Heh, ok, since you let us have a bit of the stargate thing, here's the opening... I hope rionaleonhart doesn't mind me doing this on her LJ...
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This hadn't gone well.
"Drink your tea, dear; you've had a nasty shock."
Richard looked down at the chintz pattern travel mug that had just been pushed into his hands; some form of barely-tepid white-brown dishwater slopped malevolently over the sides. He briefly considered fobbing it off on TG – if that couldn't be construed as animal cruelty – but the old woman's expression brooked no argument, so he held his breath as best he could and downed it in one.
He supposed he should be thankful the other two weren't here to laugh at him, at least. Jeremy was too busy shouting at the fire to notice he'd been spirited away by the batshit old biddy from yesterday, but James had just laughed from behind the fire engine as she'd dragged him away by the shirtsleeve while he clung forlornly to TG's lead in the vain hope the dog would weigh him down.
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This hadn't gone well.
"Drink your tea, dear; you've had a nasty shock."
Richard looked down at the chintz pattern travel mug that had just been pushed into his hands; some form of barely-tepid white-brown dishwater slopped malevolently over the sides. He briefly considered fobbing it off on TG – if that couldn't be construed as animal cruelty – but the old woman's expression brooked no argument, so he held his breath as best he could and downed it in one.
He supposed he should be thankful the other two weren't here to laugh at him, at least. Jeremy was too busy shouting at the fire to notice he'd been spirited away by the batshit old biddy from yesterday, but James had just laughed from behind the fire engine as she'd dragged him away by the shirtsleeve while he clung forlornly to TG's lead in the vain hope the dog would weigh him down.
This hadn't gone well at all.