"Why does this always happen to us?" Harpie asked no one in particular.
"Because we're easily taken advantage of?" Rowenna mused.
"Because you're gullible?" Joey suggested.
"Because we're too nice?" Serenity chimed.
"Or because we're in hell." Harpie nodded. The other three moaned, nodding as well.
"Well, let's count the demons. Who do we have?" Rowenna asked.
"Alrighty. First off, there's the quints." Joey muttered, holding up a whole hand. He picked each finger and named it as one of the quints. "Rachel, Darren, Joy, Anna, and Matthew."
"They're Aunt Rebekkah's."
"Yep. Then we've got Bade and Rylie." Harpie noted, motioning her head over to the two faced brat and the three year old.
"They're Aunt Kara's."
"And then there's Kaylie." Serenity noted. "She's Aunt Marie's."
"So we've got an eight year old." Rowenna said, pointing to Kaylie. "A five year old." Rylie was motioned to. "Five four year olds." The quints smiled and waved. "And a three year old." Bade giggled and sucked on his thumb.
"And we just can't say no." Joey muttered, sweat dropping. Rowenna sighed, nodding. She turned to the massive group of toddlers.
"So munchkins, what do you want to do?"
"We wanna play!" The quints shouted, jumping onto Joey.
"I want ice-cream!" Kaylie exclaimed, grabbing Serenity's arm and tugging.
"I want candy!" Rylie requested, kicking Harpie in the leg for good measure.
"I want my Mommy!" Bade shouted. Soon the reunion hall was filled with the sound of little children shouting. The adults, however, paid no attention to this spectacle, as they were Irish, and thusly spending a good deal of their money towards the respectful and useful goal of getting completely and utterly smashed.
"This is going to be a long, long day." Rowenna muttered. She turned to Serenity, who nodded, Joey, who nodded, and Harpie, who nodded, and then she cleared her throat. "OI! MUNCHKINS! SHADDUP!"
"That really is no way to treat little children."
Joey shuddered as the seductive voice came from behind him, and he felt someone softly breathing on his neck. "H-hi Mairi."
"Hey Joey." She smiled, picking up her little cousin Joy off of Joey's leg and resting her on her hip. "Hi Joy honey, how are you doing today?"
"I'm okay Mairi! I wanna play, but Joey won't play with me!" She said, pouting.
"Oh, that's so sad. Why won't Joey play with you?" Mairi winked at Joey, who shuddered once more. (He seemed to do that frequently in Mairi's presence.)
"Well...we didn't exactly ask him to play. We kinda just jumped on him." Rachel noted, getting off of his other leg. Darren, Anna, and Matthew let go of his arms and nodded, looking somewhat guilty.
"I'll tell ya what. Why don't we all play a big game of hide and go seek?" Mairi threw out. All the children nodded vigorously.
"I like hide-and-go-seek!" Bade exclaimed, giggling.
"I want a prize." Rylie demanded.
"That's ridiculous!" Joey exclaimed. "It's a game of hide-and-go-seek! There ain't no prizes in hide-and-go-seek!"
"There are now." Mairi noted, taking out a ten dollar bill. "Whoever wins gets this ten dollars, and we'll take you out to spend it on whatever you want. Right Rowenna?"
"That's right." Rowenna coughed, nodding. "But there's one catch."
"What?" Rylie said, his eyes narrowing with suspicion.
"No matter what, everyone gets free ice-cream." She said, smiling. The quints squealed with joy. "Who wants to be it?"
"I'll do it." Harpie volunteered. "I'll count to one-hundred, you all go and hide." She winked at Serenity, who grabbed two of the quints by the hands and led them away towards the bathrooms as Harpie turned her back to count. Rowenna grabbed two more of the quints to hide with her. Rylie hid by himself, and Bade hid with the last quint, while Kaylie wandered off on her own.
"C'mon, let's go hide, Joey." Mairi said, grabbing him by the arm and leading him off towards the parking lot.
"Ain't we supposed to stay inside for the game o' hide-and-go-seek?" He asked, gulping slightly.
Meanwhile---
"99...100!" Harpie shouted, turning around. She smiled, seeing Bade and Anna hiding behind the glass door, covering their faces and giggling madly. "Who should I 'look for' first?"
She walked around the hall a couple of times, noting that Rylie was hiding in the coatless coat room, as it was August and the need for coat's wasn't really in season, so he was hiding amongst the hangers, trying look inconspicuous.
Rowenna, Joy and Darren were hiding behind the stack of chairs left over from the set up, Joy's choice of course. How could Harpie see through the legs of the chairs? And with all that giggling, why, she'd never notice they were there. Of course chairs giggle. All the time.
She nearly fell over laughing at where Serenity had taken that last two quints, Matthew and Rachel, to hide. Serenity and Rachel were hiding in front of the girls' bathroom door, and Matthew, who had refused quite profusely to hiding in a girls' bathroom, was hiding behind the water dispenser just in front of the lavs. Of course Harpie couldn't see him through the plastic bubble that contained clear liquid.
Kaylie, however, was no where in the hall to be found. Harpie shrugged, deciding to take a stroll out in the parking lot, to see who was there. And alas, there was Kaylie, her little pigtails sticking out from behind…the dumpster. "Oh, she's gonna need a bath tonight." Harpie laughed, wrinkling her nose. "Now who to 'find' first."
She shrugged, deciding that since he was such a pain in her ass, and such an obnoxious brat, Rylie was the first to go down. Laughing at her own evil-older-cousin baby-sitter-ness, she strolled back into the reunion hall, heading towards the coat room.
"Oh my." She said loudly and with mock enthusiasm. "I'm cold. I need to get my coat." She walked over to the coat room, looking in. "Hmm…guess I left my coat at home…but I found a munchkin."
"You cheated!" Rylie accused, stepping on Harpie's foot. "No fair! I want a rematch!"
"There aren't any rematches in hide-and-go-seek Rylie. You lose. Deal with it."
"I want that ten bucks, god damn it!"
"Watch your mouth!" Harpie shouted, whacking him upside the head. "I'll tell your mother."
"Oh yeah?" He smiled evily. "I'll tell her you HIT me!" He started to put on the water works, but Harpie grabbed him picking him up over her shoulder and covering his mouth.
"Shut up you little brat, you still get free ice-cream. That's your prize."
"I want the ten bucks!" He said, although it was rather muffled, as Harpie had slipped a piece of duct tape, (Yay for plot holes! We don't know how she got the duct tape, but she has it!) over his mouth.
"I'm sorry munchkin, what was that?" She laughed. "Now shut up while I find the rest of 'em."
Meanwhile--
"Shouldn't we go back inside? Ah mean…hidin' outside idn't really fair in hide-and-go-seek…"
"Oh, Joey, you know that was just started that game to get them to shut up…and so I could be alone with you…" She smiled, biting her lip seductively. Joey gulped.
"Well, uh…it just idn't fair…cos we're still playin', and if we win just cos we cheated then that ain't right."
"Then we're just not playing anymore." Mairi said, pinning Joey to the wall and kissing him lightly on the lips.
"Ay! Ay! Watch it! You're mah cousin!" Joey shouted, trying to push her off. She wrapped her arms around his neck and giggled.
"I researched it. It's only illegal if you get me pregnant. But Mom said I'm sterile, so it's okay!"
"But…it's…ew!" Joey exclaimed, shoving her away once more as she kissed the nape of his neck. "Just…no!"
"C'mon Joey! It's not that bad. I'm not that ugly, am I?"
"Okay. So you're hot. So you wanna do me. But you're my cousin! That's just wrong!"
"Oh, so you think I'm hot?"
"Wha-no! I didn't say that! Get away from me!" He whined. She laughed and nibbled at his ear. "No! Stop that! Aaaaaaaah!"
"Out in the parking lot, no one can hear you scream…"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE! HELP ME! I'M BEING MOLESTED! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!GETITOFFGETITOFF!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE!!!"
)(Wheeee!! Yay for Joey torture! ::sigh:: We're so eeeeevil. Puppy torture is fun! Yay for Enigma! It's a fun fic! Yay for HIDE-AND-GO-SEEK! The time-old tradition of tricking little children into running away from you so you can do whatever the hell you want! And to think we thought this was going nowhere. ::evil cackling:: Review and we shall give you more! We're not Frogger Junkies....and we're sure as hell not Review Junkies! ::nervous laughter:: REVIEW!!!!
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