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Eames ([info]dream_bigger) wrote in [info]colligo_threads,
@ 2011-11-03 00:25:00

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Entry tags:ariadne, arthur, eames

Who: Beast!Eames, Belle!Ariadne, possibly Arthur at some point?
What: First impressions and all that...
Where: The kitchen in their lovely new house
When: Just after this, 1st November
Rating: They are Disney people. What do you think?
Status: Incomplete



He made his way down the stairs on all fours (well. Three out of four. He was still holding the tiny device for voices in one paw), utterly confused by the strange house he found himself in. There were strange machines in every room, tiny fireplaces, odd furniture and a complete lack of normal decorations. There were paintings on almost every wall, covering all manner of subjects, and a large number of boxes sat about the place, full of all sorts of things. He almost went over to investigate a couple of the boxes, but then his stomach would grumble or growl and he would go further down and round the stairs, and all the while, looking for the kitchens and his staff.

He found the room he was looking for, a warm room that seemed to have a wall and part of a ceiling made from glass, and with a large wooden table set out under the glass roof. It was an excellent warm spot, he noted, then looked round at all the boxes that were piled up in this room as well. Some were obviously empty and he left them be, but there were others that still contained various cooking implements that made no sense to him. There were a few tea mugs hanging on hooks over by the odd-looking stove, and a metal thing full of water that was somehow attached to the wall. "I want tea," he told them, then sat down on his hind legs to wait for them to do their job. His tail swished across the floor as he waited. but nothing seemed to be happening, even when he repeated himself a few times, getting louder every time. This also made no sense to him.

Finally, he got back to his feet, and then stood up on his hind legs as he started to check in all the cupboards. He was careful at first, asking the cups and plates if they knew how to make him a pot of tea and perhaps a few steaks, but not one of them would reply. Dropping back down to stand on all fours, he left the talking machine on the counter and started checking through all the cupboards on the ground. There were saucepans and frying pans and all kinds of different things, and not one of them was polite enough to reply to him. He responded by pulling everything out of every bottom-cupboard that he could find, determined to find a working teapot, or even an annoying little mantle-clock and candlestick. They would be able to make him something to eat, he was sure of it.



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[info]labyrinthine
2011-11-03 03:46 am UTC (link)
This place was confusing. No lanterns, no candles, but none of that seemed necessary as light poured through the windows into a room that was large and airy. She couldn't understand why the bed was so enormous, or why it wasn't her own bed in her own room. Nor why instead of the familiar sounds of her father tinkering - or exploding things - she heard some sort of... growling.

In her attempts to get out of the truly massive bed, she hit the bedside table and sent something falling to the ground. When she scooped it up, voices came out. So did snarling that sounded suspiciously like the noises she could hear from beyond the door. And being that she was forever too inquisitive for her own good, and unable to resist an adventure delivered right to her doorstep, she stepped out of the room and carefully down the stairs.

This house was the largest she'd ever been in, bigger than anything in her own village and so much cleaner and brighter than anything she was used to. And so many pictures! And a room full of empty shelves with boxes in them, and she was about to go investigate and see if they held the books she imagined when there was more growling and an unholy clatter from below-stairs. It sounded very much like the contents of the kitchen were being spilled on the floor.

Upon pushing open the door to the kitchen, she saw the expected pots and pans. But she also saw a.... a thing. A great hairy animal - no, not an animal, it was using its front paws like hands and talking in the voice that had come out of her device, and it was.... very, very large.

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[info]dream_bigger
2011-11-03 06:44 am UTC (link)
He kept flattening his ears with every crash and bang of pots and pans, his tail twitching and curling round his feet almost constantly, and then he picked up each thing that landed on the floor to check if it would answer him. "Hello, can you hear me?" he asked each and every thing he'd brought out, which seemed to take an awfully long time, and then he had asked everything and not one thing had replied to him. How was he supposed to eat now? He didn't know what to do! Utterly frustrated (and totally unaware that he had company), he swiped his paw through the various kitchen goods, flinching away from the almighty clattering, and snarled to himself as he turned to go... somewhere else.

Naturally, that was when he saw the girl standing at the doorway. His eyes widened for a moment - she'd seen him, and in daylight, and now she would scream and run off like everyone else - and then he scowled. "Who are you?" he snapped, growling as he spoke and drawing himself up to stand on his hind legs at his full height, "Where are my staff? What have you done with them?" he demanded of her, before jumping over all the saucepans to land in front of her on all fours again. "Well? Answer me!"

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[info]labyrinthine
2011-11-03 11:33 am UTC (link)
Being confronted with a - well, a beast was frightening. And he was growling and towering over her. However, he was also standing in the middle of a kitchen, and somehow that helped. She took a step backwards, hand coming up to cover her mouth as he reared up and leapt in front of her, and almost ran. But no. She wouldn't run. She had just as much right to be here as he did.

"I'm Belle," she said, hand coming to rest on her chest. "And I haven't done anything with your staff. Maybe if you'd stop asking me questions I could answer them. Who are you? And where are we?"

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[info]dream_bigger
2011-11-03 01:29 pm UTC (link)
He glared at her, still growling as she spoke, although her forwardness gave him pause. He began to pace back and forth in front of her, only to stop when she dared to question him. Moving closer, he sniffed the air to catch her scent, then picked his way back through the saucepans towards the counter where the talking machine was. "I don't know where this is," he finally admitted, "only that I woke up here with that device flashing lights and beeping at me. And then it had voices..."

He ignored her question about who he was, and picked up the device before jumping over to land beside the wooden table. Belle could clear up all the kitchen things.

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[info]labyrinthine
2011-11-03 10:52 pm UTC (link)
"I don't know either," she said, putting her hands on her hips. He was acting so - so arrogant and presumptuous that she was unable to remain frightened of him. She picked her way towards the center of the kitchen, then started stacking pots and pans and putting them back in the cabinets. After a moment she looked over at the beast, frowning.

"Aren't you going to help? Or do you plan to destroy the rest of the house once you're finished with the kitchen? Whoever lives here won't be very pleased."

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[info]dream_bigger
2011-11-03 11:41 pm UTC (link)
"Help? They should be going back themselves without any help from anyone," he grumbled, more than a touch frustrated at how strange this place was. "Nothing works correctly in this place!" he snarled, digging his claws into the table as he spoke without even realising and creating deep gouges in the wood, "and I was not destroying anything!" He'd been looking for Mrs. Potts, but he wasn't going to admit that.

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[info]labyrinthine
2011-11-06 01:33 am UTC (link)
"Why would they do that?" she asked, putting an armful of pots back in a cupboard. They were so light and so shiny, not like the heavy things back at home. Perhaps they weren't even made out of iron or copper at all.

His snarl made her start and she whirled, frowning. "You're destroying the table right now," she pointed out. "You ought to learn to control your temper." Which was probably something rather rash to say to a cranky beast with talons that could rip out her throat and teeth as long as her forefinger, but she wasn't known for her tact.

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[info]dream_bigger
2011-11-06 12:29 pm UTC (link)
"I am not," he snapped back, then looked down at the table and the series of deep parallel lines he'd scored into the wood. Snatching his hand back, he paced over to the large windows and looked out at the window. "My temper is perfectly under control," he replied with a growl, "And anyway, you... you shouldn't be so... so... You shouldn't talk to me like that!"

"I have staff to do all those sorts of things, they clean up themselves and put themselves away. These ones are lazy," he added, sitting back down on his hind legs and curling his tail around his feet in an effort to stop it whipping through the air and knocking things over. The fact that it would give away just how unsettled and uncertain he was had nothing to do with it.

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[info]labyrinthine
2011-11-06 05:43 pm UTC (link)
"And why shouldn't I?" she parried, gripping the edge of the counter behind her. "Who are you, that I should learn to hold my tongue?" She could hear her father groaning in her mind, but he'd been more interested in teaching her about gears and steam than proper courtesies.

The beast's explanation only served to confuse her further. "Your staff... are kitchen pots? How is that - really?" It was a fascinating prospect, and one that she would have dismissed out of hand if she hadn't already been in a house with flameless lamps and a talking beast.

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