crossover_chick | A Multiverse Christmas Carol: Stave Seven

Stave Seven:
“Yeah! She actually called Christmas a ‘humbug!’ Can you believe that, Dad?”
“Yeah, I can believe it,” Irving “Kid” Tannen nodded from his chair by the fire. “That dame always had a stick up her ass. If it was fun, she was against it.” He looked out the window, a strange, wistful expression on his face. “Most of the time.”
“I don’t believe you ever had a fling with her, Grandpa,” Biff’s daughter Tiffany said from the floor. “I mean--” She stuck her nose up in the air and did her best impression of Edna’s voice “– “I would never stoop so low as to even touch a Tannen!’”
“Oh, she touched me all right,” Kid said with a smirk. “We had loads of fun together.”
“Ewww!” Tiffany made a face. “Too much information, Grandpa!”
“Well, you started it,” Kid replied, sticking his tongue out at her. His gaze went back to the window, and he sighed. “Yeah,” he mumbled. “Loads of fun.”
Edna watched him, feeling a most peculiar sensation inside. Something light and heavy all at once. “He can’t possibly miss me,” she mumbled.
“Sure he can,” the Ghost of Christmas Present replied, tilting his head and rolling his eye between his eye sockets. “You two had some good times, right? Christmas Past covered those, right?”
“He covered our first kiss, then our breakup.”
“All right, maybe a bad example – but there were good times in between those, weren’t there?”
Edna looked at Kid’s wrinkled profile. Slowly, a smile came to her lips. “Yes,” she admitted with only a touch of reluctance. “There were.” She placed a hand on the back of his chair. “Maybe – maybe when we get back – I could say hello again. Just – just in the spirit of the season.”
“I think he’d appreciate a lot more than a ‘hello.’”
“I think you are incredibly crude.”

-M: THESE MENTAL IMAGES ARE NOT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON-
*snrrrk* Sorry. Anyway, yeah, this is another one that's slightly out of order -- this is Edna's version of the "visiting Scrooge's nephew on Christmas" scene. Bonejangles instead takes her to see the Tannens, so that she can see her "Belle" is still pining for her.
-D: I can't believe he thinks of her fondly.-
I could probably get you to believe that if we had a bit showing them actually together. *shrug* They seemed happy enough at the end of The Game. . .
-VuM: Too weird, seriously.-
Yeah, I know. Not too much to say here -- everybody in this Tannen room has been represented in The Game at some point. Tiffany, of course, is Tiff Tannen, whom Edna yells at in the first episode. (She also appears as a card in the Card Game, I believe.) Naturally she'd be inclined to think no Strickland would have anything to do with a Tannen.
-M: I still wonder how Mr. Strickland took the news his older sister would be marrying the father of his teenage nemesis.-
Probably poorly. "YOU'RE MARRYING WHO?!"
Anyway, not too much to say about this, except it's supposed to be fluffy and probably fails horribly because of the couple involved. Ah well. :p

And I can't stick around and chat -- gotta get to bed because I've got an early final tomorrow! And selling back my books. Fingers crossed they take them all!