BlackStone Manor
You stop and kiss his lips and he grins you know he is gonna get the third degree from New papa here about that

"I have to tease him I have not seen him in forever and if I don't he cries."

He looks at Xavier

"Come on old man she said there is coffee."

He begins to laugh

BlackStone Manor
She caught sight of you heading towards them and her eyes lit up, it had been to long since she saw you and she had missed you

"Rusche.....You look good."

She returned that hug with one arm as Braiden looked up at you cooing

"This little bundle of joy would be Braiden Jaques Micheal RuneStone. She chuckled as you scooped him up from her arms, and whispered words and she can not help but think and the spoiling begins.

Whatever you said to him along with that kiss has his little hands pumping.

She looks to you then the other man

"Waiting for that one to stop confusing us cause well like Xavier said he is old and I am blondish, and thinking like that hurts my head."

Xavier RuneStone

She chuckles softly turning to Xavier

"Come on baby lets go explore our new home. You can bring your little friend as well."

That tease back in her tone

I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

what the hell I want a hovercraft full of eels!

talks more, blushing as they try to talk me out of my skirt and panties too, resisting for the moment

Life getting interesting right before I move across the country.

My hovercraft was full of eels.

That's a banner week if I've ever heard one

Damn and how did Tuesday go?

I think I survived the week's attempt to beat me, lol. Had some work drama, some personal drama, a random hook up, and a graduation all rolled up.

Did you beat the week to submission? How much was the bounty?

"I should not have reacted at all but it hurt my heart for Jody and the rooms creator. I'm not currently blocked and even if it ends up that I am later I'm just done with that drama. I'm going to focus on my play which is far more worth my time. I'm sorry others are being blocked."

BlackStone Manor
She took Braiden from you as you handed him to her, looking up to you as she shared that silent exchange with you enjoying the playful banter. This man must be more than just an employee to you by the way you two are talking. She could not help a chuckle at Braiden's reaction as he added his two cents worth.

A look of total confusion at your words

"Ohhh baby left, right, up, down it is all so confusing to me. You are old and I am blond...well blondish and easily confused."

She shrugged her shoulders

"Well hell I did not even know that."

She looked up at you as you see baby shadow as well

"He is pretty sneaky gotta watch that one, you must have made him from one of your mischievous shadows, and it is baby shadow not baby crap."

But she heard the fondness in your tone for that little one and your son will be happy, cause he adores that little cutey as well

"

giggles some and drinks more and talks more with the waitress

That's the rumor.

YO is that the legend himself?!?!?

NCPD
Hopefully the first-person view of her work, transmitted through the signal nodes, wasn't turning your stomach.

Then again since you were safely performing your Datamancy from the other building, maybe if you abruptly lost your lunch (spicy synth-tuna rolls, right?) it wouldn't be so disastrous.

That, and the sticky camera-bot escorting her provided external views of her work within the shaft as well, a rolling ball that progressed around the area in image-adjusted near-blackness split by the faint luminance of her fingers, toes, and irises, all of which then vanished under the slow roll of the thermoptical sheath that enveloped her once again.

"Copy…" IRIDIA hung by the gap that you pointed out, using your camera access in order to find a moment that there were no individuals in the hallway to witness the opening of the door. Cameras witnessing the action couldn't be helped. Between this and Toadman napping on the roof, these were a few unavoidable eggs that needed to be cracked.

Cleaning crew, their path outlined by you as they had been through the hallway she emerged from, finding the most sturdy and noiseless platform to hoist herself up the ceiling panel and begin toeing around the thin grid of structure separating the ceiling crawlspace from the office below.

A quick swap of optic channels gave her a look at the heatmap of electical and data activity but also the literal heatmap of the steam lines she needed to avoid, lowering to toes and fingertips to spider herself over the office.

Her claws re-emerged, hooking up the ceiling panel and sliding it aside as she poised around the structural grid like an aerialist, dipping upside-down anchored by her toes before performing a gentle half-moon flip to the floor. Empty, just like you said.

"Missed opportunity for us to have reached out for secondary bounties while we're here, doncha think? Imagine the kinds of jobs that woulda flushed our way if we implied we were gonna infiltrate NCPD and penetrate all the way into MaxTac's data storage… guess there's no way to advertise the opportunity without absolutely flagging ourselves, though…" the shimmering outline of a girl was interrupted by the rectangular darkness of her forearm opening up, pulling from it an access shard to plug you directly into the lab. Only way to get into the airgapped NCPD intra-net, after all.

"…oh yeah, I can see you in jewel tones, like a deep Merlot."

It came after what you offered back about her existential riddle, like her failure to answer the somber, earnest topic was a reflection of her uneasiness… an unwillingness to accept what might be just a new form of mortality unlocked by technology.

"…for what it's worth, I appreciate that sentiment today. The hypothetical me of the future might not, but who cares about her she's probably a bitch."

Damn typos lol

I did, lol.

maybe too drunk to resist, maybe there was something else in my drink, but was talked into thaking off my top, handing it to the waitress as a tip