Dossier Twenty-one

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[She appears in her fuzzy pink and white bathrobe and pajamas with a pattern of pandas on them. She's also wearing a pair of panda slippers, because really, who doesn't love panda slippers? A pair of safety goggles perch atop her head like a headband, and she's holding a pen and what looks like a clipboard with math homework attached to it. Unsurprisingly, her brother failed to make it home in time to take Henrietta to school; to make up for it, he promised she could stay with him at the lab over the weekend. It was well-meant. He wanted no harm to come to her.

But she was a curious child, and Heav & Hel Industries was far more than it seemed.]

Well, he tried, though.

Comments

[contract_star]

[fjkafkdlajfkd.] I'm sorry, Henrietta...

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Glompcling] It's okay!

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[Little did Henrietta know that this very night, the overseers of Heav & Hell Industries were on the premises...]

Ah, Henrietta.

Nice slippers.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Hello, sir. Are you working late too?

[contract_star]

Are you sure? Um...you don't mind the lab?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[...oh. This again.]

Er...yeah. Must be, I suppose. What are you doing around here?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[His reaction throws her slightly] Um... around here?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

...never mind. [He shakes his head. Better not try understanding it, it never works :|]

What's the voice been telling you, then?

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Henrietta! Are you sick? Why're you in your pyjamas?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Signore Crowley? [Blinks, pressing a finger to her lips. Where did that come from?]

Um... well, just that Hei got caught up in his research again.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it's great.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Eh? Oh no! I'm all right.

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Didn't you get dressed today? Or are you going to bed early?

[Frownyface! Concerned!Dorothy is concerned.]

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Daw] Oh no, I got dressed, and it's actually very late. I'm staying with my brother at his lab tonight.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[a raised eyebrow] Signore?

...ah, of course. Might've known. It's had you right from the start, hasn't it?

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Oh, well that's very nice. I'll never understand how time works around here, I'm sure of it.

I guess you like Pandas, huh?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Had... [Blink. She reaches up and touches the goggles in surprise.] Ah... what's going on?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Blush] I do. Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Did you know almost all they eat is bamboo, it's ninety-nine percent of what they eat, but sometimes they eat small rodents too?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[a surprised pause] Henrietta?

How many siblings have you got?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Siblings? I don't have any siblings. That voice said that Chris was my brother, but...

[Pause. Blink.] Chris... he is my brother, isn't he?

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

I didn't know pandas ate meat at all! See, you can be as old as I am and still learn something you don't know. You should always try to learn at least one new thing every day, Henrietta, it makes life so much more interesting!

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[Crowley starts to grin] There's a—

[And it vanishes, just as quickly]

Right. Yeah.

[contract_star]

Oh...good. [Hei hates labs but he can't exactly say that. The fact that he can't really leave this one just puts him even more on edge.]

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

He... no... is he? [kdajs what]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[Crowley realizes that she's trying to fight it] No, he isn't. You haven't any siblings, Henrietta. The...narrator, whatever it is, is affecting your mind.