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Do As I Say, And Not As I Do [Closed]

This was a conspiracy. However Sherry and Vivio's respective parents had come to the conclusion that it would be a good idea for them to room together, must've have certainly forgotten how much Sherry disliked being stuck in small rooms with people she barely knew.

And a few words here and there when Sherry went to download a new book or watch a movie in the Media Library didn't count as a long and lasting friendship between children. Be nice, her parents had said.

Well, she hadn't said anything particularly blunt lately, did that count? Sherry rolled over to her side in the dark room and looked at the back of her roommate's head. Their parents had done their final check up on the girls before turning out the lights and going of to do whatever it was adults did once they sent their children away.

"Vivio. Vivio. Are you awake?" Sherry whispered loudly.

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Sherry took hold of Vivio's hand and led them both outside. Here it was. Freedom! Interesting things to look at! Not being in bed!

"See, and you were worried," she almost smiled and bounced a bit on the balls of her feet, excitedly.

Poor Sherry. That excitement would be short-lived, when the doors of the hotel opened, and Claire came running out, immediately spotting the pair attempting to make a break for it. She was actually relieved they hadn't gotten far.

"And just where do you two think you're going?"

Vivio came to a stop hearing that voice. She wasn't too familiar with it, but the fact that it was directed at them two...

...Vivio came to a stop and turned around, eyes wide.

"Ahh...! U-Um, ahh...!" Vivio stammered. Her mind began racing as to figure out what to say next.

Sherry blanched and turned around slowly, "M-Mom...!" She backpedaled further into the street. "You're, um, here." Her first thought was to throw Vivio at her mother and take off, but was quickly ignored.

"...Hi?" Her plan! Her wonderful plan! Ruined.

"Hi." Claire's tone was flat, although it wasn't unkind. She held the door open, gesturing with her other hand.

"It's late, and you two should be in bed, right?" Honestly she hadn't really expected Sherry to sneak off in the middle of the night, sheesh.

"Y-Yes, but..." Vivio began. Her mind was racing, trying to find answers, until...

"...she made me go with her! I wanted to stay in bed, but she wanted to go out!" Vivio cried out, pointing at Sherry. Sacred Heart visibly face palmed.

Vivio Takamachi: Saint Stool Pidgin.

Sherry sighed at Vivio and trudged to the door. Hindsight was 20/20: maybe she should've just made a run for it, and thrown Vivio under the proverbial bus.

Claire sighed as the girls marched past, closing the door behind them and dropping a hand on Sherry's shoulder as they walked, just to make sure Sherry didn't decide to make a break for it.

"My little ringleader," she muttered quietly, doing her best not to find it funny. This was serious parenting time, after all.

Vivio walked on, hanging her head.

To her, she was probably a dead girl. Or at the very least, a punished one.

Sacred Heart hovered right behind Vivio, wanting to comfort the girl, but held back. If Nanoha came in and saw it doing so, she'd be mad at him as well!

The elevator dinged, and out of the doors came one of the other girl's mothers - who sighed in relief when she saw Claire with Vivio and Sherry in tow. "Oh good," Nanoha exhaled, "You found them. Did they get too far?"

"Barely got out the door," she replied, giving Nanoha a slight smile, steering Sherry into the elevator. She wasn't going to let go of the little girl until they were back upstairs.

Nanoha wasn't the only one in the elevator; Vivio's other mother was also there, and the worry was clear on her face, especially when she saw how terrified Vivio seemed to be.

"Are you two okay?"

Oh, no. Worst nightmare confirmed. Nanoha-mama and Fate-mama are here.

Vivio cowed a bit, looking down, shuffling her feet.

"...we're okay..." Vivio said.

Oh great, both sets of parents had been on high alert. Sherry kept her eyes trained onto ground and tried not to look completely irritated with the failure of her plan. It was even harder to keep the annoyance out of her voice, and she failed for the most part.

"We didn't go anywhere."

"Well, that's not as bad as it could have been," Nanoha said, closing her eyes - and then putting a firm hand on Vivio's shoulder as she steered her into the elevator - that didn't mean it was good, either.

"Leon's upstairs, Claire - I think he was going to check the sky lobby first."

Claire nodded her head, relaxing her grip on Sherry's shoulder a little once the doors closed.

"He'll hopefully be back by the time we get upstairs, then." She knew Sherry would be hoping for otherwise, but even if he wasn't there, she was just going to call him, anyway.

Oh, he was back. A call from the Sky Lobby to the ground one told him that a pair of girls had passed through, only to be retrieved by a redhead. So after breathing a sigh of relief, he decided that he'd meet them there.

So, when the elevator doors opened again, there he was, in the hallway, and he looked none too thrilled at the moment.

Oh boy. The stone of dread that had been sitting high in Sherry's chest dropped down into her stomach. She glanced up once at Claire, and then back at her father before immediately looking at the nice, red carpet on the ground.

"...uh-oh." Her shoulders sagged slightly. She had a pretty good idea where this was going, and it wasn't ice cream.

Vivio looked at Leon and realized that she was PROBABLY wishing Nanoha was the one doing the talking at this moment.

On a scale of 1 to 10 on being scary? Leon was ranking at "Vita", right about now.

No, wait, "Signum".

"...meep..." Vivio peeped out.

"Go back into your room," he commanded in a low, dark tone, "and wait."

The adults had to decide how very dead those two were.

Nanoha let go of Vivio's shoulder so she could do just that, understanding Leon's meaning. "We'll come talk to you after you've had a chance to think about what you two did."

And after they've talked, of course.

Sherry's bangs fell into her eyes, and all for the better if you asked her. It meant that the withering glare her father had laid on her was at least mitigated by them. "Yessir," she mumbled and did her best not to sigh. At least, not loudly.

The girls hurried inside their room and Sherry closed the door behind them with a click that rang sharply of finality. She glanced at Vivio. "It's fine if you blame everything on me; it was my idea, anyway. The less trouble I can mitigate from you is probably for the better." At least Vivio's parents were three times less scary than her father right now.

Sherry ticked off the things her parents were likely to take away from her: she was probably, without a doubt, grounded. Her electronic reader would probably be taken, too. There was definitely going to be a lecture about not sneaking off, since her parents seemed to enjoy The Lecture. Depending on the length of her grounding, she could probably deal with the punishment of having her reader taken away. Sherry flopped back on her bed and stared at the ceiling.

How had they caught them so quickly?

Vivio also let out a small, meekly "Yessir" before following Sherry into their room. Vivio was a lot more scared than Sherry was - she had a bit more at stake than Sherry did at being grounded. Nanoha and Fate could take Sacred Heart away - which pretty much equated to "no magic" - and with her as the Media Library's librarian, she could actually be punished for doing something reckless.

"...no. No, I can't do that, Sherry." Vivio said. "This is my fault just as much as it was yours. I should have done more to stop you... to stop us. I knew this was a bad idea and I should have spoken up before it got this way..."

Meanwhile, back with the parents!

Fate wasn't a stern parent. Not at all. She spoiled her child a bit, was the type to help her stand rather than let her stand on her own, and was generally the parent you'd go to when you want to get away with something.

But even she had to agree that some sort of action needed to be taken with this. Disobeying them was one thing, but disobeying them and attempting to sneak out into an unfamiliar city, on an unfamiliar planet, at night was something completely different.

"So... what are we going to do?"

Yes, Fate was horrible with disciplining. So it's up to the others to think of a suitable punishment. ~~Don't worry, girls, she'll at least make sure they're not too harsh.~~

Leon was good at being the stern parent, or, at the least, he was good at being stern, the whole parent thing was still a work in progress. Though once the girls disappeared to their room he did drop the glare.

Not that he could entirely blame them for wanting to go out. It was their first time off the ship in Who Knows How Long, and on the surface, this place didn't seem that dangerous. But going out, unsupervised, at night, on an alien planet was definitely on the list of things Sherry was clearly Not Allowed To Do.

"Ground them 'til they're thirty." That seemed fair, right?

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