"Oh!" I say, closing my eyes. "This place..." Was that Brillo? I blink my eyes a couple times, refocusing.
I take Metro's hand. "Come on, I think I know who's got your friend."
"No, it's ok. Just remembering... before." I say. "I'm sorry about the AI. Maybe something will pop up?" I wonder if this has happened before- a ping.
OOC: Open brain incoming.
I feel a weird pang- Ethan took me on a cruise of Mare Nubium- the ship moved on big tracks similar to this one. The trip was his apology after the first time he hit me. He promised to never do it again.
"Uh, yeah." I reply, distracted by my memor…
"Huh." Is all I can say when I see it. It's just a tiny little dot. My brain can't process the distance at all. Everyone I knew, my whole life... millions of miles away. I giggle a little, it's just so ridiculous, right?
"Any progress on the other…
I cup the mug of coffee in both hands, watching Metro.
"Yes, but first come with me." I tell him. I walk us over to a patch of ground a little ways off, where it's darker. I sit down and lay back, looking up at the stars and moons.
Not my fault if she spent all her jingle on drink and didn't have anything to eat in the car. "Tech." I answer her. I'm not giving Svenja lip. I've been busy with the clinic in Boomtown, but I'd rather not get on her bad side. "Working or not."
I h…
I look back to Kiddo and Zagnut. I just fixed her damn ankle!
"Up to him." I answer to Svenja. I don't mind Metro being 'my boy', though- there's a bit of a smile in my eyes. "You not eat at Bubbletown?" I ask her. VB seems to be always hungry, tho…
I resist the urge to lecture Zagnut. She's not going to listen to me, anyway, I'd just be wasting breath.
"Hey." I say to VB, Svenja and Metro as I walk over.
The way those girls were looking to Kiddo, they sure seemed like her girls. "Alright. I'll splint it. She won't be able to ride without pain for a month or so- she did a number on it."
I go back to Zagnut and set her bone- I do it fast and don't wa…
I pull Kiddo aside and tell her the situation. "I can do my other kind of healing, but I'm not keen for that to be common knowledge. Your call, they seem to be your girls, now. How did that happen, anyway?" I realize I haven't talked to Kiddo in a w…
"I don't know." I answer honestly. If that was true, was Ethan my one true love? I nearly shudder at the thought. Once, I might have thought so. I realize now it might have started out as love, but it turned into something else.
"I don't think so. …
"Him." I reply. "He didn't start out like that. We... we loved each other. Once." I'm not sure why I feel the need to make that distinction. He's dead- what does it matter?
"No thanks, I'm good." I say. When she comes back with the Coke, I take it. "Thanks."
I chuckle when she doubts my existence, but raise my eyebrows at Metro's description of me. I blush a bit- I don't really know how to respond to that. "How did y…
I nod at her 'friend of mine' comment. I wonder how they met? If she knows about him?
I want to add a word of encouragement- she really did great on the radio- but it feels wrong. She doesn't even know me. I nod when Metro says she'll do fine.
I g…
I take as short a shower as I can and use very little shampoo and conditioner. I've got some spare clothes in the pack, but the shirt is short-sleeved and shows my stomach (and scars) a bit. Crap, I must have left my sweater back in Metro's van. I t…
Even though I'm a doctor, I don't tell people not to smoke on this planet. Probably because the first and last time I tried it at Loot's- the guy looked absolutely dumbfounded, like, if he's got 'em, why not smoke 'em?
"Hi." I say shyly. When she …
"I can talk to Kodak- he'd know if we had her in the caravan, I think." I offer.
I wonder about that- finding another artificial person. I wonder if she might have been salvaged off the junkship I'd been on. Do the people on this planet know about…
I eat the pancakes slowly, savoring them. "I haven't had real syrup in a hundred years!" I joke, smiling.
"Another ship?" I ask him. I don't know how often they come down, but I'd thought it wasn't that frequent. "Or mine? Could you tell how far?"
…
I smile when he details his night- of course he'd fix the bikes.
"You keep giving me massages and coffee and I'm yours for life." I tell him.
"Fourteen minutes?" I'm not understanding, though I'm not sure if it's because I just woke up or if I'm …
"Mmmm." I say as I stretch, smiling. I haven't slept that much or that well in weeks. "Good morning." I reply.
I snuggle up next to him, wrapping my arms around him. I want to just stay like this, in his van, forever. Well, shower and coffee first,…