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Twisted Drabbles


At the Masterson's with Jo asking Tess about Vikram in the living room…

"Mom, what do you remember about Danny's dad?" Jo asked.

Tess hesitated before speaking. "Vikram? Why are you asking? Why do you wanna know, what did you find out, what's it to you? I didn't do anything wrong!"

"I never said you did," Jo said in her usual snarky way. "I was only asking a simple question that's completely unrelated to the trip I took with Danny and Lacey. Just curious."

"Oh." Tess bit her lip. "Vik was complex, but fun, very outgoing, like Danny. And that's it."

"You don't remember—"

"Nope, that's it."

"But I thought—"

"You thought wrong. There's nothing else to say."

"Wow Mom, thanks for that helpful bit of information."

"Don't back-sass me," Tess snapped. "Now go and eat your damn eggs before they get cold."


When Danny and Lacey talk about their relationship outside of school…

"Lacey, that kiss? That's all I think about. All day, every day. At night, when I turn off my light. In bed, when I rest my head—"

"Ok, you need to stop," Lacey interrupted. "If this is a way to get me to dump Archie and go after you, it's not working."

"I thought rhyming would make you laugh," Danny said in his usual charm that never worked on Lacey.

"Does it look like I'm laughing?"

"No."

"I already told you that kiss was a mistake. I don't wanna talk about it."

"I should've brought it up when you first said it, but I have no recollection of you saying it was a mistake to me. I can't picture the scene at all. It's like that conversation never existed and wasn't important enough to be on camera. But you really think it was a mistake? You don't think about it too?"

"Danny I—"

"So you don't feel the same way," Danny challenged, staring at Lacey who said nothing. He leaned closer to her. "You and I both know that is not true."

Lacey stared at Danny, at a loss for words, and then ran away like she always did.

"Huh. I thought we'd make out after that," Danny said.


At the Masterson's with Danny in Tess's pottery class…

"Danny, I'm so glad you signed up for my pottery class. This is a great way to spend almost-mother-almost-son bonding time," Tess happily said.

"I couldn't agree with you more, Mrs. Masterson," Danny nodded. "Remember when I said I would talk to you about my girl problems that have nothing to do with Jo if the opportunity ever arose?"

"Yeah."

"Well, there's this girl I like—that's not Jo, cuz she's my best friend—and she keeps pushing me away."

"Have you tried talking to this girl?" Tess asked.

"Yeah, and she keeps running away from me. It was cute at first but now it's annoying."

"Well, there's not much you can do," Tess sighed. "Just in case you get the not too bright idea to go to an underage house party, which could get you in even more trouble, don't stalk her like a creep and eye her down while drinking wine. That might be a turn on to some girls, but since this girl knows you're a murderer, she's probably scared shitless of you already."

"You bring up some good but painfully insensitive points," Danny said. "But what if I substitute the wine for beer and went to a cemetery party instead? Could I stalk her then?"

Tess thought about it for a second. "Yeah that could work."


In Coach Chandler's office with Danny getting pissed off…

"Hold on, hold on," Danny said incredulously. "You think someone did this to him on purpose?"

Coach Chandler pulled out a bag of mothballs. "We found this in the weight room trash can. Apparently, a small dose of this crap can mimic food poisoning. You were the only one there with Cole this morning. You know anything about this?"

"No. No I don't. Let me ask you something: do you really think I'm dumb enough to poison someone when I'm already suspected for an ongoing murder investigation?" Danny smartly asked.

"Well I—"

"And if I did it, do you think I would sloppily leave the bag in plain sight where anyone can find it and unjustly frame me? I would've burned it! As we said in juvie, 'Burn your fears, and you won't go to jail for years."'

"Danny that's—"

"And do you think, if I wanted to hurt Cole, I would use something as stupid and amateur as mothballs? I would've given him a PB & A sandwich."

"What's that?"

"Peanut butter and arsenic."

Coach Chandler looked at Danny strangely and shook his head. "Look, I don't wanna hit you with more legal trouble and I don't wanna lose my job. The whole team's been antsy because of this and can't stop complaining about you, so I'm kicking you off the team."

"What?!" Danny yelled.

"You're gonna tell everyone you left for personal reasons. And I'm gonna need you to turn in your jersey."

"Not my jersey!" Danny cried. "Please, anything but that! It's the only shirt I own besides my Henleys!"

"Sorry," Coach Chandler said simply.

"Fine." Danny abruptly got up from his chair and walked towards the door, but then stopped and turned to face the coach. "You're not gonna question Archie, are you? Or check for fingerprints to prove I'm innocent?"

"Nope."

"You're right, that's incredibly illogical and requires too much work anyway," Danny stated.


When Tyler talks to Jo in the hallway and Danny's a mildly interested third wheel…

"So, Jo, what are you up to right now?" Tyler asked.

Jo looked confused. "I'm here for the PSAT, isn't that why everyone's here?"

"No, only the cool kids," Tyler said. "I'm here for film club. I'm kind of the president, so—"

"Congratulations. Can you uh, excuse us for a minute—"

"Not—un-til," Tyler stopped Danny from grabbing Jo, "you agree to come to my birthday party tonight. It's at Green Grove Cemetery. Lacey's coming."

Danny near broke his neck as he whipped his head at Tyler.

"Well thanks but I'm grounded tonight so—"

"We'll be there," Danny said, cutting Jo off. Tyler and Jo looked at him. "What? Sounds like a blast."

"You didn't care about this conversation until I said Lacey was going," Tyler pointed out.

"Yeah, you almost gave yourself whiplash after he said Lacey's name," Jo added.

"Pssh, I just happened to relieve the crick in my neck the same time he said Lacey," Danny said. "Totally coincidental."

"Ahhhhh," Jo and Tyler said.


At the cemetery where Sarita calls out Lacey for meeting with Jo and Danny…

"I know you were with them, "Sarita quickly said. "Jo and Danny. It's obvious you're hanging out with them again—"

"Sarita no, I'm not—"

"I'm not gonna tell anyone. But you can't have it both ways. You have to choose. Us or them."

"Why do I have to choose?" Lacey knitted her brows.

"Because there'd be no conflict or angst if you don't, duh. Plus, this shows everyone I'm the bitch and not you."

Lacey nodded. "That is true."


At Johnny Cakes with Lacey and Archie…

"Archie, we need to talk," Lacey said.

Archie looked like he was going to open his mouth, but randomly stopped and stared at Lacey.

"Aren't you…gonna say something?" Lacey asked.

"I'd thought we'd take this moment to pause and leave it to the audience's imagination."

"Wow, why didn't I think of that? The one time you decide to be smart and not a total meathead is when I'm breaking up with you. "

"Wait, you're breaking up with me?" Archie asked dumbfounded.

"Oh c'mon, don't tell me you don't know what 'we need to talk' means. This relation-ship has turned into relation-shit."

"Damn." Archie looked at Lacey in admiration mixed with resentment. "Cold and clever."


In the Masterson's living room with Jo trying to tell Tess she likes Danny…

"Jo, I'm your mom," Tess said. "You can tell me anything. You know that, right?"

"It's Danny," Jo said.

"What about Danny?"

Jo paused for a minute. "I think that I have…I think I like him, Mom."

"Oh. Wow. Jo, that wasn't surprising at all. I know you barely have any common sense, but I gave you that lip gloss because I knew you had a crush on him. Everyone can see it."

"It's not a crush," Jo countered. "I think that I'm in love with him."

This would be a really good time to tell her that Danny likes another girl, buuuut, I'm not going to, Tess thought. I'll just act like I don't know anything and watch my daughter experience her first heartbreak while doing absolutely nothing to prevent it. I just wanna be a good mom and prolong her inevitable anguish a little longer.

"Jo, it's a complicated situation. Danny's your almost-brother; that's gross!"

"Yeah, almost. We're not really related."

"I just want you to be careful," Tess warned.

"That's all you have to say to me? Be careful?"

"Something wrong with that?"

Jo huffed and walked towards the stairs to go to her room. "Thanks for the not vague and suck-ish advice, Mom. It helped loads."


After Lacey knocks on Danny's door and he opens it, stunned…

Lacey took a deep breath and stepped closer for dramatic effect. "I broke up with him."

Danny broke into a smile. "So how'd it go?"

"Besides a nice play on words, it was very anti-climatic and almost liked no one cared. Including me."


When Eddie knocks on the Masterson's door…

Kyle opened the door, not too surprised that Eddie was outside of it for some weird reason. "Eddie."

"Hey, uh, sorry to bug you at home," Eddie said.

"Everything ok?"

"This might qualify as more than ok." Eddie whipped out the necklace in the crime bag and smirked. "We found it."

Kyle looked unfazed.

"It's the necklace!" Eddie acknowledged.

"Yeah."

"The one we've been trying to find forever."

"Yeah."

"Why aren't you surprised?"

"Maybe because almost every episode before this ended with someone finding that damn necklace like it was a big revelation." Kyle rolled his eyes. "It was old and redundant. 'Oh you found the necklace, what a shocker!'"

"…You're an ass," Eddie said dryly.

Kyle smiled. "I know."


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