063 x 360 // video/action // Family Day (3rd - 4th)

[dignity_misery]

[ The house is a little bit outside the city, swathed heavily in evergreens, but it's gorgeous. Carla supposes that's what she can't quite get over, because she's struck by it every time they've visited.

They won't be visiting anymore. And even if she has her camera trained up at it with one hand, there's a box under her other arm. She lowers the view to where a little girl with curly blonde hair is near the front door, staring up. A pair of dogs scampering nearby to her.

Another swing in frame, behind them with a borrowed car is a man sorting through the boxes in the trunk.

The last turn is to Carla's own face. She looks apprehensive about this whole process, her eyes flicking back and forth between the little girl and the man. Eventually she sighs, murmuring, ]

Welcome home.

[The camera lowers, about to be shut off as she calls,]

Come on, Victoria, we have a lot of work to do.


[[ooc; victoria_stay, unflagging and Carla are making a hideous family this weekend. Fact. Action is fine if anybody wants to housewarm... or gawk.]]

Comments

Re: Action:

[victoria_stay]

[She must get this from her mother because the kids reaction to being picked up and swung around is a flat expression. Arms go around dads neck, as they're supposed to do. And she is enjoying this. But what are emotions and how does one externalize such a thing. To her father, she simply states;]

She wants you to dust.

[To her mother;] Can we draw on the walls?

Re: Action:

[dignity_misery]

[Huh? Carla seems slightly surprised to be asked anything else, but hey.]

Yeah, wherever you want.

[A small pause.]

It's our house.

Re: Action:

[victoria_stay]

Can you help me draw on the walls in my room?

[Unofficial request to bond with her mother is go.]

Action:

[unflagging]

[Dad just chuckles a little.]

Re: Action:

[dignity_misery]

[Why is her life so awkward... And why are you laughing, Flagg. She'll kill you.]

...I can help, sure.

Action:

[unflagging]

[He's laughing because he always laughs and smiles. Even here in the House of Difficult Women, he will laugh and smile. He is, after all, hatefully happy.]

Sounds like you two have a plan. I'd better get to hauling boxes and dusting so I don't delay you overmuch.