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Post by zallen on Aug 25, 2011 19:39:21 GMT -7
Contrary to what one might think upon first glance at Zoe's behavior, she did not see anything outright wrong with this time period. This time period was perfectly fine for those who felt as though they belonged in it. Zoe did not. She had a hard time connecting to anyone from this world. Her mother was one thing. The woman had carried Zoe in her stomach for nine months. She'd actually listened to Zoe when Zoe tried to talk to her about her past life (though Zoe didn't understand that was what it was at the time). Her father, under the stress of balancing the duties of work and being a single father, scarcely paid attention to Zoe. So, she did what she saw fit - She rejected him as well. Zachary was also a different story. He might be from this time period, but he was also there for her to mold the way she wanted to mold him. She did care for him, but her views toward her little brother were more than a little corrupt. "We will be in charge no matter what."[/color] Zoe agreed. They couldn't afford to leave it all up to some guy like Calico Jack again. Though Zoe wouldn't mind meeting up with him again, the point still remained that she and Anne had tried to save the ship while he couldn't, which, in her eyes, made her an infinitely better pirate than he. Still, he was a part of her past, and she couldn't toss that aside so easily. Ironic, since she tossed most of the people she met in this life to the side. This was different, though. This was the glory days. She did have to make a little side note on Ana's 'no men' rule, though. "Well, there's one man I'd allow, but Zachary would know better than to overstep his boundaries with me."[/color] She smiled, then decided she ought to explain. "My four year old brother. Raised by someone who can actually accomplish the job properly."[/color] She scoffed, clearly bitter toward the boy's true parents. In reality, Zoe's father and stepmother never really had the chance to prove that they could raise the boy before Zoe took that opportunity for them. "That's exactly what it is, and we need to be careful, because they're pretty smart."[/color] The admittance came reluctantly, but rang true. Zoe did have to grudgingly respect a lot of her fellow RSOR members. That didn't mean that she didn't want to rock the boat, however. Just the thrill of trying to get around something that no one else had gotten around before. "I would say we should hunker down at the library straight away, but then someone might see us. I could invite you back to my place. No one would be able to track what we're doing there. Except Zachary, and he'll be too busy watching Pirates of the Caribbean to care."[/color] Yup, Pirates of the Caribbean. She was training that boy young. Living on her own came in handy once again. Thanks, Uncle Sylvester. Word count: 540 To: Jez-E with Ana Notes: Randomly named uncle. And I had to use spellcheck twice before I could spell Caribbean correctly. >.> |
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Post by anabelle on Sept 1, 2011 15:41:27 GMT -7
heaven help me, i didn't see
the devil in your eyes… [/b][/color]  ANABELLE BOWDEN[/size][/b] ====================================[/center][/color] Ana was pleased to hear Zoe was on the same page as her. No men were going to hold their lives in their dirty alcoholic man hands ever again. What happened on the Revenge that day would never happen again. It was something Anne barely survived and she hadn’t enjoyed life after that moment. And Mary barely had a life after that moment. That was a practice run, and this time their performance would be flawless! They were given a second chance and Anne intended to make the best of it. Especially, when there was no Jack around to fuck it up.
In her first life, Jack was the captain. Jack was in charge. He called the shots, he gave commands and all respected him. Anne and Mary had commanded their own form of respect from the crew, but this time they would be in charge. The time period they were in now had one major perk, and Anne planned to use it to her advantage: women were equal to men. Ana wondered if there were any women’s right activists around to thank for that when she got the chance ((I had to)).
Anne listened to Mary’s mentioning of Zachary and nodded as she mentioned the boundaries and Zach’s following them. She could agree with that. And hearing the second comment, Anne knew just who had raised the boy. ”Well Zachary is more than welcome, as long as he knows his place. And any kid raised by you is sure to be the perfect angel, male or female…Wish I could have said the same for my ten children…but they are all rotten brats. And by that I mean, Zach has the capacity for true fun and my children were boring, good for nothing, law abiding brats,”
[/b] Anne added, sounding displeased with them. ”Too bad I couldn’t have dropped all of them off in Cuba with their older sister…”[/b] Anne added with a knowing grin. Anne had been pregnant with Jack’s child shortly after she ran off with him. When they were cruising through Cuba she had dropped the child off there and never saw the kid again. She liked it that way, and though at times she had wondered what it would have been like to raise a child aboard a ship, she was thankful she hadn’t. First, because the child would have been a pain in the ass. Second, because her child would have been executed just like the rest of them. She had still been a mother after all, and her child’s safety was in her mind, even if she had abandoned her. Anne bit her lip in irritation when she heard that the RSOR was actually intelligent and that made things that much harder. But at the same time, it made her want to succeed even more than it had before. ”Library sounds like a bad idea. But it couldn’t hurt to take some books out. No one will know the difference…We can go separately and take out whatever sounds good. Then meet back at your place, here, put your address in my phone.”[/b] Ana handed Zoe her phone. ”Pirates of the Caribbean huh?”[/b] Ana said, her amusement clear on her face. Yes, Zach did sound like an interesting child that much was clear. [/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/color] ==================================== [/color] •• Tag • Zoe Allen ••
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Post by zallen on Sept 1, 2011 15:52:11 GMT -7
Was Zoe bitter at how her first life turned out? Very much so! As much as she enjoyed her days on the Revenge, almost her entire first life had been at the mercy of others. As a child, she was told that she had to pretend to be a boy, to live as a boy. She wasn't allowed to be Mary Read, and had to pretend to be Mark Read, her older brother. As an adult, she'd entered the army under the guise of a man, then found herself on the Revenge. She'd had a taste of power on the Revenge, and it was only natural for her to want more. The way she could command respect, despite being a woman in that time period...it was an intoxicating feeling. Zoe smirked proudly as her best friend (they might have only just met in this life, but they were starting right where they'd left off - as far as Zoe was concerned, the fact that they hadn't seen each other in centuries didn't matter) complimented Zach and her parenting abilities. "Oh, he knows his place."[/color] She frowned when the other girl mentioned having ten children. "Ten children? That must have been hell."[/color] She'd wanted to raise the child she'd been impregnated with shortly before her death, and she enjoyed raising Zachary. However, she knew that her temper would grow short with ten children. She wasn't even sure if she could handle a child other than Zachary. Zachary, though, was proving to be a fine child. He already showed talent at shoplifting! "Yes, well, Zach knows just where to hide toys at the grocery store so that he doesn't have to put them on the counter."[/color] At a younger age, Zach had done this simply because he didn't know any better. After several instances where Zoe praised him for his sneakiness, he did it for her approval, and his approaches were surprisingly clever. He was starting to learn not to tell anyone about it either. It was a fine day when she and Zach came home from the grocery store and Zach kicked off his shoes and removed his sock, proudly showing off a Butterfinger he'd hidden within the sock. Zoe not only typed her address into Ana's cellphone, but also added herself as a contact. "Now you can contact me if you need to. Maybe we could try two different libraries. There should be one at the school and one in the town, right? You can check out the one here and I'll stop by the one in town. Makes more sense for me to go to that one anyway, it's on my way home from school."[/color] At Ana's comment about Pirates of the Caribbean, Zoe smirked in return. "What else?"[/color] Word count: 486 To: Jez-E with Ana Notes: Think we're probably nearing the end on this one? I dunno. |
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Post by anabelle on Sept 3, 2011 15:53:13 GMT -7
heaven help me, i didn't see
the devil in your eyes… [/b][/color] ANABELLE BOWDEN[/size][/b] ====================================[/center][/color] It was hard for things to be unnatural between Anne and Mary. Ana wasn’t even considering just how strange circumstances were at that moment. They had just reunited but things hadn’t changed at all and the fact that it felt right that way seemed a good thing and not the least bit strange to her. They had known each other so long it was hard for the reintroduction to be awkward…at least since neither had slighted the other in the first life. If Anne ever ran into Jack again, things would be very different.
Anne sighed. ”Ten was more than I ever wanted. Marriage is for chumps. Mark my words. And not an adventurous bone in their bodies either. They were far from being my children.”
[/b] Ana was of course referring to personality as being none of her doing. She’d have rather dealt with outraged neighbours and irritated teachers than have the little angels she had. At least then she could feel like there was some good (or bad technically) that had come of her later life. It just wasn’t the same without the sailing and the pillaging. Anne couldn’t help but beam with pride for Zach. She felt a connection to the boy already and Mary had clearly done what she had to, raising the kid with a sense of wild and rebellion. That was how it was meant to be, and anyone who said otherwise was a browner or a goodie-two-shoes. Rebels had fun that law abiding citizens would never understand. They got the thrill and the chills that came with doing bad things. Not to mention the perks of keeping what they stole. ”He sounds amazing. A real credit to the world…or at least my idea of a credit to the world. Police and Government be damned!”[/b] She said, a smile firmly on her face. ”He is more than welcome aboard my ship. All pick pockets, shoplifters and pirates of all kinds!”[/b] The last part included any thief not under the first two categories and she intended to make the world quake in wonder at her prowess. One day… ”Of course, that is when I have a ship at all…”[/b] Ana added with an expression of ‘oops-getting-ahead-of-myself. ”I think I shall call it ‘Revenge Take Two’…or ‘Vengeance’… Or ‘Up Yours’…or maybe even ‘Jack’s my bitch’,“[/b] Ana added with a laugh. ”Alright, I got the school library then. And we should make use of the internet. Hey, you never know right?”[/b] Ana tacked on, more than ready to work this scheme. She loves the thrill that came with doing wrong on someone. And any authority was there for one reason alone, and that was to have their laws broken. Life was no fun if everyone followed the rules. Ana wasn’t about to become one of those people![/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/color] ==================================== [/color] •• Tag • Zoe Allen ••
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•• Outfit • CLICK ••
•• Lyrics • "Devil in Disguise" by Elvis Presley ••
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