V2C2: Sweet Sixteen

AN: Alright, got eight hours to write this thing. Let's see what we can make happen. On a similar note, RWKY is almost certainly at this point going to once a week uploads soon. Probably after next Friday. I'll let you know more when we get to that date.

In terms of this chapter, it's a big day for Kassidy. And as per her usual style, she completely forgot about it. Guess it's time for RWY and JNPR to remind her.

(Perspective: Weiss)

Kassidy Smith, Weiss decided, is not human.

After all, no human being alive, not even Nora, could eat seven pounds of food in five minutes, sleep it off in about thirty minutes, and a few short hours later complain about being hungry again. She was fortunate that Kassidy was her sole teammate capable of exercising patience, though, as the news that dinner was almost ready back at the dorms prevented more complaints. Still, it did make her incredibly anxious to get through the rest of the electronics expo they found themselves at, even as she stopped at every booth to either drool over or snark at whatever happened to be shown there. Weiss had lost count how many times she had rolled her eyes at her teammate's antics; still, though, she tolerated it. Today, nor this trip, were about her, after all.

Ruby and Yang had predicted it perfectly: Kassidy had no idea that today was her sixteenth birthday. It was amazing, really. Even the Schnees took note of each others' dates of birth, despite the fact that they weren't ones for celebrating the occasions. But paying for Yang's birthday present had oddly left her with a satisfied feeling, and so decided to continue to indulge in the traditional customs her friends had performed on this day. For Ren, that meant making pizzas for everyone in Kassidy's stead. Yang was busy gathering everyone's gifts. Nora, Jaune, and Ruby were busy ensuring the dorms were adequately decorated for the occasion, and Pyrrha was with the two of them as they continued through the Vale Electronics and Entertainment Expo.

Never in a million years would Weiss dream of ever confusing Kassidy for Ruby. And yet, as they continued through the stalls that had been set up, the blonde bun continued to dash through the expo with a frenzied speed that would impress their team leader. Apparently, she was this bad when she first met Ruby's dog, too. Because a slobbery, filthy mutt is on the same level as the cutting edge in electronics and computing technology in Kassidy's eyes, it seems. Still, the sight put a smile on her face, and Pyrrha's too. Not once had either of them seen Kassidy this excited for something.

Finally catching up with the blonde menace, they were able to catch Kassidy wondering aloud, "A half-petaflop Scroll? Wow! And they still don't have any proper semiconductors! The architecture in this thing must be incredible! Looks like you might be getting some competition, Bob."

"Yes, let's ignore the fact that I'm currently operating at three exaflops. Let's also ignore the fact that these people appear to have zero intentions of developing proper semiconductors. Let's further ignore that you've been leaving Weiss and Pyrrha so far behind they've only just caught up with you."

"Huh?" Kassidy finally turned around to look at the two of them with a raised eyebrow, which quickly gave way to bulging eyes and a light blush. "Uh, sorry, guys. Guess I kinda get carried away with computer stuff."

Weiss and Pyrrha traded smirks and knowing glances, and Pyrrha chuckled lightly before answering, "That's okay, Kassidy. I've never seen you so enthusiastic about something. Um, if you don't mind me asking, what's a petaflop? Or an exaflop, for that matter?"

The way Kassidy's eyes widened told Weiss that Pyrrha had asked precisely the wrong question. This was confirmed as she started talking at a pace that began fast and only got quicker as time went on. "A FLOP is an acronym that stands for a floating-point operation per second. It's basically a measure of a computer's speed. And then it uses typical SI – or metric – prefixes to denote how many of them you have. A petaflop is one quadrillion – one thousand trillion – operations per second, while an exaflop is one level above that at a quintillion. Which means that Bob here can handle three million trillion operations per second. Y'know, it's kinda funny how the history of some of these-"

"Kassidy," Weiss finally interrupted, "You're confusing Pyrrha; Dust, you're confusing me. Not to mention the representative behind the display here." All three of them turned to the man in question, whose jaw had fallen open as his gaze kept switching between the three of them.

Kassidy managed to blush again and grab her arm. "Uh, sorry about that. I get really, really carried away with this stuff." Apologizing again, she finally managed to tear herself away from the display and continue through the expo, albeit at a sedate enough manner that Weiss and Pyrrha were able to actually keep up. Abruptly, she said, "Sorry for dragging you guys around everywhere. Is there anything you two wanted to see while we were here?"

Pyrrha was about to answer, but before she could Weiss' Scroll buzzed. Flipping it open, she caught Ruby's newest message:

Evrythings rdy over here get Kass to cum on over

A quick eye-roll at the hilariously bad spelling and grammar, followed by a brief panic attack over the misspelling of "come" – she really hoped Yang never found that message – led Weiss to showing the message to Pyrrha, who had similar reactions. Turning to their companion, Weiss announced, "I think we've already covered everything I would be interested in over here. Unless Pyrrha wants to visit something, how about we head back to the dorms?" Pyrrha denied the offer, and the three of them made their way out of the expo, but not before Kassidy could find a cutting-edge graphics card that may or may not be an upgrade to Bob. She was still arguing with her computer by the time they boarded the airship to take them back to campus, which was when the debate stopped in favor of Kassidy not vomiting all over the place.

Speaking of Yang, Weiss thought as they sat on their flight, I need to be careful around those two now. Yang is insufferable enough as it is, and with Kassidy encouraging her… I think we need to have a team meeting banning puns. Or, at least, I might need to come up with some on my own, actually intelligent and funny puns. That half of her team had gotten incredibly close over the summer break, it seems. Thankfully, there weren't any sweet nothings, or constant cuddling, or any other horridly annoying stuff one would expect from a new couple, but it was obvious that there was something going on between the two blondes on her team. It would be wise to determine what it was, and whether it threatened her presence at Beacon – her father, as per usual behind the times, would most certainly not take kindly to a lesbian couple on the team that the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company was on. She was in enough trouble already for not having been named team leader.

Weiss huffed and flipped her hair over her shoulder, crossing her legs as she looked across the aisle to see Pyrrha and Kassidy sitting together. Those were enough thoughts about her father, about Atlas, and definitely enough thoughts about her Dust-damned brother. She was in Beacon, now, where that was all a distant concern she needn't worry herself with. She took another deep breath, and was pleased to find that she had timed the action perfectly with the airship stopping to drop them off. Fortunately, Kassidy was able to avoid a mess this time, though she did step off with yet more grumbling about how much she hated flying. Weiss cheered to herself in her head – they were almost to the dorms now, and Kassidy, someone who was notoriously difficult to trick, was none the wiser as to their plans. She was certain they had gotten away with the deception and distraction, before Kassidy planted her hand on the door leading into the dorm building and paused.

"Alright, what's up, guys?" Kassidy was all but staring at them, placing herself in front of the door and making no effort to go inside. Weiss refrained from meeting Pyrrha's eyes, as such a tell would instantly give the game up.

"Whatever do you mean, Kassidy?" she offered instead.

"I mean you were bored out of your skull during that expo, yet didn't so much as utter a groan of displeasure. You're usually very vocal about when you're upset with something. Not to mention you were looking incredibly pleased with yourself whenever we got off the airship. And you," she continued, thrusting her finger in Pyrrha's direction, "were so nervous you'd broken out into a cold sweat more than once. So, I ask again, what's going on? Is there something I need to know about?"

Weiss took in first Kassidy's narrowed eyes, then Pyrrha's widened eyes and the fact her hand was in front of her mouth, before sighing. I guess the game's up already. Unless… "Yes, there is. But not here. Not in public. Let's get to the dorm first."

Kassidy's eyes remained narrowed, but she seemed to accept that answer. Still, as they ascended the stairs and meandered through the hallways, it was clear she wasn't relaxed anymore. Her shoulders ramrod straight, her left hand twitching near her jacket, above where her pistol was hidden underneath it – how she'd managed to conceal a pistol that large, or get it past the metal detectors, Weiss would never know. She did decide, however, that it would be prudent to send Ruby a message regarding Kassidy's sudden paranoia. The last thing they needed was for Kassidy to accidentally shoot someone when they surprised her. But it was for naught, as they found themselves in front of the dorm room door before Weiss had finished typing it out, and she could do little but bite her lip as Kassidy opened the door…

"SURPRISE!" The sudden declaration made Kassidy jump back a foot and her hand to twitch violently, but she managed to stop herself before anything serious happened, much to Weiss' and Pyrrha's relief. With a cocked eyebrow, she cautiously stepped inside. Well, she tried to anyway, but she swiftly got tackled to the ground by Yang with a shriek. Of course, because these were the people Weiss deigned to befriend, Nora and Ruby instantly declared a 'hug pile' before jumping on top of the two blondes. Tossing her hair over her shoulder and resolving to remain unmiffed by the occurrence, Weiss stepped over the four bodies, though she could've sworn she heard a weak cry of 'my back' as she made her way to her bed.

Ruby pulled herself up, and Ren was quick to return Nora to her seat before leaving the dorm himself, but Yang was content to stay on the floor, laughing, and pull Kassidy into a hug. "Happy birthday, partner!"

"Happy – what?" Kassidy forced the air back into her lungs, sitting up even as she absent-mindedly returned Yang's hug. She blinked and took a few looks about the room, before finally asking, "Why are there strips of paper and balloons all over our dorm?"

"Because it's your birthday, silly!" Ruby exclaimed. She giggled as she helped the two blonde girls off the floor, then added, "Why do you think we had Weiss and Pyrrha distract you all afternoon? It took a while to get this all done!"

"Why – huh?" Kassidy looked blankly at her; Weiss merely replied with a shrug as she inspected her nails. Kassidy's gaze then turned to Pyrrha, who seemed to blush a bit and shrink back a bit. Kassidy took a few more breaths, and then seemed to have finally caught up with everything that had happened. "Well, uh, surprise indeed. Holy crap you guys scared me."

"Sure looked like it," Jaune quipped from the side. "You have fun over at the expo?"

"That's an understatement," Pyrrha laughed. "I think Ruby would've had a hard time keeping up with her."

Ruby gasped, before dipping her head over the side of her bed to silently ask Weiss for confirmation. Weiss merely offered, "She's as bad with computers as you are with weapons."

"Wow, guess I got her the wrong present, then," Yang said. Her grin faded, however, when Kassidy looked at her with wide eyes and a cocked eyebrow. Sighing, Yang explained, "It's your birthday, silly. Of course we got you gifts."

"You didn't need to do that…" Kassidy offered weakly. "I mean, don't get me wrong, thanks. Thanks a lot. But you guys didn't – it's not a big deal, really. I can survive without parties and stuff."

"You can survive, but you can't live," Ren offered, even as he wrestled the dorm room door open and drug in his cart of pizzas. "There's more to life than not dying, Kassidy. Now, I do believe you were complaining earlier about being hungry? …Somehow?"

"Did you – did you make pizzas?" Kassidy stared at him dumbly, even as he handed her a pizza before turning to distribute everyone else's. Weiss still wasn't convinced that the greasy discs were the greatest things ever, but Kassidy and Ren's cooking have certainly warmed her to the idea. At any rate, her chicken, onion, and avocado pizza was definitely more refined than anything her cohorts ate as toppings. Like Yang's all-meat pizza, or Nora's… no. Just no.

"I made some modifications to your recipe," Ren added. "Hopefully it's still up to par with your standards."

Kassidy took a bite, and she nearly moaned in satisfaction. "Holy crap, dude, this is good. You've got to tell me what you switched up later. It's just that," Kassidy trailed off here, looking around the gaily decorated dorm room. Everyone started getting concerned after a solid thirty seconds of silence.

It was eventually Ruby who broke the silence. "It's just what?"

Kassidy waved a hand around, and coincidentally narrowly avoided getting sauce from the slice she was holding in Yang's hair. "Why? You didn't need to do this for me. Seriously, I can't even remember my own birthday, I wouldn't have held you guys to anything if you just ignored it too."

Yang snorted, almost as if she had found the question funny. "I dunno, partner, why did you celebrate my birthday?"

"Because I consider you a good friend, and wanted to do something nice for you?" Kassidy answered, eyebrow arched.

Yang set her meal down to – much to everyone's surprise – pull Kassidy into quite a tender hug, one which was reciprocated instantly. "Well, there's your answer. You're a friend, and we like doing nice things for our friends." They broke up, and Yang smirked at Kassidy. "So hurry up and eat, I know I'm not the only one looking forward to presents."

Kassidy rolled her eyes and gave an equal smirk. "Well, since you asked so nicely, ma'am." The two blonde women on the top bunk seemed to be happy with those words, and quickly got to what appeared to be their own miniature eating competition. While Ruby was munching away happily on the bed above her, albeit at a more reasonable pace, both Weiss and JNPR were openly staring at the two of them. Weiss, for one, was appalled at how sloppy they were being. Yang was not going to have a clean bed tonight, and it definitely wasn't her own fault this time. A quick glance over to Pyrrha, however, confirmed that their sister team was less interested in their eating habits and more in how the two seemed to be an item now.

Jaune was the one who finally mustered up the courage to finally ask, "Hey, uh, Kass? I know this was a bit of a touchy subject last semester, and I know you weren't all that happy about it, but. Um, are you and Yang a thing now?"

Kassidy and Yang stopped their massacre of both their meals and proper etiquette long enough to trade glances with each other, then burst into giggles. Yang eventually choked out, "Told you."

"Yeah, of course, there was a reason I wasn't taking you up on that bet." Kassidy finally managed to swallow her current mouthful – because it's apparently too hard to not talk when you have food in your mouth, the uncultured heathens – and turn to Jaune. "But for your question, yes. We've been dating for a grand total of two days now."

Nora was quite eager to applaud her congratulations, and though the rest of the team was less violent they were nonetheless just as sincere. Pyrrha piped up with, "May I ask what changed?"

Yang waved her hand in the air, like she was trying to get something to come to her. "Nothing changed, really. Been happening for a while, at least in my case, and it was only a couple weeks ago that I was finally able to admit it."

"Well, I do believe I speak for all of us when I say that I hope you two have a long time of finding much happiness with each other," Ren said sagely.

The two blondes on Yang's bed nodded and gave their thanks, but Ruby had to ruin the moment, the dolt. "Yeah, yeah, they're real cute together, now c'mon! We've all finished eating, let's get to your presents, Kass!"

"We have not finished - !" Weiss began, but as she looked around it was discovered that yes, everyone else had indeed finished eating while congratulations were being said. Weiss looked to her still half-filled plate and muttered, "I haven't finished."

"Well too bad! As team leader, I officially declare the gift giving… to begin!" A flurry of rose petals stringing between both the top bunks and the corner of the room led to Kassidy having her plate replaced by a red-and-black wrapped package. Kassidy raised an eyebrow at it, then quite delicately picked at the tape holding the paper together, before unfolding it to reveal ammunition. Ruby was all too eager to explain, "You said you needed more ammo and we never figured out how we wanted to do your special ammo and it turns out glass caps don't work so I needed to fit a firing cap inside the tip of the bullet and –"

"Ruby?" Kassidy interrupted. Giving a large smile, she said, "Thank you. I was wondering how I'd start making the special stuff."

Ruby nodded enthusiastically as her legs swung back and forth in the top of Weiss' view. "And don't worry, I got you a lot more than those couple boxes, I hid a bunch of them under Weiss' bed so you wouldn't find them early."

"You went through my stuff?!" Weiss screeched. Six of the room's occupants laughed with varying degrees of nervousness, while Ruby leaned her head over the bed and rolled her eyes.

"Of course not, duh. I just shifted some things around to hide them. I can get them back out easy."

"You will do no such thing," Weiss ordered. Ugh, the nerve of that dolt. Shaking her head to regain her decorum and switch topics, she offered, "You've already received my gift. And it seems you've been making good use out of it."

"I have been," Kassidy confirmed. She was about to speak some more when Nora leapt up and, with just as much energy as Ruby, dropped a box in Kassidy's hands. She repeated the same procedure as she did with Ruby's gift, while continuing, "Well, eager as ever, Nora. Though I must say I'm slightly scared it's a – hellooooo there." Letting the lid drop to the floor, Kassidy pulled out a new pair of boots… and a stuffed sloth.

"Well, I mean, the boots you usually wear are looking a bit ratty. Well, actually, a bunch of your older stuff is looking rather ratty, but I thought your boots would be the best way to go! And life just isn't life without a sloth!"

Kassidy laughed heartily, stopping only after a bit to wipe tears from her eyes. "Thank you, Nora. I would be concerned that you know my shoe size, but at this point I'm pretty sure that Bob is going to be the answer to any questions I have. Isn't that right, bud?"

"Probably."

Ren nodded after the computer interjected, and explained that dinner was his gift. Meanwhile, Jaune was busy digging through his bag, muttering, "C'mon, c'mon, I know I put it in here… a-ha! Here you are, Kass!" Finally pulling out a rather creatively wrapped gift – in that it looked like five different people used seven different papers at the same time – he handed it off to the birthday girl, who spent a solid minute trying to figure out where to start before eventually giving up and tearing at the paper like a barbarian.

"Fingerless gloves? Seems to be a fashion trend around here… and I'm definitely sensing a theme to your guys' gifts…" Kassidy held out the black leather and slipped the gloves on, using the buttons to secure it just under her wrist. "Oh, hang on, I kind of missed this other stuff."

"Yeah, turns out my sisters all caught on to the fact that I was buying them for a friend's birthday. And, of course, they insisted on getting you a card. Which, of course, led to –"

Jaune was interrupted by Kassidy laughing. And then she kept laughing. And then she laughed so hard she fell off of Yang's bed and landed in a heap right in front of Pyrrha. The source of her infinite amusement fell out of her hands, which turned out to be… a baby Jaune in a bunny onesie? OhmyOum that is so CUTE!

"What?! How did – I even checked for embarrassing pictures, how did this get in there?!" Jaune went to pick up the picture, but then got flattened under Yang, who had similarly fallen out of her bed from laughing too hard. Pyrrha simply stared at the picture, while Ruby leapt down from her bunk to get a better view. Nora was mercilessly teasing her team leader, while Ren simply rested his palm on his face.

It took a full ten minutes for those laughing to calm down, Pyrrha's and Ruby's nosebleeds to get attended to, and Jaune to cease being so flustered that he couldn't speak coherently. Kassidy read through the card that the picture had been inserted in, got a few more chuckles, then expressed her gratitude accordingly. Pyrrha ducked into the bathroom, and pulled out the largest box yet. Handing it up, she took a breath to compose herself while Kassidy was busy picking at the tape. "I guess you could say there was a bit of a theme to your gifts from us, Kassidy."

Kassidy's sudden gasp made Weiss tear her attention from Pyrrha, before Weiss let out her own gasp. In Kassidy's hands was a beautiful steel breastplate, painted a deep black and carefully jointed to allow a maximum of flexibility. When Kassidy turned it around, Weiss could see a symbol on the front of the chest: a black four-pointed star inside a dark blue circle. Such a masterfully crafted piece of armor had to have cost a pretty Lien. "Pyrrha, this is… I don't… I can't even words right now."

Pyrrha snickered at the language, then explained, "Your vest was looking like it was about to give up the ghost, as it were. My sponsors typically send me, sort of, gifts, every now and then. When the people who made my armor asked what I wanted, well… I'm happy with what I have, and I knew yours was about to fail, so…"

"Man, talk about Karma," Bob suddenly said. "You spend all your money on a bulletproof jacket for Yang, and then Pyrrha turns around and replaces your vest."

While Yang was busy telling a confounded JNPR about it, Weiss kept her attention on Kassidy, who was inspecting the armor with a critical eye and a gaping mouth. She was about to talk, before Yang suddenly thrust an even longer (if significantly shorter) box into Kassidy's hands. Setting aside the breastplate, Kassidy nervously got to work undoing Yang's wrapping. She gasped again when the paper came off, and oddly she'd begun crying. Everyone was about to ask what was wrong before she threw herself onto Yang in a great hug and started profusely giving her thanks.

Ruby caught the gift before it fell, letting Weiss and JNPR see what it was. Weiss arched an eyebrow in surprise, for it was Kassidy's rifle. A fine eye for detail instantly let her see that the damage the weapon suffered wasn't repaired fully – this weapon would never get fired again. But it looked otherwise perfectly normal on the plaque it was mounted on, the dark-stained wood and brass trim proudly framing the weapon it displayed.

A pair of thumps landed to her side, and Weiss looked to see that Yang and Kassidy had leapt to the floor, the latter only just now breaking off her hug. Sniffling and wiping her nose with the largest smile she's ever seen, Kassidy took the plaque back and got a finer look at her old weapon. She saw the brass plate on the bottom, and read the engravings: "The Greatest Rifle Ever Made, Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick." Kassidy started laughing, and turned to Yang to ask, "A Teddy quote, really? Looks like Ruby's not the only one that's been talking to Bob."

Yang laughed and tousled Kassidy's hair, which Weiss just noticed had been knocked free of its bun when she wasn't looking. "Yeah, that Theodore Roosevelt guy sounded like a badass from what I heard. Plus, it kinda applies to you, right? You tend to not talk so much in favor of hitting people really hard."

"That I do," Kassidy laughed. "That I do. It's just… wow. I don't even know what to say." Curiously, she began crying again. "You guys didn't need to do all of this for me."

"But we wanted to," Ruby argued. "You've been really nice to us, and since you haven't had a birthday in a while, we wanted this one to knock your socks off. Did… did it work?"

Kassidy looked at the floor, and then back to Ruby in a grin. "Nope, socks are still on." A couple people giggled, more groaned, and Kassidy added, "I just… I can't even… thank you. Thank you so much, guys."

"Not a problem, partner," Yang answered, pulling Kassidy into another hug. "Besides, the night's not over yet," she added with a wink. Kassidy wasn't the only one who blushed fiercely at the suggestive remark.

"I do believe what Yang is referring to," Bob said, "is that we can watch more of those Marvel movies we brought with us. I do believe Thor and Captain American are next on the plate? You know, since the Incredible Hulk was such a bad movie."

Kassidy laughed, and pulled her head out of Yang's shoulder. "Yeah, I hear ya. How about it, guys? Let's change into more comfortable stuff, and by the time we meet back here I should have the projector set up, alright?" A chorus of affirmatives was the reply, with Weiss' voice absent. She obviously had no desire to watch more of those blasted movies, but she had to remind herself that today wasn't about her. It was about her teammate. She was a Schnee; she could put up with this.

She could put up with Yang and Kassidy leaping into the top bunk and Yang instantly cuddling into her partner. She could put up with how annoying Nora was. She could put up with the male Nora on-screen bumbling through problem after idiotic problem. She could put up with JNPR as they bade their farewells. She was pretty sure she had put up through the whole day, and was about to get some much-needed sleep when she noticed Kassidy hadn't gotten out of Yang's bed. "Kassidy," Weiss hissed, "why aren't you down from there? Do NOT wake me up!"

"Uhh…" Kassidy began. Weiss huffed and stormed across the room to see what exactly the problem was, before biting her tongue at the quite legitimate problem Kassidy had. Yang was out like a light, getting her legs tangled in Kassidy's and her head resting on the taller blonde's chest and… is that drool? "I don't think I'm allowed to get up," Kassidy finished.

Ruby cooed to Weiss' side, who rolled her eyes and took another look at the situation. "So there's no way you can get down from there without waking me up, is there?"

Kassidy shrugged, before smiling cheekily and answering, "Well, I mean, I've gone to sleep in worse ways before. If I can sleep in a cave, I'm sure that, with enough effort, I can manage to sleep like this." And with that, Kassidy curled into her partner as well, and it didn't take long for them both to still be sleeping in what had to be a record on Kassidy's part.

Weiss closed her eyes was about to huff and grumble about how insufferable that half of the room had just become, before thinking better of it. Today wasn't about her, after all. Opening her eyes with a small smile, she said, "I'm sure of it. Happy birthday, Kassidy."

AN 2: Well, crap, it's half an hour after I was supposed to post the fic right now, and I still need to write reviewer responses. Yeah, once Spring Break is over we're definitely moving to once a week uploads. But for now, I'll cut this off here.

Coming up next: General Erection… or something. I hear he's hard like that.

AgentDraakis: Rule number one of dealing with Kassidy: don't mess with her food. Yeah, I wasn't terribly pleased with the scene cut in the series, though I suppose the introducing Sun/Neptune moment was beneficial. Also, CONGRATS ON BEING THE 300th REVIEW! For such an auspicious occasion, I bequeath… a boot to the head. And another for Jenny and the wimp.

AndJrew76: Well, busy weekend, no two ways about that. Glad to hear you liked last chapter so much. This one was a bit more rushed, but I think I still got it pretty good.

Firearm legume: Without getting into spoilers territory, that pistol isn't sticking around, and the mystery villain has never interacted with Kassidy before. The two have had exactly zero history together so far.

FloriteFlower: This was one of my favorite episodes as well. Glad you liked the last one so much, hopefully this one is up to snuff as well.

Matt Cyr: Last chapter, and this chapter too now that I think of it, basically involved me taking the existing story and going "how can I make this funnier?".

DIYEyal: You're bread to me.

mcd3424: You do get to be review #307, though. Glad to be back, though it's now apparent that between school, work, and other crap, twice a week uploads just aren't feasible anymore.

Myrillis: Glad to hear you're liking things so much! Can't wait to see what I have planned, too! Or how you guys react to it!