#trys to hang herself. it works for a minute til len walks in(hes gonna be main vocaloid for event insted of meiko cause yeah)

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just askin, hypothetically, what if i did make an alternate au + animatic of mizu 6 being angst and ena 5 not happening the same way.....

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Double Trouble Ch4

Pairing: McKirk

Rating: G

Length: 1515 words

Summary: Ellie meets Len and Charlie. The girls’ timeline gets rushed a little, and Len is having a few doubts.

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Ellie wasn’t really sure about Len when they first climbed into the man’s truck. He seemed a little awkward and a lot nervous, and not nearly as glad to see her as Jo made it sound like he’d be. Other than to ask about her much shorter hair, he barely said two words. His hands fiddled with the steering wheel a little as he opened his mouth to start saying something several times before she finally prompted, “Daddy what’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong, sweetheart,” he assured her with a sigh. “I just got something I need to talk to you about and I dunno where to start.”

Apprehension shadowed her response, “Well… Start from the beginning.”

“You know Charlie and I have been seeing each other for a while?”

She didn’t even have to fake the distaste she felt toward the man after everything Jo had told her. “Yeah. What about him? Did you break up?”

“Please don’t start, Joanna Marie. No, that’s not what happened. While you were gone, he and I decided that we’re going to get married at the end of summer.” Every muscle in his body seemed wound tight as he broke the news.

Ellie was horrified. “You what?!”

Silence reigned while Leonard debated what to say next. All the while, Ellie stared him down, practically daring him to come up with a good reason for this decision.

“He’s very sweet, Jojo. And he makes me happy, so I want you to at least try to give him a chance alright?”

Her arms crossed stubbornly while he waited for a response. She needed to get ahold of Jo as soon as she could get her hands on the phone if this was still going to work because gosh, this was turning into a huge mess. If they couldn’t get things rolling fast, they wouldn’t even have the chance. Wide fields and patches of trees sped past while she thought through the situation. Everything came back to needing to call Joanna.

“Can I call someone when we get home?”

He sighed and rubbed at his face but nodded. “Yeah alright… We’re talking about this at some point today, though. Just me and you, promise.”

“Yeah okay.”

The second they walked through the door, Ellie scowled at the man she could only assume was Charlie. He was blonde like her papa, but looked so much more Abercrombie model than actual human being and he looked way too pleased with himself. She ignored him in favor of getting a good look around the room. The whole place had a look of just plain niceness that was foreign to her. It almost looked cold. There were a few personal touches here and there; photos of Joanna with her father, other family members, Christmas cards that probably should have come down months ago, but none of the loving mess Ellie was accustomed to.

She glanced around and found the phone sitting in its cradle, grabbed it and bolted upstairs where she assumed the bedrooms were before anyone could say another word to her. Quick peeks through doorways quickly revealed a room with posters of plane schematics, model planes hanging from the ceiling, and other various bits and bobs associated with aviation that identified the room as Jo’s. Ellie locked herself in and tumbled onto the bed as she dialed the all-too familiar number of her own home.

“Hello?” The sound of her own dad’s voice on the other end of the line made her smile a little.

“Hi, um… Is Ellie there?”

“She sure is, is this Jo?”

“Yeah! I wanted to make sure I got the number right and that she got home okay with the plane and all.” Lying to Jim had never been high on her list of things to do, but drastic times called for drastic measures and she was sure he’d understand when it was all done.

“Just a second and lemme get her- Ellie! Phone for you!”

There was a bit of shuffling around, but Jo finally snagged the phone, “Hello? Jojo?”

“Oh my god, Joanna go to my room right. Now. Everything’s gonna be ruined!” Okay, maybe that was a little dramatic, but it felt like everything was already crumbling before they even had a chance to try.

She listened to Joanna excuse herself and waited until she heard the soft click of her bedroom door before launching back into her ramble, “So your dad was really weird when we got in the truck and at first I didn’t get why and he was really fidgety and I asked what was wrong and he told me that he and that Charlie guy are getting married! So now we have to really really really try to get your dad and that guy broken up if we’re gonna get our dad’s together.”

“Oh no… No wonder he wanted me gone!” She fumed. “What are we going to do?”

They both thought on it for a while before Jo had an idea, “What if we say we think we’re twins? They’d need to test it, wouldn’t they?”

“Hey yeah! And dad’s gallery showing isn’t til the end of summer, so we still have like a month and a half! So we just gotta tell our dads about the switch and let them figure out how they wanna switch us back.”

“And then we can drive Charlie out! He can hardly stand one of me. The both of us together would be unbearable!”

“Okay it’s a plan. We should talk to our dads tonight, right?”

“Right.”

Ellie hung up the phone and just lay across the bed sulking and wondering how she was supposed to do this all so quickly. She already liked Leonard a lot, and he wasn’t going to be happy about this. After a few hours of stalling, she wandered back downstairs to put it back in the cradle. On the way, she found Len sitting alone in the kitchen with a mug of coffee in his hands looking thoroughly deep in thought. When she wandered over to his side, he snapped out of it and pulled her into a one-armed hug that she returned with only a little hesitation. How mad was he going to be when she told him?

“What are you thinking about?” She asked quietly.

“I’m already wondering if I’m not making a mistake.”

“What kind of mistake?”

A deep frown tugged at his lips as he answered, “Getting married to Charlie.” There seemed to be more to it than that, but he chose not to add any more.

“If you’re not sure, you shouldn’t do it.”

He pressed a kiss to the top of her head. “And are you saying that because you’re suddenly wise beyond your years or because you apparently hate Charlie?”

“Why can’t it be both?” Ellie snuggled into him a little as she mumbled, enjoying the huff of laughter it pulled from him.

“I really do hope you know I love you more than anything.”

“Yeah?”

There was a flash where he exaggeratedly thought on it, tapping at his chin and hmm-ing before he grinned when she nudged him. “Yeah.”

“Well… What if there were two of me? Would you love having an extra me?”

“Two of you? Jojo, what are you talking about?”

She bit at her lip, suddenly extremely nervous about how this was going to go over. “Uh… I’m talking about me not being Joanna… I’m Ellie. Jo’s at my house with my dad in California…”

Len pulled back and looked her over, confusion etched across his features. He barely managed to set his cup down without spilling it in his distracted state and Ellie squirmed under his scrutiny.

“I know you don’t want me to get married, but this is not the way to go about it, Joanna.”

“I’m not Joanna! I’m Ellie! I live with my dad Jim in San Francisco and I don’t know anything about flying or airplanes or anything like that, but I can tell you all about the ocean and fossils and monsters and paints! We got the idea when she got the marshmallow in her hair and we had to cut it. Well… She did. I just thought it was a really good idea.”

Stunned silence rang out through the room as Len just stared at her for a moment. He seemed to be looking for some kind of indication that she was actually just joking and she’ll jump in with giggles any minute if he just keeps an eye on her long enough. When he got no such response, Len frowned a little and asked, “You’re serious?”

“Yeah…”

“And I’m just supposed to believe this?”

Ellie’s nose scrunched a little as she shook her head. “I’ve got a picture of me and papa and grampa and poppy in my bag. We’re at papa’s gallery showing last year…”

Len pinched at the bridge of his nose with a sigh. “That’s not necessary. Get me the phone. We need to call your father so we can switch the two of you back.”

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