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Pink

Magenta was mopping the ramp in the bright lighted lab.

"Pink, pink, pink," she cursed and mopped the floor with all her force. "I can`t stand anymore of this! It hurts my eyes! All the pink tiles are blinding me! Can`t we turn the lights down or something?"

Riff Raff set a tube aside and watched his notes.
"I am terribly sorry, sister, but I have to deny your request because I still have to work and therefore I need some light," he said and scribbled something down, not even looking at her.
"However, maybe you could turn in your job but if there`s no possibility to do so, than your last option will be to use some sunglasses," he added and took a brown bottle to spike the transparent liquid of the tube with mysterious colours.
Magenta stopped mopping all of sudden and watched her brother as if he had gone insane.

"Brother is everything alright?" she asked and stepped a little closer – just close enough to have a better look at his face.
"Of course it is, yet, you`re sounding somewhat astonished. Did I say something of utter peculiarity?" Riff Raff said – his lips forming a slight smile as he peeked at his sister.
"Brother, you were sounding like you were joking," Magenta stated, one hand on her hips. The other hand was still holding the mop as she started to tap her foot emphatically, waiting for an answer.

"Really?" Riff Raff went on doing his chemical tasks whilst Magenta became visibly annoyed about his seemingly ignoring behaviour. She took the mop and went down the ramp.
"Are you ignoring me?" she asked and gave him a slight prod by using the wetly side of the mop.
"Hey," Riff Raff set the tube down and breathed with relief because he didn`t spill anything of that important liquor.
He turned around to face his sister – the smile still on his face.
"You know that I`m not the best specimen of joking around," he said and wiped away the water that was running down his neck. "Things are developing far better than expected. That`s why I`m in good mood. There`s a glimmer of hope and I`m eager to catch it."
He blinked his eyes and turned around to go on with his experiment – no – with Frank`s experiment, of course.
Magenta cocked an eyebrow and tilted her head to the right.
"Whatever secret you are hiding, brother, I will find it out sooner or later," she said and turned to call the lift.
"First, I have to wrap somebody round my little finger."

Riff Raff kept on smiling without looking at his sister as the lift went out of view.

Magenta meandered through the castle-floors.

She was trying to find the delivery-boy, but he was nowhere to be seen.
'Maybe Columbia will help me,' she thought and went to the ballroom assuming that the groupie would practise some dancing steps.

She opened the huge door and poked her head inside.
Nothing – except dust in an empty room.
"I didn`t see anything at all," she thought aloud – ready to leave – as a sudden noise attracted her attention.
So, she carefully got inside the large room and closed the door behind her.
"Hello?" she asked and waited though she couldn`t spot any movement except her own.
No answer.
"Hello? Is anybody in here?" Magenta went down the stairs still listening at any possible noises. "I know that you`re here so show up yourself!"
Suddenly, the red curtain behind the throne moved and Eddie appeared in person.

"Eddie, there you are!" Magenta said and went up the small stage. "I was looking for you all day long! What are you doing here?" she stopped right in front of him.

Eddie was indeed an enormous specimen of the human race. Magenta`s neck started to cramp as she looked up to him.
"Um, I was just ... thinking," Eddie started to explain and averted his eyes from her beautiful facial features.
He sat down at the stairs like he had done the first time he had been in this room. Magenta joined him like the strange transvestite had done at his first official day as a visitor.
Eddie rubbed his forehead – a lot of memories were brought back and he wanted to stop them.
He nestled at his jacket and pulled out a packet of cigarettes. Some more memories...
"Wanna smoke?" he asked and held it in front of the maid. Magenta shook her head and smiled at him. "Thank you," she said and watched him lighting up the cigarette.
Eddie inhaled deeply and sighed.
"Eddie, it seems that there`s a lot of pressure on you. What happened?" Magenta asked and enjoyed the smell of the cigarette.

She was not smoking at all, but she just loved the smell whilst having a conversation. It reminded her of her home – especially her childhood. At her home-planet seemingly everyone was smoking – a cigarette after a good threesome, a cigarette after a good meal, a cigarette after a good sex orgy, a cigarette during a good conversation, a cigarette before having astonishing sex, a cigarette... Well, any kind of happening was accompanied by smoking a cigarette.

"Well?" she asked and waited for a response.
Eddie took another draw and watched straight ahead.
"There`s nothing. Don`t worry. I was just thinking about... about Columbia," Eddie stammered. "About Columbia and me," he added and shook his big head.
"What`s the matter with you both?" Magenta asked and knit her brow.
"Um, she told me someth... um, I don`t know how to go with our... relationship," Eddie threw away the cigarette and lit up another one.
"Every relationship is fraught with difficulties," Magenta mumbled deep in thoughts.
"I know," Eddie shouted suddenly and rose. "But why on earth are you so... so... so different?" he threw the cigarette away and stormed towards the door.

Magenta`s eyes widened as she rose too and run after the delivery-boy.
Luckily, Eddie lowered his speed and Magenta assumed that he would have to go on a diet to escape her or anyone.
She caught him right in front of the steps leading towards the door. She caught him by his arm and stopped him.
"Eddie," she gave him an enquiring look and placed herself in front of him by using the first step.
Eddie shook his head once again and sat down at the step. He had capitulated.
Magenta sat down as well and took hold of his arm.
"What did she tell you about us?" she asked, holding her breath.
"Nothing important," Eddie answered edgily and lit up his third cigarette.
"You would be fitting into our... people quite well, you know that?" she smiled slightly and cocked an eyebrow. She didn`t know what Columbia had told him, but she was still eager to know every detail.
Eddie looked up into her marvellous green eyes.
'These eyes are not from this world,' he thought as his facial expressions softened.
"You know, hon`, I don`t know anything about you guys, but the only thing I know for sure is that I love pink. I didn`t know that I would ever be taken with... pink, but Columbia... her hair... her voice... everything is just pink! And I love it... I love her..."

"Columbia?" a sudden voice shouted from behind.
Magenta and Eddie turned abruptly in surprise.

Frank N. Furter stood at the door – an angry look at his face.

"Magenta," Frank shouted. "I`m looking around the ballroom and I have to admit... that the room is covered with dust and cobwebs. I would be awfully glad if you would do your job from time to time!" he added and threw a killing glance at his female subordinate.
Magenta rose at an instant.
"I am sorry, master. My attention had been distracted, but I will finish my tasks immediately," Magenta said and tried to go past Frank, but he caught her by her arm and held her firmly. The maid squirmed slightly in agony but waited patiently.
Frank`s mouth touched her ear slightly as he whispered: "I don`t want you to talk to anyone while doing your chores, especially not the delivery-boy. Is that understood?"
Magenta just nodded, her face remaining emotionless.
Frank watched her intensely and let go off her.

Magenta hurried out the door.

The lift creaked and Riff Raff winced at the noise.

He turned around and felt an amount of relief as his sister was stepping out of the lift.
"Magenta, I`m glad to see you," he said and smiled at her. "What did you discover?"
Magenta closed the door of the lift and went over to her brother.
She sat at his lap and started to play with a strain of blond hair.
"He didn`t tell me anything about us – but I know for sure that he knows something. The only thing I figured out is that he fell in love with the groupie," she said and bit the strain of hair.
"But if he knows something about us, why were you not able to figure it out? You are clever and you are a haunting beauty. So what happened?" Riff Raff asked, knowing that his sister would never capitulate that fast.
Magenta let go off the strain of hair and sighed.
"Frank broke in on our little conversation," she said and shrugged her shoulders. "There was no way to talk to Eddie any longer."
"I see," Riff Raff said deep in thoughts.

Suddenly, he rose. Magenta struggled to stay on her feet and looked at him in perplexity.
"Riff Raff...," she started to complain but was cut off by her brother.
"Go and try to find out about Eddie`s knowledge. I assume that the girl will have a pronounced communicative skill," he said and kissed her with passion.

Magenta felt a bit dizzy, but smiled at him and called the lift...