Gaz the Scientist
This is a one shot! No, I haven't abandoned Not Like the Rest. I'm gonna finish it… just slacking off.
"Dib, PLEASE," begged Professor Membrane.
"No, Dad. This is NOT the road I wanna take."
Gaz rolled her eyes. Dib and Professor Membrane were fighting again. About the usual, silly little things that they always fought about. She kept herself engrossed in her game.
No one knew it was forced.
Why? Why do I have to force this EVERY day? Gaz thought bitterly.
No. I must keep force-playing this game.
"Son, you could do something useful with your life!"
"Oh, and a paranormal investigator isn't useful enough for you?"
"No!"
Sigh. Keep on playing.
"Dad, I wanna prove to the world that ghosts and aliens exist!"
"THEY DON'T!"
"YES THEY DO!" Silence. Glare-a-ton.
Ignore. IGNORE!
"Fine, whatever. Just… do your homework."
"HMRPH. FINE." Dib stormed up the stairs and into his room. Professor Membrane shrugged and walked into his basement laboratory.
Gaz took a deep breath and followed him. Professor Membrane turned around.
"Is there something I can help you with, Daughter?" He asked.
"Uh, um…" Gaz coughed.
"Well, lets just say that, speaking hypothetically, that maybe Dib DOESN'T want to take on real science…"
"This experiment, it will lure him in to see how much FUN it can be to study real science!" Professor Membrane said.
"…But of he still refuses… have you ever thought of, oh, maybe… thinking of possibilities for another apprentice?" Professor Membrane laughed.
"Daughter, you're a card! Another appre– haha! Dib will give in someday and join me in the field of science."
"But I wanted to– uh…"
"Wanted to what?"
"Maybe… maybe I wanted to… be your apprentice. Ya know…" she kicked the floor. "Maybe, work side by side with you…?"
Professor Membrane stared at her for a long while.
Finally, Gaz got to the point where the anxiety was giving her nausea.
"Okay, Dad. I guess we'll discuss it tomorrow." She was at the point of tears. In fact, tears fell from her face, and fell to the floor with a soft pht, pht.
Her dad saw her cry.
"Daughter," he said softly.
Gaz turned around, but with her head down, so that he didn't notice she was crying.
But he did.
"I'd love to take you on as my apprentice. I just never knew that you wanted to study science. Your always so involved with your video games."
"I played because I felt bad that you wanted Dib to work along side with you and not me," she said, solemnly. "I wanted to shut out the world."
Professor Membrane stared at her with sympathy in his eyes.
"My son has a hard head," He said softly. He put his index finger under her chin and raised her head.
"But you do not." Gaz smiled, tears still in her eyes. She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face on his shoulder.
Although her words were barely possible to make out through the tears, she smiled and said it.
"I love you, Daddy."
"I love you too, Daughter."
TEH FEELZ! TEH FEELZ! You like? Sorry for the shortness. Thought I'd finish it, dang it. I also wrote this story to - increase Prof. Membrane's fandom. He's too underrated. And I love him! Okay, not in that way. Okay, maybe in that way… 0/./0 Nobody saw that… eETe And 'scuse any typos. Might be my phone's autocorrect.