A Different Kind of Doorbell // Felicity

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So not everyone could see her... le sigh. Oh well! At least she had other lares. Lares like Nick and Kaylee. And like so many others around. She didn't know that many people had decided to stay here. The place was that awesome? They were great! Well... she had only met Nick and Kaylee as other lars, but if the others were as nice as them, then they were all great! At least they could see her all the time. Them, and a couple of people around camp could see her. She hadn't exactly memorized all of them yet. However, she did know that people who were relatives of Mrs. Trivia, Sir Pluto, and Sir Mors could see her. Meghan hadn't met all of them yet, but she really wanted to. So far, she had met Mrs. Trivia and Lilith. Lilith was so nice. She was a grand-daughter of Apollo, who was apparently god of the arts and pretty things. And her voice was so pretty! Singing as art. Yes. She did have singing lessons in her school. She didn't take them, but one of her friends had. Lilith said that she sang every day in the forest. Meg would definitely go back! Besides, it was also a good chance for her to meet other spirits and lars that were floating around.

This afternoon though, her goal was to get to meet some of the living. After asking another spirit about Mrs. Trivia, Sir Pluto, and Sir Mors, her brain managed to retain a name: Felicity Weingarten. The other spirit had said that Felicity was a daughter of Sir Pluto and that she had done a few things during the last war that they didn't want to tell someone her age. No one ever told her anything explicit. Pout, pout. She was six. She could handle it! Then she remembered, before sending her up to the living, Pluto had told her that she could seek out any of his kin and other lars for help. So she could go visit Felicity! She had Nick and Kaylee if she had any questions, but Felicity would be able to see her, and Meg wanted another new friend who could. Besides, she'd probably think of a bajillion questions once she got there. She just couldn't think of any at the moment. After asking Nick if she could go, she drifted towards the apartment building. She paused a few places, trying to remember which way to go. A couple of heads turned, but as soon as she moved again, they shook their heads and moved on with what they were doing. Meg paid no notice.

Finally, she was infront of an apartment. She paused, tilting her head. Habit took over and she knocked; only to have her small fist go straight through the door. Whoops. So.... tactic two. Besides, going into someone's house without permission wasn't nice. Even if she could do it easily: all she had to do was move straight forward and her body would phase through. She still thought the concept was kinda odd. Odd and cool at the same. Like a superpower! Oh, right. Wanted to visit Miss Felicity. Didn't want to come in when she wasn't invited. So, she filled her small lungs with air. 

"MISS FELICITY ARE YOU HOME?!"

OOC: Hope this is okay! ^^ Ask if you want any changes
IC: 541

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Writers block had to have been a curse. Seriously, she had writing assignments piling up. First her job wanted her most recent article. And it was stupid, they wanted to know a first hand experience of what life was like captive in that hell on earth place Felicity was in. Needless to say she was procrastinating on that one for countless reasons. Screw it if she got fired for being late on one blasted article or if they took her off print for some time. It was a horrible time and she didn't really enjoy going down memory lane for old geezers in New Rome to read about. And then her classes. They wanted essays. It wouldn't be too bad if she was able to pick the topic or something but no, her journalism class wanted her to compare and contrast two news article, one from a mortal newspaper and the other from the New Rome newspaper and discuss how despite them being from two different worlds they pretty much discuss the same thing. It was a cruel paper and the stinking professor wanted six to eight pages! He was insane. Definitely not a son of Ceres if he enjoyed wasting paper on something pointless.

Felicity would much rather be hanging out with people rather than sitting in front of a blank paper. But Remus was doing whatever Praetors do best in the Principia and she could bother Ed, but in all honesty she felt she did that enough. He probably deserved a Felicity free day or days. She just didn't hope that her sudden absence from bugging him didn't make him think she had disappeared again and cause him to do something stupid again. She could try to say Hi to Rhia, but it was still a very recent renewed, not really renewed since it didn't exist before, friendship that Felicity didn't want to be bugging her. Especially since she had a kid to deal with. And since it was the middle of the day all her friends in the legion were training and Logan was probably working in the mortal world. She could bug Apollo or Discordia but eh, she just didn't feel like being lame around an immortal right now. Felicity started spinning in her office chair. "I am so bored, it's not even funny." She muttered to nobody.

Suddenly the quietness of her apartment was interrupted by the loud voice of what sounded like a little girl. The shock made Felicity jump in her chair and stop her spinning as she just stared at the door. She got up and made her way over to the door, opening it to a little lar, little not being an understatement, this girl was tiny, probably a toddler or a very young kid. Did Felicity use to be that short when she was younger? Off topic. "Um, yeah, I'm home. If you don't mind me asking, who are you?" Seriously it wasn't every day some little kid came to your apartment, let alone a little kid lar. Unless that dead had some form of girl scouts and this girl was going door to door selling cookies, which while Felicity wouldn't mind, she figured that that wouldn't explain why the girl knew her name.

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notes: hehe this will be fun

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Meg had still been trying to write legibly at school. She also had a lot of spelling mistakes. Ms. Morgano would circle her words and rewrite them and then write a note to her at the end. She could write about what ever she wanted, so she usually wrote about where her dad was going on business trips and what Edmund had made her. She'd write about playdates and playing on the playground after school ended. About playing pirate and transportation and Godzilla. About watching movies and baking plain birthday cakes. She'd learn how to show that one number was bigger than another and how to add them. She'd sing her address and write a letter to her Mom on Mother's Day. After school, on some days, she'd have a piano lesson, or go ice skating. Or at least try to. She'd hold onto the wall and walk baby steps with her dad. She'd do her homework: math, sometimes science, reading, and sometimes social studies. She'd color, organize "important papers", and watch PBS Kids. In short, her life was normal. Not even a monster. They all went for Ed instead. He'd get into a lot of trouble, and Meg wouldn't realize it until her mom was only driving her to school and not Ed. No wonder he had been sad. He had to make friends all over again! Although, he had said people in his class weren't very nice... At least she didn't need to move schools and make new friends. One of them actually lived down the street from her. They actually all lived close to her.

Speaking of friends, Lilith had said that Felicity was one of Ed's. It was nice to know that he had friends again. He never went to play with them after school... or talked about them. Lilith said he had been quiet, but from Meg remembered, Ed talked quite a lot. Or more... she wasn't sure how much quiet she meant. Maybe she'd understand once she saw him. But still, most people, gods, and lars didn't think it was a good idea to just pop up near him. He never did like surprises. So, even though she wanted to see him, she'd wait. Besides, it was one of her rules that she had to not go until they said she could. So, Meg'd see Felicity instead! She grinned as she heard the door open. Wow, she was tall. So was Nick. And Kaylee. And Lilith. And... everyone. Everyone was taller than her. Maybe she was just short. Her mom said she'd grow, but she wasn't growing fast enough! She was still a bit shorter than everyone in her class. Then again... she was dead, so no more growing. "You opened the door! That means you're home!" she giggled. "My name's Meg! Miss Lilith and Mr. Gene told me about you and where I could find you and I found you. I didn't get lost. Do you guys do maps? Your dad's Mr. Pluto, right? He said I could come find you for questions but I already have Mr. Nick and Miss. Kaylee. So I wanted to visit you! And I remembered to ask permission!" Yes. She remembered this time. She'd remember to follow the rules from now on. She smiled up at the older girl. She kind of looked like her mom. A little. Maybe it was the brown hair.

OOC: Hehe yes!
unlike her brother, she will talk your ear off AND will admit to everything xD
IC: 567

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Wow this little girl could talk. But she said she knew a few people that Felicity was familiar with so it's not like the little lar was here to cause her trouble. Though the mention of her father did make her raise an eyebrow. What was her father thinking, just letting little lar girls run, could they run, er, float everywhere. But like Felicity thought before, she was probably harmless. After all, she seemed to know manners. Yet, what did one do in this situation? Not that she wasn't happy for the distraction of all the hard work she was doing with procrastination, just who even was the girl?

"Touche, twerp. And yes, my dad is Pluto. I don't know if there are maps, I've never seen one. But hey, you know me and I don't know you. I hardly think thats fair. Who am I suppose to be saying hi to?" Felicity said with a slight laugh as she smiled at the lar. There was something familiar about her. She couldn't put her finger on it. On one hand the little girls personality reminded of Felicity when she was younger, minus all the manners bit though. But there was just something about her that was nagging at her that she couldn't quite put her finger on. Oh well, it probably didn't even matter. She had no idea who the lar even was. For all Felicity knew this could have been a girl who died years ago, maybe even before Felicity was even born. It wouldn't be the first time she met a lar like that. It was off at first but it wasn't totally impossible either.

Though, the lar did come all this way to say hi, the least Felicity could do would be to invite her in. She couldn't very well offer food, as far as she knew lars didn't eat, or they couldn't even if they wanted to. Man, that must suck about dying, not being able to eat anymore. Felicity would die in the afterlife without having available pizza. That was pretty much the best food on Earth in her opinion. Anyways, Felicity opened the door and stepped out of the way. "Here, you can come in." Felicity said directly after her previous statement. There, she could show that even she knew how to use manners, she just choose not to show them to some people.

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words: 409
notes: sorry it's a lot shorter T_T

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Few people in life were able to completely keep up with her mouth. Most proficient were her parents and brother (probably because they lived with her). Her mom had told her to slow down, so she had tried, but still, other older people had to tell her to repeat things. She used to be quieter in school, only by just a bit. There, she learned that other people needed to talk too. So, she’d cut herself short sometimes. Or save her questions for later. Although, sometimes that wouldn’t work since she’d forget her question. But still, it was nice talking to people and learning new things about them. She tried remembering everything, but there was only so much she could retain. Normally the constrains became their name and maybe what they played for that day. It had been different in the under world. They had time on their hands. A lot of it. She heard stories over and over until she memorized them. She asked all her questions until each one was answered. Most people had been so nice. So many interesting stories in the world! They didn't even all live in the United States! Stories and listening filled her days, and she was happy. The best... (or, well, it was sad too) was when someone else of her age came, and then she'd finally have a playmate. Then again, they usually went right on line and didn't stay long. But still... it was nice to have someone the same age range... 

"Twerp?" she asked in confusion, titling her head. Twerp... hmm... Sounded like twinkie or twin. She gave a nod. "I found the right person! You don't? This place is big... don't people get lost?" The biggest thing that Meg had ever been in had been an airport. That had been ginormous! At least she had her parents with her then, or else she would've gotten really lost. Getting lost was scary. It had happened to her once in a store. She didn't need to worry about getting lost in school though, she had her teachers and line leaders! At Felicity's last question she gave a slight giggle. "I told you, my name's Meghan. But you can call me Meg. Everyone does." Except her brother. He called her May for some reason. 

With Felicity's permission, Meg drifted through the door. "I haven't been indoors in a long time," she stated matter of factly, looking around. "Do you live here by yourself?" she asked, titling her head.

OOC: All good
IC: 420

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Okay so the fact that she was disturbed from her daily boredom to a little kid waiting at the door and then her suddent rambling got her off guard and she did forget to actually remember the little kids name when she first said it. Not exactly her fault, okay, kind of was. But still, couldn't blame her too badly. But Felicity shook her head. "Not that I know of. Everyone seems to know their way around fairly well."

She closed the door once the girl drifted through. No point in heating the hallway. Geesh, sounded like something her mom would yell at her when she forgot to close the door when she was younger and just wanted to run outside and see the first snowfall of the season. Oh well, guess it was another sign she was getting old. Not like there wasn't enough of those already. Seriously, when did she grow up? At the question Felicity had to think for a moment. "I guess I do. But my fiancee has a key too so he can come by whenever he wants but yeah, for the most part I'm here by myself. Though I try to kidnap my friends to spend time with me." Which reminded her to make a mental to try to bother Ed later. She found a cook book in the library and wanted to try it out. Ed could help out and then be the guinea pig for her not the greatest cooking skills. Either way it would let them both just have fun and she figured he at least needed more of it otherwise his face would probably freeze up with that bothersome frown of his. He had a good smile, or semi-smile, whatever, he needed to show it off more often. At least in her opinion as his very best friend.

"But I hope the place isn't too bad, since it's your first time being inside in awhile." Felicity quickly added. She wondered briefly why that was? Didn't the Underworld have places for the dead to reside in? She wasn't actually all the sure what happened at the gate or in some of the places. She mostly went to the palace or Cerberus nowadays. That big three headed puppy tried to be menacing but seriously, get his favorite scratch spot and he'll become your best friend instantly. She hated that the goofball had such a bad name and is only know to be intimidating. He wasn't, only to those who needed to be intimidated.

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words: 428
notes: sorry about that wait