"What did ya buildin?" A four year old Toni asked walking into the lab where her father was working.
The man at the desk never took his eyes off his project. "Aren't you suppose to be with your tutor?"
Toni just shrugged and climbed onto the stool Howard kept around for her. "I won't tell if you wont" With a sigh the older inventor pulled his focus from his project to his daughter who was sitting in one of those ridiculously frilly dresses Miria always had the prodigy stuffed into "Toni"
"What? It's just a dress, I wanna help!" exclaimed the four year old before grumbling, "Besides it's not like I don't have enough of them"
Silenced reigned between the two starks as a battle of wills raged before the older of the two broke it, "What are the rules?"
Toni squirmed in her seat. She knew the rules to being down here and helping, but it wasn't her fault she couldn,'t change before coming down, she would have been caught, forced to go to those stupid 'Lady lessons' and die of boredom! It just wasn't fair that she couldn't be down here working on cool stuff with her dad.
"Toni" warned Howard, He wasn't above kicking her out of the lab especially when the matter of her safety was concerned.
The girl looked away and mumbled something to quiet for him to hear. 'What was that?"
"No dresses" She glared at her father. " Hair tied back, work clothes and boots only, no fooling around with equipment, pay attention and always listen"
Howard nodded before asking "Now why do we have those rules?"
"Because we handle dangerous stuff that can hurt us." sighed the young burnette sagging onto the workbench in defeat. He was gonna kick her out of the lab today.
"You got 10 minutes go and change." Howard spoke after a few minutes of silence causing Toni to jump up.
"I can stay!?"
Howard smirked at the young genius "Only if you can get back down here without Mrs. Terliskei finding you."
Challenge accepted the young girl threw herself off her stool and out the lab door with in seconds.