Gert Yorkes | Arsenic (arseniclace) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2014-03-29 22:42:00 |
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Malls were not Gert’s favorite place to be by a long shot, but Molly was the perfect model of a mallrat, and it was Gert’s silent promise to make sure two things happened while they both coexisted in this universe: 1) Molly would always be protected and cared for. 2) Molly would never want for anything. It was Gert’s personal mission to take care of Molly as best as she could. Whatever the reason was, Gertrude had fallen into the role as big sister with Molly and though she’d originally seemed less than pleased by this, there was nothing but love for the youngest Runaway. The duo had come to the mall specifically in search of hats (Spencer’s had changed a lot and Gert had rushed Molly out), luckily Hot Topic had carried a few hats right up Molly’s alley – and maybe a few accessories Gertrude was absolutely upset with herself for not just liking, but buying as well. A quick lunch in the food court ended with them also getting ice cream that they were now finishing up as they walked towards the Toys ‘R Us. “If they don’t have glow stars I’m going to be one mighty big grumpy cat,” Gertrude noted as she took a bite out of her cone and subsequently trashed the remainder in the next garbage they passed. “Okay so gimme your bags, I’ll put them all in this bag,” Gertrude noted as she collected the smaller bags and placed them in the largest bag they had, “that way we won’t lose anything…or lose everything at once. Let’s go!” She poked Molly and smiled after getting her attention and suddenly pushing off to sprint the rest of the distance from where they were to the Toys ‘R Us that they’d already walked halfway to. Gert wasn’t exactly excited to be in a toy store…but it was for Molly, she’d try to have fun. The sprint ended once she was actually across the threshold of the store, she gave no cares in regards to the people she’d brushed past to get to her destination and didn’t bother looking back as soon as she was sure Molly was with her. “Alright kiddo, let’s buy some toys.” --- Molly was smiling ear to ear. Although the failure of going into Spencer’s made Molly a tad sad. She had heard about Spencer’s all the time and felt like she never got to go into it. But Hot Topic was a big score. She had found a ton of hats and still had exactly $181.32 left over and she wanted to spend it. She hoped that Toys ‘R Us had a lot. “Are you going to buy anything?” Molly asked, looking up at Gert. She didn’t want to stray too far from Gert. While they had been here for a little bit, it hadn’t been too long ago that she was in the X-Corp taken away from all her friends. “I bet they’ll have glow stars” she said with a chirpy, peppy voice. “They don’t run out at all. They’ve got back rooms” she said with a secretive tone as if she were letting Gert in on a secret. “Although I know they don’t have anything Doop or Dazzler, maybe I can find some more superhero stuff. Oh, and a pirate fairy. A pirate fairy is super cool, don’t you think?” Her eyes scanned the different aisles, unsure of which one to go to first, her body visibly trying to decide which one to choose first. --- “Oh,” Gert mused as Molly filled her in on the secret of backroom storage, she couldn’t help but smirk...and for once kept her know-it-all mouth shut. Why ruin the kids innocence so soon? There was plenty of time for that back home. “Pirate fairies are...you know, I’ve never seen a pirate fairy, but I’m sure we could make one if they don’t have that specific type of doll.” Gert was actually pretty much against dolls, but Gertrude had been the kid with a pet pig and a love for antiques before other children knew what antiques were. While Molly itched to go down an aisle, but didn’t, Gertrude looked high to check out the signs to see what each aisle held. “I think…I kinda want to get those glow dinosaurs I saw online the other night. Add them to the ceiling, maybe a galaxy pack if I can find one. And maybe that paint and do some funky designs on the porch swing in my room. Don’t ask why I have a porch swing, I have no clue.” She paused in front of aisle four, “What about this aisle? It looks like doll stuff, and dress up stuff…huh.” She leaned a little to the left to peek down the following aisle, “Looks like Disney stuff is down here, like the princess dolls...but four has…what the hell is that?” She playfully lost her balance and righted herself with a skip towards aisle four with an aim at the Monster High dolls. “Wow,” she voiced out before giving a low whistle. How many girls were giving themselves back problems to get an arch and an ass like that? “Hey, they aren’t realistic at all…but it looks like there’s a werewolf and…uh…I think that’s supposed to be Frankenstein…that’s kinda cool. Maybe there’s a fairy here somewhere.” --- Molly’s eyes gazed over everything, looking and judging. She knew she had to be careful. Very careful. She only had so much money and she wasn’t going to waste it. And whatever she bought needed to fit into a backpack. She picked a few different dolls up and put them back after not liking them. “These dolls aren’t that good” Molly said, putting back something the werewolf one. She made a face and twisted it. “Why can’t they just have a Doop. Or something Dazzler?” she said with a huff, crossing her arms while looking at everything. “Is where we are from just that much better?” She walked to the end of the aisle and looked back and forth, trying to gauge a new direction. “Can I have a hammock?” she asked. “Like one I can sleep in?” she asked at the end of the aisle. “And do you know who Rachel Summers is? She’s my school person that told me I need to go to school.” --- “Because they don’t exist in this world and as far as I’ve been able to tell they don’t exist at the tower either. Hence, no fame, no merch.” Gertrude rambled off in her distant and over logical voice as she took a second to inspect a couple more of the Monster High dolls - internally super excited that Molly found the same distaste in the dolls that Gert had for them. She finished looked at the Cleopatra-looking doll and briefly made a face of disgust that involved sticking the tip of her tongue out at the inanimate object. She turned away to look down the aisle over Molly's head and then back down the opposite way. "If we can find a hammock here, it's all yours. Probably should get one of those self supporting hammocks though. I don't know how solid magic walls are." She seemed distracted as she talked, looking away from Molly and down the aisle - she started walking in the direction of whatever had gotten her attention. A couple seconds later she hollered for Molly to come check out what she'd found, a box held in her hand with a reddish brunette doll and the words "Pirate Fairy" scrawled out at the lower part of the box. "So it's Disney, and I guess there's a pirate fairy movie coming out...she's the new fairy, or there's others...like Tink is dressed up as a weird looking pirate, too. But this one," she paused to look at the box again, "Uh, Zarina, looks like the actual pirate." Gert shrugged and handed the box over to Molly when she was close enough. "I like her hair." --- “Just because someone isn’t famous here doesn't mean they shouldn’t have stuff” Molly said. “I mean, we’re here. Maybe we’ll get action figures. Wouldn’t that be cool? I could have a switch to make my eyes glow and have super punching powers!” Molly said while looking over the pirate fairy that Gert had found. “Did you know that Tinkerbell is here? Like the real one. But bigger because that’s what happened. And no wings. At least I don’t think so. She’d be pretty sad without wings. Or pixie dust. Unless she can make more. I don’t know if she can” Molly said, her voice moving quicker than her brain could think. “And I like her hair too. Though if I get one pirate I’m going to need a boat and a sword and maybe some rope to swing around my room and have my hammock like pirates used to have. That’s how pirates slept, in hammocks” she said with a knowing nod. She placed the figure in bag and looked around some more. “Let’s go find the wall thingees and get them next!” Molly said, her hair bouncing a bit underneath her hat. --- Gert’s eyes couldn’t help getting a little larger from behind her cat-rimmed glasses as she watched Molly’s mouth move 100 mpm. The girl had enough energy to help end the world’s energy problem, and give her sugar? No one could stop her...hell...Gert had been there when Molly had punched a raving Hulk - nothing could get in Molly’s way period. There was no room for Gertrude to even try to step into this conversation if she tried, so she just nodded a little and kept her green eyes focused on the girl before her while trying her damndest not to laugh at the idea of Molly swinging around her room like a pirate. Pirate fairy doll? Sure. The rest? Nope. Unless Chase wanted to be the cause of that chaos, Gertrude had her limits. “Wall thingees it is,” she finally was able to say, following up behind Molly with a shake of her own head. Kids, she was never going to have them! Not that the idea of ever having kids had ever crossed Gertrude’s mind. Not really. She had more important things in mind for her life, eventually. Maybe. Hopefully. “I think down there,” she pointed out a few aisles ahead as they walked and passed other areas of the store. And eventually they came to the board games aisle where other odds and ends happened to be lined up on the wall and shoved around on a couple of shelving units. “Uh, maybe there.” Gert offered as she walked towards a wall with hanging $1 toys like jacks and bouncy balls. --- Molly stopped as Gert walked toward the cheapo wall. She stood mesmerized by the board games and her mouth opened. She looked at them. “Gert” she whispered. Her hands reached out and she touched the boxes. “Gert” she said, her eyes dancing between the names of games she knew and others she had no idea. “Can we get these?” Molly said, not even discerning what she wanted. She wanted all of them - she wanted enough people to play them with her. She wanted to crush her enemy between her fingers. Her eyes shone. This was much better than anything she had wanted to get before. Except for the hats. She reached out and started pulling games off the shelf even before Gert could get to her and she had amassed a small stack of games nearly the height of her by the time she did. ---- While the childling was gathering games to tower over her own being, Gertrude found a rather large tube of glow stars that came with a galaxy pack. They could split the tube - stars for Molly, galaxy for Gert. There was even the paint she’d been looking for just a shelf up and neatly packaged in a display box. Different colors were offered and Gert gathered both an original and purple. She still had no idea what she was going to do with it, but something would be done eventually. When she finally stood, hearing her name and turning around to witness the awe-struck Molly. “Molly…” Gert answered with her own surprised tone. “I don’t know if you have enough for all of them.” Some games ran thirty dollars or more these days and Gertrude wasn’t chipping in - Molly had to figure out the value of a dollar eventually. “How about maybe just two for right now, and the doll. Then we can call it a day and I’ll even play at least one game with you tonight...and make Chase play, too.” She cocked her head before pressing her glasses more firmly against the bridge of her nose, “Deal?” ---- Molly let out a loud, exasperated sigh putting her hands in the air before letting them fall to her side. "But it is so hard to choose" she whined, drawing the word choose out. "Fine" she said simply. She looked over each game with a discerning eye, hemming and hawing with herself. After a long, drawn out 20 minutes, she pulled out Betrayal at House on the Hill and Ticket to Ride. "There" she said, holding the games. "These plus the pirate fairy!" She said, cracking a small smile. She pushed her stack of other games against the wall. "Let's play the Betrayal game first. It looks like super fun." ---- “Those plus the pirate fairy, right-o, kid-o.” Gert responded with a slight laugh as she shook her head. Molly’s intense love of games, sugar, and hats was such an odd combination - Gertrude loved the oddity of everything Molly was. She maneuvered the tube of stars and paints in her hands and took the fairy doll so that Molly could carry her games. “Yeah, sure, I’ll pick up a pizza or two on the way back just to make sure Chase sits in. Hopefully Xavin is around to play, too.” As soon as the duo was ready Gertrude led the way back through the store towards the cashiers. The lines weren’t horrible and Gert got to the shortest as quickly as possible. Because Chase was a little paranoid; Gert and Molly both had actual money on hand instead of using the cards Stark had assigned them. It somehow was so much quicker getting change than pressing a lot of buttons and signing the digital pad. Once they had their new bags Gert made sure they had everything before heading back into the mall. “Ready to get back to the Rungalow?” ---- “Yup!” Molly said, holding her bags with ease. “Do you ever wonder if I could totally jump like the Hulk? I mean, leaping over buildings and stuff?” Molly asked Gert as they walked into the mall. “I want to try, but I don’t want to get tired and fall asleep when I’m trying to land and Karolina isn’t here to catch me” she said excitedly. “Do you think we’ll be safe here? Or if Alex or our parents are going to show up? Because that wouldn’t be good. I mean, Alex was ok until he became all evil or whatever. He’s like that Little Caesar guy. He betrayed his friends.” She walked alongside Gert for a moment and smiled up at her. “Thanks for bringing me Gert, this was fun” she said, her eyes shining. ---- Molly could talk a mile per minute without sugar; give the girl even a little sugar and she was gone. Gertrude was used to it and just happy that Molly wasn’t in her face asking if they could talk about all the body changes that Gertrude wasn’t super excited to have to eventually talk to her about. At least the first time it had been mutant stuff that Gertrude couldn’t have really answered even if she had tried - because truth was she hadn’t even tried to answer the regular anatomy questions she’d thought were being asked. “So, first. Don’t try Hulking it out with the jumps until Kar is here, because I honestly don’t know what you’re capable of, Molls. I mean. Logically I’d say sure. Put all that kick ass strength into your legs, I’m sure you’re going to jump a good distance, with training. But you need training. Like the type I can’t give. I bet Vic could train with you…” Gert faded off and looked back in front of her to avoid running into strangers. She didn’t even try to correct Molly about anything else, give more ideas, or try to lay down any more rules. Instead she just smiled down at Molly when she was thanked - it was one of those big-sister smirks that came just before Gert used her free hand to tug down Molly’s hat just a little over her forehead playfully, “Don’t mention it kid-o. I’m glad you had fun, and yeah, I think we’ll have a lot more opportunities for fun and less running in this world. Let’s not jinx it by talking about it though and stop to get those pizzas instead.” |