Tuesday 31 December 2013

At Home With The Slaggs Part Two

After storming out over the red three-piece suite, Mr Slagg goes to the Amanda Ann house to see Mary.  Possibly the only one who would understand.  However:

 he chances upon a young and wild-looking girl lurking near the kitchen.

"Me Running River", she explains in halting English, "me leg it from Dentention Centre.
Me very hungry."
"Extraordinary," he chuckled, and led her in through the back door.


 Running River ate hungrily, and in-between mouthfuls, she told Mr Slagg about herself:
"Me to marry Big Chief from reservation.  He streak of paralysed piss.  Me jump in canoe, go Dover!"
Mr Slagg's intentions to the barefooted girl were entirely honourable.  He had a true concern for this vulnerable, yet mouthy, girl.  But oh, how he wished she didn't remind him so much of Tarantella Slagg (30 years ago).

 They went up to Mary's attic room, and Mr Slagg told his (adopted) daughter about Running River's plight, and could she put her up for a few days?

"Any fucking funny business, and I'm on the phone to the home office!", she greeted the young visitor to English shores warmly. 

"Fuck off", Running River replied.

 That done, and Mary on the dinner shift, he turned to go.  He would wait for Mrs Marjorie to pass out, and then sleep on her sofa.  He'd done it many times before.  

However, Running River turned to Mr Slagg:
"Charlie?  You come to bed, yes?  We get married, yes?  We love each other, yes?"



 At the young girl's words, Mr Slagg legged it down the stairs, and necked some of the Master's wine immediately.
Why did she remind him of Tarantella so much?, he groaned.  And could he really take on such a young wife?  At his age?  And whatever will he tell Mrs Slagg?  And most of all, should he go back up those stairs?

Will Mr Slagg start a new life with the forthright and stunning native American?  Or will Mary shop her to the Home Office?  Or will he simply go back and watch Downton Abbey with his Mrs Slagg?  

Tune in same time, same channel, to see the devastating consequences of Mr Slagg's decision.  

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