---Part three: Dark Angels and their crazy friends ---
September-October 2005
...Maestro just got back from vacation in New Zealand to relax & try to overcome his writer's block by seeking out & meditating in the places where Lord of the Rings was filmed...
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--Christina has written a Dark Angel story called 'Special DNA' it's here on f f dot net – read it! It's really good! Karla is complaining about feeling icky, & intends to take the next day off work to convalesce. Which will include reading Christina's story. --
Christina
If you are stuck in bed tomorrow...you can always snuggle up with the therapy fish and a good piece of DA fiction!
Karla
yay! My thoughts exactly. Fishy... want fishy now...
And when I come up for air I can ready your story... yay...
gee, being off tomorrow is sounding better & better... :-p
What time you want me to come by? I'm game for watching DA or discussing life, the universe, & everything, trying to make your dog talk, whatever... :-p
Christina
7. and since my dog's not much of a conversationalist, we shall hide in my room from the horrors of the world (what I usually do) and get our fill of 2019!
Karla
That's hilarious.
Word - 7 it be.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... Oh, wait, still got 31 minutes...
(Maestro walks by & splashes K with water to give her a good old-fashioned Navy barracks wake-up)
Christina
Oh hey...look who's back!
Karla
Yeah. And he says we're slackers.
And he can kick Zack's a any day. :-p
(dodges C's swinging arm)
Christina
Oh see NOW you're giving options of Maestro or Zack. In that case I go with Maestro. Just something about a lullably putting me to sleep, it's just so...soo...sooo... cannot think of a word to describe it
Karla
Yup. I'd choose Maestro over Logan. :-p
(Logan & Zack sit in corner together giving Maestro jealous looks; Max's keen cat senses pick up on the growing tension in the room & walks in to distract them while K & C get reacquainted with their muse.)
Christina
I dunno, but I think Maxie might be attracted to Maestro ...'course she might consider him a Nomlie...LOL (unless she's in heat)
Karla
hee hee! That's funny!
(K shouts:) Hey, Max, boo! You've got yourself two fine men over there, you don't need to increase your harem! We saw him first.
(Max considers for a moment; then gives a haughty shrug) 'Whatever', she says nonchalantly. (She then turns back to Logan & Zack, who are busy looking scandalized.)
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-- The next day... --
Karla
I'm tweaking the Basement right now... here's what we did on Monday.
Christina
hmmmm our one reader will certainly be surprised!
Karla
There's two, actually - three reviews, 2 people. Yeah, we'll do it for her. ;-p I'll hold on to it for now though. It's only one page; that's cheezy (I only uploaded 'wenchmuffin' as is because I didn't think we'd go at it again...)
Christina
Maestro's upset that he doesn't inspire us as much as he used to...
Karla
Awww... (must think of something soothing to say...)
(K walks over to Maestro & gives him a snuggly from behind, reassuring him it's all good)
K: We were just in a seasonal funk & less hopped up on legal drink stimulants, that's all!
(Maestro looks less glum, & mumbles something about that back rub I gave him a few months ago...)
K: Roight! Just have a seat in my office chair...
(Maestro grins victoriously & gracefully plants himself down for a lunch hour worth of soothing decompression.)
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-- A few crazy days later... --
Christina
Guess what!
"what?"
guess!
"ummm..."
oh forget it, you'd never guess in a million years...
"hey!"
hahah sorry...oh...I have a date.
"a date?"
yes. on sunday. he's taking me to lunch.
"you go girl!"
(smiles)
Karla
WOW! GO CHRISTINA! Who's the lucky man? Yay Christina:)
Maestro, Max, Logan, & Zack pipe up: 'Go Christina!'
My hand hurts again... it's all achy. wa. I'm very whiny today... I need more coffee.
Christina
'The gang' says not to cry.
"Whatever you do, don't ask Manticore for help." Zack and Max speak up, while Logan nodds.
"Hey Max, it's your deal!" I wave my arms frantically from my seat at the card table. Zack slaps my hand when I try to peek at his cards.
Maestro calmly walks over to K and grabs her injured arm and begins rubbing it softly. "Is this better?"
"Coffee makes me feel almost human." Max mumbles and chooses a card from the stack. It's old maid and she frowns.
Logan, with the help of the exoskeleton, jumps up, "HA, Maxie got Old maid...she loses." And thusly, she slugs him (not hard though) and he falls over. Zack laughs at him.
Karla
Thanks, Maestro. ;-)
(K starts purring)
Dude, & it got weirder over here too... it's been a whack-a afternoon... If I didn't know for a fact the full moon was a few days ago, I'd say that must be it... It must be all this crazy tsunami / hurricane / glacial melt crap that's going on around the globe... it must have a similar effect to the full moon tidal mental equilibrium whacker...
'Mental equilibrium whacker? Is that something Manticore patented?' Zack pipes in, looking bewildered but concerned.
'No, it's something you've been hit with too many times,' K responds, helping Logan to his feet.
Christina
"How weird has it been?" Logan asks, while greatful for the aid to get back standing. "Eyes Only migh wanna check into that."
"Hey Miracle Boy, you don't need to do that, we all know you're Eyes Only." I replied and lightly slapped the back of his head.
"Maybe Manticore brainwashed them!" Max chimes in. "They did it to Brin, so it's possible." She shrugs, throwing the Old Maid card onto the table, like its diseased or something.
Karla
Dude, Logan, haven't you been watching the news? Now I know you don't get out much these days, but still... You can practically feel it in the air...
(Maestro stops mid-deal, looks around nervously...)
I swear I had nothing to do with it... (looks around nervously again)
Dude, where did you get this guy? He's really creepy... I like him, Zack proclaims.
Get away from me, you silly boy... you look like Raoul. (Maestro scoots away from Zack, accidentally brushing up against Max.)
'You know, for a Nomlie, honey, you're actually kind of sexy...', she purrs.
K & C jump up simultaneously: 'Don't even think it, girlie! You may be stronger than us, but we're bigger than you! We'll sit on you!'
Christina
"Uh oh." (C eyes Max suspiciously)
"If she's in what I think she's in...then I prefer to steer clear of her. Sorry Maestro, you're on your own."
Karla
(Maestro looks at Max nervously) 'Um, should I be worried...?'
'So, cellar dweller, how's your stamina?' (Max wiggles her eyebrows suggestively)
'I beg your pardon, mademoiselle, but I am in excellent shape for my age --' Maestro stops, eyes get big as realization dawns on him. 'Oh - uh oh... Um - wait! I'm monogamous! Well, eh...' (looks at C & K) 'bi-nogamous?'
(Max is staring intently, like Ayesha eyeing fresh fish.)
(Suddenly a burst of red smoke goes off, & Maestro disappears.)
'Crap! I hate it when he does that! It messes up my stylishly mussed hair!' Zack exclaims.
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