because the bunny wouldn't leave me alone, dammit

Sweetums belongs to "Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince". Briar, Apple, Hopper belong to "Ever After High"

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Hopper's eyes tracked the golden ball that Apple was absently rolling about as she sat outside. He took several long steadying breaths, knowing that Apple wasn't taunting him like that - girl didn't have a mean bone in her body [at least, that he knew of]. Still, gold ball plus frog prince always ended up being interesting. He forced himself to look away, glancing over at Briar and nodded to himself. Briar was a good source of distraction - something he needed [besides, he wanted something clarified].

Briar glanced over at the approaching Royal and offered him a sunny smile. "Hey, Hopper," she said, grinning. "What's?" she started to ask before she noticed the direction he had come from. "Let me guess, the ball?"

Hopper let out a soft groan and nodded. "Yeah," he said, settling down on the grass next to her. "I swear, there are times I could really hate that fairy tale."

Briar gave him a wry grin. "Join the club. Not exactly looking forward to the hundred year nap but, eh, I could think of worse fates."

Hopper arched a brow. "Such as?"

"Well, if my one fairy godmother hadn't given me her gift, instead of a hundred year nap, I'd be dead."

Hopper paused, tilting his head slightly. "Point well taken." He let out a soft sigh. "So, heard an interesting rumor..."

Briar groaned, burying her face in her hands. "Tell me Blondie didn't put that in her MirrorCast."

"The part about not needing to kiss a frog? Uh, yeah," Hopper said. "Rather a pointed reference."

Briar blushed ever so slightly. "I meant it in a general sense, you know, don't have to date ex number of guys to figure out who my prince is since he's.."

"One hundred years away," Hopper finished. "Still, it won't hurt to.." he paused, a look of irritation sweeping across his features as he transformed into a frog. He let out a slightly annoyed ribbit.

Briar chuckled quietly and scooped him up. "Let's get you inside before Sweetums finds you," she said, playfully teasing.

Hopper just gave her his best froggy glare.

yet more Ever After High

OC belongs to me - her parents sort of belong to "Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince" [lifting the curse from Melora..], the concept of the Golden Afternoon belongs to "Alice in Wonderland", Hopper/Ashlynn/Hunter/Daring/Dexter/Raven/Lizzie/Kitty/Maddie/Apple belong to "Ever After High"

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Daring settled at his usual table in the corner [not that he needed to hide in a corner, but it made watching Dexter so much easier], his blue eyes watching his younger brother carefully. He didn't mind the people his younger brother hung out with but he worried about him - hoping they were friends because they wanted to be, not because he was the younger brother of the more desired Charming [cue him rolling his eyes - even if it wasn't something princes like he did] and were using Dexter as a stepping stone to advance in the high school political scene.

His blue eyes settled on the approaching youth and he nodded to himself. Hopper was an okay prince in his book - had the unfortunate curse of turning into a frog at unexpected moments, but, other then that, he didn't mind him hanging out with his kid brother. He glanced away from the pair, taking time to study the other people in the lunch hall. His not-girlfriend, Apple, was settled at a table with Raven, making him quirk his brow for a moment before shrugging - if the two wanted to hang out so be it - just as long as Raven tried not to poison her this early in the term [not that it seemed like Raven's goal - Apple, on the other hand, with her cooking..]. His gaze drifted to where some of the others were - ah, Maddie was sitting with Kitty and Lizzie at a nearby table [looks like the Golden Afternoon club was in session - hopefully Lizzie wouldn't be breaking out the flamingos].

He paused, blinking slowly. No, yes, that was Ashlynn sitting with Hunter. Huh. Interesting. Well, he'd have to give Hunter the talk later [aka the 'you treat her right or I will figure out how to end you' type talk]. Although, he had a feeling that talk wasn't going to be needed. Still, he was going to keep his eye on the pair.

Finally his eyes settled on the new girl, sitting away from everyone. Huh. He rose slowly and made his way over. "Mind if I sit here?" he asked.

The girl's eyes widened and she made move to say something before she closed her mouth and shook her head no.