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A/N: Thanks for the reviews, WonderfulMidnight! I know it's been some time since I last updated, though I suppose it's because I'm writing too many stories at once. Or I'm just lazy. Either way, I'm sorry...

This chapter isn't that good, sadly. Hopefully it's good enough.


The next morning both siblings were very tired. Too tired – or perhaps too upset – to speak to each other. Without even looking his sister in the eye, Riff dressed and left for work. Magenta just sat in their bed trying not to cry.

How had everything gone so wrong? She'd fallen in love with him years ago, not knowing the implications of the relationship. Now she realized how bad this really was. Her foolish Pollyanna-like attitude was gone, thanks to such a revelation. This relationship wouldn't work out. Her brother was correct.

She cried for much of the morning. Finally, Doll Tearsheet found her. By then it was nearly lunchtime.

"Oh, hon… What's wrong?" Doll asked.

Magenta didn't reply. Instead, she just stared at the floor.

"Have ya eaten breakfast?"

Though she didn't verbally reply, Magenta at least shook her head to mean 'no'. This – and Magenta's unhappy behavior in general – bothered Doll. How had the girl not eaten yet? Wasn't she hungry?

Of course, Doll knew that asking questions wouldn't get them anywhere. So Doll just led the girl out of her room and into the kitchen. Mistress Quickly was at that point serving customers lunch and avoiding the kitchen. Another thing she seemed to be avoiding was Magenta. She'd decided to let Magenta have a break from working. Not that the girl ever did much work in the first place – Quickly hardly needed her! Well, she'd managed for many years without.

Though, by this point in time, Magenta had learned a few skills. She could cook a few things from scratch – though often burned them – and could cook a variety of things found partially-made in the freezer that was its own room. So, without much prompting from Doll, Magenta began to prepare something simple. She was starving by then. Having to feed both herself and a child – even a sickly one – required much food.

"Vould you like anything?" she asked. "I can make extra."

"Just give me any leftovers," Doll replied with a shrug.

This is how Doll learned something interesting: a quick way to calm Magenta down was to give her a task like cooking. Such knowledge was very useful. Especially since Magenta was pregnant and therefore prone to mood-swings.

Magenta's day was spent simply. Cooking, organizing her room, chatting pointlessly with Doll, etcetera.


Her brother, on the other hand, was working quite hard. This he actually enjoyed to some extent. Science was something he truly loved. In fact, for a long time he cared for nothing else. It wasn't like he had much of a family. And, despite his handsome face and striking blue eyes, he'd never managed to get a date. Though this was his own choice. He was married to – or at least dating – his work, as the old saying goes.

Any moment that day not spent working with lab equipment was spent thinking about what to do. Nobody save for Doll and Mistress Quickly actually knew that Riff and Magenta were half-siblings. Everyone else assumed they were lovers who'd run off to avoid her parents.

At least they had that. Though they also had different surnames. Hers was, alas, a noble family's name. People would either think she lied or... something. It was then that Riff Raff thought of an idea. They should leave the Prancing Pony, go somewhere in the city where nobody knew them, and change their surname to something else. Surely his supervisor or somebody could provide a place for them to stay! He'd enough allies here and there that disappearing and reappearing as somebody else wouldn't take much effort. His job was a top-secret project that nobody was to know of. So only a handful of people. Records could be changed...

It only took him a moment to think of a new surname. They'd be called 'Vitus'. It meant 'life' in an ancient language he'd studied once. That name would signify a hope of theirs. For them both to live long, happy lives was his greatest wish.

If the ideas worked, he decided, then maybe things would be okay.

So, he worked very hard that day. This mostly meant just testing out various formulas for the project and taking notes. Riff was rather annoyed when he

Nobody else was really working on it – as far as he knew – and he was proud of it. This would be his project!

Riff worked all through lunch break, hoping to be able to go home early. Then he'd get to tell Magenta his ideas. The only trouble was the baby. Despite, the fear of such a sickly wretch being born was a darkness that hid this new hope in its shadows. Riff tried not thinking about it, but it lurked in his mind all the time.

The baby would be sickly, its life miserable, they didn't have enough money, this pregnancy would take its toll on Magenta's health, giving birth might kill poor Magenta…

Even when things seem right again there's always something.


It's odd, isn't it, how Magenta was happy when Riff wasn't and vice versa? Not that this was intended by either of them. Though it was as if they were different sides of one coin. They couldn't both be the same at the same time!

Though it is said opposites attract…

And, soon enough, he would develop an attraction towards her. And we already know how much she cared for him already.

They sound doomed, don't they? In fact, they can be compared to a number of star-crossed couples. Like Oedipus and Jocasta, a blood relation gave their relationship a certain wrongness to it. Like Catherine and Heathcliff, they're half-siblings born into different worlds who meet later on. Like Victor and Elizabeth, one likes science a bit too much. And, like Brad and Janet, a certain sweet transvestite really messes things up for them!


A/N: I sort of think Brad and Janet qualify as Star-Crossed lovers. The love each other dearly, but they have to grow up a bit for things to work. Growing up is symbolized by the Denton Affair, which forces them apart. There isn't proof they aren't in love my the end of the movie and there's practically no way their relationship works out post-castle.

Though I also added them to the list because it's sort of funny.


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