WLTGO one shots

Aster and Vesper Hooper

Aster Hooper sat up a his alarm went off, grabbing his phone and turning it off. He picked up his glasses and put them on, catching his reflection in the bedroom mirror. His blonde disheveled hair was a mess - he needed a hair cut. He also needed more sleep. Aster stared at the clock on his wall : 6:31. He takes his glasses off, groans, and goes back to bed.

"Rise and shine blondie, it's seven!" Came the voice of his father. Aster groans.
"It's too early for this..."
His dad laughs.
"Come on. Your sister was up half an hour ago."
"Well vespers a morning person." Aster says, sitting up and putting on his glasses. "And I'm not."
His dad laughs. "Come on, get up."

Aster stares at his dad. It was striking how similar he was to his father - Elliot Hooper. Both were blonde, pale, allways tired, and unlike Aster, his dad was actually tall.
Aster throws on his school uniform and walks down stairs yawning. He sees his older sister, Vesper, her brown curly hair in a pony tail as always, in her shirt and skirt and her tie poorly tied around her neck- her blazer discarded in the mess that is her bedroom probably. Aster drops down into the seat next to her.
"Hey." He says.
She waves, a mouth full of cornflakes.
"Hey." She says after finishing the mouthful. "Jeez a-star you look rough."
"Thanks." Aster says sarcastically.

His mum - Virgo - comes downstairs, her brown hair just as messy as a mop. She yawns and drops into the chair infront of Aster.
"Morning." She says, grabbing the hairbrush that's at the end of the table.
Vesper waves a hand in hello as spoons another mouthful of corn flakes into he mouth.
"Morning." Aster says.
His dad sits down next to her, kissing her on the cheek as he does.
"Morning." He says with a smile.
His mum smiles back.

Vesper grimaces and Aster rolls his eyes at her. Of course she'd be disgusted at any sign of husband and wife love. Typical.
His dad bites into the piece of toast and his mum brushes the last knot out of her hair.
"So have any of you got-" his dad starts.
"Football." Vesper interrupts.
"....okay." His dad says. "Aster?"
"Nope." Aster says.

Vesper grabs her bowl and leaves the table to put it in the kitchen, kicking Asters chair and she walks past.
"Hey!" He shouts.
His dad rolls his eyes and stands up to follow her. His mum puts a hand on his arm before standing up.
"I've got it." She says before following after Vesper.

"Where's your tie?" His dad asks, eyeing his tie-less shirt.
"Oh shit yeah." Aster leaves the table to grabs his tie.
"I heard that!" His dad calls with a laugh.
"Whatever!"

Minutes later Aster arrived back downstairs with his tie on, taking his phone out his pocket and dropping onto the sofa.
"MUUUUM!!" Vesper yells from the downstairs bathroom. "WE'VE RUN OUT OF TAMPONS!?"
Jeez Ves you could be any less discrete?
Aster winces as his mum dashes up the stairs.
His dad slumps down next to him, sighing and running his hands through his hair.
"Dad? You okay?" Aster asks.
His dad sigh.
"Your sisters a dick." He says. "To put it simply."
"Couldn't agree more." Aster mutters.

Vesper shoots down the stairs, her blazer on and bag on her back.
"Aster we're gonna be late hurry up!!"
Aster looks at his phone 8:20. Shit.
He stands up and rushes after Vesper.
"Hey wait!!"

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Elliot shuts the door and sighs.
"Finally they're gone." He rolls his eyes.
Elliot looks at Virgo. Virgo looks at Elliot.
Virgo holds up a glass of wine.
"Want it?"
"Fucking hell, please."
"You fucking weirdo, it's not even five!"
"It's five o'clock somewhere"

Half an hour later, the two were sat on the sofa, Virgo sat crossed legged with her laptop on her lap, Elliot watching the tv, still holding his glass.
Virgos phone buzzes.
She picks it up and reads the message.
"Oh, Vesper has an hour after school."
Elliot sighs. Of course she did.
"Okay, well what do we do?" He looks at Virgo.
She closes her laptop.
"I don't know? She's had them the whole term, she's used to it."
"Just take her phone when she gets back." Elliot says as he takes another sip of his glass. "I've got work so I won't be here anyway."

Virgo frowns.
"I thought you weren't today?"
"So did I." Elliot sighs. "But, money calls I guess."
Virgo puts her arm around Elliot's shoulders and putting her head on his shoulder.
"You know you can just take a day off right?" She grins.
Elliot raises an eyebrow.
"No." He says bluntly.
Virgo rolls her eyes and lifts her head.
"Ugh, fine." She says. "Fun ruiner."
"Hey!" Elliot says with a grin. "It's like we can't do something else while they're gone?"

"Like what?" Virgo says. "It's not like we have anything to do besides watch shit on TV. And I don't particular feel like watching SuperNanny at nine o'clock in the morning?"
Elliot rolls his eyes with a smile.
"Well- I don't know go find something."

"Come onnn." Virgo says, shoving her laptop off her lap and moving closer to Elliot, wrapping her arms around his shoulders. "I got today off, you got today off - there must be SOMETHING we can do?"
Elliot stares at her for a minute before letting out a withering sigh.
"Fine," He says. "Get the baking stuff out."
"Fuck yeah!" Virgo hops of the sofa, Elliot allmost spilling the wine on the sofa as she heads towards the kitchen.
She was so predictable, honestly.

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Aster opens the front door.

"You know you could've atleast tried to put a decent amount of chocolate chips in it." He hears his dad say.
"I did! You just picked the one with the least amount!" His mum retorts back.

Aster smiles. Mum had probably forced dad into baking again. Seemed like her.
"I'm home!" He shouts as he puts his bag on the floor.
Elliot pokes his head around the kitchen door. He had flower on his nose.
"Hey, how was school?"
Aster walks into the kitchen.
"It was good, Katie and Livie had a fight, that was cool, Vesper got has-"
"-an hour we know." His mum says, wiping the flower off of dad's nose. "She texted me."
Aster sits on the counter.
"Oh cool." He eyes the plate of chocolate chip cookies. "You made cookies?"
"Your mum wanted 'quality time'" dad says. "This was as quality you can probably get."
"It could've been better." Mum mutters.
"There is a child present." Dad mutters back.

Aster chuckles, grabbing a cookie and biting into it.
"Oh there nice." He says.
"Thanks. I made them-" His mum says with a smug smile.
"Er- hang on-" His dad retorts back with a smile. "This was a wife and husband effort."
Mum rolls her eyes.
"Whatever you say." She says, kissing him before walking out.
Aster chuckles.
"You did help right?"
"Your mum can't operate an Oven, Aster." Elliot says. "Obviously I did."

They both laugh.
"Anyway," dad says. "Homework."
Aster groans.
"Five pieces." He says, pulling his phone out his blazer pocket.
"Go on then." Dad says, biting into his cookie. "Before Vesper gets home and I make you do it with her."
"Oh god no." Aster says, laughing. "She's horrible at it."
"Then I suggest you start."
"Fine."
Aster slips off the counter and heads upstairs to his room.

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Vesper cautiously opens the front door after her detention, hoping neither of her parents see her. She smiles, pulls out her phone, and heads for the stairs.
"Ah, I don't think so missy." Dad says.
Vesper groans and turns around.
He has his arms crossed, he holds out his hand.
"Phone."
Vesper rolls her eyes and reluctantly drops her phone in his hand before he puts it in his hoodie pocket.
"What was it for today?"
Vesper sighs.
"I called Mylee Painter a bitch. And pushed her. And stole her phone." Vesper says, silently praying that god would spare her and let her live another day, aka, her dad not killing her. "It was a lot."

Dad sighs.
"You shouldn't be getting into trouble all the time Ves." He says. "What did Mylee even do?"
"Called me a cunt." She says. "And a prostitute."
Her dad blinks.
"Okay fair. But you're still not having your phone."
"Dammit." Vesper mutters. "When can I have it?"
"Tomorrow morning." Dad says, stuffing his hands into his pockets. "And don't ask for it."

Vesper rolls her eyes as he walks off, she walks up stairs - Aster is standing in his doorway, holding something in his hand.
Vesper puts her hand out as she walks past.
He drops a phone in it.
Thanks bro, you always knew how to keep a brother and sister relationship stable.

Vesper shuts her bedroom door and sits on her bed, opening the phone and smiling.
Takes a troublemaker to make a troublemaker.
Surely her dad must know that?