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005 ⇨ every family needs a cook

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[here is Mae, doing her thing in the kitchen - stirring some soup over the fire, gently, a small smile on her face, very matron - hold on, something is wrong.]

Now, I know that you must've been impressed by that boy, my dear heart, but falling in love is no excuse to skip your meals. There's barely any meat on those bones - do you think any self-respecting prince would want to wed someone with no hips?

No, no. [waggling the wooden spoon in the air - at absolutely no-one? - and then smiling again.] That's why you have Nanny Mae here for, though, sweet one. We'll get you all dolled up in a heartbeat.

[ooc; Every novel has the matronly caretaker of the princess/girl/heroine. Knowing the luck of this family, Mae will probably think Jamie and Alan are her princess-charges. :D But she'd feed everyone. And by feed I do mean poison. Ew Mae!food.]

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Well, I'd certainly hope so - it's what any self-respecting young princess as yourself deserves.

... Did you just say princess? [It has to be a curse, right? Mae wouldn't go this far for a joke-- plus, princess? Jamie feels slightly insulted. He couldn't at least be a dashing prince or... or knight in shining armour ready to sweep a dashing prince off his feet?] Mae, do you feel faint at all? Is your vision blurred?

How many fingers? [He holds up three.]

Three...[scowling again.] What game are we playing now? I feel perfectly fine - but by the way you're behaving, I'd say you need some food.

[He stares at the soup apprehensively.] Oh, no, I just ate! Thinking about it, it might have been off. I probably shouldn't chance more food right now.

[She looks at him apprehensively, then at the soup. Purses her lips. And then shrugs her shoulders.]

Some tea, then.

I'm sure tea would be lovely! [... It's hard to mess up boiled water and a tea bag, isn't it? Jamie doesn't usually drink much of the stuff, himself. He figures being a football fan is enough of a British stereotype.]

[Boiling water in a pot.]

While we wait, tell me more about him.

[Him? A theoretical love interest? Not that Jamie would object overly much to actually having a dashing prince vying for his affections, but sadly he thinks this is as much of a hallucination as everything else Mae is saying.

... But it won't hurt to play along, will it? Considering that it's rather amusing, really, to have Mae acting like... this.]

He's very... um, princely? As you might expect, I suppose. And he has... very nice abs. He could be a model in a different, twenty-first century life.

Aren't we in the twenty-first century? [Gives him an odd look - you know, because what is time consistency in these novels anyway? NOTHING.]

So...he has a nice body. [Giggle. Yes - a giggle.]

Are we? [So is this theoretical prince meant to be Prince William or his City equivalent or something?? ... not that that would inspire much complaint, either.] Oh, well, I just meant... if he had a properly twenty-first century occupation. Since I'm told princes have been around for a while.

[Jamie nods solemnly-- and by solemn it means he is trying very hard to not burst out laughing-- in response to the giggle, though. Mae, giggling? The world is ending.] Very nice. He must work out.

A nice income and a good body, yes - that's quite a good line-up he's got there, your prince.

[She smiles - at ease, because her little dear boy is growing up and soon will have to learn how to knit for his future husband and so on - and pats his cheek lovingly.]

You grow up so fast...

Rich and good-looking, what else do you need?

[And well, while Jamie thinks this is quite possibly the most hilarious curse-- Nanny Mae?-- it is also a bit freaky.]

Well, I'm only sixteen. Don't you think it's a bit early to be telling me I've grown up? I'm not even a legal adult yet.

At your age, my mother would've married me off already...

[Frown.] I don't think Annabel would go that far.

Well - either way, now I have a different duty.

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