The removal of Madam Geoffrey and Brain/Einstein halted the fighting. Beetlejuice and Smee stopped circling each other. PUC and Sweettart frolicked unhindered and took a second honeymoon to celebrate their nemesis’ disappearance. Milktoast has taken over Beetlejuice’s home in the middle of the tank and Beetlejuice moved into Madame Geoffery’s rooms. In the Supermax Prison/Palace, Madame Geoffrey and Brain/Einstein spent several weeks in a charming display of tolerance. We all breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, coexisting ruled. True, there have been a few complaints, but nothing that isn’t normal when you have forced roommates.
Madam Geoffrey went through her bi-monthly habit of laying eggs. In a tank with no jealous diva, grumpy male, or cannibalistic sucker fish, Geoffrey decided it was time to try hatching those eggs, again. The coexistence with Brain/Einstein stopped. In fairness to her, he was foolish to swim closer and closer to her eggs while she laid them.
After getting bit several times, Brain/ Einstein lost his temper and failed to live up to his namesake by eating one of her eggs. Authorities broke up the fight before Einstein lost more than a few scales, making it possible for him to hightail it to the spacious castle that Madame Geoffery can’t fit into. They then removed the eggs.
In an explosion of self-pity, Madam Geoffrey went to the corner of the tank, and with her back to the authorities, she flung rocks against the sides. She mumbled something about the authorities not knowing what it was like to want kids and how dare they be so insolent as to remove her eggs, and if Sassy were alive, they wouldn’t’ve dared to do such a thing.
Meanwhile, in the old neighborhood, Beetlejuice and Smee are circling again, and PUC and Sweettart are joining in the fray by nipping at the two whenever they get too close to the honeymoon suite. It’s disappointing that all the time and effort to build a new neighborhood in the name of peace was for naught.
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