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Real life's getting more like fiction each day...

Dec 14, 2005 20:00

Sheila spends the rest of that day and most of the next few wandering around the Blue side of the canyon in a bit of a daze. She is in a bit of shock about the sudden changes in her relationship with Simmons-happy, but still surprised ( Read more... )

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simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 17:40:29 UTC

Simmons is hiding a smile under his visor as he heads across the canyon to meet her. He's idly throwing a toolbox in the air and catching it by the handle, though he's carrying a cardboard box under his other arm.

"Hey, that's sweet," he remarks, laughing. "You and me both."

m808btank December 15 2005, 22:42:56 UTC

Sheila turns on her holoprojector, feeling better with a face to present to him. She giggles shyly as he approaches.

"Hello to you, too." She pauses for a moment. "It's from Wicked," she murmurs, not really noticing the boxes in Simmons' hands.

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 22:49:01 UTC

"Another one of your oldies, huh?" Simmons says, smiling, and sets the packages he's carrying down on one of the tank treads. "I need to look up all this classical stuff of yours someday," he remarks, shrugging faintly. "Not that I mind, of course..."

m808btank December 15 2005, 22:53:44 UTC

"I can help you with that," Sheila says. "I think whoever installed all of this music put some of the synopses into my database as well." She blushes a little bit, moving across the tank body to crouch down next to Simmons.

"What is this?" she asks, trying to change the subject a little bit.

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 22:56:59 UTC

Simmons gives out a friendly laugh, taking off his helmet to better give Sheila a look in the eyes.
"It's just a little something I've been working on. Took a bit of trial and error to get it all working, but..."
He gives a wide, excited grin.

m808btank December 15 2005, 22:59:20 UTC

She gasps, her eyes widening. "It is finished?" she asks incredulously, hardly able to contain the excitement in her voice.

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 23:11:27 UTC

Simmons nods, still grinning. "Thing with me is, I don't leave a job unfinished. Especially not this." With that, he reaches in to the cardboard box and starts arranging and unpacking the different components. "The thing is that I'm gonna need to route some of your sensor inputs through this box of tricks, but that's not gonna be any worse than setting up your hologram. ...I hope." He gives a shrug, but doesn't look all that worried. "That all links into a separate computer processor, set up so either one of us can control it. And this last bit jacks into the AI slot in my armour. It's just a standard chip, twos - " Spartan-2s, the Master Chief's generation - "use them all the time. Was pretty lucky we had it though."

He stops and gives Sheila an apologetic look. "And you really didn't want me to go on like that, did you?"

m808btank December 15 2005, 23:15:25 UTC

She giggles again, reaching out to brush her holographic hand along his face. "I told you. I like to know what is going on. And besides," she says, grinning impishly, "you look cute when you ramble."

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 23:19:41 UTC

"Well, I can't say I've heard that one before," he remarks, laughing, and putting his own hand up to follow where he'd seen Sheila's go. "Talk too much? Yeah. Kiss ass when I do it? Yeah. Not look cute."

m808btank December 15 2005, 23:23:50 UTC

"Cute. And I'm not budging." Her grin softens to a smile. "I can be really rather stubborn, you know."

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 23:29:31 UTC

"You know, I'd kind of noticed..." Simmons shrugs, raising an eyebrow, a grin creeping onto his face. "Fine, whatever."

m808btank December 15 2005, 23:33:55 UTC

"Good," she says with a nod, feeling incredibly silly and not really caring. After a moment she bursts into giggles, sitting down on the tread.

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 23:40:01 UTC

"Hey, it wasn't that funny..." he says, feigning annoyance rather than anything else, and jumping up after her. He's careful not to touch the components he's laid out.

m808btank December 15 2005, 23:43:06 UTC

She shakes her head, her laughter slowing down. "I know it wasn't. I just...felt so silly about it." Calmer now, she lets her gaze fall upon the components, a small smile alighting on her face.

simmons2point0 December 15 2005, 23:45:12 UTC

"Don't worry about it." He gives her a smile back. "Guess I should start getting this little lot set up, huh?"

m808btank December 15 2005, 23:54:27 UTC

"That would be ideal." She looks at him curiously for a moment. "What would you like me to do?"

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