Sparky's Repair, Tuesday

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Teddy opened up the shop after classes were over. He went to sit down at the counter, but stopped to search around for any nuns in the shop. Because he really couldn't handle the horrible mental images of John and nuns again.

He hid under the counter just in case, only popping his head up in case of a customer.

As long as the customer wasn't a nun.


Sparky's is open for all non-nun needs.

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[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, who've thought...

With a ring of the bell on the door and the clattering of boots, nun other than Rosette entered the shop.

She caught one of the moments when Teddy was hiding behind the counter. Placing her hands on her hips, she looked around. "Huh. That's odd..."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy looked up from the homework he had been doing under the counter. That voice. Oh crap. Bad nun and John images were back!

He whimpered softly and tried to blend into his surroundings. He only managed to turn a brownish green. He really needed to work on that whole Skrull camouflage thing.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette looked around the shop, starting to wonder what sort of havoc she could cause that would send a nice, firm message of "hey, didn't you know you shouldn't leave your shop unattended?"

But it might be a trap. She should check around first. Especially find out where those dingbots were so they didn't bear witness to her potential, imagined vandalism.

Leaning over it, she peeked behind the counter, practically lying flat on it with her feet off the ground. "Oh! What are you doing down there, Teddy?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy stared and tried to purge images of nun sex from his mind. GAH! It burned!

"Nun se-,"He started to say, before catching himself. "Nothing! Just some homework," He continued, laughing nervously and crawling out from his hiding place.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette slid back from her peering spot, feet on the floor again, though she still leaned on the counter. "That's a silly place to do homework...not even very good lighting."

"Oh, and hey," Rosette said with a grin before putting on an obviously fake glare, "I'm very, very disappointed in you, Teddy."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Deer in the headlights would be the best way to describe how Teddy looked. Was she a telepath? All he could manage in response was a squeak of terror.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

"Confession? Yesterday? For last week?" Rosette wasn't exactly sure what to make of the look he was giving her. She sighed, waved a dismissive hand. "Oh, never mind. Hey, you haven't happened to be in the back room yet, have you?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Greatly relieved that she couldn't read his mind, Teddy shook his head.

"No, I usually don't go back there when we're open."

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

"Good," Rosette wilted a bit across the counter in relief. She didn't need anyone seeing a left behind nun stocking and getting the wrong idea. "Mind if I go back there? To, uh...check on something I've been, ummm, kind of working on?"

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Teddy nodded slowly. "I guess that's okay." But he had been allowing her pretty much free reign in the store since she arrived, which probably wasn't such a good idea.

"I'll go with you."

And this could only end in massive amounts of therapy.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette stared at Teddy for a moment; she blinked a few times.

"Uh, do you really think that's necissary? I'll only be in there for a second. I swear I'm not going to burn the place down or anything, I just...have to, um...get something..."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy tried to grin cheerfully as he replied, "I need to see if we need to get anything new back there anyway."

Plus, she did burn the place down, he couldn't be blamed for not watching her.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

"Can't you do that any time? It's not like it's ever that busy, you've got all day to check."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy gave Rosette a suspicious look. "No, I think I should do that now."

So she was planning on burning the place down, all this trying to get rid of him was just so she could do it unhindered.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette's eyes narrowed. He was a stubborn one...

"Okay, fine!" she said, throwing up her hands and stomping toward the door to the back room, which she promptly threw open. "But I won't be held responsible for the potential scarring this may cause you! I tried protect you, but, nooooo, you had to insist..."

She flipped on the lights and took a quick look around, trying to spot it, still muttering. "And, for the record, it was completely innocent, I swear..." She didn't see it, stomped over the couch to check underneath it. Ah, there it was. She got on her knees, reached under it, and retrieved the long white stocking. She shook the dust off of it. "My habit was all dirty from the treasure hunt, and John happened to have some spare ones around, so I changed, and I must have just dropped it when I left. Completely understandable mistake." She rolled the stocking up and shoved it into her ammo pouch, and gave Teddy a glare.

"There, now, aren't you glad you came with me? Has your life reached fulfillment, hm?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy's brain was stuck on the stocking and John and refused to move any further than that.

"Buh?"

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette shook her head and sighed. "That's what I thought....Well, I got what I needed, so, uhhh, have a good day, Teddy." She moved toward the door to the shop again, paused to look over her shoulder and add, "Double confession for you now." She shook her head again. "Typical boy..."

Honestly! She was a nun ()! It was perfectly normal for a nun to leave her stocking in the back room of a repair shop...

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy crawled back into his hiding place. Why did she insist on coming to the shop when he was working? Was this some horrible punishment for something?

Damn nuns.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi flounced into Sparky's during a spare moment.

"Hi!"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy popped his head up from his hiding place to see who had arrived. It wasn't Rosette again, thank god.

"Can I help you?"

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"I got a kinda sorta appointment (http://heterodine.livejournal.com/288.html?thread=27168#t27168) with Miss Clay, is she here?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

It took Teddy a minute to figure out who exactly Miss Clay was.

"Oh, um, let me check upstairs," Teddy said.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Okay." Pippi smiled.

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

agatha wandered down the stairs, wipignhte grease off her face. ehr gogles were on her forehead but her regular glasses were on her face.

"Pippy?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi Miss Clay! I'm here to make a deposit for Phoebe's gift. She hasn't been by yet, has she?"

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatah looked atTeddy. "not as far as i am aware."

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Teddy shook his head. "The only other person who's been in so far was Rosette."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Okay, good." Pippi said digging around in her pockets.

"Do you remember how much Nadia Santos' Morality Bot cost? I think she's most interested in that kind."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Let me check" Agatah went to the register and punched soem numbers in. The register blinked adn waved at Pippi.

It then displayed a *handwavey* number.

Agatha jsut pointed at the register.

"Really, each oen is completly custom made and thus can be more or less. It woudl depend completly on what she wanted exactly. But if you want to put half of that down as a deposit, you can do that."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi waved back at the register, and handed over the *handwavey* number, which just happened to be the amount of nasty, dirty, stinky, icky paper money she had left from something or other.

"Yeah, I figured it would be different but this is a good start. Let me know if it turns out to be more ya?"

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha nodded. "Of course. Tell your firend to ask for me when she comes in, otherwise one of these lovely peopel will try to build her something and well, i make no guarantees of their ability to make bots."

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Agatha? Totally upstairs.

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Teddy knock on the door. "Agatha? There's a customer here to see you."

He leaned back to to see down into the shop and make sure no nuns entered the building while he was up there. "She's says she made an appointment."

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AGatha thoguth for a while. "Oh, is it Pippi?"

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Teddy frowned. He had forgotten to get the girl's name. But honestly? How many people ever came into the shop? Who weren't evil nuns

"I think so."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Alright, one moent." There was a soudn of loud banging and soem clattering of clearly metal objects.

Agatha came out removign thick goggles from ehr face and replacign them with her usual glasses.

"Is she waiting downstairs?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy nodded.

That is, unless, she had been kidnapped by evil nuns and forced to endure horrible horrible things.

What? It could happen!