One Hell of a Birthday
Part Two: Back in Regular Earth
you know, you guys are lucky - i was planning on turning part two into a sequel, and putting it on hold so i could work on my book. instead, i figured that i would probably be murdered if i did, so here you are! lol...
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Chapter Seven: Stupid Dimensional Temperal Anomalies
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Diane and Ayla had decided that sleeping would probably be a good idea. It was doubtful that it would help solve anything, except, well, tiredness, but still. Sleeping was always a good option when you had no idea what the heck was going on.
So they all slept.
When Diane woke up, she heard a single voice speaking in the kitchen.
Is Ayla talking to herself again? she wondered groggily, rolling out of the bed she had slept in. She threw on some of the clothes she had found in the closet and meandered into the kitchen, where Ayla was hanging up the phone.
"Who were you talking to?" Diane asked. Ayla had a peculiar expression on her face.
"My boss," she asnwered. "Although, I don't know how I knew it was my boss... I just did..." Diane raised an eyebrow at her, shook her head, and set about making coffee. After turning on the coffee maker, she and Ayla walked into the living room, where Gandalf and Haldir were glued to the television.
Haldir looked up when the girls walked in.
"This is amazing," he said to Diane. "Ayla has explained to me that it is no form of magic." Diane grinned.
"Has she tried explaining how the electrons and stuff get transfered from one place to another?" she asked.
Gandalf shook his head. "No," he said, "but I am interested to learn, now." Diane made a face.
"Eh..." she said. She walked over to the bookshelf and pulled the 'T' encyclopedia from the shelf. She found the entry for 'television' and gave the book to Ayla. "Read this to him - I've got a hunch they can't understand or read english, seeing as theyre watching a spanish channel." Ayla laughed, took the book, and sat down.
As she began to read the encyclopedia article, Diane wandered back into the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee. She sat down at the table, with her mug, and promptly blacked out, but not before hearing a cry of surprise from Haldir and Gandalf, as well as a *thud*.
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Diane groaned. He brought her hand to her forehead, which hurt like hell, and opened her eyes slowly. She found Haldir's face about a foot away from hers.
"Well, hello," she said, smiling. Haldir smiled.
"Are you okay?" he asked. Diane nodded, and sat up. She was in 'her' bed again. Haldir backed up so she could
stand up. She did so, and then she and Haldir left the room and enetered the room Ayla was in. Apparently, Ayla had passed out as well, and was just waking up.
When the girls were both up, and Gandalf and Haldir were certain they weren't about to kick the bucket on them, they all sat down in the living room.
"What do you think happened?" Gandalf asked.
"I don't know," Diane said.
"It's like I have two sets of memories," Ayla said suddenly. Diane nodded in agreement.
"Two stes of memories?" Haldir asked.
"Yes. It's like, the whole time we were in Middle Earth, we were here, too... or something like that... and we went on living here... and now I have all the memories from the last few years here, but also the ones from Middle Earth."
"It's weird," Ayla said.
"I would expect that it would," Gandalf said, rubbing his chin. "This is very intriguing," he said. Diane and Ayla laughed.
"'Course *you* would find it interesting," Diane said. "I just find it... unnerving."
"Indeed," Ayla said. "It's very weird. But it does explain a lot. Like how I knew to call my boss and tell her I wouldn't be in today."
"Oi," said Diane.
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So for the next few days were spent sorting through the girls' newly aquired set of memories. Diane called Ayla's boss and told ehr that Ayla had a bad case of strep throat and couldn't come in, and Ayla did the same for Diane, so they could get out of working.
By the the next Saturday, the fourteenth, they had basically worked through everything, and pretty much understood what had gone on since 2003 when they entered Middle Earth, and now, 2006, three years later.
"So then, what do we do?" Diane asked on Saturday evening.
"What do you mean?" Ayla asked, looking up from her food. The four were sitting around the kitchen table eating supper, which was mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and meatloaf.
"Well, you two got pulled into our dimension," Diane said, pointing at Gandalf and Haldir with her fork. "And that happened very suddenly, so we have no idea *when* your going to get pulled back into Middle Earth, if at all. And if you are, we don't know what point in time you'll be pulled into. Which is bad."
"Well, I don't see why it would be such a problem. If you had a copy of you living on here, wouldn't we have copies of ourselves living on in Middle Earth?" Haldir pointed out.
Ayla and Diane stared at each other for a moment.
"Good point," said Ayla. "So I guess it doesn't really matter."
"I... guess... not..." Diane said slowly. She took a forkful of mashed potatoes and swallowed thoughtfully. The rest of the meal was eaten in silence.
After supper, when all the dishes were washed and put away, the four settled down in the living room to watch some television. It had become a nightly event, over the week. They'd sit down to watch 'Star Trek: Voyager', and in doing so, the girls were teaching English to Haldir and Gandalf. The two were catching on rather quickly, and could understand most of what was going on. Haldir had announced that his favourite character was Tuvok, but Gandalf was partial to Chakotay.
"It is amazing that people make a living pretending to be someone else," Gandalf said after the episode ended and they turned the TV off. Diane smirked.
"Yeah, well, some people make a living the same way, except they're not actors," Ayla said, smiling. Diane giggled.
"Con artists," she said by way of explanation to the guys. The blank expression on their faces made her smile. "Someone who pretends to be someone they're not, and then steals and stuff. And then nobody can blame them, because they don't know who they really are."
"Men like that have no honour," Haldir said indignantly.
"They're not all men, either," Diane giggled. Ayla scowled.
"That's not funny," she grumbled. "I didn't *know* she was a thief. How was I supposed to know?"
Diane smirked. Haldir and Gandalf ignored them. The girls had begun to do this quite often; bringing up instances from their lives here on Earth, especially memories from the past three years. They had stopped asking and just started sitting back and being amused.
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The following Monday, Diane and Ayla went back to work. Diane generally worked at home, designing web sites, but she had a part-time job at the seven eleven a few blocks away. Ayla was working as a waitress at a hotel resturaunt downtown, and was taking nightclasses for her psychology degree.
And after that, life was kind of boring. Haldir and Gandalf stayed in the apartment until they were taught in the ways of Regular Earth, as the girls had taken to calling it, and even then, they weren't allowed to venture further than two blocks away from the apartment on their own. This complacentness lasted about three months, until Easter rolled around.
Then Ayla and Diane had the pleasure of explaining not one, but *two* holidays to the guys - Easter, and Ostara, the pagan holiday that Ayla celebrated. The girls then decided that Regular Earth holidays were not invented to be explained to Middle Earth people, especially because having to explain the holiday generally means having to explain the religion behind it; if its a religious holdiay, anyways. They figured Canada Day would be pretty simple to explain.
But anyways. After convincing Haldir and Gandalf that, yes, people did make a point of drawing all over eggs as a way to celebrate both Easter and Ostara, they had quite a fun time doing so, although they ended up with a lot more broken eggs than coloured eggs.
The day before Easter, Ayla had a staff party to go to, which she did, reluctantly mind you. She came home an hour early with a scowl on her face.
"Remind me to never attend a staff party again," she grumbled to Diane and Haldir, who were watching a movie in the living room. Diane looked up and grinned.
"Isn't that what you said after the Christmas party?" she asked.
"Bah. And humbug, too," Ayla said in response and then retreated to her room, where Gandalf was reading.
The next day Ayla had off, and a good thing, too, as she spent the majority of it pacing from the bedroom to the living room to the bathroom, pondering weather or not being three days late required pregnancy test buyage. (Diane had taken Haldir and Gandalf to watch the Easter parade).
Ayla finally decided it did merit a pregnancy test, and within the hour had gone to the corner store and returned, and was now staring at the package, scared to open it up. She finally did open it up, followed the directions on the test, and then sat in the kitchen chewing her thumb nail until the thirty minutes were up. She stared at the bathroom door and scowled. She didn't want to look. She did, but she didn't.
She wanted to have kids, but she wasn't sure if having children with a 3000-plus year old wizard, when he could dissapear at any given time, was such a great idea. Finally, with a sigh, she got up, went into the bathroom, and checked the test.
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Yeah, so I don't know where the heck I'm going with this. I know its a super super short chapter, but I have to figure out how I'm gonna continue this, and I wanted to let you all know that the story is indeed still alive, lol.
-SplendiferGoddess
Part Two: Back in Regular Earth
you know, you guys are lucky - i was planning on turning part two into a sequel, and putting it on hold so i could work on my book. instead, i figured that i would probably be murdered if i did, so here you are! lol...
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Chapter Seven: Stupid Dimensional Temperal Anomalies
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Diane and Ayla had decided that sleeping would probably be a good idea. It was doubtful that it would help solve anything, except, well, tiredness, but still. Sleeping was always a good option when you had no idea what the heck was going on.
So they all slept.
When Diane woke up, she heard a single voice speaking in the kitchen.
Is Ayla talking to herself again? she wondered groggily, rolling out of the bed she had slept in. She threw on some of the clothes she had found in the closet and meandered into the kitchen, where Ayla was hanging up the phone.
"Who were you talking to?" Diane asked. Ayla had a peculiar expression on her face.
"My boss," she asnwered. "Although, I don't know how I knew it was my boss... I just did..." Diane raised an eyebrow at her, shook her head, and set about making coffee. After turning on the coffee maker, she and Ayla walked into the living room, where Gandalf and Haldir were glued to the television.
Haldir looked up when the girls walked in.
"This is amazing," he said to Diane. "Ayla has explained to me that it is no form of magic." Diane grinned.
"Has she tried explaining how the electrons and stuff get transfered from one place to another?" she asked.
Gandalf shook his head. "No," he said, "but I am interested to learn, now." Diane made a face.
"Eh..." she said. She walked over to the bookshelf and pulled the 'T' encyclopedia from the shelf. She found the entry for 'television' and gave the book to Ayla. "Read this to him - I've got a hunch they can't understand or read english, seeing as theyre watching a spanish channel." Ayla laughed, took the book, and sat down.
As she began to read the encyclopedia article, Diane wandered back into the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee. She sat down at the table, with her mug, and promptly blacked out, but not before hearing a cry of surprise from Haldir and Gandalf, as well as a *thud*.
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Diane groaned. He brought her hand to her forehead, which hurt like hell, and opened her eyes slowly. She found Haldir's face about a foot away from hers.
"Well, hello," she said, smiling. Haldir smiled.
"Are you okay?" he asked. Diane nodded, and sat up. She was in 'her' bed again. Haldir backed up so she could
stand up. She did so, and then she and Haldir left the room and enetered the room Ayla was in. Apparently, Ayla had passed out as well, and was just waking up.
When the girls were both up, and Gandalf and Haldir were certain they weren't about to kick the bucket on them, they all sat down in the living room.
"What do you think happened?" Gandalf asked.
"I don't know," Diane said.
"It's like I have two sets of memories," Ayla said suddenly. Diane nodded in agreement.
"Two stes of memories?" Haldir asked.
"Yes. It's like, the whole time we were in Middle Earth, we were here, too... or something like that... and we went on living here... and now I have all the memories from the last few years here, but also the ones from Middle Earth."
"It's weird," Ayla said.
"I would expect that it would," Gandalf said, rubbing his chin. "This is very intriguing," he said. Diane and Ayla laughed.
"'Course *you* would find it interesting," Diane said. "I just find it... unnerving."
"Indeed," Ayla said. "It's very weird. But it does explain a lot. Like how I knew to call my boss and tell her I wouldn't be in today."
"Oi," said Diane.
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So for the next few days were spent sorting through the girls' newly aquired set of memories. Diane called Ayla's boss and told ehr that Ayla had a bad case of strep throat and couldn't come in, and Ayla did the same for Diane, so they could get out of working.
By the the next Saturday, the fourteenth, they had basically worked through everything, and pretty much understood what had gone on since 2003 when they entered Middle Earth, and now, 2006, three years later.
"So then, what do we do?" Diane asked on Saturday evening.
"What do you mean?" Ayla asked, looking up from her food. The four were sitting around the kitchen table eating supper, which was mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and meatloaf.
"Well, you two got pulled into our dimension," Diane said, pointing at Gandalf and Haldir with her fork. "And that happened very suddenly, so we have no idea *when* your going to get pulled back into Middle Earth, if at all. And if you are, we don't know what point in time you'll be pulled into. Which is bad."
"Well, I don't see why it would be such a problem. If you had a copy of you living on here, wouldn't we have copies of ourselves living on in Middle Earth?" Haldir pointed out.
Ayla and Diane stared at each other for a moment.
"Good point," said Ayla. "So I guess it doesn't really matter."
"I... guess... not..." Diane said slowly. She took a forkful of mashed potatoes and swallowed thoughtfully. The rest of the meal was eaten in silence.
After supper, when all the dishes were washed and put away, the four settled down in the living room to watch some television. It had become a nightly event, over the week. They'd sit down to watch 'Star Trek: Voyager', and in doing so, the girls were teaching English to Haldir and Gandalf. The two were catching on rather quickly, and could understand most of what was going on. Haldir had announced that his favourite character was Tuvok, but Gandalf was partial to Chakotay.
"It is amazing that people make a living pretending to be someone else," Gandalf said after the episode ended and they turned the TV off. Diane smirked.
"Yeah, well, some people make a living the same way, except they're not actors," Ayla said, smiling. Diane giggled.
"Con artists," she said by way of explanation to the guys. The blank expression on their faces made her smile. "Someone who pretends to be someone they're not, and then steals and stuff. And then nobody can blame them, because they don't know who they really are."
"Men like that have no honour," Haldir said indignantly.
"They're not all men, either," Diane giggled. Ayla scowled.
"That's not funny," she grumbled. "I didn't *know* she was a thief. How was I supposed to know?"
Diane smirked. Haldir and Gandalf ignored them. The girls had begun to do this quite often; bringing up instances from their lives here on Earth, especially memories from the past three years. They had stopped asking and just started sitting back and being amused.
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The following Monday, Diane and Ayla went back to work. Diane generally worked at home, designing web sites, but she had a part-time job at the seven eleven a few blocks away. Ayla was working as a waitress at a hotel resturaunt downtown, and was taking nightclasses for her psychology degree.
And after that, life was kind of boring. Haldir and Gandalf stayed in the apartment until they were taught in the ways of Regular Earth, as the girls had taken to calling it, and even then, they weren't allowed to venture further than two blocks away from the apartment on their own. This complacentness lasted about three months, until Easter rolled around.
Then Ayla and Diane had the pleasure of explaining not one, but *two* holidays to the guys - Easter, and Ostara, the pagan holiday that Ayla celebrated. The girls then decided that Regular Earth holidays were not invented to be explained to Middle Earth people, especially because having to explain the holiday generally means having to explain the religion behind it; if its a religious holdiay, anyways. They figured Canada Day would be pretty simple to explain.
But anyways. After convincing Haldir and Gandalf that, yes, people did make a point of drawing all over eggs as a way to celebrate both Easter and Ostara, they had quite a fun time doing so, although they ended up with a lot more broken eggs than coloured eggs.
The day before Easter, Ayla had a staff party to go to, which she did, reluctantly mind you. She came home an hour early with a scowl on her face.
"Remind me to never attend a staff party again," she grumbled to Diane and Haldir, who were watching a movie in the living room. Diane looked up and grinned.
"Isn't that what you said after the Christmas party?" she asked.
"Bah. And humbug, too," Ayla said in response and then retreated to her room, where Gandalf was reading.
The next day Ayla had off, and a good thing, too, as she spent the majority of it pacing from the bedroom to the living room to the bathroom, pondering weather or not being three days late required pregnancy test buyage. (Diane had taken Haldir and Gandalf to watch the Easter parade).
Ayla finally decided it did merit a pregnancy test, and within the hour had gone to the corner store and returned, and was now staring at the package, scared to open it up. She finally did open it up, followed the directions on the test, and then sat in the kitchen chewing her thumb nail until the thirty minutes were up. She stared at the bathroom door and scowled. She didn't want to look. She did, but she didn't.
She wanted to have kids, but she wasn't sure if having children with a 3000-plus year old wizard, when he could dissapear at any given time, was such a great idea. Finally, with a sigh, she got up, went into the bathroom, and checked the test.
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Yeah, so I don't know where the heck I'm going with this. I know its a super super short chapter, but I have to figure out how I'm gonna continue this, and I wanted to let you all know that the story is indeed still alive, lol.
-SplendiferGoddess