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<\/a> Meagan has been gone for some time now, and I thought she’d been let go. \u00a0Today she walked in without lab coat or proper ID, and began playing with the equipment. \u00a0I guess she was transferred to another lab, but still I had no clue what she was doing here.<\/p>\n“Hey! \u00a0What’s up, Georgia?”<\/p>\n At the end of the day, she had broken two pieces of equipment and the computer, then left without a word. Back to her planet, or mothership, or whichever hole she hides in. \u00a0Just so long as she’s gone. \u00a0I need to get out.<\/p>\n Everyone was down at the ruins for a Friday night bash, and she told me I totally needed to be there. \u00a0I totally agreed, and took off.<\/p>\n chapter 18 …<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lab of Confusion Sometimes I just don’t understand what happens around here. \u00a0We’re theoretically a scientific research centre, but we have a spaceship under construction (apparently only by me, as it turns out), and are frequently contacted by aliens. \u00a0I’ve been tasked with building a mind-controlling ray gun, and drinks that will make you feel … Continue reading “Jeanette, Chapter 17”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[18,23,19,17],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ross","category-jeanette","tag-aliens","tag-dance-party","tag-disco","tag-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> Just don’t freakin’ break anything, Meagan.<\/p>\n<\/a> Another surprise visitor was Georgia, messing with the analytical gear. \u00a0She certainly knew what she was doing, and management didn’t seem concerned with her actions.<\/p>\n<\/a>“Oh! \u00a0It’s you! \u00a0What are you… Hi Jeanette!”<\/p>\n<\/a>I missed her. I hadn’t seen her since … hey! \u00a0Wait! \u00a0Georgia is an alien in disguise! \u00a0Does this mean we’re working closely with the aliens now? Does anyone else know she’s not human?<\/p>\n Oh jeez! \u00a0What about Meagan!? \u00a0Does that explain her actions and disappearance all this time? \u00a0She’s actually an … of course she is, why didn’t I see that before. \u00a0I bet I can get answers from her somehow.<\/p>\n<\/a> Just a quick blast from my trusty Steve…<\/p>\n<\/a> Oh crap, wrong setting. \u00a0Did Meagan always have a full arm tattoo? \u00a0How had I not noticed that previously?<\/p>\n<\/a>She wasn’t impressed with my meddling, and began getting angry. She threatened to have me fired, I threatened to expose her secret, she claimed she didn’t have one, I hit her again with the simray….<\/p>\n<\/a> Things may have got out out of control.<\/p>\n<\/a> But at least she wasn’t yelling.<\/p>\n<\/a> Oh fine, okay…. I’ll get her out of there. \u00a0The boss wasn’t impressed either.<\/p>\n<\/a>Just a little more, maybe one good one right… oh! \u00a0Right; I should do this with eyes open. \u00a0Her time on ice had cooled her temper some, and I did still have some work to do, so I left her to warm up. \u00a0Maybe now she’ll leave, or at least behave herself.<\/p>\n Goddamnit Meagan!<\/p>\nI thought the manager was going to chew her out, but instead he complimented her skin tone, and praised her work ethic. \u00a0I thought I was going to barf.<\/p>\n<\/a> I went home to change, and took a cab down to the local disco. \u00a0Some dancing and flirting was exactly what I needed. \u00a0Or, wanted, anyway.<\/p>\n But the place was fairly dead. A couple of the usual group, but not the crowd I was expecting. \u00a0Nobody new.<\/p>\n I was about an hour before anyone else showed up, but even then it wasn’t the throng I’d expected, and none of my friends were anywhere to be seen. \u00a0But that’s right about when Caitlyn called.<\/p>\nSome of the group at the disco heard as well, and by the time I arrived and met Caitlyn, the place was filling up.<\/p>\n However, it was already getting late, and I hadn’t eaten anything. \u00a0I knew just what would help me out here, and downed a dose of something we’d been working on. \u00a0It would keep me going for the rest of the night.<\/p>\n<\/a> And go we did! \u00a0The DJ was pumping out great dance tunes, everyone was dancing up a storm.<\/p>\n<\/a> A couple of drinks, some more dancing, loud shouty conversations with cool people; it was a great night out.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hours later, exhausted, I went home. \u00a0The weekend had arrived already, and I wanted some sleep before all that nothing I had to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n