#melissa patenaude

[izzielizzie]

Hey you know how I’m At Last it’s mentioned that Skye went to prom last minute in a lab coat? Maybe could you do a fic where Skye goes with Melissa?

yes i do remember that! fic under the cut

"Skye?" somewhere in the world of microbiology - a world Skye isn't very fond of but has to explore for her semester's grade - she can hear a voice calling her. If it's a sister she's ready to stab her with a pen.

Fortunately, it's not a sister. Unfortunately, it's Melissa Patenaude. Skye pulls her goggles off her head and smiles at Melissa, who's leaning casually against the doorframe of the school's lab, already in her soccer uniform.

"Oh, hey," Skye says, nervously tucking a lock of choppy blonde hair behind her ear.

"Hey Penderwick," Melissa uncrosses her arms then crosses them again. "You're going to be late for soccer."

Skye glances at the clock and - rats - she is going to be late. The being late part isn't that bad, she's good enough that the coach won't yell at her or make her do extra drills. No, the real problem is Jane. After becoming captain, Jane made it a point to make an example out of Skye, and Skye is ready to accidentally push her sister out their bedroom window.

"Okay, yes, give me a moment," Skye says, pulling the goggles back on to gently put the petri dish back in the incubator. Once she's done, she wipes off the bench and pulls off her goggles and gloves. She's acutely aware of Melissa watching her, and for the millionth time, she's frustrated by the blush creeping up her neck. It's not like she doesn't know why - Skye's had a girlfriend before - but she really doesn't know how to deal with liking a girl she was once willing to pitch off the school roof. Not that she'd do that now.

"Science looks confusing," Melissa says as Skye pulls off her lab coat and hangs it on a hook.

Sky tugs her soccer bag out from under lab bench and loops it over her shoulder. "Says the girl who was in a play," Sky counters. After the whole Sisters and Sacrifice debacle, Melissa realized that she not only really likes plays but is good at acting. She’s even taking a stab at producing, and her show is playing this weekend.

“Oh speaking of,” Melissa says, reaching out and grabbing Skye’s arm, pulling towards her. “You’re coming on Saturday right?” She looks up at Skye pleadingly.

“Just as long as you don’t make me act in it, I’ll be there in the front row.”

Melissa grins at Skye as she adjusts her soccer bag. “Good. Now hurry up your sister’s going to kill us.”

The girls don’t talk again until the next day at lunch. “Penderwick, what are you wearing to prom?” Melissa asks as she drops into a seat next to Skye.

“Prom?” Skye asks, munching on a carrot stick. Melissa takes one from Skye’s tray and mimics the way Skye chews on it thoughtfully. Skye sticks out her tongue and Melissa laughs, pulling her dark hair into a bun, directing Skye’s attention to Melissa’s earrings. “Hey we match!” Skye says suddenly pointing to her own ears. Skye had never pierced her own ears since she hates earrings, but she deigned to wear clip-ons after Lydia enthusiastically gifted her shooting star earrings. 

“Yeah, I saw them at the store and they made me think of you,” Melissa says casually, like she knew that Skye would point out the earrings, but she looks secretly pleased. 

“That’s nice,” Skye says helplessly. After the surprise wore off, she now has no idea what to say to something so sentimental. Melissa snorts.

“You look so lost.”

“I am,” Skye says truthfully. This makes Melissa laugh a loud laugh.

“Shall I call Jane?”

“No, it’s fine,” Skye says, laughing along with Melissa. “So anyway, what were you asking?”

“What are you wearing to prom?”

Sky shrugs. “I don’t plan on going.”

Melissa sighs. “I knew it. Well, there goes my fallback.” Skye politely tilts her head, waiting for Melissa to continue. “Well you know how Genevieve and I broke up?” Skye nods. After years of listening to Melissa, she’s learned that trying to talk mid-rant doesn’t work with Melissa. She’s like Jane in that way. “Well obviously I needed a prom date so I asked Jane’s friend Artie - I mean he’s cute right?” Skye makes a noncommittal noise in the back of her throat. She’s never thought of boys as anything other than someone to be friends with. “Well he can’t go, I think it’s because he likes Jane. And so, pride ruined, I asked Pearson and he’s going with Genevieve can you believe it?” 

Skye shakes her head as she chews meditatively on a celery stick. 

“So this brings me back to the only other person I’d like to go with.”

“Who’s that?” Skye asks as she swallows. Melissa stares at Skye for a moment as their friends groan around them. 

“I’ll figure it out.” Melissa says, disappointed. 

“Cool!” Skye says brightly before turning to Molly to ask her about the passing drills they did the day before.

It takes Skye three days - the morning of prom night to be exact - to realize what Melissa had been saying. She sprints down the steps to the kitchen, jumping fully over a tottering Lydia. Iantha, Rosalind and Mr. Penderwick look at her, startled, as Skye barrels into the room. “I’m an idiot!” she announces to the room at large. 

“We already knew that,” Jane says casually as she cuts waffles into pieces. 

“Why?” asks Batty more politely as she leads Lydia into the room. Iantha quickly bends down to put Lydia in her high chair. Ben follows, looks Skye’s face, and skirts around her, heading straight to the pile of waffles in the middle of the table. 

“Melissa was asking me to prom!” Skye cries, clutching at her cropped hair.

“We already knew that too,” Jane says as she takes a sip of orange juice.

“Jane,” Rosalind says in a warning tone. It’s a miracle she’s awake this early. Usually she sleeps late during vacation. If Skye believed in fate she’d pin the presence of her entire family on it. But she doesn’t so it’s all her fault. 

“Iantha what do I do?” Skye asks pleadingly to her step-mother, who’s looking at her with a sympathetic albeit resigned look. 

Iantha purses her lips as she hands a fussy Lydia her recently dropped crown. “I’m not sure honey. It’s too late to get you a dress or a suit isn’t it?”

“Rosy? Do you have your dress?”

Rosalind nods. “I do, but Skye will it fit?” 

Skye heaves a dramatic sigh. No, it won’t. Skye and Rosalind are built differently enough that none of Rosalind’s dresses will fit Skye. Skye turns to her father, always a steady ship in times of crisis. “Dad? What do I do?”

“I’m sorry filia mea but I don’t know. Perhaps just try speaking to her?”

“Speak. That’s a good idea. Thank you,” Skye says mechanically as she turns towards the front door, marching towards it with determined strides, pausing momentarily to grab her car keys before leaving. 

“What about breakfast?” Iantha calls after her. She turns to Jane who sighs. 

“I’ve got it,” she says, secretly pleased at this turn of events as she packs some waffles for Skye. She’s always thought Skye and Melissa had potential. 

Jane’s good mood dissolves, however, when she runs into Skye standing on the front steps looking dejected. Jane, who was ready to trek the mile to Cameron High School, stops short. “What’s wrong? Do you have a headache? Shall I bathe your forehead?”

“Stop with the headache,” Skye says, waving away Jane’s hand. “I just realized I’d promised my science teacher I’d work in the lab tonight, help her clean it before school ends.”

“On prom night?” Jane asks.

Skye throws her hands in the air. “I hadn’t planned on going when I’d accepted!”

Jane doesn’t say anything to Skye, who’s stomping around the front yard trying to find a tree she can kick while she rants about the pressure of school dances and dumb crushes. “Some maidens may balk from the fear, but Sabrina Starr never wavers in the face of pressure.”

Skye stops her pacing. “What?”

“Nothing! Get in the car, we’ll be late.”

As seven in the afternoon draws closer, Skye’s mood worsens, until she nearly stomps into the lab. She’d sat through an entire day of school with Melissa, who seemed glowing as Skye’s heart sank. Now, she feels even worse as she sees Jane fiddling with the rack of graduated cylinders. 

“Jane what are you doing here?” Skye asks as the science teacher steps out of the back room. She catches sight of Skye and grins as she puts the box in her arms on a dry bench. 

“Hello Skye, why aren’t you getting ready to go to the dance?”

“Dance?” Skye asks.

“Yeah don’t you remember? You mixed up the dates when you agreed to help tonight. You thought prom was next week, not this week,” Jane jumps in, making her just go with it face. Skye had seen that face enough times to know nothing good came out of it. “So I offered to help instead.”

“You’re cleaning a lab?” Sky clarifies. She’s pretty sure Jane would rather die than go near anything science related.  

“Of course! I mean who wouldn’t want to wash one hundred graduation cylinders?” 

“Graduated,” Skye corrects.

“From what?”

“Never mind. Jane may I talk to you for a moment?”

Skye not-too-gently takes her sister’s arm and drags her towards the rack of lab coats. “What are you doing?”

“Cleaning gr-”

“Graduated cylinders I know. Jane this isn’t gonna work.”

“Why, it’s just in the gym. That’s a three minute walk.”

“I have nothing to wear!”

Oh. Right. How had Jane forgotten that? She looks around and catches sight of the coats. “There,” she points.

“You want me to wear a lab coat?”

“Yeah. Or you could just stay here and let Melissa go to the dance on her own.”

Skye sighs. “Fine. Help me put it on.”

Ten minutes later, after donning the coat and letting Jane twist her hair this way and that way until her eyes are uncovered, Skye slips into the gym. She looks around for a moment to get her bearing, and instantly someone is wrapping their arms around her. Skye turns to see Melissa grinning at her. Skye steps back and does a double take when she sees the blue gown Melissa chose.

“It matches your eyes,” Melissa says. 

“Yeah,” Skye says, smiling a little.

“God you really don’t know what to say do you?” Melissa asks with a grin. 

“No I do not.”

“Then why don’t I save you the trouble: ‘I, Skye Magee Penderwick, formally apologize to Melissa Patenaude for being dense and not realizing that she’s been asking me to prom for three months’.”

“That works,” Skye says, silently thanking Jane for cleaning the lab so Skye can be here, burning up under the gym’s bright lights in a lab coat as the prettiest girl she’s ever seen teases her. 

“Good. Hold out your hand.”

“What?” Skye asks, doing as she’s told. She looks down to realize that Melissa has tied a white rose corsage around her wrist. 

“Here. To match your lab coat.”

“Thank you,” Skye says softly.

“I assume there’s a story behind the coat?”

“Obviously.”

“And it has to do with Jane?”

“The one and only.”

Melissa links her arm with Skye’s. “Tell me all about it.”

#skye penderwick #jane penderwick #iantha aaronson-penderick #martin penderwick #rosalind penderwick #ben penderwick #batty penderwick #lydia penderwick #the penderwicks #melissa patenaude #ahh sorry if it sucks #izzielizzie's fics

[janesramblings]

Headcanon that contrary to popular belief Skye and Batty didn’t bond over their mother in the Penderwicks in Spring. No, they bonded about four years later when they both realized they had crushes on their best friends, and it wasn’t Jeffrey. (it was, of course, Melissa and Keiko)

#i'm sorry but the idea of skye penderwick #my absolute favorite childhood book character #being in love with her best friend that happened to be a girl #made me feel so much better about having crushes on girls when i was a kid #and batty and keiko make it even better #skye penderwick #melissa patenaude #batty penderwick #keiko trice

[mechagalaxy]

Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1370

(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184) Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1370 Brought to you by ANN Highlighting the May 3365 Orester The Gaming Authorities decided the time to let the 65 ton Orester shine had come at last. On the eight tallest tops it was to be used almost exclusevly, -but we were allowed to use one other sub-70 tonner as well. On the three lowest tops it was a regular 65 ton max event. On the face of it, this was a disaster waiting to happen for us. While there are several dozens of all the standard 60 ton or lower models in the hangar, we have only a handfull of Oresters. Reason? Well, I find them to be slow, have little Dodge and not too good Precision. Besides, while they individually arent ruinoulsy expensive, purchasing and upgrading half a hundred of them would have set us back around 2.7M Ferrrite, 2.2M Bioptics and 100k Crystals. That is resorces we simply dont have. Another strike against me was that other comittments would keep me away during the scramble, so I seriously considered to sit the event out. But there was a promised bonus for winning four KotM medals in a row , and since we had claimed the first three already.... So the quintet was brought out, armed and equipped. As support a Smilidon was chosen, and after temporarily dismissing some 95 tonners from my main formation, room to add them in a single line were created. As we arrived on K4, the few contestants that had shown up seemed to have mostly their main formations present. I took this as an invitation to go for the top, and it was claimed against neglible opposition. But then the time had come to leave the crew alone. They were told to hold as best they could, and try to get me some decent footage. I was quite surprised when I later returned and discovered them standing grinning around our newest Nephilax. And the footage they had gotten showed that the full list of Nephilax winners this time had been: Div 1 417+ (21 Commanders): Jeff Haas, W&D HQ (8h,4m) 2: Were Wolf 3: Shawn Wretham 4: Claude Poirier 5: Sherriff Leary Wretham 6: Fabio Favaro 7: Bernard Johnson 8: Gary Muenzel 9: Mk Mathews 10: Stroker Spot Div 2 -416 (12 Commanders): Melissa Powell, Spirit of Bunny (17h,3m) Div 3 -311 (14 Commanders): Yusuke Paul Okabayashi, M&L Team Banzai (1h,12m) Div 4 -223 (8 Commanders): Sten Hugo Hiller, Star League (5h,50m) Div 5 -173 (20 Commanders): retiredarmyman, Death`s Revenge (1m,47s) Div 6 -122 (10 Commanders): Brian Patenaude, Black Star Bandits (13h,54m) Div 7 -89 (18 Commanders): John D, T.I.o.M.T. (1m,12s) Div 8 -59 (8 Commanders): NameOfProfile, Mad Scientist 1 (7m,53s) Div 9 -38 (15 Commanders): Robert Goetz, I.N.A. (5h,46m) Div 10 -25 (9 Commanders): Chris Mari Macabudbud, Ronins 2 (12h,38m) Div 11 -15 (14 Commanders): Iorvailu, RED AXE (17h,1m) On the eight tops where only one non-Orester was allowed 5(G,2S)+2(G,S)+1S+0+3(G,2S)+3S+10(G,3S)+2(G)= Five Golds, twelve Silvers and nine Bronzes were awarded to Commanders who might have had fully legal formations. (All contestants on the three lowest tops seemed to abide by the 65 ton restriction) Total Contestants: 149 Total medals claimed: 135 (of 165 possible) The number of contestants pummeled again. Fifty-three fewer contestants showed up compared to the Top Line event. This reduction, -coupled to some serious imbalance between the tops, led to plenty of unclaimed prizes. After the award ceremony a total of thirty Bronzes from seven tops were returned for resmelting. The last half-hor saw just a trio of Golds being fought over, while seven Golds were held for at least two hours. Was this due to little fighting or a serious case of haves vs have nots? Hard to say, but perhaps a clue can be gotten by looking at the number of medals held for more than 30 minutes in this event: .............Silvers......Bronzes Div 1 ....0 of 4.........3 of 10 Div 2 ....4 of 4.........7 of 7 Div 3 ....0 of 4.........7 of 9 Div 4 ....4 of 4.........3 of 3 Div 5 ....2 of 4.........8 of 10 Div 6 ....2 of 4.........3 of 5 Div 7 ....0 of 4.........2 of 10 Div 8 ....0 of 4.........0 of 3 Div 9 ....4 of 4.......10 of 10 Div 10 ..4 of 4.........4 of 4 Div 11 ..2 of 4.........7 of 9 We had four tops  (K2, K4, K9 and K10) without even a single succesfull medal attack. On the other side of the coin was Mount Olympus, K7 and K8 where the great majority  of the medals (all on K8) found fresh holders. None of the clans managed to claim more than one Gold in this event, and none of the unaligned Commanders managed to claim a win this time either. And since there was no repeat winners this time, I will classify it as one of the "none" events. Upcoming event: Smaller Gateways Chrono Here we get a limited unlimited Chrono. Unlimited because we are free to choose whichever models we want to use. Limited because we can only use a total tonnage: 205 tons on the lowest top (K11) increasing by 75 tons for each higher top. And Chrono, so sign up ASAP to start scoring the points needed to get you some (good) prizes. Event ends November 19 between 1900 and 1930 New York Time

[izzielizzie]

Any Penderwicks headcanons you could spare?

of course!

Rosalind wants to be a professional baker for practically all of her life until she goes to college and volunteers at a farm with some of her friends and she falls in love

i can just imagine her talking about her career change with such enthusiasm

"plants are great Tommy! they're like kids that don't talk back or demand food! And I can bake with them! and they're so pretty especially flowers! flowers are so pretty! and i like gardening who doesn't? no wonder Dad's a botanist!!!"

honestly she's just so happy

Mr. Penderwick is happy too because he loves plants and now he talk about them without people rolling their eyes at him

although Rosy is very against all the pressed plants in his office

okay i feel like this is generally accepted in the fandom but no Penderwick sibling is straight

Rosy? bi. no one is that obsessed with their best friend Anna

Skye? oh Skye's a lesbian and she has a very dramatic enemies-to-friends-to-lovers thing going on with Melissa and she's also ace

Jane? well no one really knows her orientation not even her but "love is a vibe guys if someone has the vibe then i'm in love"

(cue Skye rolling her eyes in the background)

Batty is also ace and she's also hopelessly in love with Keiko

Ben and Rafael have been in love since the first grade and they can be found in their apartment making movies, speaking Klingon, and adopting dogs

and Lydia and Alice are being bad influences together for all of eternity

Jane spends a year during college studying literature in the UK and she comes back with the fakest British accent ever

she actually keeps up the charade for a like a solid month until Skye laughs at her so hard she just gives up

no one is allowed to talk about it

Batty and Jeffrey put on concerts every vacation

Rosalind tried to teach Lydia how to bake once

and only once

Nick is still, to this day, trying to find Batty her sport

Under Penderwick Family Honor, no one is allowed to tell Nick that Batty joined the tennis team in high school with Keiko

this leads to a lot of hilarity whenever Nick's home

someone always trips up and almost talks about it and Batty just dramatically whips around and glares at them

she and Skye are very good at glaring

Skye is always on the roof of their garage

Iantha and Mr. Penderwick know but she hasn't died yet so they let her be

when Aunt Claire got married Skye almost refused to be in the wedding because of the past flower trauma at her uncle Gordan's wedding

Hoover the dog gets a very special shout out at Claire and Turron's wedding because without him Claire wouldn't have broken her ankle and she and Turron wouldn't have fallen in love

when Keiko and Batty get married they joke about only inviting people's pets and leaving the people at home

Ben and Rafael are so upset that Cameron High School doesn't actually teach Klingon that they start a protest

no one actually goes but that doesn't stop them

they become such a nuisance that the principle - sick of the Penderwicks and their hijinks after the first four and already terrified of the sixth one - just lets them teach themselves the language in the back of the library during study hall

Lydia and Jack become best friends and Alice hates it but also loves it

i actually can't tell if i like Jack/Lydia or Alice/Lydia better

whatever either way that trio is iconic

after Skye moves to California Jeffrey and Jane grow closer

idk why i ship them so much but i really do

maybe it's because Jeffrey wrote music for her

he still does

a lot

the Penderwicks never cease to be chaotic and i miss them

#rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #ben aaronson penderwick #lydia penderwick #iantha aaronson penderick #martin penderwick #tommy geiger #nick geiger #keiko trice #alice pelletier #jack pelletier #rafael (the penderwicks) #melissa patenaude #jeffrey tifton mcgrath #claire penderwick #turron asabere #the penderwicks #anna cardasis

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Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1341

(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184) Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1341 Brought to you by ANN Highlighting the January 3364 Shocklite Surge This time the Gaming Authorities decided to limit the participation on all tops to Mechs massing 20 tons or less. In addition, on the ten tallest tops they wanted the Shocklite to shine, so on those tops Commanders were not allowed to field more than one non-Shocklite Mech each. I wondered how many of the contestants would ignore the restrictions this time. But that was their lookout. If they showed up in inferior formations and had the crap kicked out of their overweight Mechs they would only have themselves to blame. Agreed, some of them might be unable to field a (nearly) full formation of Shocklites, but it is one of the cheapest models around. Buying, -and upgrading, 30 of them a hundred times wont cost more than 3600 Crystals + some rocks, and many (most?) Commanders have those resorces to spare. But it was mostly an academic interest. This event my forces would probably stay far away from the mountains as we would be overmatched to a serious degree. The invitation stated that we would be expected on K2, where the regulars would have licences 150-250 higher than mine. My crew might be good, but if they come into a stock Mech derby where most of the opponents Mechs have twice their armor and armament the result will be an onesided slaughter. So instead I arranged for some friends who would be going there to get me some footage of the action. After studying it for a while, it became clear that the Nephilax winners this time had been: Div 1 444+ (19 Commanders): Claude Poirier, Nemesis (6s) 2: Bernard Johnson 3: Fabio Favaro 4: Sherriff Leary Wretham 5:  Jeff Haas 6: Sal Vezzosi Jr 7: Ben Rail 8: Lewis Reed 9: Gary Muenzel 10: Paul Knight Div 2 -433 (10 Commanders): Joe Kump, B.o.A.D. (15s) Div 3 -328 (15 Commanders): Melissa Powell, Spirit of Bunny (11h,24m) Div 4 -237 (8 Commanders): KiloToneRecoil, B.o.A.D. (23m,39s) Div 5 -182 (28 Commanders): Withney Averill (23s) Div 6 -128 (12 Commanders): Brian Patenaude, Black Star Bandits (4h,49m) Div 7 -97 (17 Commanders): Siegfried Gust, Black Star Bandits (1h,21m) Div 8 -62 (10 Commanders): Nick Walter, **R.V.** (10h,1m) Div 9 -41 (14 Commanders): Peter Harrison, **R.V.** (21h,6m) Div 10 -27 (14 Commanders): Kimmy Dattilo, Murdermech mini (41s) Div 11 -14 (13 Commanders): Aleksandar Maksimovic (21h,59m) 7+7(2S)+9(1S)+5(2S)+2+5+11(1S)+3(1S)+12(G,2S)+11(2S)+4(1S)= One Gold, twelve Silvers and sixty-three Bronzes were awarded to commanders who clearly had at least some illegal Mechs in their formations. Total Contestants: 160 Total medals claimed: 141 (of 165 possible) If we look back to the Cindron Chrono, the number of Commanders signing up did rise by ten. However that is from a low base, so we were bound to have unclaimed prizes this time as well, question was: how many? In the end, a total of twenty-four Bronzes from seven tops had to be returned for resmelting. The last half-hour saw five Golds changing hands at least once, four  of them decided less than a minute before the end. Five other Golds were held for more than two hours. Sounds like we had some strong winners and some close matches. Question is how close the struggle for the lesser prizes were? To find out we take a look at the number of medals held for more than 30 minutes in this event: .............Silvers......Bronzes Div 1 ....0 of 4.........8 of 10 Div 2 ....1 of 4.........2 of 5 Div 3 ....1 of 4.........4 of 10 Div 4 ....2 of 4.........2 of 3 Div 5 ....0 of 4.........8 of 10 Div 6 ....4 of 4.........5 of 7 Div 7 ....1 of 4.........6 of 10 Div 8 ....3 of 4.........4 of 5 Div 9 ....4 of 4.........9 of 9 Div 10 ..2 of 4.........9 of 9 Div 11 ..4 of 4.........8 of 8 On two of the tops (K9 and K11) there were no successfull medal attacks launched. On the other end of  the scale we had K2, K3 and K4 where the action was fierce enough to see the majority of the medals in fresh hands. This time we had a trio of clans claiming a double Gold. The Brotherhood of Arcane Dragons (K2 + K4), Black Star Bandits (K6 + K7) and **Raging Vengeance** (K8 + K9). We also had two unaligned winners; Withney Averill on K5 and Aleksandar Maksmovic on K11.  However, none of the Cindron winners managed to claim a fresh Gold. Upcoming event: Weighty Chrono Here we get another tonnage limited Chrono, although this time the Chrono is fairly long. No Mechs heavier than 80 tons will be allowed to fight in the arena, so keeping them out of the formation is highly recomended for those who want to win (good) prizes. Event ends October 9 between 0000 and 0030 New York Time