New fic: Life Lessons

[ridesandruns]

Life Lessons
Rating: T for profanity
Characters: Scott, Jean, Warren, Darwin the Beagle
Summary: Scott’s having a crisis of confidence.
All standard disclaimers apply. Don’t own them, am making no money off ’em, and I refuse to acknowledge X3. All hail Rachel_Martin64, who betas my stuff into shape.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Klingon! OMG *dies* So funny and smart.

“Because then the damn vicious classroom rumor mill decides that Jean and Logan and I are in some kind of kinky three-way, and that they’re sharing me!”

Clearly, puppy kindergarten is representative of fandom overall.

[ridesandruns]

Hee -- thanks! I'm so glad you liked it!

You wanna know the scary thing? My best friend lives in Westchester County, and much of the puppy kindergarten stuff is drawn from conversations with her about her kids' daycare. As I was telling rachel_martin64, the rich really are different from you and me: they're pretty *&^%ing evil. I imagine their doggie day cares aren't much better!

[musamea]

I love Scott's indignation so much. And Klingon. Of course! It's just one step in Hank's plan for world domination. *g*

[ridesandruns]

Scott cares not at all -- or not much -- that people assume he's with Logan. He is, however, outraged that anyone would shun Darwin over it. I'm glad you liked the story! I had fun -- in a scary way -- trying to find Klingon translations on the Web. :)

[meret]

Bwahahahahahaha! Fantastic story!

I would have responded the same way Jean did if any dog bullies knocked my little four-legged baby down. Heck, I once charged a fully grown, evil labrador that tried to hurt him and won!

Favorite line - “It means he has perfect attendance, Scott,” Jean said frostily. “We’re very proud.” ROTFL! :)

[ridesandruns]

Thanks! Glad you like! Apparently dog bullies are a very real thing at doggie day care. I saw an article last year about it, including a quiz, "Is Your Dog a Bully?" It had questions like, "Is he always the dog doing the chasing, never the one being chased?" I'm with you -- I'd stomp any animal that tried to bully my babies! (I have cats, who don't socialize, but still.)

[xenokattz]

Oh Darwin! If only I'd discovered these fics before we bought the puppies I TOTALLY would have gotten a pair of beagles and named one Darwin.

JoD! *snerkle*

[ridesandruns]

Hee! Someday I want to own a beagle and name him Darwin. I hope he's better behaved than my cyber-Darwin, though. And ain't no way any dog of mine is learning Klingon!

[xenokattz]

What about Askini?

[ridesandruns]

Heh. Listen, if I could train an animal to respond to English, I'd be doing well. My cats are monsters: beloved, but concrete proof that I was never meant to raise kids. ;)

[cowsquashmelon]

Awesome in many, many ways. People were giving me strange looks for laughing hysterically for seemingly no reason. Well done. Love the way you write Warren, as he is an oft neglected/poorly written/misrepresented character in this post X3 movie world.