Hello, my lovely readers. Okay, so this is way past overdue according to my own schedule but better late than never, right? On with the show…
Chapter 2:
"Hello? Anybody home?" a voice called from downstairs echoing through the quiet. Elijah slumped down on his seat which was a tiny, pink plastic armchair. He would love to call back to young Joshua but for some reason the absurdity of his current predicament was just too much. Niklaus did not seem to be taking the circumstances any better as he paced the living room that his daughter had lovingly placed him inside while she went back downstairs to collect cookies for the tea party.
"These clothes simply will not do," Rebekah shouted as she appeared from the upper regions of Barbie's Dream House, or whatever it was they were calling it these days, which was their temporary living quarters. Or, rather, Elijah hoped that this temporary. "Look at these clothes," his sister yelled as she waved a set of dresses at them. "They close with bloody Velcro. Velcro!" Rebekah was glaring as Klaus turned to stare at her with a blank look and Elijah simply stared back with the beginnings of a dull headache building behind his eyes.
"It's not like we have a choice. At some point she's going to insist on changing us," Cami pointed out to Rebekah who glared back.
"Since when did you receive a degree in child psychology?" Kol snapped in a flash of anger. "Or does your degree cover all ages?"
"Merry Christmas to you, too, Kol. Who dumped coal into your stocking?" Cami retorted with a roll of her eyes.
"At least I don't -" Kol began when Hayley started crying loudly enough to cause everyone else in the room to turn and stare at her.
"I was going to cook this whole Christmas dinner and we were going to have a normal day with my baby and now we're her toys," Hayley wailed loudly causing Davina, Rebekah and Cami to surround the hybrid trying to comfort her as she continued to wail.
"You know, I think I'll go explore the house and pick my bedroom since we'll probably be sleeping here tonight," Kol announced before disappearing. Within the blink of an eye he reappeared downstairs. "Bloody hell! The beds are hard plastic as well. What is wrong with Matel?"
"Who knows? Maybe it's that these houses were made for plastic dolls," Finn muttered loudly with a hard look directed at Kol.
Kol shook his head. "I know that you don't care since in spite of my comments that you and the female version of Freud have yet to shag like two boring people do with Kenny G playing and white sheets and in the Missionary -"
"Shut up, Kol," everyone in the group yelled at the vampire who sighed and flopped down on the couch, crossing his legs at the ankles and patting his lap.
"Come sit with me, Davina," Kol coaxed.
Davina turned to give Kol a cool look. "Not now, Kol."
"Hey, is anyone home?" Aiden, the young werewolf that Josh had been dating for some time now, called from the staircase. "Josh, I don't think they're here."
"Uncle Josh," Hope called with a giggle as Elijah blocked out the others arguing to listen to what was going on downstairs. "You're early. Want to see my new toys?" Elijah waited for "Uncle Josh's" answer. He truly hoped that the boy agreed and that help would soon be on the way. Although who could help them since three of them were witches and Davina had already "helped" them into this current mess.
"Sure, kid. But why don't we get some cookies first," Josh suggested causing Elijah to curse.
Sighing, Elijah glowered at the rest of the group. "This is a magnificent mess that we are in. However, it is not as if we are incapable of doing anything to change the situation."
"What are you suggesting, brother?" Klaus inquired, folding his arms over his chest as Hayley looked at Elijah with bright, hopeful eyes.
"We can start by getting out of this house," Elijah began when he was interrupted by Kol.
"And do what? Traipse the streets of New Orleans hoping that someone will not step on us?" Kol asked sardonically.
"Shut it," Rebekah snarled, throwing one of the offending dresses on top of Kol's head.
Davina looked unhappy as she peered out one of the windows to the house they were located in. "You know that not all of us are supernatural so if we tried to leave and leap off the table we're on, we'd end up breaking our necks, right?"
"Yes, we would. Best to stay put till the 'lil one arrives to marry us off to each other. So long as she doesn't force me off on Bekah or worse yet Marcel then things will be looking up," Kol added while yanking the abundant skirt of the dress that was on top of his head off. "How many layers are there to this thing?"
"I' m getting out of here," Klaus announced. "Anyone who wants to get through the holiday at normal size, follow me."
"Why is it that no matter what's going on he believes that he's in charge," Rebekah grumbled under her breath.
"That's Klaus being Klaus," Marcel whispered back as if two-thirds of those assembled couldn't hear them.
Klaus ignored the dissenters and headed toward the front door. Opening it, he walked outside and headed toward the edge of the table that did look like quite a long jump. This was nothing that he couldn't achieve, Elijah was sure of it as he followed his brother who leapt to the floor, then bellowed. "My leg!"
"What happened?" Hayley yelled from the table top as she stared down at Klaus.
"I just broke my leg. Give it a moment. Damn it. It just healed over the break," Klaus growled.
"Well, do find something for the rest of us to land on and I'll help you with the break," Elijah suggested which only caused Klaus to glower at him before looking for something to move before his eyes landed on a discarded pillow.
"This should do," Klaus muttered to himself as he pushed the giant seeming cushion toward the table as he muttered curses due to the extreme pain he was in. When he had moved the cushion far enough, he sat down and waited for the others. Soon there was the sound of several light thuds. After a moment Elijah knelt beside him.
"Try to not bite your tongue off," Elijah warned before breaking Klaus' leg again causing him to howl once more.
"Wish I could have been the one to do that," Kol announced with a grin.
"I will find a way to punish you for that comment," Klaus threatened.
"Not the time," Hayley snapped. "Let's go see if any adults are around who could help us."
"I heard Josh and his friend, Aiden earlier," Elijah informed the group.
"Fat load of good that'll do. We're the ones with the magic and we can't fix this mess," Kol reminded them with a roll of his eyes.
"Would someone volunteer to punch Kol? Please!" Rebekah exclaimed which caused several hands to go up.
"Where are we going?" Cami asked as she slid off the cushion with Finn right behind her.
"I think it would be a good idea if he didn't try to leave the premises," Finn replied.
"And all who agree with Finn may follow him. All who would like to follow me out of this new hell…" Klaus called with a wide smirk in place before turning his back on the group.
"And it didn't occur to him that there was a third option, did it?" Hayley muttered as she fell into step beside Elijah who was heading out of the room with the remaining people in the group following him. "So what's the plan, Elijah?"
"We're going to go downstairs and see if we might be able to find Josh or Aiden. Perhaps one of the two can go back with Davina to find her grimoires for a solution to this problem. The other can keep an eye on Hope to make sure she does not pop one of our heads off like that doll you got her last Christmas."
Hayley gulped as they headed down the stairs. "Actually, Klaus got her that doll just before he went on the trip to Chicago for a month."
Moving carefully toward the living room, Elijah spotted Hope on one of the couches eating cookies while Josh talked to Aiden. He was trying to decide how exactly to gain the attention of the two young men when Hope looked down and spat out part of her cookie. "You're not supposed to be out of your house," she said, pointing a finger and waggling it at them. "You've been naughty. Now, I will have to punish you."
"I wonder where she got that from?" Kol groaned as Hope reached for him. "Be gentle, darling. I'm too small to be tortured properly."
"What in hell?" Josh exclaimed when he noticed the tiny forms of his… well, most of them weren't really his friends, except for Davina, Cami, Marcel more or less and Rebekah for the most part… "Whoa. What happened to you?"
"Josh. Aiden. You have to help us!" Davina cried out as he scooped her up. Josh nodded but he didn't seem to be shocked as he began to stroke her hair. "Stop that and listen," Davina demanded, swatting at his hand in frustration.
"Sorry, D, but it's been a long time since I've held a doll. My cousin used to have one that looked a lot like you. I think it was one of Skipper's friends," Josh told Davina who looked like she was going to start screaming in fury.
"Put her down. She's mine," Hope demanded, stomping her foot when Josh looked at Hope with wide eyes.
"I'm sorry, Hope, but Davina needs to tell me something. Okay?" Josh inquired with his best disarming smile that might have worked if Hope was not in a mood.
"NO!" Hope shouted, glaring at Josh through narrowed eyes she stared until Josh's hand began to flip and Davina would have hit the floor if Marcel hadn't caught her. "I don't want you here anymore. I want you to go away. I need to take my dolls back to their house."
"No," Rebekah protested. "Hope, sweetheart. You cannot expect us to stay there. The place is hideous."
"Go away!" Hope screamed at Josh and Aiden who began to walk mechanically toward the front door. "I don't want to play with you anymore. You're trying to take them away and they're mine!"
When the vampire and the werewolf were gone from sight, Hope scooped up her "dolls" and carried them up the stairs and into her room. "You're going back to your house and you're going to stay there. And because you can't behave we're not going to have that tea party. You're going to your rooms and you will stay put." Hope informed them. Placing Elijah, Kol, Finn and Marcel in one room, she smiled. "Play nice together. I'm going to change the girls and if you're good then you can have a party like the big one tonight."
"Auntie Cami, I want you dress up like a ballerina today. Do you like orange?" Hope asked sweetly pulling out a tiny orange tutu with matching tights and leotard.
"Sure, Hope. But do you mind if I put them on?" Cami inquired with a smile.
"No. You used to dress me when I was a baby. Now, it's my turn," Hope told Cami whose cheeks flushed green, then red.
"Can you ask the guys to not look?" Cami inquired.
"Who would?" Kol asked with a bored sigh.
"Nothing I haven't seen before," Marcel muttered.
"What?" Finn yelled.
"Okay," Hope muttered as she undressed her "Auntie." "Huh. You don't look like my other dollies."
"That's because they're not anatomically correct," Kol told the child who looked confused. "And look who isn't a real blonde?"
"I will kill you," Finn thundered.
"Play nice," Hope yelled at them, waving Cami in warning who was still not in proper attire and looked like she was going to puke.
After dressing Cami and setting her down, Hope looked for an outfit for her mommy. "I want to dress you as Cinderella." Hayley did not complain as much about being dressed because Elijah threatened to poke out any one who dared look at her eyes out. "Aunt Davina, you're going to be dressed as Party Hardy Skipper."
"Nothing new," Kol said which caused Davina to try to reenter the house to kick his ass but Hope caught her just in time. Pulling Davina out through one of the windows, Hope dressed her aunt up and smiled. "You look pretty."
"She looks like a trollop. That skirt barely fits and I think you forgot her underclothes. But who am I to complain," Kol was saying when Elijah slapped in the back of the head. "What?"
"She's a child, you fool," Rebekah yelled as her niece shoved her into a wedding gown. "What is this for?"
"If you're good then you can have a magic wedding to uncle Marcel, just like you always wanted according to daddy," Hope told Rebekah who looked more pleased than she wanted to be. "Where is Daddy? Daddy? Are you hiding from me?" Hope cried, looking under the table.
"Hey, is anyone home?" a voice called and soon there was another adult in the room.
"Miss Forbes. You have impeccable timing," Elijah greeted Caroline with a relieved sigh.
"Oh, my God. What happened here?" Caroline cried staring at a pissed looking Cinderella. A depressed Skipper. And a trying to hide her happiness while yanking at the Velcro on her wedding dress doll. Or at least that was what she thought they were for all of five seconds. "Where's Klaus?"
"I want my Daddy!" Hope wailed. "Find me my Daddy!" she ordered Caroline who suddenly went flying out of the room. Sniffling, she looked down at the remaining dolls. "We can't have a special Christmas wedding without the best man."
"We're doomed," Kol announced as the rest of the group stared out the windows of their new prison. This was not turning out to be their best Christmas and they had had some poor ones but this might be in the top ten.
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