[I] arthur&beth, Dalton Estate, 2014.

[joshua andrew dalton]

and we‘ll dig a deep hole

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Joshua had to admit that the prospect of trouble was definitely exciting. He could hardly pronounce that word though so he couldn’t really admit it. It wasn’t his fault that all the huge words were too hard to say, so he had chosen a few key words and phrases that were nice and short, and allowed him to express how he felt. Not that any of them would be good to explain how he felt right now, because the excitement wouldn’t allow him to know how he felt. Other than excited of course. Even at a young age, Joshua had managed to master how not to make sense, whilst still making sense to yourself. See, that there didn’t even make sense, but he could understand it. Anyway, back to the funny task at hand. He and Bethany had decided that it was time that Arthur learned the cold hard truth. The world was cruel. So they had planned on pinching his teddy bear from his room and hiding it, so he could never ever find it again, unless one of them told him where it was. And that wasn’t likely, because Joshua was good at keeping secrets, just like Bethany was, and so Arthur would probably never find out. Maybe he’d put it in those things that adults had, so that in a hundred and twenty years when he was old and dying, Arthur could have his teddy back. That was if Joshua didn’t figure out a way to live forever.

That was on his list of things he wanted to do. Along with ‘become a ninja’ and ‘be an assassin.’ being a ninja was going to be his hobby, and being an assassin would be his day job. As soon as he learned how to pronounce that too. Of course at twelve years old, who could expect this dear boy to be able to pronounce long words anyway? His tutors did, and he kind of stopped himself just to annoy them sometimes, making easy mistakes and laughing at them. He found that this made his lessons very amusing. His teachers didn’t though. That was their problem. They were boring. And lessons were boring. And they made him go all bored. And then he wanted to sleep. And that was boring unless he was dreaming about his ninja future. That was cool. He liked dreaming about that. He’d planned it all out and everything. He was never getting married, because girls had cooties, and he was going to buy a big mansion like the estate they lived in and live forever, rich, because he was an assassin, and the pay was good. Joshua laughed as he used his ninja skills to crack the door of the bedroom and look in. he looked over at beth, a mischievous smile on his lips. ”quick! Lets get it!”

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TAGGED arthur and bethany
LYRICS brick by boring brick, ♥
CLOTHES clickeh
COUNT 487
NOTES yey done! <3
CREDIT EMMA !?[/font]

[bethany priscilla dalton]

Bethany had always worried somewhat about her brother and his vocabulary. It was very colourful, better in some ways but not so much in others, but he lacked the ability to pronounce a large proportion of them. Considering that he was twelve years old, Beth certainly expected him to be able to speak properly and fluently, but perhaps he was just a 'late bloomer'. She on the other hand was very articulate, and it wasn't all that rare for her to be talking with one of her parents' friends and come out with a word that they didn't know the meaning of, to which they would just agree to save themselves looking an idiot.

This allowed her to insult particular people that she wasn't too fond of without them knowing exactly what she had said, and one step better was French. She wasn't at all fluent, but she could certainly string together words and grammar rules that she knew to form sentences and even whole paragraphs. Their tutor was impressed with her progress, but Beth wasn't. She wanted to be able to speak it as easily as she could English, and quite frankly she couldn't be bothered to wait, but wait she must. Life was a bitch like that, and the twins both agreed that the other members of the family needed to learn that very soon. Unfortunately for him, Arthur was first on their list.

With so much time on their hands since they didn't have to go to school and could get up and walk out of any of their tutoring sessions whenever they wished, boredom was almost inevitable but they'd managed to hold it off for the most part by resorting to some Muggle things. The adults were unknowing for the most part since they didn't know the Muggle world, and so they had nothing but their children's word that the object in question was from the wizarding world. A modified television set had been purchased from Dervish and Banges on one of the family's visits to the area, as well as a handful of Muggle films, including several ones that featured spies, ninjas, and the likes.

Ever since watching that film, Josh had thought he was a ninja, or at least wanted to be one. Then again, she could hardly talk, Beth would often join in as well, but she preferred the whole secret agent part rather than the ninja part. "Well go in then, I can hardly walk through the door with you in the way," she hissed at him with a hushed tone, not wanting to make it completely obvious to Arthur. If there was anyone that wouldn't be fooled by the "We're not up to no good, we're just playing" excuse, it was Arthur.

credit vicky lyrics teddy bears' picnic and bad romance notes nothing to reply to but i felt like replying anyway. gaga lyrics are kind of a placeholder play by madeline duggan tagged arthur and joshua dalton word count four hundred and sixty one

[arthur clifford dalton]

Four banana three banana two banana one
All bananas playing in the bright warm sun

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Arthur sat in his room which too most people probably looked like it had been arranged in the weirdest way ever but he had moved everything in his room to make it seem more like a castle, it probably only looked like a castle in Arthur's imagination but he didnt care it was his castle and he ruled it no matter what. Ever since he had found out he had the same name as a famous king he'd secretly play in his room, he'd keep it secreat as the others would either laugh or want to join in and they would just ruin it for him. Arthur sat with a bunch of different toys in a circle, the knights of the round table.. although Arthur didnt have a table so they just sat on the floor in a circle.

"Knights we have news that a dragon is attacking the village and it is up to us to save the peasantses" Arthur said in the Nobelist of voices he could do with a nod then stood up and ran over too his bed where he sat back down with his favourite Teddy which he had named Merlin because an Arthur had to have a Merlin or it would just be weird. "Merlin, the knights of the circle have been told the quest and i shall go with them but i need your magic to help me on my way" Arthur said still speaking in his noble voice.

Arthur then looked suddenly to one side of the room "oh no! the dragons attacking" Jumping up from where he sat he pulled the plastic sword from off his desk and held it up in the air "Excalibur!" he exclaimed then began swinging it about randomly at the large imaginary Dragon. That was when Arthur herd something. Dropping the sword almost instantly he turned to see what was going on. "Hello?" he called at the door of his room, it had opened slightly but he wasnt realy sure if anyone was out there or not, he was kind of too scared to go and look. Yet he wasnt scared to battle a dragon.. Arthur was weird like that, if it sounded adventurous he would do it, but if it seemed silly he'd probably be scared to do it.

Fleagle bingo drooper and snork

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Wearing: Outfit
Comment: All Hail King Arthur!!
Lyrics: Banana Splits - The thingyies
Played by: Leo Legrand
Credit: Me

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[joshua andrew dalton]

and we‘ll dig a deep hole

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joshua was filled with excitement now, because he loved being bad, it was just so exciting! he imagined himself having great adventures in the future, and travelling all over the world, looking for treasures and cool stuff like that. he'd get a pet dinosaur and he'd ride it around instead of a horse, and then he'd be feared. maybe he'd go to japan on it. he would name it godzilla like that dinosaur from that muggle movie, and it would be cool. of course, to get his pet dinosaur he'd have to breed it, and that would be interesting. he'd have to work out a way to breed it to, but he'd be a millionaire and a genius after his ninja adventures, soe he'd be able to pay for an elite team of scientists to research the genes and whatever it was that made dinosaurs, well, so cool and dinosaur like!

and he could have a lab set up in his giant mansion and he could have a games room and a giant version of that tv thingy that they'd bought from dervish and bangs on their last trip to the village. he'd also go down nocturn ally one day, all on his own because he bet that they had loads of cool stuff that would help him bring dinosaurs back to life, and then he could have his pet! of course he'd need a giant collar for it too, and a cage, so his mansion didn't get ruined. yeah, he needed that. he wasn't going to have his expensive home smashed up by a monster of his own creation! and he was going to get hounds too, so that if he had any intruding ninja's that came to steal his dinosaur, he'd let the hounds out on them, and then they'd run away screaming like girls, and then joshua would laugh, because who wanted to be a girl? girls had cooties.

beth didn't obviously, because beth had probably been given a cootie shot when she was a baby, because his mommy and daddy wouldn't want a daughter with cooties. evelyn probably had that shot too, no doubt. yes, all the dalton girls didn't have cooties because their parents didn't like cooties. joshua heard bethany's words and he poked her tongue out at her childishly. she could be so pushy sometimes! but she was the smart one, mastering the french language and the big words. of course josh could do that if he wanted to but he thought french was stupid, and he didn't like the big words, they gave him a head ache. he had pleanty of time to learn them when he was older and travelling all over the world with his dinosaur.

he pressed his eye to the door and watched arthur fight with what he must have been imagining to be a dragon. joshua laughed childishly, looking back at beth. "i think he's playing castles again!"

[/color] he said with a laugh, his eyes scanning for the teddy that was their target. "it's on his bed. let's get it! i'll distract him, and you make a run for it"[/color] he said with a grin, pushing the door open to reveal himself in his cookie monster shirt. he looked so adorable, according to his tutor. idiot woman that she was. he wasn't adorable. he was a man. men weren’t adorable, that was silly! "RAWR!"[/color] josh said loudly, imitating the sound of a dragon and raising his arms like they were dragon claws. he moved into the room so that beth could make it through the door. she was also the one who could run faster than him too, so it was better that she got the hostage.[/font][/size][/justify][/blockquote]

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TAGGED arthur and bethany
LYRICS brick by boring brick, ♥
CLOTHES clickeh
COUNT 619
NOTES yey done! <3
CREDIT EMMA !?[/font]

[bethany priscilla dalton]

Much unlike her brother, Bethany wanted to stay well clear of Knockturn Alley. Okay, so some of the shops were alright and it was just the really dark ones that gave the place such a bad name, but that was irrelevant. She was twelve years old, and a street like that was no place for a girl of her age, no matter how confident or clever she was. As much as Beth hated the idea, anyone that would wish to do her harm would be a hell of a lot bigger than her and much more capable with their wand, and she wouldn't stand a chance. Unless they were a drunk mudblood who had left their wand at home.

"Again? When he grows up and looks back at the things he did, he's going to kick himself." What was with this kid and castles? Did he think he was King Arthur or something. Actually, that was rather likely, and judging by the arrangement of his teddies and his referral to one of the teddies as Merlin, he was doing so at this very moment. Josh unexpectedly burst into the room roaring, to which Beth rolled her eyes. Why didn't she ever get to do the distracting, there was a perfectly good dragon costume in her playroom that would have been perfect for this occasion. But no, Josh had to go all dumb and do things before thinking about them.

It was too late to stop him now anyway, you never could stop Josh once he started doing something, and so Beth lowered herself down onto her stomach and crawled into his room and underneath the bed. Unlike her brother, she didn't want to be quite so obvious, and wanted to reduce the chance of Arthur seeing her because the distraction was a little pathetic. With a bit of luck, one of them would knock the teddy off the bed, whether deliberately or accidentally, and then she could just snatch it away and crawl back out. If that failed, she'd just grab one from the circle, though she doubted he'd miss any of them as much.

credit vicky lyrics teddy bears' picnic notes rawr! play by madeline duggan tagged arthur and joshua dalton word count three hundred and fifty five

[arthur clifford dalton]

Four banana three banana two banana one
All bananas playing in the bright warm sun

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Arthur paused a moment just out of plain shock as Josh burst into his room roaring, he didnt have a clue what the hell was going on, was Josh trying to be the dragon.. sure he probably should have gotten the dragon costume but Arthur wasn't going to stop to moan he just began to swing his sword at Josh not actually hitting him just pretending to. "BACK FOUL BEAST!" he yelled then burst out laughing and he swung his plastic sword at Josh, it was fun actually having someone to play with.

Then it occurred to him something was going on, when Josh was around Beth usualy followed or the other way around, they were always up to something or another. Beth by that point had already made her way under his bed but he didnt know that. "Wait a moment" He said letting his sword drop to his side "Whats going on?" he asked curiously as he kept looking at the door expecting Beth to open it and come in like 'oh well you caught us'. He waited a moment but she didnt come in so he turned back to Josh and pointed his sword at him. "Wheres Beth and what the heck are you both up too!?" he asked.

Arthur may have been young but he was not dumb, he spent most of his time playing or reading and heck he'd often help Beth and Josh in some scheme or another. He sighed slightly. "Whats it this time.. you need me to steal Izzy's princess crown or something?" he asked, Arthur was a lot smaller then both Beth and Josh so he was usually one of the people that was used when the plan involved hiding somewere. Arthur could get into some of the most awkward little hidey holes. Although he usualy had a vague idea what was going on around the house, now he didnt have a clue.

Fleagle bingo drooper and snork

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Wearing: Outfit
Comment: All Hail King Arthur!!
Lyrics: Banana Splits - The thingyies
Played by: Leo Legrand
Credit: Me

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[joshua andrew dalton]

and we‘ll dig a deep hole

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joshua nodded and laughed quietly at what beth had said. he would so look back on this and be embarrassed. and josh would never let him forget it either, because he was like that. josh was amused when arthur seemed to go along with it and carry on, so he kept roaring and growling, and doing the arm claw things to keep him distracted. he hoped beth would hurry up because there was only a certain amount of roaring that you could do. you could practically hear the cogs turning in arthur's brain though, because as usual, wherever josh was, beth was, or the other way around. and arthur knew that, because they were close twins and joined at the hip, practically. so it was no surprise when arthur dropped the sword and asked what was going on. "i've come to burn down the village, and plunder dungeons and stuff! RAWR!"

[/color] josh said, adding another rawr on the end of it for consistency. he was looking at the door, josh noticed, which meant that he'd not realised that beth had already slipped into his room and was, at present, under arthur's bed. that was a fact that joshua was well aware of, as he'd just seen her crawl under the bed and vanish. "beth isn't talking to me again"[/color] josh lied easily, in the best pouty voice that he could muster.

she'd stopped talking to him a week before because he'd used her favourite cup from the kitchen for his juice, and that had lasted hours. he'd had to wash the cup in the end and give her juice in it. so arthur should believe him when he said this, yes? of course he would, because although he did find it hard to pronounce big words, he could use his little words well enough to lie perfectly, and he even had a frown written all over his face, even if all he wanted was to laugh his butt off. when arthur mentioned izzy's crown, joshua had an idea. keeping the same concentrated frown on his face he nodded. "i think that if i get her that crown, maybe she'll talk to me again, but izzy said i wasn't allowed in her room after i cut the hair on her doll off by accident"[/color] he said with an innocent, sad look on his face. maybe if he could get arthur out of the room, beth could get the teddy and get out, and arthur would have less chance of realising until it was done. fantastic. he just needed to convince arthur that it was only him who could do it, so he'd go out of the room and get the crown. "and your the only one who can hide practically anywhere, so if she goes in, you won't get caught"[/color] josh finalized his explanation with another nod. it all seemed to fit in well![/font][/size][/justify][/blockquote]

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TAGGED arthur and bethany
LYRICS brick by boring brick, ♥
CLOTHES clickeh
COUNT 485
NOTES yey done! <3
CREDIT EMMA !?[/font]