sillyursula: *LAUGHS* He sounds like a ringmaster in a turn of the century circus...

rabsiquinn: well, that'd be about right...

rabsiquinn: hee hee! Can you imagine Bahorel with a whip and a lion cage?

sillyursula: Oh GOD yes....Enjy, meanwhile would finally have an excuse for that tacky vest...

Thus the Speculation began. We decided that cosette ought to be shot out of a cannon and Marius the sad-eyed clown could catch her in a bananna creme pie. Lesgles and Joly are siamese twins, Misichetta the human pretzel, The flying thenardiers, and...

rabsiquinn: heh. We could put Enjy in the cage and have R tame him...

E!: "Rowwr!"

R: *cracks whip!*

E!: "purrs"

R:*pets kitty*

E!: *rubs up against R's leg*

Marius: *stares. Blinks. Goes back outside to finish helping Cosette wipe the bannana cream off her dress*

Combeferre: *chuckles knowingly*

Cosette: *looks at Marius adoringly*

Cosette: *licks bananna cream off her fingers. Yum*

Marius: *licks bannana cream off Cos's upper lip, pales at realization of how forward he's being*

Cosette: *blushes and looks away... realises that his coyness was getting on her nerves. grabs him by the lapels and kisses him fiercely, smearing his clown makeup*

Marius:*doesn't whimper much as he falls to the ground*

Chowder: "POPCOOOOOOORN!"

Fricassee: "Getcher peanuts here! cotton candy, red hot peanuts here!"

Cosette: *decides that domination can be fun! Takes command of the situation admirably. Growls like Enjolras*

Marius: *Is dazzled by his goddess*

Bahorel: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, i give you... the amazing, flying Thenardiers!"

Bahorel: *cracks whip*

E!: *jumps*

Cosette: *jumps*

Combeferre: *jumps*

Marius:*jumps* (what else?)

Eponine:*realizes she doesn't like heights...dammmn, she needs the money though.*

Gavroche: *flies through the air with the greatest of ease*

Eponine: *steps nervously onto the platform, trying not to look down...smiles at crowd, who are ignoring her and watching the kids make out below*

Bahorel: *laughs and drops a black curtain over Marius and Cosette* "Look! Pretty girl! Way up high!" he says to the crowd.

Eponine: *Jumps. Clings desperately to Gavvie's ankle.*

Gavvie: *fakes trying to kick her off. Winks.*

Crowd: "Oooooooooooh!!!"

Eponine: *through clenched teeth* "You try that just once and you'll never move again..."

Bahorel: *cracks whip again. grins*

Gavy: *laughs and keeps on swinging.*

Eponine: *Jumps to other trapeeze. Looks down by mistake.* "Maaaaaaariiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuusssss!"

Cosette: *thinks that's funny, she didn't remember screaming Marius' name. Yet.*

Eponine:*sniffles*

Cosette: *purrs*

Gavy: *thinks he's too young.*

Marius: Notices nothing, he's too busy trying desperately not to make a mistake.

E!: *purrs louder, trying to out-purr Cosette*

Cosette: *wouldn't know a mistake if it slapped her in the face. So to speak.*

Eponine: *wails* "Life's not fair!" and grabs Gavy's hand. "You're too young." *tries to descend ladder to ground, dragging sibling behind her*

R: *turns at Ponine's statement, is about to start long comment on that, but remember purring Enjy and redirects his attention elsewhere*

Gavy: "funny, i was just thinking the same thi..." *notices that R didn't take Eppy's opening. Notices where R's train of thought went. Decides he'll NEVER be old enough for THIS circus!*

R: *smiles*

Cosette: *is annoyed by Enjy's purring competing with her own. Purrs even LOUDER!*

Enjy: *growls*

Courfeyrac: "SHUT UP! It's time for my act!" *runs onstage, motions for Feuilly to train the spotlight on him. "Mesdames et Messieurs, prepare to be amazed!"

Bahorel: *cracks whip at Courfey*

Courfeyrac:*waves juggling torch at Bahorel* "You had a better idea?"

Courfeyrac: "At this rate, I'll never get to juggle..."

Bahorel: "oh, i wouldn't say that..." *looks up at the swaying Eponine and Gavroche on the ladder. Thinks that Courfey needs no help with juggling anyway. Grins*

Combeferre: *makes baloon animals for the children who really shouldn't be watching all this*

Courfeyrac: *sees Thenardiers* "Merde...."

Eponine & Gavy: *come tumbling down*

Bahorel: *Catches Eponine, and tosses her to Courfeyrac*

Children: *clamor for balloons. Combeferre is their god!*

Courfey: *tosses Ponine in the air, flips her over and juggles her with the torches*

Ponine:*Wonders if raw steaks are really worth all this*

Combeferre: *is happy in kiddie-land... wishes R were here to help him. He can hold his breath a lot longer than Combeferre, and would be lots of help blowing the balloons up...*

Gavy: *SPLAT!*

Bahorel: "oops"

Eponine: *thinks* /Then again, it could be worse.../

Bahorel: *feeds Gavy to the tiger... Um... Enjolras.*

R: *is holding his breath. Is too busy for balloons*

Enjy: *isn't hungry. Well, not for Gamin.*

Combeferre: *gives Azelma un baloon rouge*

Courfeyrac: *Is appalled. He has splattered gamin staining his trousers!* "WARDROBE!"

Bossuet/Joly, the siamese twins: *run out with change of costume for Courfey. Decide that if they help, Courfey will get changed faster...*

Courfeyrac: "I'm not changing onstage, idiot(s)." *drops Ponine & torches, grabs costume, and stomps to trailer as the twins rush after him...*

Eponine: "OW!"

Torch:*meets tent*

Twins: *lock trailer door behinsd them*

Tent: "OUCH!"

Torch: "HaHA!"

Tent: *whimpers*

Black Curtain: oh no, not again!

Eponine:"Um, fire....OOOH! BALLOONS!" *runs to Combeferre.* "Gimme?"

Combeferre: *smiles and makes Eponine a balloon Cocker Spaniel*

Torch:*to Curtain* "We meet again!"

Combeferre: "there you go little lady!"

Eponine: "Yay! Thank you!" *claps for joy*

Black Curtain: *is feeling rather warm. Can't figure out whether it's the torch, or Marius and Cosette*

Combeferre: *is so pleased to bring joy and happiness to the little ones*

Bahorel: *thinks that the fire is a nice touch*

So do the kiddies...."OOOOOHHHH! AHHHHHHH!"

Enjolras: *hisses. it's getting warm in here. But the flames match his vest.. erm, where is his vest?*

Grantaire: *thinks it's over in the corner, drenched with spilled alcohol...uh-oh...*

Vest: *thinks, "uh oh..."*

Raging fire: *meets vest*

Vest: *SCREAMS!!!*

Enjy: *Howls!*

R: *looks at angry Enjy...wonders if he'll need the whip again....*

Kids: "AIIIIEEEE!" *Think this is way cool*

Eponine:"AAAAA!" *clings to Combeferre, obstructing his balloon-crafting*

E!: *half-snarls, half whimpers at the loss of his vest... backs away in the cage*

Combeferre: *is silghtly startled to find his arms full of Eponine instead of pretty balloonies. Oh well. Looks apologetic; is glad kids are more interested in the fire*

Bahorel: "Oooooh! Ahhhh!"

A few adventurous flames: *venture outside to meet Paris*

Bahorel: *rushes out to accompany flames on their Parisian Adventures*

Feuilly: *To Bahorel* "Um...should we do something?"

Bahorel: "of course! We TORCH the place!" *grabs Feuilly by the sleeve and drags him out with him*

Feuilly: *fans the flames*

Cosette: *fans some flames of her own*

Chowder:*glares at Cos through smoldering remains of curtain* "Hussy! Have you no shame!" *starts eating the cotton candy. They're all going to die, anyhow...*

Cossie: *didn't hear over the roaring and crackling of fire*

Marius:*Is oblivious. She couldn't possibly mean his angel...is paying attention to other matters, anyhow*

Fricasee: *runs out to go to the ladies room*

Cosette: *is busy being other matters*

Musichetta: *is in there trying to unknot herself so she can walk* "Have you seen the twins anywhere?"

Combeferre: *points from beneath Eponine and baloons* "Um, Courfeyrac's trailer"