Fandom Into the fire (1x1 MzHyde/Gallifrog)

[MzHyde]

With all the talking done, Fia put her headphones on properly and turned on her MP3 player, scrolling through it to pick something to listen to, which ended up being a playlist of favourite songs from various bands and artists. It didn't take her long before she was tapping her fingertips on her knees to the beat and nodding her head whilst staring out the window. For a few of the songs she always wondered if a violin cover was possible but it never deterred from her just listening and enjoying the music in its original composition.

Kay saw John pull out a book and knew there was no way she was going to disturb him as she didn't like being disturbed when she ever read. She ended up doing a few little sketches which she liked to call a sketch dump of varying hand poses and body poses just to get the inspiration flowing more than anything. Eventually it spurred inspiration and made her remember her request from John. "John? Did you ever take that photo of me when I wasn't looking?" She asked him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

The others settled down into their various activities for the flight, as did the rest of the passengers on the shuttle. The humming of the engines and the whirring of the air recycling and filtration system was continuous, and at first annoying. But after a while the passengers learned how to tune it out and get on with their lives (or they had decided to invest in a pair of headphones with excellent noise cancelling before they got on the shuttle). Unlike with an ordinary plane there was no screaming babies or toddlers, for this service all passengers had to be six or over. Babies were considered to high risk for this kind of transport espescially during take off (which was by far the riskiest part of the flight).

When Kay got John's attention, he pulled out the earphones that he had put in at some point during the flight. "That question makes me sound like a complete and utter stalker." He remarked, pulling out his phone. "But yeah, I've got a few, I think, Gimme a sec." He pulled out his phone, turning it on to reveal that his home screen had changed from a photograph of a skull on a gravestone to a photo of one of the blue trees they'd seen earlier that week. He scrolled through the gallery and found what he was looking for. He'd found four opportunities to take photos of Kay unaware and sent them on. The shuttle had a closed network for the passengers to use and it meant that John's photos arrived at Kay's phone within a few seconds. "There ya go."

 

[MzHyde]

When John finally answered her, Kay chuckled at his response. "Good job we both know that it's something I asked of you to do then and considering our tie to each other you have every right to take photos of me whenever" she smiled, as he scrolled through his gallery to find the photos and sent them across. As her phone pinged with the notifications of the images, she pulled it out of her jacket and opened them all up, looking at them. They all actually made her smile, particularly the one he took of her asleep with one wing wrapped round her.

"Thanks doll" she said, leaning over and kissing his cheek again. Now she had the whole decision of which photo to sketch out, curious if she could capture what he took and herself accurately. She finally picked one photo that he took to draw and began sketching out the rough outlines and general pose that's as being done naturally, before she knew it she got completely swept up in what her pencil was doing.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Still doesn't mean that the question doesn't sound stalkerish." John smirked. It was strange to be told he had the right to take photos whenever he wanted. Whatever photos John took were always put into encrypted folders on his phone. He knew The League (ie Cyborg or Bruce) would doubtless be able to crack the encryption if they desired to do so, but just having it presence in the first place gave him some reassurance. And they clearly hadn't hacked any of his things, as nobody knew about Elliott (except Bruce, but he'd found out a different way). John found himself smirking at the idea of one of them trying to hack the phone he'd trapped Vestibulon in, though with the amount of porn and the frankly disturbing search history, it really wouldn't do much to change their opinion of him.

"Eh, its nothing." John shrugged, going back to his book. Occasionally he'd glance over and watch Kay draw, her talent was really evident. It was clear from her posture and her total focus on the paper in front of her that she was getting into the drawing. Each time he looked over he found himself surprised by just how much progress had been made. Out of the window Attil faded away into the distance, just another speck against the inky backdrop. The other planets in the Attil system could be seen in the distance, along with the star they orbited around. The rings of Attil were particularly striking when viewed from off the planet.

 

[MzHyde]

She smirked at him saying it still sounded stalkerish, brushing it off. She really did mean what she said to him as well, she really didn't mind him taking photos of her if he thought a moment in time warranted it.

As she kept drawing, she was barely aware of him glancing over to watch her draw every now and then, especially as she kept being incredibly critical of every line she made and was erasing line after line frequently before it started even getting anywhere. She was always the same with self portraits and when at university, doing self portraits was her worst days. Nearly everyone in her class could just draw self portraits without much worry or self doubt, but Kay? There was always loads of it, despite having no self worries about her appearance in general. Eventually she started to get somewhere she was happy with, but it still felt like something was missing but couldn't figure out what. She wondered if it was due to being a black and grey piece and not colour, and she was used to always doing her hair in full colour. Or maybe she just thought she didn't fully capture her features. She kept shading in the jumper and background, every now and then using her index finger to blur some of the pencil strokes, but not all of them as she liked the roughness.

 

[_gallifrog_]

With engrossed in their separate activities the two hours seemed to fly by. Some passengers got up to stretch their legs, but for the most part everybody stayed put, content to do their own thing. The ship took them in the direction of what appeared to be a brightly glowing star, but as they got closer it was clear that this was something else. The star was surrounded by a giant sphere made of some kind of metal. The sphere was known as a 'Dyson Sphere' and on Earth was still a purely theoretical concept for harvesting energy. The long distance teleporters required an enormous amount of energy to both allw for travel over such long distances and to ensure that the millions who passed through annually were able to be able to transported.

The shuttle wasn't heading straight for the sphere, instead to the large space station nearby. It was a behemoth of a structure, completly dwarfing their ship. The space station had a central ring where the teleport pads were located. Radiating out from the central ring were long gantry-like arms for the various ships to dock at. Some arms contained ships similar in size and style to the shuttle they were on. Others were far, far larger. Looking out it was clear that this was the real deal. "Bloody hell, and I thought you guys couldn't make humans look any more shite at space travel. Well this takes the whole bloody tube of biscuits." Chas gaped.

Spoiler: Space Station and Dyson sphere

The space station looks something like this:
Dyson sphere:

 

[MzHyde]

When Kay thought she had procrastinated enough over her sketch, she wrote in the corner 'unsure, redo' which was her way of writing 'i think it's shit and doesn't look like me', even though it did infact look like her and was nothing wrong with it at all. She also didn't want to just rip it out of the book, so making notes was her way of keeping her book in tact. She spent the majority of the two hours on it as well, only to not be happy with it. She had spent the time making various faces at it as she worked, including the whole poking her tongue out ever so slightly.

It was only when they started to see the Dyson sphere, that Fia snapped out of her own little world, staring out the window, she tapped John's arm without even looking at him to look at what she looking at. Hearing Chas speak, she realised Chas caught sight of it the same time she did. "And for the most British thing to ever have been said about this award goes to you Chas" she chuckled. Looking up when Fia spoke, Kay closed her sketchbook and looked out the window, "bloody hell!" Kay commented. "Chas ain't wrong though" she added.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John smirked at Chas' reaction to whatever was outside the window, the smirk broadening when Fia made her sassy comment. Chas also smirked at Fia's comment although she couldn't see him do it. Yes, it was a stereotypically British thing to say but it had been the first coherant thing his shock addled brain could come up with. "Well..... bugger me sideways." John commented as he leaned over to get a better look, retaining enough control that his jaw didn't fall to the floor of the ship. "Is that seriously a bloody star in there?" "That it is Captain obvious, try and keep up." Elliott snarked from behind John's head, knowing that John couldn't turn around and dig him for such a remark. Instead John settled for giving him the finger through the seat gap.

"It is a star, what you guys are gaping at with your mouths hanging gornlessly open is called a Dyson sphere." Rinaa explained delighted to have an excuse to give a long spiel about engineering and mechanics. "It is one of the cornerstones of commercial deep space travel. Purely theoretical on Earth at the moment, but as you can see, it's very much reality here. It surrounds an entire star and produces massive amounts of energy, enough to run whole planets off. But in this case it runs the teleporters on the station ahead of us, also known Space Gate 07-FR-Beta. These long distance teleporters need serious juice, hence a whole star being needed."

 

[MzHyde]

Fia noticed the broadening of his smirk when she sassed Chas in her kind so perfectly in that very moment. It made her all that more proud of what she said, and reminded her of the time when she was 11years old and drew him this (now considered) awful drawing of 'world's silliest but best uncle' because he humoured her so often and was always willing to say and do stupid stuff to make her laugh and cheer her up. She owed Chas a lot for making her see why her parents brought her up the way they chose and learn to not hate them for it, so she saw him almost like a second father than just an uncle. Yet that was indeed one thing she would keep as a surprise for him.

As John leaned over to take in the sight, Kay did also, partially leaning on him to do so. She chuckled when Elliott got sassy with John and he did the usual reaction of giving him the middle finger. She listened to what Rinaa was explaining finding it incredibly fascinating to hear. "Amazing" she simply remarked, sliding one arm round John, placing her chin on his shoulder, leaning her head slightly onto his. Fia glanced at them and smiled before looking back out at the sight before, yet again taking a quick snap on her phone.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John was starting to understand how Rinaa's interest and talent in engineering would have been recognised at a young age. This was the world she grew up in, the world of space ships, space stations, dyson spheres, ion thrusters, interplanetary travel, intersteller travel and so much more. There was so much to take in and attempt to understand, and with an interest like Rinaa's..... well it just made perfect sense. From where Elliott was sitting he could see how Rinaa's face and eyes lit up when she talked about the sight before them. Her passion was so evident and he was happy to know that she had a chance to experience life surrounded by all these kinds of things. "Well we all now know where to address any questions related to engineering and the development of space travel." Cliff called up.

They all sat there, taking in the sight of the station and sphere as they grew bigger and bigger. Now that they were away from Attil Elliott was perfectly content to lean over and look out the small porthole like window at the view in front of him. Soon the station bagen to completly fill the field of view, it's arms growing and growing as they drew closer. The other ships could be made out in better detail. On the opposite side of the station a ship was launching, moving sideways away from the arm, before firing its thrusters and blasting off towards another planet. Their shuttle needed to slow down. For that various thrusters at the front and sides were to be fired. The crew gave their announcement, instructing all passengers to return to their seats and buckle up the harness belts.

"Looks like we're coming in to dock somewhere along one of these arms." John told them, pulling back on the harness and checking it was secure across his chest. "Yep, and we won't be pulling any g's either it's just going to get bumpy and noisy." Cal called up, stowing away her things.

 

[MzHyde]

Both Kay and Fia also noted the passion in Rinaa's voice, so when Cliff called up what she did, both girls smirked as they took in the sight of it getting larger into view. Nothing could really describe what they were seeing so neither of them even attempted it. They watched the other ship as it left the station, before the announcement came through that the harness belts needed to be put back on.

Nodding to what John said, Kay pealed herself off of him, and put the harness straps back on, as did Fia. Both girls listened to Cal confirming it as they made sure they were securely strapped in, then made sure their things were stowed away properly so not to fall out of its place. Kay places one hand on her bump, lightly rubbing it slightly as now twinges were happening again, as did a few whilst she was drawing, so she was very glad that no g-force was going to be happening. "Mhm..." she didn't realise she quietly vocalised her discomfort of the actions of her body changing with the second Life inside her. She also would be thankful for the stretching of their legs for a moment when they eventually disembarked.

Fia glanced over seeing what Kay was doing and wondered if she was alright, but didn't want to bring too much attention to her. So she focused on the landing that they were currently doing.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John noticed Kay's discomfort, by now he had learned to recognised when the 'twinges' were happening. He knew they weren't anything serious, just the consequences of the accelerated growth, but now really wasn't the time or the place for anything to badly wrong, even if they had a doctor in their group who could make a legitimate excuse as to why and keep prying people away. If anything did happen they'd be stuck on the ship until it docked)(though they would undoubtably get priority disembarking). He stowed his stuff away, shuffled into a more comfortable position and gave Kay's hand a squeeze hoping it could somehow convey what he wanted to say but couldn't.

The main rocket at the back cut out, the silence suddenly deafening. It felt as if something had been yanked from everybody's ears, leaving them open and vulnerable to the smallest of sounds. The pilots were experts, manoeuvering the ship carefully and precisely towards the docking arm. In order to dock the pilots had to turn the ship around, so that the nose cone was facing away from the station (making it easier for them to undock later). The hiss of thrusters could just about be felt inside the cabin. As their seat were located on the wing, Rinaa, Fia and Chas had the best views of the actual shuttle dock itself. There was an arm for securing the nose cone and the tail fins, while the wing slotted into a perfectly made slot in the station. A misalignment would be disastrous. The passengers stayed silent, all instinctively understanding the gravity of the situation as the shuttle inched closer and closer to the moorings. They docked with a jolt and a set of mechanical arms came out, firmly holding the shuttle in place. At the same time a set of pressurised tunnels were connected to the outside of the craft by spacesuit clad station staff who waved at the passengers on board. They had arrived.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay knew it was just a case of the excelerated growth, she didn't have any bad feelings about it, it just sucked when she had them. There were some times when she would prefer to have some full blown pain than that numbing discomfort that came in twinging and shots. When John took her hand and gave it a squeeze, she glanced at her hand in his and smiled through the discomfort. She got what he was conveying to her just about, and she squeezed his hand back to reassure him she would be okay. She had a feeling if anything would go seriously wrong, out of nowhere, the bond would let him know before she did. It didn't however stop her from keeping hold of his hand.

Seeing it unfold, Fia relaxed a bit sensing her mother and her unborn self was indeed okay. She was always slightly worried that her being around would cause some kind of complication onto Kay, and if that happened she would leave to go back to her timeline straight away. As they started docking, and being by the window, Fia watched intently the docking stages, feeling the jolt that occured when they successfully docked. She smiled when she saw the staff member wave to everyone on board, finding it quite sweet that they were so kind to do it. "Part one of the journey done then" Fia smiled.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Yep, it is" Cliff confirmed undoing her belts and stretching her arms upwards. "And now we have the joys of baggage collection, which from what I've heard, is really no different from the way it goes on Earth." "Lots of waiting around, getting excited when baggage appears only to realise it isn't the baggage from your flight, heading to the right place and watching as every other bag except yours appears and just as you think the airline has lost it, it finally appears?" Chas quipped as he took his things from the storage in front of him. "Exactly like that." Cal confirmed "And don't forget the person who thinks your bag is their bag and you have to open it to prove that you actually own it."

"The less said about those the better brother." Cal smirked. As their seats were on the side closest to the docking port, they wee allowed to leave the craft first. The crew went though the pressure seal checks before opening the hatch door and directing them out of the vehicle in an orderly fashion. The group waited their turn, before exiting through the back tunnel and into the station. The station had gravity, it was in constant spin, which kept everybody's feet firmly on the floor. A zero-g teleport station would be sheer madness. The inside of the station was surpringly spacious, though the metal walls and lack of large windows gave it an industrial feel. The walls and ceiling contained various bars and straps in the event of a gravity failure. And like any airport there was also food vendors and other shops with 'essential' novelty items.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay and Fia soon both unbuckled the harness and stretched, Fia more so than Kay. Kay just stretched her legs out and up, held them for a couple of seconds before lowering them again, one knee cap making a slight crack noise as it lowered and bent. She smirked hearing the talk about baggage claim, remembering those days not so fondly but well. Especially when she first moved to Seattle as a kid, and seeing most of her life appear on the conveyor belt in just two small suitcases, no bigger than cabin sized.

As they left the shuttle, she had her bag back on her shoulders and Fia kept ahold of both their dress bags as well as her bag on her back. Kay held John's hand yet again, walking through when it was okay to, stroking her bump as she found the twinges starting to subside. Fia walked just behind the two of them but close enough to be able to tell what Kay was doing, smiling to herself. She could see just how protective her mother was being to her unborn self, and just hoped that would remain, no matter what timeline won out. Yet it also showed her more of an understanding of why she's as protective as she is in her timeline. Looking up and around she saw what the station looked like, and it reminded her of a weird version of an Earth airport that she only knew of from TV shows or films. "This is cool" she commented.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Fia's awe of everything was proving quite entertaining for the travel veterans. She was totally wide out about everything, no matter how hard she tried to conceal it. Elliott knew that after seeing all this she'd never look at London the same way again, and she'd get a glimpse of just how much of a complete and utter culture shock Earth was for him. "It's certainly nothing like the Earth you know that's for sure." Rinaa commented, pulling the guitar strap firmly across her self. "Commercial interstellar travel here certainly ain't boring." Jay commented, re-adjusting her black and blue hair. She knew that once she got in the water on Cliff's homeworld her hair would return to its natural colour, which would be quite surprising for those who didn't know what it was.

"I second that. Ever flown business class and gone through a blip of zero-g?" Cliff asked as she and Cal lead the way to baggage claim. "Yes, but it was a long time ago though." "So you've seen the laptop deities?" Cliff asked and Jay laughed with a nod. She was genuinely amused by the question. "I have. It's hilarious." She turned around so she was walking backwards and would be able to explain to the others what she and Cliff were talking about. "It's the name given to people in business class who continue using their laptops in zero-g. The just float there, cross legged above their seats, tying away as if its the most normal thing in the world. Its like they haven't even noticed the loss of gravity. And then when the gravity returns they just drop down into their seats. It's quite the sight."

 

[MzHyde]

Fia didn't care if her reaction to the whole thing was entertaining to everyone else. This was literally a first for her and she wanted to take it all in to the fullest, not caring if she was seen to be amusing or not. She also knew she would never see London the same way again after this and she didn't care. "I see that now, not that I assumed differently before the flight" Fia remarked back at both Rinaa and Jay.

When the other conversation was being spoken about, Kay was curious so when Jay explained it all, she listened with great amusement. She could mentally picture it and it was just as amusing in her head as it sounded. "I can imagine" Kay replied, readjusting her in John's by interlinking her fingers with his. The longer they spent together, the more comfortable she felt doing such things in front of everyone, without feeling like she had to do it discreetly.

 

[_gallifrog_]

The idea of all these business people decked out in suits and ties just floating in mid air and still tapping away on laptops was damn hilarious to John. "I need to see that sometime." "I'll second that, only seen pictures of those guys, it's kind of ab Urban legend for those who can't or dony fly business class." Elliott replied as Jay turned around to face the right direction and at the same time managed to skilfully avoid walking into a bin. "I haven't seen them either, don't worry you're not alone. Can't afford business class and the hospital doesn't exactly splurge out on flights for staff for conferences and the like. Which makes sense given that we never seem to have enough money."

"So hospitals having nowhere near enough money and health care people being over worked, underpaid and understaffed isn't just an Earth thing I take it?" Chas asked, sensing that Cliff was about to go on a rant. Before the doctor could open her mouth to speak, Cal had covered it with her hand. "I'll sum up everything my future wife is about to say in a few words- yes, but the es even more problems than that and I can talk for hours on end about this subject." Cliff rolled her eyes, nodding. "Pretty much yeah.....and this is us." Cliff added as the reached the correct baggage collection terminal where various other passengers were milling around.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay and Fia both listened to the chatter going on, it not surprising either of them that John would want to see that with his own eyes sometime. Deep down both of them thought the same thing, they just didn't express it openly. As Cliff started her half rent about being in the medical field meant she couldn't afford such a seat when flying, both girls thought it echoed perfectly the Earth health care situation, which Chas mentioned.

Fia smirked when Cal instantly covered Cliff's mouth, knowing it would cause a long rant even more. When they reached the baggage claim area they needed to be at, she stopped walking like the rest of them. "And now the waiting game" she smirked. Kay just smirked at Fia slightly whilst she stood around with the rest of their group. She placed her free hand in her jacket pocket as she waited, now the twinges had settled enough to stop her massaging her bump. She wondered to herself randomly how much unborn Fia had grown since getting the news.

 

[_gallifrog_]

A waiting game was exactly what it was. The first bags out were those belonging to crew members or people who were willing to pay extra to have their bags put quickly. After that it was on the basis of what order they were put in on. The earlier one boarded, the later their bags would be unloaded. They happened to have boarded in the middle of the pack, but the bags still seemed to take an absolute age to arrive. It was Rinaa who spotted the first case and would quite willingly have pushed through as many people as possible and hopped onto the belt in order to grab it. But she didn't, instead choosing to duck under the arm of somebody who was clearly a tourist to grab the armour case.

From there came the rest if the baggage, tagged with their names and flight details. It took seventeen minutes to round up all their baggage after which Cal sighed. "I'd don't know about anybody else, but I could do with a drink and something light to eat. Telepirting on a full stomach is generally fine, but let's not have to deal with more vomiting than is critically necessary." "I'm in, of course and I say we go to somewhere by the viewing platform or observation deck and let the tourists gawk." Rinaa answered, pulling her hair back into a neater ponytail. When her hair was down it covered the back of her neck, and even with the mowhawj cut the back of her neck had been concealed by the spike of hair. But now the very top of a surgical scar was visible, the skin slightly puckered where it had been grafted on. "As a tourist I'm all for gawking." "And I'm up for hawking anyway." Elliott shrugged, knowing that the view from the observation deck over the station was quite something to behold.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay let the others do all the heavy lifting of grabbing the cases, not even risking doing such a thing when she was getting so heavily pregnant so quickly, or so it felt. Last thing she wanted was to induce a very premature labor or something even more inconvenient. Fia helped when she could getting the cases away from the belt after they were taken off.

When the me room of grabbing a drink and a light bite to eat, Kay and Fia both nodded in agreement. "I'm down with that on every suggestion" Kay replied, covering all suggestions in one hit. She tightened the straps on her bag to lift the weight a bit more as it was getting heavy on her shoulders already, but didn't make a fuss of it. After that, she redid her braid so it was a bit more neater than before. "I'm definitely up for food, drink and gawking" Fia smirked as sniggered, whilst noticing the graft scarring on Rinaa's neck at the back, and looking down and away as discreetly as she could, it bringing one hell of a reminder of what she was told by the other Jay, and thus telling Chas so it didn't eat her up completely.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Rinaa scratched the skin at the back of her neck, not aware that anybody else had seen it. They all knew she had grafts, as they'd all been there when Cliff discovered it. But none of them had seen the extent of them. "And while you all do that, I'll call the family and tell them we're on out way. My mother is going to be so ridiculously happy." Cliff was purposefully giving her family very little notice, so that her arrival was a surprise, but everybody would be able to get there in time to greet her. It also meant her siblings had less time to implement whatever devious plan they'd brewed up. "That she is, and then once we all arrive it'll be six million and one questions that we have to answer because of the language barrier." Cal smiled as they made their way to the central area of the station.

The central core of the station extended outwards to two observation decks, one below the station and one above. In the lift Cal selected the button for the upper one, her favourite of the two, which she believed also had the better view. If the lift shaft had been made of glass the view as they ascended would have been something else entirely. But glass was too much of a safety risk for a lift shady, so instead it was limited to various viewing windows and the walls of the observation deck. The doors dinged open and they made their way into an open space. The shops and vendors were located near the central column, leaving the windows uninterrupted. The station could be seen spread out below them, ships docking and undocking. To the right was the glowing orb of the dyson sphere.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay and Fia listened as per normal, smirking when Cal said about the language barrier. As with the others, they walked to the central area of the station, both of them looking up and down at everything before getting into the lift with everyone else, where Cal decided to go up. Walking out once at the floor they needed, Fia kept looking around, forever being amazed. She took note of the shops and food vendor were located, before looking below her and out the windows.

Whilst Fia was looking everywhere and anywhere, taking it all in Kay happened to look to their right and saw the glowing orb of the Dyson sphere before looking around at everything else. "The views are amazing" Kay commented, "understatement" Fia remarked back. Kay just smirked and shook her head at her kid, whilst continuing to look around. It really did make an Earth airport look like a run down mall or similar in her mind.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Letting us gawk was a very good call." Chas agreed, managing to keep his jaw from falling on the ground. John was going through similar motions of supresisng his shock, and was succeeding at it. "This is something bloody else all right." "Told you so" Rinaa kept the smugness out of her voice as she appeared behind the group staring out the window. Cliff had wandered to find a better signal for sending her message and Cal was buying food. "And I'm paying for the food, so what do you people want?" She asked, leaning against the wall. "You don't have to pay for us kiddo." Elliott told her surprised by this decisoon.

"Well I want to, and besides, I need a way to spend what money I have here anyway. All the money I have in my time is being donated to the lab anyway." She shrugged as if it was a totally normal thing for a teenager to do with money. To her it made perfect sense, the lab did incredible work, both publically advancing science and privately advanced tech for vigilantes. "So what I'm getting from this is that you're asking all of us because pretty much everybody will abuse the idea of food paid for by somebody else, espescially when money isn't an issue for the buyer?" Chas summarised in a blunt fashion, making Rinaa smile. Spot on once again. "Exactly." Rinaa nodded, as John piped up. "So we're basically greedy shites?" "You said that, not me." Rinaa replied evenly, with a devious smirk, she wasn't falling into that hole so easily. They'd have to up their game to make her say something like that. "So what do people want?"

 

[MzHyde]

Fia was probably the only one who wasn't suppressing it as well as everyone else, yet she wasn't looking like a complete fool either. She was just naturally a very expressive person and she would never be apologetic for that. She noticed as Cliff walked off to make that all important phone call to her mother, whilst Rinaa surprised them all by declaring that she would pay for everyone's food.

Kay was also surprised that Rinaa wanted to buy everyone's food but when Rinaa explained why, she kind of understood her reasoning for it. She also thought it was very credible of Rinaa to donating a lot of money to the lab she worked and spent so much time in in her timeline. She stifled the chuckle and refrained from rolling her eyes at Chas' comment and John's. "Well saved Rinaa from that one" she said with a smile. "As for food, I'd just be happy with a decent sandwich or sub or something" she spoke up her idea as she didn't want anything big but she wanted something substantial at the same time. "I'll be good with anything similar to that also" Fia added.