the autumn of sixth grade
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deepest_magicIsabella and James spend the summer reacquainting themselves with Earth and its quaint habits like "television" and "recorded music" and "history involving things like World War II and not things like the White Witch". They had books, in Narnia, but only ones it occurred to them to ask for; they can be found filling in the gaps throughout the remainder of the time they spend in Forks, often with one's head on the other's shoulder or one's feet up on the other's knees.
Telling Renée goes better, sort of, than telling Charlie; she cries, but she's less shellshocked, and takes reasonably well to having her adult daughter who happens to be legally and visibly ten (then eleven) around.
Chris migrates herself and James to Phoenix in Isabella's same school district and both ostensible children manage to skip into the sixth grade. This will provide culture and social opportunities with people slightly less... eleven... and also give Isabella an excuse to be unfamiliar to her classmates; someone who knew her before might notice.
They get nearly matching schedules and wade into middle school. It is nightmarishly educational. Being in their mid-twenties gives them some perspective on the entire thing and having each other is an improvement but Aslan's fangs these children.
However, it is through a school person that Isabella discovers a relatively accessible way for them to not get rusty on all their Narnia skills. She promptly joins the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Telling Renée goes better, sort of, than telling Charlie; she cries, but she's less shellshocked, and takes reasonably well to having her adult daughter who happens to be legally and visibly ten (then eleven) around.
Chris migrates herself and James to Phoenix in Isabella's same school district and both ostensible children manage to skip into the sixth grade. This will provide culture and social opportunities with people slightly less... eleven... and also give Isabella an excuse to be unfamiliar to her classmates; someone who knew her before might notice.
They get nearly matching schedules and wade into middle school. It is nightmarishly educational. Being in their mid-twenties gives them some perspective on the entire thing and having each other is an improvement but Aslan's fangs these children.
However, it is through a school person that Isabella discovers a relatively accessible way for them to not get rusty on all their Narnia skills. She promptly joins the Society for Creative Anachronism.
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Date: 2016-06-18 11:26 pm (UTC)"We are going to be King and Queen of Atenveldt," James murmurs to Isabella.
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Date: 2016-06-18 11:27 pm (UTC)However, they cannot do that until James is old enough to legally participate in the relevant grade of swordfight. This is strictly an age thing and it does not matter if he can take them all at once with one hand tied behind his back or anything.
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Date: 2016-06-18 11:53 pm (UTC)She participates in some of the Youth Combat stuff with the SCA, too, to get used to the way they operate, even though she won't be allowed to do anything with even approximately real swords for another three years, ugh, childhood, why.
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Date: 2016-06-20 08:52 pm (UTC)At least Renée knowing that they're not really mid-childhood means she doesn't think they're staying up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve when that rolls around.
When they are in fact -
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Date: 2016-06-20 08:53 pm (UTC)He's not going to show. He said he doesn't come to Earth. He's not going to show. He's so, so not going to show.
He doesn't show.
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Date: 2016-06-20 08:54 pm (UTC)"Argh."
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Date: 2016-06-20 09:14 pm (UTC)Zzz.