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To DPS

The Cloudy Side of Life: Mirror


It had started off like any other Friday night with the seven of them gathered in the cave huddled into their hooded coats against the November chill. The meeting had sailed quickly through the readings and now it had broken off into an chaotic jumble of conversation and the occasional ring of laughter echoing out into the frozen night.

A lull in the conversation had prompted Charlie to light a cigarette and paused dramatically after taking a drag, holding the smoke in before exhaling. "I was thinking..."

There were some snorts. "That's a first." Someone mumbled.

"I was thinking..." Charlie paused again to make sure everyone was paying attention. "What'd we be like if we were all boys?" A moment of silence passed and Charlotte 'Nuwanda' Dalton took a satisfied drag glad that she had once again rendered everyone silent with a comment. That was until Cameron felt the need to comment.

"What a stupidquestion." Richelle Cameron tossed her red hair over her shoulder and rolled her eyes. "Who even thinks about things like that?"

"Well clearly I do. And it's not stupid. I mean you're practically a boy already."

Nell rolled her eyes. "If you guys were boys you'd be exactly the same, only instead of just bickering you'd be fighting for your 'manliness'!" She flexed her biceps and winked.

Charlie just shook her head and threw the dregs of her cigarette into the makeshift fire. "You know I'd be a hot guy Perry." She lowered her voice comically and wrapped an arm around Stephanie Meeks. "Hey baby, you can call me...uh...what exactly is the masculine version of Nuwanda?"

"I thought it was a boys name." Noelle leaned forward and frowned.

"No! It's a girl's name...like Chris."

"Chris is not a girls name!"

Charlie snorted. "Oh, ya sure. But it doesn't matter, you guys can't get together anyways. I mean, you'd be Noelle Noel if you ever got married. How stupid does that sound?" She looked around for support. "Meeksie, you agree right?" she pouted at the girl still trapped under her arm.

The redheads mouth opened once and then she stopped, reconsidered her answer and shrugged. "I have no opinion on the matter."

"Hey if you do ever marry Chris can I be a bridesmaid!" Gerri burst out suddenly twirling her thick hair around her finger. Prompting everyone else to start throwing in their two cents on the matter of Noelle's imaginary future wedding.

"No way! I'm the maid of honor!"

"Please! Me and Noelle have been best friends since forever!"

"Would you all shut up!"

"Charlie! That's my thigh!"

"Um? Sorry to, um, interrupt..."

Everyone turned in shook to the quiet timid voice coming from the corner. "I just mean...aren't we supposed to be, r-reading poetry?"

"Oh. Yes, right...where were we..." Nell squeezed Anderson's arm affectionately and picked up the small blue book starting up from where she had left off.

Meanwhile, in another universe.

"Hey you guys ever wonder what we'd be like as girls?"


A.N. Todd doesn't get mentioned by name because I didn't know what to call girl!Todd. There literally is no feminine equivalent. I also now totally ship girl!Meeks and girl!Charlie...because ya. They'd have pretty hair.

OH! And I got a bag today with the whole 'Two roads diverged...' Frost quote. I'm so (unashamedly) excited about it!