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Tweak says, "Who's on first?"

Henry Stillman (henri_with_a_y) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2012-10-06 12:09:00

Entry tags:

artan stillman, henry stillman, petit lapan lebeau, ronan stillman

Who: The brothers Stillman
Where: ALL THE PLACES!
When: Today!
What: Rescuing Ro (and a kitty) from the middle of nowhere.

It didn't take Henry long to find where his brother had landed, even with the rather incomplete location he'd been given, this was a fairly common occurrence, really, being able to find Ronan. Instead of stepping out of the backstage and right into the living room, he actually popped out on the porch, in the shadow of the house itself.

He shook himself to get his bearings, his hair still settling, as it was prone to doing after a trip through the Backstage. Sparky was perched on his shoulder, making happy little squeaky hinge noises and waggling his antennae. Henry smiled at this and knocked twice in quick succession, "Avon calling."

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stabbystillman
2012-10-06 07:30 pm UTC (link)

"You callin' me ugly?" Came the reply through the door, and it opened to reveal Ronan. Ronan was holding an outrageously fluffy cat, who looked completely put-upon by even existing. "I think his name is Marvin, but I don't know." That said, he closed the door behind him and gave Henry a half-hug, just to make sure the cat wouldn't escape or be smashed between them.
"Come on, let's get out of here. I feel the grossness of Biloxi consuming me."

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	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-06 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	"Nah." He said, returning the not-really-awkward half-hug, "If I was going to call you ugly I'd just go: 'hey ugly, you get that face from dad's side of the family or somethin'?" And just like that they were in the Backstage, Henry's arm still looped around Ronan's shoulders, "Been wondering when you were going to show up. Abbie and everybody already fell in a while ago." (Reply to this)

stabbystillman
2012-10-06 07:44 pm UTC (link)

"Nah, I just borrowed it from you," Ronan replied with a lopsided smile, and started towards Guildhall. "And I can't help that all you weirdos couldn't wait up for me. I had stuff to do, you know." He kept a hold of the cat, who was more spooked by the shift in their surroundings than anything. His hair shifted and undulated as he sighed and shook his head.

"To tell you the truth, I was getting a little worried I would be left there without everyone. It was really kind of lonely. So... do the parentals know?" He stood in place, ready to be moved into the kitchen when Henry could pull him out. He felt sort of like a moron just standing around - always had - but he couldn't get out of the Backstage without assist.

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henri_with_a_y
2012-10-06 08:09 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I warned 'em. Mum said 'that explains some stuff' and then told dad she'll probably shank him in his sleep later, so you know, business as usual."

He stepped out into the Guildhall kitchen, making sure the coast was clear, or at least clear-ish, before yoinking Ronan through as well, "Home sweet home. You still get queasy when I do that?" Some people did, the Backstage just had that effect on some people.

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stabbystillman
2012-10-07 12:39 am UTC (link)

"Pff," huffed Ronan, shaking his head. "I haven't gotten queasy for years. It's when you try and scare me into it that I get an upset tummy." Speaking of tummy, he thought, as he started climbing the shelves to get at the chocolate covered potato chips that their dad always hid, and thought nobody knew about. "Worst kept secret of Guildhall," he said as he found the metal tin. "So hey, what's been going on? Anything huge and interesting, or have missed anything lately?"

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	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Nope, you're like, the tail end of another sudden sweep, like the vortex likes to do. And I thought the worst-kept secret of the Guildhall was what it is we actually do. I mean, you'd think the place would be swarming with feds or at least local cops, but it never is." (Reply to this)

	stabbystillman 2012-10-07 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	"I think it's because we've payed off every agency. Or have people working in them. Whatever, not my department." He offered a chip and smiled. "I bet uncle Arthur would know." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Probably knows." He replied, accepting the chip, "But he probably wouldn't tell us. You know how he is." A shrug then, "Even with that though, we still have surprisingly few vigilantes and superhero squads showing up to shut us down either." (Reply to this)

stabbystillman
2012-10-07 06:08 pm UTC (link)

"We are one of the vigilante squads, though." He pointed out. "And honestly, if anyone actually has a problem with what we do, we point out our clean track record of only killing those who needed it. I'm pretty sure nobody good got endeaded by us." He grinned and hopped down from the shelf and walked with the chips to the living room.

"Anyway, if anyone had any argument, we could just send out any number of our really ridiculously good looking members to flirt with them and that'd be that."

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	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, yeah, good point." He shrugged then, dropping himself into his usual chair in his usual sprawl, "So, as you can probably tell, house hasn't changed much. Don't think it can, really, like, if we tried to impose some kind of redecorating project it would just slowly morph back into this." (Reply to this)

	stabbystillman 2012-10-07 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm pretty sure Henri would have a ghostly conniption if he saw any revisions," Ronan replied as he sunk into another chair, popping a chip in his mouth. "Pots and pans flying everywhere, doors slamming 24/7." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Nah, he'd be sneakier than that, salt in the sugar bowls, re-setting the alarm clocks, changing the other clocks to an hour later or an hour earlier, all the little things, and not all at the same time, either, otherwise we'd know something was up." He shrugged, "Though the argument could be made for pots and pans all falling out of the cabinets when everyone's sleeping." (Reply to this)

	stabbystillman 2012-10-07 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	"But he'd let mom's poisons alone," Ronan surmised, "'cause she'd kick his ghost butt for it. I wonder though, if it's actually poppa Henri haunting the place." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	"I think pretty much everybody knows to leave mum's cabinet alone. And if they don't it's their own fault what happens next." He scratched the back of his neck then, "I don't know if anybody's tried to figure it out. And I'm not gonna." (Reply to this)

stabbystillman
2012-10-07 07:45 pm UTC (link)

"If the house got demolished, the only thing left standing would be her cabinet," he said as he settled more sideways than properly in the chair, digging his heels into the armrest as he shoved himself into a near recline against the other arm. "I'd do it. It's not like the ghosts would get all mad if someone from the Guild just wanted to know who it is that's haunting the place."

"Who's haunting a whatnow?" Artan asked as he walked in and swiped the chips back. "Who's this guy?" He asked Henry, "And why's he got my delicious forbidden snackfoods?"

Ronan smiled and looked over at Henry. "Yes, Henry. Who indeed?"

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	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Ghosts, haunting the Guildhall, we don't know who they are." Henry sighed, shaking his head, "And I told you, when I left the house like twenty minutes ago, that I was going to go pick up the baby brother. Did you think I meant someone else's baby brother?" He shook his head, "And as for the snackfoods, you need to find a better hiding place. Or a decoy, or something." (Reply to this)

stabbystillman
2012-10-07 07:56 pm UTC (link)

"I'm pretty sure it's Henri, but we've never asked," Ronan stated with a small, goofy smile. "Hi pops. I'm Ronan, I think you just got mom pregnant with me."

"Yeah, actually I thought you meant that... Oh dammit, I guess we're going to have to drag the crib back out of the attic." Artan said with a lopsided smile. "And don't steal my chips. If you live here, you know where to buy your own." He looked over at Henry again and raised an eyebrow. "You already tell your mom, or should I?"

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	henri_with_a_y 2012-10-07 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	There was another sigh, and a slow-motion facepalm from Henry at the response, shaking his head, voice just a little muffled as he added: "She knows." He lifted his head then, "And the fact that you're still breathing right now just means she hasn't found you yet, since I'm pretty sure her response was 'I'm just going to have to kill him'." (Reply to this)

tatsandwaffles
2012-10-07 08:15 pm UTC (link)

"Groovy, I'm dead meat," Artan murmured, raising a brow to the boys. "Well, okay, you, young creature, you go pick out a room and make the rounds, introduce yourself. You, older-but-still-young creature, you go... do helping with that for your brother. I've got to make sure your mom's not freaking out or... the opposite of freaking out, which might actually be worse."

"Got it pops," Ronan said with a mocking salute and slipped out of the chair to stand and stick his hands in his pockets. "You don't have to help, Henry, I mean, unless you really don't have anything better to do."

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henri_with_a_y
2012-10-07 08:37 pm UTC (link)

Henry snorted as he pushed himself up out of his chair, "You know me, I haven't got anything better to do basically ever. Besides, your normal room might be booby trapped. And by 'might be' I mean 'totally is', I just want to see if you figure them all out."

Petit, for her part, wasn't freaking out, not really, but she wasn't not-freaking out either, she was cleaning, which meant that she'd given up on killing Artan, at least for the time being.

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tatsandwaffles
2012-10-07 09:33 pm UTC (link)

"Oh goodie! Certain death first thing in the afternoon!" teased Ronan, who went up the stairs two at a time, if only for speed's sake.

Artan watched the boys as they ascended the stairs, and shook his head before he went to go find Petit.

"Congratulations, and I'm sorry," was his greeting, though he hadn't really had much chance to figure out what more to say to that. "He's definitely ours."

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	prettylilbunny 2012-10-07 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	"It's fine." She gave a shrug, looking up from where she was dusting, "I mean, I survived it once before, I can survive it again." And turning back to what she was doing, she added, "Just... no template for this one, that's all." (Reply to this)

tatsandwaffles
2012-10-07 10:49 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, well," Artan said with a sigh as he walked over to her to wrap an arm around her waist. He didn't even care if she swatted him, he deserved it. "I'm still going to make it up to you. This time, no tours, no dragging you to Vegas unless you really want, none of that. And hey, now you have three of us to boss around." He grinned against her shoulder and slipped back and took a seat nearby. "And hey, if worst comes to worst, we can just sell him to your cousins."

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	prettylilbunny 2012-10-07 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	"We can go to Carlo once I'm actually showing, people let the pregnant lady closer to the tables anyway, it's very nice of them, makes it much easier to steal their wallets." She shrugged, relaxing her shoulders back against him a little, though still dusting around the artifacts on the shelf she was working on, "Not enough cousins here to sell him off too, sadly." (Reply to this)

tatsandwaffles
2012-10-07 11:26 pm UTC (link)

He gave her a slow, casual shoulder rub as she worked and shrugged a bit. "Guess we'll have to keep him, then. Are you feeling all right, though? I mean, physically. I remember you got pretty head-swimmy for a couple weeks with Henry, so you know. I worry." Honestly, the whole pregnancy with Henry was a big long anxiety attack for Artan, who drowned a lot of his issues into going headlong into his three jobs. It probably didn't convince Petit, though. In fact, he was sure of it.

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