The Park [Monday afternoon]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

So...bribing gremlins with shiny pennies hadn't worked.

At all.

And now Luke--who thought he was a singing nun named Fraulein Maria--was twirling around in the park, singing to mountains that clearly weren't there.

"The hills are alive...."

Artoo was hiding behind a tree and recording the entire thing. He was afraid who Luke might think he was if he rolled too close. He wasn't playing drums or being a tiger for anyone this time.

[OOC: Yes, I'm out of my mind.]

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[wannabehunter]

Unfortunately, Jo saw Luke before Artoo, and so wasn't as on her guard as she might have been.

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Well, this was new. Luke was singing and dancing in the park. Gavin had to approach when he saw that. Maybe Luke had an X-Wing.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Liesl!" Maria trilled. "There you are. You weren't out looking for Rolf again, were you? The Captain would never approve."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Captain!" Maria said, clasping her hands to the breasts she didn't have. "How are you? The children are all up cleaning their rooms!"

[wannabehunter]

Oh crap. "Liesl? Rolf? The Captain?"

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Captain?" Gavin repeated, looking confused. "Did Commander Antilles promote me? Wait, children? Did they come back?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber gawked at the boy who was singing and dancing in the park, completely amused.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"You haven't been getting into the schnapps, have you?" Maria asked, frowning. "Where are your brothers and sisters? It's time for you to learn how to sing!"

That didn't sound like a terrible idea at all, no.

[wannabehunter]

"They're around, somewhere," Jo said, looking for Artoo. "Sing?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Your children, Captain," Maria said. "Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Brigitta, Marta, Gretl and..." she trailed off, frowning, "the other boy."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin's eyes went huge.

"I...where did all those kids come from?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Louisa!" Maria trilled. "Have you been practicing your do-re-mi's?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Artoo let out a quiet little beep from behind a tree.

"Of course, sing," Maria said. "We want to have something planned when you meet the Baroness, don't we?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I'm from the abbey, I'm sure I wouldn't know," Maria sniffed disapprovingly.

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I don't have this many kids," Gavin said, looking at the kids that weren't there. "They're not mine."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Louisa?" she grinned. "My what?" Unfortunately for Amber, she hadn't yet experienced the afflictions from gremlin bites so she just thought this guy was funny, if not a little out there.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata paused and couldn't help but stare at the boy. She... supposed... if this was the way he had fun that she shouldn't judge but...

Oh odd.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka grinned at Luke. "You're still here! Good! I was afraid you'd left the island already!"

Before he left for good, he HAD to download all the pictures and video out of his robot.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Well for heaven's sake don't tell them that," Maria hissed. "It'll break their hearts. Bad enough you're getting remarried to that Baroness."

She clasped her hands over her mouth, horrified. She shouldn't say such things about the Baroness.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"You're do-re-mi's," Maria repeated, sitting down on the ground and fluffing out the skirt she wasn't wearing, then reached for the guitar that wasn't there.

"Do, a deer, a female deer..." she sang. "Now you."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Brigitta!" Maria sang out. "You're just in time for singing practice!"

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin blinked at Luke.

And then slowly caught on. He was ashamed it'd taken him this long to realize Luke had been the lucky recipient of a gremlin bite.

"What's wrong with the Baroness?" Gavin asked. "She sounds kinda badass."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Of course I'm here, I'm your governess, Friedrich," Maria scolded. "Where else would I be?" She frowned. "Where is the outfit I made for you?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She glanced automatically behind her, but there was no one else there that the boy could be talking to. "S-singing practice?"

And her name wasn't...

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

If you like them blond and fake, Maria thought uncharitably to herself.

"She certainly is lovely," she said aloud, "but she's not exactly cut out to be a mother for eight children."