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Title: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Oct 31st, 2003, 10:09am Sorry, KB. Remembered the fuss when I archived Real CS, so I've put the thread here. The rest is up to you as per your request! Enjoy everyone! Sorry Pat. Link is: http://members.lycos.co.uk/thecbb/mateysecret.htm |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by PatW on Oct 31st, 2003, 10:16am I missed a bit at the end of this! Was it all yibbling from about 10.30 last night? Could you put the link in, please? Thank you! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Kat on Oct 31st, 2003, 12:53pm The link doesn't work! :o |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Oct 31st, 2003, 12:55pm Talk to Liss, it looks as if she is doing some work on that site. It say's 'under construction' so your guess is as good as mine. Added - I've just tried the link and it worked, as did the link to the archive at the top of the page, and all the stuff I've archived today was there. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Kat on Oct 31st, 2003, 1:34pm Yay! Thank you Carolyn :) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Sarah_L on Oct 31st, 2003, 8:43pm Come on then KB, when will we get some more? Edited to add: Little confession to make. I made this post deliberately to get 200 posts. So don't think I'm bugging you about your story KB, I'm sure you'll post more when you're good and ready. Which had better be soon :P |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by PatW on Oct 31st, 2003, 8:46pm That's the problem! KB's never there when you want her!! I suppose it comes from being an Aussie!! *ducks for cover, and refuses another Heads Report* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Oct 31st, 2003, 9:08pm *inclined to agree with Pat! ;)* *Wondering what earthly use a never present HG is....* Come on KB! Surely you've finished dressing up as whoever it was you decided to go to (even if it wasnt a chihuahua) and van give us more ? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Oct 31st, 2003, 9:27pm Your're not to *hushed whisper* drunk to post are you? *runs for cover and also refuses a head's report.* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 9:47pm *lol* Don't you all come up with the sweetest idea? No, I wasn't too drunk to post as I don't drink. And I was a medieval maiden (very successfully, too!). I just knew how slow the board would be last night so I didn't bother logging on. But never fear - I will be writing and posting more today - I promise! Oh, and thanks for putting this up, Carolyn. I do remember all the fuss with Real CS and I'd rather be excused that again... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Oct 31st, 2003, 9:51pm on 10/31/03 at 21:47:20, KB wrote:
My pleasure. You are doing well here, 60 odd views (Some very odd! ;D) and 11 replies before you even post anymore story. A Yibblers paradise. :P |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 9:58pm And this came as a surprise to you? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Oct 31st, 2003, 10:08pm No, I'm coming to know you too well ny this time. Vikki hasn't appeared yet has she? I think I should go if I want to write anymore tonight. Although it is tempting to surf the boards and just play. ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Oct 31st, 2003, 11:23pm I'm happy to stay and yibble tonight having <smugly> finished my own minor contribution to the drabbles for now Rachel ~ glad the plot bunny has finally been appeased (and that flame thrower I directed at him had NOTHING to do with it!) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 11:27pm I feel it's time I contributed to my own drabble after 13 posts and more than 80 views (thanks, guys!) so here you go. I'm going to post the most recent part first and then the new bit: She had just reached the door when Stacie’s voice stopped her. “It… it’s not really my fault, is it?” Mary stopped and turned, pressing her back against the door. “How could you have?” she asked reasonably. Stacie’s cheeks burned as her eyes fell and Mary stepped towards her again, eventually sitting again in the chair she had formerly occupied. She found it difficult to choose the right words to say, having no idea, beyond the few sketchy details Marie had provided, of what had actually happened, but still, she was going to try, and she decided honesty and directness would be the best approach. “I don’t know,” she admitted frankly, “exactly what happened that day. I know that you and Jo and a whole group of others from the school were delayed, and that the Robin was upset because of that. I also know that she’s inherited a fragile disposition from her mother. That’s all Marie told me. But I imagine that you believe it will be your fault if anything develops. It won’t be, you know,” she continued in such a casual tone that Stacie looked up, startled. “It won’t be anybody’s fault. It will be God’s doing.” “That… that’s what Madame said, too,” Stacie admitted in low tones. “Yes, I’d believe it,” Marie smiled before sitting back in the chair and candidly watching the other girl. “When I was twelve,” she began, “ Doreen, my little sister was born. I thought it was wonderful that I had a sister. I never wanted to leave her alone. I always wanted to be around her and help Nurse her. Nanny threatened to lock me in my room unless I went to bed and stayed there – that was the fifth time she’s caught me sneaking into Dorry’s room,” she added with a chuckle that made dimples appear in her cheeks, and Stacie couldn’t help smiling in reply. “One day,” Mary continued, still smiling, “I left the nursery window open when I went out for my riding lesson. I’d been out an hour with Wilks – he was our stablehand and my riding instructor – when it started to rain. We were close to a shed on the far side of our property, so we sheltered there until it stopped.” “Is there a point to this?” Stacie interrupted. “Yes,” Mary told her. “Quite an important one, too. Should I go on?” “Please,” Stacie requested, looking a little ashamed of her impatience. “All right then.” Mary crossed her ankles as she stretched her legs out in front of her. “By the time I got back, the floor of my room was sprinkled and my curtains were soaking wet. My room was cold, but I didn’t notice – children of that age generally don’t, you know. But I went and got Dorry and brought her into my room to play. We were there for about ten minutes before Nurse came and took her away, and sent Nanny to me. I got the best telling-off I’d ever had, I can promise you that. And the next day, Dorry had a cold.” Stacie looked suddenly shamefaced, understanding the point of the story. “And you felt it was your fault for taking her into your room.” “Exactly.” Mary smiled. “Years later, I told Nanny – who’s been Dorry’s Nanny until we came away to school – that story, and she told me that Dorry was already sick. They weren’t keeping her away from me – they were keeping me away from her so that I wouldn’t catch it! But for all those years, I thought it was my fault she’d got that cold.” |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 11:28pm And now on with the story: For a moment after Mary finished talking, there was silence. Stacie’s eyes were dry, but a deeply thoughtful expression caused a small frown to appear on her face. “What does Joey think?” she asked finally “For the moment,” Mary replied carefully, feeling her way, “she is so overwhelmed by the thought of Robin that she can’t think straight, which is why she feels that you’re in some way to blame. You need to remember,” she continued hurriedly, seeing the concern reappear in Stacie’s eyes “that it’s only a day or two since she first heard. She didn’t sleep properly last night because of thinking about it, so she’s tired, and tired people don’t think straight.” Mary nodded slowly, her eyes fixed on the floor, but she looked up slowly. “I… I’d like to think about what you’ve said, alone,” she offered hesitantly. “I’m grateful for you telling me all that,” she added quickly, as if afraid that Mary would be offended. “But…” “It’s all right,” Mary interrupted gently. “I understand. I’ll go down and see what the others are doing. Would you like me to send anyone up for you?” “Madame, in a while, please,” Stacie replied. “All right.” Mary leaned over and gently kissed the girl’s cheek. “Just remember, Stacie, it isn’t your fault, and Jo’s upset right now. She’ll come good and realise it, too.” Stacie clung to her hand for an instant, her eyes full of gratitude, before Mary gently released her hand and quietly left the room. Going to the nursery, she found Madge telling stories to Peggy and Rix. That woman looked up as the girl hesitantly looked around the door and waved her inside with a smile. “Come in, my dear. What are you and the others doing?” “I think they’re down in the salon entertaining Evadne. I’ve been talking to Stacie, though, so I’m not sure.” Madge looked thoughtful. “I think I can guess how she’s feeling. Have you managed to get her to talk to you properly?” “I think so,” Mary replied honestly. “But she asked if you would go in to her in a while.” “Of course I will,” Madge replied in her beautiful voice. “And I appreciate you taking the time to talk to her. Now, it’s nearly time for Kaffee und Kuchen, so hurry down to the others. If Stacie doesn’t need me, I’ll come and join you.” “Yes, Madame.” Mary smiled and headed for the stairs to join the others. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by gigagal on Oct 31st, 2003, 11:32pm I've only just read all of it (in one go, obviously), and it's really good - the way it fits in is amazing. *tries to control impatience...and fails dismally* When do we get to see the next bit? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 12:52am Whenever I get it written. ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lesley on Nov 1st, 2003, 12:53am Excellent KB - come on it's Saturday morning now - no thesis to worry about till Monday! More x one million! ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 1:08am *snicker* That's all you know! I have stuff due on Thursday, and as I will be taking Tuesday off to watch the Melbourne Cup, I will be working very hard tomorrow! :( |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 1st, 2003, 1:35am Mary is really nice isn't she? And she's managing to help without being annoying like Jo and OOAOML, I can understand why you've become attached to her. Please write more, when you have time of course. BTW Is it really true that everyone in Australia takes time off for the Melbourne Cup? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 1:38am Well, it's a public holiday in Victoria, but many people watch it. And I'm working on it as we speak to get as much done as possible before I have to go and be nice to rugby fans. Aaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhh!!!!!! :o :o :o |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 1st, 2003, 2:27am Yurrrgggghhhh!!! Rotten rugby fans! Poor KB! ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 2:31am *appreciates the sympathy, although worried that Vikki will be lynched by all rugby fans on the board* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 1st, 2003, 2:48am * Finds that a lot of people have suddenly become Rugby fans now that England are going to win the world cup. *Glad that she doesn't have to be nice to hordes of them anyway. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 1st, 2003, 2:48am I can deal with the rugby fans! That's why I brought the mallet home from work with me!! ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 2:49am *suddenly very afraid again* And Esmeralda, who says England is going to win the World Cup? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 1st, 2003, 3:02am on 11/01/03 at 02:48:05, Vikki wrote:
Wonders why Vikki needs the mallet at home? Unless she's taken the rugby fans home with her too! And KB, everyone knows that England are going to win - it's pre-destined. ;D (Although knowing the result in advance means that the final won't be any where near as exciting as when France beat NZ.) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 3:08am *suggests Esmeralda should wait and see before making sweeping statements like those* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 1st, 2003, 3:21am Well, Lesley has all ready told us that England won. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 3:24am Don't particularly trust Lesley either. And I'm not saying they won't win - just that it's not guaranteed! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 1st, 2003, 3:37am But I think I can confidently say that Australia will continue to win the Ashes for the forseeable future without any fear of contradiction. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 3:43am *beams and agrees wholeheartedly* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lesley on Nov 1st, 2003, 7:38am on 11/01/03 at 03:24:41, KB wrote:
Rather upset that KB doesn't trust me! Can't imagine why that should be ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 1st, 2003, 10:53am We stand a better chance with the rugby than we ever do with the cricket. When we wun the rugby (or at least trounce Aus) I'm sure KB will remind us of this. KB what do you do that means dealing with the fans and being at the matches, but not watching them. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by PatW on Nov 1st, 2003, 5:02pm Australia can't win at everything - that would just be greedy! Naturally we'll win the rugby! ;D One of these days, they'll get a really duff cricket team too! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 11:36pm on 11/01/03 at 10:53:18, Carolyn P wrote:
I tell people where to go. In other words, I direct them to their seats and tell them where to find toilets, food, tickets, etc. For all seven Rugby games in Melbourne, I've been in the car park, which is probably my favourite place. I get a chair and I can take a book. A$20 per hour to read! Now that's what I call a job! ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Nov 1st, 2003, 11:51pm on 11/01/03 at 23:36:18, KB wrote:
I do this too! Unfortunately, I don't get paid, and no-one ever seems to appreciate it much, but I do it anyway. Rachel ~ aka OOAOR at this rate! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 12:09am Aw, poor Rachel! Well, we appreciate you, dear! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 12:42am I thought it was about time that I added to this, giving you all more fodder for yibbling! ;D The end of that long day finally arrived. The following morning, Dr. Jem insisted on taking Evadne down to the dentist after escorting the other girls back to school. They arrived back at the school to find that they had missed the best part of the first lesson, which for the Sixth Form was Mathematics. Mary was disappointed at this, although Jo, needless to state, was anything but. The girls quickly settled back into the routine, augmented, later in the day, by Evadne, who had had the tooth filled and was much more cheerful in consequence. After leaving Evadne to change her shoes and take off her coat in the Fifth (?) Form splashery, Jem headed for the staff room. He was fortunate enough to find Miss Annersley and Mlle Lepattre there enjoying a free period, and Matey had come to join them in search of the Head. He gave them a quick run-down the weekend, and particularly of Robin’s condition and the fear that was at the back of every adult’s mind at Die Rosen. “La pauvre petite,” Mlle murmured sympathetically. “And poor Joey,” Hilda added softly. Matey remained silent. She was thinking about what Jem had said about Mary talking to Stacie and comforting her, and pride had filled her at the thought of what a good person her daughter was. ‘It’s almost inexplicable, though,’ thought, sipping her coffee. barely know the girl, and had no say in bringing her up, and yet I already feel like she’s mine.’ The thought seemed ridiculous and yet it wouldn’t go away. With an inward sigh, Matey wondered if she would ever have the courage to admit the truth to Mary. “Matey!” A voice broke into her thoughts and she looked up. “Sorry, I was thinking.” She looked around. “Has Dr. Jem left then?” Hilda Annersley smiled. “Really, what were you thinking?” she scolded lightly. “He left a good ten minutes ago. Have you really not heard a word we’ve said?” “Uh, no,” Gwynneth admitted rather unwillingly. “Why was it important?” “Mais, non, ma chére,” Mlle Lepattre smiled as she stood up. “We were just talking about the trip to Oberammergau to see the Passion Play. And now I must go as I have a class with the Fifth Form. And you, Hilda?” “I have this lesson free, too,” Hilda Annersley admitted. “But I do have some corrections that I should do before the staff meeting this evening.” “And I need to speak to Moida,” Gwynneth suddenly remembered. “So I will leave you to your corrections, Hilda.” “You’re too, too kind,” the English mistress laughed as she settled down at her desk. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Nicolette on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:16am I hope Matey doesn't get her heart broken over this business. Please have her tell Mary the truth! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:19am This is really good, Kb. Aren't you going to post more? It's your duty to do so and prevent the thread from being hikjacked! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:22am on 11/02/03 at 01:16:16, Nicolette wrote:
No promises on this front at all... After all, Matey hasn't really suffered in any other thread - it's about time she did! *grins in a way that frightens small children and animals* And Lisa, I do have more to post and I'll put it up eventually. Of course, some more 'Tara' might be considered a good incentive... ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:30am Bribery, KB? You've got some funny habits for a HG, haven't you now? *still convinced KB and/or Vikki have some sort of hold over the Head, given the amount of blackmail, bribery and corruption they seem to get away with!* I can't add more to Tara cos its not written yet. And I was up early this am so I'm tired and hungry so you'll have to wait. I did give you a clue though. Although I don't know how much it'll help.... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:32am Thank you, I saw your clue and I'm very happy to see it. And here's one for you: you should easily be able to work out what's coming next... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:58am *Considers it just a little bit mean for people to admit they have written the next part and are deliberately witholding it. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:04am *points out the number of people currently on that bandwagon* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:33am Aw come on KB. I've written loads on Tara- including the bit that explains the clue! Your turn now! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Nicolette on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:34am Hey! What about the people who don't have their own drabbles to bribe with. Have some pity, please! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:37am *g* Pity, Nicolette? I don't think that's a widespread virtue amongst drabblers- myself included. As for not having a drabble to brib e with, that's easily sorted. Start one! *wishing KB would hurry up* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Nicolette on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:41am *wishing it was really that easy* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:46am Start a silly free for all, then! Then you just needf to think up the odd bit and accuracy or EBDness doesnt matter. In fact, the less like EBD they are, the funnier they are... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:49am Oh, all right! I've recovered from my hysterics at "Tara" now (I just read the whole lot straight through, hence my sore stomach) so here, as a reward, is more of this: Smiling, Matey left the room and headed for the front stairs. Hearing suspicious sounds, she hurried and came upon a scene of such devastation that it almost took her breath away. Ruth Wynyard, the stationary monitress for the Third form, was lying on the floor, her hair white. Margia Stevens’ tunic was also splashed the mystery white substance, and Frieda, who lay on top of the other two, was also in a mess. By now, the noise made by the three people had brought the entire Fifth form out into the passageway and other doors were also opening. Matey took charge at once. “Margia, are you hurt? Then go and change at once. Take your music to the kitchen as you go, and ask Luise if she can sponge it clean for you. –Ruth you aren’t killed, so stop crying like that. Twelve years old is too big to be such a baby. –Frieda, have you hurt yourself? Then off you go to my room. –Mademoiselle, may one of your girls go and ask Moida to come and clean up this mess of paste? –And the rest of you, get back to your own rooms at once.” She placed her hand on Ruth’s shoulder and steered her up to her room, all the time bidding her to stop crying. “Now, take off your tunic and blouse,” she directed once she had the small girl in her room. “We will have to wash your hair to get the paste out. Now, Frieda,” she turned to the older girl and left Ruth to take care of herself, “let me see your hand. Your thumb is it? Yes, you’ve given it a nasty wrench. Come and let me bathe it for you.” Once Frieda’s hand was bound up, she sent the girl to the last half hour of the class before lunch and turned her attention to Ruth. The bump she had sustained in Frieda’s fall turned out to be no more than a lump on her head, but it took time to wash the paste out of her hair and dig out a new frock before sending her out to join her form-mates, who were already waiting in the dining room for Mittagessen. Settling down in her room, Matey wrote up a report of the incident, chuckling as she thought of the scene, and had just finished when Moida came up with the tray that Gwynneth always had for lunch. She had barely finished eating when Miss Wilson arrived with Jo, whose hand had been burnt. Even as she treated and dressed the nasty burn, Matey got the details of the accident and reminded Jo of other occasions when she had been warned against that particular trick before sending her back to the dining room with directions to come in the evening for a fresh dressing. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Nicolette on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:55am good to see Matey back on form, but hurry up about Mary, please. I'm waiting with impatience here to know what's going on. (its currently 3am and I have to be up cooking brekie for 16 hungry men at 7.30!) And what had Jo been up to? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:05am If you check "The CS and Jo" you will see that she was waving her hands around and knocked over a bowl of soup, burning her hand. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Nicolette on Nov 2nd, 2003, 6:08am Oh, of course! *groans at own stupidity* Needless to say I'm very tired. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 7:31am My idea was that people would either reread or remember the events in "and Jo" so that I don't have to go into massive detail about them. It also means I won't get nagged as much, as people will know what's coming next... ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Sarah_L on Nov 2nd, 2003, 1:21pm But we don't know what's coming next. Well, we know what's coming next in the book, but we don't know what's coming next in Matey's story, therefore we still get to nag you. Nag nag. :) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 2nd, 2003, 2:19pm Well next if I remember, Joey gets away with a lot and doesn't realise it 'cos she's so worried. There is boating for the sixth form one evening and Hilda rings the sonnalpe to see if they have any news for Jo. But none of this tells us what we want to know, more about Matey and Mary. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 2nd, 2003, 7:49pm KB, are you up yet? Do you have anymore to post yet? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 2nd, 2003, 7:52pm KB, are you up yet? Do you have anymore to post yet? Hint, hint!! ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 2nd, 2003, 8:44pm WAKE UP KB! Do you think she might have heard that in Aussie land? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 9:32pm *shakes her head as her ears are ringing from the yelling* Believe it or not, but 7:51 was the exact moment that I woke up, so I think I did hear it, Carolyn! ;) All right, here's more of this. And I'm not guaranteeing when you'll get Matey and Mary together. However, we will soon get the full story... Mary chuckled as she was told the story from the school’s early days of Frieda’s sister, who had managed to spill red ink all over herself and Grizel Cochrane. “You seem to have had a lot of fun at school,” she sighed somewhat wistfully once the story was told. “Yes, we have,” Simone replied simply. “And it sounds like something else is happening,” Jo sighed as she heard footsteps outside in the hallway. A moment later, the door was flung open and Violet Allison threw herself into the room. “Come quick,” she gasped. “It’s Maria and Elsie! They’re stuck.” The prefects and the other members of the Sixth who had been invited into the Prefects’ inner sanctum for the evening, forbore to ask questions and chased after Violet. Breathless, the group burst into the Middles’ common room, only to collapse into peals of laughter as they beheld the sight of the two girls with their heads firmly stuck through the backs of two chairs. “You mean pigs!” cried one of the girls whose head was trapped in the chair-back. “Can’t you come and help us instead of giggling at us like a set of wild hyenas!” “Say!” exclaimed a girl with a marked American accent. “I guess you folk are just too mean for words!” “I-I’m sorry,” choked Jo. “Oh! What a vision! Hold me up, someone!” It was up to Frieda to come up with a solution. “We must try to push them first,” she said seriously. “Jo, if you will pull Maria, I will push from the other side.” While they worked on Maria, Mary and Simone took on the task of trying to free Elsie, but their efforts were fruitless in both cases. Sophie took Mary’s place and Marie took over from Simone in the hope that they would have more luck, but other than eliciting yells from both the victims, they might as well not have bothered. “Why on earth the Staff haven’t been down on us before, I cannot think,” observed one of the girls who had been watching the proceedings with interest.” “Over at Le Petit Chalet for a meeting,” Jo said in muffled tones, breathless from a combination her useless efforts at freeing Maria and being unable to stop laughing. “You’ll have to saw through those chair-backs, I guess,” suggested another girl with an accent that revealed her to have American background. “Say! Wouldn’t it be awful if the saw was to slip just when you’d got through and took a chunk out of their necks?” Maria yelled at this, and Jo turned to glare at the speaker. “Talk sense – if you can! – Margia, dash off to the kitchen, and ask Hansi for the saw from the woodshed. – Stop that awful yelling, Maria. You aren’t killed yet, not likely to be.” They continued to try and free the trapped girls, but to no avail, and the older girls exchanged relieved glances when Hansi arrived with the saw. It only took him a few minutes to free the girls, and Jo dismissed him with thanks before sending Sophie to ring the bell for prep and sending Maria and Elsie to tidy themselves before reporting to the Prefects’ room. Those members of the Sixth who were not prefects went to their own room to begin their prep, which they managed with the concentration that was to be expected of such senior girls, although it must be admitted that giggles broke the silence of the room on more than one occasion. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 2nd, 2003, 9:33pm I dunno! But I know she's up 'cos she's posting elsewhere!!! Ooops!!! Crossed posts!!! :-[ |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lesley on Nov 2nd, 2003, 10:25pm *Giggling* - thanks KB that was always a favourite scene of mine! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 10:28pm You're very welcome. I know a lot of people like that one, so I couldn't possibly leave it out! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 2nd, 2003, 10:30pm And the fact that it wasn't repeated in the later books (at least not in the ones I've read) makes it even better. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 3rd, 2003, 1:04am Only once that I recall, in "Problem" when she first comes to Freudeshim and Joey comments on it. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 10:35pm Not sure if people actually want more of this, but you may have the rest of what I've written... Mary was once again invited up to the Sonnalpe with Jo and the other girls. It had been only a day or two earlier the news had come through about Robin’s good prognosis, and Jo was rather above herself in consequence. She couldn’t settle to anything, tearing from pillar to post and back again, and leaving everyone unsettled in her wake. “I almost wish Jo hadn’t come,” Stacie sighed to Mary, who had come in to check on her during Sunday afternoon, when the others were playing with the babies, and who was busy rearranging her pillows. “Oh, she’ll calm down eventually,” Mary said in reply as she settled the last pillow into place and smoothed the cover. “There, how’s that?” “Very nice,” Stacie smiled, settling back against them. “And it must be worse for you, as you’re sharing a room with her.” “It is a little trying,” Mary laughed. “But it’s only for a few days. Try to be patient with her, Stacie. She’s had an awful week. So have you, I know,” she continued quickly, “but I’m sure Madame would say the same to you.” “Probably.” Any further conversation was broken by David’s wail from the little lawn where he was supposed to be having his nap. Mary peered out of the window and saw Jo rush over the lawn towards him, pushing the pram back and forth in an attempt to calm him. When that failed, she picked him up and rocked him, but he continued to wail. Even the appearance of his mother didn’t hush his screams, and Mary and Stacie heard the cries coming up the stairs, suggesting that Madge was bringing him inside. “Nothing’s obviously wrong,” Madge’s voice exclaimed, only just audible over David’s wails. “Jo, go down and fetch Jem. Perhaps there’s something else wrong with him.” Jo fled down the stairs, and Mary left the room to go and see if there was anything she could do. The doctor suggested returning him to the pram and leaving him in the hope that he would settle, but David continued to cry and finally Madge went back to fetch him. “It’s your fault, Jo,” Jem said once his wife had gone. “You’re a disturbing element today, and David feels it.” “Rats!” Jo said derisively. “No, it is true,” the doctor said firmly. “You’d better calm down a little, I think, before you upset the rest of the household. Come, Joey; it isn’t like you to get excited to this pitch.” “I’m so glad about the Robin,” Jo told him in low tones. “I know,” he replied, running a hand through her tousled hair. “But you must try to take it more quietly. Apart from anything else, you’ll make yourself ill if you get worked up like this. Now go and lie down like a good kid till Kaffee, and give Madge a chance to calm Davy down.” To everyone’s relief, she did as she was told, and after a while Jem went up to check on her, reporting that she was asleep. “She needs it,” he said gravely. “I doubt if she slept much last night.” “She didn’t,” Mary told him from her seat on the grass where she was playing with Peggy and Rix. Returning to the game, she listened as Jem and Madge discussed Jo’s health. By the time Kaffee arrived, she was telling the children the stories of silly things she had done as a child, to the amusement of Madge and Jem, who laughingly threatened to tell Jo so that they would be spread around the school. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 10:49pm Of course we want more KB!! We just got sidetracked by all the Real CS trauma!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:01pm *still sulking and not sure I want to write any more* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:09pm Please don't sulk KB!! You know we all love you to bits!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:10pm A true CS headgirl would show understanding of the trauma we were all suffering last night and behave accordingly. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:12pm Actually, I'm sulking because of what was said about me on the Real CS thread, not this one. I understand why nobody asked for any more on this, and I wasn't in a mood to post either. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:19pm Well, my comment was in regard to the comments on the Real CS thread too!!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:22pm I know yours was. I was making it clear to Carolyn. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:26pm Oh right! I see now!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:37pm Glad to see/hear it. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:40pm Sorry KB. I hadn't caught that comment on Real CS. Can understand how you are feeling, but I doubt it was meant seriously. I think we have all got carried away recently in doing nasty things to each other, deserved or not. (In reality I suppose it's never deserved.) Hope you carry on with this, we love you really you know, even if the idea of our head girl as staff baby is quite fun. *wanting to soothe your ruffled feathers* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:45pm ??? about the cause of KB's silks (I'll catch up eventually) but would like to beg for more of this story. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:52pm Actually, I was rather amused by the idea of going from Head Girl to Staff Baby as well. ;) Does it mean I'm still on the Board though? *feathers smoothed now* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lesley on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:04am Of course you are still on the Board, KB! And please keep writing this - I think it's wonderful the way you seemlessly place Mary in with all the things we already know happened in the CS and Jo. (Plus really want more about Matey!) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:09am I'm very glad to hear it! And just for you, Lesley, because you gave us hope, here is more of this: Stacie was brought down for the meal, and Jo was also called. Between them, Jo and Mary told the others about the eventful week, and if Mary lacked Jo’s picturesque language, she had the ability to insert a wry comment at the appropriate moment with such a sober look on her face that her audience screamed with laughter. “You awful children!” Madge exclaimed, wiping the tears of laguther from her eyes upon hearing about Elsie and Maria’s misadventure. “Whatever will you do next?” “I like that!” Jo cried in hurt tones, although her black eyes danced. “I hadn’t a thing to do with it!” “But are the pretty chairs hurt?” the Robin wanted to know.” “The backs are sawn in half,” Jo told her, before describing how it had been necessary to cut a large piece of out Maria’s because of her long hair. “It’s a pity about the chairs,” Jem put in. “But I suppose you couldn’t have let them go about with chairs round their neck for the rest of their lives.” The group shouted at that picture. “I wish I had seen it,” Stacie remarked wistfully, when she had recovered. “I wish you had. Never mind; you ought to be getting down again next term, and they certainly won’t stop their monkey-tricks because of one accident.” Something in Madge’s glance stopped the conversation abruptly, and Jo, at least, looked relieved when Frieda’s greeting came across the garden. She had come to invite all those who wanted to come for a walk to the other end of the Alm, and in arranging who was to go and who preferred to stay, the conversation was forgotten. It was only later that evening that the subject of the Robin was again raised, and then only between Jo, Frieda, Mary and Stacie. “I am more thankful than I can say,” Jo admitted. “It’s been a nightmare this past week. I couldn’t give my mind to anything.” Stacie had been studying the floor, but looked up to say, “It has been bad for you, Jo. But I think I have suffered quite as much. If anything – had – gone wrong, I should always have felt it was my fault, you see.” For a fleeting instant, as Jo rose from her chair to come over to Stacie, that girl’s eyes met Mary’s, before jumping back to Jo, who had sat down beside her. “Jem told me that though it might have hastened things a little, it could only have meant that – nothing could have been done, nothing!” At that instant, the Russells appeared with Gottfried Mensch, who had come to take Frieda home, but under the cover of the farewells, Mary managed to slip across the room to Stacie and sit down in the seat. “You see?” she said simply, and Stacie nodded. “You were right, you and Madame,” Stacie admitted softly. “And oh, how thankful I am that you were!” More about Matey in the next part! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Esmeralda on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:20am Really looking forward to the next part. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:52am *raises hand timidly* Please KB, I think it was me that said it. The comment in Real CS, I mean. Consider I've grovelled. now to brass tacks- MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:55am *appreciates grovelling* *wonders whether not posting more would be sufficient punishment* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:58am *reminds KB that she's still imprisoned with Vikki et al.* I was going to free you all tonight, but now I'm having second thoughts! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 1:01am And what's wrong with being imprisoned with Vikki et al? If we get that blizzard I'm hoping for, it'll happen in RL anyway... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 1:03am *befuzzled* What blizzard?! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 1:05am In one of the threads discussing the meeting, we got onto the weather and I said I hoped for a blizzard during March so that we can extend the meeting by a bit. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Nicolette on Nov 5th, 2003, 1:07am ...and then all foolishly but bravely try and make our way home, get totally lost, develop hypothermia and get rescued by handsome doctors. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 1:09am Well, that wasn't part of my original plan, but it's certainly something to consider. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:07am ....and the madness is back!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:20am Just think - we managed it even without you being here! And I think we've all recovered now... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:29am I don't know about that!!! ::) ::) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:31am It was spookily quiet last night. Not nice! Isn't it weird how badly we were all affected? Quite scary! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:34am When you think about it, it was nice the way we were all there to comfort each other. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:38am It was really eerie! I was out from about 6pm, and got in at about 1am, and I thought it was odd that no one was on here at that time!!! And Real CS was one of the last threads I got to! (I'd seen various comments in the other drabble threads that tipped me off to what had probably happened, and I was a b8it afraid to read it!!) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:41am I felt terrible! I had to keep reminding myself that it was 'just' a story. I felt really empty inside. And then a non CS friend popped up on MSN and I was daft enough to tell her I was upset. She wanted to know why. Cue explanations. Needless to say, she thought I was barking! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:42am I was just glad no one else was home. I was feeling glum anyway, as I'd lost a large proportion of my money on the gee-gees and had no one to whinge to about it, and then I got on here and came within an iota of bawling my eyes out! :'( |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 2:56am Even though I'd kind of had a bit of warning about what she was going to do, from all the comments scattered about the board, I still found myself choking up as I read it!!! :'( The last time I got choked up like that over fictional characters was when I read Peace!!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 3:01am *appreciates being in the same category as Lesley* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 3:04am And believe me, it actually takes quite a bit for a book/story to make me cry!!! I take it there's no news from GGB yet? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 3:06am No, but considering how stressed they must be over the postal strike and people going on ill-timed holidays, I imagine they have enough to do with existing books, let alone future ones! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 3:09am I suppose so! :( Wish they'd hurry up though! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 3:16am You wish they'd hurry up?! What about all those poor souls who haven't read it yet and are dying to, but can't because I'm so nasty and won't let them? Oh, and just because I thought you'd all like to have this to read when you woke up, here's some more, with Matey, just as I promised... *eg* The girls returned from the Sonnalpe on the Monday morning and settled back into their usual routine. Jo returned to her usual self and the staff relaxed the vigilance with which they had been watching her, turning their attention to their usual pursuits. Hilda hadn’t forgotten her earlier suspicions Matey and paid more attention to that woman than heretofore. Matey, for her part, was so concerned with keeping an eye on all of her charges, but particularly her daughter, that for once she missed Hilda’s interest. However it didn’t go unnoticed by Nell Wilson, who collared Hilda one evening when the two women chanced to be alone in the staff room. “All right, Hilda, what’s wrong with Matey?” she demanded, and Hilda looked up, startled, from her corrections. “What do you mean, Nell?” “Well,” Nell got up and strolled over to Hilda’s table, perching on it, “the way you watch her whenever she’s with the girls, anyone would think she was sickening for something. Or is it you that’s suffering?” she added teasingly. To her surprise, Hilda didn’t reply to the joke. “I think Matey is suffering,” she said in such serious tones that all desire to continue teasing left Nell. “Particularly when she’s around the Seniors. Sixth Form, for choice.” “I don’t understand what you mean,” Nell confessed. Hilda leaned back in her chair and capped her pen. “There’s something about that new Senior – Mary O’Connor – and I want to know what it is. Matey doesn’t ever seem comfortable in the same room with her, and you know, I would have thought that of all the girls, Mary would have been most likely to be welcomed by her. After all, she’s very like Jo in a lot of ways, and we both know that Matey thinks the world of Jo.” “Yes, she always has done, hasn’t she?” Nell commented. “I’ve often wondered why that was. It’s not as if Matey has ever shown any desire to have children, and yet she treats Jo in much the same way Madge does – like a daughter, almost.” A choking sound from the doorway caused them both to look up in time to see Matey there, her face pale and eyes wide. She stared at them blankly for a second before turning and literally running from the room, the door slamming shut behind her. The two mistresses followed her almost immediately. They found the door to the San shut, but as it didn’t lock, Hilda hesitated only briefly before turning the handle and opening the door to reveal the empty room. “Well, where is she?” Nell demanded. Hilda nodded in the direction of the bathroom before speaking. “She must be somewhere else,” she proclaimed in her usual voice, winking at her colleague. "Let's go and find her." She shut the door and then waited. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Kathryn on Nov 5th, 2003, 6:10am Dundundunduh! Showdown time!? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 6:51am Hmm, maybe... ;D ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 5th, 2003, 8:15am I'm so glad I got up early enough to have a read of this before going out. Thanks D. And an even bigger thank you to KB. Will we have a Hilda and Matey scene? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Catherine_B on Nov 5th, 2003, 8:24am MOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! *Bouncing happily up and down* Don't we all love Hilda? Bless. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lesley on Nov 5th, 2003, 9:45am Yeah more! Lots more! Lots and lots more! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Trish on Nov 5th, 2003, 9:45am Poor Matey! I hope it doesn't take Miss Annersley too long to find her. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 5th, 2003, 5:35pm This is great KB!! More soon please!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 11:15pm *sorry for Matey (just for a change!) *amused at Hilda's canniness! come OOOOOOOONNNNNN KB! I'm about to write the next bit of Tara, and I'd REALLY appreciate it if there was more of this by the time I've finished! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 1:42am No can do. I've just given myself heart failure by thinking I'd deleted a file that I've spent all week on (and which is due today) and very soon I have to leave to go and see Kathryn and pay her money. Maybe when I get back... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 6th, 2003, 1:48am Now that's just plain mean and tormenty of you KB!!! :'( |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 4:40am Hey, I've spent five days - 10+ hours per day - on that thing! Luckily I found it, but if I hadn't, you wouldn't have heard from me for days! :o But I'm about to write more... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 7:29am I was hoping someone would post in between times so that it didn't look like I was just being obnoxious by posting twice in a row, but they didn't. Sorry. And here is the long-awaited Matey and Hilda (and Nell) scene.... The room remained silent for a moment, Hilda and Nell staying motionless in the hope that Matey would think they had gone away and might reveal her hiding place to them. Their plan was more successful than they could have hoped. Neither woman could hold back a gasp when the door of the small bathroom that led off the main room opened. Gwynneth’s usually crisp uniform was crumpled, her hair awry and the traces of tears on her face. Both Hilda and Nell froze for a moment, seeing that the other woman was shocked at the sight of them, before Nell stepped forward and placed her hand on the smaller woman’s arm. “Matey, what is it?” she asked anxiously. Gwynneth stared at the two women for a moment as if unable to recognise them, before her gaze grew sharper and she eyed the woman beside her. “How did you know?” she demanded. “Know what?” Hilda and Nell asked in unison. “Know about my daughter,” Gwynneth snapped back. The mistresses exchanged glances before Hilda stepped over to the others. “Matey, of course we didn’t,” she said gently. “What makes you think we would? And who is your daughter?” Matey let out a slow, trembling breath, her eyes on her feet, before looking up again. “I was about to come in when I heard you say my name,” she said, glancing at Nell. “And the next thing I heard was the word ‘daughter’. Did Therese tell you?” she asked in suddenly anxious tones. “What does she know?” “Nothing,” Hilda told her reassuringly. “Nobody knows anything for sure. I’ve suspected something all term. Nell noticed and asked me about it. That’s all.” Gwynneth froze for a moment, before her shoulders slumped. “I should have guessed that it wouldn’t remain a secret,” she murmured. Nell gently pulled Matey over to where a table and chairs stood in one corner and pushed the woman into one of the chairs and taking another herself while Hilda got a glass of water and then also sat down. “Why don’t you tell us about it?” Nell suggested gently as Matey took a hesitant sip of the water. “We won’t tell anyone,” she added quickly, seeing a flash of alarm in the other woman’s grey eyes, “but if we noticed your behaviour, then eventually someone else will, and it might not be someone who’s going to be quiet about it.” Hey, I never promised that you would learn anything from this bit, did I now? *feeling evil which is unsurprising considering what's been done to me today* Bwahahahaha!!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Catherine_B on Nov 6th, 2003, 7:43am Morning, KB (or I suppose "good evening" where you are :)) Sorry not to have posted in between.... but to make amends... YOU CAN"T LEAVE IT THERE!! Give us the Matey-sobbing-on-Hilda's-shoulder scene that we all want ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 8:28am *wonders why I should considering the mental torture that I discovered on certain other threads* Hey, stop giggling! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 6th, 2003, 11:54am What mental torture might that be, KB? ::) *not really convinced that the threat of kangaroos etc falls into this category* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 12:05pm It wasn't the kangaroos themselves that I was objecting to - more the undignified position(s) I ended up in! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Nov 6th, 2003, 12:07pm I do so agree with you KB. Lisa, that was an awful thing you put poor KB through last night. You were very naughty and mustn't do it again. Rachel ~ the pious one :P |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 12:10pm *horrified by Rachel's hypocracy and feels that the first two words of her new slogan above the avatar are accurate to my feelings* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Nov 6th, 2003, 12:12pm Hey, I was just offering you some moral support tights KB, but if you don't actually [i[want[/i] me to, I suppose I can go and bring you back from the cat flap! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 12:14pm *suddenly very, very afraid and glad that a passing doctor (and his dog) is/are going to come to my aid* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 6th, 2003, 12:17pm Well, what do you expect when you screech so loudly about hating kangaroos on bikes? It was inevitable someone sometime was gonna make use of that! It was too good to lose! *can sympathise, having been subjected to THREE injections courtesy of Lesley* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 6th, 2003, 8:35pm Well, the kangaroos were a real gift plotwise!! I wouldn't have been able to resist!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 9:38pm All right, this is the start of what you've been waiting for... Gwynneth stared at the table for a moment before managing a weak smile. “I suppose so,” she admitted slowly. Then she looked up again, her gaze sharp. “What were you saying, then, if you didn’t know about her?” “I’m not sure I can exactly remember,” Nell admitted. “Jo, I think. Oh, and that new Senior, Mary O’Connor.” At that name, Matey blanched, and Hilda shot her a sharp glance, but her voice, when she spoke, was gentle. “What about Mary?” she asked. “Is she…?” Matey slowly nodded. “I was only twenty,” she confessed, after a long silence. “And I was in love, or at least I thought I was.” “Mary’s father,” Nell suggestion. “Sir Anthony O’Connor,” Gwynneth told her. “I had my first nursing post up near his family estate, and on my days off we used to go out together, cycling or hiking. Then, when I got back to London, I happened to see an old paper with the photograph of…” “Of what?” Hilda asked after another painful moment of silence. “Of his marriage,” Gwynneth told her in muted tones. “He’d married a year before we met, but I had no idea. He’d never mentioned it to me. I’d given him my address, and I had his, but he never wrote to me and I was too ashamed to write to him. But then… well, I was tired all the time and couldn’t work. Matron at the hospital eventually sent me off to one of the doctors, and he told me the truth, although I’d already begun to suspect it.” The other two women were too shocked by this revelation to respond, and Matey was struggling with her emotions, so the only sound in the room was the ticking of the clock on the mantel. “I left the hospital a few months later,” Gwynneth continued. “I wrote to Anthony only a few days before the baby was due, but his mother must have found the letter, because she was the one who came. She told me,” the narrator’s voice became filled with anger here, forcing a stronger tone, “that I was going to ruin them all. She said, oh, horrible things. Things I don’t want to remember.” Matey shuddered at the memory and seemed unable to go on, but she finally regained control of herself. “I only had my baby for a few minutes,” she told her small audience. “I fell asleep, and when I woke up, she was gone. There was a note on my bedside table.” Matey stood up and crossed the room, pulling a thin folder out from beneath the mattress on her bed and producing a sheet of paper from it as she came back to her seat. “This was in an envelope containing money – more money than I could hope to earn in a year on my salary. As you can see, it was payment for the baby.” She handed them the letter, which came from Lady O’Connor in which she promised that the baby would be taken care of and grow up believing that she was the daughter of Anthony and his wife. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lisa_T on Nov 6th, 2003, 9:46pm Come on, KB! Don't leave it there or I'll give you a *real* bout with the kangaroos! *contemplating turning KB into a kangaroo* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 10:01pm *refuses to rise* The next part is written, and you'll get it in good time... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 6th, 2003, 10:11pm on 11/06/03 at 22:01:17, KB wrote:
How dreadful, if it's written we want it now, PPPPppppppllllleeeaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssseE! Love the story and you KB. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Lesley on Nov 6th, 2003, 10:30pm Thank you KB please post again soon! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 10:47pm *enjoys Carolyn's sucking up* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Vikki on Nov 6th, 2003, 11:02pm KB!! Pretty please may we have the next bit!!! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Carolyn P on Nov 6th, 2003, 11:09pm If sucking up gets us the next bit, LOVE YOU KB - THE BEST HEAD GIRL EVER! (will it work?) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Nov 6th, 2003, 11:18pm Not right now (still trying to catch up and arrange my party) but maybe soon... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Jennie on Today at 9:14am KB, that is so unfair, how can anything be more important than posting another episode for your, so far, loyal readership? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 9:18am I WANT MORE STORY Rachel ~ who complies with demands made of HER for more story! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Today at 9:34am *lol* I'd love to oblige - I really would! However, sadly, I'm not on my computer right now so I can't... |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 10:59am Er - which computer are you at? Can't you get to yours? *muttering about lame excuses* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Trish on Today at 11:00am on 11/06/03 at 22:01:17, KB wrote:
I think that a good time would be right now :D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Today at 11:31am *offended that people see my lame excuses as, well, lame* And Rachael, I was on my parents' computer, but because you all nagged so much, I've decided to post another part, being such a nice ghost and all. So here you go: “When did he receive his knighthood?” Nell asked. “When his parents died, about ten years ago,” Matey replied in her usual tones. “It was inherited from his parents.” (I have no idea whether this is possible, but please just go with the fantasy.) “And so Mary believes herself to have lost both her parents in that car accident,” Hilda remarked, handing back the letter. “I don’t know what she believes,” Matey told her soberly. “I certainly haven’t said anything to her. I got a letter from the lawyer in charge of her father’s will, though. He told me that, in spite of the letter I got from Sir Anthony, it wasn’t legal because it wasn’t in the will. Officially, Anthony’s brother will be in charge of them. Unofficially, though, he doesn’t want anything to do with them and the lawyer has asked me to take care of them.” “If that’s the case,” Nell said practically, “you’re going to have to tell them eventually.” “We’ll see,” Matey replied quietly. “The lawyer has said that the girls’ – that’s Doreen, as well as Mary – their old Nanny is still at the house and is quite capable of caring for them during the holidays they get from school. And while they’re here, of course, I’ll do the same for them that I do for anyone else.” “But they aren’t the same as anyone else,” Nell exclaimed, unable to comprehend how Matey could take this so quietly and remain detached from this relationship. She knew that, if she suddenly found family she never knew had existed, particularly having lost her parents and sister the way she did, she would have given anything to have them. “You don’t understand!” Gwynneth burst out. “It’s not just about her! If I tell her that I’m her mother, I’ll have to tell other people, and Therese Lepattre and Madame won’t want me around, knowing what happened! Imagine it: an unmarried mother in charge of all the girls at this school – what sort of an image would the school have if that knowledge became public?” Matey slowly exhaled, and Hilda and Nell stayed silent. Little though they wanted to admit it, she was right. She would immediately be asked to hand in her resignation and be forced to leave the school, and she certainly couldn’t care for her daughter and Mary’s sister if she barely saw them. “Promise me you won’t tell anyone,” Gwynneth begged breathlessly. “You mustn’t. If you do, I’ll go down immediately and hand in my resignation, and so I warn you!” Unwillingly, both women gave their words not to tell anyone. Only once she had that did Matey lose the haunted look in her eyes and the arrival of one of the Juniors with a splinter in her finger gave Nell and Hilda an excuse to leave. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 11:47am Hurray - the nagging worked! I think the the three of them are doing Madame and Mdlle an injustice ... but time will tell ............... More, please (not holding out much hope but it's worth a shot!) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by KB on Today at 12:03pm You've used up all my written stuff again, so you will definitely have to wait until I write more, but not tonight. Going to bed soon. *yawn* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 12:04pm No, I think Matey is correct. After all, in the early/middle 1930s, unmarried mothers were an absolute disgrace, and a scandal to be avoided at all costs. Look at the way even married women never mentioned pregnancy, preferring to go in for terms such as "being busy". Pregnancy as a whole was not a fit subject for polite conversation, and a pregnancy out of wedlock would not be condoned at all. Of course, this is fantasy land, so if KB WANTS to, she can make the characters be far more reasonable that any of their contemporaries would really have been ;) Rachel ~ trying desperately to make her brain do Serious Thinkng for once. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 12:33pm I totally agree, Rachel *slightly unnerved by Rachel offering a "seemingly" sensible comment!* (er - no offence intended!) BUT - I did say Madame and Mdlle - not society in general!! And if Hilda and Nell are taking it so well ............ |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 12:49pm on 11/07/03 at 12:33:31, Rachael P wrote:
YOU found it unnerving! How do you think it felt to ME?? Quote:
offence, offence, <goes to look up "offence" in the dictionary> ah, that noun meaning an illegal act? hm, seems a slightly inappropriate usage of the word, one moment <goes to look up "offence" in the thesaurus> here we go, offence, crime, fault, infringement, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanour, outrage, peccadillo, sin, transgression, violation, wrong, wrongdoing, anger, annoyance, disgust, displeasure, hard feelings, indignation, irritation, pique, resentment. Nope, not feeling any of those at present. Well, not towards YOU anyway! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 12:55pm *mops brow* *heaves exaggerated sigh of relief* *wonders whether she has the audacity to continue yibbling on HG's drabble* *thinks now is a good time as HG has probably gone to bed* Anyone else up for it? ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 1:27pm Sadly, I don't know how to yibble. But I'm happy to sit and talk a whole load of waffly crap ;D Rachel ~ |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 1:29pm Suits me! I could have sworn they were one and the same!! ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 1:31pm Surely not! Surely the HG and second pree wouldn't indulge in HOURS and HOURS of talking waffly crap? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 1:39pm Sshhh ... Keep your voice down! *looks nervously over each shoulder* Phew, it's OK - they're not around! *feeling emboldened* How else d'ya think they've got so many posts ;) |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by PatW on Today at 1:44pm No, of course not!! :o they are far too high minded, and far too keen to set a good example to the rest of us, to indulge in yibbling!!! Where have you seen any examples of them do this? :o |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 1:45pm Personally, I think I have seen them yibbling at each other on just about every thread the CBB has to offer! And if that's the secret to becoming HG, watch me yibble! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 1:49pm Pat! Your innocent, nay saintly, expression gives you away a l'Alixe von whatsherface!! No creepy-crawling to the HG and Second Pree!! Er, Rachel - no one was throwing down the gauntlet! |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by PatW on Today at 1:49pm Very true - so they won't mind us doing it on KB's drabble, will they? After all, we both need a few more posts to become Prefects, don't we? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 1:52pm Rachael, I see life as a challenge, (and some lives more than others!) And Pat, KB should be absolutely delighted with a) how well she has taught us the art of yibbling and b) that we are gonna get her drabble archived even faster for her ;D |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 1:53pm *suddenly realises she is a prefect and as such, probably shouldn't be encouraging Pat and Rachel* *considers deleting previous posts* Nah - ;D I'll take my just desserts, (perhaps a bowlful of humble pie) as they come .................. |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 2:02pm Would you like custard with that? |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachael P on Today at 2:14pm Only if it's real! Full on eggs, cream and vanilla :D Otherwise, clotted cream, please *Has hormones ... needs calories* |
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Title: Re: Matey's Secret #2 scs Post by Rachel on Today at 2:21pm The only way I know to make custard is: open packet, tip contents into bowl, pour on hot water, whisk. Clotted cream it will have to be then. Mmmmmmm. So glad I'm off to Devon next month to visit my grandparents! REAL clotted cream from devon is so much better than the stuff my local asda sells! |
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