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 Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:42 am
Melvin was having some programming issues with the collar, and was finding it increasing hard to navigate between textbooks and his own program to figure out what he was doing wrong. Alterations to complex programs that had been worked on and tweaked until perfection were of course going to be challenging, but since he was only making minor adjustments, he had been hoping he could just get by learning what he needed.
He wondered if he should ask for programming lessons at this point, but for now he just needed to check into the Death department for some advice. Laptop bag tucked under one arm, he walked down the rooms and looked at the scrap of paper Margaret from the Breeding Program had told him was his best chance at charity.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:23 am
Rep was in Death division hanging around idly as usual. When Melvin arrived he was carrying a stack of paperwork out of the main office into one of the side rooms and stopped, work in hand.
"What are you after?" he asked sharply and suspiciously. He seemed to have come more to terms with the whole being a woman thing and had at least stopped wearing a thousand layers, wearing one of his usual wifebeaters which did nothing to hide the ample busom he'd managed to gain and a pair of woman's denims which had been the only ******** denims he'd been able to get to fit his newfound hips.
"Cause if you are ******** running errands for Life I'm going to have to throw you the ******** out."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:49 am
He had read Twitter, but seeing was believing and he was startled by what his mind tried to rationize was some long lost twin of Rep before he forced the correction. Even though he imagined what a woman version of Rep would be, it just woubd up as a mental cut and paste of dragging over boobs and heels on Rep's natural body. This, while still holdibg the core aesthetic of the hunter was curved, shrunk, and yet enlarged in places.
It took him a moment to realize he had been stunned, as he hadn't expected to even see Rep let alone prepare himself. Given the tweets from before, he felt he would just be ignored even more.
"N-No. I'm hoping to barter some programming help."
He held onto the strap to his computer bag.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:55 am
Rep caught the stunned look and pulled his coat closed, or at least tried. It wasn't his usual one and looked like it had been fitted to someone more petite than Rep's lean and curvy body.
"Programming? Did someone send you to try and get help from Mark?" he asked. "Cause you won't get any ******** help from him. Maybe you should go ask around in ******** Life, that's where all the gross wee nerds like you hang out."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:01 am
"Nah. I'm too broke to afford his help and I don't know what hidden fees he would add on. I asked Life and was sent this way." He said, holding up the scrap of paper.
He saw Rep cover himself and felr guilty for causing him to react that way. "Sorry. I didn't mean to stare. You just startled me."
"You.....doing okay?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:47 am
Rep gave Melvin an icy look that managed to be sarcastic in spite of having no words attached to it. "Do I look like I'm doing okay?" he asked irritably. "I'm a ******** woman. My d**k is GONE. Would you be all right?"
He waved the paper at Melvin irritably. "I can do programming but no ******** runic s**t, we don't have many people who aren't just ******** lunatics in this division. Lunatics and pencil pushers for the most part, maybe you'll have more luck than me." In his irritation he seemed to have forgotten that he wasn't talking to Melvin.
"Not ******** fine at all." he went on.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:23 am
He winced to the sheer volume that even Rep's different-pitched voice managed. "No....I would not. That was a stupid question. It's..just what I'd ask out of concern."
He wondered if he should have offer to help him with those papers but knew that probably wouldn't go over well. Even as a woman, Rep still was far stronger than he was.
"I guess I tend to assume you can handle a lot more than anyone because you always come off as stronger."
He wasn't sure why Rep was talking to him but even the snark was nice.
"I can't program past what can read from books I borrow. I'm stuck. I -"
But that wasn't important.
"No. Sorry. Do you....wanna talk about it?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:49 pm
"Well then." Rep said sullenly. "And I guess more people ******** consider it the same deal." He didn't feel strong.
"And no I ******** don't." he said, seeming to finally realise who he was talking to. "I don't want to ******** talk about it."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:41 pm
He looked back at him, not too surprised but saddened by the rejection.
Well, he could always try another.
"Then, how about something else? To get your mind off things."
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:44 pm
"How do you get your mind off of this whole situation? Enlighten me." he gave Melvin a nonplussed look.
"And what the ******** are you even up to that brought you over here anyway?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:48 pm
"Oh, I'm running a program that works off of contained tracking that pieces parts of Spectre but also creates a log history for the wearer. It's......something I have been sorta fumbling through at the moment."
And since they were on talk of business and Rep still hadn't walked away, he tried to keep him here.
"What have you been up to in Death?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:55 pm
"Being the b***h of the legacies, babysitting a kid." he said, shrugging as if it wasn't a big deal at all. "Mostly dangerous s**t, lots of weird s**t. Cannae really talk about it though, especially no with a Lifer."
He did give Melvin a long look for his project. "What the ******** are you tracking?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:01 pm
Melvin adjusted his computer strap. "Um....I'd share but...I had to get special permission. Sorry. I would share but, last thing I need is Dr. H focusing on me too hard. I got stuffed in a morgue shelf once. I don't want to deal with a repeat."
So much for talking about that.
"Who's kid were you babysitting? I can't imagine anyone younger than the hunters we have here running around. Dangerous too. Was it bad?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:37 am
"A morgue shelf?" he said incredulously. "I'm no even going to ask, it's H, it could be ******** anything. As long as you urnae ******** doing anything to me personally do whatever gross experiments you want." He couldn't really throw stones given his own division and some of the s**t they got up to, along with the death tolls.
"I was babysitting Cael. He was made like, younger. I had to keep him out of trouble, it wasn't too bad, he was a nice wee kid. Really prone to getting hurt though and running off. I never want a ******** kid man."
And there was a moment of dizzying nausea as he realised that if it wasn't for the whole having a weapon thing, he could theoretically have one himself. "Never."
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:48 am
"No. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you - though it seems you went through the 7 rings of hell already." Not to mention he was standing there as a woman.
"As a kid? That's pretty hard to imagine. Though I'm glad he wasn't bad. It's saddening to think there will be no families here until you remember that you often can't keep a house in towns without worrying if the whole place will be leveled. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to even have one of my siblings here and while it would be nice to have the company, I wouldn't want them turning into something that was hardened or afraid."
"To be trusted with Cael's well-being must have meant a lot though."
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