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Alice Carter (hidden_life) wrote in tempus_alt,
@ 2010-08-10 01:44:00

Museum
[OOC note: for Alice and Ianto; time period undecided as of yet]

The school term has ended, and with kids home from school comes needing to keep them entertained. Some parents find that tedious, but it's a relief for Alice to watch Steven herself. They've gone to the museum for the day; Steven pleaded to see the fossils again. Crazy about dinosaurs, that boy. If he knew about her father's pterodactyl...

That's not going to happen, of course, though on the subject of her father, he'd hinted to her in a phonecall that the museum's collection of vintage photography might just contain some shots of him. Studying the pictures is like a more interesting and slightly unnerving "Where's Wally?" She's trying to decide if a background figure is actually her father when she realizes that Steven has wandered off instead of staying at her side.

Silently cursing herself for focusing so much on the display instead of her son, Alice goes jogging through the museum rooms to look for him. She can hear the echoing of him calling hellos to someone.

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	hidden_life 2010-08-11 05:40 am UTC (link)
	"I don't, either. I'm sure plenty of people have written essays and whole books about it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 05:56 am UTC (link)
	"'Wow, people sure are writing a lot of zombie books these days. Maybe I could write a book about that.' Some people are so unimaginative." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 06:01 am UTC (link)
	"Do you mean writing a book about zombies themselves, or writing a book about other people writing books about zombies? Because either way... doesn't seem very creative, does it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 06:08 am UTC (link)
	"Either. Or both. But yeah, writing a book just because that's what's selling..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	"Suppose it's writing for the market and caring about the money instead of the actual writing." Steven cheerfully suggests, "Let's sell dinosaurs!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah...That always seems kind of like cheating to me." He laughs. "If you know where to find any..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Meanwhile the real writers can't get published. I'm glad I'm not one of them." Steven looks proud of himself. "In diamonds!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, now, just because something's popular doesn't mean it's not good. Maybe they've been trying to get it published for a long time and then whatever subject they wrote about just happens to become popular." He nods. "That is true...So where do we get those?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hidden_life
2010-08-12 01:27 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I'm not saying popular means bad, just that it seems like a lot of fad books get published. Celebrity diets and memoirs and the like, or a slew of books all on the same subject. It's strange seeing how Steven's books go through trends. One month the children's section is filled with some particular series, next it's something new. Of course, it looks like the Harry Potter ones don't budge."

Steven considers that while he's looking at a fossil. "Jewelery store?"

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	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-12 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"Well, the publishing business is a business. They're in it to make money, same as everyone else." He walks over to where Steven is standing to get a better look at the fossil. "Yeesss...But I think a dinosaur by itself would be more fun. How would you get it out of the diamond?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-12 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Steven gives Ianto a 'duuuuh' look. "No, silly, the dinosaurs are all extinct and... and dee-com-posted. They broke down into things and then the earth squashed them down and that made them into diamonds! You can't turn them back into dinosaurs! They'd have to be really small ones." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-12 04:47 am UTC (link)
	"Well, then, I think we're going to have a hard time selling dinosaurs, then." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-12 04:50 am UTC (link)
	"Awwww." Steven's marketing ideas are soon forgotten, of course, as he gets caught up in the dinosaur exhibit. Alice keeps her voice low, not wanting anyone and especially Steven to overhear. "How is your 'pet' doing?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-12 05:01 am UTC (link)
	He keeps his response as quiet as he can, and it helps that Steven is distracted. "She's quite well, thank you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-12 05:14 am UTC (link)
	"No misbehaving, I hope?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-12 10:26 am UTC (link)
	"Nope. She's actually remarkably well behaved, for the most part." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-12 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	"Do you think any leash laws would apply to her? Steven, don't touch that. You don't want to get them dirty or make them crumble." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-12 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know...She probably falls under "exotic pets" though. He looks over to see what's caught Steven's interest. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-14 05:38 am UTC (link)
	"Quite exotic, one-of-a-kind. Does she get lonely?" Steven was trying to compare his hand to a fossil of a dinosaur's footprint by putting his hand into it, rather than just holding his hand up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-14 05:44 am UTC (link)
	"You know, I don't know. She doesn't seem lonely, but then, I don't know how a lonely pterodactyl would act." "Wow, that's a big footprint. I don't think even my hand is that big!" He holds his hand up for comparison. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-14 05:49 am UTC (link)
	"Good point, no prior experience with them, and you can't go down to the library and find books on them. Did you ever have pets before?" Steven puts his hand next to Ianto's and laughs. "Yours is hairy!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-14 05:56 am UTC (link)
	"But she's eating well, and I think one of the first signs of emotional distress in animals is not eating." He nods. "In the....when Jack and I were away." He doesn't really want to go into the details of that set of circumstances, though. He looks at his hand in mock-surprise. "It is!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-14 06:01 am UTC (link)
	"I've heard that dogs are like that, sulking around not eating. Never had pets myself." She raises her eyebrows. "Never thought he did, either." Steven laughs more. "Yep! And you've got dark hair like Mum and Uncle Jack but I don't!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-14 06:12 am UTC (link)
	"They were mine. From before he got there." He ruffles Steven's hair. "Nope! Blond for you!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-16 04:09 am UTC (link)
	"Ahhh... what were they? He said that your... office... sometimes has had little resident pets, strays I assume. A cat at some point?" Steven laughs and hops up, ineffectively trying to ruffle Ianto's but missing by feet. "My dad's mum has blonde hair, too!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)