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Third Floor Common Room, Saturday Evening

Wesley felt a little silly, entertaining his bratty child in the common room with board games that she seemed irrationally talented at. Honestly, what nine-year-old could beat a trained and experienced Watcher at Scrabble? He was positive that she was making the words up, but every time he consulted a dictionary, all he saw was Eloise's smug little face smirking at -- sure enough -- the word in question printed right there on the page.

Smug brat.

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[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"It's mean to say!" Eloise gasped. "Like I didn't tell you that I think your hair is stupid, did I? No! 'Cause I'm nice!"

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"But it isn't polite to say so!" Eloise protested, clearly aghast that she didn't know this already. "Didn't your mother teach you that?"

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
"My mother taught me that I should kick people in the ham and eggs if they try to kidnap me again." Yeah, it happens a lot.

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh," Eloise said, sniffing haughtily. "So your mother let you get kidnapped? My mother provides me with a guard at all times."

Sad but true. Lilah didn't do things halfway.

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
"They are evil wizards," Malaxandra replied knowingly.

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
"A vampire tried to kidnap me once," Eloise countered. "Because this one time Daddy tried to kidnap his son. But Mother protected me."

This was news to Wes.

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
"You should have just staked them. Or tricked them into the sunlight."

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't stake him, because he used to be Daddy's friend," Eloise continued. "And he's too smart to get tricked. He'd just send Gunn and Cordelia out instead of him."

Wesley was having trouble keeping up with this, but -- what? Vampire? Friend? Cordelia? What?

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, poor Wesley. One day he would sigh at this.

"Then you kick them in the ham and eggs." Duh.

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
She had a valid point.

"I suppose I could," Eloise conceded. "Gunn's awfully tall, though. And intimidating."

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"And he'll think you can't make him cry." Look, her mother was a vampire who enjoyed being a soldier and her father had been raised by an insane, evil maybe pedophile wizard.

"But you just sniffle a little and then break his arm when he gets close."

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Eloise tilted her head, processing it.

Finally, she nodded approvingly. "I like your style," she proclaimed.

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Awww. Bonding with violence. It was a beautiful thing. "And if that doesn't work, you can always scream until people arrive to slay them."

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"That's usually Daddy's domain," Eloise said thoughtfully. "Except with Gunn and Cordelia, because he likes them."

But that was enough about Wes' friends.

"Do your parents slay monsters?" she inquired.

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course they do. It's a king's duty to protect his kingdom from monsters."

Because Daventry was filled with random monsters that could only be killed by the bizarre combination of items picked up along the way of their adventures.

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. She was a princess. Eloise kept forgetting, which was weird because of how incredibly jealous she was.

"What kind of monsters?" she pressed. "My daddy can kill Ethros demons, you know."

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
"My father slayed a dragon to save my aunt from being eaten," Malaxandra replied. "And then she married a fairy prince."

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Eloise scoffed. "That only happens in stories," she protested. "Stupid stories, anyway. Mother says fairy tales like that aren't good for you."

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
"The princess saving her husband to be?"

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Turns out Eloise had slightly misheard the story. But sure, she was just going to go with it.

"Yes?" she tried.

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Ohhh. I want to read those books."

[identity profile] nothingbutgrey.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I wouldn't have any," Eloise pointed out. "Because Mother doesn't approve."

Duh.

[identity profile] daventry-vamp.livejournal.com 2011-02-13 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
"But they have a library here. Because it's a school."

Duh.
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