Mauvaise Chance Roof Garage, Friday Morning

[needsaparrot]

Xander had unlocked the doors up there and was checking out the facilities... but not speculatively eyeing the corner room that looked like it could easily be set up as a carpentry workshop because that would mean he was thinking things he couldn't afford to be thinking

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[sogothcally]

Cally wandered out between class and the assembly. She looked noticably less bruised then last time Xander'd seen her.

"'ey," she said.

[needsaparrot]

Xander poked his head out of the room-that-was-not-a-workshop. "Hey. You look better."

[sogothcally]

"'anks," Cally said. "Healed up and a little make-up. You got a workshop up here or somethin'?"

[needsaparrot]

"Looks like somebody started to put one in." Xander gestured around at the rest of the garage-space. "Mostly it's mechanical stuff, though, which... not my area of expertise. Not on spaceships, anyway. Got a spark-plug problem in your Chevy, we can talk."

[sogothcally]

"...you know, I kinda have a bit of experience there," Cally said.

[needsaparrot]

"With spark-plugs?"

[sogothcally]

"Spaceships," Cally said. "Though sparkplugs too."

[needsaparrot]

"That's right, didn't you build a something-or-other up on the roof of the dorms?"

[sogothcally]

"Yeah," Cally said, not mentioning the part where it didn't fly and was now being used as a not-so-cleverly disguised still.

[needsaparrot]

Xander crossed his arms and surveyed the empty-except-for-tools-and-equipment garage. "Well, nobody's banging down the door at the moment, but if somebody does while I'm here, I sure wouldn't say no to some help. Since my job on the repair team would be staring at the ship, trying to control the dork-factor, and wondering which button doesn't make it explode."

[sogothcally]

"Making them 'splode is bad," Cally said. "You know my number and stuff. Plus I come with my own tools."

[needsaparrot]

"Me too! We probably have different tools, though."

Xander blinked a little.

"Wow, I haven't said not-dirty in a while."

[sogothcally]

Cally laughed a shut-jaw snigger. "Def'nitely different tools," she said.

[needsaparrot]

"Well, consider you and tools hired."

[sogothcally]

"...okay now that 'ounds really dirty," Cally said.

[needsaparrot]

"First rule of the shop: no dirty tools. Always clean 'em before you put 'em away. And there's pretty much no way to ever mention anything in my profession without it sounding dirty so I kinda gave up halfway through freshman year of college."