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When; 28 September, evening
Rating; PG to PG-13 for future swearing on Didi's part
Characters; iactmore and bufferprincess
Summary; Gwendolen acquires a roommate to stop the ticking, a girl she's never actually met.
Log; It was little more than a whim. Gwendolen hadn't really been planning on living with anyone. She enjoyed her space, and she was fairly capable of taking care of herself, even if she preferred the servants and respect she'd enjoyed in Queen Caroline's world. And she certainly didn't want to live with Christopher, even if he'd have let her.

But the ticking, the ticking. She could hardly stand that persistent noise. Until she could convince Cat to come back to her side, she'd have to find someone. Scanning the Network, she saw a post from a girl who seemed nice enough. As long as she stayed out of Gwendolen's room, she'd work for now.

So she put on her charming voice and invited the girl to live with her.

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Di Di packed up the few things that she had bought from the local shops into a bag and tracked the way to the apartment. Of course the girl wasn't going to see much of her, but the other didn't seem like the type to care. Getting to the apartment she said Di Di knocked.

"Gwen, I'm here."

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Gwendolen blinked. No one had ever called her just Gwen before, not even Cat. It wasn't exactly respectful, she thought, but...

Really, she was at wit's end. It was a wonder she'd avoided snapping at the people answering her post earlier.

She opened the door and looked up at her new roommate, smiling politely.

"Do come in," she said grandly.

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Wow, odd little girl, was all Di Di could think of the shrimp as she walked in and looked around, placing her bag on a near by table. "thanks" She looked around the place then back at Gwendolen. "So, how do you want to work this out?"

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Gwendolen tried to look important. This was her space, after all. It wasn't the kingdom she had been trying to get home to, but it would have to do for now.

"Well," she said, and then hesitated, because she was, well, eleven, and had only ever ordered Cat into living arrangements, "the bedroom through there is mine." She pointed down the hallway to a tightly-shut door. "The other one is empty, though." The other room she gestured to was at the nearer end of the hall.

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This girl seemed knew to living on her own, but she was trying. It felt a little like when was first had to take care of her family. "Okay, you stay out of my room and I stay out of yours? We each do our own cleaning. Each of us cleans our messes up in the kitchen and the living room and laundry is our own as well? Once a month we get together and clean everything. Oh,no pets either. Sounds all right?" They where the basic rules of the camp, so they should work here, right?

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Gwendolen hesitated again. But this wasn't being ordered around, was it? It was just sorting out chores like adults.

"All right," she answered. She didn't want a pet, and she was very determined that Didi stay out of her room. This way, there was no ticking-- and how nice that was! She smiled in relief.

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"Great" She picked her stuff up again and headed to the room Gwen pointed to before that was hers. It was odd having someone so much younger as a room mate, but in a way it was better then an adult. Adults asked questions and wanted to know you and where you were from. They wanted to connect, Something Di Di didn't need right now. "Oh, my full name is Delilah, but no one calls me that." She opened the door and looked in, placing her things into the room. "Do you know where the laundry is?" she shouted out.

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That Gwendolen definitely did know. She'd arrived with an aching plunge into the City's fountain, which certainly hadn't endeared her to the place. Once she'd figured out how to work it, she'd managed to shrink the clothes she arrived in. But she was geting better with it.

"Next to the bathroom," she answered.

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Di Di poked her head out into the hall and looked for the bathroom. She had really hoped there was two, but things would have to work out. Not that Di Di had anything that she couldn't tuck away in her room. "great, well I'll be unpacking" She then closed the door and started to get to know her new room.

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"All right," Gwendolen said to the shut door, nodding decisively, before walking back down the hall and shutting herself in her own room. She would set up a few little tricks (it would have been easier with her magic, too, sadly enough) to make sure that Didi wasn't snooping, but that was more from suspicious habit than anything else.

And so one became two.