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Goddamn Teenagers (Worm, AU/time travel)

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Rachel stiffed?

...someone on a bill? I dunno, I guess it would spend on what the bill was. But I assume the word here was supposed to be "stiffened"?
 
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Meet the Birons, Part 4
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    • "Hey, uh, Lilac?"

    Lisa looked up from her salad, then looked down to see Vista in sweats and a domino mask. Mouth full, Lisa gestured for Vista to sit down.

    "So…" Vista began, "you work a lot with Dr. Weaver, right?"

    Lisa nodded.

    "So, uh, there was a thing with my parents, where they were being snippy and she threw them out and then talked to me about homework and what I did at home and stuff."

    Seeing Lilac's expression, Vista quickly elaborated, "not bad snippy, well not that bad. They get way worse sometimes on shared custody days."

    Lilac nodded. She was beginning to get the shape of things.

    "Anyway," Vista continued, "then she met with them by herself, and ever since then they have been acting weird?"

    Lisa blinked. Oh, god, what did she do?
     
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    • Ace Dreamer said:
    Do you really want to know, Lisa? Really, really?

    So you can find out if it's just worse than you were imagining? Or, far, far, worse?

    Resist your curiosity, Lisa. Resist it.
    :)
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    Look, Lisa is the type to hear of dread Cthulhu rising from the depths, be told gazing upon him drives all but the most strong-willed to madness, and choose to go look him square in the tentacle-y maw because she can't stand it knowing why and lacks the introspection to realize that no, she is not going to survive this unscathed.
     
    Marika Oniki said:
    Look, Lisa is the type to hear of dread Cthulhu rising from the depths, be told gazing upon him drives all but the most strong-willed to madness, and choose to go look him square in the tentacle-y maw because she can't stand it knowing why and lacks the introspection to realize that no, she is not going to survive this unscathed.
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    Remember when jaded!Taylor first was like "I want to show you something but it might break your brain so we gonna take some precautions" and Lisa was like "let's gooooooo!"

    Which is pretty much canon Lisa. She can't not go for the brain blasting forbidden knowledge
     
    Sibling Science, Part 3
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    • "Is all this, uh, normal?" Alec's sister asked.

    "What's normal?" Alec asked in reply. They were having breakfast in a side room at chez PRT, after spending most of the night talking mad science shit with Blue Boy and the lab coats.

    Cherie looked around uncertainly. "The late nights? The scientists? The super-detailed discussions of, uh, what our powers do?"

    Alec shrugged. "I think the Doc and Big Blue have a sort of special mad lad thing going on here." he took a bite of overdone bacon, then kept talking through his mouthful of food. "Everyone else gets dragged along for the ride.

    Alec's sister nodded slowly.

    "Just remember," Alec continued sardonically, "it's not evil bad mastering, we're using our powers to help! Counter the baddies! Prove we're better than dad, and so on. America fuck yeah, like in that Aleph movie."

    Cherie looked around nervously. "Aren't you worried, though? About m—using our powers on this guy, with the PRT right there?"

    "Eh," Alec replied. "He's a Nazi. Fuck 'em."
    Alec: He's a Nazi, they're totally chill with just grabbing people and doing science on them. It was a thing. We're respecting their culture.
     
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    Kit said:
    "He shall know your ways as though born to them..."
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    So, you are leaning on the 'Paul' part of Alec's birth-name, to claim that he's a small desert rat with retrocognitive knowledge of French history?

    Hmm.

    Of course, Lisa (doesn't 'Sarah' mean 'Princess'? *) would probably agree with the 'rat' part...


    * Of course, as a (secret) princess, she has to go adventuring, get into trouble, and be rescued...

    'Dune' was, I think, one of the really early (the first?) science fiction door-stopper novels. Seeing as it's 25+years, probably time for a re-read.

    Am I the only one to fear future films of 'Dune Messiah', 'Children of Dune', all the non-Herbert prequel stuff, eventually 'Teenage Hamster of Dune'?
     
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    dc2008 said:
    I think she's more a Star Wars sort of princess, where everyone gets captured sometimes, princess or not, and she's capable of kicking ass with the best of them
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    I suppose she often takes-down Coil's unstoppable Empire, and generally loots the body...

    And, she doesn't (on stage) get to sing, much...


    Alec: Sing, Lisa, Sing!

    * Lisa frantically looks around for a way to escape *

    Of course, Alec might have ideas...

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcluRi7y0r8
     
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    Domestic Matters, Part 15
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    • "I'm not snooping in your brother's room," Taylor said firmly. "That's creepy."

    Aisha laughed. "Come on, how else we gonna know what he likes?"

    Taylor rolled her eyes. "He's your brother, you won't convince me you are not already very well informed about his activities."

    Aisha snorted. "Less than you think, he be real good at hiding shit."

    Taylor pinched her nose. "Or he doesn't keep it here, what with the inquisitive younger sister, mischievous neighbors, and constant PRT presence."

    "Yeah, yeah," Aisha said, "don't shit where you eat. But that still doesn't help me!"

    Taylor sighed. "Big picture, it tells you something important, that he's not going to cut loose around you. Find a way to get him in a situation where he feels like he doesn't have to worry about you, where he can do something he likes."
    Note: This is why I try to re-read the last couple weeks of post regularly, is so I don't forget plot threads. Like I almost forgot this one.
     
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    • Meet the Birons, Part 5
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    • "You say your parents were weird," Lisa finally interrupted. As nice as it was for the younger girl to babble nonsense while Lisa had a proper panic, now that Lisa was ready to engage, attempting to parse the motormouth was exhausting. "Weird in what way?"

    "Uh, well," the pint-sized powerhouse said, "they still act normal when I'm not in the room. I can hear them. But when I'm in the room, they act all," she shrugged, "weird."

    Useless, of course. Lisa tried again. "How are they being different than normal?"

    "They're being much more polite and nice to each other? And aren't as snippy? Sometimes one of them will start to be snippy, and the other will give them a look, and then they'll both get quiet, and then one will change the subject?"

    Troubled family life. Dr. Weaver trying to help.

    Lisa groaned, and resisted the urge to put her head on the table. "Well," she said finally, in response to the younger girl''s alarmed expression, "the good news is that she really was trying to help."
    Note: Oh, Lisa.
     
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    • dc2008 said:
    "the good news is that she really was trying to help."
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    "The bad news... is that they've both got giant, invisible, guard spiders, sitting on their backs, who have the job of making sure they don't upset you."

    * Missy dropped jaw *

    "Metaphorically speaking, of course. Of course."

    Missy notices Lisa seems to be sweating. For some reason.
     
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    Making the Sausage
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    • "The Empire capes have splintered," Dr. Weaver began.

    Emily blinked. That neatly explained why she had requested that a broader audience for this meeting, with Phil, Armsmaster, Dauntless and Miss Militia also in attendance.

    The following explanation was… well, to be honest, in keeping with what she had come to expect from the woman.

    "To recap," Dauntless said, checking his notes. Poor boy seemed overwhelmed, but then again Emily supposed he had been mostly insulated from Dr. Weaver's particular style of briefing.

    "Hookwolf, Stormtiger, and Cricket, together with some non-capes, are heading to South America to work for that junta that's been in the news, the Elite recruited Othala with Victor as a tag-along, and we don't know what happened to Crusader, but he's gone."

    Dr. Weaver nodded.

    Shawn visibly tried to pull himself together. "Aren't we worried about what they're going to do wherever they're going, not to mention what they might do along the way?"

    Emily cut in, before Dr. Weaver could answer. Dauntless didn't usually have such a clear view of how the sausage got made, and there was no sense in unnecessarily provoking the boy.
    Note: Alternately, "Someone Else's Problem" or "Making Bratwurst"
     
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