Okay, I don't really have an excuse for how late this is. The only one I can think of is that I got a girlfriend, so I didn't want to write anything because I knew it would turn out fluffy. No? Not good enough? Damn...
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"Miss Hannah?"
Hannah looked down from the sauce she was stirring to the little girl. "Yes Jane?"
"What's for dinner?"
Hannah grinned. "Meat balls, don't laugh!"
"Why would I laugh?"
She frowned. "Why wouldn't you? I said balls, it's funny."
"I don't understand…"
"Huh." Hannah raised an eyebrow. "Do do?"
Jane giggled and Hannah sighed with relief. "Good! You do still have some normal in you!"
…
Jane was giggling all the way through dinner, Phillip finally had enough.
"Jane! Why are you laughing?"
"We're eating meat balls!" She elbowed her brother. "Get it? Balls?"
Michael smiled at her indulgently. "You don't get it, do you?"
She sighed. "No…"
Hannah snorted at Phillip's furious expression but her glee was interrupted by the doorbell ringing. Phillip got up to answer, grumbling under his breath.
Hannah and the children were pulling funny faces at each other when Phillip started shouting.
"NO YOU'RE NOT COMING IN! SHE DOESN'T HAVE GUESTS! SHE'S TOO YOUNG!"
Jane looked confusedly at Hannah, who frowned and made her way to the door - ready to plead Jane's case.
"SHE'S MARRIED ANYWAY!"
"What?" Hannah yelped. She pushed her way past the camera crew in front of her and dashed to the front door.
Phillip stood there with his face bright red and spittle all over his chin. Ew.
"Phillip? What the hell is going on?"
"Mrs Descouedres?"
Hannah ducked her head around Phillip to see Nilsson standing awkwardly at the front door.
"Nilsson! What are you doing here?"
"I got kicked out and I don't have anywhere else to go…"
One look at Nilsson's adorable puppy dog-bottom lip trembling face had Hannah melting. "Aw, poor baby. Come on in!"
Phillip was clearly outraged. "What? You can't just-!"
"Oh yes I can drooly-boy!" Hannah called back at him and led Nilsson over to the sofa. "Tell us what happened, Nilsson."
He sighed. "It was rule change day…"
(RULE CHANGE DAY)
Danielle woke up with a fresh sense of fury. She grinned to herself and basked in the feeling. She could punish those little devils today.
Fully dressed in fully respectable clothes, she bounced down the stairs and arrived at Nilsson in the kitchen.
"Eggs, ma'am?"
"No thank you Nilsson, I am perfectly capable of making my own breakfast." She replied and grabbed a box of cereal, all the while smirking to herself. By the end of the day he would be playing a different tune.
She finished her cereal and washed her dish as Nilsson made an entire breakfast buffet for the rest of the family.
"I'll go get the children up, shall I?" She asked, he gave her an odd look.
"Are you sure ma'am? Mr Quinn gets rather angry in the mornings…"
She grinned brightly at him. "Just between you an me Laurence, he needs to get used to it!"
After watching the woman practically bounce out the door, Nilsson turned to the camera.
"Why did she just call me Laurence…?"
…
Danielle knocked on Quinn, Ash, Delos, James and Poppy's door and it immediately swung open on its own. Delos was sleeping like a cute little angel. James and Poppy were sleeping on the same bunk, their legs tangled together. Ash was sleep cuddling with what looked like a rag doll crudely sewn to resemble Mary-Lynette. Quinn was glaring at her.
"If you tell me to get up, I will punch you so hard you really will have eyes on the back of your head…" He grumbled and death stared her out of the room.
She shut the door and leaned against it, sighing with relief. She didn't actually die!
…
When everyone was finally up, breakfasted and dressed, they all gathered around the huge dining table.
"I've been looking forward to your new rules all week, Danielle." Thierry claimed from the head of the table.
"Really, Thierry?" Danielle replied. "Because I was of the opinion that you had no idea what goes on in your house. This is something I will address in this rule change."
The Daybreakers all smirked at Thierry, he glared right back at them.
"First of all!" Danielle began. "I have noticed that none of you do any housework! It's time to change that! There are so many of you, you'll each have one chore each and manage to cover the whole house."
Poppy raised her hand. "But what about Nilsson? That's his job!"
"That leads us to our second change!" Danielle smiled pleasantly at their suspicious faces. She was more suspicious, they didn't react nearly as badly to chores as she'd hoped. "You have no need for Nilsson, this house is the right size for such a large family and you don't need help keeping it in order! Nilsson is hereby sacked and will pack up his things and leave immediately!"
"WHAT?"
"You can't do that!"
"Where will he go?"
Thierry raised a hand to immediately calm the madness, much to Danielle's surprise.
"With all due respect, Danielle. You can't do that. This is Nilsson's home, he's been here for a very long time."
"He's an unneeded frivolity and he's got to go." She replied cooly. "The next rule is that your bedroom arrangements will hereby be changed. Girls and boys should not share rooms, or beds. Therefore, Poppy will move in with Rashel and Keller and Jez will move in with Gillian."
The girls looked between themselves and shrugged, while the James and Morgead looked outraged.
"You can't make Poppy move!"
"I can't sleep without Jez there!"
Everyone turned to look at Morgead, who blushed immensely.
Jez looked pleased. "Don't worry Morgy! You've got that blow-up doll of me!"
He looked at his feet and mumbled, "It's not the same…"
"That brings me to the next rule!" Danielle announced. "We're clearing your rooms of all the inappropriate items you own!"
Thea pouted. "But we like our inappropriate things!"
She was stared at by everyone.
"We didn't think you owned any inappropriate things Thea…"
"Why does everyone think I'm innocent? Gillian isn't!"
"Gillian is cunning and only innocent when she wants something!"
"Teehee!"
"Be quiet!" Danielle yelled. "You children are out of control! You will all go to church on Sunday and I am having the priest over to talk with you about your sins tomorrow! Thierry has to have special time with each and every one of you! Quinn now has to go to school and graduate and sometime next week we will go help a charity!"
Everyone was silent as Danielle caught her breath.
"You're mean…"
…
Hannah gasped and hugged Nilsson. "She sacked you?"
"Yeah, but I didn't have to go right away…"
"Why not?"
"I had to take out all the millions of bin bags first."
…
"But I don't wanna chuck my sword away!"
"Delos you have to!"
"But I don't wanna…"
Danielle sighed at the pathetic image of the boy sitting in the middle of his room hugging a large sword to his chest and pouting like a child.
"Delos, why do you need that sword?" She asked.
"My Dad gave it to me…"
"Delos, your dad was a prick." Quinn said.
"I know!" Delos threw a dagger at him. "It doesn't mean I don't still love him! You're a prick and Rashel still loves you!"
"Well… Depends what day it is…" Quinn bartered.
"Quinn I hate you!" Rashel yelled from across the hall.
Quinn sighed. "It's clearly a 'Loves Me Not' day today…"
Danielle tried to pull the dagger from the wall where it stuck with little success. Ash came up behind her and removed it effortlessly.
She frowned. "How did you do that?"
He shrugged. "Practise. Delos has a temper and a big box full of 'em."
Danielle turned to glare at Delos. "Give me the box."
He sullenly passed it over and she stuffed it into a bin bag.
Jez's voice called her over and she turned to the rest of the room she was in. "When I come back, I want all the weapons in bin bags."
She left the groans behind her and jogged lightly to the Blackthorn family suite.
Morgead and Jez stood in the middle of the room with a screwed up piece of paper in front of them.
"Here's what we're throwing away!" Jez grinned brightly and kicked the paper in Danielle's direction.
The older woman picked it up and gingerly held it away from her - if Jez and Morgead thought it was inappropriate then it was probably illegal. "Almost everything I can see in this room is inappropriate!"
Morgead frowned and held up a black book. "Even the Bible?"
"No! Not the Bible!" Danielle snapped. "Look, I'll help you."
Danielle dropped the piece of paper and made her way to the wardrobe, Morgead immediately jumped to stop her.
"You don't want to go in there!"
"Oh really?"
Let's just say, nothing in that wardrobe was allowed to stay except one pink, Morgead sized bonnet that Danielle was too scared to ask about.
Danielle lugged the fifth bin bag into the hallway and wiped her brow. "Right, that's the wardrobe done, let's do the rest."
Three hours later.
Danielle manoeuvred around the mountain of bin bags in the hallway of Morgead and Jez's room and made her way to Gillian's door.
She entered to find Gillian lying on her bed reading a sinful looking book.
"Have you cleared your room yet, Gillian?"
"What's to clear?"
"Well, for one thing." Danielle opened a cupboard on the wall to show a variety of witchy looking bottles and jars. "These!"
Gillian gasped. "Witch! Witch! There's been a witch in my room! And she left her stuff here!"
"Witchcraft is sinful!" Danielle yelled and swept all the stuff in a bin bag then stormed out the room.
Gillian grinned to herself. "Those were toiletries…"
…
"Thierry? Danielle asked, knocking on his door. "Thierry? Have you thrown out all your inappropriate items yet?"
He opened the door and frowned at her. "I'm old, I'm allowed weird stuff…"
"You're twenty three!"
…
Nilsson sighed. "That was all I saw before Mrs Wripp ordered me to pack a bag, leave the house, and bring the bin bags with me. Mr Descouedres leant me a car, the bags are still in there…"
Hannah rubbed his arm comfortingly. "You're not working for her anymore, honey. You're allowed to call her a bitch."
"I can't! I'm too polite!" Nilsson wailed and was immediately enguled in Hannah's hug.
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