Visiting a Friend (tag Kyla)

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Robert didn't know what a 'terminator' was, but it had as much honor as the Bench to be targeting a young woman who'd harmed no one here. He didn't know Leoben well, only as a friend of Laura's, but he was right glad the man had been by to help

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[deathtotoasters]

Kyla had been expecting Robert, but she still took the time to look through the peep hole to make sure it was him. Of course, it could be someone posing as him, but Kyla was hoping that her luck wasn't so bad as to have to deal with another enemy so soon.

She opened the door with her right hand. Her left shoulder, which had been shot, was bandaged and her arm was in a sling, but the pain meds she had been given helped to make things more bearable. Kyla greeted Robert with a smile.

"You're quick."

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"If I'd been truly quick, I'd have been there to help, little cousin." Robert said. He smiled, but the eyes above the smile were troubled as he took in her bandage and sling.

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She knew he could fight, but the thought of anyone else around a Terminator that she cared for, scared her, but she kept the fact she was glad he hadn't been around to herself.

Kyla caught his look, glancing to her shoulder for a second before looking back to Robert with a reassuring smile and stepping back to let him come inside. "It's fine, I promise."

The clinic had a lot better equipment and drugs, that was for sure. No need to use horse tranquilizers here.

Her room was kept neat and clean like someone who was in the military, but it was also rather stark. The small items she did have around were unobtrusive. The two most noticeable things there were an old copy of Wizard of Oz that had been thumbed through a lot and her mug that had been clearly dropped and super-glued back together.

Ginger padded quietly behind Kyla to see who it was while Ripper remained lying full length near the window as he was enjoying the breeze from the open window.

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Robert, while not looking at the dog, lowered a hand toward it to get sniffed. Robert's own room had looked very similar before he'd gotten married.

"I do not know this Leoben well, only as a friend of Madame Laura's, but I'm glad he was there to help."

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Ginger sniffed at Robert's hand and then padded to where she had been sitting and laid down again.

"Me too." She nodded, looking thoughtful at the mention of Leoben. She gestured for Robert to sit, if he wanted. "I've been thinking about it a lot, actually. He's a machine too, Leoben and he killed the Terminator."

Was he upset?

Then Kyla remembered her manners. "Um, did you want something to drink while I get the spoons and bowls?"

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Robert couldn't sit while a lady was standing, so he he leaned against the counter and watched her.

"So she told me, Madame Laura, that in the end some of the machines helped the humans instead, and Leoben was one of those. No, I don't need a drink."

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"I know he's not... bad." Kyla had finally come to terms with that part.

She went to the kitchen which was only divided by a small breakfast counter and grabbed a bowl, turned and put it on the counter, then repeated it again. It was harder with one free hand, but Kyla was the type of person to want to do things herself.

"I keep thinking about the way he looked after." She spoke as she scooped ice cream. "I don't think it was easy for him."

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"Would you like me to check on him at all? Perhaps if the notion is troubling to him, he'd be afraid to say so to you."

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Once she was finished scooping the ice cream, she slid a bowl over in Robert's direction. Then she shrugged.

"I don't know. I mean, I guess we're supposed to meet up for dinner to talk about what happened." Dating back home did not reflect the way people dated here, so any inkling that it was potentially a date went right by Kyla. "But... you're right. I'm not sure he'd tell me how he actually felt about killing it."

She knew she wasn't the easiest person to talk to when it came to machines.

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"Where does he work? Do you know?" That might be the easiest way to find him.

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She stopped to consider it, but she realized she didn't know where Leoben worked. Kyla shook her head. "I have no idea." She didn't really know a lot about him, actually. "I guess that's a bit dumb of me."

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Robert only smiled.

"Perhaps Madame Laura will know."

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She saw his smile and felt embarrassed. "I guess that's something normal people find out early in a friendship, huh?"

Kyla decided to distract herself by spooning a small amount of ice cream from her bowl and eating it.

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Robert ate some of his as well, making a pleased noise as he did.

"The good thing about this place, Mistress Kyla, is that there are very few 'normal' people here, and fewer still that will judge harshly if you are not so."

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Kyla had gotten good at not outwardly showing her appreciation for the delicious food in the village - at least with the ones she had already experience. Vanilla was her favourite flavour of ice cream because it was simple, but flavorful, but she had a hard time finding ice cream she didn't care for.

"I know. And you're not the first to tell me that either, but it doesn't stop me from feeling it." She shrugged which came out lopsided with only her good shoulder working.

She looked down thoughtfully at the bowl. She had been more scared of the Terminator here than she had back home. Why? "I could have gotten a lot of people killed here."

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"It wasn't you that would have gotten anyone killed, it was the thing after you. You can't be blamed for it."