early exclusive content for people who sign up.”

Riley sighed. “And we stick with our jolly sailor town?”

“That isn’t a half bad identity, you know,” Amelia raised her brow. “Though your colors are wrong.”

“You took the navy,” Riley retorted. “And do you know how fond they are of being ‘golden.’ There’s no way that we’re getting a cool color when that’s their take on it. And Kate has yellow! As does Pia!”

“Girls,” Lily broke in. They were getting a bit off track.

“Actually, a sailor town isn’t a bad idea. We can go with the pirate theme and,” Riley drummed her fingers on the table. “The issue being not appropriating other cultures.”

“Canterella then?” Luciana asked. “It’s old fashioned.”

“But at the same time, perfect?” Riley grinned. “I don’t know what Anastasia has in mind for our new outfits.”

“Well, a Canterella outfit would be a costume and extra, I think,” Lily said. “Is that the stuff at the Purple Pony?”

“Along with the Knights of Unistria and some Mermaid stuff.”

“Ohh, mermaids,” Riley said. “This, oh, idea,” she grinned and scribbled something down. “Okay, but yeah, we think the treasure hunt should take enough time that we don’t need much more than that for our area.”

Sonja muttered. “If we could get to Firfall they have a Medieval Faire with an archery competition.”

“The road’s blocked,” Luciana said.

“I’m thinking some moltov cocktails,” Sonja rubbed her hands.

Everyone glared at her.

“Oh fine,” Sonja slumped.

“Amelia, over to Jorvik Stables,” Lily said.

“Okay, so, um, no one is very worried about Evelyn, outside of Jill and us. Jack is useless. There are a ton of shops empty, but the shops there aren’t that amazing either and should be combined. Though the two hair salons can’t be. There’s two themes. Eventing style elegance, and the rock star stuff.” Amelia shrugged. “It’s a town so it’s big enough for both. For the event, we’re running a special group race. And in the arena we’re having a special show jumping race. Lowe Westburg runs both of them. She gives out prizes. Catherine is doing her special cake. And the Miscreants are playing in the garden.” She pronounced Lowe as Lou-ve.

“Have you talked to Herman about the Riding Arena yet?”

“He refuses to open it. Absolutely refuses,” Amelia rolled her eyes.

Josefina huffed. “We told him we’ll keep the doors open and not go in at night.”

“We’re using a pair of swans that make a heart for our charm,” Amelia shrugged.

“It seemed obvious,” Josefina smirked.

“Is that enough for that area, you think?”

“Two races, on top of everything else you can do during the week?” Lily widened her eyes.

“What about wrist cuffs?” Violet, Ingrid’s Vice President in Firgrove, asked.

“Wrist cuffs?”

“For a craft,” Violet defended. “Look, okay you say you’ve got two looks, elegant and rock. Elegant is pretty covered by the Winery, who should probably also be doing bead bracelets and stud and dangling earrings.”

“Noted,” Pauline said with a grin.

“Then, that leaves you with the rock stuff. Bandanas aren’t really a craft thing. So, that leaves leather wrist cuffs and chokers and headbands. Do a leather Siwa bow. Have some awesome looking heart and rose and the other symbols as metal studs and don’t they come in all colors now with electroplating? Then what you do is take your shops, get them down to four between the tack shops and the clothing shops. Then beg the Miscreants to set up a shop there for their swag, or do a combined band swag shop.”

The girls were all nodding.

“Don’t you have that donut shop too, with Lisbeth,” Ginny said, her eyes glazing over. “I love her donuts. She could do tons of rainbow ones.”

“Okay, I think that’s covered then,” Lily said. “Onward to you, Ami.”

“We’re like you, doing our grand opening.”

“Pretty hanfu inspired dresses and Chinese Fusion,” Lily said remembering Anastasia’s complaints.

There were giggles.

Ami tilted her head. “We’re using a frog for our symbol. It’s a Chinese animal for good fortune, and the kanji for friend. We though to do some origami for our crafts. Origami earrings and stuff you can add to headbands.”

“Right, and you have the pop group.”

“The bottom of the Cauldron can be pretty, so we thought we’d do a ride to the bottom, have something there and lead them back up. We aren’t sure on what yet.”

“Make it surprise.”

“Tea ceremony,” said someone else.

“Is that okay?” Ami looked over at Ginny.

“The best way down into the Cauldron is closer to you than it is to us. We’ve got a ride planned through the Mirror Marsh.”

“Bring lots of bug repellant.”

“And maybe Frida will show up with her frogs,” Ginny added.

“We’re also giving away rainbow themed fortune cookies,” Ami waved her hands. “Because, fortunes!”

The girls all laughed. Even Loretta cracked a smile.

FOR THE ACCOMPANYING IMAGES PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE MY WATERMARK AND CONTACT INFORMATION. THANK YOU. I get it. Some of you might get excited and want to see this stuff in the game, especially the clothes, tack, and pets. However, the only way I want to see this in the game is if I get paid for it. If I see it in the game and I’m not paid for it, there will be hell to pay. You think I’m salty. I’d be angry. Personally, I’m not going to send this info to SSO. If you do, leave my contact information there! Don’t give them any excuses to steal.

Now, I’ll know you haven’t read this note if you leave me comments about how ‘salty’ I am about the game and if I hate it so much I should do something else. I am doing something else. It’s called Mystic Riders MMORPG Project. Mystic Riders however is a very baby phase game. You can check out our plans on the game dev blog. (Skills, Factions, Professions, Crafting, Mini-Games, 25+ horse breeds!) If you know anyone who would be interested and has money or contacts about game making, direct them to the blog.

#star stable #sso #star stable online #fan fic #star stable salt #completely harmless #jorvik reimagined #silverglade reimagined #many nods to ruth westside #SSO keeps changing NPC names #frustrating

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lorettalivingston6911 · 7 years ago

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Emmy Awards 2017: The Winners List!

I look younger now than when I was in my early 20s

Yaasss!

Take home those pretty statues!

TV's biggest night was a roaring success as the 2017 Emmy Awards not only had stars rocking the red carpet in some glam outfits, but Hollywood heavyweights from your fave programs were honored for their brilliant work.

In case you missed any of the announced winners, please ch-ch-check out the complete winners list (below)!

Outstanding Drama Series

Better Call Saul

The Crown

The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

House of Cards

Stranger Things

This Is Us

Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us - WINNER

Anthony Hopkins, Westworld

Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder

Claire Foy, The Crown

Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Keri Russell, The Americans

Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Robin Wright, House of Cards

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Michael Kelly, House of Cards

Jonathan Banks, Better Caul Saul

Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us

David Harbour, Stranger Things

John Lithgow, The Crown - WINNER

Mandy Patinkin, Homeland

Jeffrey Wright, Westworld

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black

Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things

Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Chrissy Metz, This Is Us

Thandie Newton, Westworld

Samira Wiley, The Handmaid's Tale

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline

BD Wong, Mr. Robot

Hank Azaria, Ray Donovan

Brian Tyree Henry, This Is Us

Gerald McRaney, This Is Us - WINNER

Denis O'Hare, This Is Us

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder

Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black

Shannon Purser, Stranger Things

Alison Wright, The Americans

Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Ann Down, The Leftovers

Outstanding Comedy Series

Atlanta

Black-ish

Master of None

Modern Family

Silicon Valley

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Veep - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Anthony Anderson, black-ish

Aziz Ansari, Master of None

Zach Galifianakis, Baskets

Donald Glover, Atlanta - WINNER

William H. Macy, Shameless

Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Pamela Adlon, Better Things

Jane Fonda, Grace & Frankie

Allison Janney, Mom

Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep - WINNER

Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish

Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Louie Anderson, Baskets

Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Tony Hale, Veep

Matt Walsh, Veep

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live

Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Kathryn Hahn, Transparent

Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live

Judith Light, Transparent

Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Matthew Rhys, Girls

Riz Ahmed, Girls

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live

Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live

Hugh Laurie, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Wanda Sykes, black-ish

Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe

Becky Ann Baker, Girls

Angela Bassett, Master of None

Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Television Movie

Black Mirror: San Junipero - WINNER

Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle Of Love

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Sherlock: The Lying Detective

The Wizard Of Lies

Outstanding Limited Series

Big Little Lies - WINNER

Fargo

Feud: Bette and Joan

Genius

The Night Of

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Ewan McGregor, Fargo

Geoffrey Rush, Genius

Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Lying Detective (Masterpiece)

John Turturro, The Night Of

Riz Ahmed, The Night Of - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Carrie Coon, Fargo

Felicity Huffman, American Crime

Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan

Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan

Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Bill Camp, The Night Of

Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan

Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies - WINNER

David Thewlis, Fargo

Stanley Tucci, Feud: Bette and Joan

Michael Kenneth Williams, The Night Of

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Judy Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan

Laura Dern, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jackie Hoffman, Feud: Bette and Joan

Regina King, American Crime

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies

Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Reality Program

The Amazing Race

American Ninja Warrior

Project Runway

RuPaul's Drag Race

Top Chef

The Voice - WINNER

Outstanding Variety/Talk Series

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

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Emmy Awards 2017: The Winners List!

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In case you missed any of the announced winners, please ch-ch-check out the complete winners list (below)!

Outstanding Drama Series

Better Call Saul

The Crown

The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

House of Cards

Stranger Things

This Is Us

Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us - WINNER

Anthony Hopkins, Westworld

Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder

Claire Foy, The Crown

Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Keri Russell, The Americans

Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Robin Wright, House of Cards

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Michael Kelly, House of Cards

Jonathan Banks, Better Caul Saul

Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us

David Harbour, Stranger Things

John Lithgow, The Crown - WINNER

Mandy Patinkin, Homeland

Jeffrey Wright, Westworld

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black

Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things

Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Chrissy Metz, This Is Us

Thandie Newton, Westworld

Samira Wiley, The Handmaid's Tale

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline

BD Wong, Mr. Robot

Hank Azaria, Ray Donovan

Brian Tyree Henry, This Is Us

Gerald McRaney, This Is Us - WINNER

Denis O'Hare, This Is Us

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder

Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black

Shannon Purser, Stranger Things

Alison Wright, The Americans

Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Ann Down, The Leftovers

Outstanding Comedy Series

Atlanta

Black-ish

Master of None

Modern Family

Silicon Valley

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Veep - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Anthony Anderson, black-ish

Aziz Ansari, Master of None

Zach Galifianakis, Baskets

Donald Glover, Atlanta - WINNER

William H. Macy, Shameless

Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Pamela Adlon, Better Things

Jane Fonda, Grace & Frankie

Allison Janney, Mom

Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep - WINNER

Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish

Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Louie Anderson, Baskets

Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Tony Hale, Veep

Matt Walsh, Veep

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live

Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Kathryn Hahn, Transparent

Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live

Judith Light, Transparent

Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Matthew Rhys, Girls

Riz Ahmed, Girls

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live

Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live

Hugh Laurie, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Wanda Sykes, black-ish

Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe

Becky Ann Baker, Girls

Angela Bassett, Master of None

Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Television Movie

Black Mirror: San Junipero - WINNER

Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle Of Love

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Sherlock: The Lying Detective

The Wizard Of Lies

Outstanding Limited Series

Big Little Lies - WINNER

Fargo

Feud: Bette and Joan

Genius

The Night Of

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Ewan McGregor, Fargo

Geoffrey Rush, Genius

Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Lying Detective (Masterpiece)

John Turturro, The Night Of

Riz Ahmed, The Night Of - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Carrie Coon, Fargo

Felicity Huffman, American Crime

Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan

Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan

Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Bill Camp, The Night Of

Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan

Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies - WINNER

David Thewlis, Fargo

Stanley Tucci, Feud: Bette and Joan

Michael Kenneth Williams, The Night Of

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Judy Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan

Laura Dern, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jackie Hoffman, Feud: Bette and Joan

Regina King, American Crime

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies

Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Reality Program

The Amazing Race

American Ninja Warrior

Project Runway

RuPaul's Drag Race

Top Chef

The Voice - WINNER

Outstanding Variety/Talk Series

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WINNER

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

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Completely Harmless Ch. 27

Completely Harmless An SSO SilverGlade Re-imagining Story (Or Fix it Fan Salt fic) By Ginny O.

Chapter Twenty-Seven Planning Rainbow Week Pt. 2

“Okay, Ingrid,” Lily moved on hurriedly. “Plans for Firgrove.”

Everyone agreed that sounded like a good plan.

Pia looked panicked. “Are we doing treats? Our cafe relies on Harold for treats.”

“Oh, I’m sure we can have him do something with what he’s got going already,” Kate jumped in to reassure her.

“As long as it’s not cardamom,” Pia shuddered.

“Got it,” Kate said. “I mean, he’s doing these freeze and bake things. There has to be a different way to do it. I’ll get right on him.”

Pia relaxed. “All right. Sorry Lily, moving on.”

Pauline nudged Lily, “better plan something for Moorland too,” she muttered.

Lily glowered at her. Pauline made a note.

They turned to Melissa.

Melissa made a face. “One, our waterfall is still green.”

“It’s your club color, pretend it’s deliberate for now,” Lily said.

Melissa grimaced. “Can you get the Baroness to come out and look?”

“We need to find the Count or Countess,” Riley huffed. “You can’t have a county without them!”

There were some scoffs around the table.

“We can’t make them care,” Lily said.

“If we can get enough attention out here that’s positive, they’ll start paying attention and be horrified that their area isn’t in tip top shape,” Amelia said.

“Or not,” Ingrid grimaced. “If we can get attention without their help, why would they need to do anything?”

“Okay, what do you want to do?” Lily asked.

“We have a lot of roses, so we were going to make rose crowns for our craft. We’ve got yellow.”

“Oh good, because we don’t,” Lily mumbled.

Brooke spoke up. “It’s tied into our treat, our baker is going to do funfetti cupcakes and pipe rainbow roses on them, like individual petals. She’s nuts!” She lifted her hands up in the air.

“We had that thought too about orienteering,” Sonja said. “Granted, Mistfall is very little but riding trails being it’s a designated Jorvik National Park.”

“I think some folk music would go over nicely, if there is any to be found.” Melissa shrugged. “Druids.”

Lily twisted to look at Luciana, “Okay, Dundull, what are your plans?”

“We are so far out of the way,” Sonja murmured.

“Get a ferry going to Dundull,” Lily murmured and added it to the list. This list was getting strange and very political.

“And New Hillcrest,” Ginny added. “I think that is a big part of our problem, it’s difficult to get to us.”

“Kit has her Cuddle Cottage, where you can come and cuddle the animals. She keeps foxes.”

“Because fox babies are called kits,” Lily murmured.

“You are the weirdest trove of information,” Pauline wrinkled her nose.

“Okay, I like crime procedurals and cozy mystery novels, is that a crime?”

“Nooo,” Pauline leaned away from her.

“I mean,” Luciana said. “We’re lots of pretty forest and a big lake.”

“No fishing. No swimming. No boats,” Sonja said.

“I don’t know what we can do,” Luciana bit her lip. “That’s not what everyone else is doing.”

Helen bounced in her seat. “You’re a National Park right? I mean, what do you do in National Parks?”

They all looked at her.

Kelsey wrote something down and held it up.

Brooke leaned in. “There’s a broken down house in Valedale that if we clean it up, it’d be a great place for a musician.”

“A ruined house for a stage for Valedale, we can make it atmospheric,” Lily said. “You know just the people. A Harpist, really? You are amazing, Mr. Wetton.”

Riley spoke up. “We’ll take the Flaming Trio, since I’m sure New Hillcrest will want to host Syntax.”

Ginny relaxed. “Thanks, Riley.”

“Hopefully not staging Romeo and Juliet,” Amelia flinched. “Her stage isn’t nearly big enough for the Miscreants. We have that town square and garden area. They can use that.”

Luciana waved her hand again. “Charity concert at the Dew’s Farm,” she said. “All proceeds going to help the Dew family. We’d be squatting.”

Mr. Wetton was talking.

Ami groaned.

“But they can play at the Stormgarden.”

“We have a maple grove, we can set them up in there,” Ami nodded.

“Okay, so, Dundull is having a camp out and doing a night time ride around the lake,” Lily said.

“We have a lot of birds, so we were going to use a dove for our charm,” Luciana said. “I don’t know about treats.”

“No one is doing iced biscuits so far,” Pauline said. “Sorry, cookies.”

“Biscuits, are you British all of a sudden?” One of the girls demanded.

“No.” Pauline rolled her eyes. “It slipped out. Iced cookies.”

“Anyone?” Luciana looked around.

They all shook their heads.

Luciana nodded. “Then we’ll talk to our baker about doing iced sugar cookies.”

Sonja twisted her hair around her finger. “Braided headbands, with feathers? Face painting?”

“Those are great ideas,” Lily encouraged her.

Sonja relaxed.

“Fair,” Lily nodded.

Pauline grimaced. “More than fair.”

“Oh, wow, sneaky,” one of the girls breathed. No one was sure if she meant the treasure hunt or the charm. No one dared ask either.

“Maybe it’s time for some consolidation,” Pia nodded.

“I think,” Riley leaned back and glanced at Ginny. “I don’t know if this is your problem, but, Cape West lacks a brand, a definitive identity.”

“So, if it was a jolly sailor town,” one of the girls trailed off.

“Right. I mean, the Stormgarden is doing an Asian themed Spa complete with oil pulling, hot stone massage, and chiming bowls or acupuncture and Chinese Fusion,” Riley waved her hands.

Ami grinned. “We are.”

“No news about Old Hillcrest then.”

“Whatever it is, it’s bad,” Ginny whispered. “We haven’t heard anything from them for weeks, and the G.E.D. keeps turning everyone away. There’s a haze around the area.”

Brooke fiddled with a pen. “The G.E.D. has been drilling, right? I mean, that’s what Dark Core and G.E.D. have in common. They’ve been drilling. What if they drilled too deep?”

“Like, the Mines of Moira,” one of the girls said.

“I got that reference,” Luciana brightened.

“Okay, Mr. Kemball never had the proper permits for anything.” Lily glanced over at Ingrid.

“We’re looking into it, ja. We think he’s squatting.” Ingrid smirked. “He’ll be gone before the festival.”

“Ms. Drake seems the type to cross her ts and dot her eyes,” Amelia said.

“CHILL,” Susan said. “It’s called CHILL.” She rolled her eyes.

“Theirs,” Ginny corrected absently. “They’re non-binary.”

“Ricky is still pretty hung up on getting enough money to save the stables from his boxing match.”

“I wouldn’t rely on it.”

Ginny licked her lips. “My family is moving to Beauvista soon. I’m leaving Susan in charge.”

“I’m sorry, Ginny. It must hurt to leave the club.”

Ginny shrugged. “I’ll be here past Happy Horse Week. I can help by befriending Mr. Kemball’s daughter too.”

“I’ll make sure the club stays together,” Susan said fervently.

“I believe you, Su,” Ginny smiled at her.

“We don’t have,” Ginny trailed off.

Josefina smirked. “You just thought of something.”

“Mr. Kemball wants to buy his daughter’s way into the club. He could build us an arena,” Ginny smirked back.

Riley sighed. “And we stick with our jolly sailor town?”

“That isn’t a half bad identity, you know,” Amelia raised her brow. “Though your colors are wrong.”

“Girls,” Lily broke in. They were getting a bit off track.

“Actually, a sailor town isn’t a bad idea. We can go with the pirate theme and,” Riley drummed her fingers on the table. “The issue being not appropriating other cultures.”

“Canterella then?” Luciana asked. “It’s old fashioned.”

“But at the same time, perfect?” Riley grinned. “I don’t know what Anastasia has in mind for our new outfits.”

“Well, a Canterella outfit would be a costume and extra, I think,” Lily said. “Is that the stuff at the Purple Pony?”

“Along with the Knights of Unistria and some Mermaid stuff.”

Sonja muttered. “If we could get to Firfall they have a Medieval Faire with an archery competition.”

“The road’s blocked,” Luciana said.

“I’m thinking some moltov cocktails,” Sonja rubbed her hands.

Everyone glared at her.

“Oh fine,” Sonja slumped.

“Amelia, over to Jorvik Stables,” Lily said.

“Okay, so, um, no one is very worried about Elaine, outside of Jill and us. Jack is useless. There are a ton of shops empty, but the shops there aren’t that amazing either and should be combined. Though the two hair salons can’t be. There’s two themes. Eventing style elegance, and the rock star stuff.” Amelia shrugged. “It’s a town so it’s big enough for both. For the event, we’re running a special group race. And in the arena we’re having a special show jumping race. Lowe Westburg runs both of them. She gives out prizes. Catherine is doing her special cake. And the Miscreants are playing in the garden.” She pronounced Lowe as Lou-ve.

“Have you talked to Herman about the Riding Arena yet?”

“He refuses to open it. Absolutely refuses,” Amelia rolled her eyes.

Josefina huffed. “We told him we’ll keep the doors open and not go in at night.”

“We’re using a pair of swans that make a heart for our charm,” Amelia shrugged.

“It seemed obvious,” Josefina smirked.

“Is that enough for that area, you think?”

“Two races, on top of everything else you can do during the week?” Lily widened her eyes.

“What about wrist cuffs?” Violet, Ingrid’s Vice President in Firgrove, asked.

“Wrist cuffs?”

“Noted,” Pauline said with a grin.

The girls were all nodding.

“Don’t you have that donut shop too, with Lisbeth,” Ginny said, her eyes glazing over. “I love her donuts. She could do tons of rainbow ones.”

“Okay, I think that’s covered then,” Lily said. “Onward to you, Ami.”

“We’re like you, doing our grand opening.”

“Pretty hanfu inspired dresses and Chinese Fusion,” Lily said remembering Anastasia’s complaints.

There were giggles.

“Right, and you have the pop group.”

“The bottom of the Cauldron can be pretty, so we thought we’d do a ride to the bottom, have something there and lead them back up. We aren’t sure on what yet.”

“Make it surprise.”

“Tea ceremony,” said someone else.

“Is that okay?” Ami looked over at Ginny.

“The best way down into the Cauldron is closer to you than it is to us. We’ve got a ride planned through the Mirror Marsh.”

“Bring lots of bug repellant.”

“And maybe Frida will show up with her frogs,” Ginny added.

“We’re also giving away rainbow themed fortune cookies,” Ami waved her hands. “Because, fortunes!”

The girls all laughed. Even Loretta cracked a smile.

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Completely Harmless Ch. 24

Completely Harmless An SSO SilverGlade Re-imagining Story (Or Fix it Fan Salt fic) By Ginny O.

Chapter Twenty-Four A Magical (Very Pink) Circus

The Silver Drakes were having a bit too much fun helping Bjorn blast out the tunnel. They took turns pushing down the lever for the explosives and yelling “fire in the hole!” It made Bjorn laugh while Agnetha rolled her eyes.

Once they had a rough tunnel in the bedrock under the paddock, more contractors arrived to help make the tunnel something worthy of being part of Silverglade Manor. These contractors happened to be the same ones who were going to be doing the remodeling of the Wine Cellar for Aaron’s wine and ice cream bar.

The first thing they did was reinforce the tunnel with metal girders and braces that they used long steel screws to set them into place. Then the girls helped them lay out the wiring for the electric lights that both the Bar and the tunnel were going to need.

Once they had the tunnel reinforced and the archway in the Wine Cave, they could cover everything that needed to be covered in concrete and start doing the facings. But that wasn’t necessarily something that the girls could help with outside of getting the materials. The contractors shooed them away and told them to come back later once the place needed the finishing touches.

Agnetha set them right to work though. There were flowers to get from Jorvik City and to plant in the terrace gardens. The kit for the Duck Tower that looked like a rounded dome Greek oracle temple had come in along with the metal cages that went with it and needed to be picked up and installed.

Plus, there were still stray hedgehogs to return to Golden Hills before anyone could start building the new event pavilion by the riding arena and chipmunks still appeared in the terrace gardens to cause havoc by stealing tools and making tunnels under the plants.

So, in this hilarity, they held another meeting of all the Clubs. And this time, Loretta and her girls were supposed to show up. But they didn’t.

Annoyed, Lily and the other Club Presidents rode off to Moorland to find out what had happened to Loretta. Justin didn’t know. He was as confused as the girls, because all of the Bobcat Girls were missing.

Thomas didn’t know anything when they asked him. Jenna was quite frankly annoyed. She’d discovered the Bobcat Girls tendency to fob their work off to campers and she was over it. Maya had a clue. “Well, Loretta threw Tan a birthday party. I’d say it was Loretta but as usual she made the other girls do all the work. They were talking about seeing something new up near Nilmer’s Highland when they came back. I told them about the ghosts on the highland but they didn’t believe me. I thought it might be that, but now, I’m not so sure.”

“We’ll check it out.” Lily said.

They rode towards Nilmer’s Highland together keeping their eyes peeled. It was the bright bit of magenta that gave it away.

“No! No. No! That’s not working!” Someone shouted.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” Ami murmured.

But there was no help of it really. They rode down the road to where it took a sharp bend and off towards the right seated on the top of the plateau like cliff that overlooked Silverglade proper was a deflated pool of magenta and hot pink that could have been a tent, a handsome young man in a top hat, several carts, and a baker’s dozen of white horses with feather plumes in Bobcat Girl Pink on their heads.

“I really have a bad feeling about this,” Ami said.

“Ladies! Ladies!” The young man in the top hat bowed, taking off his top hat. “I am Ydris and this is my circus of dreams. Or, it would be,” he eyed the fallen tent with disdain. “It appears my help lacks the required amount of hands. My Zee is missing and the Fool has wandered off.”

“Zee?”

“My horse, she’s a very special horse,” Ydris waved his hands. He snapped his fingers. “Perhaps, you can help me!”

“We’re actually looking for some people,” Lily said.

“Then, I can help you find them in exchange,” Ydris smiled.

“Oh, no, we found them, ja,” Ingrid shifted on her horse and looked at the white horses. “Of course, calling them people at the moment might be redundant.”

Ydris waved his hand. “Those beauties said they wanted to be part of my circus.”

“Well, that will certainly teach Loretta and company to be a tad more specific, now won’t it?” Kate drawled out.

Lily sighed. “Ydris, I’m going to suppose that there is something they or we can do to get them back to normal.”

“But they are my star attraction.”

Ingrid grimaced. “We aren’t looking to take their places.”

“They shall bring delight and happiness to this world. Isn’t that the greatest joy of all?”

“They’re also people,” Lily pointed out.

Ydris heaved a great sigh. “Very well, lovely ones. I shall restore their forms in return for a favor from me.”

“Or, we can set up your tent, find your missing horse, and return your fool.” Ingrid smiled.

“The fool no doubt went for a walk, I can hear the jingle of his bells off to the south. Do not be frightened of him, fair maids, for despite his ugly face, there beats within his chest a heart of solid gold.”

“I’ll go get him,” Kate said and trotted away.

“Now, about your tent,” Lily said.

“No matter how hard I try, it won’t stay up. I wave my hands like so, and gesture like this,” Ydris waved his hands and the tent rose into the air and hovered forming the proper shape with clouds of purple energy around it. “But it won’t stay like it’s supposed to.” He lowered his hands and the purple clouds disappeared and the tent collapsed into a heap of garish silk.

“Are you forgetting you need poles and rope?”

Ydris put his hand to his forehead. “Poles and rope. Oh, yes, what mundane things to need. They must be around here somewhere,” he gestured and a rather large group of red and white striped boxes appeared in puffs of purple smoke.

The girls methodically opened the boxes. They found some twigs and twine, but not poles and rope.

Ydris laughed at their findings as Kate returned with a dwarf of a man. “Hahahah, we can make these work my lovelies. Now, watch the Great Ydris perform marvels.” He put his fingers near his forehead, his brow furrowed. And the twigs and twin popped turning into long wooden poles and thick ropes. “Will that do?”

“Well enough,” Pia said.

They dismounted their horses and by dint of picking up the tent and trial and error managed to get the poles and the ropes situated.

“It seems a bit, floppy. It is far too sad to be a carnival of dreams, a festival of delights!” Ydris waved his hands.

The girls struggled not to glare at him.

“How foolish, how unprofessional. Xin, I thought better of you!” Ydris exclaimed. “How will we look if you’re doing that when the customers appear?”

Riley helped the fool who had gotten tangled in the ropes to get down.

“Perhaps they need to be tightened,” Ydris waved his hands and the ropes tightened and the tent straightened. But as soon as he lowered them, they all fell back. “My powers aren’t as strong here on this side of the veil.”

The girls mounted their horses, attached the ropes to the saddle. “All together now, pull,” Lily shouted.

The tent slowly rose up.

“Yes. Yes, that’s it. That is my desire!”

The girls got it tight and then lashed off the ropes.

“Now, to truly be a circus, it needs, a sign!” Ydris gestured broadly but nothing happened. “Over there,” he pointed.

Luciana retrieved the sign and they put it over the door.

“Now, about your missing horse,” Sonja said.

“Zee does so enjoy running off,” Ydris sighed. “She’s mad at me you see for saying there could be a better attraction of horses than her. But the beautiful ladies offered and how could I refuse?”

“By not turning them into horses,” Lily said.

A bunch of the girls giggled.

“We shall go ask around if anyone has seen your missing horse,” Kelsey said. She and a couple of the other girls left at a trot to check with Steve, Ed, and Maya if anyone had rumors of an unclaimed horse around.

Kelsey returned with a silver dapple draft horse tagging along behind her. She was teasing it along with cookies.

“Zee!” Ydris exclaimed. “Did you have a marvelous adventure?”

Zee huffed and glared at the white horses.

“Oh yes, erm,” Ydris gestured with his hands and a cloud of purple and pink smoke surrounded the white horses. They returned to being girls, coughing and looking quite embarrassed.

“Thank you,” Lily said sweetly. “Now, before we get going. Is there anything else you need help with?”

“Well, it would be nice to have a tent to part the mists of the future.” Ydris said. “And a way for people to visit me.”

“Then, I’m sure Loretta and her club can return to help you tomorrow,” Lily said with a smile. “And you can work out an equitable way for them to be part of your circus then without changing them into horses.” Lily waved her hand. “Come along, ladies. We have a meeting!”

They offered the Bobcat girls seats on the back of their horses so they didn’t have to return to Moorland. Assuming that is where all of their horses were.

They formed up into two long lines and trotted away from the circus, back onto Nilmer’s proper before swinging onto the road to Silverglade.

Loretta didn’t say anything until they’d passed the turn off through the Silver Wood. She cleared her throat. “Thank you. May we never speak of this again?”

Lily raised a brow at her.

Loretta at least had the grace to flush.

“We make no promises we aren’t sure we can’t keep,” Kate told her in a dry tone.

They stabled their horses in Steve’s Paddock and rejoined the rest of their clubs at the Council House.

“All right, now that we’re all here,” Kate said. “Let’s begin. Captain Lily, the floor is yours.”

“In old business, I believe we have managed to set up the Farmer’s Market to our satisfaction and things are progressing quickly at Silverglade Manor. Soon, the restaurant, garden trails, and ice cream bar will be open for business. Luciana, how goes the racing event for the Dew Family.”

Luciana stood. “We’ve managed to gather several corporate and private sponsors around South New Jorvik County and in Jorvik City to match the donations of those who are getting individual sponsors. We’re going to start putting out flyers at different stables soon.”

“Amelia, Ginny, any news on the G.E.D. front?”

Ginny and Amelie looked at each other. “I’m not sure where to begin, oui,” Amelia said.

“Because there’s a lot,” Ginny rubbed her forehead. “And we’ve lost track of Mr. Kemball.”

“We know where he is,” Ingrid said with a huge sigh.

“Well, did anyone local know that the previous mayor of Jarlaheim, Mayor Eileen is missing?” Amelia asked.

The local girls looked at each other, eyes wide.

“No. Not at all,” Pauline murmured. “She was well liked too.”

“Swell mayor,” Tyra agreed with a nod.

“Well, she’s missing and Herman, the man who runs Jorvik Stables thinks that G.E.D. is to blame. We’ve got ourselves an in with Ms. Drake, the woman in charge of G.E.D. around the Jarlaheim area.”

“Oh, we’ve run into her over in Dundull. She was the one behind trying to sell our spring water,” Rania pounded the table with her fist.

“Her brother is in charge over in Epona. He’s got Junior Buttergood of the Buttergood family on his side.” Ginny grimaced.

Amelie held up her hand. “We’ve been working on the behest of Herman to find out what G.E.D. is doing around Jarlaheim. From what we’ve been able to gather, they’re looking for places to drill. Not for oil like they were doing here in Silverglade under Mr. Kemball, but for a type of crystal that they believe has more energy and power than oil.”

“In fact, we think they’ve already started drilling in Hillcrest.” Ginny added.

“Wait, aren’t you based in Hillcrest?” Lily asked.

Ginny shook her head. “That’s New Hillcrest. Hillcrest is situated on top of one of the Greydew Mountains. Right now, right outside of where the town should be is a G.E.D. housing construction area and we think a wall. We haven’t been able to get close enough to find out.”

“Herman wants us to take one of the old paths up there to find out and we’ve told him absolutely not,” Amelia said firmly. “That is a sure way to get someone caught, especially when he insists on going with us. It’d no doubt be him. Working our way into Ms. Drake’s trust is slower, but surer and safer.”

“There is an organization in Epona who seems to be trying to stand against G.E.D.” Ginny said slowly.

“Do you trust them?” Lily asked.

“When the leader is named Mrs. X?” Ginny widened her eyes. “Absolutely not. The people that we’ve met that claim to be part of this organization aren’t, well, they’re like Jamie Olivetree. They’re nice people, good intentions.”

Violet spoke up. “But seem to have some shady morals.”

Ginny nodded.

“Personal experience?” Lily asked.

“We’ll let them finish,” Ingrid said.

“Herman claims to have a friend testing the samples for him. But we haven’t heard anything back yet despite the bucket load we’ve given them.” Amelia made a face. “I’m worried that he’ll try to do something without us as we try to head off this feud between the Sunfields and the Goldspurs.

“The Goldspurs stole the Sunfield chickens, the kids are dating, Freya is mean to the cat so it runs off,” Josefina rolled her eyes. “At least the Jarlssons aren’t part of it.”

“There’s a nice young woman putting in a theatre in Jarleheim. I don’t know who is going to attend since the city seems mostly empty. There are a lot of empty shops. We’ve helped one young man put in a clothing shop but I’m not sure it’s the right area for it.” Amelie shrugged. “Mostly, there is very little word on what happened to Eileen. And we aren’t sure the G.E.D. is set up legally where they are either.”

“Right, I think pictures are in order and maybe finding out who is in charge of that part of the County like the Baroness is in charge of Silverglade.”

“Oui, and where is the Count and Countess in all of this,” Amelia scowled.

“Golden Hills,” Riley said. “I think. Or they’re supposed to be. There’s a castle up in the mountains above Cape West.”

“We need proof that they are parked where they are illegally and have something to do with the missing Mayor,” Lily said. “Without proof, then they aren’t going anywhere.”

“You’re really knowledgeable about this,” Kate observed.

“I like true crime shows,” Lily wrinkled her nose.

Kate narrowed her eyes. “I’m not sure that entirely explains it.”

“Anything else on G.E.D. in Epona, Ginny?”

“They want to buy out the stable, though I’m not sure why. It does sit on a spur between South Hoof and Sunset Islands. The entire south west area of Epona is notorious for shipwrecks. That’s why people avoid it and go to Cape West instead.” Ginny shrugged. “Or up to Cape Point.”

Lily Bones leaned forward from her spot at one of the big tables. “Having Junior Buttergood in their pocket gives them the entire area of Old Ridgecaster to do whatever they want to do. Scott is trying to fix a bridge over the Old Thunder at the moment. Robert is working with the secret organization. He tried to hire us to sabotage the G.E.D. equipment. They’ve also are drilling on one of the nearby islands. They’ve got up a gate and a guard on it.”

“You can get in if you’re careful by jumping onto the island from down below,” Ginny said. “But, you have to be careful.”

Lily Bones continued. “We refused to help Robert. It wasn’t him that would get caught and hurt.”

Lily nodded. “Understandable.”

“We’ve spent more time helping Terrance Rockwell stop being a berserk infected monster, than we’ve been able to do anything productive. He claims he fell into the Cauldron where Witch Pi lives in the Golden Hills and got poisoned by the marsh water. But he won’t tell us what he was doing there in the first place.”

“Pi?” Riley groaned. “Oh, we’ve had to deal with Pi. She’s working with Dark Core. We’re trying to get her back to normal. The Cape West Mayor is her husband.”

Lily turned her attention to Melissa. “What is happening in Valedale then?”

“Dark Core has set up a mining site above the lake and it’s turning the water green. You can see it barely from the village itself. Both waterfalls are being contaminated. Valedale doesn’t have a mayor. It has Elisabeth Sunbeam of the druids. She doesn’t seem to want much to do with us since we don’t have any druidic powers.”

Lily blinked. “Ohkay.”

“But, we brought this issue to her attention and she sent us to speak with another druid in town named Avalon. Well, he started mixing up a drug to make the Dark Core guards more susceptible to suggestion so they’d leave.”

“A drug?” Kate gaped.

“Is this normal here?” Lily asked looking at Emma, Pauline, and any other local girl that she could catch their eyes.

“We said that we weren’t drugging anyone!” Violet said. “And that made Avalon broody and now he won’t speak to us to come up with an alternative form of actions.”

“People respect the druids,” Sonja said. “But we don’t know much about them and what they can do. That’s why we speak softly around them.”

“Sabotage. Drugging people. Breaking and entering?” Lily gestured with her hands. “When we took on G.E.D. in Moorland and here, we did it by the books! We followed the law and got the proper authorities involved. We might not be able to do anything about the G.E.D. on the Buttergood lands because Junior wants them there. But come on, they can’t just park in the mountains and drill without proper permits and permissions. Same for Jarlehiem or Moorland Beach.”

“Maybe we can do something about the Buttergoods, but that means involving Walter Winterwell and making him care about the state of his land.” Ginny said with a shrug. “But if he refuses to open Fort Maria again, I don’t know if he’ll care about drilling on the Buttergoods no matter if it’s going to contaminate the entire area. They don’t have any discretion with their dump sites.”

“Probably illegal,” Lily Bones said.

“Why is Fort Maria closed?” Lily asked.

“Haunted,” Ginny said. “Or so goes the rumor.”

“Is everything in this area haunted? Nilmer’s Highland, the Arena in Jorvik Stables, now Fort Maria.” Lily waved her hands. “Aren’t the druids supposed to be doing something about that?”

Amelia spoke up. “I say the adults around here are crazy and not to be trusted.”

“Seconded,” Ami said.

“Thirded,” Kate added.

“Motion carried,” Lily said.

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Completely Harmless Ch. 15

Completely Harmless An SSO SilverGlade Re-imagining Story (Or Fix it Fan Salt fic) By Ginny O.

Chapter Fifteen Nefarious Counter Plots

Antonia did call begging for help moving things. Bjorn offered up his truck and so while half the girls stayed behind to do the daily chores and check ups around the Manor, the rest went with Bjorn to New Hillcrest going through an empty farm in Epona.

Bjorn told them about the area as he drove slowly so they could keep up.

“But the Dews disappeared. Don’t know who owns the olive farm now,” Bjorn sucked on the stem of the edible flower he kept in his mouth.

“Then, who are we to pay to get the olives,” Melody asked.

“Isn’t Maya over in Moorland a Dew?” Regina added.

Pauline nodded. “She is!”

“Well, she’ll know what happened here with her family,” Lily said. “We can ask her on the way back.”

Bjorn muttered about the trees in the road in the Marsh and how the New Hillcrest mayor wouldn’t look beyond their own nose despite their whole “planned” town. “If no one can get to your town because of trees in the road, what good is it,” he said crankily as they dragged big logs out of the road with improvised rope hoists from his truck.

Antonia had a good portion of her things packed up but not all of it. And she’d run out of boxes. So, they ran over to Jamie Olivetree the local (and horrid) baker to see if she had any and if any of the other stores had boxes they could use. They came back with boxes from Jamie and the different clothing stores and were able to finish packing up Antonia’s stuff quickly, carefully packing all the items with newspaper.

“I know the cottage is smaller. I mean, I’m getting rid of a lot of stuff. I was so hopeful when I moved here that the Winterwells would want a restaurant other than Jamie and nothing opened up.” Antonia raked a hand through her hair.

“But the Baroness wants one and that’s even better,” Regina said as she wrapped up some lamps. They loaded her things into Bjorn’s truck and boxes onto the horses and Antonia locked her house for the last time. “Let me go drop this key off with the Mayor,” she said.

Lily accompanied her and they informed the Mayor about both the new Restaurant and Event area opening soon at the Manor but also the Farmer’s Market run by the Summer Chipmunks. The Mayor sounded pleased about it all.

Bjorn grumbled. “Now if she’d be pleased enough to clear the roads.”

They headed back at the same pace as before.

Lily promised to meet them at the Village after she went and talked to Maya. She trotted off to Moorland.

“Maya!” She called out and waved as she got close. “You probably don’t remember me, I’m Lily. I was a camper here.”

Maya leaned on her shovel. “You’re right. I don’t remember you.”

“There are a lot of campers, it’s no matter,” Lily said. “Say, Bjorn, the Silverglade Manor gardener says that big old farm in Eastern Epona belongs to your family. We’re opening a Mediterranean restaurant,”

Maya held up her hand. “Belonged,” she said dryly and a little bitterly. “The G.E.D. bankrupted us and bought us out.”

Lily bit her tongue as not to swear. “I’m so sorry, Maya.”

Maya slumped. “Yeah. What are you going to do?”

“We’re going to help, that’s what we’re going to do,” Lily put her hands on her hips. “We aren’t going to give G.E.D. and the likes of Mr. Kemball money. And it’s not like they’re guarding it or doing anything with it from the looks of it. We need the olives for the restaurant.”

“It’s too late,” Maya moaned.

“It isn’t. Look, where did your family go to?”

“There’s a farm in the Forgotten Fields. But forget it, they won’t deal with you. They hide every time someone comes along. We’re ashamed. That farm in Epona had been in our family for generations.”

“And we’re going to help you get it back.”

“How?”

“By paying you for materials for the Restaurants. Look, the Manor is opening a restaurant and doing events. The Forgotten Fields is right across the South Silver Waters, right? Then, we give orders to you. You give them to your family and we’ll pay you for it. And we’ll tell other restaurants that are going to be opening soon to also use your family’s farm with their orders.”

“We can’t supply all of it!”

“Maybe, maybe not, there are a lot of farms in the area and they aren’t going to have everything we need either. But if all the families and tenant farmers got together and worked together so that everyone was growing different things with enough overlap there’s enough, everyone will benefit and your family will be making money again. You can get your farm back. Especially, since you’re the only family that does olives and we’re going to need a lot of those.”

Maya looked skeptical.

“Look, the Summer Chipmunks are putting together a Farmer’s Market.” Lily got out her phone and scribbled down the President’s number. “You take your family’s goods there and we can figure out what your family needs to plant in order to make money while they work to get their Olive Farm back. And, hey, if we do it right. Your family will have two thriving farms instead of one. It’s a traditional Greek menu this summer, we’re going to need olives, tomatoes, and cucumbers. We’re going to need milk for yoghurt and the different cheeses. We’re going to need chicken, beef, and lamb. I’m not sure about eggs because she might be using the duck eggs from all the ducks at the Manor.”

Maya looked dazed.

“Antonia, the head chef, is moving into Silverglade today. She’s going to want to talk to all her local suppliers. You want your family to be on that list.”

Maya burst into tears and then latched onto Lily. “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. No one has had any ideas, any good ideas.”

“Hey,” Lily patted her back. “This area is about to see a revival. You’ll see.”

Maya nodded, let her go, and wiped her eyes. “Thanks.”

“I’ll talk to the President of the Summer Chipmunks about encouraging Steve and the others to come up with a farmer’s collective. I know the Sunfields have a creamery and that the Goldspurs and Will have flour mills.”

Maya nodded again. “Most of the farmers barely talk to each other. Jasper has a Pumpkin Farm in the Golden Hills.”

“Pumpkin is more of a fall thing,” Lily murmured. “I’ll go tell him about it. He can’t be as cranky as he was before.”

Maya wiped her eyes. “I hope not.”

Justin jogged over. “Hey, no upsetting the help.”

“Happy tears, Justin, happy tears!”

“Oh,” Justin rocked on his heels. “Things going okay over there in Silverglade.”

“We’re going to make a huge difference. You’ll see. Things are going grand,” Lily assured him.

Justin glanced at Maya who had composed herself.

“If you’re sure,” Justin said. “Since, you’re making Maya cry and all.”

“It is classified information, Moorland,” Lily said. “You aren’t authorized to know.”

Justin pouted. “Be that way.”

Lily winked at Maya.

Maya bit her lip.

“We don’t want G.E.D. to get wind of our nefarious counter plots,” Lily whispered.

Maya nodded rapidly.

Lily looked down her nose at Justin. “Well, I best be off, much counter insurgency to attend to.”

Justin scoffed.

Maya gave her a thumbs up.

Reassured that she’d made someone’s day better, Lily went to help Antonia finish unpacking and tell her about the fate of the Dew’s farm. Antonia was flabbergasted. “How could they do that? No. You’re right. I’m not giving G.E.D. any money. Not after the things they’ve done. We’ll get the money to the proper owners of the farm.”

“I don’t want to scare them by going to explore their farm now,” Lily fretted.

“Hopefully, someone will turn up at the first Farmer’s Market,” Linn said. “Even if it is only Maya. She can relay the news to her family. If they don’t want to be seen, then Maya can be their public face.”

“And she’s cute, people will be sympathetic since she’s cute.”

“Well, she mentioned Jasper has a bigger farm in the Golden Hills. He grows Pumpkins.”

“I don’t need pumpkins until at least October.” Antonia made a face.

“We can tell him that,” Lily grinned.

Once Antonia was settled, Lily and the other girls decided to check out the Golden Hills. “We used the transports, I only really saw the village,” Lily said to Abigail.

“We were on a timed schedule,” Pauline told her. “There are a lot of villages!”

They all laughed.

They rode down the road instead of winding through the dead gardens.

Jennifer sighed. “That is going to be a lot of work.”

“I don’t think Agnetha cares.”

They went past the Riding Arena. Sabine still practiced inside, though she’d hired someone else to time her.

The road led to a large iron gate and on the other side was the Golden Hills.

“So,” Lily asked slowly, “are the Golden Hills, golden?”

There was some giggling.

“I mean, this isn’t like the Golden Fields that used to be canola flower fields.”

“You think they’ll do anything about that,” Melody mused, meaning the Summer Chipmunks.

“Not our area,” Elsa said.

“Oh thank goodness,” a couple said together.

The Golden Hills were indeed golden. And they’d be more golden in the fall, Lily observed. However, now it was high summer so it a soothing blend of green and eye catching yellows. The Birch Trees continued on the other side of the gate. Their leaves would turn gold in the fall.

But among the Birch Trees were trees with green leaves and long chains of yellow flowers.

“What are these?” Lily asked Linn.

“Golden Chain Trees,” Linn said.

“Pretty,” Lily said.

Now, the girls from other places weren’t sure if it was accident or by design, but the many different bushes and flowers of the Golden Hills area that they noticed as they rode down the road to get to Jasper’s Pumpkin Farm were some color of yellow.

There were three bushes that were yellow that no one knew the names of. Though one had bunches of white flowers.

For flowers, Lily recognized goldenrod, though it was more of a weed than a flower. There were black eyed susans, yellow pansies and yellow daylilies. Grace, who knew more about flowers, pointed out yellow primroses, yarrow and of course, there were buttercups and some yellow snap dragons. There were also yellow impatiens.

This was fun according to Grace, because snap dragon seed pods looked like skulls and impatiens seed pods exploded when you touched them. There was a funny looking round flower that was called a Billy Button. The Garden Tickseed had bright yellow flowers with burgundy centers.

Elsa wanted to know if the people of the Golden Hills went out and just ripped out anything that wasn’t yellow. That made Linn and Tyra laugh. There were Mums and Marigolds for the fall of course. Right now they were growing as green plants and shrubs not yet flowering. And in Spring, among the birches, Linn said there were yellow daffodils as far as the eye could see.

“Those are bulbs,” Grace said looking down.

“They push out the tulips,” Linn said.

“Well, tulips aren’t currency anymore,” Grace sniffed.

There were some giggles.

They explored a bit before actually going to Jasper’s farm. The Golden Hill’s forest was a huge Birch forest and there was a race there run by a girl named Emma. The race itself had jumps and such of fallen trees and big rocks. The pumpkins were trying to take over the forest around Jasper’s farm. The pumpkins were still small and not at all ready to be picked yet. They told Jasper about the Farmer’s Market and that in the Fall, the chef of the Silver Glade was planning on using Pumpkin for something.

“Pumpkin and Pumpkin Spice is all the rage in fall,” Jasper agreed. He thanked them for the information.

They returned to Silverglade feeling they’d done their part to help out the Summer Chipmunks.

The next day the decorator arrived. He’d seen the pictures. He’d seen the ideas. He wanted to get his own take on the space. And, he wanted hard numbers. He needed to know exactly how many people they could sit in there because that was going to help determine how much money they could make for the floor space and how much each seat was going to cost.

Antonia nodded along and talked about food pricing and how she wanted to keep it low by sourcing from local vendors.

Linda hung off to the side and had the girls help her take pictures of the goings ons as a couple of the other girls were given measuring tapes and told what needed to be measured.

“For a nice modern space, we do want it to be something neutral, but not taupe,” the decorator raved. “We’re calling it the Silver Glade, then grey, grey that actually says something. French grey, dove grey, something warm so it’s not cold and then if we use more classical furniture in darker colors it will stand out like the dark slashes on the paper birch trees.”

“He’s making this up, right?” Stacy asked Theresa in a low voice.

Theresa shrugged.

“French paneling, definitely, Le George has that right,” the decorator nodded. “And these windows are spectacular. We don’t want to draw away from them and this gorgeous view of this amazing reflecting pool with curtains. “No. No. No.”

Agnetha presented him with a board of the different flowers she expected to put into the back gardens and the array of roses.

“Brilliant,” he said. “And you said the Baroness loves purple?”

“It’s a Winery, she adores purple,” Elsa said dryly.

“All right, we’ll have the Wedgewood intaglio vases and they’re smaller and then we can also have large purple glass vases to put the roses into and I know an artist who can make us purple and clear glassware for the tables. Let the purple of the glassware and the flowers be the only colors in the room to draw the eyes to exactly where you want them. Otherwise, use greys and silvers. There’s a plaster artist I know that can do a plaster bas relief above the doors like at the Le George if we want.”

“That sounds great,” Antonia said. “Anything to make this place seem posh and upscale and reflect the Mediterranean but still be classic.”

“Fresh and young,” Lily reminded them.

“That will be the purple glass,” the decorator said. “I think I have a handle on it. Up the stairs we go.”

He raved of the view from the roof. “All right, here is my thinking. We’re definitely going to want the same chairs. Though the ones in the dining room will be cushioned better. But I saw these antique roman style chairs like you wanted with something similar to the Silverglade Clan swirl on the back. We can have them up here and down there with grey or silver cushions. No grannie is going to want to come all the way up these stairs for a meal, so downstairs will be much more comfortable with back support cushions too. Otherwise, Ms. Agnetha, plant your roses everywhere for a romantic look and don’t worry about vases overly much. We can put some lights on the pillars here and along the walls if necessary among the flower boxes and call it a day.”

Everyone looked relieved that this probably wasn’t going to be a huge deal.

“We can get the flowers and lights in before the furniture arrives,” Agnetha reassured him.

“And I’ll be off to hire some workers to do the walls of down below and get my artist friend on the line.” He beamed at them. “We’ll need a chandelier in the same style as the rest,” he murmured making notes as he went.

“He seems to know what he’s doing at least,” Lily said.

“Relief,” Grace wiped her forehead. “I was worried he would call the place hopeless.”

“It’s a big empty room,” Elsa said.

Antonia leaned against a pillar. “This doesn’t quite feel real.”

“It will soon enough,” Lily told her.

Agnetha dusted her hands together. “Better get the lights order in then for up here.”

“Anastasia might have already.”

“Pish, she might have put in an order for designs, but she doesn’t know how many we need,” Agnetha said.

Lily decided to let Agnetha, the decorator, Anastasia, and the lighting artist sort it out. It sounded way to dizzying for her to do. The other girls agreed with her. But it looked like things were going to pick back up again very quickly.

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