jean-paul beaubier is much faster than you (northmost) wrote in mutanthaven, @ 2009-05-31 01:52:00 |
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Entry tags: | jean-paul beaubier, jeanne-marie beaubier |
new car, caviar, four star daydream (narrative)
summary! Across the continent in Montréal, someone is looking for the Beaubier twins.
Oliver Saulnier had met the newly wed Jean-Baptiste and Vivienne Beaubier when they moved three houses down from his in the middle of summer sometime in the late eighties. Never one for neighborhood gossip, he relied on his wife to pass on information about the street's new residents and she joyfully passed onto him every little detail she and her cohorts managed to obtain. She pounded him with facts over the next few weeks like how both M. and Mme. Beaubier were both teachers (high school math and the forth grade, respectively) or how they had met their freshman year in college or even how they were trying for children. No tidbit of information was too trivial for her to share, which was probably why everyone referred to her as a gossip behind her back. For a few years this went on and despite only meeting the Beaubiers a few times a neighborhood parties, Oliver felt like he knew everything about them. So when his wife came home one September afternoon in 1990 and announced that all the trying had finally paid off in a pregnancy, he actually felt happy for the young couple. His relationship the that family would have remained just the same if Jean-Baptiste hadn't come to him one day a month later after hearing that Oliver was a lawyer. Now that his wife was pregnant, with twins none the less, he wanted to start planning for their future, intent on giving them the best one their salaries and inheritance could buy. He also wanted to make sure that if something were to happen to him and his wife that their children would be taken care of and safe. This wasn't a problem for Oliver and after a few sessions, everything was in order and he filled the Beaubier's file away between Barton and Biggore. He didn't see Jean-Baptiste or Vivienne until months later when his wife dragged him down the street to see the newborn twins, who were perfectly normal save for their elf-like ears. An oddity indeed, but the Beaubiers acted and treated the children like there was nothing about them that was out of the ordinary. His wife, however, couldn't stop mentioning the ears to anyone who would listen, whether they wanted to hear it or not. Somethings never changed. The car accident made the early news report that Thursday mourning. Upon returning home from their first night out alone since the birth of their children, Jean-Baptiste and Vivienne Beaubier were on their way home when their car was struck by a speeding drunk driver who had failed to stop for a red light. Jean-Baptiste died at the scene from massive internal hemorrhaging shortly after the paramedics arrived on the scene. Vivienne was life flighted to the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, where she died two hours later while in emergency surgery. To make the tragedy even worse, they were survived by their six week old twins, Jeanne-Marie and Jean-Paul. Honestly, Oliver didn't think he would be pulling the Beaubier's file out of his cabinet so soon in order to help make their final arrangements. Both Jean-Baptiste and Vivienne were only children and had both lost their parents in the previous years, so their funerals and the fates of their children were to be handled by a man who was no more than a casual acquaintance. While the funeral was easy enough to take care of, the matter of the children was not. There was really no family who could take in the two children and it wasn't until two days after the funeral he had managed to get in contact with Vivienne's maternal cousins, the Martins. To make matters even worse, the Martins could only afford to take care of one of the children at the moment, so the painful decision was made to adopt Jean-Paul and send Jeanne-Marie to an orphanage in LaVelle with the promise they would adopt her as well when their monetary situation was better. And that was it. The adoption papers were arranged, the orphanage papers were signed, and the two young twins were separated despite their crying and shrill shrieks. After that, all the appropriate measures were taken in selling off the Beaubier's assets in order to pool the money into trust funds for the twins. Once everything was settled, Oliver put the files away, occasionally pulling them out every few years to make sure things were still in order. He barely even thought about the Beaubier's file until nearly sixteen years later when young Jean-Paul Martin started to gain notoriety as an Olympic hopeful swimmer, though eventually even that faded away into yesterday's news. It was well over a year later he started his search for the Beaubier twins as their eighteenth birthday had now passed. After a couple of tries, he finally got through to a rather harsh sounding nun at the orphanage who informed him that Jeanne-Marie had not been adopted as she was an ungrateful little shit of a girl and that she had run away many months earlier so her where-abouts were unknown. Oliver received a similar answer when he contacted his former swimming coach, Raymonde Belmonde ; one day Jean-Paul had been there and the next day he was gone without a word, though if Oliver did learn where he was could he please let him know. Frustrated, it seemed that the young Beaubiers would never be found and he had all but given up his search when his young daughters told him about the "mutants" on some popular gossip site. Sure enough, when he checked the site, there was Jean-Paul Martin and apparently in Santa Monica, California. It wasn't long before he put his assistant to the task of Google searching for anymore sightings while he got to working calling a few colleagues who might now someone who could help with the situation. |