Room 227, Saturday Morning

[whenshewasnice]

This morning was the best morning. Natalie (who'd skipped her senior prom because no, thank you) woke up well rested and feeling in complete control of herself. It was a great feeling.

Having gotten up, she considered finally tackling all the stuff for her independent classes, but ended up at the keyboard instead. She hadn't really been able to play any songs this entire week. It felt liberating to be able to pluck whatever notes she wanted to out of her instruments without her mind drifting to other things.

Speaking of which, maybe a little later she'd take a moment to reflect on the things she'd sone over the week, witha clear mind. Or maybe not. For now, she'd enjoy being able to do things without being massively distracted.

... As if that was going to last.

[ooc: Closed door but open post, duh! (Even for people who aren't, in fact, me.)]

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Well. Cassidy wasn't even remotely surprised that the random portal had dropped her off in Fandom. You know why? Because the one that had scooped her up in the first place had been in Fandom too.

Please, this AU kid thing had already happened to her with her own kids.

So, yeah, making her way to the dorms to check whether either of her parents were around was kind of an obvious next step.

... And a winner was Nat. The prize was a knock on her door.

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Oh, sigh. Of course someone had to come knocking. Natalie left the keyboard alone to come open the door, even though she really didn't want to.

And then once she had, she had a hard time understanding what she was seeing.

"... What."

[whenshewasaliar.livejournal.com]

Rosalind didn't really have a preference for which parent she found first, but after looking at the directory she decided to pick the one that wouldn't have her climbing up five flights of stairs in heels.

She knocked politely on the door, but she wouldn't be above using her stele to open it if she had to.

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Natalie opened the door. She might not for the next person who knocked, though.

She looked the girl over and said, "Oh, good, there's more of you."

That was only a little bit obviously sarcastic.

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Cassidy snorted. "Well, this has to be the most surprised I've actually seen you look."

Then she raised an eyebrow, looking at Natalie's neck.

"Also, wow, Maman. Those are some hickeys you've got there."

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"Been busy, Mom?" Rosalind asked, looking amused. "Good for you."

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"Well, you're the second to show up." Which meant that she'd at least had the chance to put on some actual clothes, and a scarf to cover up the fading bruises on her neck because ugh. "Which one are you?"

She actually had a fairly solid guess.

"You do look awfully tawny-eyed."

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Natalie immediately, instinctively tried to cover up her neck with her collar.

Before he words actually caught up with her. "Did you just call me Maman?"

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She wrinkled up her nose. "You always say it that way. Brown will suffice."

Not according to Cassandra Clare, Rosalind!

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"Not when half your genes come courtesy of Cassie Clare," Natalie agreed with her narrative. "But that does confirm my suspicion, Miss ––" She hazarded a guess. "–– Wayland-Adams?"

She already knew she slapped her last name on all her kids like some kind of an egomaniac.

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"Lightwood-Adams. Dad finally settled on a last name years ago," she said, laughing a little. "Rosalind."

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Oh good God, she'd given birth to a Lightwood. Alec was going to scowl a lot.

"Rosalind," Natalie repeated, nodding. It was a nice name, but then, she hadn't exactly doubted herself and Jace on that score. "Better than another clone daughter. Do you want to come in?"

Cassidy had gone off to get souvenirs to take back to her Fandom.

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"Yes, thank you." Well she did have her manners when she felt like it. "You have a clone daughter?"

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Natalie moved out of the way to let her in. "With a girl who looks like me," she replied, with a hint of a drawl. "So all three of us look the same. But she dyes her hair."

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"Well, yeah, Maman," Cassidy replied, with the smile of someone who'd definitely inherited Kate's love of playfulness and playing people. "Because it's easier than if I called you both Mom."

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Rosalind looked impressed. "You had a child with another woman. A woman that looks like you. Somehow I think Dad would be proud of that."

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"Your dad's proud of me for some very strange things." That was just fact. She looked Rosalind over again, then raised an eyebrow at a thought. "He's stopped calling me big sister, right?"

Look, you couldn't trust things when CC was involved.

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Rosalind's lifted eyebrows pretty much answered that question. "Outside of the bedroom at least, I don't know anything beyond that."

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"Just checking," Natalie replied, a bit dryly. "I'm reassured now."

If only because she didn't know what name she actually went by in general, where the girl was from.

Or how mousey she looked in comparison, right now.

"You look a lot like him."

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"He says I look like you," she said, looking Natalie over. "Not so much right now though."

Rosalind was pretty much dressed to the nines, but that was bound to happen when Jace was your father.

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"Thank you," Natalie replied very dryly. "Sorry, I wasn't expecting company today, and I already skipped one fancy clothes occasion yesterday."

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Rosalind didn't even have a good response to that considering that sounded so unlike her mother. "Hm. Dad did say you were different when you were younger."

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"Well, he's probably a horrible influence."

No, really. The Envy he had was probably worse than most others.

There was no one keeping egos in check over there. "As much as I like him."

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"... What?"

Nice one, Natalie.

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Cassidy smiled in a pretty patient way. "Okay, long story short: Uncle Topher wanted to run a few tests on you and Mom, y'know, to see if you have the same kind of DNA or what's up with the identical twin thing."

Yeah.

"Long story even shorter, he fucked up. And you two got me."