Day 3

1:00 AM

Danni was sleeping fitfully and she sat straight up disturbing the dog that disturbed the cat that disturbed the other girl lying in the bed. "TAVINGTON!" She shouted. Lesley groggily looked at the other blonde who seemed wide awake.

"What?" She asked trying to bury her head under the pillow. Danni grabbed the pillow and threw it across the room.

"We have to get around Tavington to get the journal in O'Hara's bed room!" She cried flailing her arms widely. Lesley still wasn't coherent and Danni was speaking quickly so it was no wonder that the taller blonde only mixed the statement up.

"Why is Tavington in O'Hara's bed?" She asked trying to keep her eyes open.

Danni moaned. "AUGH MY EYES IT BURNS, bad mental image." She screamed covering her face with her palms. "Must poke eyes out! AUGH why did you have to say that you nasty perv!" Danni shoved Lesley. It took her a moment to realize what she had said and when she did, Lesley regretted it.

"Ugh, that's just gross" She commented still burying her face in the pillows. "You have a nasty mind."

Danni glared at her. "You're the one who said it."

Lesley who was still to exhaust to think just ignored the incitement to argue and possibly fight. "All right so why are Tavington and O'Hara in the same room." She said reaching over to scratch Salem under the chin. She sighed.

"No, dumb butt, we have to find a way to distract Tavington to get into O'Hara's room to get O'Hara's journal." Danni said quickly. Lesley nodded.

"All right what do propose we do?" Lesley asked trying to see a little further into the future. Danni growled and slammed herself on the bed. "Yea, that's what I thought, now I'm going back to sleep." There was a brief silence and Danni gasped and sat bolt strait in the bed. She opened her mouth. "Unless you a death wish, you'll shut up." Danni squeaked and went back to sleep.

10:00 AM

Lesley finished tying her stays and came out so Danni could help her put on her other things. "Man, I hate this stuff, I'm tempted to just walk around naked." Lesley growled as Danni pulled a little tighter on the stays. She gasped.

Danni shrugged. "Well, please don't because I value my mental sanity." Danni threw a petticoat at her. "Anyway, you remember the whole O'Hara-Tavington thing, right?" She asked going behind the room divider. "Well, I was thinking-

"Don't hurt yourself" Lesley shot at her. "I know it's hard for you to think." She began laughing at her.

"Ho, ha, he, your so funny I forgot how to laugh." Danni came around she was wearing a regular dress then had a duffel bag of stuff. "Anyway, we need to go to the doctor." She said slinging the duffel over her shoulder. Lesley gave her a puzzled look. "You see when I first got here I had trouble sleeping. I went to a doctor who gave me some drugs for it. I would take it with hot chamomile tea. Slept like a baby." She smiled as she grabbed some more clothes and stuffed it into the duffel bag. "You got any blue jeans." She asked. Lesley nodded and got them out.

"So, if you're going to the medics. What's with the bag?" She asked.

"Well, we've got to go see Miss Constance Rollins." Danni beamed as she opened the door. "That's how we'll distract O'Hara." She turned around and found herself staring into Colonel Tavington's blue eyes. "Holy pooh on rye bread toast, Colonel Tavington, one of these days I'm going to clobber you." She growled he just pushed her aside and approached Lesley.

"Miss Davis," he growled grabbing her arm. "I want you to know that I am allowed to shoot you here and now. No one would ever wonder why." He growled into her face. Lesley met his gaze openly. She stepped a little closer so she could be in his face.

"Bring it." She smiled. There was a moment of tense silence. Tavington flexed his jaw. He nodded in acceptance of her challenge. Again, there was a heavy silence, it made Danni uncomfortable.

"All right, well, Colonel Lesley and I are going to the medics."

"Why?" Tavington asked tersely.

"Well you see Colonel, around 28 days ago, my friend came. And now she's back again. I need to go talk to him." Danni explained placing her hand on her stomach. Tavington shifted uncomfortably. He hated hearing about women's problems. The man could kill mercilessly but when it came to women, he was at a total loss. He escorted them down the stairs and to the medical quarters.

They were outside the tent of Doctor Mohen. Tavington shifted uncomfortably as Danni pretended to cramp and nearly doubled over. Lesley took her cue. "You know, Colonel we're gonna be a while." She took the duffel bag from the other girl. "You can go, and we'll see you later." He nodded gratefully, bowed and left. They waited until the Colonel was out of eyesight before laughing at him. "Man, who knew that PMS made him so uncomfortable?" Lesley chuckled. Danni raised her hand and jumped up and down, crying "oh, me, me!" Lesley just rolled her brown eyes and walked into the tent. There she found a 50 something year old man taking off his shirt. Danni followed her in and cried out.

"MY EYES!"

"Oh, good heavens," exclaimed the doctor. "I'm so terribly sorry Miss Davis!" He pulled his shirt down and blushed furiously. "I wasn't aware of your presence." Danni walked passed Lesley who did not move.

"It's all right Doctor, we should have knocked or something. Isn't that right Lesley?" Danni elbowed her and the girl did not move. "Lesley?" She said with more question. The blonde girl still stood perfectly still and began saying "Buh buh buh" Danni stifled a giggle. "I think she's in shock." The doctor furrowed his brow and rolled up his sleves.

"Perhaps I should do something?" He questioned approaching Lesley. Danni laughed again and shook her head.

"I can fix it." She gave a sadistic little smile and rubbed her hands. "LESLEY, Colonel Tavington is taking his shirt off!" She cried. Lesley immediately came too. Then she realized what her devious little friend had done.

She scowled at Danni. "That was low, even for you Valley girl." Danni just smirked and turned to the doctor.

"Well, I guess we should get what we came for." Danni paused and reached into her bag and pulled out a small bottle. "I've had some trouble sleeping lately."

"Haven't we all?" Lesley muttered still upset about the Tavington comment. Danni glared at her then returned to the doctor.

"I need some more pills." She handed him the bottle and he examined it. He went to a crate, opened it, and pulled out an identical bottle.

"Here, these are them. Take them right before bed with some tea and it should give you at least eight hours of good sleep." He smiled and handed her the bottle. "Can I do anything else?"

"no, these should do just fine. Thank you." She curtsied. "Good day, come on Lesley." She stuffed the bottle back into the lavender duffel bag and grabbed her friend. They ran out. Doctor Mohen just shook his head. Sometimes, he wondered about that girl.

12:00 PM

Danni pulled Lesley into the trees. The spot was secluded. "Take off your clothes." She commanded undoing her own over dress. Lesley looked at quizzically. "What, just do it!"

"All right, I thought we covered this. I don't swing that way." She crossed her arms over the dress. Danni glared at her and reached into the duffel bag. She pulled out a pair of pants and launched them at Lesley. "What are these for?"

"Good night in the morning, you say I'm dense!" Danni exclaimed. "I would- we would- ruin my, er, our reputation. And because, I dearly love Lord General Cornwallis, I simply cannot reflect poorly on him."

Lesley nodded slowly, "but I thought these things were improper." Danni shrugged. "Then why are we putting them on."

"Gosh, this morning, I told we are going to see Constance Rollins." Danni explained as she went behind at tree with the duffel bag. "I can't go in Lucy's Place, dressed as Danni Davis, personal favorite of Lord Cornwallis, so I go as Danni Davis," she came around the tree in her pants and shirt and a pair of boots. "as Danni Davis common heart broken boy." She smiled. Danni reached into the bag and pulled out a wet cloth. She washed the make up off her face and smudged her eyeliner.

Lesley gasped playfully. "Oh my word, you're actually taking off your make up?"

"Yes, I'd look funny if I didn't now get dressed. I won't have my reputation messed up because of you." Slowly, Lesley got ready.

2:00 PM

Lucy's Place was the place that all the officers went on their leave. Around this time of day, it was empty and dead, save for a two boys, a terribly short one, and a tall one. Both were blonde and brown eyed. They kept their hats down over their faces. The shorter one approached the bar and leaned forward. "Is Constance around?" he asked lowly. The bar tender laughed at him and pointed up the stairs. The boy nodded and motioned his friend to follow him. They went up the stair and knocked on the first door to the right. "Come in" a woman said. He opened the door and the woman jumped to her feet. "Well, if it isn't little Danny Davis." She crooned taking his hat.

"Yes, well, I need to ask a favor of you."

"Of course dearest, what is it?" She smiled, then looked to her friend. "or better yet who is it for?" She winked at the taller friend. He stepped back in disgust.

"Actually, for a lady friend of mine. She needs something from General O'Hara, and he refuses to give it to her." Constance snorted. "So, she decied to take it anyway, but he's hiding it in his room. She asked me to distract him."

"Well, I don't work for O'Hara any more. I hardly know what I can do. The idiotic man is such…" she clenched her fist then took a deep breathe. "Of course, I will do it, but there is the matter of my fee." She asked slyly.

Danny nodded. "Yes, I took that into consideration." She pulled a leather purse off her belt loop. It was full of money. "All your really need to do is keep him busy. Tell him your pregnant or something, but don't take him far. Come to the fort tomorrow before around noon. Stand on the far left side of the building, by the parlor window, and wait for my lady's signal (a white handkerchief out the window.) General O'Hara will come out a few minutes later. Keep him busy for as long you can, at least a few hours."

Constance took the bag and weighed it in her hand. "Well, it will hurt him in some way?" She asked still looking at the purse of money. Danny nodded happily. "Of course, sweet heart it would be a pleasure." She curtseyed and the two boys bowed. They left. As they walked down the stairs, the taller boy, who, until now, remained silent, started to ask a question. Danny shushed him and continued walking.

Back at the fort and back in their dresses, the girls were sitting in the parlor. "So she thinks that you're a boy?" Lesley asked Danni who was fiddling with her loose hair. Danni shrugged and began braiding her hair. "How do you keep it up?"

"Well, I rarely go, and Constance is the only one I talk to. She thinks of me as a little 'brother'. That's why they haven't found out." Danni reached over and picked up her teacup. "Anyway, we need to start planning how to get the journal. You know my daddy always said 'fail to plan; plan to fail." She smirked.

"Yea, well I've got one more question before we start our 'big plans'." Danni looked from her tea. "Where did the money come from?" Danni smirked, resembling Tavington.

"That's for me to know and you to never find out."

"All right then, who did you lift it from?" Lesley crossed her arms. Danni shrugged and muttered something. "What I can't hear you?"

She sighed and made a face. "It was my allowance from Cornwallis, the money he gives me to buy dresses and stuff like that." She pulled out a piece of notebook paper and a 21st century ink pen. "Because, I use O'Hara's money so much, mine has accumulated." She pulled a table over and sat the paper down. "All right now, how do we get Tavington his sleeping pill?" She asked no one in particular.

"Are you sure these will work?" Lesley examined the pill then put it down. "I mean, it works for you, but you are smaller, and less accustomed to the medications of this time." Lesley pointed out.

"Are you kidding me? I have a nervous mind when I try to sleep. You, it the pillow and that's it. I listen to the clock ticking in the room and it drives me insane. These things put me out before I know what hit me!" Then she paused. "Besides, O'Hara ticked me off one day and I put a half of these in his tea at lunch. He fell asleep in his food for a good three hours." She smiled ecstatically.

"You're just plain evil." Lesley sat down by the table and looked at the paper. "All right, we want to give Colonel Tavington the tranquilizer, but not in public. " Danni looked up at her. "It would be way to suspicious."

"You're right" She scribbled something down next to Tavington's name on her paper. "So, let's do it in here, cuz we told Constance to wait outside. So we refuse to have tea with the officers, you can tell him that, by the way, and we'll grind up the pill so it dissolves and put it in the tea."

"What, why do I have to be the one to tell him? He hates me." Lesley cried. Danni opened her mouth to say something but Lesley cut her off. "And do you dare say he hates you more. He has to like you if he wants Cornwallis to like him."

"All right, fine, but I'm terrified of him. You can at least defend yourself." Lesley snorted the agreed.

It was some time later after dinner when Lesley and Danni were finished with their plans. The had even synchronized their watches (not that Danni actually wore one). Their plans started around ten in the morning.

10:00 PM

Lesley stretched and yawned. "Wow, who knew plotting makes you so tired?" She asked no one in particular. She was sitting on the floor with Bo in her lap actually reviewing Danni's plans. The other blonde was in Ruthie's room bathing. Lesley had long since finished her bath and was grateful. She smelt something like a dead animal. Excited did not describe how she felt when they opened the door and saw a tub of hot steaming water. For the past few days, she had washed herself using rags and the water basin in the room. Sponge baths weren't the best thing to get clean with. She wrapped herself in a robe then got some fresh underclothes from Danni, which was awkward for reasons aforementioned (such as height, and chest size). She was now wearing some satin pajamas that Danni took from Rosie.

She sighed and got up. As Danni had promised, Bo got his very own bed. He actually wasn't allowed to use as Salem had rule of the roost. The two animals got along very well. There was occasion when a fight would break out, but Since Danni kept her door unlocked and slightly open the animals could leave whenever they please. If the door was open then a passing servant would, as instructed, shut it. She sighed and got into the bed. She called the dog up there and as well as he could Bo got on the bed. She was nearly asleep when she heard the door open. Danni was standing there with her hair in a neon green towel. "I thought we agreed the dog was off the bed."

Lesley opened her eyes slightly. "We did, but you had to get Bo a bed."

"I did" Danni replied as she took the towel off and set it near the fireplace on a rack for drying clothes.

"Nope, your cat took over his bed." Lesley chuckled at the sour expression on Danni's face. "Well good night."

"Night" Danni called back. She stood up, blew out the candles, and got into bed. She immediately fell asleep for the first time in a long time.

TBC...

Well, I still only have one reviewer and that depresses me. (sobs) PLEASE SOME ONE REVIEW! Anyway, I hope you peoples who are reading this liked this chapter. I tried to keep it as funny as possible. The comforting thought about this little minni-sode is IT"S SO SHORT I MIGHT FINISH IT! not that I'm really bad about that anway.
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