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Duped: Part 8

Jul 15, 2010 11:07

Alice runs a hand along the wall, relishing the feel of the wallpaper under her hand. It's been so long, so very long, since she could feel anything but the cold, hungry, glass of the mirror. A century and more of being unable to smell, or taste or touch. Catching only what fragments of other people's lives passed close to that thrice damned ( Read more... )

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doyousmellfudge July 15 2010, 16:35:30 UTC

Well, crap, thinks Artie. He does his best not to let it show in his face. "Hey. Um, is Pete with you?"

mirror_alice July 15 2010, 20:14:11 UTC

"No," Alice replies, anxious to get back to work. "I'm a bit busy, can I call you back?"

doyousmellfudge July 15 2010, 20:15:32 UTC

"Yeah, no, sure, everything okay?"

mirror_alice July 15 2010, 20:21:50 UTC

"It will be as soon as I can get back to work," Alice replies with a somewhat strained smile. Then she giggles faintly.

Nothing wrong here, Artie. She's just amused at your worrying ways and doesn't want to kill you in a bloody and violent manner, really!

doyousmellfudge July 15 2010, 20:24:22 UTC

...she giggled. Myka Bering does not giggle. Not like that, anyway.

"Uh, okay, yeah," he says with a slightly strained chuckle of his own. "Oh, I got some bad news--Leena tells me that your ferret escaped, and she's been trying to call for it but she doesn't know its name. I don't even know if you finally did name that thing, did you?"

mirror_alice July 15 2010, 20:32:17 UTC

Alice's face turns worried for a moment when he says that he has bad news. She remembers that damn rodent, all right. It tried to sink its teeth into her. If it wouldn't have blown her cover, she would have gleefully wrung its neck.

"No," she decides, gambling a bit. "No, no, actually, I, I never did. Just put some food out, and it will come back," she replies, frustrated. "I got to go." She closes the Farnsworth.

She looks at the man tied up in the chair with a gaze like a cat intent upon a mouse. "Now, where were we?"

k39zzz July 15 2010, 20:35:47 UTC

Meanwhile, back at the ranch Warehouse...

"Myka did name the ferret," says Leena smugly as Artie closes the Farnsworth's case. "She just isn't telling Pete the name."

claudiometer July 15 2010, 20:56:36 UTC

"Why not?"
It's not really QUESTION OF THE DAY territory, but Claudia wants to know anyway.

doyousmellfudge July 15 2010, 20:58:05 UTC

"Because she named it 'Pete.'"

k39zzz July 15 2010, 20:58:53 UTC

Myka rolls her eyes. "Yeah. It's cute, but so annoying."

claudiometer July 15 2010, 21:00:46 UTC

She cracks up, at that. "No, it's good, I like that."
It's more than a little appropriate, coming from Myka.

doyousmellfudge July 15 2010, 21:03:10 UTC

"Oh, you think that's funny? Huh?" Artie gives her a sharp look. "Because if she thinks we know, she'll kill him."

k39zzz July 15 2010, 21:03:50 UTC

"You have to tell him what's going on, Artie..."

claudiometer July 15 2010, 21:05:08 UTC

"Well, he may have figured it out already." Pete's a pretty smart guy, after all. Not to mention his crazy intuition hijinks.

k39zzz July 15 2010, 21:05:58 UTC

"Seriously? I mean, it's Pete we're talking about here."

doyousmellfudge July 15 2010, 21:07:32 UTC

Artie's trying. Believe us, he's trying. But he's not having much luck. "I can't get ahold of him," he growls, slamming down the phone receiver. "I mean, his cell keeps going to voicemail. Alice has obviously got the Farnsworth, so--"

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