Robbie
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Post by Robbie on Sept 1, 2008 5:44:28 GMT -5
*Robbie's stomach clenched with hunger, growling a little. He barely dared to breathe and hoped it hadn't alerted the pheasant he had in his sights.
Crouching in the bushes, he waited a long time, until he was certain the bird wasn't going to take fright any moment.
He sprang forward with the bag in his hands, swiftly trapping the hapless bird underneath. He sighed inwardly. He'd have supper tonight.
Tucking the bagged bird under his arm, he hastened away to climb back over the wall of the estate.*
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 2, 2008 22:17:34 GMT -5
((Hope you don't mind--but if you do just ignore!))
*Johanna, who was sitting in a copse of trees, supposedly working on her sampler but really playing her dolls, heard rustling. She frowned and listened closer--maybe it was just one of her brothers, trying to scare her.*
"I know you're there! Come out! I can hear you!" *She called, and stood to follow the noise.*
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Robbie
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2008 14:18:51 GMT -5
*Robbie's heart thudded loudly against his ribs as he broke into a run towards the wall, throwing the bird in the bag over the wall and scrambling up the side of the wall.*
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 3, 2008 15:11:04 GMT -5
"David, really, what on e---" *And then she let out a particularly loud gasp, once she reached the wall and saw him.*
"Hey! Wait!" *She cried, scampering after and nimbly following him up the wall, which she had climbed with her brother many times before. She knew all the best footholds on this particular section, and her small hands and (bare) feet were a plus.*
((Dude is that the kid from Water Horse?))
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Robbie
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2008 15:16:24 GMT -5
*Robbie was already on the other side and scooped up the bag, running away through the woods.* ((The actor, yeah. Though I never saw tWH. But he was super-cute in Millions and Cranford.))
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 3, 2008 15:25:18 GMT -5
((I figured only the actor as his name was Angus and he was from an affluent family in the 40's in WH. It was pretty cheesy and strange, but cute all the same. And I want to hug him and his accent.))
"BUT YOU TOOK MARIE!" *She suddenly cried out in horror, hearing the distressed calls of the four chicks whose mother he had removed, as well as the squawks of the mother herself. Indeed she had names for all of the pheasants, but Marie and her brood were most certainly her favorites.*
*Then suddenly realized, sitting at the top of the wall, that Alain was not at the bottom to catch her if she fell. A strange ill feeling swept over her, the nausea that came from being faced with one's deepest fear--and Johanna's was heights.*
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Robbie
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2008 15:35:11 GMT -5
((Man, I ovarysploded over him in Millions and then in Cranford he's just so brave and grown-up and then when he cries over his dead friend in a coffin and reads a couple of verses from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and I just BAWLED. <3 Cranford. <3.))
*Robbie still ran. If he was caught--it was a five pound fine, in England, poaching, or at least a bit of time in jail. Neither of which appealed to him. His shoes barely made a sound against the hard-packed dirt of the path as it wound through the dense greenery, concealing him as he got away.*
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 3, 2008 15:40:34 GMT -5
((Heee the main dude is totally played by the guy who played Bingley. Which amuses me.))
*After nearly suffering a heart-attack and fainting on the way down, she immediately went to the four chicks and burst into childish tears for their mother, who was now going to be made into someone's supper.*
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2008 15:47:58 GMT -5
((It was so weird watching him and being like... "...it's...not...Bingley..." and then Jem Hearne is totally St. John Rivers from that other BBC thing, and I was like "...why's he suddenly a more-likeabe hick?" and then he marries the girl who was Charlotte Lucas and I'm like "huh?"))
*Robbie made his way back to the sad-looking little camp he'd made far, far away, just off the main road, and built a fire. He quickly rang the bird's neck, causing it as little distress as possible; then began to pluck it and clean it, to roast it once the fire was hot enough.*
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 3, 2008 15:54:41 GMT -5
((Oh you crazy BBC actors.))
*When a roast-and-dressed pheasant was served that night at dinner, Johanna burst into yet more tears and had to leave the table, to the puzzlement of her family. The next day she found the confused little ones and brought them to the house, insisting she be allowed to keep them until they were big enough to join the rest of the nye. Her mother, quite aware that thwarting her young daughter's sometimes-over-the-top compassion would only result in a tragic silence from the girl, decided to let her, on the condition that she had to take care of them.*
*Aimee figured she'd get sick of the creatures in about a week.*
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2008 16:07:04 GMT -5
OHM NOM NOM NOM
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 3, 2008 16:17:12 GMT -5
*even louder tears*
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Post by Robbie on Sept 3, 2008 16:23:20 GMT -5
OMG. Starving. Child. You utter snob. I don't give a damn about your pets. They were made for eating. Suck it up.
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Post by Robbie on Sept 21, 2008 21:22:28 GMT -5
*A week later, Robbie was back, hunger churning his little stomach.*
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Post by Alice Cullen on Sept 21, 2008 21:26:35 GMT -5
*Near the pheasants' usual place of nesting, there sat a basket, out of which wafted the smell of newly-roasted chicken and freshly-baked bread. Inside, there were the aforementioned items, mashed potatoes, and a few apples from the garden.*
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