LIAB 2: In the Soup, 12/15

[medora_macd]

PART TWELVE

In which Andy and the twins discuss
appropriate consequences for the
events of the past few days...

Author: Medora MacD (medoramacd@yahoo.com)

Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada

Pairing: Mirandy

Rating: For language, R now and PG eventually. Also M, as in Mmm, for rampant “foodiness.” Which is to food as “truthiness” is to truth. Which is to say, I

Comments

[ext_474640]

Great chapter like always.. though i must admit i'm missing miranda a little...

[medora_macd]

She could show up ... any minute . No fooling ... I need to think about the next installment a bit, consider a tweak or two, but it's about ready to bring it to the table.

[xenavirgin]

OH MY God!!! Please tell me you are a parent!!! And if not, can you be mine??? I may be 44, but I do maintain a firm mental age of 12. heheh
Brilliant solution and so real in the fact that Cassidy didn't just roll over and play nice. And Andy googling Nannying at the end? GOLD!

[medora_macd]

I *am* a parent ... of a scruffy 6'3" ginger-haired 25-year-old geek. Who has had about two spankings (for doing things that were really scary) and many many conversations of the sort that the twins just had with Andy. Which were a lot like some of the conversations my mother had with me. He's turned out fairly well -- aside from the brushing regularly and eating vegetables -- but I don't that I'd have the same results with Cassidy. She's got some significant "issues" yet to be resolved. Time will tell ...

[wildekatz]

Wow, Andy would really be a great parent! I myself would have never been as rational, fair and at the same time making them see what they have done wrong... I wonder what is up with Cassidy, will you reveal it in this series? Why does she dislike Andy this much? And hopefully we will see Miranda soon! She has to know what her kids have done! Andy could have been seriously hurt because of them. Too bad it's only 3 more chapters to go!! I'm curious about what hidden secrets you will reveal to your readers :) Thank you!

[medora_macd]

Miranda's in the wings, waiting for her cue. And yes, we're running out of installments on this arc. Part Thirteen's so short you'd all lynch me, so I'm going to combine it with Fourteen -- in which foodiness also gets significant attention. I'll try to wrap it up this week ... so I can finish up a Miranda-centric piece that's been bugging me: the events of the last part of the first arc from Miranda's POV. Still working on the "voice." Thanks for the feedback. It's great to know you're continuing to find it interesting.

[summitsw]

I thought what the twins did in the last chapter was bad, but Andy not telling Miranda, and then deciding on a punishment without her knowledge, that's... well it should be a 'dealbreaker'. Especially since one of Andy's conditions of living with Miranda was 'respect', how is it respectful to know that Miranda's kids did something that terrible to someone who literally saved one of them and is in the condition she's in because of that, and not tell her? Miranda would be well within her rights to ask Andy to leave.

Also I agree with whitelder, that's a really weak punishment for what they did. Their first offense (invading her privacy and acting like idiots) was bad enough, but locking her out was incredibly dangerous and they don't seem to get that. At all. I don't really get how having Andy be their nanny is a punishment.

[medora_macd]

Funny you should mention the Deal ... I think that Miranda might do so too, should she get an inkling of what's happened. Which could happen any moment.

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts on the twins' behavior and Andy's response. Hearing that several people think the girls deserved more severe treatment was ... useful. I don't know how it might affect what happens next, but it was gratifying to know that what I wrote about those incidents was engaging enough to make people care. We'll see where the muse takes it from there. I suspect that if the twins don't get whacked upside the head now, they will in the not too distant future.

[bsofthewest]

God! I wish I had Andy in my family to broker "the deal of the consequence" and she can cook...and she is hot....Miranda, PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE BASEMENT!

[medora_macd]

Hell yeah! What's she waiting for? She hasn't even been downstairs since Sunday night! Somebody oughta ... Oh, that would be me. I'll see what I can do about that .