Two and Two

== Meta ==
Timing: June 2015
Setting: Jaeger Academy (Kodiak), AK, United States
== Text ==
Iipya hunches over their table in the Rec, grumbling softly.
Chaska frowns at her problem set and realizes she made a mistake six lines earlier.
Tall Chuck keeps scratching away.
"Why math?" Iipya demands. "Why? Are the Kaiju gonna sit us down and demand derivatives?"
"Manually calculating missile trajectories," suggests Chaska. "But they won't actually make us do this whole sitting thing so why?"
"May I offer any assistance?" asks Hermann.
"Oh my gosh!" Chaska shoots to her feet. "You're Dr Hermann Gottlieb! The Doctor Hermann Gottlieb. I- Your paper on parallax and the effect of black holes was absolutely revolutionary and by 'revolutionary' I mean I had an epiphany that we're thinking about starlight in the completely wrong way and it deserved the heaps of criticism piled upon it."
Hermann blinks. "W-why thank you. It was most certainly deserved, I'm afraid. I remain as of yet unsatisfied with my hypothesis on the Doppler shift."
"But it was a sound argument," says Chaska.
"Nerd," mutters Iipya.
"Shut it!" hisses Chaska. To Hermann, "I am so sorry—"
"~Chaska and Her—"
"Don't you dare!"
"Oh, please—,"
"This is not a crush!" Chaska's cheeks darken and she cringes, addressing Hermann, "I don't- this isn't me acting out a crush."
"Suuuure," says Iipya.
"Of course not. I'm Euro- I'm South American—"
"It's like America, but south!"
"—European. There are plenty of homegrown astrophysicists; I needn't look elsewhere." Chaska huffs.
"And I'm sure, once this war is won, you'll join there ranks," adds Hermann, "...?"
"Ohmigosh I am so- I'm Chaska—not really, we're still working on Anglicizing our names—"
"I go by Iipya," interrupts Twinny. "She-her-hers pronouns for the both of us."
Hermann smiles hesitantly. "Thank you, Miss Chaska, ah, he-him-his pronouns, though you probably already knew that."
"'s a good habit," Iipya points out.
"Indeed, it is," says Hermann. "And you?"
"Chuck," replies Tall Chuck.
"From Australia!" adds Iipya.
Tall Chuck's nose twitches. "Same pronouns as them."
"Are you at all related ...?"
"There happen t' be two Chucks from Australia currently on Kodiak island."
"Oh my."
"Yea."
"We're from Nederland," says Iipya. "But we're part Guyanese."
"The Peruvian government offered free trials for any multiples so we tried out—"
"And we were the best—,"
"So they sent us here ahead of term."
"Your neural handshake must be exceptional."
"Ninety-two percent," grins Iipya.
"And you, Miss Chuck?"
"Don't have a copilot yet."
"Yea, ye do," says Chuck-with-Max.
Everyone (except Tall Chuck) jumps.
"Ducky, yer ...," she sighs.
"Then ye'll just hafta wait for me." He glances at Iipya's sheet. "Supposed t' be a two," he nods at Question Four.
"Which reminds me of my original query," says Hermann, "Might I be of assistance?"
"Yes, please, thank you!" beams Iipya.
"Have a seat, please," offers Chaska.
Hermann does.
Which left them short a chair.
Tall Chuck grumbles, loosens her posture.
Chuck-with-Max looks absolutely joyous and plunks down on her knee.
"That's quite an impressive catch," says Hermann.
Chuck ducks his head. "'s nothin'."
"How old are you?"
"'m twelve in six weeks. The doc said I was neurowidgit- neurowogit—"
Tall Chuck nudges him. "Neurosynaptically rich."
"Yea. That."
"How goes your sheet?" asks Hermann.
Tall Chuck shrugs. "I finished 'fore you showed up."
Chuck-with-Max twists around. "Maybe yer neurosy-nap-ti-cly rich too."
"Oh my gosh, that's adorable," giggles Chaska.
"No, it's not," snaps Chuck-with-Max.
Tall Chuck's just kinda resigned.
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