Sparky Repairs, Wednesday

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy dragged himself through the entrance of the shop, nowhere near awake enough to be doing this.

He was never staying up late before he had to work to read old issues of Catman and Sparrow again.



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[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha walked in, tiredly putting her suitcase down. She was rather startled to see soemone who was not John at the store. With a puzzled look she came closer.

"Where is John?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy's head popped up.

"Um, he has the day off?" He replied.

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"I see. Who are you?" Agatha put her htings down, and dingbots crawled out of the bag. THey immediatly rushed over to the register, to see if it was alright, and to check on teh Goth bots.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy backed away from the counter, something about tiny robots rushing toward him just freaked himout a bit. Call it a quirk.

"I'm Teddy, Teddy Altman," He said. "John just hired me to take over Tuesdays and Wednesdays."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Well, at least the shop is still working. I wasn't sure what has happened in my abscence." She paused to look ar ound. "Oh. Hi. I am Agatha Clay. I own... um... i owned this place. Didnt' think i was comign back..."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Oh!" Teddy looked down at his feet before mumbling, "I didn't know anyone other than John worked here before me."

"Can I, uh, help you with anything?"

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Waht you though John made all these things?" She gestured aroudn the room. She was sort of ina foul mood.

"well, i need to talk to John, but if he isn't here... Will he be in tomorrow?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy winced, he had hoped that she hadn't heard his comment.

"I think one of the twins works tomorrow, but I don't know which one," Teddy said before perking up again, "But I can tell him that you're back and want to speak with him if that helps."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"That would help, yes... Actually, may i use the phone here?" It felt rather odd to be askign permission to sue her own telephone. BUt well...

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy pushed the phone toward her, "Feel free!"

He stepped back, trying to think of something that would at least giver her the illusion of privacy.

"I'll just wander over there and dust, or something," He said, pointing at the far corner of the store.

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha smiled. IT's not liek she needed privacy. She called up teh number she last had for John, but got his voice mail.

"John. It is Agatha. Um, i am back at Fandom. And i sort of... want the shop back? Um... things did nto so much work out... YEah, um, sinc ei no longer live at hte shop, you can't call me here. but you know, we shoudl talk. And things."

She hung up.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy poke his head back out after she was done, totally not eavesdropping at all.

"Did you need anything else?"

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Um, no i guess not. I am goignto leave this stuff ehre until i connect with John, hopefully today, but maybe tomorrow. DOn't worry the bots will take careof it if they need to. " She looked aroudn again. "Oh. Um, the register needs a tuneup."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy looked down at the register and furrowed his brow.

"Um, okay."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

There might have been an eyeroll. "Here, let me look." She put her stuff down and walked to the register. PRessing some completly hidden controlls, Agatha made the register open up completly, displayignall it's brass gears and cogs in their full glory.

Agatha meanwhile pulled out her goggles and a toolkit and gotdown to business. There was humming*.


[ooc:* in caseyou are not falmiliar, Agatha is a mad genius, when she humms... genius happesn.s the hummignis a bit mechanical and odd, but is also unliek any other music anyoen outsid eAgatha's universe has ever ehard.]

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy stepped back and just watched her work, because wow, that was cool.

Though that strange humming was beginning to give him a headache.

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Little wheels and gears flew as Agatha tossed them outof the register, but the dingbots clearly were prepaired. OR at least have seen this before. They deftly caught each piece and jsut placed them near Agatha.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy watched the tiny robots work in tandem with their master and moved ot of their way as best he could.

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

After what seemed liek a while, the humming stopped, and the parts were no logner flying. The register closed with a click and made a happy register noise.

"There, that should be better. It's a prototype, so needs some fine work every now and then." She nodded to Teddy, who she noted had suceeded in stayign out of the way.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Teddy said, still staring at the register after it made it's little happy noise.

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Teh register, beign happy, performed alittle trick with the spinning of it's lassoes and nets, jsut for kicks.

Agatha watched Teddy's expression. "John did tell you teh register minded itself, right?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy nodded. "Yeah, I'm just not used to quite so much emotion from machines."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"WHy not? It's semi-sentient."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I know," Teddy said. "The only AI I know is less 'happy dance' and more 'your stupidity amuses me.'"

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha shook her head. "It's not AI really. They actually are alive, mroe or less, all of them." The dingbots waved.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy waved back. "Cool."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"WEll, i better not bother you, in case actual customers coem in. do tell John i was here, will you?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"I'll talk to him when I get back to the dorms."

Teddy waved goodbye, "Nice meeting you!"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John came in after his meeting with Phale...


And saw a very familiar pile of gears waving hello.

"Agatha?" He ran into the back room. "Agatha?!" He ran upstairs. "Agatha?!!!"

John came running down the stairs, almost tripping. "TEDDY!" He may or may not have been muttering "I'm-a gonna Kill Gil."