PART FOUR
(after Mo is kidnapped...willingly...by Capricorn's men)
Elinor: Good heavens, where has that match-stick eater got to now?
Meggie: Oh no, did they take him too?
Elinor: Meggie...would you strangle me if I told you I have the book your father is supposed to be taking to Capricorn right now?
Meggie: What? What book did you send in its place?
Elinor: Not sure, was it The Very Hungry Caterpillar, or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
Meggie: What have you done?
Elinor: ...or maybe it was A HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Meggie: Do you realize you've just sent my father to a very dangerous man with the wrong book?
Elinor: Oh, good heavens, I hope it wasn't my diary I put in its place...what if they read it?
(Meanwhile, in Capricorn's village)
Capricorn opens the book Mo has brought him.
Elinor's Diary
6/14/2004
8:00 pm
...I think I am madly in love with Captain Hook... Oh good heavens, why oh why, Elinor, do you always fall for the villains? ...It must be the mustache...
Capricorn: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
(Back at Elinor's house)
Meggie is outside, looking at Inkheart
Dustfinger: appearing creepily out of nowhere MAHHH!
Meggie: OMFG WOULD YOU STOP STALKING ME?
Dustfinger: Ohhh...so YOU'VE got the book?
Meggie: Where have you been?
Dustfinger: Stealing a moped, following Capricorn's men to where they've got your father, receiving my next double-crosser's mission, and coming back to pretend I'm not a double-crosser, what about you?
Meggie: Is my father ok?
Dustfinger: No, want to go recklessly save him with me?
Meggie: Will you stop stalking me if I do?
Dustfinger: Of course not, why would I?
Meggie: sigh
Dustfinger: Elinor's not coming though, alright?
Elinor: I'M COMING, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT?
Dustfinger: How did she know?
Elinor: You really think I'm going to let a pyromaniac pedophile go off ALONE with my great-niece?
Dustfinger: WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK I'M A PEDO?
turns to Meggie
Dustfinger: Come on then, princess, guess who's got candy in their van?
Meggie: o.0
To be continued...