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just another day at work -- rp for cantbewithhim

Feb 22, 2009 01:15

The sign, reading "Riverton Toy Garden" in bright primary colored block lettering, outside the store swung wildly in the wind. Inside, the walls were green and the shelves filled with whirring, twirling and buzzing toys. A train set dominated one corner of the store, a puppet rack another. Costumes of all styles and sizes lined one wall, giving ( Read more... )

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have dinosaur icon with your rethread. you know you wanted it. cantbewithhim February 22 2009, 23:27:43 UTC

He chuckles, nodding along. "Is that what I am then? Another kid t'entertain?"

I did! Thanks. imthedeadone February 22 2009, 23:29:40 UTC

"Hey. Do not say that like it's a bad thing." Fred waggles a finger at Ennis. "Kids are awesome. Do you want to see the puppets?"

Re: I did! Thanks. cantbewithhim February 22 2009, 23:30:59 UTC

"Kids are... awesome," he agrees, though with an unfamiliar word to his pallet. "Puppets? Oh, uh. Sure."

imthedeadone February 22 2009, 23:33:12 UTC

Fred just hunches his shoulders as he grins, and trots over to the puppet display a few feet away. It's a huge rack, holding mostly cloth puppets of all shapes, sizes and styles. A big sparkly green dragon crowns the many limbed coat rack, but Fred ignores it and, instead, pulls a wooly sheep out from amongst its comrades. "Baa."

cantbewithhim February 22 2009, 23:35:48 UTC

He snorts out a laugh, reaching for the shepherd puppet.

"This sure does bring back memories."

imthedeadone February 22 2009, 23:39:45 UTC

Fred sticks his hand into the sheep, muttering to himself, "Although really it's more of a bleaaat."

He glances up at Ennis, smiling at the other man indulges. "Yeah? You liked puppets as a kid, or what?"

From another corner of the store, some of Fred's co-workers whoop loudly as they score or win or something on the Wii.

cantbewithhim February 22 2009, 23:42:36 UTC

Ennis doesn't seem to notice the Wii players, bringing the shepherd puppet to face the sheep.

"Now, don' go runnin' off on me again," he speaks for his little puppet, avoiding the question strategically.

imthedeadone February 22 2009, 23:45:30 UTC

Ennis is flabbergasted again. Merlin, if his sibs could see him right now? NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.

Then he laughs, loudly, before abruptly turning the sound into a whiny bleat. "Baaa. Juuuust waaanted an adven-baaaa-truuure." Fred's sheep gallops along in the air, away from the shephard puppet and toward freedom!!

this is so ludicrous XD cantbewithhim February 23 2009, 00:18:51 UTC

Ennis shakes his head, putting the shepherd's hands on his hips. "Sheep. Can't tell 'em nothin'."

olol imthedeadone February 23 2009, 04:16:04 UTC

Fred shrugs, agreeing in his normal voice, "Tell me about it. Pains in the arse, every one of them."

Continuing in the bleaty sheep voice, Fred's hand complained, "Heeyyy. Baaa. I don't appre-baaa-ciate thaaaat."

Fred's lips are twitching and he seems to be having more fun than a grown man should, whilst playing with puppets.

;D cantbewithhim February 23 2009, 15:07:43 UTC

"You wouldn' know a sheep if it bit'cha," he points out, giving Fred his best orly? look.

Then in wee shepherd voice, "Don't give a lick if y'appreciate it, ya damn ungrateful thing."

Re: ;D imthedeadone February 23 2009, 15:14:53 UTC

Fred widens his eyes, looking pained. "Oi. I might. I have more wool sweaters than you even knew existed." Well, he does. Back home. All with a big fat "F" on them. And a few with "G". Well, probably more with "G," to be honest.

His sheep merely bleats, hiding amongst the puppet rack, behind a moose and a unicorn.

"Think there's a shepherdess in there somewhere, but it's more the Little Bo Peep kind, less the realistic bit. Unless... that is how shepherdesses dress." Fred looks thoughtful.

Fred's sheep baas, "Youuuu're an iiidiiiot."

"Oi!"

cantbewithhim February 23 2009, 15:28:44 UTC

Ennis is startled into a laugh, a real, hearty thing that almost causes him to drop his puppet.

"Seems yer sheep got one up on ya there."

imthedeadone February 23 2009, 16:19:52 UTC

Looking incredibly pleased with himself, Fred shakes his head at the sheep, then shrugs at Ennis. "Guess that's why you don't feel any sorts of remorse for, well, herding them around. 'Cause they're mean, stupid things."

The sheep bleats. Fred's not too bad at ventriloquism, really. Never hurt, growing up, to be able to make it sound as if his sister said something mean.

cantbewithhim February 23 2009, 17:05:43 UTC

"When we were up on that damn mountain, Jack wanted t'eat one of 'em. I shot us an elk, in the end." He says it like he's musing; without noticing his own slip.

imthedeadone February 23 2009, 17:19:20 UTC

Fred tilts his head to the side, slightly, thoughtfully. Second time or so he's heard mention of Jack, with almost no explanation of who this man was. But as much as Fred wanted to pry, it probably wasn't too important. Just a friend or something. "Never had elk, myself. Is it better than sheep? Mutton. Whatever." He props the sheep back up on the rack, but not before tweaking its nose (eliciting another angry bleat from the thing).

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