This is literally just a chapter that opens up the How To Train Your Dragon fic. You can ignore it- I just thought it was really cute.
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Morgan's World
She took a deep, calming breath. She had spent a long time explaining how her month had gone. Tracy sure loved making her work. Filling out paperwork, reports, that boring stuff. Morgan would have to document everything that had happened when she went to Asgard, then the events that followed.
Not only did she have to do that, Morgan had to do it with Tracy observing her. The people in charge (the Spencer's) realized Morgan was more honest on the paperwork if she thought knew she would be caught. Morgan had a thing about not being caught. Being caught meant she was getting sloppy. She prided herself on not being caught.
Except with Tracy over her shoulder? Pointing out everything that would happen if Morgan told even one lie? Including being grounded? That the grounding would be added to Lilac?
Basically she was in Helheim.
Morgan would've taken any punishment the Spencer's could dish out. She'd gone through worse. But punishing Lilac for Morgan's lies? There had been enough of that already.
If Morgan wasn't so angry at the Spencer's for doing it, she'd congratulate them on making a torture that Morgan couldn't wiggle her way out of.
Now, you're probably thinking 'But isn't Morgan Lilac's mother? Why do the Spencer's get to say how Lilac is punished? That's not fair!' you'd be right. The Spencer's should have no say. Except that in the laws of humanity, Morgan was the daughter of the Spencer's. Lilac was (legally) a foster child to them.
Morgan checked. She couldn't find a document that would make Lilac her's legally. Nothing without forging a document or five. Morgan wanted Lilac as her daughter, with no one putting that at risk. She needed it to be as by-the-books as possible. No wiggle room. Lilac deserved as much from Morgan.
(She even checked for the Lilo & Stitch solution. Lilac may be a dragon, but she was listed as a human. Another dead end.)
Filling out this paperwork would be worth it though, Morgan mused, when she could spend the day with her daughter. She'd gotten souvenirs from Asgard that Lilac would just love!
The month may have been an emotional rollercoaster, but Morgan would let herself be damned before she brought Lilac a lackluster gift!
Not only that, but tomorrow was Sunday.
The Spencer's had nothing on Sunday's.
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Sunday's were the days Morgan and Lilac had a blanket permission to do what they wanted.
A basic 'Do Not Disturb' was cast over the day. No one at the Center or the Spencer house could call Morgan and Lilac for anything. The only excuses were: family injury, the world was actively dying right there and then, or Traveling. Anything else was ignored.
The Spencer's had legal custody over Lilac. Morgan had asked them (begged really) to let her have a day that Morgan could at least pretend she was still Lilac's mother. Sure Morgan got final say on Lilac's needs, but Mrs Spencer had signed her on for human school and Mr Spencer paid bills. They gave Morgan Sunday.
Lilac loved Sunday's. She and her mother would go the movies most Sunday's, or go to a park in downtown Charleston so Lilac could see some decent trees to paint. Sunday was the best day to ever exist, by Lilac's standards.
There was also the human city itself- Lilac was still settling in to human culture, it was all so interesting to her. You know, once she was convinced she wouldn't be abducted.
But that's not an important detail.
No the only thing that's important was that Lilac got to spend all day with her mom. No meetings. No homework. No Traveling. No exceptions.
Well...except this time.
Because Lilac had been waiting a long time to ask her mom this (three whole months, Earth Time!) she wouldn't back out now!
Lilac was sitting in her mom's office. Her mom had gone grocery shopping first- apparently she'd been out of food for their house. Lilac didn't mind the wait.
"Mom!" Lilac laughed, jumping into her mom's arm.
Morgan beamed. "Heya Princess!" Morgan swirled her daughter around in circles. Lilac giggled. "How're we doing today?!"
"Awesome!" Lilac cheered.
Morgan dropped her to her feet. "Are you ready for the best day of the week?!"
"Always!"
"Great!" Morgan heaved her Infinity Bag off her shoulders. The thing was bigger on the inside than the outside, with a pocket of endless space inside it. She could fit a car in there! ...probably. "I was thinking we could watch a movie, we still haven't shown you all the Veggietales movies."
Lilac smiled happily. She did enjoy the Veggietales movies, with her mother. It was easier to understand all the original movies after Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber explained it. However she remembered her plan. "Could we watch something else? I- I have a movie I wanna watch."
Morgan blinked. She was momentarily surprised. Lilac hadn't really asked to watch a specific movie before. "Okay. Shoot." Morgan knelt down so she could meet Lilac's eyes. "What'd you wanna watch? I got snacks either way."
Lilac took a breath, bracing herself. "How to Train Your Dragon."
Morgan blinked again. "...huh...?"
"I wanna watch How to Train Your Dragon." Lilac repeated. "And then...I wanna go there."
"...huh..." Morgan was starting to look panicked.
"I wanna go to Berk." Lilac repeated, more firmly.
Morgan tensed. "...Berk?"
Lilac nodded with all the sureness of a duck taking their first flight.
"As in...dragon-viking land Berk?"
Lilac nodded again.
"The one where the vikings kill the dragons?"
"They stop at the end!" Lilac defended.
Morgan was questioning who let Lilac watch that movie. Why anyone with sanity would let her Lilac watch it. Her sister was ruled out- being dead for Lilac's entire life on Earth was a good excuse (this time). After remembering it was Morgan's idea, she questioned why she'd approved such an awful thing.
'The puppy dog eyes, that was is.'
"Mommy please?"
"I just left a Norse land. You want us to go to another one?" Morgan asked. 'The last one didn't go so well for me, Princess.'
"It'll be easy for you to adjust!" Lilac argued. "And you can say you met Thor and Loki just to confuse everybody! I know you like doing that!"
She...had good points.
Morgan wanted to go on the trip now, just because she didn't want to see what other good points Lilac would have. She had been raised by Morgan Spencer and Darcy Anderson, Lilac Stardust could make her own convincing arguments. If Morgan said no, there would be guilt for the rest of their Sunday.
Lilac knew the second her mother had caved. She squeaked loudly, clapping her hands together. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She reached to her backpack, pulling out a small blue notebook. "I've already got some ideas!"
'Merciful Author, Lilac, I already said yes. You don't need to show me your Plan. That's overkill.'
Morgan's second thought was:
'You would've done it with or without me. You crafty son of a me.' Morgan smiled at that thought, seeing the excited look on her daughter's face. '...I think Loki would've liked you.'
So mother and daughter Planned a trip to dragon-viking land.
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AN:
To be continued in...Thorax: Cavalry Commander. This is a crossover piece of MLP and Captain America, in case you look for it in CA and can't find it.
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