Life After High School. Is It Scary? You Bet.
By Risty Maskell and Silver15
Disclaimer: What do we want? LOTR! When do we want it? NOW!
Summary: Hell, I thought you would have figured it out by now.
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I was sitting at the table, feeding a two week old Ria, Damon came in and asked to use the phone.
"Sure, go for your life." I said. He smiled and went into the lounge.
A little while later, he came back out and had a sort of half smile on his face. I raised an eyebrow.
"What's the half-smile about, Damo?"
"Oh I just rang a friend and he said he's help us."
"Let me guess, in the thieving business too, huh?"
"Yeah, sorry."
"Damon, I don't really like thieves, but I guess I can trust you. What did you want to call your friend for?"
So Damon explained about Benny and his wife, excuse me, ex-wife, and his daughter, how he had to send money, and because he couldn't work, he couldn't send money. I listened intently. When Damon came to the part of him asking his friend, Lucas, if he could 'take care' of my so-called parents, I began to smile.
"Damon, that's given me a great idea." I said.
"Really? What?"
"Your friend Lucas and his band of thieves, they can get my parents, capture them, if they want to, keep them for a while, they can pretend to hold them hostage and ring up here, pretend to say, 'I have two hostages' or something and make us come down, then, we come down and my parents think they gonna get free, but we just talk to Lucas and decide what to do with them from there-on. What do you say?"
Damon thought this over for a bit, he began to smile.
"I think," He said. "It's a fantastic idea. Your parents won't know what hit them."
I grinned and we spent most of the day working out how this would happen and how that would happen.
"My parents aren't to bright. I dunno why. Will Lucas mind doing any of this?"
"He's kinda fond of Benny and me, we just have to do some work for him when Benny gets better."
"Fair deal." I said, approvingly. Damon laughed.
Emma and Boromir came in from sleeping on the couch, they smiled at us.
"What are you guys doing?" Asked Emma, looking curious.
"Thinking of ways to get rid of my parents, once and for all." I said and everyone laughed. I put on the most innocent face I could muster and said, "Whaaaaaaat?" Everyone laughed again.
Emma said the line that she had used when we had first met in eighth grade, we had been discussing jobs we wanted to have or what we wanted to be.
"What do want to be, Jamie?"
"Well, I wanted to be a Stand Up Comedian but I was afraid everyone would laugh at me."
That got everyone cracking up. Maybe I should have been a stand up comedian after all.
By Risty Maskell and Silver15
Disclaimer: What do we want? LOTR! When do we want it? NOW!
Summary: Hell, I thought you would have figured it out by now.
**************************************************************************** ****
I was sitting at the table, feeding a two week old Ria, Damon came in and asked to use the phone.
"Sure, go for your life." I said. He smiled and went into the lounge.
A little while later, he came back out and had a sort of half smile on his face. I raised an eyebrow.
"What's the half-smile about, Damo?"
"Oh I just rang a friend and he said he's help us."
"Let me guess, in the thieving business too, huh?"
"Yeah, sorry."
"Damon, I don't really like thieves, but I guess I can trust you. What did you want to call your friend for?"
So Damon explained about Benny and his wife, excuse me, ex-wife, and his daughter, how he had to send money, and because he couldn't work, he couldn't send money. I listened intently. When Damon came to the part of him asking his friend, Lucas, if he could 'take care' of my so-called parents, I began to smile.
"Damon, that's given me a great idea." I said.
"Really? What?"
"Your friend Lucas and his band of thieves, they can get my parents, capture them, if they want to, keep them for a while, they can pretend to hold them hostage and ring up here, pretend to say, 'I have two hostages' or something and make us come down, then, we come down and my parents think they gonna get free, but we just talk to Lucas and decide what to do with them from there-on. What do you say?"
Damon thought this over for a bit, he began to smile.
"I think," He said. "It's a fantastic idea. Your parents won't know what hit them."
I grinned and we spent most of the day working out how this would happen and how that would happen.
"My parents aren't to bright. I dunno why. Will Lucas mind doing any of this?"
"He's kinda fond of Benny and me, we just have to do some work for him when Benny gets better."
"Fair deal." I said, approvingly. Damon laughed.
Emma and Boromir came in from sleeping on the couch, they smiled at us.
"What are you guys doing?" Asked Emma, looking curious.
"Thinking of ways to get rid of my parents, once and for all." I said and everyone laughed. I put on the most innocent face I could muster and said, "Whaaaaaaat?" Everyone laughed again.
Emma said the line that she had used when we had first met in eighth grade, we had been discussing jobs we wanted to have or what we wanted to be.
"What do want to be, Jamie?"
"Well, I wanted to be a Stand Up Comedian but I was afraid everyone would laugh at me."
That got everyone cracking up. Maybe I should have been a stand up comedian after all.
