Disclaimer: Still not mine. Can I stop doing these now?

Moving On

Cameron blinked at his double. "You aren't going to tie me up in the server closet again if I say 'no,' right?" Cam started flexing his fingers, itching to code. Coding calmed him down, ordered his world. Cyber Cam had just tilted his world off its axis and Cam had the insane urge to do something to put it right again.

"Come on, flesh-bro, what could be the harm. All the dudes want the Tori-Tor to get over the whole Blake and Janine thing. What's the problem with me taking her out to go dancing?" Cyber Cam said with an earnest grin on his face as he absently typed on the computer mainframe, "All you would have to do is loosen the restrictions so that I can take her into town for an evening and then poof, reset them back. Dude, all she's got to do is hit a club and she'll be the most babealicious thing there. All the guys will want to be with her. She'll get a ton of dates. Find the right guy and, bam, no more sad Tori. What could be better than that?"

"I was thinking what could be worse than four overprotective guys wanting to threaten any guy that approached her," Cam said dryly. Cam folded his arms and leaned against the wall as he watched Cy with his goofy green hat at the main console. He was completely baffled as to where Cy came up with the idea. Since he reprogrammed him to focus on Ninja Ops and support systems, Cy had never voiced the urge to go off the campus grounds until now.

Cam's twin turned in the chair, "I'm just talking me and her. There would be no four overprotective guys hovering around. She can totally make her own choices, dude. Tori's the smart one, remember?"

"Like a date? Just the two of you on a date? Do you have a thing for Tori?" Cam asked incredulous.

Cyber Cam gave Cam a huge grin and smugly replied, "Not any more than you do, bro."

Cameron brought his right hand to his forehead in a futile effort to massage away the headache that was forming there. He so didn't need to think about this today. "That was a long time ago. And I can't believe I'm talking about my unrequited crush on Tori to my cybernetic double."

"Well, you could talk about this unrequited crush to me."

Cam whirled at the sound of Hunter's voice and now he brought both hands to his forehead, "God, could this get any worse?" he muttered to himself while Cyber Cam just gave Hunter an enthusiastic greeting.

"Sure," Hunter replied with a grin as he pushed away from the entrance to Ninja Ops that he had been leaning against the door and strolled casually into the room, "It could be Tori who heard about you and Cy crushing on her instead of me."

"I'm not crushing, big thunder dude. I was just thinking about taking the Tori-babe clubbing if flesh-bro here would let me out for a night. She could totally hook some hot guy."

Hunter went over to where Cyber Cam sat at the console and put a hand on his shoulder. Over the past couple of years, the cybernetic being had become less of a Cam back up and more of a Cam twin. Although still a little weird, they all became used to having Cam the serious one and Cy the polar opposite. "Dude, she doesn't need our help. Tori could totally hook any guy she wants," Hunter said seriously.

"Except Blake," Cy said with a bit of accusation in his voice.

Hunter sighed and raised his hands in a "not me" gesture before stepping back, "Hey, I'm the first guy to say Blake was an idiot when it came to Tori," then he flashed a smirk towards Cam, "but it seems he wasn't the only one."

Cam gave Hunter a dry look that promised retribution at some future date. "So what do you think about Cy's idea, should we let him take Tori out and encourage her in the dating game?"

Hunter's brow furrowed as if he never thought of the words Tori and dating in the same sentence before. "I guess so, if she wants. I always figured after Blake left, if she wanted to date she would. I never really thought about it. I mean, the chick flick fest was bad, but until this whole thing with Janine I totally thought she was over Blake. She says she is."

"Yeah, well some things, like magazine covers, tend to sneak up on you and make you face all sorts of buried feelings," Cam said sarcastically.

"Huh," Hunter grunted acknowledging the truth in that statement.

"All I'm saying is the pretty T-Bird and I will go hit a club. She loves to dance and I can totally bust a move," Cy said, as he turned back to the computer with a shrug, "I wouldn't let anything happen to her. Not like she can't kick butt all on her own, but, dude, it might make her feel better to get out and into circulation."

"I don't think she's really feeling bad," Cam said.

"She was crying," Hunter pointed out.

"She said it was no big deal," Cam said, "I am inclined to trust Tori."

"You don't want her rebounding on some horrible guy," Hunter said.

"Who's talking about rebounding? You can't rebound if you never dated and you are totally over someone."

"Dude, that's why I'd be there to keep an eye on her," Cy protested.

Both Hunter and Cam turned to Cy before looking back at each other. Finally, Hunter said as he starting to pace the room, "On one hand, I totally agree with Cam, if Tori had wanted to go out with someone, anyone over the past year, I think she would have. On the other hand, Cy could be right, maybe encouraging her to go out wouldn't be a bad thing. I mean she tends to live her life here and at the beach. On the other hand, it's not like there aren't guys here and at the beach that she could totally go out with either, I mean what am I, chopped liver? On the other hand, she could totally be hiding from life here and at the beach because she knows that she's just one of the guys and," Hunter stopped and looked at his hands, "That was too many hands."

Cam and Cy blinked at Hunter. Hunter looked up at them confused, "What?"

Cam and Cy looked at each other. Now, a little wigged out, Hunter asked again, more forcefully, "What?"

"Did you just hear what you said?" Cam asked.

"What about the too many hands? Yeah, I wasn't keeping things straight in my head. Maybe I have to write it all down," Hunter said half to himself.

"No, dude, what you said about chopped liver?" Cy said sitting back amused by the way things were turning out. "You are totally right, there are lots of guys here and at the beach. You know a whole bunch of them. Maybe you should encourage one of them to ask her out."

"Cy!" Cam admonished.

"What? He hangs out with her the most, at the beach, at the track, all he would have to do is find out who Tori would like to go out with and we could totally set it up!" Cy said excitedly.

"That is an idea. Not that the dancing thing was a bad idea. Maybe I could take her to a club, too. She would like that. Maybe this weekend," Hunter continued to mutter to himself as he left Ninja Ops.

Cam looked at Cyber Cam and shook his head. "I can't figure out what's worse, that you just totally manipulated Hunter into asking Tori out, or that Hunter is so absolutely clueless about what he feels for Tori."

Cy grinned at Cam and turned back to the computer. "Just call me the king of matchmaking." Cy said with a grin.

Cam was startled by the hurried sound of feet on the stairs to Ninja Ops and feel into a defensive stance even as he registered that it was his two cousins clattering down the stairs. They burst into the room with a burst of chatter, "Did it work? We just saw him leave. What did he say? Cy, you are the best!"

Cam's eyes narrowed, "Cy, Kapri, Marah? What are you up to?"

"Hi, cousin!" Marah waved happily at him with a megawatt smile.

"Yes, hello, cousin," Kapri said dismissively as she demanded, "Spill, Cy!"

"Hook, line and sinker," Cy gloated with a huge grin at the two formerly evil space alien ninjas who jumped in excitement and clapped their hands giddily.

"You so rock," Kapri said.

"We totally knew you could do it!" Marah gushed.

"Do what?" Cam asked at a loss. He was frequently at a loss when it came to the way his cousins thought. His headache was coming back with a vengeance. "Will you three please stop with the Cy admiration society and tell me what is going on?"

Kapri huffed as she turned to Cam with her hands on her hips, "You are always so nosy. Why do you always have to know what's going on? Can't some of us plot in peace?"

Cam narrowed his eyes, the girl's last "plot" had been the crazy idea to get some use out of the old habitat that his father had used and they purchased a guinea pig. However, this guinea pig wasn't sentient and he managed to get away from the girls and chew up a number of computer system wires that Cam had to replace, multiple times. The habitat was not set up to cage a pet. That had eventually been fixed, but Marah was always scolding the little thing for trying to eat his pagoda, no matter how many times Cam told her that it was just instinct and there was nothing they could do about it.

Marah rolled her eyes merrily, "We just got Hunter to ask Tori out!" she stated triumphantly. "I bet they are together within a month."

Cam's brow furrowed and he sighed before saying patiently, "That may not have been so good an idea."

"Why not?" Kapri asked in a matter of fact tone, "He is totally into her and she's totally into him. They just have to realize it."

"I think there's a little more to it than that." Cam said.

"Oh, you mean the whole Blake thing?" Kapri said dismissively, "They are both so totally over that. They just have to realize that it doesn't matter. It's not about Blake; it's about them and how much they like each other and how well they get along and oh so many things."

Marah walked up to Cam and wrapped herself around one of his arms, "It'll be o.k., cousin. Kapri's the best at figuring this stuff out. Cy did exactly what we told him to do and Hunter did exactly what we thought he'd do."

"You can't just think that because people react how you think they will that they won't surprise you," Cam said with a sigh.

"Don't worry," Kapri said leaning up against the console chair where Cy sat grinning through the whole conversation, "Everything is going to work out just fine."

Cam shook his head, "I hope so, girls, I really hope so."