Short but sweet.
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The sun still had yet to rise when Morgan's alarm clock went off. She sat up in bed and looked around her dark bedroom.
"FRIDAY?" She whispered.
"Yes Miss Morgan?" The A.I responded in a similarly hushed tone.
"Are Papa and Evie still sleeping?"
"Evie is still asleep. You parents are both out of town on work. They are due to return early this evening."
Morgan nodded solemnly and slipped out of bed. She tugged on a pair of hedgehog slippers and tiptoed over to her closet to retrieve a shoebox.
Morgan and her shoebox quietly opened her bedroom door and snuck down the hall into the main living space. She moved to press the elevator button but froze and headed instead towards a spiral staircase by the balcony. She crept down the staircase into her father laboratory.
"Miss Morgan. You are not supposed to be in your father's lab without him."
"I have to do an experiment FRIDAY. For science. Please." Morgan's plea of "for science" is what typically allowed the children to sneak around FRIDAY.
"Very well." There was what appeared to be a smile in the A.I's voice.
The door opened with a click and Morgan tiptoed into the room. She headed over towards the test chamber where Dum- E and U whirred to life.
"Dum- E? Can you check the solder on this programming chip?" Morgan opened her box revealing a harddrive and small robot.
Dum-E carefully lifted the harddrive out of the box and carried it over the the work bench.
FRIDAY's blue lights scanned the hardware and Dum- E whirred happily at her approval before retrieving the robot and installing the drive.
"Awesome! Bring me the welder so I can test it please?"
"Miss Morgan you cannot use the welders." FRIDAY was firm.
"I need to seal the chip in so I can do a test. Please!"
"No. Your father forbids it."
"Ugh" Morgan moaned dramatically, and grabbed a roll of electrical tape and covered the seams. "We can just test it without sealing the drive in then."
Dum- E carried the robot into the testing chamber and switched it on before exiting.
"Beauty?" Morgan spoke into the chamber's microphone.
The robot lit up and rolled in a circle.
"Beauty. Can you roll six inches to your left?"
The robot complied as Morgan waited with baited breath.
"Beauty can you find the door?"
Beauty, the robot, rolled to a stop an inch from the door. As it had neared the door smoke had begun to appear from the back two tires and when it whirred to its stop, burst into flames.
"FRIDAY!" Morgan shrieked.
The vents in the testing chamber roared to life and foam fell onto the robot smothering the flames.
"Dum- E? Can you get her?" Morgan asked softly.
Dum- E retrieved the small bot and placed it on the work bench once again, Morgan donned a pair of large work gloves and brushed aside the foam. The electrical tape had melted all over the panel covering, and when she pulled the gooey mess aside to reveal her harddrive she saw that the plastic had leaked onto the wiring.
"This is all your fault FRIDAY!" Morgan snapped, then froze hearing a noise above her. "Is Evie awake?"
"She appears to be getting into the shower."
"Fudge." Morgan scowled. She glanced at her robot, still too hot to touch. "Dum- E can you put Beauty away when she cools down?"
Dum- E nodded as Morgan dashed up the stairs.
