Taking flight

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

After that scare of thinking Nura was in the pods when she'd actually been running mazes for GLaDoS, Devlin was glad to have some time to spend with his surrogate mom/grandmother/whatever.

Devlin, clingy?

...Yeah, that pretty much cut to the heart of it.

"So, anything you wanted to do?" he asked. "Or any place we're going?"

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[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura shook her head, giggling. "No. No. The real scary thought is Querl's face when he finds out my plans!" She looked quite pleased with herself.

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

Devlin laughed harder, a mischievous look on his face. "Good point. But what he doesn't know can't hurt him...yet."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Ohhhh, you'd think so!" She giggled. "Querl doesn't take surprises that well. And if he knew about the virus outbreak in the City a while ago, he'd be against it all together." She shrugged her shoulders. "And Ben and I have already cleaned away most of the rubble and fixed the doors and windows."

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

Devlin managed not to flinch at the memory of the virus. He'd learned to stop kicking himself over it, once he'd accepted that he was too sick to control himself, but it wasn't a happy memory at all.

"Yeah," he said. "So he'd never know, right?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"As long as no one brings it up before it's too late for him to say 'no'." She'd been sneaking around quite a bit, lately. Which wasn't all that hard, since Querl was usually somewhere else on science or engineering business, and didn't as many questions about her day, other then how it had been. "We still have to ask Ed to help with the construction of furniture."

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

"Your secret's safe with me," Devlin promised. "Anything I can do to help?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Not really...unless you want to help me paint a few days from now? We'll have all of the rubble cleared away by then, and repaired all the windows and doors and remaining furniture, by then."

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Devlin agreed. Painting was actually kind of fun, as long as he didn't have to do it all over again for some reason. Plus it meant he could bring his hoverboard to try to get the higher parts of the wall done.

In his defense, it was safer than a stepladder.