Re: filled. :)
anonymous
September 12 2010, 00:42:02 UTC
"Woody! Buzz!" In her excitement she nudged Woody, who was closest to her, in the side of his head with her elbow.
"Hey, ouch! What it is?"
"That little girl has a Jessie doll!"
The others ooh'ed and 'aaah'ed and struggled to resist the temptation to move from their positions so that they could see.
"I've never seen another one of me before!" Jessie was saying. "I wonder what she's like! Oh this is so exciting!" Buzz rather suspected that, were they not all struggling for space, she'd be hopping from foot to foot in anticipation.
"Jessie, would you - stop - moving - around," Woody muttered through gritted teeth as her elbow grazed his cheek.
"Quiet, everyone," Dolly said sharply, and not a moment too soon as Bonnie pulled the zip completely open and carefully laid her toys out on the floor. She'd only been able to bring a few on vacation with her and after much deliberation she had decided on Woody, Dolly, Jessie, Buzz and Buttercup. The five had been excited to come to Hawaii - even Woody, who'd flown before and seen more than most of the other toys in his long lifetime, didn't know what to expect. Not that they had seen much yet; Bonnie, afraid to lose anyone in a strange country, had mostly kept them in her bag for the last two days.
"Wow! Cool toys," Lilo said admiringly.
"Thank you." Bonnie blushed, less shy now that they were no longer in the company of adults and slowly warming up to the other two girls. She introduced all of her toys by name and Lilo was immediately smitten with the Space Ranger, lifting him up and trying out all of the different buttons.
"I have a doll too, at home. It's called Scrump."
Boo grinned and waved her own doll in response, which Bonnie noted was the same as Jessie#s. She hoped they wouldn't get them mixed up - Andy was trusting her with his toys after all - but she soon noticed that the two were distinctly different. Boo was less careful when it came to her toys and Bonnie watched anxiously as the three-year-old picked up Woody and swung him around, his hat flying in a neat arch towards the opposite end of the room. Boo's Jessie looked the worse for wear, although obviously very loved, with a tear in one of the sleeves and the plaited hair half undone.
Stitch reached out for the box that Nani kept in the back of the shop, for the times when she had to take Lilo to work with her and wanted to keep her out of trouble, and noisily tipped an assortment of toys onto the floor. The three girls sifted through them, quietly co-operating as they set up a scene that spread halfway across the floor and included towers of bricks, a port of toy spaceships and, for some inexplicable reason, a cake shop (filled of course with delicious imaginary cake).
Presently a game started up, the girls taking toys and acting with them at random and falling into fits of giggles at their own impromptu silliness.
Amongst the good-natured chaos, Bonnie's Jessie and Boo's Jessie smiled at each other. They'd have liked a little time for a conversation but their priority now was playtime - hopefully the kids would leave them for a while later so that they could come to life and talk amongst themselves.
Woody couldn’t help noticing the way Boo's Jessie's eyes lit up when she saw him, and she whispered to him as they passed hands "Sheriff Woody! I can't believe I've finally gotten the chance to meet you!" The cowboy tipped his head to the side just a fraction and blushed beneath her adoring gaze.
Grabbing Dolly, Bonnie made her fly through the air. "Mwahaha! You'll never stop my latest evil scheme!"
"Think again, Witch Dolly. Me and my magical horse," Boo had Woody straddle Buttercup and gallop forward, "will surely stop you!"
"Here Woody, take my plasma ray!" Lilo was quick to jump into the fray with Buzz. "I'll start deactivating the bomb before all of this ectoplasmic goo explodes into outer space!"
Re: filled. :)
anonymous
September 12 2010, 00:43:45 UTC
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Sulley heaved a sigh, his feet padding heavily along the metallic floor of the factory. He didn’t know how Mike had ever coped with so much tedious admin work, back in the Scare days, but at that moment he'd give anything to be at home in front of the TV. As it were, a large number of laugh-getting monsters had taken to their newfound talent with a passion, leaving Monsters Inc. to pursue careers in the entertainment industry; whilst they were writing material for stand-up tours, Sulley was chipping in with the workload to compensate for the sudden staff shortage.
This particular task involved walking past long rows of doors and checking off their status and location before they shuffled onto a conveyor belt and into the adjacent room. There was rarely anything out of order so the monster's thoughts drifted easily as he made his way down the line, pen skipping out untidy X's on the cream sheets attached to his clipboard.
Occasionally there would be a door which led to nowhere, or to a house where the children had grown up and left home. Sulley paused to make a quick note beside a green-painted door, which opened into the room of a little boy whose family had moved house. If the new residents, yet to move in, had a kid, the monsters might still have use for this particular link to the human world. If not, it would soon be joining the smoking pile of woodchips on the other side of the shredder -
Sulley came to sudden halt, the room immediately falling deathly quiet without the faint echo of his footsteps. Ahead of him, a slice of bright, golden light severed the relative dimness. It was a door, carelessly left ajar, probably by some worker all too eager to pack up shop for the night. Sulley however, knew all too well of the consequences an open door could have on both the monster and humans worlds… his heart skipped a beat as he Boo's face burst to the forefront of his mind but he blinked it away quickly and reached the offending door in two long strides.
Placing one hand lightly on the handle, Sulley made to push the door closed. He hesitated for one small moment, leaning against the meagre piece of wood that separated two completely different worlds and… well, what harm could it do? He gently pulled the door towards him, opening it just enough so that his he could peer around it, and stole one glance into the human world.
For a moment, he felt as though his heart had almost stopped beating. His breath caught in his throat and not just from the stifling heat that hit him, like a warm blanket thrown over his face.
There, on the other side of the room, three little girls sat playing together. The older two laughed as they ran in circles around one another, one holding a small, red, toy spaceship and the other a space ranger action figure.
Between them, toddling unsteadily on slightly rickety floorboards, was Boo.
Sulley rubbed his eyes and blinked. No, it was definitely her; her hair was arranged in the pigtails he so fondly remembered and she wore a hair band with sparkly pom-pom antennae on it, which bobbed about when she moved. Her long t-shirt served as a dress and fell in crumpled folds around her knees. Grains of sand caught on the underside of her stripy socks.
She was pulling a cowgirl doll through the sand and looked up, her back to Sulley as the other girls called her name, beckoning her to take her cue in the game.
Re: filled. :)
anonymous
September 12 2010, 00:48:19 UTC
“Ah, there you are Jessie! Just in time to help me save the universe.” Bonnie put on a gruff voice and waved Buzz about as she spoke. Lilo, grabbing another cowgirl doll, swooped in an arc around them and brought the doll to a halt in between the space ranger and the cowgirl.
"Wait Buzz! This isn't the real Jessie! It's a clone created by the evil witch Dolly to distract you!"
Bonnie frowned, thinking through this revelation as much as she indicated Buzz to do. "Hmmm... how do I know which one's the real Jessie?"
Sulley smiled fondly as Boo tipped her doll forward in some kind of elaborate bow. She looked older - it had maybe been a year or so since he'd seen her last - and, he noticed with the air of a proud parent, she was just as talkative as she'd always been, except she knew a great many more words now.
"The real Jessie wouldn't do this!" Boo and Jessie took advantage of Buzz letting down his guard and tackled him to the ground, Bonnie making Buzz gasp out a "Jessie, help me!" and having the cowgirl, led by Lilo, bravely surf in on the brim of Bonnie's discarded hat.
Suddenly Sulley felt eyes upon him and glanced up from the three girls, startled to find the blue creature, who he'd assumed to be a large plush toy, blinking curiously at him. Stitch tipped his head to the side, wondering what to make of the huge monster half protruding from Nani's store cupboard and the two creatures in the world that neither of them belonged took a moment to get the measure of one another.
No one else had seen him - no one even glanced through the rectangular gap in the opposite wall that provided a serving hatch for customers, and the surrounding voices were immersed in conversation, but Sulley knew he'd been careless. He couldn’t stay much longer and besides, he had work to do; the silence of the darkened factory still behind him beckoned, contrasting with the warmly lit room into which he was partly submerged.
Taking a furtive glance around, Sulley raised a finger to his lips. Stitch nodded slightly, closed one eye and scratched the back of his ear, his interest waning as the monster showed no threat.
Sulley sighed. It had been a miracle that he'd run into Boo at all but perhaps too much to hope for that he'd find her alone. He'd have liked to have spoken to her again but it was too risky with those other kids here.
He knew she was happy, and that was enough for him.
"'Later, Boo," he whispered.
Taking one last glance back, he finally closed the door.
Outside, Nani took a peek through the rectangular window that was the shop's serving hatch, and saw Lilo with a face lit up with a radiant joy she hadn't seen for quite some time, and Stitch bounding around between the three children who, to a passer-by, could have been friends forever.
Re: filled. :)
anonymous
September 12 2010, 01:18:27 UTC
OP here.
SQUEE. That was so cute. I really like that each girl is somewhat socially awkward around the others at first, which I wasn't expecting. But I should have been, given the girl's characters. I also love that while you wrote in the third person, we saw it from several characters viewpoints. OMG, Lilo being totally into Buzz makes SO MUCH SENSE given the fact that she's been in space and whatnot.
Crowning Moment of Awesome is when "Boo and Jessie took advantage of Buzz letting down his guard and tackled him to the ground, Bonnie making Buzz gasp out a "Jessie, help me!" and having the cowgirl, led by Lilo, bravely surf in on the brim of Bonnie's discarded hat."
Thank you so much! This was so cute! I could just hug it, it's so cute!
writer!anon
anonymous
September 12 2010, 01:49:18 UTC
I'm so pleased that you liked it! :3 It was such a cute prompt, I couldn't resist giving it a shot.
Heh, I kinda figured being thrown together like that might be a tad awkward at first and Bonnie in particular seems pretty shy upon first impressions, so yeah. xD And yup, methinks Lilo would be quite taken with Buzz.
"Hey, ouch! What it is?"
"That little girl has a Jessie doll!"
The others ooh'ed and 'aaah'ed and struggled to resist the temptation to move from their positions so that they could see.
"I've never seen another one of me before!" Jessie was saying. "I wonder what she's like! Oh this is so exciting!" Buzz rather suspected that, were they not all struggling for space, she'd be hopping from foot to foot in anticipation.
"Jessie, would you - stop - moving - around," Woody muttered through gritted teeth as her elbow grazed his cheek.
"Quiet, everyone," Dolly said sharply, and not a moment too soon as Bonnie pulled the zip completely open and carefully laid her toys out on the floor. She'd only been able to bring a few on vacation with her and after much deliberation she had decided on Woody, Dolly, Jessie, Buzz and Buttercup. The five had been excited to come to Hawaii - even Woody, who'd flown before and seen more than most of the other toys in his long lifetime, didn't know what to expect. Not that they had seen much yet; Bonnie, afraid to lose anyone in a strange country, had mostly kept them in her bag for the last two days.
"Wow! Cool toys," Lilo said admiringly.
"Thank you." Bonnie blushed, less shy now that they were no longer in the company of adults and slowly warming up to the other two girls. She introduced all of her toys by name and Lilo was immediately smitten with the Space Ranger, lifting him up and trying out all of the different buttons.
"I have a doll too, at home. It's called Scrump."
Boo grinned and waved her own doll in response, which Bonnie noted was the same as Jessie#s. She hoped they wouldn't get them mixed up - Andy was trusting her with his toys after all - but she soon noticed that the two were distinctly different.
Boo was less careful when it came to her toys and Bonnie watched anxiously as the three-year-old picked up Woody and swung him around, his hat flying in a neat arch towards the opposite end of the room. Boo's Jessie looked the worse for wear, although obviously very loved, with a tear in one of the sleeves and the plaited hair half undone.
Stitch reached out for the box that Nani kept in the back of the shop, for the times when she had to take Lilo to work with her and wanted to keep her out of trouble, and noisily tipped an assortment of toys onto the floor. The three girls sifted through them, quietly co-operating as they set up a scene that spread halfway across the floor and included towers of bricks, a port of toy spaceships and, for some inexplicable reason, a cake shop (filled of course with delicious imaginary cake).
Presently a game started up, the girls taking toys and acting with them at random and falling into fits of giggles at their own impromptu silliness.
Amongst the good-natured chaos, Bonnie's Jessie and Boo's Jessie smiled at each other. They'd have liked a little time for a conversation but their priority now was playtime - hopefully the kids would leave them for a while later so that they could come to life and talk amongst themselves.
Woody couldn’t help noticing the way Boo's Jessie's eyes lit up when she saw him, and she whispered to him as they passed hands "Sheriff Woody! I can't believe I've finally gotten the chance to meet you!" The cowboy tipped his head to the side just a fraction and blushed beneath her adoring gaze.
Grabbing Dolly, Bonnie made her fly through the air. "Mwahaha! You'll never stop my latest evil scheme!"
"Think again, Witch Dolly. Me and my magical horse," Boo had Woody straddle Buttercup and gallop forward, "will surely stop you!"
"Here Woody, take my plasma ray!" Lilo was quick to jump into the fray with Buzz. "I'll start deactivating the bomb before all of this ectoplasmic goo explodes into outer space!"
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Sulley heaved a sigh, his feet padding heavily along the metallic floor of the factory. He didn’t know how Mike had ever coped with so much tedious admin work, back in the Scare days, but at that moment he'd give anything to be at home in front of the TV. As it were, a large number of laugh-getting monsters had taken to their newfound talent with a passion, leaving Monsters Inc. to pursue careers in the entertainment industry; whilst they were writing material for stand-up tours, Sulley was chipping in with the workload to compensate for the sudden staff shortage.
This particular task involved walking past long rows of doors and checking off their status and location before they shuffled onto a conveyor belt and into the adjacent room. There was rarely anything out of order so the monster's thoughts drifted easily as he made his way down the line, pen skipping out untidy X's on the cream sheets attached to his clipboard.
Occasionally there would be a door which led to nowhere, or to a house where the children had grown up and left home. Sulley paused to make a quick note beside a green-painted door, which opened into the room of a little boy whose family had moved house. If the new residents, yet to move in, had a kid, the monsters might still have use for this particular link to the human world. If not, it would soon be joining the smoking pile of woodchips on the other side of the shredder -
Sulley came to sudden halt, the room immediately falling deathly quiet without the faint echo of his footsteps. Ahead of him, a slice of bright, golden light severed the relative dimness. It was a door, carelessly left ajar, probably by some worker all too eager to pack up shop for the night. Sulley however, knew all too well of the consequences an open door could have on both the monster and humans worlds… his heart skipped a beat as he Boo's face burst to the forefront of his mind but he blinked it away quickly and reached the offending door in two long strides.
Placing one hand lightly on the handle, Sulley made to push the door closed. He hesitated for one small moment, leaning against the meagre piece of wood that separated two completely different worlds and… well, what harm could it do? He gently pulled the door towards him, opening it just enough so that his he could peer around it, and stole one glance into the human world.
For a moment, he felt as though his heart had almost stopped beating. His breath caught in his throat and not just from the stifling heat that hit him, like a warm blanket thrown over his face.
There, on the other side of the room, three little girls sat playing together. The older two laughed as they ran in circles around one another, one holding a small, red, toy spaceship and the other a space ranger action figure.
Between them, toddling unsteadily on slightly rickety floorboards, was Boo.
Sulley rubbed his eyes and blinked. No, it was definitely her; her hair was arranged in the pigtails he so fondly remembered and she wore a hair band with sparkly pom-pom antennae on it, which bobbed about when she moved. Her long t-shirt served as a dress and fell in crumpled folds around her knees. Grains of sand caught on the underside of her stripy socks.
She was pulling a cowgirl doll through the sand and looked up, her back to Sulley as the other girls called her name, beckoning her to take her cue in the game.
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"Wait Buzz! This isn't the real Jessie! It's a clone created by the evil witch Dolly to distract you!"
Bonnie frowned, thinking through this revelation as much as she indicated Buzz to do. "Hmmm... how do I know which one's the real Jessie?"
Sulley smiled fondly as Boo tipped her doll forward in some kind of elaborate bow. She looked older - it had maybe been a year or so since he'd seen her last - and, he noticed with the air of a proud parent, she was just as talkative as she'd always been, except she knew a great many more words now.
"The real Jessie wouldn't do this!" Boo and Jessie took advantage of Buzz letting down his guard and tackled him to the ground, Bonnie making Buzz gasp out a "Jessie, help me!" and having the cowgirl, led by Lilo, bravely surf in on the brim of Bonnie's discarded hat.
Suddenly Sulley felt eyes upon him and glanced up from the three girls, startled to find the blue creature, who he'd assumed to be a large plush toy, blinking curiously at him. Stitch tipped his head to the side, wondering what to make of the huge monster half protruding from Nani's store cupboard and the two creatures in the world that neither of them belonged took a moment to get the measure of one another.
No one else had seen him - no one even glanced through the rectangular gap in the opposite wall that provided a serving hatch for customers, and the surrounding voices were immersed in conversation, but Sulley knew he'd been careless. He couldn’t stay much longer and besides, he had work to do; the silence of the darkened factory still behind him beckoned, contrasting with the warmly lit room into which he was partly submerged.
Taking a furtive glance around, Sulley raised a finger to his lips. Stitch nodded slightly, closed one eye and scratched the back of his ear, his interest waning as the monster showed no threat.
Sulley sighed. It had been a miracle that he'd run into Boo at all but perhaps too much to hope for that he'd find her alone. He'd have liked to have spoken to her again but it was too risky with those other kids here.
He knew she was happy, and that was enough for him.
"'Later, Boo," he whispered.
Taking one last glance back, he finally closed the door.
Outside, Nani took a peek through the rectangular window that was the shop's serving hatch, and saw Lilo with a face lit up with a radiant joy she hadn't seen for quite some time, and Stitch bounding around between the three children who, to a passer-by, could have been friends forever.
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SQUEE. That was so cute. I really like that each girl is somewhat socially awkward around the others at first, which I wasn't expecting. But I should have been, given the girl's characters. I also love that while you wrote in the third person, we saw it from several characters viewpoints. OMG, Lilo being totally into Buzz makes SO MUCH SENSE given the fact that she's been in space and whatnot.
Crowning Moment of Awesome is when "Boo and Jessie took advantage of Buzz letting down his guard and tackled him to the ground, Bonnie making Buzz gasp out a "Jessie, help me!" and having the cowgirl, led by Lilo, bravely surf in on the brim of Bonnie's discarded hat."
Thank you so much! This was so cute! I could just hug it, it's so cute!
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Heh, I kinda figured being thrown together like that might be a tad awkward at first and Bonnie in particular seems pretty shy upon first impressions, so yeah. xD And yup, methinks Lilo would be quite taken with Buzz.
You're very welcome! <3
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