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Boot camp is going to kill me and then I'll come back to life and I won't even know what my life is anymore but I already don't and at least I'll be doing something more worthwhile than running a hotel for drama queens and that honestly is all that keeps me getting up at 5am every morning to prepare
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Prompt: Hill Brothers + We don't like our cousins. @missnagatsuki
“That is the last time I sit next to cousin Elba at Thanksgiving.”
“That’s right, brother. You could always sit next to Tim-oh-thy.”
“Not a snowball’s chance.”
“Then that just leaves Shaunty, and you both don’t even like her.”
“We don’t like any of our cousins, Randy.”
“I don’t know, I think Eva’s kinda alright.”
“She bought you snowman slippers. You would.”
“Hey, those are the comfiest, nicest slippers you could ever wear!”
“Real men don’t wear slippers, Randy.”
“You do if you don’t want your feet to get cold.”
“Like Patches’s paw booties?”
“You make fun now, but being able to knit booties is an important life skill. Someday, when the nuclear war happens and you can’t find electricity anywhere, you’ll be glad one of us has some good old-fashioned skills to survive the post-modern world.”
“Okay, only half of that made sense.”
“I still just want to focus on the fact that Randy had Alverta teach him how to knit because cousin Mathias convinced him a cold war or zombie apocalypse or something stupid like that was coming and he could just knit himself out of danger.”
“Don’t be ridiculous, Derrick. You can’t knit yourself out of anything - but into it, maybe.”
“He says that because he managed to knit himself into a chinese finger trap.”
“It wasn’t a finger trap, Derrick. It was a mitten.”
“Right, sorry. Finger booties.”
“Not even close.”
“No, I am. But can we get back on topic here? As I said, I’m not sitting next to cousin Aisha next holiday.”
“Next holiday is Christmas.”
“You said Elba.”
“Did I? Well, her too.”
“Which cousin is it? We only have -”
“I am not sitting next to any of them next Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines, or St. Martin King Jr. day!”
“Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a saint, and we don’t celebrate that holiday.”
“We don’t? How come I never have schoo- I’m gonna stop talking.”
“I’m gonna let it slide, because it’s Christmas, but-”
“Guys, it’s only Black Friday.”
“Randy, you’ve been blasting Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree and Frosty the Snowman since November 1st.”
“Those are excellent Christmas songs, Derrick.”
“Debateable, but in light of the holiday spirit, I myself will let that one slide.”
“Maybe in light of the holiday spirit, we can just let it all slide. I’ll sit next to Shaunty and Pete can sit next to Alverta and Derrick -”
“Not. Verena!”
“Derrick, I thought it was Elba?”
“None of them! Ever! Never again! All the cousins, all the aunts and uncles and mysteriously related relatives I don’t think are related at all!”
“Don’t talk that way about Albion. You know he’s sensitive about it.”
“And don’t even get me started on the Ever-triplets.”
“Everett, Everah, and Everlina?”
“See! Those aren’t even real names! Why do all of our cousins have weird made-up names!”
“I guess when you have ten kids and those kids have kids and their kids have kids, you run out of names pretty fast.”
“Do not blame this on Granderma and Granderpa!”
“Yeah, blame it on Uncle Aflreda-”
“Aunt Alfreda.”
“Sorry, it’s hard to keep track. Aunt Alfreda. Adopting foreign dignitaries’ offspring.”
“That is not what happened.”
“Close enough.”
“Derrick don’t encourage that stupid story-”
“Wait, it’s a lie? They’re not my cousins?”
“Don’t panic, buddy. Here.”
“Thanks, Pete. But back to what’s important - are Alphonso, Alphonsus, and Alpheus our cousins or not?”
“I don’t think any of them are. I’m not sitting next to any of them. Next holiday, I’m staying home by myself and I’m never attending another ‘family reunion’ ever again! My cheeks are bruised, my dignity is shot, I can’t go to the bathroom by myself, my lungs are broken, and my hair is purple!”
“But it does look good on you, brother.”
“I will murder you!”
I know that Bugs doesn’t find out what happened that summer. There was something more to the riots, I’m sure, but Bugs isn’t going to find out what it is that summer. It ends on a bitter sweet note, and future Bugs gives us the rest of the information, that he gained from others later on.
Now, Summer makes a good point in mentioning that just the sight of those pictures shouldn’t bring the whole town to that much violence so quickly. There wouldn’t have been that many people supporting them. So it wasn’t just the pictures, even if it seemed like it. There’s more to that story. And Gary knows it, which is why he was coming to get them. He said it was because their parents were looking for them, but I’m getting the sense that there was more than that. But it’s hard to write the explanation if I don’t know what it is.
My instinct is to make Gary gay with a crush on Bruce, but I’m not going to do that. It doesn’t fit with the story, it’s just my instinct to make everything gay.
Maybe it was because of Summer’s powers. Randy knew about them before that. And I think Gary did too. They saw the fireworks that Summer created, when he held hands with Bugs. But I’m not sure how or why they would be hidden from Bugs. I’m still missing something, but I guess I don’t need it right now.
It’s time to finish Summer’s story off, at least for that Summer. Summer wants to find out the truth, and Bugs is going to sit this one out. She isn’t really comfortable getting in any more trouble, but of course, Summer is. And Summer will. Summer wants to talk to Gary. And in the process, he’ll get in trouble.
Part of the problem is that Bill Hops needs to stay in the cops good books in order to keep doing things the way he does. And Randy Hill’s father is the Sherif.
So having Bugs at war with Randy is a bad thing for him. Which might also be why he didn’t insist on taking care of Kit after Charles Friar died, even though he felt morally obligated to. He just made the offer, and left it at that.
30 Days of Writing: 24/30
10. the photograph. (enlisted: the hill brothers)
It isn’t so much as one as it is an album in his phone.