FTEC, Sunday [2/13]

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

Ellie only had one of her children with her at the clinic today. Clara had opted to play video games with her uncle. Charlie insisted on being at the clinic in the hopes of seeing a strange medical anomaly or, in her own words, "a cool injury." She was likely going to be disappointed, and Ellie hoped it remained that way.

Surprisingly, Charlie was a good worker as she helped her mom with paperwork. She also hung out with the nurses for a little while. Somehow, Ellie didn't think she would be bored.

Comments

[shes-got-fins.livejournal.com]

Melody had somehow managed to cut herself on a CD case while she was at work with her mother, but despite the best combined efforts of Ariel and Bruce Jr., the band-aids couldn't be located at the music shop, so she was entrusted with the task of watching Bruce and finding the clinic to see if they had some. So, with Bruce in tow, Melody peeked her head in and then slipped inside.

"Hi, there!" she said confidently. "Do you have any band-aids?" She held up her fingers that was rigged up with some tape and a napkin, thanks to Bruce. "Oh, and Mom asked to pick up some aspirin, too. A lot of it, she said."

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"Hey there," Ellie greeted the girl, glancing at the temporary tape and napkin bandage, oddly impressed by it. "You're in luck. We have lots of band-aids. We even have some with cool, bright colors."

And some with cartoon characters if that was more preferable.

Charlie looked on, curious about the other girl's injury. "What happened?" she asked.

[shes-got-fins.livejournal.com]

"CDs can be kind of tricky to open," Melody said, shrugging a little and lifting her finger to show the other girl the damage, as well as it could be seen with the makeshift band-aid, anyway.

"Bruce," she warned the boy with her, "don't touch anything, okay?"

[halfbatfish.livejournal.com]

"I won't," Bruce promised, but he did start scouting the perimeter of the clinic, looking over all the posters and other things of interest.

[momsaysnohawk.livejournal.com]

"That's why I have an mp3 player. Don't have to worry about CDs," Charlie said to Melody as Ellie was preparing to clean the cut. "I'm Charlie. What's your name?"

[shes-got-fins.livejournal.com]

"I'm Melody," she offered back with a smile. "That's Bruce over there; he's my little brother. And Mom works at the CD store, I guess, so that's why there were CDs. I don't know why she's working at all; she's the princess of a kingdom and doesn't usually work, but Bruce was trying to explain to me something about time travel and how she's only seventeen right now, so it's kind of weird."

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"Is she really a princess?" Charlie asked, unsure if she should believe it or not.

"I think she is," Ellie said, smiling at Melody. "Is your mom Ariel?"

Ariel was the only princess she knew.

[shes-got-fins.livejournal.com]

"She is!" Melody beamed proudly. "Do you know her?"

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"I do. She's a good friend of mine," Ellie told her as she finished cleaning the cut. She reached for the band-aids. "What color band-aid would you like?"

[shes-got-fins.livejournal.com]

"Do you have red ones?" Melody asked. "And what's your name? So I can tell Mom that you helped me and then she can send you some of the kingdom's jewels or something to thank you!"

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"If it's red you want, then red you will get," Ellie said, placing the band-aid over the wound. "My name is Ellie. And she doesn't have to repay me at all. I am always happy to help."