Title: It Wasn't my Turn to Watch Her (1/1)
Author: Cousin Shelley
Faction: Cousins
Date: Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Time: Around 4:15pm
After: Cousin on the Loose
Disclaimers: All participants used with permission.


Back at CERK, the Cousins were glued to their laptop screens showing
the image of the DP kitchen.  Becky was still looking around for
Shelley, the Cousinly Janitor, when she heard some mumblings
from the others in the room.  Sure she was missing some fun, she
rushed back to her laptop.

"Isn't that...." Rhonda asked, moving closer to the screen.

"Naw, can't be...." Marci replied.

Becky's heart skipped a beat.  The camera's angle caught the open
door of the cleaning supply closet perfectly ... and everything
*in* that closet.  The woman looked like some sort of demented
cleaning maid clutching a mop and a bottle of cleaner.  It could
only be one person.  Sighing deeply, she said, "Yes, that HAS
to be Shelley."

Brandi moaned and held her head as the headache took hold.  "Noooo
... I TOLD her not to go!"

Becky and Marci looked at each other quizzically.  "Is something
wrong, Brandi?" Marci was brave enough to ask.

"Yes, we have to go see Arletta ... come on!"  She grabbed the other
two and headed off to see 1/3 of Cerberus.

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"We saw, on the laptop...."

"She had cleaners...."

"We thought she was in the van...."

"Slow down, tell me again, but *one* at a time!"  Arletta was
beginning to catch Brandi's headache.  "Who was in the van?"

"No, NOT in the van...." Marci corrected quietly.

"Ummmm, Shelley's missing," Brandi added.

Tok and Tser picked that moment to walk into the room.  "Missing?"
Tok asked.

"Well, not really *missing*," Becky replied.  "We DO know where
she is."

Tok raised an eyebrow in a fairly good imitation of the General.
"Where?"

"The DP mansion?" Marci squeaked out.

The three heads of Cerberus looked at each other with knowing
glances.  It *was* rather hard to keep Shelley out of trouble in
wartime.

"Are you sure?" Tok asked.

"How do you know?" Tser followed with.

"How did this happen?" Arletta threw in.

"We have a camera in the DP kitchen and she was in the cleaning
supply closet clutching some kind of cleaning liquid...." Becky
tried.

"Yep, that would be Shelley," Tser quipped, "but how?"

"I don't really know ... the attack was going as planned, Marci
was busy hypnotizing the DPs...."

"Who knew it could be so easy?" Marci broke in with, proudly holding
up the book on hypnotism McLisa had helped them find and, ironically
enough, Shelley had suggested.

Arletta groaned and looked at Brandi.  "How could you let her
go *near* that after the *last time*??  You KNOW she has a
*problem*!"

"Problem?" Becky and Marci asked simultaneously.

"Problem?" Tser and Tok echoed a second later.

Arletta sighed and briefly explained Shelley's talent for being
the world's easiest person to hypnotize.  Tser smiled faintly and
filed away the information for future use.

Brandi, looking rather miserable, said, "I told her not to go,
but she kept saying she would be fine.  You KNOW how she is
when it comes to attacks and all and ... well ... it wasn't
my turn to watch her!" she wailed.