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((Hey guys, since that scene kinda stalled, I'm going to go ahead and say it's the next day at MFHS. Laura, Victoria, you don't have to give a s**t, lol.))

The Next Day:

Ialo Enlil was up early, his eyes closed as he stood by the window in his office and repeatedly banged his head into the wall.

"Why..." Thud. "Why..." Thud. "Why..." Thud. "Why..."

Seven was working around him, putting files back in their cabinets and pulling new ones out. She pulled out a few forms and letters, and held them up under her Master's face. He sighed, and whipped a pen from his pocket and scribbled his signature on every line Seven pointed to, on every sheet, then went back to banging his head on the wall.

"Why... Why...." He looked up at Seven. “…. Why do you make me sign the papers when you have a stamp?”

She giggled. “It’s fun this way!”

“You don’t even have to be doing all of this walking around, I know you can use magic.”

“It’s fun,” the machine stressed again. “Two years in high Earth orbit means that we don’t get to use a lot of the abilities you gave us.”

Ialo sighed. “Well, true, I did make sure you would be able to do more than what you would ever probably need to do for normal workloads… But really….”

“Like this!” Seven said, pointing to herself. “How often do we get to walk around like humans in space? Never! That’s why this is so fun!!”

“I’m going to send you back there eventually, you know.” Ialo had stopped banging his head on the wall, and had turned around and was leaning against it.

“Eventually,” Seven agreed, testing her gyroscopes as she spun around. “But not right now, because you need me. Your father asked me to come here to make sure you didn’t get into more trouble, but we both see how well that worked out. And now, you’re using me to do all the normal paperwork that you usually would be doing yourself, so that you can spend your energy on other problems.”

“You’re smart,” Ialo responded.

Seven grinned. “I know. You made me that way. Those military AI chips that got you on the front page yesterday though, they’re nothing compared to us.”

“No, not at all,” Ialo admitted. “That’d be dangerous.” He paused. “And annoying.”

Recognizing the jab, Seven turned around and smiled. “Yeah! Imagine if all Headmasters were asses like you!”

Ialo fell silent, and went back to banging his head on the wall.

Seven giggled. “I win~!”

In the morning, Danni awoke almost reluctantly, blinking her eyes open and taking a moment to remember where the hell she was. For the first time in...a long while, she awoke wihout a lingering nightmare, or after a couple spotty hours of sleep. No, she was...rested, she realized, and chuckled. This was new.

She was halfway towards the window of the bell tower before she remembered there were no kitchens to get to, and that she wasn't free to roam the grounds unless she went and put a damned invisibility spell on herself.

With a sigh, she looked around her, at the gleaming bells in the tower, then at the ropes. Giving in, and deciding no decent bell tower remained unhaunted for long, she tugged heavily on the ropes, and sent the bells chiming. It was a happy sound, she thought, bright and optimistic.

Danni merely glanced over her shoulder when Ophi spoke, and a grin flashed over her face when she saw him.

"Doin' just fine. Can't remember the last time I got more than ten hours of straight sack time." She said, stretching her arms above her head as she grinned at him.

Danni raised a brow, looked around. "One second." She stared at the floor in front of her for a moment, her lips moving slightly. After a few moments, two chairs formed, and she picked them up, put them across from each other and sitting in one.

"No furniature in this place." She said with a shrug, though frankly she enjoyed that fact. It discouraged visitors.

Danni raised a brow, shrugged. "I'm being punished, and rightly so. I put a lot of people in danger yesterday, and gave the headmaster a lot of worry. Oh, and I get to be a ghost. That's a new and interesting game." She said, with the faintest of grins.

Danni raised a brow, then looked at Ophi before she took the candy and popped it into her mouth. She chewed and swallowed, then raised a brow. "Yay, sugar. You're right, the day's always better with sugar." She said, amused.

Danni grinned back, patted her stomach. "Sugar's a fine thing. Lia treats it like cyanide. always complaining about her 'figure'." She said the last with no little disgust, shaking her head. "As if she doesn't use every spell known to man to make sure she doesn't gain an ounce. She's have a sweeter disposition if she jsut took in some processed sugar every now and then." She shook her head again, her eyes narrowed a bit.