Isabel
Tulsa, OK:
Isabel Evan pulled the red jeep she shared with her brother into her uncle Tim's driveway and stepped out of the car. She hadn't been to Tulsa in a while and was happy to finally get to visit her cousin Rachel. She walked up to the door and ran the bell.
"Isabel! You're here!" Tim greeted her.
"Hey!" Isabel said in return.
"Bring your stuff in, I didn't tell Rachel you were coming yet, I figured we'd surprise her!"
"Great!" Isabel looked around. "Where is Rachel?"
"She's with her friend Jessica right now, but I can take you there or give you directions."
"That would be great!"
Tim gave Isabel the directions to the Hanson's house and she drove over.
Nervously, she rang the doorbell.
"Hi," a little girl answered.
"Is Rachel here?" Isabel asked her.
"Yeah!" she turned around and yelled to the next room. "RACHEL!!!! SOMEONES HERE FOR YOU!"
Rachel
Rachel was ecstatic to see her cousin Isabel at the door. "IZZY!" she squealed as she ran to hug her. "What are you doing here?"
Isabel
Isabel laughed and hugged her cousin in return. "I told you I was coming to visit, and I talked to Tim and he kept it as a surprise for you!"
Zac
"Hmm, I suppose this means you want to watch movies with us, huh?" Zac said with a teasing grin. "Trust you to turn up after everything's already been paid for."
Isabel
Isabel laughed. "YOU must be Zac."
Zac
"Actually, I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger's clone," Zac replied seriously.
Isabel
Isabel nodded, a slight smile and a skeptical look on her face, "mmhmm...sure...if you're Arnold Schwarzenegger's clone then I'm Queen"
Zac
Zac gave an elebaorate bow.
"Please, allow me to escort you to the Royal Viewing Chamber, Your Majesty."
Isabel
Isabel grinned. "The Royal Viewing Chamber? By all means, lead the way."
Rachel/Jessica
>Isabel laughed and hugged her cousin in return.
>"I told you I was coming to visit, and I talked to Tim and he kept it as a surprise for you!"
"Dude! that rocks! Zac, Jessi, this is my cousin Isabel, I was telling you about. From Roswell." Rachel was bouncing up and down. She had always been close to her cousins, especially Jake and Isabel. Max was alway kind of distant to her, and he always treated her like a little kid, but Izzy was like her soul sister.
>"Hmm, I suppose this means you want to watch movies with us, huh?" Zac said with a teasing grin. "Trust you to turn up after everything's already been paid for."
>Isabel laughed. "YOU must be Zac."
"Yeah," Rachel answered, "This is the doofus, and THIS is Jessi, she is one of my best friends in the whole universe," Rachel said.
"Oh really," Jess said, "Do you know a lot of people in the universe that aren't on this world?"
"Actually, a few, now that you mention it. Ax, the Ellimist, the Yeerks, the andalites, the hork-bajir, the Taxxons. . . . "
"Okay, okay, I concede, you do" Jess held up her hands in defeat, laughing.
>"Actually, I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger's clone," Zac replied seriously.
"Zac, stop living in a dream world, or I'm gonna be forced to kick your ass, and don't forget, I can." Rachel said, winking.
>Isabel nodded, a slight smile and a skeptical look on her face, "mmhmm...sure...if you're Arnold Schwarzenegger's clone then I'm Queen"
"Izzy, you are queen. Actually, no, Tess was queen, right, you're a princess." Rachel pointed out.
>"Please, allow me to escort you to the Royal Viewing Chamber, Your Majesty."
"Okay, let's go" Jess said. "I vote for 'Romeo & Juliet' first!"
Isabel
Isabel laughed. "Well, its nice to meet you all. I've heard so much about you." She looked at Zac as she said that, then looked at her cousin and grinned. "And Rach, you forgot my planet."
"If I killed off Max and Tess I would be queen." Isabel grinned. "And to tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind having Tess killed off..."
"That's with Claire Danes and Leo Decappitated...I mean, DeCapprio, right?" Isabel said with a grin.
Rachel/Jessica
"Oh yeah," Rachel said, laughing. "Oh, and the Hansons' planet too." Rachel grinned. "After all the aliens I've met, it really makes me wonder how anyone could actually believe that we're the only planet with intelligent life. We're not even the smartest planet! In fact, I can only think of a few races that are less intelligent than humans. Oh, and Zac, of course." Rachel said, pointedly.
"Yeah, but I don't think your parents would be very happy if you killed your brother. Besides, despite the fact that he's annoying, you gotta love the giant booger." Rachel said.
Isabel
"No no no! Just Tess! I could never kill Max. In fact I hope I never have to kill again..." Isabel looked slightly sad.
Rachel/Jesscia
"That's the one," Jess said.
"I second that emotion," Rachel said, "Leo rocks."
"awe, Izzy, don't be sad. I just realized, today is January 10th!" Rachel got an evil glint in her eye and started to sing, "Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Isabel, Happy birthday to you!!! And many more!"
Isabel
Isabel blushed.
"Rachel...." she whined.
Rachel/Jessica
"C'mon, don't be embarrassed. Birthdays are cool! You get stuff!" Jessi said.
"Yeah, tall one, birthdays rock!" Rachel said. Rachel was short, and she liked to tease Izzy for being so much taller than she. "Oooh, what did Max get you?"
Isabel
Isabel laughed. "Max had Liz and Maria shop for him, so 'Max' got me a sweater. But I suppose that's better than Max actually shopping himself!"
Rachel/Jessica
Rachel laughed. "I can just imagine Max trying to pick out a sweater for you. Although he's always known what to get me on my birthday. Remember what he got me last year? A book on Demonology, and a book on alternate dimensions. I guess he figured it out from all the episodes of Buffy I made him watch." Rachel laughed evilly.
Isabel
"I wasn't supposed to tell you, but he didn't pick those out entirely on his own" Isabel laughed. "What do you say we head on inside and watch those movies?"
Rachel/Jessica
"I figured you helped him. I bet that Max didn't even know I liked Buffy. I love his, he's my coz, but still, the guy's a little unaware." Rachel laughed. "So let's go watch some flicks, or else we won't have any time to watch them in!"
Isabel
"You think he's unaware? Try being his sister and living in the next bedroom. And he's supposed to have been king?"
Isabel laughed.
Rachel/Jessica
"I know what you mean. Anyways, here're the movies we rented. You're the birthday girl, which one do you wanna see first?" Rachel asked. Just psyched that her cousin was there. "Oh, and if the Jess, and her parents of course, don't mind, you wanna spend the night?"
"I don't mind, and I'm sure Mom won't either, we'll ask her when she gets back." Jess said, hoping Izzy would stay over. She liked the older girl.
Isabel
"I don't care which movie. You guys decide. Romeo and Juliet is fine with me if that's what you want to watch. And lets see, spend the night with my favorite cousin....or at her house with Uncle Tim....tough choice! I'll stay here!"
Rachel/Jessica
"Groovy. Though I don't think Zac'll like Shakespeare much. Let's watch Sidekicks," Rachel said, holding it up. I was a cheesy karate movie with Jonathan Brandis & Chuck Norris, but she loved it.
Isabel
"Fine by me. I've never seen that movie."
Taylor
"You've never seen the movie man you must not be from this planet." Taylor says as he comes downstairs.
Zac
"Tay, she's not from this planet. Just like a few other people I can mention," Zac grinned. "Now! Enough with the idle chatter already!"
Zac started herding everyone into the lounge room.
"Get moving! Hup, two, seven, ten!"
Isabel
Isabel smiled at him. Could this be the Taylor Rachel had told her about? Despite her initial despising him for being a Hanson, Isabel couldn't help but notice that he actually was sort of attractive.
Isabel smiled and followed the herd into the living room area, making herself comfortable on the couch.
Taylor
Taylor followed them into the living room. When he got in there he saw that the only seat available was next to Isabel.
Taylor looked at Isabel and thought she was kinda of cute.
Isabel
Isabel watched as the Zac, Rachel and Jess sorted through the movies and found the one they had decided on.
"Do you have anything to drink?" Isabel inquired.
Rachel/Jessica
"Zac," Jessi said, "Shut up. Or I'll give Rachel permission to kick your ass like she's been wanting to, and you know she could." Rachel grinned evilly.
Rachel made sure to sit next to Zac. She loved to torment him. Besides he was kind of cute, but Rachel wasn't sure she was over Tobias yet. He was still all she thought about.
Zac
"Rachel couldn't kick my ass if she tried," Zac replied cooly. "She might be able to turn into a trillion different animals, but I could fry or freeze every one of them with my temperature power. SO there. Now get moving! We're running out of valuable movie watching time."
Zac gave everyone a long look.
"We all ready now? Good."
He stuck the DVD in the player and pressed the 'play movie' button, then he stretched out on the lounge - his feet on Jess's lap and his head on Rachel's.
Rachel/Jessica
Rachel waited until Zachad turned around, and when he wasn't facing her, she quickly morphed into a lion, and pounced him. While he was lying flat on his front, she quickly turned back into Rachel, and pulled her clothes on over her morphing outfit.
"So, yiou'd freeze me before I'd ever have a chance to hit you? Hah! Besides, if you attack a girl, I'll tell your mother, and Diana Hanson is one person I would NOT want to have one my bad side." Rachel said smugly as she walked past a stunned Zac Hanson who was still sitting on the floor, staring at her.
Jess pushed Zac's feet off her lap. "Zac, no shoes on my new clean pants. I paid $40 for these pants, and I happen to like them the way they are." Jessi's pants were bright pink wide-leg corderoys that she had bought at Hot Topic.
IC: Rachel didn't mind Zac's head in her lap. With that she decided to be extra evil. Jake would kill her, but she didn't care. Zac was annoying. Laying her hand on his head, she concentrated, and felt his form go limp.
OOC: Rachel just aquired Zac's DNA, for all of you who don't read Animorphs.
Zac
Zac moved his legs off Jess's lap, and frowned at the TV. He had the oddest feeling he had just missed something. Hmm. No matter. Thinking of Rachel's little lion attack on him earlier, Zac started concentrating. He had to be subtle about it else she would figure out what was going on. Throughout the movie he was going to gradually increase the temperature of Rachel's cushion. Now normally cushions do get hotter the longer you sit on them, but Zac was planning on making this borderline unbearable. And she thought she could get the best of Zac Hanson!
Rachel
As the movie neared the end, Rachel stood up to do what she always did when watching martial arts movies: she copied the kata & pretended to kick the bad guys butts! When the fighting scenes were over she sat down on the sofa again, only to jump up almost instantly when she came in contact with the scalding hot sofa cushions.
"ZAC!" She screamed, as she reflexively jumped into fighting stance. "Come on, let's do this, no powers, just you and me. No shoes, no gloves, just strength and skill. Or are you too chicken?" Rachel taunted.
Zac
Zac cracked up laughing. In fact, he was laughing too hard to even consider Rachel's challenge.
Rachel
"Okay, Zac, it's you and me. Take off your shoes and socks. We're fighting this out. No powers, no weapons. Or are you afraid I'll kick your ass?" Rachel said, as she pulled Zac over to the living room and moved the coffee table out of the way. She knew she could kick his ass, but she figured he was too much of an egomaniac to realize that she could. She was a gymnast, had been studying martial arts for years, and she fought in an interstellar war. There was no way Zac would win this fight. Plus, she was a girl, and everyone knows that girls are way better than guys.
Zac
"Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," Zac said, still laughing. "No. I ain't chicken but I don't hit girls. I'm afraid this is the best I can do."
Zac leaned over and gave her a big smoochy kiss on the lips, then turned on his heal and left the room. Quickly. Before she had time to respond.
Rachel
Wiping off her mouth, she bounded after him and planted a roundhouse kick firmly on his rear. then she flipped him over and straddled his middle.
"Sorry Zac, I don't kiss pervs, so this'll have to do." With that, she planted a big raspberry on his forehead, and then stood up.
"Okay, so, what movie shall we watch next?"
Zac
Zac stood up again slowly. Oh, she wanted him. She so wanted him. He smirked to himself.
"I'm all for the Sixth Day," he said.
Rachel
Jess laughed, Zac was such an idiot.
"I vote fore Romeo and Juliet, or Pumpkin."
"I'm all for R&J," Rachel put in.
Isabel
Isabel watched in amusement as Rachel beckoned for Zac to come fight. "So, are they always like this when they're together?" she asked Taylor.
"I dont mind which movie you choose. The only one I've seen is Romeo and Juliet." Isabel stated with a shrug.
Taylor
"Yes they are."Taylor said looking in Isabel's eyes.
Rachel/Jessica
After about 4 movies, the group all felt movied-out. So Jess went to the kitchen to grab some munchies. That was when Rachel's eyes got an evil glint.
"I have an idea," Rachel said, grinning, "How about we put the movies on hold for a while, and play some Truth of Dare? I haven't had a good game of Truth or Dare in ages."
Zac
Zac wiggled his eyebrows.
"I'm game," he said.
Jessica
"Okay," Jessi sighed, "I'm in, even though--playing party games with your brothers? Not cool. Eh, whatever."
Isabel
Isabel gave her cousin a look.
"Truth or Dare? I havent played that since I was 12."
Zac
"Since you were 12?" Zac repeated with a malicious grin. "Why, Isabel, that's when it begins to be fun!"
Jessica
"All right," Jess said, "Let's get started." And they all started to sit down in a circle.
Isabel
Isabel shrugged and gave a slight smile.
"Whatever you say. Who starts?"
Isaac/Zac/Grant
"Hey, what's going on in here?" asked Isaac, walking in with a friend of his.
"You're back late," Zac observed.
"I'm 22 years old. I'll come back as late as I want. By the way, Grant is gonna stay here tonight. He's..." Isaac trailed off, noticing Isabel, whom he didn't recognise.
"Isabel is cool," Zac said. "She's alien too. Rachel's cousin."
"Oh okay. Neat. Grant's been on the run from some alien hunters, from two states away," Isaac rolled his eyes. "Can't these morons leave us alone? My goodness."
"We're playing Truth or Dare, wanna join us?"
"Sure!" Isaac answered. "That's fine with you Grant?"
Grant nodded.
Zac
"Alright," Zac said, rubbing his hands together. "Isabel, truth or dare?"
Isabel
Isabel hesitated a moment.
"Truth."
Zac/Isaac
"Truth! Spoil sport!" Zac grumbled. "Hmm okay..."
He thought for a moment.
"In graphic detail, what is your most erotic experience ever?"
"Zac!" Isaac said, staring at him. "You only just met her today, and that's your challenge?"
"Yep," he replied smugly. "That's it. What? I'm male, and 17 years old, what do you expect?"
Isabel
"Girls dont kiss and tell Zac. Not even on a truth. Besides, he's dead now. Not someone I want to talk about."
Zac
"This game is called 'Truth or Dare' for a reason you know. You're not allowed to refuse!" Zac complained.
Rachel
Seeing the pain in her cousin's eyes, Rachel spoke up.
"Zac, don't make her talk about him. How about this. If you refuse a Truth, you have to do two Dares, or a Truth AND a Dare?" Rachel put her arm around her beloved cousin protectively.
Isabel
"Thanks Rach," Isabel said, looking at her cousin. "I'll take a dare and a DIFFERENT truth."
Zac
"Oh, fine, be that way, you fun spoliers!" Zac grumbled. "Umm, well, for your dare you have to... go outside and sing 'I'm a little teapot' at the top of your lungs. With the actions. And for your truth... you have to tell us... umm... the worst nickname anyone has ever given you. There, is that lame enough for you?"
Isabel
"Isabel nodded. Alright. Worst nickname? Beanstalk, because I've always been tall. As for the singing, well, here goes!"
Isabel stood up and walked to the door, the others following behind her, and began singing 'I'm A Little Teapot' at the top of her lungs, doing the actions and all as requested.
"Happy now? My turn. Taylor, Truth or dare?"
Taylor
"I'll go with Truth." Taylor answered. He always hated getting dares.Anyway to him Truth was more fun.
Isabel
Isabel nodded and thought to herself for a moment.
"Alright, do you or do you not enjoy girls throwing their underwear at you during concerts?"
Isabel knew it was lame, but she never was very good at Truth-or-Dare.
Taylor
"I do not enjoy it.It is really gross."Taylor said as he rolled his eyes.
Isabel
Isabel laughed.
"Ok. Well, your turn."
Taylor
"Okay.Jessica Truth or Dare?" Taylor asked eyeing his sister.
Jessica
"Um, truth. I don't trust my brothers as far as I can throw them." And considering how little Jessica was, nthat coiuldn't be very far.