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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:07 pm
Nana was watching the man in the back seat casually when she received yet another call to her planner. "My god." She answered again, "I said five." She was silent for a moment while the other end seemed to ask something and she responded with the name of the perpetrator in the back seat, "Zaneferzenis, some blue guy." She was silent for a short moment until she replied, "Oh yeah?" She turned her glance up to the mirror and see the man in the back, "I'm hooking my planner to the backseat screen, got a guy says he knows you. I'll give you a fifteen minute call, that was the standard in the old days on Earth." She did as she promised and the screen turned on, both visual and audio.
On the screen was the man from the first wanted poster. He was a bit paler and his short hair a darker blonde than the picture, but all in all he looked about the same. He still had the same large, muscular frame though, and the same lowered brow. He folded his large arms over his chest, which was about as low as the video showed, and gave the man a disapproving look. "What did you do?"
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"Prince Charming." Michaels snickered to himself. He suppressed the small laugh though and waved a dismissive hand as he cleared his throat, "Uhm, I don't know, you could be any of the princesses, can't you?"
"You're such a nerd." Titania smiled and poked the mna beside her in the side playfully, "I think, if we're going classic movie, she'd be like Pocahontas. Fated to marry one of her own, but falling in love with a foreigner."
"You can be Mulan then. Because you like adventure and your family's crazy."
Titania laughed, "My brother can be Grandma Fa. He's so like Grandma Fa. You want to be Shang?"
Michaels repressed a blush the best he could and shook his head, "Nah, i don't look good with my shirt off."
---
Farin adjusted until he was comfortable and could hold the planner in one hand and use the other to lay under Cella and stroke he hair while she lay beside him.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:25 pm
Zane found himself trying to suppress the grin trying to form. "Shouldn't I be asking you that? You got arrested way before I did." Zane moved in the seat slightly so he could rest his back against the side of the car door. "You were right though. Love makes a man stupid." He said with a sigh.
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Rockwell turned his head, once again looking at the two, seeing some sort of connection that hadn't been their before. Rolling his eyes he tried to get some rest.
"I wanna read some of these fairy tales!" Chephnem said with a grin. Maybe she'd have more to talk about with the humans if she knew more about their own stuff.
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Cella turned her eyes up to watch the screen as the words moved over it. Every once and a while she would see a letter or word she knew. Mostly because she had been learning some basic reading skills from her brother, in private. Cella would have asked Farin, but she was scared how he would react, he old owner had said a slave wasn't aloud to read.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:49 pm
"I never got arrested, Zane." The man called War on the other end replied. "But unlike you, I knew when to stop. So, where's the girl? Did you get her in loads of trouble with you or did you do dipshit all by yourself?"
Nana continued to listen to the conversation as she switched the cruiser to autopilot and could relax about it a bit more. She sighed and checked the dash to make sure everything was still functioning.
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Titania turned to the girl, "I'd see my brother about it, he has all of the Fairy Tales in some form. Cella likes to hear them, he said. But he's a nerd deep down. He likes the old stories, but not as much as he likes some thousand year-old comic books."
"You're kidding? I would have never pegged him as a nerd."
Titania made a face, "Someone's nerd-dar not working? Need a repair job? I know this great mechanic."
Michaels scoffed, "Unfortunately I'm no cyborg."
"Yeah that's wishful thinking." It was her turn to get a jab in the side for the remark, but she laughed at it and jerked away quickly, "Stop!" She ran to the other side of Chephnem to hide behind her.
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Farin's room was silent save for the breathing of the two and the occasional soft command he gave the pages to "turn" without using his already occupied hands.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:25 pm
"She shouldn't be in any sort of trouble. Rina hasn't ever done a bad deed in her life. She tries to right everything I do." Zane said looking at the women setting the controls. "They are holding her hostage to get me to cooperate."
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"Maybe you guys could take the love fest else where, please?" Rockwell asked as the two ran about the room, making loud noises. "My body is killin me, an my head hurts. can you guys not add to it?"
"Oh he's so grumpy!" Chephnem said with a laugh and stepping away from the other women. "Don't use me as a shield. I thought you were the brave captain."
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Cella's eyes scanned the words for a few long moments, before she spotted an unusually long word. With out thinking she pointed to it "What's that one Master Farin?" She had gotten used to asking what cretin words were with her brother. And she quickly realized her mistake.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:12 pm
War let out a small chuckle, "Yeah, they learned that one from me."
"Au contraire," Nana called back to the screen. "I didn't need you to teach me how to play dirty, I could play dirty without any of your lessons."
"Ain't she a gem? I bet you'll never find someone like that." War gestured backward knowing which seat he was on the back of "But don't worry, I'm sure your lady will be fine. They may be a bit unorthodox but they're still professional."
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"I guess Snow White is just Grumpy after all." Titania stood straight and cocked her head to the side, giving Rockwell a sideways glance, "Good luck beating out Prince Charming for the Princess's love there, Sport." She nodded toward the door, "Come on Sebastian, let's go order new toys for the engine room."
Without protesting, Michaels followed her out begging for dibs on the first order. "Can we get new thrusters? Please, new thrusters! I could make this baby go six times faster, at least!"
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"Constabulary. To put it simply it means the police." Farin replied wtihout skipping a beat, he turned his gaze down to look at Cella and decided he'd ask, "Are you reading the rest? That's very impressive."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:28 pm
"Great, teach them new tricks to make life hell for the rest of us." Zane rolled his multicolored eyes. "If they hurt her, her father will go off the deep end. So I'd almost like to see them try." He said looking down at the screen ignoring the lady in the front.
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"Nerd!" Chephnem called with a laugh.
The room fell quite for a few minutes after the two left, and Rockwell sat listening to the air rush out of the oxygen system. "looks like they finally admitted their feelings." Rockwell looked over to watch Chephnem's expression change.
"Is that what's different?" She asked still looking blankly at the door they had walked out from. "I wondered what had changed. But you could be wrong you know."
"I doubt it Cheph." He said softly.
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Cella shook her head slightly. "No Master Farin. I can't keep up I can only read a few of them." She said trying not to gloat for something she shouldn't be doing any ways.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:01 pm
"Would he really be angry with them? Aren't you the idiot who got her involved in the first place?" War scolded the man, "Anyhow, if you had changed like I told you to maybe you wouldn't be in this mess in the first place." He sighed and called up, "Honey, are you sure you can't get him pardoned too?"
"I'm on thin ice, Warren." Nana growled back, "I have to bring one in every now and then before getting Puck to work his magic."
War shrugged and looked back to the man in the back seat, "Well, I tried."
---
Titania walked back in the see the two looking rather somberly at one another, "Hey guys, I was just letting you know next stop is in about three days, so rest up before then. This one's safe, I promise. It's actually an allied military base of ours, so we'll be completely fine. You might want to stay on board, I wouldn't blame you, but decide if you need anything before then." She paused for a long moment, "Are you guys okay?"
---
Farin shrugged, "Okay. Well, if you need help let me know."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:19 pm
"Excuse me?" Zane snapped. "Honey? What the ******** is that s**t? You're with her. s**t. You don't know how many of your fellow bad guys are probably rolling over in their graves." Zane shook his head acting as if he couldn't believe it.
"But no, he father will go after you guys, not me. And seeing as he makes ships, some of witch you lot use. I would just guess you don't want him too mad." With that said Zane shrugged.
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Chephnem couldn't think of anything nice to say. So being the well mannered princess she is, she stuck her tongue then dashed out the room in an angry huff ducking into the engine room and crawling into her hole to pout.
Shaking his head stiffly Rockwell sighed. "She's going to hate you for a long time I hope you know."
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Cella was quite for a few more moments as she scanned over the words and tried picking apart bigger words that she didn't know. "Master Farin." She said again stuck on a word, this one smaller, but just as difficult. "What's that one?" She pointed to the troublesome word.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:02 pm
War rolled his eyes, "Says the guy who fell for the damsel in distress. I don't think you can say s**t about my marriage. And besides, I told you I don't have 'fellow bad guys' because I'm not a 'bad guy' anymore."
"He's whipped now, so he can't be."
War smiled a wicked smile. "Only on Dominatrix Domingo, Mamacita."
Nana's eyes widened but she clenched her jaw in lieu of a retort and snorted in the front seat. She sighed and opted to ignore her husband. "For your information, our ships are provided by military research and development, and unluckily for your little girlfriend's business, I hear one of them's got a kid with an equation that's about to give Anaxatar a run for its money."
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Michaels tried to fight it for a brief moment but he sneezed just as the door quickly opened and the princess dashed in. He blinked and sniffled for a moment before he approached her in her usual hiding place and looked up at her, "What're you doing up there, Princess? I thought you'd stay and keep the ol' Rock company."
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Titania watched the girl leave with a single cocked brow before turning back to Rockwell. "Me? What the s**t did I do?"
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"Aquarium." Farin replied, "You know what an Aquarium is, Cella, there's one in the main room. Where all of the fish are?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:47 pm
"I know how you guys make them. But a lot of the ships that are developed are made else where, in large quantities her father's plant is one of the places. He was one of you before he started making your ships." Zane shrugged and looked back down at the screen. "So how did you get hooked up with that?" He nodded his head to the driver.
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Looking down out of her hiding spot Chephnem sniffled. "No he's a jerk. I hate you all. I don't want to talk." She crawled back into her hole and moved to the fare ends of it, so she wouldn't be seen as well. Shutting off the glowing designs on her body, her dark skin blended right into the darkness of her bed.
~ ~ ~ ~
"She figured it out." Rockwell turned his head to look at the woman by him. "I mean, you two made it obvious something is going on. Well Cheph did like the nerd. She's upset." As much as he hated it he knew she liked him, and he was happy they were together, and Rockwell knew that it made him a bad person. Because maybe he would get his chance with her now.
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Cella's eyes lit up. She loved to watch the fish swim around in their tank, before coming to Farin's home, she had never seen a fish before. At least not a live one. "Oh yeah." She smiled, trying to remember that word so she would be able to use it more maybe even be able to read more about aquariums one day. "Aqu-ari-um." she said out loud breaking the word down.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:45 pm
Nana scoffed, "Okay. Tell one of the brigade's founders that you know a previous generation, brilliant. You know that the brigade is not a branch of law enforcement, technically." She rolled her eyes, "Nevermind, it's really not worth it, as for us, I fail to see how it's any of your business-"
War called back, "Aw why not? He's a friend. Besides, everyone else knows. I'm gonna tell him." He smiled, "She may not seem like it, but she's quite the romantic, aren't you, baby?"
"Shut up, Warren!"
"No. You get to tell your friends everything. Why can't I do the same?"
"My friends aren't being hauled into the brigade's station right now."
"I'm not going to ask your permission to tell my friends how much a love you."
"Oh here we go..."
"WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME OUT IN THE OPEN?! ARE YOU ASHAMED OF ME?! I LOVE YOU NANA, LOVE ME BACK!" He turned back to face the man he actually saw on the screen, "She was the only hit I never, well, hit. Well, hit like, kill, I hit it then, I hit it all the time-"
"WARREN!"
War sighed, "I better shut up or Sunday's gonna be a bad day this week. Sorry dude. I'll just not tell you some other time."
Nana rolled her eyes, "You're so weird."
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Michaels seemed a bit confused, looking up at the girl holed up in the ship's ribs. "Did I do something to upset you?" He turned his head down, "I-I'm sorry, I never meant to if I did." He shook his head, "I'd offer to leave you alone, but, you know, this is, well, where I work."
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Titania put both hands casually on her hips and shrugged her shoulders, "She'll get over it, and maybe if you're lucky, she'll finally spare you a passing glance." She turned on her heels. "We don't exactly have a nurse, is there anything I can do for you before I leave you here alone?"
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Farin replied with a silent half-smile, the way he always did for Cella. He nodded and turned back to the page, "Would you like me to read it aloud, Cel, or do you want to do it on your own?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:13 pm
Zane was beginning to think men like himself, and War, were doomed to fall for someone who was nothing like them. "What ever. Who would have thought you'd be such a nerd?" Zane chuckled at the other man. Yet even as he enjoyed the catching up with an old alliance, he began to wonder just ow bad this could turn out.
If he did end up locked up for a long time, he would surely lose Rina, she'd move on, an he'd end up worse. If he had only quite while he was ahead. He might have been able to have a relationship, like the one War displayed.
~ ~ ~ ~
Chephnem didn't bother to turn around to talk to him "Just don't try to talk to me right now. Just do your work and we'll be fine." She sniffled again and rolled over to sleep.
~ ~ ~ ~
Rockwell shook his head ignoring most of what she said. "I think I'll be fine. Is Cella ok? I remember trying to cover her." He sad as scattered memories jumbled around in his head.
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Even though she was a slave, she had become a bit spoiled, and more then enjoyed bed time stories, even if they weren't as enthralling as the fairy tales. Laying an arm around Farin's waist, Cella moved her head to rest it on his shoulder "Will you read for me Master Farin?" Cella couldn't understand why her mother and brother were both so against her laying with Fairn, she was always happy, and he was never cruel. She just didn't get their thinking.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:53 pm
Nana scoffed and unplugged the planner so that she could at least get her husaband off of the screen. She replied to Zane, "A nerd he is, although I think that's part of his charm - and charm is pushing it a bit."
As the planner's speaker was still adding the audio in aloud, War's voice still resounded through the vehicle. "Pushing it to say I'm charming? No way! I was just a hopeless romantic who finally got lucky."
Nana sighed, "Well aren't you cute?" She suppressed a smile and finished, "I have to go now, bugger, I'm almost in. I'll see you at five, okay?"
"Go easy on Zaney, I'm sure he didn't mean any harm."
"He tried to kill my sister."
"You haven't spoken to her since the wedding! I think you owe him one!"
"Goodbye, Warren." Before he could speak again Nana ended the call and sighed, "I'd apologize for him, but you must have had at least some idea of what he was like, right?"
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Michaels heaved a sigh and turned to face the other way, "Okay, I'll just do whatever you want because you can't sleep in a damned bed like everyone else." He rolled his eyes and dropped to his knees to start work under a nearby consul.
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"Yeah, she's with Farin now." Titania shrugged, "You should really stop worrying. "Farin's a gazillionaire, he knows how to treat his property. And you can get as mad as you want knowing that that is what your sister is, but you were the one selling them, so I think it should be easy for you to come to terms with it."
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Farin nodded gently and turned back a page to read aloud for her, "I'm not sure if it'll mean too much for you, but at the very least it might put you to sleep."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:29 am
Zane shook his head and looked at the women through the rear view mirror. "He never acted like a love drunk money before. So no I can't say I knew this."
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Angry, and not wanting a person to lip off to her, Chephnem whirled around in her hole and threw something hard and heavy. It was the piece she had removed to get in. "Bite me!" She hissed.
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Rockwell shook his head. "Our mother was taken into slavery, not long after she had Cella, I started working and was saving money to buy Cella, as our mother asked, I finally saved all the money, and made it to where she was, only to find out she had been sold." Rockwell sighed as if remembering finding out the terrible news. "I started on a ship that had slaves in hopes of finding Cella again. So excuse me if I don't like that she's getting used every night."
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Cella nodded slightly, aware of her head being close to his face, and not wanting her hair to end up in his mouth. "Thank you Master Farin." She said turning up to smile. Grabbing the covers she tugged them up and listened to what he was reading, like he said it didn't mean much to her, but just liked to listen to the sound of his voice some times.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:12 pm
"No but he's always been a romantic, maybe not outwardly, probably not around you guys, but it's really one of my favorite things about him." Nana shrugged and sighed, "So what about you, what kind of crap did he get you into when you met him?"
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Michaels, paying attention to nothing but the underside of the console, got hit with the large panel, and right in the leg too. He sat up quickly too, and hit his head hard on the panel he had just been working on. He sucked his teeth hard and rolled up the pantleg around his calf which was throbbing with pain. A bruise was already developing right at the impact site. "Mother of -ow!" He looked over his knee to examine his leg and clenched his jaw and he winced, "********." He reached for it gently and sucked his teeth the moment his finger met with the spot. "Oh s**t."
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"Well, I'm sorry to hear that, but there's only one person who can decide what happens next and that's you." She shrugged again and started toward the door again, "Let me make sure everything's a-okay in the engine room.
In a few moments Titania was entering to Michaels on the floor looking like he had just been attacked by some of the equipment. "Holy ********, what happened!?" She ran and skidded to a stop beside him, quickly dropping to her knees to see his leg. She pulled out her planner quickly to launch a fast X-ray and examined it. "Looks like a small fracture, but ********, what happened?" She looked up to notice Chephnem in the ceiling where the panel was missing and frowned, "Did she ******** style="color: darkblue">Michaels reached over to put a hand on the woman's shoulder, "It's alright, it just fell. Mind helping me up so we can go to the infirmary? Maybe get some of the more potent s**t?"
Titania nodded and grabbed his arm to throw over her shoulder before standing and helping him up. "Slowly, okay?"
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Farin read for a long while until he had finished the book in its entirety. He sighed and closed the screen down, reaching over to lay it on the nightstand. Lowering himself more comfortably into the bed he sighed. "Goodnight, Cel."
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