"But... but if I miss curfew I'll get in trouble!" She protested, pouting as the door remained stubbornly locked. Huffing a soda-scented puff of steam, she turned to talk to the other in the room, only stopping when she saw a rather familiar mop of curly hair, plating, and blue optics.
Well. This was certainly new.
"...I... I didn't know I had a twin brother." She whispered, hands clasped uncertainly against her chest as she crept closer, the koi in her void swishing his tail uncertainly.
"... I didn't think I had a twin sister," he replied, cocking his head to one side. "I'm pretty sure I'd remember having one. I mean, I forget lots of stuff sometimes, but usually not people. 'Specially not family members."
He squinted at his female double, optics brightening in sudden suspicion. "... You're real, right? I'm not seeing things? You don't look like the pink elephants from last week, but sometimes when things are bad, it's harder to tell the real things from everything else."
She got closer, and shifted to plunk down on her knees to peer more closely at her double.
"Yeah... I wouldn't forget something like a brother, not when all my other siblings are sisters..." She pursed her lips in a pout, brow drawing slightly as she considered the problem, promptly raising again at his question.
"Of course I'm real! I can even-" She drew a hand over to put one fingertip against his nose before snatching it back with a startled squeak and falling back onto her rear with a thunk.
He jerked back as well, knocking his head against the wall with a matching clank.
"You're really real! Where'd you come from? I don't remember anyone building you, and Peter Six didn't say he was gonna make any new 'bots! What's your name? Oh, wait! Wait, I bet I can guess! You look like me, soooo... are you The Joan? The Jess? The Jenny? No, Jenny was the toaster..."
"That's me, I'm The Jon, and Rabbit and The Spine are my brothers!" The Jon had uncurled himself, and was sitting up on his knees, leaning forward to stare at his strange new twin. "Is everybody a girl where you're from?" A beat. "... Where are you from, anyway? San Diego? Or is it Ogeid Nas...?"
He was slowly veering away from the secret twin theory, and into something approaching a 'crazy alternate universe' theory. They'd get there eventually!
Well at least he wasn't quite so upset looking for the moment. The colors were there still, but for the moment curiosity was holding center stage.
"Rabbit and The Spine are my sisters! And we're from San Diego!" She let out a soft thoughtful 'hum', considering the puzzle.
"I dunno if we're twins... there's too much different. But there's too much alike for us not to be family somehow!" And really to her, that was the important part.
The curiousity was a welcome distraction, however long it lasted!
"Jeez, I wonder what they'd look like as girls..." The Jon mused, letting a wisp of steam escape from the side of his mouth. "You're right, though. We can be brother and sister, or cousins twice removed on our uncle's side. We're something, anyway."
... And that meant that his sister-cousin-somethingorother was trapped in the same place he was. The Jon's mood fell the instant this occurred to him, the colours around him losing saturation and warping into a deep, anxious blue. "... We're both gonna miss curfew."
"Well... I think The Spine and Rabbit won't get too mad at us... this time anyways, cause it's not our faults!" She tried to reassure her counterpart, little wisps of a comforting sort of lavender streaking through her own anxious swirl. "I mean, we told em about curfew and these meanies won't listen."
"Y-yeah... but..." He glanced away and the blue darkened even further, swirling around his head in a thickening cloud as thoughts that he really, really didn't want to think about began to rise to the surface. "I dunno when they're gonna let us go. We might miss more than one curfew, if they keep poking at us."
The Jon's gaze flicked up towards his double again, and he bit his lip uncertainly, trying to think of the right way to phrase the question. "Did you just... just get here? Did the guys in the labcoat already look at you and try to poke around in the void?"
The girl bot just sat with an unhappy puff of steam, glancing back at the door uncertainly.
"I... I got here and they made me let them look at it but they didn't touch it or anything... just brought me in here." She replied softly, that worry in her counterpart just feeding into hers.
"... I dunno," he finally mumbled, beginning to curl back in on himself. "I was in here for a while, and then I was out there," A brief wave towards the door, indicating the rest of the building, "... And then I was in here again. I think... I think I might've already missed one or two curfews. I was in stasis for a while though, so I kinda lost track of time. Without any clocks or windows, it's hard to tell."
"That long?" The female bot whispered, optics wide as she glanced back at the door again before nudging herself right on in to cling to the other bot, koi flicking nervously about in her void.
"Maybe? I dunno, I'm not very good at keeping track of time even when somebody gives me a watch." Not that that happened very often, considering The Jon's track record. That clinging hug came as a surprise, but he instantly returned it, looping his skinny arms around her and letting out a steamy sigh.
"... We'll get out, though. Either they'll get bored, or somebody will almost fall in again, or the others will come get us."
"Who do you think'll show up first? Mine, or yours?" A brief pause, as he considered this strange mental image. "... Or maybe both of 'em at the same time, then they'd get to see themselves as ladies!"
"Marshmallow could be the dog!" he cried, finally brightening up. The very mention of Scooby Doo made him grin, the first genuine smile in what felt like ages. "Only he'd be about ten times the size of the one in the show. Hey, maybe there'd be two Marshmallows, we could ride 'em outta here!"
"That'd be awesome! All the scientists would run away when they saw Marshmallows!" It really did make her feel a bit better to make her twin smile, especially with how unhappy he seemed in this awful place.
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Date: 2013-07-07 01:59 am (UTC)Well. This was certainly new.
"...I... I didn't know I had a twin brother." She whispered, hands clasped uncertainly against her chest as she crept closer, the koi in her void swishing his tail uncertainly.
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Date: 2013-07-07 02:12 am (UTC)He squinted at his female double, optics brightening in sudden suspicion. "... You're real, right? I'm not seeing things? You don't look like the pink elephants from last week, but sometimes when things are bad, it's harder to tell the real things from everything else."
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Date: 2013-07-07 02:18 am (UTC)"Yeah... I wouldn't forget something like a brother, not when all my other siblings are sisters..." She pursed her lips in a pout, brow drawing slightly as she considered the problem, promptly raising again at his question.
"Of course I'm real! I can even-" She drew a hand over to put one fingertip against his nose before snatching it back with a startled squeak and falling back onto her rear with a thunk.
"You're real too!"
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Date: 2013-07-07 02:32 am (UTC)"You're really real! Where'd you come from? I don't remember anyone building you, and Peter Six didn't say he was gonna make any new 'bots! What's your name? Oh, wait! Wait, I bet I can guess! You look like me, soooo... are you The Joan? The Jess? The Jenny? No, Jenny was the toaster..."
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Date: 2013-07-07 02:41 am (UTC)"Nu-uh! I'm The Jon!" She replied, studying the male bot curiously. "I got made after Rabbit and The Spine! What about you?"
She was still going on the 'secret twin' theory at the moment, give it a little and the other ideas might come to her.
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Date: 2013-07-07 03:01 am (UTC)He was slowly veering away from the secret twin theory, and into something approaching a 'crazy alternate universe' theory. They'd get there eventually!
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Date: 2013-07-07 03:04 am (UTC)"Rabbit and The Spine are my sisters! And we're from San Diego!" She let out a soft thoughtful 'hum', considering the puzzle.
"I dunno if we're twins... there's too much different. But there's too much alike for us not to be family somehow!" And really to her, that was the important part.
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Date: 2013-07-07 03:15 am (UTC)"Jeez, I wonder what they'd look like as girls..." The Jon mused, letting a wisp of steam escape from the side of his mouth. "You're right, though. We can be brother and sister, or cousins twice removed on our uncle's side. We're something, anyway."
... And that meant that his sister-cousin-somethingorother was trapped in the same place he was. The Jon's mood fell the instant this occurred to him, the colours around him losing saturation and warping into a deep, anxious blue. "... We're both gonna miss curfew."
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Date: 2013-07-07 03:24 am (UTC)"Well... I think The Spine and Rabbit won't get too mad at us... this time anyways, cause it's not our faults!" She tried to reassure her counterpart, little wisps of a comforting sort of lavender streaking through her own anxious swirl. "I mean, we told em about curfew and these meanies won't listen."
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Date: 2013-07-09 04:02 am (UTC)The Jon's gaze flicked up towards his double again, and he bit his lip uncertainly, trying to think of the right way to phrase the question. "Did you just... just get here? Did the guys in the labcoat already look at you and try to poke around in the void?"
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Date: 2013-07-09 04:09 am (UTC)"I... I got here and they made me let them look at it but they didn't touch it or anything... just brought me in here." She replied softly, that worry in her counterpart just feeding into hers.
"...How long have you been in here?"
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Date: 2013-07-12 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-12 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-12 02:04 am (UTC)"... We'll get out, though. Either they'll get bored, or somebody will almost fall in again, or the others will come get us."
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Date: 2013-07-12 02:07 am (UTC)She hugged who she wanted. And besides, this was technically her, just as a boy right? Almost like having a brother!
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Date: 2013-07-12 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-12 02:27 am (UTC)Welp, it could happen.
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Date: 2013-07-12 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
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