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So, despite a tiny amount of effort, I couldn't come up with a theme for this round. Instead, I'm going to steal someone else's theme, sort of. Someone around here (who shall remain nameless for their own sanity's sake) said something about existing 'verses and I've considered that before, so this time I'm going with it for sure.
Drabbles this time around - MISSING SCENES! That is, missing scenes from my previously written fics. Such as "Tangible," "Perceptible," etc. - the longer ones that have time gaps may be easiest. The list can be found here:
Master List
We'll see how well this works out. It could be a complete disaster.
Drabbles this time around - MISSING SCENES! That is, missing scenes from my previously written fics. Such as "Tangible," "Perceptible," etc. - the longer ones that have time gaps may be easiest. The list can be found here:
Master List
We'll see how well this works out. It could be a complete disaster.
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“I've been on the road, so long.
Been tired and broke, so long
I've been to the south where the winds they were warm
Traveling the road of no return, so long...”
“Glitch, I swear by all that is holy that if you don’t stop singing I will throw you out of this car and you can walk the rest of the way,” Cain shouted from behind the wheel of the car, shooting a glare into the rear view mirror that no one saw.
In the back seat, DG was grinning at her friends’ antics while toying with one particularly rebellious whorl of stiff hair. Glitch’s head had been in her lap for the past hour of the trip, his knees bent and feet planted solidly where his backside should have been.
“I’m just trying to lighten the mood, Mr. Testy,” Glitch harrumphed and winked up at DG. “There’ll be plenty of time for your doom-and-gloom attitude when we get there. Until then, I am determined not to ruin a perfectly good road trip. I've seen what was war, so long...The ruins and the scars, so long...”
“Glitch!,” Cain bellowed. He opened his mouth, if only to keep Glitch from opening his again, but before he could continue his tirade he felt an unnatural lurch and the car came to an abrupt halt. Unable to get out a warning in time, he winced when he heard Glitch’s surprised yelp and felt the thump of a body hitting the back of his seat.
“Sorry,” Cain jerked the car’s transmission into park and twisted around to check on the others, Raw doing the same next to him in the front passenger seat. “You two all right?”
“M’fine,” Glitch’s muffled voice came from the floorboards before his head popped up into view.
“Yeah, we’re okay,” DG reached down to help Glitch back up onto the seat. “What happened?”
Cain sighed, turning back around and grimacing at the silent car. “I don’t know, it just stopped.”
DG made a strange sound and Cain looked at her in time to catch her covering up a smile. “What?”
“Oh, please tell me you don’t know how to fix cars,” DG gave up and let her grin show.
Frowning, Cain gave a helpless shrug. “Princess, I can barely drive these things, let alone know how they work. That’s what mechanics are for.”
“Oh, outstanding,” DG rubbed her hands together gleefully. “Yet another thing I can do better than you.” She opened her door and hopped out. “Let me just take a look.”
“I’m helping!” Glitch called as he crawled across the seat and followed her out.
“I doubt that,” Cain grumbled but settled for rolling down his window so they could still talk. “What do you need me to do?”
“Just give me a minute,” DG called back, popping the hood of the car up and propping it open. She leaned in, right at home amongst the valves and pistons and fluid lines. In seconds her hands were caked in grease and there was already a streak of it on her forehead.
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Glitch eyed the mechanisms with fascination, understanding it all on some level that he couldn’t quite reach. “How do you know so much about cars, Deeg?” he asked.
“Popsicle always said I had a gift for being a mechanic,” DG answered off-handedly, her hands busily checking connections and gears. She pulled something out, inspected it, then slipped it back in where she found it.
“You know, I’ve always wondered why you call him that.”
“What, Popsicle?”
“Yeah,” Glitch nodded, his own fingers tracing the length of battery cables.
DG laughed. “Because his hands were always cold, no matter the weather,” she answered then paused to consider her own words. “Now that I think about it, that could probably be part of the whole robot-thing.”
“Hmmm, maybe,” Glitch agreed, though he knew he would have to look into that later.
“HA!” DG emerged triumphant, holding up a pair of small, round part. “Two of the cap screws came loose; it threw the flywheel off-balance and cut the power from the motor.” She quickly placed them back where they belonged and stepped back, glancing around the edge of the raised hood. “Try it now.”
The car roared to life with only the smallest hesitation and DG shared a grin with Glitch. Slamming down the hood and each going to their own side to climb back in, she caught the amused, almost impressed look that Cain gave her through the mirror. “Nice work, kid.”
“I helped!”
“Nice work, Glitch.”
Glitch grinned and flung himself back to his former position. “Yet hope is in me, so long...For it's love that I see, so long...The courage and strength of the young men's smile – “
“GLITCH!”
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Disclaimer: I'm not a mechanic. All that up there is made up and probably very wrong. :)
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shooting a glare into the rear view mirror that no one saw.
No one appreciates what he endures, do they? :D
and I loved this:
she caught the amused, almost impressed look that Cain gave her through the mirror. “Nice work, kid.”
“I helped!”
“Nice work, Glitch.”
I could just hear that whole exchange.
Thank you kindly, it was awesome! ♥
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Yay! Welcome, as always! Cain just always looks so put-upon with the three of them. Like a grumpy teenage babysitter. :D
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Darling, Darlin :D
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