Frank was tapping his foot, impatiently. He had been waiting forever since Riff Raff and Magenta left to pick up LP and take her back home to Transsexual for good this time. He growled, looking out the front monitor waiting for someone to show up. "Where are they!?" he snarled, impatiently.
It took them a while, but soon they got to the castle. Miracle looked at the castle, looking a little worried. Her hospital gown was luckily covered by a coat that was lent to her. Nation looked up to the castle with an interested look. Riff opened the doors for everyone to go in.
"Vhere do you think he is?" Magenta asked as they came inside.
"Upstairs in his chamber, no doubt," LP replied like a serious, stoic girl. "He would always be up there for me to meet possible suitors for my arranged marriage when I turn 18."
"Royals," Cosmo scoffed. "You had to be a member of the royal family."
Riff Raff was glad they were going to sort this all out. He then led the way, making Nation follow him to find out where Frank was. Miracle seemed to withdraw slightly into herself, like she had done when she first came to the TV Station, when she was forced to go fetch LP. She wouldn't allow Frank to take LP or hurt any of her family again.
LP came closer to her father's room, looking ready to stop him. Finally growing a spine she had been mocked for having a lack thereof.
"I've alvays hated that man." Magenta sneered, looking at the many portraits of Frank around the castle walls.
"Now, Magenta..." Cosmo said, gently.
Riff knocked on the door, a sneer lurking through under his normal, stoic look. Nation pursed her lips in thought. Miracle paled as she realized Frank could punish her for not having a maid outfit, she was his servant now. She, however, steeled her nerves.
Frank growled and opened the door, giving an angered gaze at LP. He then felt calm, and pulled LP into a tight hug, smothering her face with kisses. "I was so worried!" he cried out, hugging her tight, worthy of suffocating her.
LP wriggled in his grip, breaking his arms open and wiping her face from his salivation. "Were you?" she growled.
"I was worried!" Frank repeated, glaring at her. "It hurts me that you would say something like that!"
LP slapped him across his face, shaking her hands into fists. "Father, or not, you don't treat me like you had been for nearly all my life!"
Frank gaped at her, then turned to Riff Raff, Cosmo, Nation, Miracle and Magenta. He glared at them harsher than his daugther. "What did you freaks do to her!?"
Miracle looked at him, glaring at him for calling her family 'freaks'.
"You did this because of the way you treated her and treat everyone!" Riff scowled.
Cosmo and Nation didn't react to the insult, they just looked calm and witnessed everything.
Frank backed up, surprised everyone had the guts to stand up against him. "Well, I'm sorry, but do you realize how stressful it is raising a child alone!?"
"You weren't alone!" LP snapped. "Magenta and Riff Raff and Columbia helped the best they could they were more like a family to me than you, Nana, or DeLordy ever will!"
"It's not that!" Frank shut his eyes as a tear rolled down his cheek, then he opened them, looking into her eyes. "It's because of your mother leaving me alone to raise you without her! I heard rumors that she ran away to a distant planet, so I came to Earth, and I found Earth people to be charming and... well... easy... but none of them could replace your mother, of course. I just wanted someone to love you and me like a family, Little Precious."
"How do I know that's the truth?" LP spat. She had to admit that was cold and harsh, but she was a little too angry to care about his feelings due to the years of her life she had endured.
Nation took in everything that was said. She then decided that she would try to help this situation out, once it had calmed down a little.
Riff Raff scoffed slightly at Frank's reply. Even if she had Frank shouldn't have taken it out on anyone.
Miracle's look softened though she still looked mad. She looked at LP and her eyes lost their anger.
Frank found himself, falling on his knees and burying his face into his hands as he was crying.
Magenta wanted to give Frank such a punching to knock sense into him, but then found herself softening from his tears and frowned herself, feeling a strange sensation inside her body. "Don't do that..." she said softly.
Frank sniffled, took out his handkerchief and blew his nose, wiping his eyes.
Riff turned away from Frank's form, Frank had hurt him, his sister, LP and just recently his daughter too much for him to forgive him.
Miracle steeled her nerves once again and walked up to Frank. She leaned over him, to calmly tell him something. "I'm sorry that happened, but I von't forgive you for vhat you've done, maybe in time... But ve von't know." she then straightened up and walked away.
Nation stepped closer to where Frank was, but only took one. She would talk to him when at least some of the others went out of the room.
"No, wait!" Frank cried once they left, but bowed his head, weeping. He then saw Nation and sniffled. "You here to say anymore horrible things to me, McKinley?"
"No, I am not here to say 'horrible things'," Nation shook her head. "However, I do want to have a talk with you." Her voice was gentle, but also firm.
Frank sighed sharply and to pull up a chair for Nation as she sat on his bed.
LP walked through the castle. It was very homey like old times, but living with Cosmo and Nation should be better. "I'm sorry you had to endure that." she told Miracle gently.
"It's okay." Miracle replied, gently. She then gave a gentle hug and a warm smile.
LP didn't let her arms dangle at her sides as she expected the hug and put her arms around Miracle. "I think Nation would be a better parent than my father... Though, I don't know if Nation wants to really be my mother, Cosmo doesn't seem to like me all too much."
Miracle pulled LP back enough to look at her. "I can tell she does... And I don't know vhy Cosmo acts like that, maybe he isn't used to children."
"Cosmo's weird," LP commented. "At least he don't look like a fish."
Miracle giggled slightly and almost seemed surprised she felt she could giggle again.
Nation nodded her thanks to Frank. "I'm sorry LP's mother left you, Mr. Furter," she started, her tone sympathetic. She then looked him calmly in the eyes "However that should not give you cause to be mean to anyone." she then adds, her tone still soft.
"I'm not mean, I'm just trying to be a good parent, she always tries to run away!" Frank defended. "I mean, the more I say no, the more she seems to hear yes. I always have to lock her door and never let her step one foot outside the castle because she might escape and leave me like her mother! I can't risk that, Nation!"
Nation frowned lightly. "That is why she would push you away, if you had been more lenient and less worried she would be like her mother then she probably wouldn't dislike you as much as she does now." She sighed softly and kind of softened her approach. "You wouldn't like to be forced to do everything someone else desired would you? Or you wouldn't want to be locked in and not allowed your freedom would you?"
"HOW DARE YOU COMPARE ME TO MY MOTHER!" Frank yelled suddenly, then cupped his mouth. He then cleared his throat and stepped back. "I mean, I don't know what you're going on about!"
Nation looked at Frank, making a mental note; "His mother must add to his behavior". She then sighed and decided to show him comfort as well to talk, opening her arms. "Mr. Furter... Frank, a child needs to be free, or she/or he, will hate the one who 'locked them up'."
"Oh, yeah? What do you know?" Frank snorted, then smirked teasingly. "Why don't you go in the kitchen where you belong and make me a sandwich?"
Nation raised an eyebrow, smirking back. "Make your own sandwich," she teased, then turned serious. "I mean what I say."
Frank laughed once he noticed Nation was teasing, then raised an eyebrow back at her. "What if I don't, Little Miss Doctor?" he towered over her to look intimidating.
Nation looked calm and not intimidated. "Then I will let Cosmo use medical treatments on you to convince you."
"Fire away." Frank rolled his eyes, annoyed that a woman was telling him what to do. It was being a young prince back home all over again, his mother never leaving him alone about what to do and what not to do. He was going to be a prince, all he wanted to do was party all night and have a lot of beautiful playmates to roam around with.
Nation continued to make a very convincing argument about the way everyone should be treated; rich or poor.
Frank's eyes widened with Nation's argument. His mind has literally and figuratively been blown. "Wow... I... I never thought about that... I never would even think that... I never-"
"Thanks babycakes." Frank turned to her with a smile. "Now, please, will you call me Doctor?"
Nation chuckled a little and gave him a weird smile. "Don't call me Babycakes and I will." she kept her voice low, she didn't like those kind of nicknames.
"Admit it, you like it." Frank teasingly grabbed her arm. He found himself attracted to her and ready to be a normal man and not an estranged man living on Earth, luring people to their deaths, demise, and hopefully lost virginities. "Say, you don't seem that close with your brother as your cousins are close with each other."
Nation looked up at him with a coy smile. "And if we do?" she had to admit, she found Frank attractive. "I'm not interested in Cosmo that way... The only love I have for him is family love."
"You liked it..." Frank came closer. "And why not? There's no crime into giving yourself over to pleasure."
Nation smiled and looked. "Because, I rather like the idea of marriage first... And Cosmo is my brother, we don't condem our cousins, we would never follow their example."
"Good, cuz that's disgusting." Frank laughed, then frowned. "I'm sorry, I feel this sudden disturbance in my stomach when I mock others now... Like... you trained me to be a decent person... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!?"
Nation ignored the shouting. "I only told you something that was true and meaningful... Your own mind has changed how you feel..."
Frank stepped back, feeling that he had indeed had a change of heart. He smiled pleasantly around Nation and came closer to her, biting his tongue. He wanted to take her down and devour her right there and then. Suddenly he grabbed her and pulled her down to the floor and started to kiss her all around from her face to her neck, to unbuttoning her shirt to oil her up and rub her down, down, down.
Nation flushed from a wave of warm desire. She ran a hand up his back to his hair to gently wrap her fingers in it. She whispered a stop as she wanted to be married before she would give herself fully to someone, however she wanted Frank and didn't know if he'd ever consider her for marriage.
Cosmo laughed from his cousins talking about Miracle and courting her, then gaped with them as they walked in to check with things since they came back to the castle to see Nation and Frank on the floor. "Well really now, Nation, that's no way to behave on your first day out!"
Riff and Genta hid giggles as Cosmo said that, bringing up a faint feeling of deja vu with Ricky back when he was merely Rocky Horror.
"Frank, why can't you keep people pure?" Magenta taunted.
"Sorry." Frank smiled sheepishly, quickly cleaning up, never tired. He never ran out of energy, even if he had to chase after certain people
Riff Raff looked at the scene and turned and walked out the door.
Nation giggled sheepishly and blushed. "Shut up, Cosmo."
Cosmo walked out with everyone else. Once Nation was cleaned up, she left too. Frank sighed, feeling he was too forward with her. "She won't marry me now... I was too forward... I was too creepy..." he then took out a tiny black box to show an engagement ring with sparkles. It looked like a crystal. "I can't go to her... and I can't go home... She won't wanna be my wife this way, who wants to be with one who sleeps around like some sick, disgusting animal?"
Nation sighed from where she was walking behind the group of other adults. She liked Frank but knew he wouldn't be able to accept someone who was merely a doctor with no high rank, it wouldn't be right for a prince to marry or be with her.
Frank sighed, putting his ring away. He then wondered if he should just go back home or wait in time. There then came a whirring noise from the transporter of the castle. He turned to see a familiar face and stepped back. "Oh, god, its you!"