Disclaimer: The Young Wizards belong solely to Diane Duane, who is kind enough to let us play in her world.
Edited. Added to 04/21/05
WriterGirl859: Thanks for the feedback! I tried to make what Dari's upset about, and what she wants Nita to do about it, clearer. I don't think there will be any more of this; it was just a funny thought I had one day.
"Come on, Neets. Please?"
"Dairine, you know very well that that would be a completely unethical use of wizardry. There's no higher purpose, and I don't particularly have the energy to spare right now."
"I'll do your chores for the week."
"Bribery will get you nowhere. I'm off until finals are over."
"It might actually reduce entropy. I'm spending so much time hating these films that it's taking away from my wizardry."
"Dari, it's just a movie."
"Just a movie? Neets, come on. These were the defining films of a generation! Lightsabers! Good and evil! Darth Vader! Now they've turned it into some kind of Pokemon meets the Muppets nightmare!"
"Yeah, yeah. But my wiping you clean of all memory of the prequels? How's that going to solve anything?"
"Think of it as preventing me from taking an even more unethical action."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I don't know. Torturing the ones responsible, maybe. Showing them exactly what they did wrong. I could kidnap Lucas and make him watch The Phantom Menace until his head explodes. Maybe I could get your friend Chao in on it, get him to take me to another universe where this just didn't happen."
"Again, unethical and I doubt the Transcendent Pig would do that for you. The answer's still no. Now get out, I have work to do."
Nita pushed her sister towards her bedroom door. Dairine resisted, and finally shot her last weapon over her shoulder.
"You know, I didn't exactly make that block on Dad's mind permanent."
Horrified silence. "What?"
"And I don't know, but all this talk of ethics has made me wonder if it wouldn't be better to just, you know, tell Dad the truth. That Kit was in Ireland that summer, clearly in violation of the spirit of your little separation, if not the law. And then, there was that last late night with Kit…I didn't see anything in your listing about being 'on assignment'…"
"I didn't tell Dad we were…"
"No, but you let him think that."
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"Fine. Fine, I'll do it. I'll wipe your memory clean of all traces of Episodes One and Two."
"That's my sister! I wondered when the pod person would go back to Venus."
"Ha. Nothing lives on Venus."
"Well, now. I was contemplating sending George Lucas there, for what he's inflicted upon us."