E~ Hello and welcome to the third YGF story, chapter 2!
Snape: I'm almost afraid to ask, but why are you here?
E~ Because, my dear professor, it's MY turn to direct the story!
Snape: You're taking turns now?!
Cheshire: Fantastic. I don't suppose you could make hatter share?
Hatter: *Starts cursing in an unintelligible accent*
E~ Um... No. I guess this is what Melda meant when she told me this is harder than it looks... Well, anyway, I own Alex, Fuji, Ellie, and some small elements of the story. Melda owns Marie and the plot. Everything else is owned by... Whoever owns them, I guess. It's not us, anyway. And no profit will be made from blah blah blah you know the drill. Enjoy!
Ellie leaned against the door for a few moments after Incarnadine left. Marie would never ask her to back off and give her space, but what if she was thinking it? Oh God, what if she'd gone to Incarnadine, and that's why he'd given Ellie the promotion?
"Oh, get a grip, she wouldn't do that!" Ellie looked up and Emory, her imaginary friend since age six, was glaring at her with his hands on his hips.
"Emory!" She exclaimed. "I haven't seen you in ages. We - "
"You haven't seen me because you haven't needed me. Now quit moping like a toddler. You are a big girl now. And what do big girls do?"
Ellie's back straightened, and she stood at attention as if giving an official report.
"Big girls fix the problem, excuse themselves, and cry in the corner. Right. I'm gonna go talk to Alex, then. TTFN, Emory!" With that, she spun on her heel and opened the doors to face Hatter, Cheshire, Gandalf, Legolas, Aragorn, Willy, Jack Sparrow, Jareth, Snape, Gimli, Marie, and Dvergatal.
"ATTENTION!" She yelled, still in military mode. "We will begin our tour in exactly one hour. Feel free to wander outside until then, but anyone not present when we begin will NOT be allowed in. Is that clear?" After an awkward pause, Marie asked the question on everyone's mind.
"Um... Is something wrong, Ellie? You're acting weirder than him." She gestured to Hatter, who was dancing around his hat and swatting at nonexistent bugs.
"And what's that you're holding?" Legolas added. Ellie's face turned beet red.
"Yeah. I just, well... See you all in an hour, bye!" With that, she hightailed it out of the room, not pausing to look back.
A few minutes later, she ran into Alex's workshop.
"Alex, I - Oops, sorry!" She quickly averted her eyes as Alex and his boyfriend, Fuji, put their shirts back on.
"You do realize that we're boys, right? It's not considered indecent to see our chests." Fuji snapped, irritated at being interrupted. This earned him such an intense, angry look from Alex that he quickly apologized and fled the room.
"So whatcha need? If it's a different color EDGAR, you're out of luck I can't do much of anything with the EDGARs until my computer is fixed. Stupid virus. He glared at the computer as if he could frighten the malware away. Ellie sighed.
"It's not that, though that is a problem. Incarnadine promoted me." Alex stared at her.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't promotions usually make a person happy?"
"Not when he does it to give Marie space. Oh well. It's only a trial run. So can you build something for me without the computer? I'd like a locked case for this." She held out the binder.
"Sure thing. And don't sweat it, El. I heard about what Incarnadine was going to ask you to do earlier. If his only purpose was to separate you two, he would've done a lot more than just adding protecting a book to your duties." They grinned at one another.
"I don't know why he didn't just slip it into my book collection. No one has EVER managed to steal a book from me!"
