Shiri Eneas (pensivxpression) wrote in olympian_rewind, @ 2008-10-11 13:33:00 |
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Entry tags: | joanna wilson, polyhymnia, shiri eneas, thalia |
Who: Polyhymnia and Thalia
What: Kidnapping of the Ice Cream Variety
Where: University of Miami, and then an Ice Cream shop
When: Backdated. Sunday, Sept 28
Warnings: None
Thalia had jumped into her car right after the last text she send to her sister. She of course took a few wrong turns but she was at the school library in pretty good time and without any speeding tickets. She parked her car and looked around for Polyhymnia, it would be nice to spend some time with her sister and what would be better then sisterly bonding over ice cream?
Polyhymnia was studiously sitting outside the library. Being in Adam's apartment was too much of a distraction and being in her dorm with its meager decorations was somehow even more of one. The library provided sunshine and life while also letting her focus. But she also knew her sister would be kidnapping her... only her sisters and Apollo were allowed to do so without her screaming bloody murder. So she waited, trying to figure out twenty minutes more anything to put into this Christmas play... it was too short. She pulled up the hood of the University of Miami hoodie she stole from Adam. It was getting windy...
Thalia spotted her sister just as she pulled up the hood of the sweater she was wearing. A playful grin came to her face as she walked up behind Poly on her tippytoes. The fact that her sister was working and had the hood up would theoretically make it easier for Thalia to make this feel like a real kidnapping. When she was standing just a few inches away she whispered in a low voice trying to sound scary, "Don't scream..." Then she couldn't help herself and a very Thalia-ish giggle escaped her.
Thalia may have said "Don't scream" and Polyhymnia may have known who it was, but neither of those things kept the hushed but surprised yelp from coming passed her lips. However, she grinned as well at the sound of her sister's giggle but only for a moment, then she feigned fear like any good player in a play. Slowly she capped her pen and closed her book before putting her hands to her side. "...What are you going to do to me?"
"I am here to kidnap you." Thalia fell back into her part of the scary evil abductor. "You will have to come with me and live through the horror of eating ice cream until you are ready to listen to my demands." This of course was the silliest kidnapping ever but this one was planned by the Muse of Comedy, silly was a must. "So, stand up quietly and walk with me to my car as if you are willing to come."
“It is a kidnapping... It does not matter whether I am willing or not.” Slowly, Polyhymnia began to stand, quietly and calmly putting her things away in a small messenger bag with some brand name and logo that she didn't even recognize. Her feigned fear shifted to resign resignation... like someone doomed. “I will follow.... How much ice cream?” Oh, this was silly. She was trying her hardest not to crack a smile or a laugh. But it was so hard...
"As much ice cream as you can eat..." Thalia bit her lip so she would not laugh, she also tried not to look her sister in the eyes because she was sure that if she did she would laugh lip biting or not. "Maybe even more then you can eat..." This threat was maybe not as scary as a gun or a knife but ice cream could be used as a weapon, right? "This way." She motioned to where she had parked her car waiting for Poly to move.
Anything could be a weapon with enough creativity and skill... Hmm, maybe Polyhymnia should be worried then. Who had more creativity and skill than a muse? But the feigned fear and anxiety became real anxiety as the car drew near. Polyhymnia and cars were not friends usually... Not as modes of transportation anyhow. But she would brave. "How far do we need to go?" Maybe it would be close...
Thalia didn't know that Poly and cars were not friends if she had she might have abducted her sister on a bicycle, which would even be sillier then the abduction as it was being played out now. For a moment she fell out of character, "I know this great ice cream parlour just a few blocks away from here. She could not help herself, she loved ice cream and she knew every ice cream parlour in Miami or at least she thought she did.
A few blocks away? Polyhymnia pushed the dark hood from her head and put her hands in the opposite sleeves to wrap her arms around herself. “If it is close, why not run there? It could be like a game of tag.”
A game of tag was very tempting, it wasn't much of a abduction but still it would be tons of fun. Thalia smiled, hugged her sister and with a grin said, "Or a race." She wasn't really an athlete but she liked a race like any other Olympian. Yes, she did forget that this started out as a kidnapping.
“Maybe you should try to catch me...” Polyhymnia grinned mischievously. She was pretty sure she knew what ice cream shop her sister was talking about. Having a doting mortal who knew she disliked car rides provided much information about fun date locations in walking distance. “If you can!” And with that she was off.
That was a challenge that Thalia could not resist. "IF I can?" She called after her sister as she started her pursuit, of course she could catch her sister. She didn't doubt that her sister knew where to go, she went to this university and it wasn't far away at all. "I will catch you!" She giggled as she started to catch up with her sister ignoring the stares of the onlookers.
“Nuh uh! Nuh uh!” The albino muse called out as she tried to run faster. She could feel her sister's laughter like heat on the back of her neck... So close. So close. The ice cream shop was fast approaching but Polyhymnia's legs were getting tired.
Thalia saw the ice cream shop and she realized that she should try a little bit harder. "I'll catch you." She giggled as she was almost next to her sister. This was so much fun, she was so glad she had found so many of her sisters in Miami. Being a muse without the other muses was definitely not as much fun as being together as a team.
Again, Polyhymnia could feel her sister close behind her and then at her side. Her own speed began to give way allowing Thalia to overtake her, partially to please her sister and partially because she was truly tired.
Thalia happily bounced passed and then turned to face her sister. "You aren't letting me win are you?" She had completely forgotten the whole kidnap thing and just grinned happily at the thought of a nice race with ice cream at the end.
“Not completely” Shiri half whined as she wrapped her arms around her sister. Who caught who now? “I got tired.”
"Ow... poor baby." Thalia cooed as she wrapped her arms around Poly. "Do you need me to carry you??" She sighed happily, she really should go out and play with her sisters more often. All work and no play made Thalia a dull muse, yes, it was a cliche but it was true.
Shiri giggled as she gave her sister a tight squeeze, “I would like to see you try.”
Another challenge, Thalia had to show that she of course could carry her sister. Without a warning she picked up her sister, just lifting her off the ground a few inches, she was a muse and not Atlas after all. "See... I can carry you!" She said triumphantly.
First the albino muse eeped and then giggled. By instinct she kissed her sister atop her head and then shimmered to get back to her feet and not be up in the there those few inches. “You must be the strongest of us.” Shiri nodded quite positive about that and then hugged her sister again.
Thalia tightened her hug and smiled, "Yes, I should try out for the strongest woman of the world." She would never win that of course, carrying her sister for a little bit was about her limit. "Ready for some ice cream?"
With a yawn hidden behind a pale hand, Shiri nodded. “Always ready for ice cream. Maybe it will give me some energy. I think my new bed in my dorm is not getting me enough sleep.” She really needed to sleep curled up with Adam more often. His bed, no matter what bed, was always comfy somehow.
"You should get a new bed in your dorm then." Thalia released her sister and offered her arm for Poly to take. "Or find another place to sleep with a better bed."
“I would complain but my new RA does not like me.” On a fundamental racist level. Shiri latched on to her sister's arm to be led, nearly pressed to her side. “I would sleep in my m...” Quickly she looked around and corrected herself, “my boyfriend's room more but I am a huge distraction to him. I do not want him to fail out his senior year...” Or maybe she secretly did. Keeping him in school meant keeping him in school with her.
"You can always stay with me when ever you feel like it." Thalia had felt a bit lonely since Calliope left, part of her had been glad they never bought the house because that would have meant she would have been rattling around a real house on her own. Her studio might be small but it was not bad at all. "We can have a slumber party." Of course that would defeat the whole purpose of sleeping better.
With a little stretch, it was Shiri who tugged her sister into the ice cream shop. Her sweet tooth was demanding to be satisfied now. “I think I just need to get back into the routine of being in school. Summer vacation was so long...” And so nice. It had been nice to be tucked in by Adam at night and have him sit holding her until she fell asleep... and then wake up with his arms around her. Once he got passed projects, she was camping in his room. Possibly with a tent. It had been decided. Just then. “But a slumber party would be fun.”
Thalia didn't mind to be tugged into any place with good ice cream and being tugged there by a sister was even better. "I am sure you will get into it again." She had not been in school for a while, she might do it the next lifetime, it was always nice to learn something. "A slumber party will be fun, we can invite our other sisters too."
“I think they call it a 'girls' night out'.” Though a collection of muses together... Many would want to be a fly on the wall of that gathering. But now Shiri was focused on the ice cream. There were so many choices. Oh so many. How could she decide? “What are you getting?”
"Something with a lot of chocolate, whipped cream and sprinkles." Thalia smiled at the man behind the counter. "I can make you something special." The man replied with a grin, "if you are not watching calories that is." That made her laugh, she had never watched what she ate in all the centuries she was alive. "Something special sounds good."
That sounded really good. Chocolate, whipped cream and sprinkles? Delicious! Shiri put her arm around her sister's waist, ignoring the fact that people might take it in varying ways as she looked the man now as well. “Can I have the same please? “
Thalia beamed at the man behind the counter as she thought about the ice cream and enjoyed the closeness with her sister. The man did wonder about these two girls but he didn't speak, hoping that he would be able to have some nice dreams about these two. "Why don't you two sit down and I will bring you your ice creams in a few moments." He said trying to keep his less then pure fantasies from showing in his face.
His less than pure fantasies were none of Shiri's concern. In fact, if she had known she may have been even more of a troublemaker about it. Instead, she grinned and tugged on her sister while she nodded vigorously in agreement. Tugged her sister to a small table and moved one of the chairs to the other one so they could be side by side, “This was such a good idea.”
Thalia never minded to be tugged anywhere by any of her sisters, so she just happily beamed as she made herself comfortable on the chair next to Poly. "So I can kidnap you again?" She grinned, this was after all still a kidnapping more or less. Well, it was actually less and less of a kidnapping but she was still enjoying every minute of it.
“You can always kidnap me. To wherever you want.” Shiri murmured before pressing a kiss to her sister's cheek openly. The albino saw no reason to hide such affections. “How is your theater? Is it keeping you busy still?”
Thalia smiled as she leaned into the other muse. "The theatre is perfect!" Of course there was a lot of work that she and Mel still needed to do but in her eyes it was perfect already. She could see the potential of it, the inspiration that would flow around in it. "You should come and see it one day soon."
“Maybe I will. When you least suspect it.” And when her biology class either stopped killing her or she could weasel her way into Astronomy. Then nearly all her stress would fade away. With a yawn, she hid her face momentarily against the soft skin of her sister's neck as a way to hide that yawn.
The yawn against Thalia's skin tickled and made her giggle. At that moment their ice creams arrived. "Ladies." The man smiled and filed the sight of the snuggling girls away for a more private moment. "Thank you." The muse of Comedy stared at the bowls with ice cream and beamed, that did look good.
Oh good, something cold and sugary. If that didn't make the muse of Sacred Matters feel less lethargic, she didn't know what would. “Thank you,”she murmured, directed to the ice cream man before nabbing her ice cream bowl and putting a healthy spoonful into her mouth. “I bet mine is better than yours...” Shiri teased her sister.
Thalia had just taken a bite as her sister spoke, after she swallowed she looked at Poly's ice cream wish was completely similar to her own but that didn't stop her from moving closer to it. "Maybe I should try?" She moved her spoon to the other muse's ice cream with a playful grin.
Playfully as well, Shiri tapped Thalia's spoon with her own. “You are going to get your ice cream's taste mingled with mine.” Dipping her spoon in her own ice cream, she offered a bite to the other muse. The ice cream man was going to have much to think about in his off hours.
The man had returned to his counter but he could not keep his eyes of the two girls and he was not the only one. Thalia wasn't even paying any attention to the others in the ice cream palour anymore, she opened her mouth and tasted Poly's ice cream which indeed was exactly the same as her own. "Oh, this is good, but my ice cream is much better."
“Prove it.” It was indeed a challenge set down by the paler muse as she stuck her spoon in her ice cream for safe keeping. Shiri was beginning to feel the stares of the few other patrons of the shop, but it didn't bother her. She was quite used to people staring at her because of how she looked... It was better to be stared at because everyone's minds were in the gutter.
Thalia scooped a good spoonful of ice cream and offered it to her sister with a grin. "Just try, you will have to admit this is the best ice cream ever."
Playing along, Shiri tasted the ice cream and then paused to consider it. Yes, it was exactly the same. Without error. But that didn't mean anything. She felt like praising her sister, thus her ice cream, “You are right, as always.”
Thalia let out a triumphant little whoop. "I knew it!" She grinned at her sister and then noticed as if for the first time that day that there were other people in the shop with them. She beamed her bright muse-smile at them before returning to her ice cream. "Ice cream and I know each other well." She sounded as if she was reciting a line from a Shakespearean play.
“Know it too well and you will get fat,” Shiri teased again and poked the other muse in the belly. Not that goddess could get unintentionally fat, but that wouldn't stop the teasing or the poking. It was fun to poke her comedic sister. Mostly because she giggled like a drop of a hat anyway, poking her in the belly? Guaranteed.
Her sisters knew Thalia too well, so the moment her belly was poked she giggled. "I might get fat..." She pouted a little, "Will you still love me when I do?" It was probably impossible for muses to stop loving each other, but Thalia was a theatrical muse so she had to pout.
And all the muses were dramatic, even the non-threatrical muses. In addition, Polyhymnia was a mischievously one. She knew what people were looking at and if they were going to look... might as well give them something interesting to gawk at. Taking her sister's face between her pale hands, she kissed right on the other's lips. That was an answer, right?
Kisses! Thalia liked huggles, snuggles and kisses more then ice cream and she would never say no to those. The fact that it was an answer to her question was even better. She returned the kiss and enjoyed it, yes, it was good to have her sisters back into her life.
Hehe, Thalia's lips tasted like ice cream! It made Polyhymnia's giggle now. A full blown giggle fit as she pulled away from the kiss. “Maybe we should take our ice cream and go to a park... Play on the swings.”
"Good idea." Thalia jumped up without a second thought. "Let me go pay for the ice creams and then we can go." She beamed at he sister before making her way to the counter, she quickly paid the man who made their ice creams and who was looking a little bit disappointed because the 'floor show' was leaving.
Shiri waited near the door, still eating her ice cream but trying to resist to eat it quicker. Ice cream headaches were bad were her internal mantra. Her hands would be free to hug her sister again with soon enough without rushing.
Thalia bounced over to Poly with her ice cream in one hand and her spoon in the other. "I am ready." She announced needlessly, she felt as hyper as a puppy ready to play. "Which park were you thinking about?" She probably would not know it and would end up letting her sister lead the way.
“There is a park just a few blocks from here. It has a nice playground.” Walking out of the ice cream parlor, Shiri took a few more spoonfuls of her ice cream before continuing to speak. This ice cream was going to make her insides cold – the only cold she liked. “Like it has this huge slide!”
The good thing about being immortal was that you could stay 'forever young' and Thalia liked staying young. She loved slides, it was the little child inside her. She ate as they walked a happy smile on her face. "I am glad I kidnapped you today." She was not kidding, she really was and decided then and there that she would do it more often.
Summary: As promised, Thalia comes to kidnap Poly and force her to endure the terrible fate of eating ice cream sundaes. Thalia is a cruel, cruel muse sometimes.