It may have been mentioned before (I found the link somewhere recently) but if so just consider it a strong seconding; It Takes a Village (or Sometimes an Army) is hilarious.
Young Agatha is raised by the Jägermonsters. (Though in the above quotes, they're still on the way back to Mechanicsburg after finding her)
AO3 chapter index link:
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Quote:“Um,” Agatha tilted her head slightly, “but Uncle Barry said the old Heterodynes were bad people.”
“But dey vos fun bad pipple,” Oggie said, grinning. “Und dey vos hyu anceztors! Hy tell hyu all about dem if hyu get in bed first.”
Agatha regarded Oggie wide-eyed for a few seconds, ruminating on this offer for a few seconds.
“Okay!” she said finally. “But I'm not goin' to bed 'cause you tricked me, I just wanna hear the stories.”
“Ov courze,” Oggie said and took Agatha's hand, leading her to the next room where they'd set up the bed for her. He threw one last smug look over his shoulder, because the situation called for a little gloating.
There was some eyerolling at Oggie, but he turned out to be a better storyteller than any of them expected. He told Agatha about the time her great-great-great-granduncle Persiflat Heterodyne used a set of giant magnifying lenses to set a troublesome neighbor's castle roof on fire, and even with the girl interrupting to ask questions which clearly exceeded Oggie's limited understanding of science, he managed to make the story sound engaging.
“Hyu tink she gon' be like her poppa?” Maxim asked during a lull in the story, when Agatha asked a particularly tricky question that she was unwilling to let Oggie gloss over.
“Hy tink she vill be Heterodyne in de end,” Jenka replied, tapping the spine of Agatha's book.
The title, in flowery cursive, was '101 Elegant Death Ray Designs for the Fashionable Gentlewoman'.
Quote:The fisherman's son, no older than eight, regarded Agatha with something akin to amazement.
“How do you know?” the boy asked quietly, as Dimo and Maxim settled into the boat.
“I asked,” Agatha said, and the 'well, duh' was implied, even if not spoken aloud.
“Why'd you ask?” the boy said, looking aghast at the thought of questioning a Jäger on any subject at all.
“'Cause that's what scientist do!” Agatha explained with a patient sigh.
“What, ask questions everyone else is too terrified to?” the boy frowned.
“Yep!”
Young Agatha is raised by the Jägermonsters. (Though in the above quotes, they're still on the way back to Mechanicsburg after finding her)
AO3 chapter index link:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1795681/navigate
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows