Day Six
7:00 AM, Lesley was asleep very soundly. She was having pleasant dream about strangling Tavington while laughing manically, brandishing her weapon at O'Hara. Suddenly, she felt something nudge her. Lesley cracked one brown eye and saw Danni, bright eyed and bushy tailed. "Why are you awake?" Lesley moaned.
She began singing. "Good Morning, Good Morning, it's time to rise and shine, Good Morning, Good Morning hope you're feeling fine! Get up, get up get out of bed get up get up- AHH!" Danni fell ungracefully off the bed. Her cat screamed and Bo started howling. "What was that for?" She growled sitting up and leaning on the bed.
"You know what Davis, if you weren't a meal ticket, I'd clobber you!" Lesley groaned burring her face the pillow. Danni giggled. She hit Lesley with a pillow, but she missed and hit Bo instead. The dog stood up on the bed. He barked loudly then growled. "BO!" Lesley shouted. "DOWN!" The dog looked to his mistress then got off the bed. "Davis, leave me alone or I will be forced to hurt you." Lesley rolled over and went back to sleep. Danni sat on the floor and looked a little crestfallen. She opened her mouth. "Shut up" Lesley demanded.
"Will you get out of bed?" Danni stamped her foot indignantly.
"Will you drop dead?" Lesley threw the pillow at her. Danni ducked and stuck her tongue out.
"I'll sit on you if you don't get up!" Danni threatened, marching purposefully up to the bed. Lesley turned her eye towards Danni and gave her a devil glare. The blonde backed down and went into the center of the room.
. Danni snorted and saw the crates lying around the room. She waited a few minutes before she began taunting Lesley. "Hey, Lesley" Danni said as she pulled the lid off the crate. "Do you remember when you told me that you didn't trust me with all that stuff?" Danni asked off handedly.
Lesley sighed into her pillow. "Yes" she hissed.
"Well does that include nuclear war heads?" Lesley groaned and told Danni to jump in the lake. Danni just snorted. Then she got the most devious idea. "Hey Lesley"
"WHAT" The girl still lying in the bed screamed.
"Why are the numbers blinking?" Danni asked innocently. "Oh, look-it, it's counting down." Lesley's eyes grew wide and she jumped from the bed.
"Davis, what in the heck did you do?" She was across the room in a matter of minutes. She pushed Danni away from the crate and found everything to be perfectly normal. She growled and glared at Danni.
Danni began laughing uncontrollably. "I got you out of bed!" She shouted pointing at Lesley. Lesley straitened herself and balked a little.
"Yeah, well Davis, meal ticket or not, I've got one word for you." Danni stopped laughing and looked at her curiously. "Run" Lesley commanded. She dove for Danni, but the blonde-haired woman scuttled backwards and knocked down the vanity chair. Lesely quickly recovered herself and watched Danni jerk the door open and run down the hall yelling. She hardly waited a minute before Lesley gave into a hot pursuit. The two ran up and down the halls, still in their pajamas, the servants jumped out of way. They stared at them. It was still early in the morning, so very few people were awake. Some of them opened their doors, watched Danni running in her silken pajama pants, and oversized orthodontics shirt she got when she got her braces. Lesley was in a muscle shirt and sweat pants. They were running until THONK. Danni was suddenly on the ground staring up at Captain Adam Wilkins.
"Miss Davis!" He exclaimed bending down to help her back to her feet. Danni failed her arms wildly pointing behind her. The next thing she knew, Wilkins was on top of her. Lesley was on top of him. She gagged and failed her arms some more.
Lesley watched Danni fumble down the hall and run into Wilkins. She smiled to herself and increased her speed a little. Much to her dismay, Lesley lost her footing and tripped. She went flying across the narrow hallway. She rammed into Wilkins who fell on top of Danni. Lesley just smiled. She knew that Wilkins was probably crushing the devious little brat, but that seemed a fitting punishment for waking her up early. "Lesley, get off!" Danni shouted she failed her arms accidentally hitting Wilkins in the head. Lesley just smiled like the cat that ate a whole flock of canneries. She sat on top of them and waited for Danni to start wheezing. "You're crushing my ribs with your big fat body, Lesley!" She screamed. Lesley finally got up at Wilkins request. The two girls started back to their bedroom to get ready for the day.
"So what are we gonna do today?" Lesley asked as Danni brushed her hair.
"Well first we need to hide your stuff because they will come looking for it. I was thinking of annoying O'Hara." Danni shrugged as she put her hair in a loose bun on the top of her head. "But what ever you wanna do."
"Yea, well that sounds like a good idea." Lesley walked over to the basin and began brushing her teeth. "Do you have any ideas where we could put it?" Danni nodded as she put on her foundation.
"Of course, I am the evil master mind around here." She beamed. "Well," Danni got up and with a dramatic flourish pushed back a hidden panel. "I was thinking we could put it in the servants passage."
Lesley raised an eyebrow and looked at Danni. "Er, wouldn't the servants get to it?"
"Nup" Danni smiled as she lifted a crate. "I boarded it up."
"Er, why?" Lesley helped her. Thus far Danni had been correct in everything she had said and done, so Lesley trusted her.
Danni grunted as she set the crate down. "There were to many servants accidentally coming in at inopportune moments." Lesley opened her mouth. Danni walked to get the next crate. "And before you ask, yes they were all men, and it bothered me."
It took a few minutes, but Lesley and Danni got everything, but her duffel bag into the other room. They sat down and stared at the panel. Danni got up and pulled it back into place. "Well now that's taken care up, what do you wanna do?" Lesley asked leaning on her fist.
Danni shrugged. "Well there's nothing really to do but harass O'Hara around here so that sounds like fun." She said as she went to reapply her lipstick. "But what ever you wanna do."
Lesley pulled her shoulder length hair into a low ponytail. "That sounds like a good idea" She looked at the grin Danni was giving her in the mirror. There was only one way to shoot her down. "Well, I think that it's only fair that we annoy Colonel Tavington also." She smiled. "Of course you get that honor." Danni glared at her evilly.
"Do I need to go through the food chain again?" She asked. Lesley groaned.
"Not that shark thing again."
Danni scowled at her. "Well I just have to think of a new one." She paused and did her eyeliner then looked at Lesley in the mirror. "Oh, I got one. In the desert, you have the cute little mice, which is me, and then there's you, the snake, which eats the mouse. Lastly we have the hawk, Tavington which swoops down and eats us all." She made a wide swooping motion and it turned into a stroke of Salem's black fur.
"Well, you get Tavington. You have social immunity and he's always been evil." Lesley said. She went over to the jewelry box and pulled out a ring. "Do you care if I borrow one of these?" Danni shook her head. They stood outside the door and listened for a moment. Inside, Danni heard several women crooning over O'Hara. She waved Lesley into the room. Lesley put some eye drops in her eyes. She burst through the door. "CHARLES O'HARA!" She wailed. The crowd of women parted and Lesley approached him. She could see the fear in his eyes. O'Hara knew how ruthless she could be. With a heavy hand, she slapped him hard across the face. So hard in fact he spilt his tea down the front of his pristine shirt. "How could you, after all these years, and you- you leave me alone, in the gutter with not so much as a letter!" She looked at him venomously then through a Cheshire grin to Danni under her hair. She stormed to the back of the room. Danni took her cue and entered. She singled out Tavington on her radar and approached him. She tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and Danni just laid a heavy slap on him. The sound of skin meeting skin for a second time made the room go deathly quite.
Tavington recoiled like snake. His eyes pierced into Danni who just took a few steps back. "I told you that if you ever did that again would public humiliate you."
"Did what?" He questioned grinding his teeth. Danni noticed his grip on the teacup grow tighter. She could only imagine his hands around her throat and subconsciously rubbed her neck. "Miss Davis, I asked a question."
Danni felt about a half an inch tall. She shivered. "Colonel Tavington, you traumatize me then expect me to ably function in your presence." She sniffed as if she were going to cry. Danni knew that she had the support of several older ladies who kept close eyes on their daughters, especially if said Tavington fascinated said daughters. She could sense their concerned mothering skills kicking in. She looked Lesley who nodded for her leave. Danni pretended to heave a sob and excuse herself. They left the parlor and ran up the stairs. "Come on let's change I know they'll be after us in a minute." Danni said. It took them a minute but Danni was in (and had Lesley) in the habit of wearing blue jeans under the dresses. It was more uncomfortable, but it made for faster changing should the occasion arise. She was about to open the door when a loud knock reverberated through the door.
"Miss Davis" it was Colonel Tavington. Danni could almost see the anger in his eyes as he leaned against the door. "Miss Davis are you in there?" Danni shook her head to Lesley. She went to the window and opened it quietly as she could. She pulled a string attached to the window and her stepladder rolled out. She motioned Lesley to follow her. The thinner blonde nodded. She took the vanity chair and braced against the door. Quickly, they scuttled down the ladder and on to the ground. Danni pulled a string and the ladder went up like blinds. Lesley smirked and they took off running across the courtyard.
The girls didn't get very far however. Lesley nearly ran into General O'Hara's little snitch, Morton Bossworth. He as a small greasy little man with yellow teeth, and he gave Danni the creeps. "Well 'ello girlies" He gabbed Lesley arm. Lesley just stared at his grubby hand. "It seems that General O'ara 'as been looking for you." He smiled showing off his yellow uneven teeth. Danni visibly cringed when he touched her. "Now be good li'le girlies and come wit' Morty." He tried to pull them along, but Lesley would have none of it.
"Yeah right." She grabbed him and threw him across the courtyard. Danni watched with a mild amused interest. "All right let's go." Danni followed her friend's lead.
It was much later, and the two girls dressed in pants were hiding in the larder of the fort kitchen. Both had spent the majority of the day playing a cat and mouse game with one of the most deadly men and the world's most prissy one. Currently the latter was scouring the kitchen for them, trying to look inconspicuous. He tried to check the larder, but Danni had developed friendly relationships with most of the kitchen staff. He gave a girly growl and left. Danni snickered as the opened the door and walked passed the servants corridors. She and Lesley were suddenly pushed behind the long floor length cloth hiding the passage. "Quick hide in here, the Colonel is coming."
Lesley cracked the curtain ever so slightly that she could see out. Sure enough, Colonel Tavington stood in the kitchen trying to intimidate the cook with his blue heavy gaze. No such luck, Cook liked Danni and she liked Lesley even better. The two girls could hardly keep from laughing, as he got irritated. Then O'Hara walked in the kitchen.
The two officers greeted each other with polite hatred. "Colonel Tavington, I was wondering if you had seen Miss Davis, either of them really." O'Hara asked trying to seem high and mighty.
"No, I haven't" Tavington replied. He tried to keep himself from running O'Hara through with his weapon. They exchanged a little more.
"It would be such a good joke if we could chain those two together." Danni snickered and watched as they both tried to exit the same door at the same time.
"I've got a pair of handcuffs in my duffel bag upstairs." Lesley looked down at her friend. Danni was smiling manically.
"Come on, let's go get them." She turned off towards the corridor and ran up the stairs.
They went in Ruthie's room and then crossed over into Danni's room. Lesley went over to the bed and pulled her duffel bag out from underneath it. "So how exactly are we going to get them cuffed together?" Lesley asked as she scoured her bag.
"Easily enough, they'll be together some time this afternoon. Then I'll distract them and you just cuff them together." Danni shrugged. Lesley grabbed the cuffs and got the key out of a compartment. She put it in her pocket and they went back down the stair. It was easy to find the two men. They were in the courtyard, searching the brush. Danni took the long way around, she stood a few feet away and whistled. They didn't turn around, so she failed her arms a little. Still nothing. Danni placed her hands on her hips and gave an exasperated sigh. "HEY STUPIDS!" She yelled, that got their attention. Tavington took a few long strides and O'Hara was not very far behind. While they both decided to blow up at Danni, neither one thought about the fact that Lesley was nowhere to be seen. (Which in retrospect, Tavington said he should have been clued in about those little blonde girls. They travel in packs like wolves.) Danni didn't wait for him to be done ranting and using many inappropriate explicative, be for she looked at their wrists.
"You know Colonel as interesting as all that sounds." She said nonchalantly. "Check the wrist." She commanded pointing to her own wrist. Tavington and O'Hara got quizzical looks on their faces. They lifted their wrists and found them to be handcuffed together. O'Hara faltered and fell down taking Tavington with him. Lesley appeared and began howling with laughter. She high-fived Danni. "You know Colonel it's not that bad, once you think about it." She leaned down to speak lowly to him. "You and the General here could really use some bonding time." She snorted. Tavington's arm jutted out and grabbed her collar.
"Uncuff us or I'll rip your heart out and make you eat it." He threatened.
Danni smirked at him. She was taller now and it gave her a sense of proportion. "not likely." With that she loosed herself of his grip and walked away.
"Oh," Lesley said over her shoulder. "Around nine o'clock tonight come find us and I'll let you out." They walked away cackling.
The two girls went to the barn instead of the fort. "So what are we going to do?" Danni asked.
"We're going to let Tavington's prized horse out." Lesley explained. "Hopefully he'll go running after it and then oh my." She opened the pen of the brown gelding. The horse neighed as the approached. Lesley didn't realize, however, that Tavington's horse really only took commands from him. "Go on, shoo." She exclaimed. The horse just stood there. He refused to budge. Even when Lesley smacked his butt, he just turned around and bit her. "OW!" She jumped back into the empty stall. "Stupid horse!" She growled nursing her wounded hand.
"Well," Danni said failing her arms wildly. "That really worked." She growled sarcastically. "Come on, I've got a better idea and it's almost tea time."
"what has tea time got to do with anything?" Lesley asked still nursing her hand.
"Well it would look funny if Tavington and O'Hara were cuffed up in polite society. Then we could make innuendos and stuff like that." Lesley liked the idea, but it meant getting back in the horrid dress again.
It was teatime. There were several ladies milling about crooning over the officers. Danni and Lesley walked in with an air of triumph. In the back little corner sat Tavington and O'Hara. They immediately spied their predators and made an attempt to run. It was very wonderful thing for the girls. They were excited as the approached the two men sitting sulkily. "Hey boys." Danni greeted overly cheerful.
"Miss Davis, as I said earlier I will hurt you if you come near me." Tavington ground out glaring into his tea. She snorted.
"And as I said earlier I would love to see you try." She smirked. Lesley noticed a girl walking up and nudged Danni. "And here comes our first victim." She smiled. It Elizabeth Smith, she had the worst crush on O'Hara and was so ditzy she didn't know how to hide.
"Hello General O'Hara" She giggled. He stood up and jerked Tavington up with him. "Oh, hello Colonel Tavington" Her voice less cheery now, "Miss Davis and Miss Davis." She curtsied to them. "General O'Hara would you care to join me in taking a turn about the room." She asked smiling coyly.
"Well, yes of course but er…. The matter of the thing is…" O'Hara stammered. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Danni and Lesley's eyes dance with sadistic glee. "Well, if you don't mind if Colonel Tavington joins us, then I would love to." He threw a look in the girls' direction, but Lesley just shrugged. They would make the best of any situation.
"Yes, of course" Eliza's voice had little enthusiasm if any at all. They walked around the room and no matter how many times she tried to walk in between them, Tavington would move so she couldn't. He saw Danni and Lesley conspiring in the corner. He knew this wouldn't be good. Lesley stood up and walked to the other side of the room. She cast him a sly glance then perched herself with several other regular officers. Then Danni went and stood by the small group of dragoons in the room. "Colonel Tavington, would you come here." The room was small enough that no one would think her shouting improper.
"General O'Hara, I need you." Lesley said from the other side of the room. The two men looked at each other and then at the girls. Tavington stood there but they just kept calling.
"Colonel, General" Finally, he just sighed.
"Come on you stupid little pansy let's go." He dragged O'Hara out of the room with little regard to the people he shoved out of his way.
It was much later, after the scandal at the tea and Danni and Lesley were sitting in their room just laughing. "Oh, look it's seven, maybe we should go find them and torment them some more." Danni offered. Lesley nodded. They put their dresses back on (much to Lesley dismay) and went out the door. They two spent the better part of the hour searching when they found them. The Colonel stood a few feet away, alone. Lesley caught on quickly, but it took Danni a moment. "How did, but that- WE HAD THE STUPID IDIOT KEY!" She shrieked.
Tavington held up the hand cuffs and smirked devilishly at them. "Well, Miss Davis, it seems that I'm very good friends with the town smith."
"You have a friend" Danni crossed her arms over her chest. "I'll believe that when I see it." There was a slight nod of Tavington's head, Lesley caught it and turned around in time to see O'Hara grab Danni. Tavington grabbed Lesley and she began a long slew of curse words. She even made some up. Lesley didn't have time for this. She used her Karate to immobilize Tavington. He doubled over in pain. Danni followed suit and kicked O'Hara. She took off running the best she could with her dress and heels. Lesley did the same.
"You take her and I'll get Danni." Tavington ordered his superior.
"But, Lesley is stronger." O'Hara pouted. Tavington looked over his shoulder at him.
"Exactly" He took off running. He saw the end of Danni's dress as she rounded the corner. "This is going to be too easy." He thought as he rounded the same corner, only to run into a tree branch. He stumbled backwards slightly and growled. He was going to hurt that girl.
Lesley was having a time running in her dress. She ran into the fort and found herself lost. She tried to remember which way to Danni's room with very little success. She had no idea who was chasing her, probably Tavington since he was stronger. Lesley unlocked the door with the spare key Danni gave her. The door swung open and revealed….
Danni finally made it around the fort again. She didn't see Colonel Tavington anywhere. She heaved a heavy sigh of relief as she pulled the string for her little ladder to come down. She began climbing it, but something didn't seem right. She looked down and fought that momentary feeling of vertigo. Tavington was climbing up after her. She squeaked and tried to climb faster no such luck. She began yelling at her dress and shoes. She kicked them off narrowly missing Tavington's head. She launched herself into open window.
Lesley stood in the door way to shocked to run. How had O'Hara gotten her before she had? She said something nasty under her breathe and entered.
"Hello Miss Davis, the Colonel and Danni should be joining us soon."
"How in the heck did you get in here before me?" She failed her arms and prepared to attack him.
"Well, Miss Danni isn't the only one who know all the servants passages, and you did get lost." He informed her coolly looking at his nails, almost with a feminine quality. Then Danni fell in through the window. She startled everyone.
"What in the devil!" She shouted still to stunned to get in the whole way. "That's it I'm changing my locks." The next thing she knew she was lying on the ground and a dark shadow was looming over her. "Oh snap!"
Tavington entered the room and pushed Danni to her feet. He felt like shooting something namely two girls with the same name. "You two have been very naughty and when Cornwallis gets back I will inform of everything." O'Hara gave a smug little look and Tavington rolled his eyes.
"In the mean time I have boots that need polishing."
Lesley crossed her arms. "I don't do boots." She said with a daring little challenge. She had no fear of the trouble she could possibly get in. Tavington was about take her up on that challenge, but Danni cut in.
"Lesley, would you mind reminding me what we have been doing the past few days?" Danni asked in a sing-song voice. Lesley thought about it for a moment and beamed.
"Getting information to blackmail these two with" She replied.
"So you see, I know all about your love of make up and even have it documented."
Tavington balked then glared at her willing her to blow up. "No one will believe you."
"Oh really" Lesley cut in. "Are they going to believe mean ugly you, or sweet innocent us?" Lesley smiled.
Danni felt that her extra two cents was needed. "So don't think we won't tell Cornwallis you're a cross-dresser and O'Hara you already know what I could tell Cornwallis."
Lesley tied things up with a dramatic wave of her arms. "The door is open gentlemen, so please exit." The two men left grumbling. Lesley swore she heard Tavington swear revenge on them. She just kicked him in the butt making him fall down the stairs.
It was late, nearly midnight before the girls went to sleep. They had no plans of getting up early the next morning either.So the moon wished two blondes, a cat, and a dog, all in the same bed a very good night. It was nearly finished.
TBC...
Guess what only one more chapter! Doens't that make you happy? It does me! At any rate no one seems like this story, I think it's a good story and J.B and Sassybrunette think so also. Sorry if any one seems out of character. I was half way through when I realized LESLEY Dangerous she would do some serious pain impaliment and other evil things... but ah me... keep the story light. No one ever answered my question which dpressed me greatly. Anyway who's in favor of a BAby turtle Charlie and the Chocolate factory story... meh not many anyway... Review!
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Sassy Brunette: You still don't have that story up... well as I am writing this you don't anyway I didn't think this chapter was very funny but you might have another opinoin(sp?)
JB Duenweg: Love the new story and I reviewed because I'm nice! anyway your nice too because you review... hey that ryhmes! Anyway glad you liked it. but don't feel sorry for O'HAra he's jerk!