I Moderate (i_moderate) wrote in we_archive, @ 2006-01-22 22:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | delirium of the endless, peter parker |
i_likefeesh "thANk yoU, mr. MAN! mR. mAN-MAn!" [ Peter Parker ]
It was a nice apartment, although it was not the sort of apartment Del herself would have liked. For one thing, everything was solidly attached to the ground. Sure, you could push the chairs around but they didn't float and they held a very plain and very consistent shape. It was a bit depressing.
It wasn't the bit of cooking Delirium had tried to do that made the noise. Del had turned off the kitchen sounds. Well, they were on which were why the dogs in the neighborhood seemed to bark so loudly, but they weren't people-on. Those were entirely different things.
No, what started to make the ruckus in the kitchen of the apartment that was not very much hers at all were the frogs. There were frogs of all different colors and sizes and the first ones croaked as frogs tended to do but some of the later ones started to sing old Johnny Cash songs and instead of hopping about they rolled around the floor leaving colorful trails of slime that tasted like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on wheat bread.
And when the oven went off, which didn't actually make a people-sound, Del pulled out a cookie tray of little chocolate people. Each chocolate person, which actually tasted more like one of those rainbow confetti cakes than chocolate and were bungle berry filled, did something different. One of them tap danced. Delirium decided to taste test the chocolate dancing man by biting his head off and when she set him down he held his tiny chocolate arms out and tried to feel around him blindly. A couple of the other chocolate people shrieked in horror.
Then the tea kettle went off. More dogs barked. Delirium thought of Barnabas and smiled.
From: [info]i_slingwebs Date: 01/23/2006 10:40:58
Peter didn't remember putting the radio on. He also didn't remember there being frogs in his apartment. The one-eyed man leapt out of bed and scrambled up the wall of his bedroom, whole body tense for a moment, before he strained his ears to listen.
Were those ... tiny.. shrieking voices?
Dropping back down to the floor, the brunette crept into the kitchen, his blue eye wide with curiosity. Frogs. And screaming chocolate people.
And that red-haired girl.
"Holy geez, it's you again!"
From: [info]i_likefeesh Date: 01/23/2006 11:20:20
"HEllo! iT Is mE. agAIn."
Delirium did a little curtsy.
"thANK yoU for FindING mY bellY bUTTon, mr. MaN!"
Delirium lifted up her shirt to show him the mentioned belly button. It appeared not even her belly button was normal: it was an outie. However, Todd, or Frank, or whatever she eventually decided to name him, didn't look very happy.
"i MAde yOU snACks..." she offered with a small pout, setting the cookie sheet of jolted chocolate people on top of the stove. They made muddy little chocolate prints as they walked around.
From: [info]i_slingwebs Date: 01/24/2006 17:38:01
"W-well," Peter stammered, surprised. The last thing he wanted to do was upset her. If she started to cry, he could only imagine how strange THAT would be. "Thank you," he finally settled on, and picked up one of the little chocolate people.
It jumped and wriggled, struggling in his grip, before he closed his eye, swallowed, and took a bite right off of its arm.
It yelled out, and he nearly dropped it. "It's good, but -- they're so -- I mean, it's like they're --"
Alive! Oh, that just gave Peter the chills. "Do you want some, uh, tea?"
From: [info]i_likefeesh Date: 01/24/2006 18:06:55
"it'S a vERy SQuirmy bATcH," Delirium agreed with excessive amounts of nodding her head. Delirium picked up the headless tap dancer chocolate (but not really chocolate) pieces and gulped the rest of him down in one bite.
But she seemed to brighten quite a bit when Peter tried one of her creations. At the offer of tea she almost squeaked in her excitement.
"tHAT woULd bE verY nIce, mR. MAn. uMMm... dO yOu thINk MayBE yOu haVE sEEn My sISter? i CAn't teLL you wHo shE is bUT i tHOUght mAYbe yOU HAve sEeN hER?"
She paused and set two of the little not-really-chocolate people together so they could snuggle. The two started to melt slightly into each other.
"bEcaUSe iT Is a SeCREt... kiNDa. wEll sOMe pePUL knoWED. BuT yoUR gOOd aT fiNDing thINGs lIkE a RaDIO aCTive fLAVoreD BuGGess lIKe tHAt."