One Hell of a Birthday
Part Two: Back in Regular Earth
Okay, sooooooooo, new chpater! yay! you know, i'm feeling really good about this fic - and i actually have a plot line for once! lol. so i know that this one will actually end at some point, lol, instead of just kind of trailing off. but that won't happen for a bit yet. soooooo! here we are.
If this chapter seems a little bit wonky in writing style and.. stuff, it's because i am in a lot of pain. my whole family got strep throat, and now I've got the brunt of it, and feel horrible. :P
and thanks supergirl4356 for a great review - of course i don't mind you adding me to your fave authors, lol. :D thanks!
Oh, and since everyone's probly been pronouncing Ayla's name like it's spelt, its not. It's pronounced "Eye-Lah". :D
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Chapter Ten: Spagetti Sauce, Baby Talk, and Big Sister's Back!
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Diane got home at about two in the morning. Ayla and Gandalf were out searching for her, and Haldir had stayed home in case she showed up. He was sitting at the kitchen table when Diane walked in. He leapt up.
"Diane!" he exclaimed, rushing to her and hugging her. "I was so worried about you!"
Diane hesitantly hugged him back. "Yeah," she said. "Sorry about that. I ran into an old friend and we lost track of time."
"I must call Ayla," Haldir said, pulling away from Diane. "She and Gandalf are out searching for you." He walked over to the phone and dialed Ayla's cell phone number. After informing her that Diane was home, he turned back to Diane.
"I am sorry, Diane, for what I said," he said.
"It's okay, 'Dir, I kind of over-reacted, too," Diane said.
"But, may I ask you a question?" Haldir asked.
"Shoot."
"What does 'fuck Aragorn up a tree' mean?"
Diane laughed. "Ah, never mind," she said, giggling. "Come on, let's go to bed."
---
The next morning, Diane stumbled out of bed at around eleven o' clock. Ayla was already at work, and Diane had a few finishing touches to put on some of her projects, so she got onto to the computer and started working on one of the webpages she was designing. Gandalf had gone out for a walk, which meant that he would be walking down to the park, where he would stay for a few hours, and then walk back home.
She worked for most of the day, while talking with Haldir and shooting ideas off of him. He was quite interested in the computer and how it worked, and especially the internet. He was quite impressed that she could work for someone and make money without ever seeing her client face to face.
At about four thirty she stopped to take a break before starting supper. Gandalf had arrived home about an hour before, and Ayla would be getting home at around quarter after five. Diane flopped onto the couch, and much to her delight, Haldir sat down by her feet and started to massage said feet.
"So who was this friend you ran into last night?" Haldir asked after a time.
"Someone I used to date. Or, well. Someone my other self used to date. We broke up a year ago. Haven't talked since. We had coffee and caught up with each other," Diane explained. She noticed that Haldir looked a bit tense. "Hey, you look like you need a massage yourself," she said. Haldir looked at her, and smiled.
"You are beautiful," he said. Diane grinned.
"Thank you," she said. "Now come on, it's already five - we should start supper."
So they set to work on supper, and Ayla got in about fifteen minutes later.
"Hey-lo, everyone!" she said as she walked in through the door. "Where's Gandalf?" she asked noticing that he wasn't around.
"Reading in the bedroom," Diane said, looking up from the stove, where she was stirring something in a pot.
"Ah, okay," Ayla said, hanging up her jacket. She walked over to the pot and took a peek in. "Hmmm, spagetti? Have you made the sauce yet?"
"Nope, leaving that to you," Diane said. "Haldir's chopping up the vegetables for it," she added, motioning to Haldir, who was indeed chopping up a green pepper beside the sink. There were two bowls next to him, one full of chopped up red peppers and one with chopped up carrots.
"Good," Ayla said. She went to the fridge and pulled out a cucumber. "You can chop this up, too," she told Haldir, placing it next to him.
"Alright," he said, nodding.
So Ayla started to get the rest of the stuff for her spagetti sauce ready. Once she had a pot with some of the base ingredients on the stove, she turned to Diane. "You," she said. "Where *were* you last night?"
"Met Tom on the street last night," Diane answered. Ayla's eyes widened.
"Didn't you almost ma-"
"Yes, but I didn't," Diane said, cutting off her friend. Suddenly, Ayla's face brightened.
"Dude! There's this song! and it goes 'In the city last week/*I saw Tom on the street*/He looked different/But still Tommy Dool/I said long time no see/How's your sister Maurie/Are her eyes still that intensely bluuuuue/He just laughed for a while/And in our hearts we both smiled/Smiled for Ripperton Rooooooooooooooooo-"
"Ayla, stop singing," Diane laughed. Ayla stuck her tongue out at Diane, but she did stop singing. "Remind me to hide your celtic tapes from now on," Diane added. Ayla laughed.
"Over my dead body," she said, poking Diane and turning back to the sauce.
"I could arrange that," Diane retorted, smirking.
Ayla gaped at her, half smiling. "You're so horrible to me!" she cried, and burst into laughter. Diane joined her.
"Indeed," she giggled. Haldir shook his head in amusement.
"And anyways," Ayla said, still giggling. "I only brought it up because you said you met Tom on the street, and the one line says "I saw Tom on the street". I thought it was fitting."
"Right," Diane said, laughing.
That night the four had a rather pleasant supper, and then they got comfortable in the living room to watch Star Trek: Voyager reruns on the Space channel.
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A week later, the day before the girls were to meet Katie at the airport, Ayla found out that she was not carrying a single child after all, but was actually pregnant with triplets.
"My Goddess," she said as she and Gandalf and Diane wlaked into the apartment. "I can't believe I'm having triplets." The three walked into the living room and greeted Haldir, who was reading on the couch. "Guess what?" Ayla said to him.
"What?" he asked.
"There are three fetus' in my uterus," Ayla said, grinning. Haldir raised an eyebrow.
"Triplets?"
"Indeed," Gandalf said.
"Have you thought of names yet?" Diane asked. Ayla grinned mischeviously. Diane groaned. "Oh, God, Ayla, what are you gonna call them?"
"Willow Fae, Faith Arwen, and Estel Elijah," Ayla said grinning.
"Estel? Why are you going to name your child Hope?" Haldir asked.
"Because it's a nice name. So there," Ayla retorted.
"How do you know it's two girls and a boy?" Diane asked. Ayla shrugged.
"I dunno. I do. Mom knew she what gender her kids were going to be whenever she got pregnant. Guess I'm the same."
Diane giggled.
"What are you giggling about?" Ayla asked her.
"I can't believe you're gonna name your kids Willow, Faith, and *Estel*," she said. "Any LotR fan is gonna know why you named Estel 'Estel'. You sure you wanna do that?"
Ayla stuck her tongue out at her.
"What is LotR?" Gandalf asked.
"Nothing," Diane said, grinning innocently.
"I'm taking a nap," Ayla announced, and retreated into her room.
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The next day, the four went to the airport to pick up Katie. They got to the airport about an hour before her plane arrived, so that they could let Haldir and Gandalf explore the place. They found it incredibly interesting, and couldn't believe that machines made out of metal, that were that incredibly heavy, could actually fly in the sky. That is, they didn't believe it until they actually saw one of the planes take off.
They were, to say the least, shocked.
Finally, Katie's plane landed, and they helped her collect her baggage and then they walked out to the parking lot and then all piled in to Ayla's car.
"So, you got transported back to the same day you left?" Ayla asked Katie as they left the airport.
"Yep," Katie answered. "But when I asked Diane about it, she had no clue what I was talking about, so I assumed either I had had a *really* wonky dream, or that there was a copy of you, or something like that, in Middle Earth."
"Well, it was definately another version of us," Diane said. "We're assuming, and hoping, that the same thing happened when Gandalf and Haldir showed up here. That they have dopplegangers in Middle Earth."
"Oh hey! Guess what, Katie?" Ayla suddenly said, grinning like an idiot.
"What?" Katie said slowly. When Ayla grinned like an idiot, she was prone to tell you something incredibly odd.
"Gandalf knocked me up with triplets!"
The car's inhabitants were silent for a few moments, and then Diane and Ayla giggled, and Haldir and Gandalf chuckled. Katie looked rather surprised, and then laughed, herself.
"My God - you're having triplets?" she exclaimed.
"Yep - and you can blame Gandalf for that."
"Wow. Verile old fool, aintcha?" Katie laughed, poking Gandalf, who rolled his eyes and laughed. "So what about you?" Katie said, turning to Haldir. "Any plans for getting my sister pregnant?"
Diane choked on the air she was breathing. "NO," she said firmly. Haldir chuckled.
"Well, there you have your answer!" he said, smirking. Katie laughed.
"Indeed."
They got back to the apartment, and then ate and set up the couch-bed for Katie.
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The next morning at breakfast, Ayla commented that Katie looked pretty tired. Katie snorted.
"Yeah, I didn't get much sleep last night," she answered.
"Oh? What was wrong?" Diane asked.
"I could here these two going at it like monkeys all night," Katie answered, gesturing towards Ayla and Gandalf. Gandalf and Ayla both turned different shades of red. Diane and Haldir smirked. Katie shrugged.
"Uh, sorry?" Ayla said. Katie grinned.
Ayla had the day off that day, so the five went out for a while. They went to the museum and made fun of the security guards, much to Haldir and Gandalf's dismay. But Gandalf and Haldir did learn a thing or two about Earth's history. After going through the museum, Gandalf realised just *how* incredibly horrible the map of Earth Ayla and Diane had drawn for him back in Middle Earth really was.
Then they went to the science center and had fun with the exhibits there. Gandalf and Haldir found the exhibits incredibly interesting. They both poured over the flight exhibit, since after seeing the airplanes, they were quite intrigued. Then they took them to see the animals, and while Ayla and Diane were cooing over the iguana, which was climbing up Ayla's leg, Haldir and Gandalf were examining the boa constrictor. Katie was checking out the bats they had on display.
And then they stopped at Blockbuster to pick up a movie to watch that night - they ended up getting two: Dogma and a new release, Angel's Don't Like Cheese.
After that, they went home, since it was getting pretty late. They had a quick supper and then sat down to watch the movies. After the movies, they turned in for the night, expecting a nice, peaceful sleep.
Well. Katie wasn't sure she'd get a nice, peaceful sleep, but she was hoping Ayla and Gandalf would take the night off, so she had *hopes* that she would have a nice, peaceful sleep.
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Don't own Star Trek: Voyager - that belongs to Mr Roddenberry, or whoever it is that owns star trek now. Don't own the space channel. not sure who does. i'm sure www.spacecast.com has that info, but im too lazy to go see. also, I don't own blockbuster. would be cool if I did. :D
The song that Ayla sang from in this chapter was "Ripperton Road" by West of Eden. Gods, I love my mom's celtic CD's. :D
And don't ask how I came up with the name "Angel's Don't Like Cheese". Just look at some of the movie titles *these* days - whaddaya think they'll be like in three years? lol.
-SplendiferGoddess
Part Two: Back in Regular Earth
Okay, sooooooooo, new chpater! yay! you know, i'm feeling really good about this fic - and i actually have a plot line for once! lol. so i know that this one will actually end at some point, lol, instead of just kind of trailing off. but that won't happen for a bit yet. soooooo! here we are.
If this chapter seems a little bit wonky in writing style and.. stuff, it's because i am in a lot of pain. my whole family got strep throat, and now I've got the brunt of it, and feel horrible. :P
and thanks supergirl4356 for a great review - of course i don't mind you adding me to your fave authors, lol. :D thanks!
Oh, and since everyone's probly been pronouncing Ayla's name like it's spelt, its not. It's pronounced "Eye-Lah". :D
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Chapter Ten: Spagetti Sauce, Baby Talk, and Big Sister's Back!
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Diane got home at about two in the morning. Ayla and Gandalf were out searching for her, and Haldir had stayed home in case she showed up. He was sitting at the kitchen table when Diane walked in. He leapt up.
"Diane!" he exclaimed, rushing to her and hugging her. "I was so worried about you!"
Diane hesitantly hugged him back. "Yeah," she said. "Sorry about that. I ran into an old friend and we lost track of time."
"I must call Ayla," Haldir said, pulling away from Diane. "She and Gandalf are out searching for you." He walked over to the phone and dialed Ayla's cell phone number. After informing her that Diane was home, he turned back to Diane.
"I am sorry, Diane, for what I said," he said.
"It's okay, 'Dir, I kind of over-reacted, too," Diane said.
"But, may I ask you a question?" Haldir asked.
"Shoot."
"What does 'fuck Aragorn up a tree' mean?"
Diane laughed. "Ah, never mind," she said, giggling. "Come on, let's go to bed."
---
The next morning, Diane stumbled out of bed at around eleven o' clock. Ayla was already at work, and Diane had a few finishing touches to put on some of her projects, so she got onto to the computer and started working on one of the webpages she was designing. Gandalf had gone out for a walk, which meant that he would be walking down to the park, where he would stay for a few hours, and then walk back home.
She worked for most of the day, while talking with Haldir and shooting ideas off of him. He was quite interested in the computer and how it worked, and especially the internet. He was quite impressed that she could work for someone and make money without ever seeing her client face to face.
At about four thirty she stopped to take a break before starting supper. Gandalf had arrived home about an hour before, and Ayla would be getting home at around quarter after five. Diane flopped onto the couch, and much to her delight, Haldir sat down by her feet and started to massage said feet.
"So who was this friend you ran into last night?" Haldir asked after a time.
"Someone I used to date. Or, well. Someone my other self used to date. We broke up a year ago. Haven't talked since. We had coffee and caught up with each other," Diane explained. She noticed that Haldir looked a bit tense. "Hey, you look like you need a massage yourself," she said. Haldir looked at her, and smiled.
"You are beautiful," he said. Diane grinned.
"Thank you," she said. "Now come on, it's already five - we should start supper."
So they set to work on supper, and Ayla got in about fifteen minutes later.
"Hey-lo, everyone!" she said as she walked in through the door. "Where's Gandalf?" she asked noticing that he wasn't around.
"Reading in the bedroom," Diane said, looking up from the stove, where she was stirring something in a pot.
"Ah, okay," Ayla said, hanging up her jacket. She walked over to the pot and took a peek in. "Hmmm, spagetti? Have you made the sauce yet?"
"Nope, leaving that to you," Diane said. "Haldir's chopping up the vegetables for it," she added, motioning to Haldir, who was indeed chopping up a green pepper beside the sink. There were two bowls next to him, one full of chopped up red peppers and one with chopped up carrots.
"Good," Ayla said. She went to the fridge and pulled out a cucumber. "You can chop this up, too," she told Haldir, placing it next to him.
"Alright," he said, nodding.
So Ayla started to get the rest of the stuff for her spagetti sauce ready. Once she had a pot with some of the base ingredients on the stove, she turned to Diane. "You," she said. "Where *were* you last night?"
"Met Tom on the street last night," Diane answered. Ayla's eyes widened.
"Didn't you almost ma-"
"Yes, but I didn't," Diane said, cutting off her friend. Suddenly, Ayla's face brightened.
"Dude! There's this song! and it goes 'In the city last week/*I saw Tom on the street*/He looked different/But still Tommy Dool/I said long time no see/How's your sister Maurie/Are her eyes still that intensely bluuuuue/He just laughed for a while/And in our hearts we both smiled/Smiled for Ripperton Rooooooooooooooooo-"
"Ayla, stop singing," Diane laughed. Ayla stuck her tongue out at Diane, but she did stop singing. "Remind me to hide your celtic tapes from now on," Diane added. Ayla laughed.
"Over my dead body," she said, poking Diane and turning back to the sauce.
"I could arrange that," Diane retorted, smirking.
Ayla gaped at her, half smiling. "You're so horrible to me!" she cried, and burst into laughter. Diane joined her.
"Indeed," she giggled. Haldir shook his head in amusement.
"And anyways," Ayla said, still giggling. "I only brought it up because you said you met Tom on the street, and the one line says "I saw Tom on the street". I thought it was fitting."
"Right," Diane said, laughing.
That night the four had a rather pleasant supper, and then they got comfortable in the living room to watch Star Trek: Voyager reruns on the Space channel.
---
A week later, the day before the girls were to meet Katie at the airport, Ayla found out that she was not carrying a single child after all, but was actually pregnant with triplets.
"My Goddess," she said as she and Gandalf and Diane wlaked into the apartment. "I can't believe I'm having triplets." The three walked into the living room and greeted Haldir, who was reading on the couch. "Guess what?" Ayla said to him.
"What?" he asked.
"There are three fetus' in my uterus," Ayla said, grinning. Haldir raised an eyebrow.
"Triplets?"
"Indeed," Gandalf said.
"Have you thought of names yet?" Diane asked. Ayla grinned mischeviously. Diane groaned. "Oh, God, Ayla, what are you gonna call them?"
"Willow Fae, Faith Arwen, and Estel Elijah," Ayla said grinning.
"Estel? Why are you going to name your child Hope?" Haldir asked.
"Because it's a nice name. So there," Ayla retorted.
"How do you know it's two girls and a boy?" Diane asked. Ayla shrugged.
"I dunno. I do. Mom knew she what gender her kids were going to be whenever she got pregnant. Guess I'm the same."
Diane giggled.
"What are you giggling about?" Ayla asked her.
"I can't believe you're gonna name your kids Willow, Faith, and *Estel*," she said. "Any LotR fan is gonna know why you named Estel 'Estel'. You sure you wanna do that?"
Ayla stuck her tongue out at her.
"What is LotR?" Gandalf asked.
"Nothing," Diane said, grinning innocently.
"I'm taking a nap," Ayla announced, and retreated into her room.
---
The next day, the four went to the airport to pick up Katie. They got to the airport about an hour before her plane arrived, so that they could let Haldir and Gandalf explore the place. They found it incredibly interesting, and couldn't believe that machines made out of metal, that were that incredibly heavy, could actually fly in the sky. That is, they didn't believe it until they actually saw one of the planes take off.
They were, to say the least, shocked.
Finally, Katie's plane landed, and they helped her collect her baggage and then they walked out to the parking lot and then all piled in to Ayla's car.
"So, you got transported back to the same day you left?" Ayla asked Katie as they left the airport.
"Yep," Katie answered. "But when I asked Diane about it, she had no clue what I was talking about, so I assumed either I had had a *really* wonky dream, or that there was a copy of you, or something like that, in Middle Earth."
"Well, it was definately another version of us," Diane said. "We're assuming, and hoping, that the same thing happened when Gandalf and Haldir showed up here. That they have dopplegangers in Middle Earth."
"Oh hey! Guess what, Katie?" Ayla suddenly said, grinning like an idiot.
"What?" Katie said slowly. When Ayla grinned like an idiot, she was prone to tell you something incredibly odd.
"Gandalf knocked me up with triplets!"
The car's inhabitants were silent for a few moments, and then Diane and Ayla giggled, and Haldir and Gandalf chuckled. Katie looked rather surprised, and then laughed, herself.
"My God - you're having triplets?" she exclaimed.
"Yep - and you can blame Gandalf for that."
"Wow. Verile old fool, aintcha?" Katie laughed, poking Gandalf, who rolled his eyes and laughed. "So what about you?" Katie said, turning to Haldir. "Any plans for getting my sister pregnant?"
Diane choked on the air she was breathing. "NO," she said firmly. Haldir chuckled.
"Well, there you have your answer!" he said, smirking. Katie laughed.
"Indeed."
They got back to the apartment, and then ate and set up the couch-bed for Katie.
---
The next morning at breakfast, Ayla commented that Katie looked pretty tired. Katie snorted.
"Yeah, I didn't get much sleep last night," she answered.
"Oh? What was wrong?" Diane asked.
"I could here these two going at it like monkeys all night," Katie answered, gesturing towards Ayla and Gandalf. Gandalf and Ayla both turned different shades of red. Diane and Haldir smirked. Katie shrugged.
"Uh, sorry?" Ayla said. Katie grinned.
Ayla had the day off that day, so the five went out for a while. They went to the museum and made fun of the security guards, much to Haldir and Gandalf's dismay. But Gandalf and Haldir did learn a thing or two about Earth's history. After going through the museum, Gandalf realised just *how* incredibly horrible the map of Earth Ayla and Diane had drawn for him back in Middle Earth really was.
Then they went to the science center and had fun with the exhibits there. Gandalf and Haldir found the exhibits incredibly interesting. They both poured over the flight exhibit, since after seeing the airplanes, they were quite intrigued. Then they took them to see the animals, and while Ayla and Diane were cooing over the iguana, which was climbing up Ayla's leg, Haldir and Gandalf were examining the boa constrictor. Katie was checking out the bats they had on display.
And then they stopped at Blockbuster to pick up a movie to watch that night - they ended up getting two: Dogma and a new release, Angel's Don't Like Cheese.
After that, they went home, since it was getting pretty late. They had a quick supper and then sat down to watch the movies. After the movies, they turned in for the night, expecting a nice, peaceful sleep.
Well. Katie wasn't sure she'd get a nice, peaceful sleep, but she was hoping Ayla and Gandalf would take the night off, so she had *hopes* that she would have a nice, peaceful sleep.
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Don't own Star Trek: Voyager - that belongs to Mr Roddenberry, or whoever it is that owns star trek now. Don't own the space channel. not sure who does. i'm sure www.spacecast.com has that info, but im too lazy to go see. also, I don't own blockbuster. would be cool if I did. :D
The song that Ayla sang from in this chapter was "Ripperton Road" by West of Eden. Gods, I love my mom's celtic CD's. :D
And don't ask how I came up with the name "Angel's Don't Like Cheese". Just look at some of the movie titles *these* days - whaddaya think they'll be like in three years? lol.
-SplendiferGoddess