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Last night was...

...last night was just what Mel needed to work out some of her issues right now :-D?

Since coming back, she's been doing rounds of the farm with a determined eye, making lists of things that need doing, doing some of the more urgent things; maybe she's spoken to you about what you need to do, but it's possible she hasn't yet caught upon all the gossip.

Now, as Hana and Loo play together in the grass, she's sitting and staring comtemplatively at a car that once flew. Funny how, even though one may have a genius mechanic for a brother and live with still more, there are some things for which help still cannot be asked for.

Mel wants to make it work again, and she's not sure where to start.

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"Yeah it did,"Mel confirms

Oh wait...

"...Sokka ahsn't used it, has he?"

"Yeah, we share." Steph smirks at her. "I won't tell him. ... probably."

There's something extra icky about Dean and Sokka sharing a towel. Especially after - and with Sokka after -
Ew.

"Just don't tell him where I can't see his face."

Steph's going to wash it. Twice. 'Cos yeah.

"Deal," she promises, giggling. "He'll spaz out and do that waving-his-arms thing, it'll be awesome."

SHE LOVES HIM REALLY.

"Oh!" Mel adds, "can you see if Babs can film the moment when he gives the Brother Talk to Dean?"

"He's giving the Brother Talk to Dean? Oh, I am so going to be there. With a camera. Or three. I'll be really sneaky!"

Neil grins.

"Someday I'll figure out how everyone knows that. Yeah. I'm Neil; I came with the robot."

It's more or less accurate, and the robot is certainly distinctive.

"Please," Mel says. "He'll never do it whileI'm watching."

"I try to know everyone," Mel says, offering a hand from where she sits. "I'm Mel. The kids are Loo and Hana. Nice robot."

"Mel, huh?"

He leans down and shakes her hand. (He's wearing gloves. It's a thing.)

"Nice to meet you. And thanks. It's usually a lot less beat-up."

"So're most things around here," Mel says, nodding at her car. "You sticking around here for a spell?"

"Planning to. At least until Dynames" (he jerks his head at the robot) "is repaired; probably longer than that. If you can think of a way for me to make myself useful while I'm here, do let me know."

Mel grins widely.

"I'm the one to ask for that," she says brightly. "What can you do?"

"Nothing I'd expect to be useful around a farm unless you're under siege. When Dynames is up and running again-- well, if you guys need any heavy lifting done, a mobile suit is usually good for that. Not much a sixty-foot-tall robot can't pick up."

"There's farmwork," Mel says. "Anyone can pull weeds and clean a room. You any good with tech?"

"Depends on the tech, but I'm a pretty quick study."

"Then check with the engineers if they've got anything needs help with," Mel says, with a nod towards the aircraft hangar.

"If not, I've got lots of chorse around the farm need doing. And if you can think of a way of getting this boy in the air, let me know."

"Will do." He smiles. "What, your car? I'm no mechanic, but what's it need?"

"Fuel," Mel says, irritable. "It's about three hundred years misplaced, and there's not exactly a rocketfuel station on every corner. I'm gonna hafta convert it to something we've got.

"And I'm not a mechanic."

"Huh," says Neil. "What a coincidence. Steve just did pretty much the same thing for my car a week ago."

He nods at a very streamlined black vehicle a few spots over.

"It's from the early 2100s. Electric. He converted it to run on energon, which is apparently something you guys have got lying around all over the place."

Excuse Mel while she facepalms.

"Thought the 'bots who used that had long gone. I'll hassle Steve, thanks."

"I haven't seen any bots, but I've seen Steve synthesize the stuff. You're welcome."

"So you're from the twenty-second cen?" Mel asks, following that train. "Closest to me I've met."

"Twenty-fourth. 2307, to be exact. The car dropped into my lap the day I got here. You?"

"2292."

Mel's marginally disappointed she's been out-futured.

"Me and and the car both, but I haven't been there for three years."

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