the dog king (markedman) wrote in remains_rpg, @ 2015-12-25 15:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | # 2018 [12] december, # past / backstory, adelaide hawkins, ian terrell, james hawkins |
yippee-ki-yay motherfucker
Who: Adelaide Hawkins, James Hawkins, & Ian Terrell
Where: From Montgomery, Tennessee to Austin, Texas
What: A Hawkins Christmas Special.
When: Christmas 1998 - Christmas 2018
James isn't sure just what in the hell a Furby is supposed to be, but he knows once he gets his hands on one he's gonna make damn sure Adelaide doesn't expose it to sunlight or let it get wet or feed it after midnight. |
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It's the last piece of the puzzle, the final item on the checklist. Every year, everyone gets that one toy, the one parents trample each other over in the stores, the one that shows up on the news for causing riots, the one stores stay open all night to sell. James can remember some of them from when he was small-- Super Nintendo, Creepy Crawlers, Beanie Babies and Nerf guns. He can remember coming back to school after the winter break to see all the kids carting around their Christmas spoils, talking about the trendy toys they'd gotten. If he was lucky, all he had to show for Christmas was a set of plastic cowboys and indians from the checkout lane at the liquor store. If he was less lucky, it was a black eye. He can't let that be the kind of memories his sister has of Christmas. He never wants her to miss out on anything, not even this, and if he has to stow away on a bus to a town two hours from home, stand in line until midnight on a school night, and fork over all the cash he made pawning Daddy's old watch to make it happen, that's what he'll damn well do. |
Adelaide Hawkins is fifteen years old, which in Rodeo’s opinion is plenty old enough to be knocking back shots of whiskey in the kitchen with her brother. |
Adelaide is making a gingerbread house. |