Adventure Sisters (oneshot)
Relationship: Bloom & Roxy (gen)
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Tags: Slice of Life, Comedy, Adventure, Babysitting, Bloom meets Roxy before Alfea, and they encounter many shenanigans, feat. Artu the escape artist, and Klaus the long-suffering
Summary: In hindsight, Bloom should have asked more questions before agreeing to babysit a seven-year-old with a criminal record involving amphibians.
Or, lying on your resume can result in fun and profit.
EXCERPT:
"Are you the new babysitter?"
"Yep. I’m Bloom."
The girl’s eyes narrowed slightly. "The last one quit—”
"Roxy," Klaus warned, from the kitchen.
"—because I put a frog in her purse."
"It was one small frog,” Klaus said to Bloom, then turned to Roxy. “And we have discussed this at length," Klaus called. "It was a very small frog," Roxy agreed, looking at Bloom to see how she’d take it. "I like frogs," said Bloom.
Roxy considered her with a hard stare. Then she lowered the plastic sword. "Okay. You can stay. For now."
Klaus reappeared holding a sticky note, which he pressed into Bloom’s hand. It was dense with small handwriting: a column of phone numbers labeled in shorthand, a note about the snack shelf, something underlined twice.
"Emergency numbers on there. Snacks are in the pantry, second shelf—nothing with red dye, she goes completely feral, learnt that one the hard way. If I’m late: Bedtime is eight but it’s more of a—it’s aspirational. She knows where her pajamas are." He grabbed his jacket from the hook by the door. He had the jacket half on and was still talking. "The TV remote is on the bookshelf, not the coffee table, because last time it ended up in the sofa cushions. If she asks to go to the park, the park is two blocks left, there are ducks there, she will want to feed them and we do not have bread so just tell her the ducks are on a diet."
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