ext_250630 ([identity profile] mouthy-merc.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2012-05-31 08:10 am

Childcare For Dummies [Thursday, May 31, 2012]

Class today had been handwavily informed to meet in the Danger Shop where a series of mini-vans were lined up and waiting for them. Clearly this could only end in happiness and laughter as children were always well behaved in a car.

"Welcome back, kiddos!" Deadpool said brightly. "I see you didn't end up dead in a ditch after the weekend holiday. Wait, did we have a holiday? I can't remember. Canadian and all."

“Holiday,” Anakin confirmed, nodding. “Full of screaming, crying roadtrips.”

Spoilers, kids!

The Danger Shop, on cue, started to make it rain. Anakin pulled his hood up over his hair.

Deadpool was grinning that sort of smile that would imply someone would end up dead soon. "You're gonna get put into pairs to act as mommy and daddy. Or daddy and daddy. Mommy and mommy. Nongendered alien and nongendered alien. Whatever. And you're gonna see what fun it is to take care of a screaming ball of rage, apple juice, and vomit is while driving at the saaaame time.”

“It’s not fun.” Yes, Anakin, they got that. From the various vans came the whining pleas of children:

“I’m hungry!”

“I’m thirsty!”

“I haaaaate apple juice!”

“I have to PEE RIGHT NOW.”

Anakin handed the poor students maps, which may or may not have been in English. “You are here. You have to get to the other star on the map without killing your partner, yourself, or any of the children. And you’re also low on gas.”

"Enjooooooy!"

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[identity profile] inaskinnyway.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan Sto Helit, 1!

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] inaskinnyway.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan always tended to remain calm when faced with a challenge in this class. That didn't mean she wasn't mentally steeling herself for having to deal with this.

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[identity profile] rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Rilla Blythe

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know how to drive," Rilla admitted quietly. "Do you?"
sith_happened: (Anakin: b&w intense)

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[personal profile] sith_happened 2012-05-31 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Relive Anakin's weekend, children. Relive it.

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[identity profile] twintuitionist.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Juliet Darling, 1

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[identity profile] trickydemigod.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Luke Castellan, 2

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] twintuitionist.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Juliet was a New Yorker. She figured she'd learn to drive eventually, but it hadn't exactly happened yet. Trying again with a whiny kid on the car seemed like a good way to get fake-killed.

She hoped her partner was a little more comfortable behind the wheel.
dollpocalypse: (fact: car)

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[personal profile] dollpocalypse 2012-05-31 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Topher Brink, 1
dollpocalypse: (conv: talkin' over shoulder)

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[personal profile] dollpocalypse 2012-05-31 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
This driving business did not seem like a fun task to Topher at all.

"You think leaving the kids unattended in the minivans might get the teachers in enough trouble for us to have a case here?" he muttered to his partner.

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] inaskinnyway.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"No," Susan admitted. "But I imagine it's not difficult once you learn the basics."

Oh, this would go well.

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"You seem more confident than me about it," Rilla said. "You drive and I can read the map!"

Recipe for disaster.

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] inaskinnyway.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"That does mean you'll be in a better position to handle the child," Susan pointed out in case Rilla wanted to change her mind.

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"I handle Jims just fine," Rilla assured her. "We took several train trips together. This cannot be that much more challenging."

Rilla was wrong.
myownface: (Up There)

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[personal profile] myownface 2012-05-31 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sparkle, 2
myownface: (Smirky)

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[personal profile] myownface 2012-05-31 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Sparkle considered this for all of three seconds, and then shrugged, grinning a little.

"Probably not, since they're fake kids," he pointed out. "You know how to drive, anyhow? 'Cause I don't."

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] inaskinnyway.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right, then you get things settled while I try and figure out what I'm doing driving," said Susan. Since she'd never seen a car before and all.
dollpocalypse: (obnox: yeah but i'm very smart)

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[personal profile] dollpocalypse 2012-05-31 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ish," Topher said with a shrug. "I'll give it a shot if you stay on make-the-kids-shut-up duty."

That did not seem very fair.

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[identity profile] rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Rilla conducted a series of increasingly testy discussions with the sticky, horrible child in the back seat who decided that he now hated apple juice even though Rilla could clearly see three apple juice boxes that he'd already finished.

Apparently a "grumpy wizard" had dropped them off. Rilla doubted that a lot.

[identity profile] seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Percy Jackson, 1
myownface: (OhGod Seriously?)

Re: Partner Up and Drive

[personal profile] myownface 2012-05-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Not even remotely, and Sparkle's wrinkled nose said about as much, too.

"... Don't suppose there's any duct tape in there anywhere?"

No, Sparkle. That would be the wrong thing to do.

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