May 5 - We'll either end up crying, fighting or naked

by **Calvin Strong** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:28 pm

It hadn't taken too long to get Taliyah set up with her room and a tentative enrollment. Cal had a feeling that, given the mission report he was going to be filling out later, he might be looking at a rather heated conversation with the headmistress later, but oh well. "Mack, beer me," Cal said as they entered the XUB.

by **Eric Osgood** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:31 pm

"Well, at least we got her data flood to our noggins shuttered, eh mate?"

Eric sat down, indicating a Guinness was needed.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:32 pm

"You don't have to help me," Taliyah says, part of a running theme for last half hour, "Really. I know I'm useless."

by **Calvin Strong** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:36 pm

"You're not useless," Cal told her, as he had been for the past half hour as well, and without elaborating as he'd given up on it about twenty minutes ago. "Trust me, I've met useless people. You're not one."

by **Taliyah Malik** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:41 pm

"Yeah, whatever," Taliyah says miserably, sitting at the bar.

The blue was slowly starting to fade away.

by **Eric Osgood** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:41 pm

"Hell no. Those light-jacked laser zappers? not useless. Plus, you seem pretty solid all on your own. Definitely useful, mate."

by **Taliyah Malik** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:43 pm

"Yeah, great. I'm fantastic at hurting people. Wonderful," Taliyah says.

Slowly the blue disappears and a soft green glow begins to replace it. Taliyah smiles very slightly.

"Would one of you gentlemen be so kind to get me something to drink?" Taliyah asks, a purr in her voice.

by **Eric Osgood** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:48 pm

"Allow me, lassie."

Eric ordered another beer, passing it to her.

by **Calvin Strong** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:50 pm

Blue is okay, green is... okay. Just keep away from red, and we're okay. See? I'm learning things. "Keep them coming, Mack," Cal added, taking his credit card and sending it spinning through the air to land on the bar.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:51 pm

"Thank you," Taliyah says, licking the condensation off the neck of the bottle in an extremely unsubtle move.

by **Calvin Strong** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:53 pm

The encoded message to Eric wrote:Well, brother, at least this isn't going to be dull.

"So where were you from before middle-of-nowhere America?" Cal asked as he picked up his beer to take a swig.

by **Eric Osgood** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:54 pm

Eric chuckled, taking a sip from his mug.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:55 pm

"Oh, here and there," Taliyah said dismissively, "Does it really matter?"

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:01 am

Cal smiled a little. "It might, honestly, but if you don't want to delve into that now, that's fine."

by **Eric Osgood** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:03 am

"It's not like we can't have fun otherwise, eh?"

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:04 am

"Oh, I'm sure we can have lots of fun," Taliyah says with a teasing grin.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:33 am

Cal, in the meantime, silently sent a text to Sara to come meet him in the XUB so that he hoped he might be spared the advances of the mildly unbalanced cyborg sitting with him.

He also fielded a lot of curious queries from his robots with denials that there was anything to see where he was, which he sadly expected them to ignore.

by **Eric Osgood** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:38 am

"So, ready to relax a bit on the details of your life?"

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:46 am

"What do you want to know?" Taliyah asked the two.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:51 am

Cal shrugged. "Well, I do want to know about how you ended up needing rescued, because any little bit of information helps in the 'finding those sadistic fucks and shutting them down' cause. Mostly? I just want to know more about you."

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:55 am

"Well, if you'd like to get to know me a little better, I have no complaints," Taliyah says, a predatory gleam in her eyes.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:56 am

Cal smirked. "Down, kitten. Don't want you to be getting the wrong idea about me," he said, chuckling a little.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:02 am

"Oh, no fun," Taliyah says with a little pout.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:06 am

There was a rather amused affirmative going over the wavelengths at that. Cal glanced around, sending an electronic 'shut up, ingrates' back to whatever microbot was watching them.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:09 am

"Oh you have little mechanical friends," Taliyah says with a smile, "How fun."

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:15 am

"Yes. 'Fun'. Just the word I was thinking of," Cal said, trying for a few more moments to spot where they were being watched from and then giving it up.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:17 am

"Not exactly my kind of toys but I suppose everyone needs a hobby," Taliyah says, sipping her beer.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:19 am

"And what are your kind of toys?" Cal asked, smirking a little and suspecting the answer.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:22 am

Taliyah just smiled coyly, sipping her beer.

Meanwhile, Calvin would receive a request to receive an image attachment from Taliyah.

If opened, it would be absolutely clear exactly what she was talking about.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:26 am

Cal coughed before taking another sip of his beer. "And I'll have you know that I'm very much in favor of toys like that," he said, smirking.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:28 am

"Very good to know," Taliyah said, smirking just slightly.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:31 am

As Cal sipped his beer, Taliyah would get a file transfer request for a small executeable program.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:32 am

Taliyah accepted, looking amused and curious.

She quickly gasped, steadying herself by holding on to the bar. Taking a deep breath she stood up, steadying herself.

"Excuse me for a moment," Taliyah says, walking briskly towards the back of the bar in the direction of the girl's lavatory.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:41 am

Cal smirked, looking supremely satisfied with himself as he held up his empty beer bottle for Mack to bring him another.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:55 am

Calvin was pinged with a request to accept a live video feed from Taliyah.

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:57 am

Well, then... Cal, naturally, accepted, letting his eyes go out of focus. He took a drink of his beer to hide his reaction, then sent a quick message back.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:07 am

Taliyah returned about five minutes later, smiling at Calvin a bit as she sat down and finished off her drink.

by **Sara McDohl** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:23 am

Sara made her way into the room. "Hey, what's shakin'?" She asked, looking over the other two, before moving behind Cal and wrapping her arms around him.

by **Taliyah Malik** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:24 am

Taliyah smiled, "All sorts of fun and exciting things."

by **Calvin Strong** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:29 am

"Hey, babe," Cal said, blessing the gods of the cell phone towers. "Don't think you met Eric yet. And this is Taliyah. We just sprung her in an unauthorized jail-break from the evil cyber-overlords and were having a celebratory drink."

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