LP was lying upside down on her bed watching the taping for the show before with Brad and Janet arguing and not getting along like she remembered them when she met them. The Earthlings weren't talking sweetly and comfortably to each other anymore, only bitching in the kitchen. She then heard her name being called, and she jumped to her feet, doing a flip out of bed and looking around. The voice sounded familiar. "Miracle?" she wondered as she left her room to look. She tip toed past Cosmo and Nation's room and went to the front of the station and saw her friend. "Miracle!"
Miracle gave a surprise hug to the Transylvanian princess. LP enjoyed the surprise hug and patted her on the back with a smile. Miracle wiped her teared eyes as she had to do something she really didn't want to, but Frank told her to. Cosmo and Nation heard the ruckus and came up to the teenage girls.
"Little Princess, what on Earth is going on?" Cosmo asked, once he saw the girls.
"It's my friend, Miracle, I told you about her, remember?" LP said, showing off Miracle like a prize. "Miracle, you remember Cosmo, I think you have a crush on him." she giggled.
Miracle looked at him, her eyes showing how weary she became, though her face had a small smile and slight bush. "Yes, I remember..." she murmured.
Nation smiled slightly slyly at her brother, but soon the smile soon turned very motherly toward the girls. "How about we go and have a drink and talk?" She hoped that her suggestion could perhaps would help coax Miracle and tell them why she came unexpectidly.
"Come on, I'll get you a seat." LP gently took Miracle's hand to get her rested. "You look like you've been struck by a ghost or something. What's wrong?"
Cosmo glanced at Miracle, feeling odd around her as well as she did. He smirked and rubbed his face as he felt warm suddenly.
Miracle looked at LP, then glanced away. How could she start without worrying LP, or scaring her? "Promise you'll keep calm?" she asked quietly.
"On my grandmother's grave." LP promised, putting her right hand up with a smile.
As they talked, the McKinley siblings shared gestures together. Nation gave Cosmo a teasing nudge as they walked to get the drinks. Cosmo murmured to his younger sister to keep her quiet, darting his eyes at her. Nation chuckled quietly and pressed her lips together to tease Cosmo.
Miracle took a deep breath and gave a tiny smile at LP's statement. "Vell..." she carefully told the story of what had happened. She carefully tried to not go into too much detail, she made it seem like Frank just scared her so much, which was why she looked like that. She wouldn't allow LP to be hurt by the truth of what had happened.
LP nodded slowly to show she was paying attention. "Daddy can be pretty scary, sometimes I miss him, but sometimes I'm glad to be away from him. Sometimes I wish I could be with my own mom..."
Cosmo smiled as he came with drinks. "Anyone care for refreshments?"
"Water for me, Cosmo." LP smiled at him, brightly.
"I told you Little Princess, you will call me Dr. McKinley." Cosmo said, strictly.
"And I told you my name is Little Precious." LP looked away from him, shutting her eyes smugly.
Cosmo froze at her statement and rolled his eyes.
"A bit of juice, please, Dr. McKinley." Miracle asked, feeling nervous. Plus, she only shouted his name as she didn't see him and she was almost extremely shy about calling an adult their proper name to their face, and he was handsome.
"Of course, you can call me Nation." Nation said, taking her tea. She didn't want to pressure LP to call her 'mom' unless she wanted to. She did chuckle though at her retort to Cosmo's words.
Cosmo handed LP her water as she happily drank it, putting a smile on his face. Maybe having a child around wouldn't be so bad, he just wasn't sure if he could be fit enough to be a parent. "I'm just going to call you, Lil." he told the former princess.
"Lil sounds like an old lady's name," LP whined and pouted. She then turned to Miracle and gave her a smile. "Hey, nothing's gonna happen to you here, I promise... They don't hurt people here... Unless they give you those owchy needles! Those sting like Magenta tugging my ear when I said something I shouldn't have, now that hurts!"
Miracle looked at LP, and allowed herself to relax a bit. Her eye twitched slightly as the chair put pressure on her bruise. She patted her friends hand. "I don't like needles either..."
Nation watched them and suddenly gained an idea. "Oh, that reminds me, when did you last have a checkup?" she asked Miracle.
"I can't remember." Miracle murmured.
"Uh-oh!" LP chimed.
"Hmm... I think we need to schedule an appointment," Cosmo smirked. "You need a bit of-"
"SHOCK TREATMENT!" LP blurted out.
"Inside voice, please!" Cosmo groaned, clamping his hands over his ears.
"Sorry." LP giggled.
Cosmo hummed, then smirked. "I think we better have two check-ups, Nation."
Miracle looked a bit worried. She had wanted to have a check-over, but it depended on who would give it to her, and she almost started to have second thoughts.
Nation hid her own smirk. For as much as Cosmo didn't know much about children, he was pretty good with them, and then gave a sage looking nod. "Oh, yes, brother."
"Don't worry, it doesn't hurt a bit." Cosmo smiled, taking out a needle and oozing some juice from it.
LP's eyes lolled in the back of her head and she fell backward, flat on her back.
Cosmo noticed Miracle seemed worried. "Don't worry about her, she'll be okay in a bit. Fainters are weird people, like when that Brad Majors character fainted when he came in with Janet."
Miracle gave a tiny nod at him.
"Don't actually give her that injection," Nation quietly told Cosmo. She then stood up and offered to give Miracle her checkup. "And make sure she's okay."
"Can I help this time, Nation!?" LP stood back on her feet, snapping back instantly. "Please, can I do something!?"
"Keep your pants on," Cosmo chuckled. "You'll help someday, but we just need to see if Miracle is healthy." he then took Miracle's hand to examine her.
Miracle blushed as Cosmo took her hand and was about to examine her like a regular old patient.
"He doesn't like me." LP moaned, clinging onto Nation.
Nation ruffled LP's hair. "No, he does like you," she soothed. "He just doesn't know how to deal with children."
"Alright Mirabelle, this won't hurt a bit." Cosmo said, clutching a board with his pen.
"Miracle." the blonde girl murmured.
Cosmo then asked her various questions if she had any physical or mental disabilities before they would start. Miracle answered all the questions, then she felt like she were going to pass out once Cosmo handed her a hospital gown. "Oh, and put this on. Please undress."
Miracle nodded, then went change, knowing she would have to do this anyway. When she came out, she was hugging the maid outfit, though she hated it, to her chest. She felt calm a bit as LP and Nation were talking and laughing lightly at Cosmo's expense as LP had called him weird. She was then playing with Eddie's old teddy brought into dinner that late November evening well over a year ago when Dr. Scott came to collect his nephew.
"Okay, let's get started," Cosmo took her blood pressure. "Just relax, calm yourself, go to your happy place."
Miracle tried to relax, she didn't exactly have a happy place however.
"Hmm, your heart beat is a bit up," Cosmo noted. "Is something on your mind, child?"
"Young adult." Miracle mumbled, not knowing why men in particular called her a child when she was sixteen. Though, if her father called her that, she'd understand. She turned her head slightly so Cosmo couldn't see her head. It was catching up to her a bit and her eyes welled with tears.
"Miracle?" Cosmo lifted her head and saw her crying. He then frowned. "Now, now, I hate to say a little girl cry... I was only kidding when I called you a kid, I did the same thing to Nation when she was your age, it's not worth getting upset about!"
"I-It's not that." A few tears leaked from Miracle's eyes. Deciding quickly to just get it over with, she brushed her hands over her arms, getting the makeup powder off her skin.
"Oh, my... Did you have an accident?" Cosmo frowned to see her injuries.
Miracle shook her head. She continued to wipe away the makeup powder until the places that were in sight were shown. Her teary eyes looked glazed from the tears, but having uncovered the marks almost had a trance-like affect to her.
"Oh, my..." Cosmo gently patted her head. "Who would hurt a pretty thing like you? You want me to burn their house down for you? Cuz, I will!"
Miracle blushed slightly as he had called her pretty. She shook her head a little, as though it was Frank's, it was the only home she had now. "The bruises aren't all..."
Cosmo got a cup of water and handed it to the girl gently. "Here, you seem to be stressed about something or someone."
Miracle took a sip of the water and looked at Cosmo. As she looked into his blue eyes she told him what happened, the full story.
"We never did like that Frank Furter character," Cosmo replied after being told the story. "We left for Earth, not wanting to become generals like our cousins, your parents, we just wanted to go to Earth, explore, and we found to love it here. Since we became doctors, we lost track of our old home, but we just love it here. Should we collect your parents?"
Miracle looked at him with wide eyes. If they called at the castle and Frank answered, he'd go mad, as in angry. "They don't know vhat happened..."
"Do you still want them, though?" Cosmo asked. "I'll make sure no one hurts you while you're here. Laura and Ricky wouldn't hurt a fly."
Miracle wrapped her arms around her torso. She nodded to the fact she wanted them with her, but she wasn't sure how they could stay here, though she wanted to. Frank practically has her life in exchange for servitude, he could kill her if she didn't work for him.
"Do you need some alone time or do you need someone to stay here with you?" Cosmo offered.
Miracle looked at Cosmo. "STAY!" she didn't want to be her own, she really didn't want to be. "Please..."
Cosmo was shocked by her sudden jeer, but smiled and sat beside her. He then put an arm around her and straightened out her hair and told her everything would be okay with him there. Though Miracle's body stiffened automatically, she didn't move away and relaxed after a while. Her eyes were closed, trying to help with the relaxing. Cosmo read a magazine as she read to occupy his time when she would not speak to him as LP was on the floor with Nation in a waiting room chair.
LP was doing a crayon drawing like a child. Nation found her childish ways strange, but she took note that LP was probably gaining lost childhood while being under Frank's abusive care.
"I thought he'd like you," LP looked at her, referring to Cosmo who seemed interested in Miracle and not his own sister. "Riff Raff and Magenta love each other more than normal siblings, you guys are related, shouldn't you be the same? I don't know, crushes are weird," she looked down sheepishly. "I never had a crush on anyone in all my life."
"Not all of our family have a love like Magenta's and Riff Raff's dear," Nation said, mildly. She then patted LP's hand gently. "And don't worry about it sweetheart you still have plenty of time to find someone you may like, love or have a crush on."
"You mean, like how I'm not promiscuous like Daddy?" LP asked, thinking about what she said. "He's always bringing someone home with him and they have sleepovers in his room. If I had a bad dream when he would have someone over, he said that I was on my own. Luckily Riff Raff let me sleep in his bed with him since he was just as alone as I was with Magenta and Aunty Columbia sharing a room together."
"Did anything happen?" Nation asked in a quiet, gentle voice, looking at the younger girl. She wanted to make sure that her cousin hadn't done anything bad, not that she thought he would.
"Sometimes he'd tell me stories," LP leaned back in memory. "He'd let me sleep in the comfier spot of the bed sometimes and I'd tell him what happened in my dream... He's been more of a daddy to me than Daddy had been, but I think it's because Miracle wasn't around... I never knew he and Magenta even had a daughter back then, but it could explain why Magenta of all people cried when she would tell me the lullaby."
Nation stroked LP's hair and gave a gentle smile. "You mean the Transylvanian lullaby?"
"Uh-huh," LP smiled dainty. "Isn't it a lovely song? I love it more than the Time Warp or the national Moon-drenched Shores of Transylvania anthem."
"I've always wanted to sing it." Nation nodded in agreement.
LP snuggled up closer to Nation in her open arms. "Can you sing it to me tonight, please?"
Nation rested her chin on top of LP's head. "Of course, darling." her voice grew soft and her eyes filled with happy tears.
"Nation, don't cry, if you don't wanna sing, I understand," LP noticed her tears. "I just thought it would be nice. I have a globe of Transsexual that plays the lullaby for me."
Nation smiled and hugged her. "I'm crying because i'm happy you want me to sing for you." she assured.
While Miracle and Cosmo were happily cuddling once Miracle had her strength back, they stopped once they saw a slightly older woman who looked a lot like Janet come in. "Cosmo, my daughter wants to see you about a new dress?" the woman gently ordered.
"Oh, of course, Emily." Cosmo smiled then turned to Miracle. "Excuse me a moment." he told her gently, then left.
Emily smiled as he left, then turned to Miracle, raising an eyebrow. "Who are you?" she asked her. "Are you Cosmo and Nation's daughter?"
Miracle shook her head. "No, my parents are called Magenta and Riif Raff." She didn't know if Emily would recognise her, probably not if Janet had gotten rid of any pictures of them together.
"Magenta and Riff Raff?" Emily laughed. "What unusual names, you must be from another country."
Miracle gave a tiny wry smile. "I guess you could say that." She was aware how she looked, almost like a kid had painted on her arms that were visible.
"I hope you're not Mexican," Emily told the teenage Transylvanian as she was on her way out. "Harry hates Mexicans!"
"I'm not Mexican..." She sighed softly and looked between the maid outfit and her hospital gown.
"Well, I best check on my fabulous daughter." Emily gushed, then left Miracle alone. "I don't know what she sees in that Brad person, she needs a man who's strong and protective, not some fish-eyed, weakling."
Miracle raised an eyebrow, had Janet become more self-centred. And were she and Brad here?
LP and Nation were talking about dancing. Nation wasn't much into dancing because she couldn't get her feet to do what she wanted them to. LP then had an idea from remembering the Transylvanian convention and Columbia messed up the dance solo where she did a tap dance, but had an embarrassing outcome.
"I used to tap dance, but Daddy said it would always give him headaches, so he made me stop." LP said, but smiled. "You don't mind it if I danced, would you?"
"Go ahead." Nation smiled.
"Oh, yay!" LP pulled Nation into a tight hug and rushed to her backpack. She took out an old pair of tap shoes Columbia had given her for her birthday handed down from Columbia's favorite aunt, Nelly. "I'll wait until later, but aren't these metal shoes beautiful?" she showed them, tipping on her toes, holding the shoes like a prize.
Magenta had ran in, breathing wheezily like she had been running for hours. "Little Precious... Miracle... thank goodness you're okay..." she said, nearly running out of air.
"Magenta, what're you doing here?" LP asked.