cisskabob

[Previously OTC 23.1: What scares you? Also for muse_shuffle June, Disk 1, Track 1: White Chalk, by PJ Harvey. Set significantly into the future. Characters used with love, if not permission.]

Dorset's cliffs meet at the sea
Where I walked
(Our unborn child in me)
White chalk
(Poor scattered land)


It's early June and Gotham is muggy. Hot and muggy, and Cissie still has four weeks before the baby is born. Even with air conditioning, sleep is almost impossible between the heat and being completely incapable of finding a comfortable position. It is nearly four am, and Tim is not home yet. It is later than usual, but not so much later that Cissie is especially concerned. Not any more than she usually is when he goes out, anyway. Besides, his side of the bed is currently occupied by a gray cat and a just-shy-of-four year old. Sadie's caught some kind of summer flu, and it's just easier for Cissie to care for her if she is in the same room.

( Sadie has finally fallen asleep, and Cissie is close to following her when the phone rings. )

Make a list of people you've wanted to be
-Speedy
-Arrowette
-Queen of Madagascar (...I was four. We had an atlas.)
-Duchess of France (I hadn't heard about the Revolution! ...Or how the feudal system worked.)
-Prime Minister of Pennsylvania
-A prima ballerina
-Nadia Comaneci
-Fairy princess
-Pirate
-Joan of Arc (...until I found out she died. That sucked.)
-Kristy Yamaguchi
-Fred. Like, from Once Upon a Mattress.
-School bus driver (I don't even know)
-An archer, duh
-Robin Hood, specifically (my mother? Go in for gender stereotypes? Are you kidding?)


4. Make a list of places you'll never return to
-Those woods
-Arrowette

I like my song of the month!

( ♥ )

And oh, I'll play this one too!

1) Go [HERE] to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 100. DO THIS FIRST.

2) Then I will answer the corresponding questions from [HERE].


I just might be slow. Because--BAKERY! ♥

Tiiiiiiiim!

( These made me think of you. )

And in other news, I hate it here and when can we get that apartment? Also, Jason got to see my prom dress before you did! :( And he still won't let me get him an air mattress and the other girls are still harassing him. And I don't want to have a stalker anymore! And I'm whining!! SIGH.

1. Make a list of people who have helped you:

-Tim
-Roy
-Kon
-Bart
-Dick
-Marcy
-Cassie
-Anita
-Greta
-Traya
-My coach
-A ton of people I'm forgetting
-...Mom

2. Make a list of people who you would want to be stuck on a deserted island with:

-Tim.
-I suppose I should list other people, but only if Tim's there too.

3. Make a list of places you hate going to:

-DHS and my social worker's; no more going there, though!
-Hospitals
-The dentist
-Anywhere I might run into Kevin
-My agent's
-Anita's, when Mom's there, because she's so much better with the twins and Anita than she was with me

W1ndrBoy003: Hey Cissie
MissCiss28: Hi handsome!
W1ndrBoy003: How are you, beautiful?
W1ndrBoy003: I have some good news!
MissCiss28: I'm all right. Oh, what's up?
W1ndrBoy003: I'll tell you in person. I'm almost at St. Elias'.
MissCiss28: Really? Wait, how?
W1ndrBoy003: I'm cured. It's a miracle. That's part of what I wanted to talk about.
MissCiss28: ...what?

( In which the Tims play an April Fools' prank! )

Make a list of situations you avoid:

1) Fighting with Tim
2) Fighting with Mom
3) Fighting with Roy

(...I'm sensing a theme.)

4) Watching martial arts--or zombie--movies with Tim (sorry, babe)
5) Cassie in a bad mood
6) Babysitting Anita's parents by myself (ack!)
7) Trying to take a shower at 7 am when half the other girls want one too
8) Chinese food night in the cafeteria (and normally I love Chinese food)
9) Ollie. The Discussion about Ollie. Meeting Ollie. Dealing with THAT.
10) ...Losing my temper with certain people (which I avoid by--avoiding them. Go me!)
11) Heroing situations, if possible. (I quit.)
12) Meetings with my agent (all he cares about is the money. Ugh.)

Cissie had spent the last several days at Roy's, lying low and trying to put on a good front for Lian's benefit. She didn't like worrying Roy, Dick and Lian, but she just wasn't up for seeing other people, or pretending for her classmates--she didn't think she could explain what was wrong, and she knew people would ask. So she let them make excuses for her to miss school and hid in her room or played with Lian until Thursday.

She had agreed to participate in an archery competition/exhibition with other professional archers, and even if being in public was the last thing she wanted to do right now, she had made a promise and had to keep it. So she went, and competed.

( And then everything went to Hell. )

[OOC: In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, mrsarcastic003 and oracle_knows were my brainstormers and shananagin offered to help with the writing--Jonathan is all hers! Thanks, everyone! ♥]

Ten Random Facts about Cissie King-Jones:

1) My full legal name is Suzanne Cecilia King-Jones, but I haven’t been called that--ever. I’m Cissie.
2) My dad died of shellfish poisoning when I was five.
3) I was home schooled until I was 14.
4) I go to the Elias School for Girls.
5) I’ve been an archer since literally before I can remember.
6) I have an Olympic gold medal.
7) I am very much in love with Tim Drake.
8) I do not like paparazzi.
9) My best subject is English; worst is calculus.
10) My favorite TV show is Friends.


Ten Top Secret (and almost unhackable) Facts about Cissie King-Jones:

1) My biological father is Oliver Queen. I don’t want him to know until I’m 18. If then.
2) I feel guilty because I like lobster.
3) My brother Roy recently became my legal guardian.
4) Mom home-schooled me so I could have time to take all the classes she wanted me to take to prepare me for heroing.
5) I used to be Arrowette. I won’t be again.
6) I still have nightmares about Marcy and what I almost did.
7) I am in love with Robin. And I do not worry too much, no matter what he says.
8) I’m still upset with Cassie for the way she treated me, but—I’m trying.
9) I don’t know where I want to go to college or what to major in.
10) Sometimes I feel like I’m not making any kind of difference.