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 Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:30 pm
"I've heard of stranger things happening and them turning out fine," Silverah answered, shrugging though she was on the phone. "The one that got played ping-pong with allways had these weird dress-things shoved on it."
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:41 pm
"Oookay..." Perri rolled her eyes and sighed. "Where does he find these people?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:43 pm
"I'm not exactly sure. Sends out mass mailings and sees who responds?" She guessed. Silverah personally had been asked in as a test parent. Suddenly, another thought crossed her mind
"How'd he find you?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:48 pm
"I, er... he contacted me about a job." She said, doing her best to recover from her surprise. "The computer was supposed to be my payment."
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:28 am
Silverah sighed. "That sounds just like him. He's almost over-enthusiastic about them. He's always building new ones. He pushes them off on everyone."
"Well, I don't think you're anything to worry about. Not more than Yvette, anyway. She didn't feed hers for four months and somehow it maintained conciousness. I'll tell him you're good, 'kay?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:38 pm
"I'm glad to have earned a good report from the secret agent - unknowingly of course." she said with a sigh of relief. She was handling her slips better and better these days, and apparently she'd managed to cover up that last one.
"Tell him I'll be in tomorrow like he asked."
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:51 pm
"Sure thing!" replied Silverah cheerfully. "Seeya around!"
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Silverah set the phone down and sighed. No, nothing seemed off anymore.
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:58 pm
Perri snapped the phone closed and stowed it in her pocket before slumping back in her chair with a sigh. Phew! She was not cut out for these interpersonal relation-thingies. But at least her lies were safely set once more.
She wondered if she could get the kid to believe her. She hoped so.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:43 pm
...It's a Girl!...Perri Indiya Perri stepped into the lab once more, once five days had passed and her unit's "body" was ready. Man, did that ever sound sketchy, but what could you do? She was in a different business outfit, but still dressed to convey her front of being a young tech tester for a decent corporate company. She'd even brought the chip in a padded briefcase.
"Hello? I'm looking for Doctor Brune?" Why was it so quiet? Doc Albert Doc stepped out of the back lab room and instantly smiled. "Thank you for coming! You have the chip? Good!"
He just assumed she did. Because not having it would be stupid.
"Come right this way."
He turned tail, and, assuming Perri was following, headed back into the lab. Perri Indiya Perri followed him quickly, case swinging and high heels clacking on the tiled floor.
"May I ask where we're going?" Doc Albert "Why into my lab, of course!" exclaimed Doc, practically dancing around a corner between CPU towers. Three more corners later, he and Perri had arrived at a clearing in the computer equipment where the form of a small child with bright blue hair lay prone on a gurney.
"Chip please," Doc said, extending a hand to Perri. Perri Indiya Perri raised an eyebrow when she saw the body, but she did as she was asked. Flipping the case onto an empty lab table, she snapped it open and carefully extracted the disk, handing it over.
"You do realize this is rather on the creepy side of normal, right?" Doc Albert Doc accepted the chip with a flourish and strode back over to the body.
"It's not normal at all," he replied. "It's rather extraordinary. Mechanical life!"
He propped the body into a sitting position and flipped an access hatch on the back of its head open to slide the chip in. Once it clicked into place, he closed the hatch and allowed the body to lay back on the table.
At first, the body was motionless, but as a few seconds passed, the lights behind its eyes began to give it a living expression. Its face twisted into an innocent grin.
And then it sat up, hopped off the table, and every last trace of innocence vanished when she - for it was female - giggled.
Nothing with a giggle that mischievious could be up to anything but no good. Perri Indiya Perri blinked, not used to a mechanical person, you know, waking up and laughing and stuff. The trained part of brained screamed at her for breaking character, but it was soon silenced by common sense. Who wouldn't be overly suprised by the scene before her?
A smile slowly stole across the young woman's features of its own accord. "I like your hair."Blue frowned and twisted, trying to get a look at said locks. "Is it sticking up funny?" Doc Albert Doc smiled and patted Blue's head. "No, it's fine," he assured her, turning his attention to Perri. "Now, she can eat foods that are primarily sugars - carbohydrates, fruits, candy. That sort of thing. I've devised a system that can derive electricity and energy from them. Proteins and fats aren't good for her, and too much will clog her system. Er... Sleep mode on a regular basis is definitely a good idea, and that's about all."
He waved them out of the lab.
"I'll see you both around!"
Was that a threat? Perri Indiya "Can I have Boo Berry cereal?" Blue asked Perri as the older woman took her hand and led her out of the lab."Sure. We'll even stock up so we have a bunch left when Halloween is over. How do you know about that?""You sang that song about it, remember?"Perri rolled her eyes and nodded. "Ah yes... hmm? Oh, thank you Doctor. Be well."The small girl watched everything as they passed it with a sponge-like interest, but she only really perked up when she saw Perri's car. "What is that?""That is my car. A 1967 Thunderbird, to be specific." the human told her, helping her into the passenger seat and belting her in. T-Birds didn't usually have seatbelts, but she'd installed some decently vintage looking ones so her insurance company wouldn't have a spasm."Does it go fast?" the child asked, running a reverent hand over the leather and paneling."Very fast."Blue beamed. "Go fast!"Perri chuckled. "When we get to the highway, where we can, okay?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:53 am
...Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines...
Before they got all the way home, Perri stopped at a toy store and led her charge inside. Blue's eyes widened and she craned her neck to try and see everything at once, tugging on Perri's hand as she pointed.
"What is all this?"
"This is a toy store. I thought you might want some."
"Toy stores?"
"Toys, Blue. They've got dolls and bears and-"
"Do they have planes and trucks?" the child interrupted impatiently, having no interest in anything pink or lacey.
Perri nodded, relieved. "Lots. Over here."
When Blue saw her myriad of toy choices, both Perri and her hand were instantly forgotten. The woman understood and let her go explore: she acted the exact same way when a new shiny computer was offered her. Which was why she was in a toy store with a mechanical kid. Damn. Hopefully her little one would learn to control her "Ooo, pretty!" impulses a little better than she did.
After a solid fifteen minutes of looking and another ten of some pretty serious comparison shopping, Blue returned with two toy planes, three cars, a truck, a train engine, a motorcycle, and a jet. "Can I get these?"
Perri nodded and led her to the cashier, where a nice young sales clerk took the toys from her and rung them up. "Getting these for your brother?"
"For me." Blue said excitedly, taking the full bag from him as Perri handed over some cash. "Can I play with them in the car?"
"As long as you're careful." the woman responded, leading her back to their vehicle and strapping her in once more.
The child quickly pulled out her planes and had them chasing each other as the T-Bird purred to life and pulled out of the parking lot. "I'm gonna fly some day."
Perri nodded. "Of course you will."
"Then I'll go really fast."
The brown haired woman nodded again, concentrating more on traffic patterns than her charge's predictions. As they got on the highway again, Blue put down her toys and watched the world speed by. Fast. Exactly what she wanted.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:05 pm
...Robots in Disguise...
Perri was a nice lady, even if she wore very different clothes depending on where she was going and played with boring old machines in the basement. She had a really nice car, which Blue wanted to drive some day. She hadn't asked Perri about it yet, since they were still new to each other. You needed to really know and trust someone before you let them drive your car. Also, Blue suspected she might need to be a little older.
It went fast. Real fast. Not like jet plane fast, but pavement fast, and that was great too. Besides, if she wanted jet plane fast all she had to do was turn on the television and pop in a DVD. Perri had all these great shows on disc from when she was a kid, and Blue's favorite was definitely Transformers.
First, it was a cartoon, which she had never seen before and liked instantly. Second, almost all the characters were different kinds of fast vehicles, except for a few human kids, but the main point was the vehicles, who could turn into robots, and so managed to be both her favorite things and kind of like her. And third, it had Starscream. He was a Decepticon, which meant he was suppose to be evil, but Blue loved him. He was a jet and could go real fast and talked neat. Someday, when she was bigger, she was going to find the real Transformers that the cartoons were based on (because damn it, they existed if she wanted them to), and go fly with Starscream, and it was going to be great. Really, really great. She couldn't wait!
When Blue had told Perri this, she had laughed and said she had good taste. Starscream had been her favorite too. She was not only nice, she was smart!
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:27 pm
...More Than Meets the Eye...
"Perri can we go driving again tomorrow?" Blue asked, voice muffled by the turqoise pajama top being pulled over her head.
"Maybe, it depends on how long my work takes." Perri responded, smoothing the little girl's hair back from her face before helping her into bed.
"Maybe yes?" the child tried again.
"Maybe maybe. I won't make any promises I'm not sure I can hold to."
Blue frowned for a moment, but she forgot her distress the moment she was handed one of her toy planes. "Peachie! Can I have Greenie too?"
The woman gave her a skeptical look. "Will having both planes distract you from sleeping?"
"No..."
"Because you need to sleep, not act out dogfights."
The little girl put on her most innocent and endearing expression. "I will!"
Perri chuckled, shaking her head and handing over the plane. "Liar."
"Why are airplane chases called dogfights?"
"I don't know." she said with a shrug, tucking her charge in before sitting on the edge of the small bed. "I'm not a history person."
"Won't the internet tell you?"
"Probably. It does know everything."
"You should ask it."
"I'll ask it tomorrow."
Blue frowned. "You'll forget."
Perri snorted. "And how do you know?"
"Cause you forget things!"
"Not important things."
"You forgot to get shampoo for a week."
The older female sighed and rubbed her nose. "I'll write it down as soon as I leave here, okay?"
"Write it on your hand so you see it in the morning."
"Yes, my lady." Perri smiled and ruffled the girl's pale blue hair. "Anything else I can do for you?"
"Can I have Starscream bedsheets?"
"As soon as I find them."
Blue grinned, settling down under the covers with her planes clutched to her chest. "Nope, that's all I need."
"Glad I can provide." her caretaker said, shaking her head as she stood and walked to the door. She had just opened and been about to step through, when a shy voice stopped her.
"Perri?"
"Hmm?"
"Could... could I have a kiss goodnight?"
The woman looked stunned for a moment, and then slowly smiled. Walking back to the bed, she leaned over the small girl and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "How's that?"
"Perfect."
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:36 am
...Flying Purple People Eater... Perri Indiya Blue ran in, dressed all in purple with a purple party hat on her head, dragging Perri along behind her. The older woman wore a normal shirt and a pair of pants with small hard candies glued all over them. The child looked excited. Perri was not half as pleased.
"Come on Perri! I wanna meet some people." the little one cajoled."Why?" her caretaker muttered under her breath. YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom smiled at Doc please she had half a brain to put two and two together, she turned around to see who was starting the comosion at the entrance of the lobby. She smiled seeign little blue finding her adorable. Peaseblossom was so happy to see anyone like her, plus it was a child. She grinned looking back at Doc, "Excuse me I'll let you all talk amongst yourselves."
She turned around going over to Blue and Perri, she quickly noticed that Perri didn't look like the happiest person on the earth. "Hello I'm Peaseblossom, what's your name?" She bent down a little to be at the same level as Blue, not wanting to intimidate him. "What are you being for Halloween?" Peaseblossom let go of Titania whom fluttered around a bit then just floating by Peaseblossom. Bluma was moving around the bag trying to find more taffy to naw on.
Yvette watched Peaseblossom run off she glanced supiously at Perri and Blue, but quickly hid it. She looked at Doc smiling," I didn't know we had to dress up... I didn't think you could be this creative. I mean normally the science geeks like you are like horrid in the creativity department, total creativity party poopers if you ask me. I thought it was going to be some long boring bleh bleh blhe thing-" Yvette spoke using her hands to speak with too making little talking action with her hands at the bleh bleh bleh part. She stopped in mid sentence a shiney pin on the astronaut suit catching her attention."ooo shiney." She automaticly started poking at it trying to pull it off. Nauticah
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As usual, Zwart and Gwyn were first on the scene.
"AII! PAARRR-TAAAYY GOIN' DOWN 'ERE OH YAAH!" Zwart exclaimed as he walked around in a circle momentarily before dashing across the room and unto the astronaut's head in one seemless bound. "Wee, Spaaace, the FINAL FRONTIER."
"My dear brother, I think you have ingested too much caffine and sugar for your own good... Zwart! Come down from there!" Gwyn paced himself across the room, eluding the typical cat savvy in his mannerisms.
Daichi then followed, dressed up as a football player (well, it figures he'd want something to do with sports...), helmet, padding, and all. White and blue, his helmet was solid blue with an image of Zwart and Gwyn 'charging'.
Nauticah was the last to enter, carrying with her a couple bags. "I brought the chips!" She announced, making her way over to the concessions table. "And some treats but I gotta go back and get those..." She was dressed up rather...oddly, having died her hair purple and pulled it up in curly pigtails, and she was wearing a very full white and black lolita dress, her hairpiece was white with black lace trim. She had a black skull pinned in her hair, and a black skull adorned the choker as well. Her boots were tall, black, lace-up knee boots with thick, chunky soles and hells. Her earrings were little dangling black skulls as well. She smiled at the others, still wearing her trademark black Romani's.
She sat the chips up on the table as Daichi stayed close to her. "Mommy...this place is weird."
Nauticah smiled down at Daichi, and then kneeled down to his level. "Hehe, hun, that's Halloween for you, it's weird...but trust me it's fun, okay?"
"Okkay... Um... Where's Wart and Gwyn?"
"Oh, Zwart, um... Oh dear... Zwart! Get down from there!"
Zwart was on top of Doc's head, swatting into the helmet. "Hahahahaha, Doc you're a silly man to put yourself in a fishbowl like that!" Gwyn simply stood by and watched in dismay.
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Perri Indiya "I'm a Purple People Eater!" Blue said cheerfully and pointed her caretaker. "She thought it up.""It's a thing from when I was a kid." Perri said with a small laugh as she scanned the room. Far too many people for her taste."My name's Blue and this is Perri. What're you?" the child asked while watching the fluttery things. Neat! YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom smiled, "That's Titania, kind of like my doll. I like your costume, I think it's very nice. I didn't get to dress up." Peaseblossom took hold of Titania gently pulling her down to Blue, so he could hold her. "I have a funny looking blob, would you like to see that?"
Yvette smiled at Zwart, "It's not a fish bowl it's an astronaut outfit, you should be up there. You could get hurt and your mom would be very upset. She gently took Zwart down from on top of Docs head smiling sweetly as she set him back down on the ground. Yvette saw Nauticah kind of awe stricken, "You look very beautiful... I feel so out of place not dressed up." Yvette saw gwyn out of the corner of the eye, feeling bad for her dismay. (ooc: I don't even know what Dismay means. lmao) Perri Indiya "Neat! How fast can she fly?" the small girl asked, inspecting said Titania for a moment and then releasing her. She smiled politely at the mention of the blob and nodded, keeping up the appearance of nice like Perri had taught her. I mean, she was actually nice, but non-speedy things weren't really her cup of tea. YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom smiled letting Titania fluttered around again, she slowly took Bluma out of the messanger bag. Bluma was all groaning in pain from all the taffy she managed to eat and naw on. "Jezz Bluma you are all sticky... I think she got into my taffy. I can clean her off if you want to hold her, you seem kind of bored. So what do you wanna do blue?" Perri Indiya "Do you have a car?" the child asked excitedly. "A fast car?" YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom giggled shaking her head, "Noo I don't, but I can run around as fast as I can with you on my back if you like." She put Bluma back in her bag. Perri Indiya Blue giggled. "That's just silly! Wanna race?"Perri glanced at her charge, wondering if all her watching of Transformers was what had awakened this need for speed. If so, she'd accidentally created a monster. YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom smiled taking her bag off from around her setting it by the wall along with Titania, "Sure I'll race you, but only if you can keep up! I'm soo going to win." Perri Indiya Blue didn't even wait to argue, immediately taking off as fast as she could around the room. It wasn't the speed you got in a vehicle, but it was fun nonetheless.Perri just shook her head. "God help us all if she ever gets into an airplane." YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom giggled looking at Perri, "If she annoys you, I can amuse hre for a while," She said it quickly before she took off after Blue trying to catch up with her. "Hey Hey I'm older than you, you have to let me win! I'm your elder!" Perri Indiya Perri shook her head. "I'm not good with people. Speed demons are easy."The small girl ran as fast as her short legs would carry her, which meant she'd tire fairly soon and be outpaced. Until then, her particularly sturdy construction was holding her joints together as she overworked themas much as possible. "Cuteness before age!" digitalized "You sound rather worn out, Doctor," said Digi. She had left to grab some juice from the table for herself and Yvette, who was currently getting Perri to warm up.
She decided to hang back for the moment. All the pets, running and moving about the room, made it too difficult for a clumsy person like her to maneuver around.
"Would you like some punch?" she asked Doctor Albert, offering the extra cup to the astronaut. Doc Albert "No, Thank you," Doc replied, pointing to the helmet. "I'm kind of stuck in this thing until I take the whole suit off." Silverah Silverah and Darsais pushed the door to the lab open and stepped inside. Both were costumed - Silverah as a loose interpretation of a turtle, and Darsais as a fairly frightening horror film villainess of the "demonic child" variety. Her long purple hair had been combed dead straight and covered part of her face, and she was dressed in a plain white shift.
It would have been hilarious or even angelic if it hadn't been so terrifying.
Of course, then Darsais smiled and ran to see what Peaseblossom and the small blue-haired girl were doing and the illusion that Samara had walked into the lab was immediately broken.
Silverah sighed and joined Perri, Yvette, and Nauticah.
"Oh well. It was cool while it lasted."
A while later, Nereida walked slowly in, looking for all the world like the bride of frankenstein.
"I can't believe I'm here," she murmured to Silverah.
"What?" Silverah asked. "Horror costumes are fun." Perri Indiya Blue laughed, looped around, and ran for Perri, wrapping her arms around the woman's waist and grinning. "I win!"Said 'home base' squeaked a bit when her charge threw her off balance, and then again when her pocket suddenly buzzed. Whipping out an electronic organizer, she read the email and responded, thumbs flying.
"Is it work?" the child asked apprehensively."Yeah, but we don't have to leave." digitalized She took a sip of punch. Vaguely fruity, she thought licking her lower lip.
"But doesn't that mean you can't eat anything at the party?" Digi asked him, looking over his costume. YvetteEmilieDupont Peaseblossom got to Perri shortly after Blue did grinning, "Okay okay you win. Now how about we leave your mom alone, so she can have some alone time."
Yvette smiled at digi, "Thanks so much for the punch. You are always so nice, you should be careful about now slipping or anything."
Peaseblossom saw Darsais her grin wideing even more she hugged her tightly, "You look sooo nice, you grew up! I can't believe it. How are your dancing legs working for you?"
Yvette looked at Silverah, " You even dressed up, clearly I'm not captian obvious. I didn't think we were all going to dress up. How have you been lately? OH, Doc is an astronaut! He even dressed up!" Nauticah Nauticah had fetched the rest of the treats as well; pumpkin fudge, pumpkin pie, a cake that was topped with a deliciously ghoulish graveyard scene, more chips, more candy, and also other snacks for those not so sweetly inclined.
Daichi had finally removed himself from his mother's leg and walked over to Darsais, smiling. "Hi Darsais!" He said brightly, and then he turned to the others, "Uhh.... Hi! I'm Daichi! Who are you?" He said to Blue and Peaseblossom.
Nauticah had set everything in place, sighing and then finally turned to the others. "I have a ton of stuff I brought, um, 'cause I didn't know what Doc would do. That and Darrion's been away, so, I went baking crazy... I at least restrained from muffins." She smiled ever-so lightly at the others, nodding lightly to Yvette, Digi, and Perri since she couldn't remember their names...as usual.
Zwart and Gwyn walked over to the younglings, both smiling devilishly.
"Hello, children." Silverah Darsais flexed her toes, showing off her new legs, and frowned at the cats.
"Daichi, did you feed them something strange?" digitalized Digi turned to Yvette, smiling as the second cup of juice was removed from her hand. "I will!" she said cheerfully. As she watched the girl interact with everyone else, Digi could not help chuckling. Yvette was always so enthusastic. Nauticah Daichi glanced over at Gwyn and Zwart, pausing momentarily. "No... They're just...weird." He then turned back to Darsais, and then finally noticed that he was shorter than her. Just a few weeks ago when they were playing soccer, he was taller...
"Hey! You grew!" He said rather loudly. Nauticah turned around, and cocked her head.
"Well... Darsais, you did grow didn't you? Wow." She had stopped dead, and stared down at the child. "So... What exactly... Nevermind, I rather not know."
Gwyn and Zwart acted...more catlike than usual. They slinked around, curling around each other and the children's legs, and rubbing up against their legs as well. Daichi knew there was something wrong with them, he just wasn't entirely sure what yet. YvetteEmilieDupont Yvette hugged Nauticah tightly, "How have you been doing with his absense? I completely understand the banking part, maybe you and can get together sometime. You can distract yourself for a while." She hugged her again after she finished speaking.
Peaseblossom smiled at Daichi, "Hi I'm Peaseblossom. What is your name." She looked at Zwart and Gwyn kind of shooting a quick glare at them. She knew they were up to something. Perri Indiya Perri spoke on the phone a little longer, snapping it closed and sighing. Even working for herself she rarely got a day off. "Blue-""Time to go." the girl said glumly, waving at everyone as they headed out. "Bye! It was great to meet you!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:33 pm
...Where No Child Has Gone Before...
"Did you ask the internet?" Blue asked Perri the morning after the halloween party at the lab, when they were both still in their pajamas and slippers with their hair sticking up in funny places.
The older woman shrugged, reading the technology section of the newspaper. "Ask it about what?"
The girl frowned over her fruit loops and comics. "I knew you'd forget!"
"Forget what?"
"You didn't write it on your hand, did you? I told you to, and you didn't!"
Perri's brow furrowed for a moment. "...you mean about dogfights?"
Blue paused mid-rant. "Yeah!"
"You know, if you don't give me anything to go on subject-wise, it's very hard to answer your questions." the woman scolded, leaning over and pulling a piece of paper out of a pile on the counter and tossing it across the table. "Here you go."
Blue snatched it out of the air and read it hungrily. "Dogs chasing each other's tails? Really?"
"Apparently." she said with a shrug, turning back to the paper. "Weird, huh?"
"Very weird. Can we go to the air force?"
"And do what, invite them to tea?"
"Can you do that?" the girl asked excitedly.
Perri laughed. "I'm sure you can. I don't think they'd say yes, and they'd be very confused and possibly grumpy, but that doesn't make it unpossible."
"Impossible." Blue corrected.
"Nope."
"Yes! Stop trying to trick me!"
Her caretaker shook her head. "First rule of language: it is a fluid, living thing. First rule of the internet: see first rule of language. Go wild."
The small child shook her head. "You're silly. Can we go to the air force?"
"Why do you want to go visit and air force base?" Perri asked, subtley correcting Blue's question.
"To see the jets!"
"To fly them, you mean."
"I'm biologically about six. No one's going to let me fly a plane."
The woman laughed, impressed by the level of deadpan her charge had managed to come up with. "Okay, I'll call the local base today and see if they allow visits and when we could come."
"Eee!" the girl squealed, enormously happy. "Do you think you'll let me sit in a cockpit?"
"Maybe if I were better at flirting." Perri said dryly.
"Okay, well, I don't know what that is but you should definately go practice." Blue responded seriously.
"Will do." her caretaker said, somehow managing not to choke on her own laughter.
"This is gonna be great!"
"I'm sure they'll be nice and we'll have fun." And anyway, she'd never messed with their network or anything. Business espionage was one thing. Real espionage was reserved for martini-drinking Brits in suits, not geeky tech chixxors.
"I'm gonna wear my Starscream t-shirt." Blue confided.
Perri hid a smile. "I'd be mightily suprised if we didn't manage to bump into someone who'd appreciate that."
The girl wiggled in happiness. She couldn't wait!
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:05 pm
...On the Telepone Line...
Perri took a deep, steadying breath, and reviewed her script one more time. This was what she was going to say to the air force, and she needed to get it right. These people not only had guns, they had bloody bombers and any one halfway decent with GoogleMaps could find her house real fast after they called the telephone company to figure out where the call was coming from. A cellphone that had an account attached to it was not an anonymous way to contact someone.
All right, she really doubted they would bomb a civilian for asking if she could bring her daughter to the base to see the planes and talk to a few pilots wrong. But she still hated calling people. It's why she mostly did tech, and left actually swindling to proper conmen.
She took another breath.
Another.
She was going to hyperventalate at this rate and never make the damn call.
Spurred by anger, Perri snatched up her phone, typed in the number she'd gotten from the base's webpage, and pressed send. She almost didn't put the phone to her ear, but the idea of sending the air force a silent call like a nervous freshman to a girl he liked was just ridiculous to get her over the hesitation. God she was a mess.
Stick to the script!
A man picked up on the other end of the line.
"Hello? Is this the air force?"
Damn it! She was already off-script.
"Sorry, that was a moronic question. Yeah. Hi. Uh, my name is Perri Indi-"
She'd just given a government agency her real name. Crap.
"-and I was wondering if your base did organized visits for school groups and the like?"
The air force man was really, really nice and put up with her being stupid. He even teased her about it in a good natured way. And she laughed at his joke at her expense. Geebus.
"You do? That's great! How many? Two, including myself. What? Small school? Oh, yeah, yes, well I homeschool my daughter -she's six- and she just loves planes to pieces. Knows the names of all the bits and pieces and everything."
Blue might not now, but the moment Perri told her they were going to see the air force, she'd hop on to the laptop her caretaker had built for her and obsorb every bit of information she could find.
"And she'd just adore meeting a pilot or two. Me? Oh no, I'm not a plane girl. No, no, the fastest I want to go is the top speed of my t-bird. Hmm? Oh, '67 cherry red. Mint, helped my dad rebuild it in high school. No, computers actually. I build and program them. Uh, sure I guess, but don't you guys have an IT department for that?"
Perri had a sneaky suspicion that the air force man was flirting with her. Actually flirting. With her. And he knew she had a kid, or at least that she claimed to have one! Well, that was only because he hadn't seen her in person yet. Worse comes to worst she'd make sure she have a believable photo in her wallet that she could claim to be her husband or something. And not the picture that came in the wallet, because those never worked. Not that this would be a problem. Once he saw her.
His name was James. He sounded vaguely Irish.
"So, two days from now? Yeah, yeah that would be great. One is fine. Visior parking, meet you in the main office? Sure. Okay. Thank you so much! She's going to love this. Hmm? Oh, her name is Blue. Yes. Well, see you then!"
Perri snapped her phone shut, nearly doing a touchdown dance. She'd done it! She'd done it!
Dear god, what was she going to wear?
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