The Unofficial Vice-President Shinra

Whoever let the Twins meet any of the Terror Trio should be shot. I mean it. I'm going to kill Fred and George! (Kadaj and Loz, don't think you're getting off scott free, because as your new unofficial mom...I am grounding you until further notice...and that means...I am NOT taking you guys racing for a while!)

Let me start with how this happened to be. Last weekend some members of the Order had been sent to check up on Babylon Palace and to see if whatever the hell I did was still up and keeping whoever was inside...well...inside. Nobody told me that they had sent the Terror Twins on recon, though. So, it was to my surprise that on Sunday morning I find Fred and George on my doorstep. It was a routine enough meeting...they told me exactly the same thing I heard last time: abso-frickin'-lutely nothing.

And then I had to run off to do some chores arund the house (having more than just the usual two or three at one time tends to make it messier and merits much more cleaning). The Twins decided that they were quite bored and wished to do something and had somehow gotten their hooks into Kadaj and Loz into helping them out. I do believe that their reasoning was 'to exact possible revenge' for what I did with the little song I did some while ago. Those four plotted all the morning and some of the afternoon away and I didn't realize anything was going on until they were coming out of the bathroom together giggling.

I was with Nexu, Reno (poor darling) and Rude in the study, having a bit of afternoon tea when we witnessed this.

"Um...I'm not sure, but I don't think that's normal, yo..." Reno said, brows furrowing.

I nodded along with Nexu and Rude. Something was very much up, there was no doubt about it when the Weasley Twins were concerned...and if they roped any of the Silver Haired Men? Oh, boy! Shaking my head, I decided that a shower was in order before dinner was to start.

All was normal as one would imagine a shower. Lather, rince, repeat and all that. A thing I must tell you all is that I tend to avoid mirrors or just hardly look at them. Don't really know why, really. Or perhaps I just have a relaxed view on myself. Who knows? But this one point is something rather important later on.

Another random personal point is that I have a rather predictable wardrobe. If you made a bet about what colors you'd find in my closet, you'd most likely win because I carry (mostly) three colors: black, white and red. Although I should have switched to wearing all black (I usually do when I feel particularly bad or depressed), but I wore black and white for tonight, possibly to signal that my mood was getting better. And since it was a little nippy up here, I threw on a button up white sweater over the sleeveless black turtleneck I put on with my white trousers. I kept it opened right down to the last button, because I felt warm enough in the front. Dressed, I ran downstairs.

I was met with relative quiet. Kadaj was, oddly enough, quite friendly with me and even gave me a kiss on the cheek as he passed me by, looking quite happy about something. Loz looked a bit weepy when I saw him in the kitchen, pouring a glass of cream soda for me. He handed it over to me, muttering a quick apology before running off who knows where. I stared at the glass and sniffed it experiementally, wondering if his older brother had asked him to put something into it.

Of course, I got nothing, so I went to the one lady who could figure it out for me (I would have asked Severus to do it, but he had gone to pick up William from the Burrow).

"Hey, Nexu, can you do me a favor?"

"What is it?"

"Can you sniff this for me?"

"....Smells like cream soda."

"Nothing else?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Because Loz looked like he was ready to bawl when he gave me this...thought maybe Kadaj was still sore with me and got him to stick poison into my drink..."

"I don't think Kadaj would poison you...I think he'd probably stab you if he still had his sword with him, but..."

"Yeah, you're right...plus I don't think he would poison his unofficial mom...hahaha...."

"...Unofficial mum? When did that happen?"

"Oh, I haven't told him yet, but I kind of feel like being his new unofficial mom..same goes for Loz and Yazoo if they can accept that...maybe it can get their minds off of Jenova a bit..."

"...Keily...I've been meaning to ask....what's your relationship to Rufus?"

"Rufie? Oh...well...about ten years ago..."

"Oh, my effin' god, yo! What's up with your hair?!" Reno asked, looking at me, laughing. Rude wisely kept his mouth shut, although I could very well see the smirk on his face.

I furrowed my brows at them, wondering what was so amusing. My hair felt perfectly normal, if such a statement can be made. Pulling some to the front--I brushed, then tied it back to stay out of my face--I found that my hair was....very much....strawberry blonde.

I stared for a good ten seconds as many scenes from earlier in the day began to click into place like a puzzle.

"KADAJ! LOZ! FRED! GEORGE! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

So there you have it. Kadaj and Loz are grounded and the Twins have been temporarily banned from my house. Normally, I would have laughed at such a trick, but I have a thing against being artificially blonde. And when I had calmed down and laughed a little about it, the twins thought I looked good as a blond and refused to give me the antidote to change my hair back (they used a slow working potion that would change my hair color so that I would only realize it when it was too late). And now I must deal with ridiculous nicknames from Reno....mostly those involving 'Vice-President' and 'boss'.

Hmmm....I think it might be time to invest in colored clothing now...black and white doesn't seem to be a good color scheme right now....Stupid Remnants...stupid Twins...stupid Reno!