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It was glorious. There were banners and balloons, battlements and buttresses. And toys.

There were so many toys.

The two girls had known that they were in for an adventure when Locky had sucked them in, but they really hadn't predicted that they'd have a rubber duck escort to the castle of the ailing King Kaleidoscope, the somewhat colourful lord of the realm of the toys.

Not that they objected to any of this. Especially not with the way everyone treated them like they were long-lost friends, family even, that had to be welcomed back excitedly. They were friendly girls and people being friendly back only made sense to them, even when it was the King of Toylandia who greeted them as such.

"Is that at real crown?" Alluka had wanted to know. The King assured her that it was.

"Heey, nice," Mabel decided, leaning over to appreciate the bedazzling appreciatively. Mabel loved a good bedazzling. "And is that a real throne?"

The king assured her that it was quite real, as well.

Alluka duly admired that too. "Can, can we sit on it?"

The King thought about it and then took his crown off his head and broke it in two. They gasped in impressed surprise as the crown wriggled, and squiggled, and reformed into two separate bedazzled crowns and set one on each of their heads. Then he waved for them to go and sit on the throne.

The entire court stared in awe as the two girls both made their way to the throne, one boosting the other into the seat, and then getting a hand up into it herself.

The girls started in awe as, once they were settled, the entire court fell to their knees (or squeaky appendage equivalents) and bowed.

The king, meanwhile, did a little jig at the front of the room, clicking his heels together and everything before he made a beeline for the door.

"I'm finally free to go on that vacation to Candyland! Bye, suckers!"

A handful of lollipops in the old King's entourage began to silently weep.

With a trumpet in hand a herald (who was also a skip-it, that had eyes) announced: "The King is dead!" Even though he wasn't. "Long live the Queens!"

"Long live the Queens!" echoed the court.

The new Queens blinked.

[NFB! For the other queen! Er. The one who co-wrote this post. Not any other queens.]

Date: 2016-02-18 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymeswithtable.livejournal.com
"... I have to say," Mabel said, leaning sideways to whisper to Alluka, "this is way less weird than the last time somebody tried to make me their Queen."

That had involved being tied to the ground. And a leaf-blower.

Date: 2016-02-18 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymeswithtable.livejournal.com
"I think they think we are," Mabel laughed, shrugging her shoulders and straightening the crown on her head. "And that's nine tenths of the law, or... something like that. Or maybe that's democracy. Or possession?"

Mabel had been possessed enough to know that she didn't care for it, anyway.

"I guess there's nothing to be done but to be queens. At least for a little while."

She'd miss Dipper if they stayed here too long.

Date: 2016-02-18 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymeswithtable.livejournal.com
"Well, yeah," Mabel replied, a little dubiously. "But I'd kind of miss the island sometimes, wouldn't you?"

And her family, and all, but she knew better by now than to talk so candidly about missing them with Alluka.

Date: 2016-02-18 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymeswithtable.livejournal.com
"Maybe," Mabel mused. "I mean, the last time someone wanted to make me queen, I was expected to go live in the forest and marry about a million gnomes."

Which... no.

"But I guess so long as we don't have to marry the duckies, we're still free, independent women! Right?"

Date: 2016-02-18 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymeswithtable.livejournal.com
"Huh. You know, you're right? But I guess since we aren't married, and we are the queens, if we do want to get married... who's going to stop us?"

Was it somebody's job to make sure they followed the rules?

Date: 2016-02-19 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymeswithtable.livejournal.com
"And I'll do the same thing for you," Mabel decided. "We're both way too regal to marry meanies!"

They had one another's backs. That was important, in queens!

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