Chapter Nine is up! Wow...I write fast, man. My mom said I can only use my phone for 30 minutes a day, everyday, and now I'm sad...I use that thing a lot for music...and Musicals. I NEED IT! (eye twitch) Any-who...Thanks for all who have reviewed! Iceflower...we'll have to wait and see, especially with that one OC/ Rafiya and Gustave kis- wait, almost gave away another chappie idea. (grins mischiviously) If you want to see some sparks fly, you'll just have to wait and see...Was watching Grease while typing this, sooo...that's a fair warning.

Chapter 9: In which Emma scares the living heck out of everyone:

One week later...

Me and Gustave: PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN! THE FINAL THRESHOLD! THE BRIDGE IS CROSSED SO STAND AND WATCH IT BURRRRNNNN! WE'VE CROSSED THE POINT OF NO REEEEEEETTTTURRRRNNN!

Erik: (Walks in to see Gustave and I staring at each other, him holding me closer than intended to him) What the heck?

Me: We're rehearsing, for tonight! Don't you recognize our costumes? (pulls hood of his face) Wow, are you going senile already?

Erik: No! How did you people get the leads, anyway?

Me: Everyone cleared the stage when Gustave dressed up like you, and stole your lasso. A couple people quit, and now we're the leads!

Erik: This is the weirdest thing ever.

Me: (drinking some tea, biting out of an apple in Erik's hand, and sitting on the couch) Tonight's the last show, so it has to go off without a hitch!

Gustave: Also if we blow up the stage again, we'll be put under house arrest.

Erik: That cannot happen. Everything is better when you people aren't here.

Me: Don't you have good times with Gustave?

Erik: The only time was when we blew up the opera house next door.

Gustave: I was still inside!

Erik: It was fun for me.

Me: That's not the point. (sips tea) You two should spend more father-son time, together.

Erik: And you should be spending less date time together.

Gustave: They're not dates! What about shoving itching powder down Piagi's pants is date?

Erik: You did WHAT!?

Me: I know, I know. We should have used fire ants. But they were too hard to catch.

Gustave: But if was fun watching him gyrate all over the stage, itching himself like a maniac.

Me: Yup, that was worth every second of Firmin's scolding. I zoned out after "I'm so disappointed"

Firmin: (from upstairs) I can hear you!

(Everyone pauses)

Me: How is that possible?

Erik: The guy has ears that would make a bat jealous...Don't you have therapy today?

Me: (looks at bare wrist) Yeah, in like 10 minutes.

Erik: There's nothing there. How would you know?

Me: Because I can.

(Hyde, Utterson, Carew and Lucy walk in, all in shock. Fantine, and Mini Cosette come in, Fantine, staring daggers at Valjean)

Jekyll: You have to help us! (runs to my feet, sobbing)

Gustave: What's wrong?

Hyde: Emma found herself.

Erik: Emma had to find herself?

Me: You were conked out in one of our therapy sessions.

(Emma comes in dressed in tie-dye and bell-bottoms, with peace signs draped around her neck. To be frank, she looks like a hippie.)

Emma: (makes a peace sign with her hands) Yo, peeaaaccee dudes.

(Gustave's cup shatters onto the floor. I start to choke...a lot.)

Me: (Still choking) What the heck did you do?

Emma: I decided to abandon the social norm, and embrace the peace of the Earth, and enjoy its fruits. (smokes a joint)

Me: That's illegal!

Emma: What part of enjoying the Earth's fruits did you not understand?

Gustave: That doesn't give you the right to smoke!

Emma: I WILL NOT LET THE SOCIAL NORM CONTROL MY LIFE!

Me: (stares at her angrily)

Emma: Make love, dude, not war.

Me: Don't go all high hippie on me.

Emma: Tooooo lllaaaaaatttteeeee. (starts to sway, side to side)

Erik: I need to stop coming into this room...Nothing good ever happens in here!

Hyde: She reminds me of myself...Oh no!

Carew: What in the world is going on, with her?

Emma: WE GO TOGETHEEERRR, LIKE SHOBY DOBY DO BOOPPPPP-(passes out into the lake)

(No one goes to save her)

Me: Seriously? Not even Danvers.

Danvers: (Takes a picture of Emma on his IPad) I'm too busy updating my Instagram.

Me: Gustave?

Gustave: (texting)

Me: (Hikes up skirts, literally.) Why do I even bother?

(Drags Emma out of the pool)

Fantine: YOU POSIONED MY DAUGHTER'S MIND!

Me: (panting) Can you slow down a bit?

Fantine: She's been telling everyone that I was a bad mom.

Gustave: Everyone already knew that.

Me: Yup.

Erik: (spit-take, laughing hysterically with the rest of us)

Valjean: What happened to you, my Cosette?

Mini Cosette: (Kicks him in the shin, and runs away)

Valjean: Oww! (reaches for her)

Mini Cosette: (Running away screaming) STRANGER DANGER! STRANGER DANGER!

Me: SHE'S SYSTEMATIC! HYDROMATIC! GOLLY, SHE COULD EVEN BE GREASE LIGHTNINGGGG-

Fantine: SHUT UP!

(Silence)

Fantine: What am I supposed to do?

Me: You could tell her the truth.

Fantine: Are you *$# kidding me? What kind of #&$ would come u-

Me: Language, woman, language!

Eponine: I've never seen her this angry before.

Me: Fantine, you might want to take a break for a bit. (leads her to the torture chamber)

Fantine: *eye twitch*

Me: Okay. (locks her inside) I'll come get you later. (sets a timer for an hour) Wake me up when it goes off.

The Next Morning...

Me: (Yawns) How long have I been out?

Gustave: (Wiping his face with his shirt) About a day...You live on that bed, man. I smacked pans in your ears, and dumped cold water on you, and you still didn't wake up.

Me: WHAT! I've been asleep for a day?!

Gustave: Yep

Me: What part of "wake me up when the timer goes 'ding'" did you not understand?

Gustave: (holds up timer) That's what that thing was for? It was annoying Dad so I turned it off.

Me:1) Don't call Erik, Dad. Sounds way too weird. And (hits him on the head with the clock) Put you're shirt back on, or I'll staple it to you.

(Opens the torture chamber, and Fantine steps out, wet, and covered in bruises)

Fantine: (Seeths)

Me: It'sallGustave'fault! (Runs back into room)

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