Ducky

Date/Timing: 7 January 2019
Setting: Jaeger sim, The Shed; Vaucluse, NSW, Australia
Note: This ficlet has been made redundant by "A Distinct Lack of Caffeine". The first paragraph differs due to a POV change, however, and can be found stored for future use as "Ducky"
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Chuck arms herself with masking tape and a marker and surveys the twists of quantum cable—
""—care! I'm coming with you!""
Chuck rolls her eyes, grumbles, "Of course you are, Ducky."
The sim control room door bangs against the wall.
Vos strolls in, rolling his eyes and gesticulating at—
"Chuck," she greets.
"Chuck?" The blue terror pouts. "What're /you doin' here?"
"I work for Doctor Lightcap now."
"Huh. Didn't see that coming."
"What's that supposed to mean, Ducky?"
"I told you /not to call me that."
Vos raps his knuckles on Chuck's borrowed desk, holds his mobile where she can read the screen—
- Kno each other? -
—then shows it to Ducky.
Ducky gets the funniest look on his face.
Chuck smirks, makes sure Vos has a really good view of her lips. "Kinda get to know a person when he's everywhere you go, like, oh, I don't know, the mess, the gym, the hangar, your bunk ...."
Ducky turns progressively pinker.
"Almost as if he were following you, ay, /Ducky?"
Ducky looks at Vos, growls, "He didn't follow you to the washroom, did he?"
Vos doubles over and has to hold himself off the floor with hand.
Chuck bites her lip and glares really hard.
Vos straightens a little, waves his mobile.
- Im sorrrry -
He gets the rest of the way upright.
"You won't find it so funny when he shows up in your shower."
- He didnt -
Chuck nods smugly.
Vos laughs into his elbow.
Ducky sulks.
"So how'd he find you?"
- Stomps into gym -
- Fight to draw -
- U. Me. Kwoon. Now. -
"The little fucker," breathes Chuck. "He stole my line." She leaps to her feet. "Chuck! Lil'drongo, you fucking stole my line!"
"/Stole?" snarls Ducky. "How is it /your line? It's a buncha words!"
"I'd been practicing—" Chuck freezes.
"You'd been /practicing?"
"Of course I was practicing," Chuck sneers. "It's not every day you're being stalked by a potential Drift partner." She sniffs and strides by. "Now I have work to do. Good day." She stops at the door and glares over her shoulder. "And I swear to god, if you follow me, I will—"
"You'll what? Drop me off the roof? Bit big for that now, aren't I?"
Chuck makes a frustrated noise and slams the door.
Tags: Ficlet, Skeleton Key, Chuck D, Chuck D (ficlet), Chuck D is a Driftern, Chuck H, Chuck H (ficlet), Chuck H isn't a duckling, Pietr, Pietr (ficlet), Caitlin (mention), Sydney Shatterdome (setting),
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