Old Dreams
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Chapter Four
Back On Board
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'Bug' was currently working in the testing room when Shade made his presence known.
"Hello Shade." Shade nodded to him.
"Thank you. How's work coming on that…bike?" Sammy shrugged.
"So far so good. Is sixteen back yet?" Shade shook his head 'no'. Sammy rolled himself out from under the motorcycle he was working on.
"They've been out there for over six hours." Shade looked at him oddly.
"Actually, they've only been out there for five hours, 56 minutes, and 43 seconds. 44 now." The other just shook his head.
"I'm not a computer Shade." Before either of them could say anything after that comment, the intercom went on and Shade disappeared.
"Group sixteen has returned. I repeat, group sixteen has returned…" Sammy shook his head.
"Took 'em long enough." He said as he rolled out from under them, and grabbing a rag, starting to clean the grease and oil from his hands.
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"We have to report to Shade now, Mouse. You know that. You can tell me what an idiot this Angel is when we get out, alright?" Ved told the girl who was jumping up and down happily. She nodded and turned around, going back to her rooms.
Ved looked into the room where Josie and Alan were still taking off their swords. "Chloe and I'll talk to Shade. Is there any reason you two think you should come too?" They both shook their heads. Ved turned around and shrugged at Chloe. "Let's go."
As they began to walk down the hall to Shade's 'office', Ved couldn't help but feel as though Chloe was angry at him. He turned to look at her and saw her just staring at the wall.
"You okay?" He asked her. She looked at him for a moment before shrugging.
"I'm fine." Ved looked at her more closely.
"No, you're not. What's wrong?" Chloe began to suck her bottom lip into her mouth. Ved watched it for a while. When he heard a snort, he looked up at the girl guiltily.
"Sorry." She shrugged. "Did you say something while I was umm…not paying attention?" She was quiet and nodded yes. "Well?" She sighed sadly.
"I'm just jealous." He was just at the beginning and already getting confused.
"What? Of who?" She shrugged again, before glaring at him angrily. What did I do now? He thought to himself.
"I'm jealous of you, idiot." He was getting even more confused than before.
"Me? Why?" She looked downwards sadly before stopping so they could talk a little longer.
"Because…of the way Mouse talks to you. Why doesn't she talk to me like that?" She went silent for a moment, looking at the floor sadly, but then brought a glare up to meet him. "If you let Mouse know this in anyway, or do something that'll embarrass me, or you're going to try and 'help me out' I will kick your ass, is that understood?" Ved just nodded his head and the two started walking again, down to Shade's office.
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Chloe walked down the hall and to her room. She heard giggling from a group of girls at the end of the other end of the hall and shook her head. It wasn't the first time that something like this happened, and she doubted it would be the last.
Whenever #16, or as it's more commonly known and put into the computer as 'Ved''s group, came back, a group of girls would come and try to flirt with him - get into his bed. Personally, it made her sick to her stomach but she smiled, knowing Ved wouldn't take the offers - he never has. To bad we can't take each other's. Chloe thought to herself, after yelling at the girl's to get into their rooms, and to stop hogging the hallway.
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Ved toweled his hair dry, walking around in just a pair of jeans, and a toothbrush sticking out of his mouth. He threw the towel onto the floor, not really caring where it landed, and continued to brush his teeth. He heard some knocking on the door and groaned.
"I told you to go away!" He heard a small 'humph' on the other side of the door.
"No you didn't!" He rolled his eyes as he walked over to the door.
"How'd you get into here, isn't this hall restricted to field workers?" Mouse looked up to him confused.
"You work in a field?" He shook his head, went into his bathroom, spit the toothpaste out, did the rest of that stuff, then came back in and sat down beside her on the bed.
"You know what I mean. Don't try to change the subject, how'd you get in here?" Mouse grinned up at him innocently.
"You know Angel?" He thought for a moment, recognizing the name slightly, though technically it wasn't that hard to do.
"It rings a bell but then in a place like this, every name does." Mouse nodded in understanding.
"Well, Angel is in your training program right now. She just started so you might not be teaching her yet." He thought for a moment and began to nod.
"She's probably in the computer part right now. She'll be learning with me in about…a week or so. Why? What's so evil abut the angel?" Mouse snorted.
"Trust me, she's no angel. She came into the game room today and-" Ved stopped Mouse's talking for a moment, suddenly remembering something?
"Is this the girl you kept yelling at for the last few months? The one you wouldn't talk to me and Chloe about? Because it seems that from the way you're talking, this has been going on for a while." Mouse nodded.
"Can I get back to my story now?" Ved nodded.
"Yes, your highness."
"You better believe it, now, Angel came into the game room today and about half of the TV's weren't being used, but she still came over and tried to-" A knock on the door.
"Come in Chloe." The girl walked in, carrying the suit they had to wear nearly all the time here - white shirt with green overalls.
"Laundry people just got done cleaning these…what are you and Mouse talking about?" Chloe asked, trying not to look interested as she began to hang the clothes up. She let down a sound of disgust when she saw the closet. "Hang your stuff up, Ved! That's why hangers were invented!" She told him angrily. Ved watched her movements carefully as she reached down to grab the clothes and bring them back up, watching the way her body moved and how softly she picked up the discarded clothes… He shook his head, looking at something else in the room, suddenly feeling very hot. When she was done with that she noticed the towel on the floor and turned to glare at him.
All he did was shrug.
She bent down to pick it up then, and hung it on a hanger in the closet, away from the dry clothes, so he could use it again. She then sat down next to Ved, Mouse looking impatient.
"You ready now?" The two nodded, but Chloe stopped her before she could talk.
"I didn't make the mess, blame Ved." Ved glared at her and was about to defend himself when Mouse stomped her foot.
"Don't even think about it people!" and with that, the youngest in the room began to talk again.
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