Curiosity | Saturday & Wednesday

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June 6th 2025

Saturday was enjoying the slightly cloudy day, even though it wasn't his favorite. He made it a point to try and enjoy everyday - why not? It took a lot more effort to get upset and annoyed than it did to just exist and let the world happen around you. So even though he preferred the sun, he was alright with the cooler day. He walked out of his room and into the kitchen in search of something to snack on as he heard a knock on their door. The bellhop handed him a large box and he signed the little slip before shutting the door again and carrying the box to the kitchen table. The mailing label said that it was from their mother, so honestly it could have been anything. Saturday got a knife and began to sloppily cut away at the tape.

@wednesday

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June 6th, 2020
@saturday

Summer had started and, rather than returning to Beverly Hills, the Weekly kids were cooped up in gloomy London. The quarantine had ended any plans of returning home for the summer. So, their parents decided to rent out a penthouse for the kids, especially when it was announced that Ilvermorny students would be housed at a local orphanage. Since seven of the eight kids were adopted orphanages could be a very sore subject. Thankfully, between both the parents, the family was pretty loaded. Since the oldest kids were legal adults in the magical world, living in a pent house worked well because they could be legally responsible for the underage siblings.

Wednesday had slept into noon only awoken when there was a knock from the hall. Her room was close enough to the front door to hear it. Yawning, she listened to a short exchange, it sounded like a package. Who'd be sending a package to them? Maybe it was something for school? Curiosity got the better of her an she finally rolled out of bed, stumbled across the room, and out the door. She covered a yawn as she entered the kitchen where Saturday was tearing at a package.

"Whatcha got?" She approached, running a hand through her hair to straighten in a bit. She glanced down, and saw the label. It was from their mom. "She didn't mention sending anything when I spoke to her yesterday... What is it?" Knowing their mother.... Who knew what it might be. She was trendier than all the kids combined, always getting caught up in those popular fads... And always tried to get the kids wrapped up in the trends.

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He heard footsteps behind him but he didn’t look up from his work. He needed to focus. His mind couldn’t handle two things at once very easily right now. He had completely forgotten about his snack and was 100% investing in this package. It wasn’t labeled to anyone in particular, just the Weekly children, so Saturday felt comfortable tearing into it. Suddenly, it seemed, Wednesday was there talking and he put together that hers were the footsteps he was hearing. She asked what he was doing, and then upon looking at the package, she said it was strange since mom hadn’t said that she was sending anything. She asked what it was and Saturday shrugged, he hadn’t got all the tape off the box yet.. “You’re the clairvoyant one.” he replied, obviously not seriously. Finally, he just ripped the top off it and flung the other side open, revealing… something. “Here. you’re better suited for figuring this out.” he stepped aside from the box, with his hands in the air.

@wednesday

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June 6th, 2020
@saturday

Saturday was very focused on destroying, err opening, the package, and making very little progress. It was actually quite comical. His jest at her being the clairvoyant one got a face. "Oh haha" Though that was true. All the siblings were quite unique. Several of them had ended up being adopted because of very dark and messed up biological parents. Sometimes it made Wednesday feel like their adopted parents were just collecting "special needs" kids, but she couldn't exactly blame them for that. Her parents had adopted children no one else wanted, and provided a loving home and spoiled them all completely rotten. They had their issues, but to be honest? Wednesday wouldn't have had it any other way.

Finally, Saturday managed to get the stubborn package open and... immediately gave up in trying to identify the contents. Oh great. "Uh oh." Their mother, meaning well, tended to get caught up in trends, and then tried to drag all the kids into it. So, bizarre items was a common find in the Weekly household. She stepped up to the counter and started to pull out the contents. The first was a little note. She held it up and read aloud.

"My dear children. It breaks my heart that I can't hold you close. The British Ministry has rejected my plea for special entry into the country, or your permitted departure. Here are a few treasures to help remind you of home, and keep your spirits high during the quarantine-" Wednesday stopped reading and glanced down at the box. "Dear god, what did she send..."

Setting the letter to the side she started to unpackaged the other contents. The first was a bottle... "Zoiben...? parasite, yeast, and biofilm detox." She looked at Saturday with a 'are you serious?' look.

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Wednesday didn’t seem to find his joke funny but he got a little kick out of it. Though he knew, of course, that knowing what was in a package wasn’t how her abilities worked, it still tickled him to be able to make the joke, and to think of it in the moment made it all the better! Wednesday read the note that came with the package outloud and Saturday rolled his eyes a little. He loved their mother, but she was so dramatic. Of course she wanted special permission to enter the country - that didn’t surprise him. While he hadn’t spoken with her one-on-one since they were told to stay in the country, he had expected that she might try something along those lines.

Wednesday began to unpack the contents of the box and nothing that she was pulling out was something he had even heard of. He briefly glanced over everything and then reached his hand into the box and pulled out another tub. “Collagen powder - to promote skin elasticity.” he read and then gave a shrug of his facial expressions and set it down on the table. “Oh and look - she even sent us all a new bamboo toothbrush - that woman thinks of everything.” he laughed and shook his head.

@wednesday

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June 6th, 2020
@saturday

The unpacking was both an adventure and terrifying. You never knew with their mom. Saturday had started to unpack as well, finding a skin cream. "Probably for Monday or Thursday," she teased. Between Monday's prone-to-injury and Thursday's able-to-sunburn-anywhere they both might have a need for skin care. Though their mother's choice was quite.. interesting. The bamboo toothbrushes were probably the most normal, and welcome, care package item. Wednesday was actually on board with them. Better for the environment and just as good as a normal toothbrush. "Oh sweet, I needed a replacement."

She went for the next item, saw it, and grinned. "I think this is for you." She held the book out to Saturday. Across the cover read "Shufflebottom's Guide to Magical Veganism". There were three individuals in the house that required meat of some kind. Two werewolves and a part giant would do that. "Aaaaand that's mine.. Gross." She pulled out a bag of faux peanuts. All the nutty flavor without the nut. Where their mother managed to find such a monstrosity was a mystery. Wednesday guessed China.

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Wednesday joked with him as she continued to pull things out of the box. It was large, but he felt like there couldn’t be that much more in there. And then she pulled out the book, handing it to him. He read the title and snorted. “I’ll probably read it too.” he laughed at himself. He had always been kind of into that stuff, but there was only so much you could be into veganism when you were a werewolf and literally needed meat to survive. But he thought it was cool, and he appreciated it morally. Which was why he usually stuck to pescatarianism. And then she pulled something else out, a bag of something that Satudya couldn’t even attempt to describe but she seemed grossed out by it. He moved over and read the packaging. Faux nuts. “Why? What’s the point of fake nuts? Doesn’t she want us to stay away from processed foods.?” he asked, shaking his head in disbelief. He knew his sister was allergic to nuts, which was hilarious since they had bulk containers of them in the house at all times, but he didn’t see the point of trying to substitute them - just eat something else. He was pretty sure his sister would agree with him. “I’m not even looking at anything else - the others can pick through it.” he was done. But he kept his book… and snagged a toothbrush into his pile too. “let me know if there’s anything else good.” instead he turned and opened the fridge.

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June 6th, 2020
@saturday

Wednesday laughed as Saturday admitted he might actually read the book. While Wednesday wouldn't classify herself as a vegetarian she also wouldn't really classify herself as an omnivore either. She saw benefits for both, and she tended to move around on the eating spectrum. So at home she had no problem being a vegetarian, or even vegan, and at school she had no problem with meat. She just adapted easily. It probably helped that she didn't feel strongly about meat, so it was easy to cut out and reintroduce into her diet quite easily.

As Saturday questioned the nuts she just shrugged. Yeah, their moms wasn't much into processed food. "Probably because processed artificial nuts are better than meat," she answered truthfully. Which was the lesser evil. Processed food, or meat? Plus, when you already cut meat out of the diet, nuts were an important source of protein. So, their mom had always had to make an exception for Wednesday in some way. "Maybe she's trying to tell me I'm too skinny?" Though definitely not the reason, it made Wednesday a little smug. She was happy with her body, she did what she could to maintain her figure.

Saturday interest in the contents wained and he, after taking a toothbrush and the book, turned to the fridge. Wednesday just shrugged and sorted through the contents, looking for anything interesting. It was quite a bit of herbal remedies, and other alternative and trending items, and then she found the journals. "Oh goodie, she sent us journals." She pulled out the stack. Each one was individually decorated for each child. It was easy to tell who's was who's. "Mom wants us to write down our feelings." Wednesday, being one of the oldest, remembered when their mom had gotten in a "thought box" phase. She'd watched a lot of children development shows that talked about kids writing down their feelings and then sharing them at night with their parents. Wednesday didn't keep up a journal because of it. She didn't like her parents reading her journal in hopes of understanding her better.

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Because processed nuts were better than meat was what Wednesday suggested to justify their mothers' reasoning. Saturday shrugged. “Sounds believable to me.” he admitted. He loved their mother and he respected her and her vegan tendencies. To him, all the food was good. Whether it was vegan or not, food was food. And he was happy to eat Vegan, partly because it was trendy and he wanted to seem cooler than he was. But either way. He still just couldn’t wrap his head around processed artificial nuts, though. “But there are so many better protein supplements.” he continued. “Just eat some tofu, or beans.” Though he knew that most of the kids didn’t adhere to the vegan diet when they weren't home, so they could also just eat meat. Which he did, mostly because he had to due to his condition. He sighed, resigning himself to finish his rant.

Saturday’s ears perked up when he heard that they had been sent journals. As a writer, he went through those like their family of 10 went through toilet paper. How he had graduated recently to using a laptop instead of pen on paper, he was still slightly addicted to buying and collecting stationary. And there was still something very attractive about writing in journals and seeing his scratchy handwriting across the page. “Let me see those…” he closed the fridge after popping a grape in his mouth and went back over to his sister. He saw the various, specific journals. She didn’t seem happy about it, saying mom wanted them to write down their feelings. He shrugged. “It’s never a bad idea to get those out. It can be cathartic. And it’s not like she has to read them. You can burn it when it’s full.” he had done that before with some of his private journals. But it was kind of painful to see all the time he spent filling them go up in flames. He wasn’t sure he’d do it again.

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June 6th, 2020
@saturday

Wednesday tossed the faux nuts on the counter. She'd no doubt toss them in the garbage later and promptly forget about them until their mother mentioned them. Then she'd have to lie about loving them. "They still taste like death, real nut or not." Soon he was suggesting other protein alternatives, some she was very familiar with because that's what their mom fixed it often. She shrugged. "Faux nuts probably traveled better in the mail. I'd hate to see tofu try to go through customs. That'd be a disgusting mess." Beans would be fine, just heavy. And no doubt their mom would send her the dehydrated kind that she had to prepare herself instead of acting like a normal human being and just... buying the canned sort. But noooooo, canned beans were processed. Processed was bad.

Wednesday held the journals out to him as he spoke, knowing she's struck his curiosity. Saturday started to explain that journal writing was "cathartic" and suggesting burning it when she was done. "I suppose so. But I'd be worried about one of you dweebs trying to read it." She winked. She loved her siblings, dearly. But there were eight of them in total. That meant she had 7 siblings that could potentially go through her stuff.