May 18th: *blank*

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:07 pm

Sara almost jumps back at the laser shooting a hole through her head but she has enough sense to figure this is probably important for something and thus waits until it shuts off before turning around to finally look at what's going on outside. Carefully walking closer towards the door she almost gets knocked down by the shockwave.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:14 pm

And then...quiet and still.

A brilliant white light shone through the doorway.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:16 pm

Shielding her eyes with her hand Sara steps outside, blinking to try and see through the blinding light.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:23 pm

And...there was nothing there. A featureless white plane as far as the eye could see. No gingerbread house, no library, no garden. Nothing. All gone.

On the other hand, there was no giant statue of Mel, no smoke, no fire. It was quiet, calm, and peaceful.

Or it WAS, anyway.

"You the owner here?" a single voice said from behind her, apparently having walked from behind the big black box.

It was....well, it was Sara again. Dressed in working overalls and a hard hat.

And ONLY working overalls and a hard hat.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:26 pm

"I, uh, what? No. No no! I'm not."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:29 pm

"Hrm," she harumphed. "Bloody unprofessional, between you and me. I show up and no one's here. Shoddy scheduling."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:30 pm

"Who should be here? Where's Will?"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:32 pm

"Someone to authorize all this work. Honestly, they expect me to just show up and go without compensation or anything," she said, shaking her head.

"Will? Will, Will, Will..." she said, suddenly pulling out a clipboard....from who knows where...and flipping through the pages. "Will....what exactly was that?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:35 pm

"This..." she gestures. "All of this is Will. Or should be..."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:37 pm

"Will....oh, you mean the LOCATION. Right. Well, I'm here to rebuild it--we had some serious structural deficiencies, lots of holes and gaps and things. Boundary wall completely unsalvagable, new help desperately required. Security systems on the whole need to be shorn up...honestly, it's some prime real estate, but the previous owner really let it go to pot."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:41 pm

"And now you need someone to authorize that?" she asks, feeling a little weird talking to 'herself'.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:43 pm

"Well, I'm not just gonna bloody get to work--I'm not doin' this out of the goodness of me heart or anything over here. Gotta have my ass covered in case they argue the sky's the wrong shade of blue or something like that."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:45 pm

"I guess I could do that then?" she asks, casting a glance at Sam to get her opinion on this.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:47 pm

"And you are?" she asked, squinting at her. "You said you weren't the owner--were you one of the employees? Or a tenant?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:48 pm

"She's the wife of the owner."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:50 pm

"Oh! Oh of course. That'd work fine, then. Didn't recognize you, ma'am," she said, suddenly a lot more polite.

"Your signature will work just fine here on these work orders. Just need you to sign here, and here, and here....and here, and initial here, and sign here....and here....and here....and then your fingerprint here...and then sign here," she said, flipping rapidly through a huge stack of papers.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:53 pm

"Well okay then..." Sara says and tries to keep up with signing the papers as OverallSara flips through them.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:55 pm

"Great! Thank you very much ma'am Now, lemme see here...

Ah, yes. First of all was 'a mental representation of physical form for embodying certain key personality and emotional traits for easy interaction with the outside world'. Cor, you think they'd make that simpler to understand," she complained, reaching into a pocket...and throwing down a lump of clay, which she proceeded to kneel next to and start working, rolling it out and stretching.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:02 pm

Curiously Sara watches as she goes to work.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:04 pm

Working-class-builder-Sara is an alarmingly good sculptor, rolling out the clay, which seemed to grow in her hands. She rounded it off into a vaguely humanoid shape, and then started to work on some of the finer details, adding things like fingers and toes, working on muscle detail, things of that nature.

She paused briefly when she got to the chest, and then went back to her notes, double checking and reading.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:11 pm

Sara just stands back, not wanting to accidentally mess with anything by distracting BuilderSara.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:13 pm

"Suppose we should just let her work, aye?"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:13 pm

"Cor blimey," she mumbled. "Well, thas what it says on the paper...", she shrugged, starting in on the necessary additions to create the four-armed, hermaphroditic Will.

Then she stood up to admire her work. "Will that be acceptable, ma'am?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:19 pm

Sara nods, smiling. "That looks like the mental representation of... physical form for..." she trails off

"Yeah, that's Will."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:21 pm

"Then if you'd kindly breath life into him, I'm gonna go ahead and get started on the...err...'laboratory' it says here. Well, it ain't out of my pocket," she shrugged, walking off.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:23 pm

Samantha chuckled.

"I rather think you know what to do there."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:28 pm

"That is very Will-like." she smiles and walks over to Will's avatar. There's a bit of an awkward moment when she tries to figure out how to hug him/her around the four arms, but then she wraps her arms around him and kisses her.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:29 pm

Causing Will's eyes to flutter open...

both in the mindscape...and in the real world.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:30 pm

"Welcome back." Sara beams.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:34 pm

Will looked around the hospital room, breathing heavily and deeply, his eyes darting from side to side.

"S...sar...Sara?" he asked, weakly, with a note of fear in his voice.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:39 pm

"Will!"

And with that she had her arms around him in the real world as well.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:42 pm

"Oh god....there...there was this crazy woman, Melnelopemene or something--you've...you've got to stop her!"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:42 pm

"Everybody's safe now, Will."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:44 pm

"...are we? Are we really? She...she could be anywhere...and everywhere..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:46 pm

"Or she could be in the custody of Scotland Yard."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:48 pm

"It's okay, it's over, you're safe now." Sara mumbles into Will's hair, not letting go of him.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:54 pm

Will shuddered, holding on to Sara like he might fall without her. "I...don't really remember...it...just bits and flashes..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:57 pm

"You... might want to take it slow, Will. She really ran roughshod over you."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:59 pm

"What...what did...what did she..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:00 pm

"Some of it I'm not sure you're going to want to know..." She said hesitantly.

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