the deck | late morning | sunday | april 25

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Staying inside was for lazy grown ups who only wanted to watch boring television. If it wasn't cartoons or something going boom, Hannibal didn't want to be there. He, instead, wanted to be outside. The deck proved the best sort of place for an energetic youngster because there were things to climb on and hide under and jump off of! So, of course, that's what he was doing. Who thinks about the possibility of getting hurt when they're having fun?

Currently, Hannibal was standing on one of the tables, arms thrust into the air and voice loud enough to carry while he proclaimed himself the most awesome person in the world. His world view was quite small and quite egocentric so he thought he was pretty right.

When he jumped off the table, he couldn't quite stick the landing and ended up rolling onto his back. He meant to do that though. Totally.

[open deck, yep!]

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"Princess of Awesome!" Angela argued. Deputy didn't sound as neat and wasn't royalty.

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Hannibal scowled and stamped his foot again. "Then, I'm King Awesomest if you're gonna be Princess of Awesome. That's final!"

Oh, he thought he had so much authority here.

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Boys. Such a pain. Angela stamped her tiny foot in return and stuck her tongue out at him. Obviously she thought so very highly of his authority!

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"Take it or leave it, toots." Yes, he'd learned that name from his father. He stamped his foot right back and tried to do it louder and harder.

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If he was gonna stamp, she was gonna jump up and down on the spot, and emphasize her point that way.

A moment later she stopped to actually take the rest of that statement in.

"... Whatsa toots?"

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"You're a toots!" Which was code for 'he had no idea.' "And that's final! You can be a toots and be a princess but I'm still the best!"

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"An' I'm still more than you!" She was both things, see? Which made her better and more awesome. Somehow.

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"No!" This was going to be an neverending argument. "I more than you and that's that! Accept it or hit the road, Jack."

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"Not s'posed go near roads." That one had been drummed into her as a rule fairly early. No getting squished.

"And Jack's a boooooy name, not mine. I'm not a gross boy." And she sounded quite proud of that.

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"No, you're a tiny, stupid girl," Hannibal retorted and frowned at her. "And you're 'nnoying. Annoying stupid girl! Giiiiiiirl! Go eat rocks, girl!"

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"Nuh uh," Angela said stubbornly. "You eat 'em!" Apparently, she'd learned since this happened last year, not doing exactly what he told her. "... And mud too!" Not so full of creative insults, this one.

With that, she poked her tongue out at him, and turned to run away again. Way to get the last word.

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Hannibal glared after her and contemplated chasing her but that might mean she thought she was awesome because he was chasing her.

So, instead, he just kept glaring and let her have the last word. He'd get his revenge. At some point. Maybe. Who knows. Glaring would do until then.