[Muse 'Verse] "The Family Upstairs"
Title: “The Family Upstairs”
Author: darkjediprinces
Fandom: Muse ‘verse
Genre: Erm… comedy?
Prompt: Song Prompts #49: “The Man Upstairs”
Rating: R
Warnings: Colourful language (including the F-bomb) and implications of violence.
Word Count: 571
Characters: Millennia Muses, darkjediprinces, and DJP's upstairs neighbours
Summary: DJP’s getting REALLY sick of the upstairs neighbours.
Author’s Notes: …Can you TELL I’m frustrated? *veinpop*
Kinda cracky.
Disclaimers: Nup. Dun own nothing.
“The Family Upstairs”
“The guy upstairs is such a freak
For five days now I’ve had a leak
What does he do up there?
All day long, he sleeps all day
Then he goes out and comes home in the most intoxicated way
As far as I can tell, he juggles bowling balls
But he’s not good at it
He moves his furniture
And at six AM he pulls out the vacuum cleaner to suck his room…”
- “The Man Upstairs”, Voltaire
A mysterious thumping noise could be heard all throughout Millennia. And it was annoying the heck out of both Kat and the Muses. The first to complain was Grim. (He always complains.)
“What de Hell is dat noise?” He grumbled, letting out a snarling noise.
“It’s Katherine’s upstairs neighbours,” Ryou answered, sounding bored. Se had long since learned to tune the noise out, despite the fact that Kat had only lived in the apartment for three weeks.
“What the Hell are they doing up there?” Yami-sama then commented, a few days later, when the noise had started to annoy him too.
“They have children.”
“So they’re just…stomping around up there?”
“It would seem so.”
“…The hell is wrong with those people.”
“That’s what Katherine’s saying.”
A few more days later, Tozo finally emerged from the Dark Corridors to complain. They knew things had gone to the dogs then.
“Get that fucking noise to stop!” Tozo screamed. “I though the Wench said she was going to file a noise complaint or something.”
Ryou sighed. “She did. They ignored it.”
“Then let’s do something about it,” Tozo growled.
“For once, I agree,” Grim added.
“Best for our sanity and hers.”
“Tune it out,” Ryou snapped.
“You’re the only one who can,” FullMetal noted. “That noise is damned annoying.”
A scream erupted in the corridors. “I CAN’T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE!”
It was Kat. She’d finally cracked.
“Her head’s going to explode,” ChimeraBoi noted.
Ryou sighed once more. “Let’s go.”
* * *
A hollow knock, like bones against wood, sounded on the door of 223B and the mother rose to answer it. Needless to say, she was quite shocked to find a group of sixteen standing there, with Kat at its head, a vein twitching somewhere on her forehead, her thin, black-rimmed glasses askew, dyed-red hair disheveled.
“Stop it with the stomping around,” she growled.
“…Pardon?”
“If you want to let your fucking kids run and stomp around TAKE IT OUTSIDE, lady,” Kat screamed, not caring that she was swearing around children.
“And if I don’t? They’re children.”
The vein twitched more. “Then you’ll get the wrath of Them.” She jabbed a thumb back at her muses. Grim gave the woman a threatening, manic grin and raised his scythe.
The woman gulped. “Outside. Right.”
“Excellent.” Kat turned to leave. “Incidentally, you are on a second floor apartment, directly above another flat-MINE. I’m a college student taking a physics course, Philosophy, and a martial art that requires the utmost concentration during practice. I didn’t want to have to confront you directly, but you left me no choice by ignoring the noise complaint. If this keeps up, I will do everything in my power to get you evicted. Possibly worse.” At these words she cast a meaningful glance at the gathered muses.
“…All those people can’t live in your apartment.”
“Oh no. They’re muses. They live in my head. But everything that I hear, they hear, and it was driving them mad. As well as me. We have an accord then? No more stomping around.”
The woman just stared at her. Kat mimicked Grim’s manic grin, then left, slamming the door behind her.
“I would have quite liked to kill dem,” Grim muttered.
“Sorry Grim, that’s on the list of the Things I Must Not Do,” Kat said, smirking a little, though she inwardly sympathized with the desire. This must never become like “The Man Upstairs”, she thought.
Author: darkjediprinces
Fandom: Muse ‘verse
Genre: Erm… comedy?
Prompt: Song Prompts #49: “The Man Upstairs”
Rating: R
Warnings: Colourful language (including the F-bomb) and implications of violence.
Word Count: 571
Characters: Millennia Muses, darkjediprinces, and DJP's upstairs neighbours
Summary: DJP’s getting REALLY sick of the upstairs neighbours.
Author’s Notes: …Can you TELL I’m frustrated? *veinpop*
Kinda cracky.
Disclaimers: Nup. Dun own nothing.
“The Family Upstairs”
“The guy upstairs is such a freak
For five days now I’ve had a leak
What does he do up there?
All day long, he sleeps all day
Then he goes out and comes home in the most intoxicated way
As far as I can tell, he juggles bowling balls
But he’s not good at it
He moves his furniture
And at six AM he pulls out the vacuum cleaner to suck his room…”
- “The Man Upstairs”, Voltaire
A mysterious thumping noise could be heard all throughout Millennia. And it was annoying the heck out of both Kat and the Muses. The first to complain was Grim. (He always complains.)
“What de Hell is dat noise?” He grumbled, letting out a snarling noise.
“It’s Katherine’s upstairs neighbours,” Ryou answered, sounding bored. Se had long since learned to tune the noise out, despite the fact that Kat had only lived in the apartment for three weeks.
“What the Hell are they doing up there?” Yami-sama then commented, a few days later, when the noise had started to annoy him too.
“They have children.”
“So they’re just…stomping around up there?”
“It would seem so.”
“…The hell is wrong with those people.”
“That’s what Katherine’s saying.”
A few more days later, Tozo finally emerged from the Dark Corridors to complain. They knew things had gone to the dogs then.
“Get that fucking noise to stop!” Tozo screamed. “I though the Wench said she was going to file a noise complaint or something.”
Ryou sighed. “She did. They ignored it.”
“Then let’s do something about it,” Tozo growled.
“For once, I agree,” Grim added.
“Best for our sanity and hers.”
“Tune it out,” Ryou snapped.
“You’re the only one who can,” FullMetal noted. “That noise is damned annoying.”
A scream erupted in the corridors. “I CAN’T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE!”
It was Kat. She’d finally cracked.
“Her head’s going to explode,” ChimeraBoi noted.
Ryou sighed once more. “Let’s go.”
* * *
A hollow knock, like bones against wood, sounded on the door of 223B and the mother rose to answer it. Needless to say, she was quite shocked to find a group of sixteen standing there, with Kat at its head, a vein twitching somewhere on her forehead, her thin, black-rimmed glasses askew, dyed-red hair disheveled.
“Stop it with the stomping around,” she growled.
“…Pardon?”
“If you want to let your fucking kids run and stomp around TAKE IT OUTSIDE, lady,” Kat screamed, not caring that she was swearing around children.
“And if I don’t? They’re children.”
The vein twitched more. “Then you’ll get the wrath of Them.” She jabbed a thumb back at her muses. Grim gave the woman a threatening, manic grin and raised his scythe.
The woman gulped. “Outside. Right.”
“Excellent.” Kat turned to leave. “Incidentally, you are on a second floor apartment, directly above another flat-MINE. I’m a college student taking a physics course, Philosophy, and a martial art that requires the utmost concentration during practice. I didn’t want to have to confront you directly, but you left me no choice by ignoring the noise complaint. If this keeps up, I will do everything in my power to get you evicted. Possibly worse.” At these words she cast a meaningful glance at the gathered muses.
“…All those people can’t live in your apartment.”
“Oh no. They’re muses. They live in my head. But everything that I hear, they hear, and it was driving them mad. As well as me. We have an accord then? No more stomping around.”
The woman just stared at her. Kat mimicked Grim’s manic grin, then left, slamming the door behind her.
“I would have quite liked to kill dem,” Grim muttered.
“Sorry Grim, that’s on the list of the Things I Must Not Do,” Kat said, smirking a little, though she inwardly sympathized with the desire. This must never become like “The Man Upstairs”, she thought.