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Post by Virginia Grace on Sept 25, 2016 22:07:38 GMT -5
The chocolate was good but Genie could tell she was fighting a battle that she would eventually lose. It was a shame really. She wanted to stay awake and keep enjoying her time with Lydia but all good things come to an end eventually even if you don't want them too. At least both of them had fun tonight and Genie didn't think this would be the last she would be seeing of the pretty Dionysus girl. Not if she had anything to say about it anyways.
"I guess you're right." Genie said trying not to sound too disappointed. "I had a lot of fun tonight Lydia and I uh...really like hanging out with you." The Hephaestus girl bit her lip nervously. She hoped she wasn't being too presumptuous but she did want to see the girl again even if it was just around camp. "If you want maybe we could hang out again sometime. If you're free tomorrow we could, I don't know, get a bite to eat or something."
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Post by Virginia Grace on Sept 23, 2016 21:21:18 GMT -5
Genie hummed softly to herself as she poked around in the kitchen looking for a late night snack. She probably wasn't really supposed to be back here. The campers didn't often make their own food but she had been working late and missed supper. Now desperate times called for desperate measures so here she was raiding the pantry long after most self-respecting campers would have been in their beds. Granted it wasn't the first time Genie had fudged the rules a little but so long as she wasn't hurting anyone who could blame her for sneaking a bite to eat?
That said with no one around it did make the whole sneaking thing a little easier and since there was no one around Genie felt she could take her time. So that's what the girl did poking around first in the pantry and then a few of the store rooms just to see what she could find. There were a few interesting items that Genie considered coming back to but it wasn't until she opened up the large fridge and saw what was inside that her humming stopped short.
"Well what do we have here?" She said cheerfully as she reached in and brought out a large and very delicious looking strawberry cake with pink icing. This was the treasure she had been searching for and the girl wasted no time carrying the beautiful cake out into the mess hall where she could partake of its strawberry goodness. "Yes I think you're gonna be just the pick me up I needed after a hard day's work." Humming to herself again Genie sat down with her treat and served herself up a generous slice. No one would miss one slice and fortunately with no one around to see her she was sure that she wouldn't get in trouble. Besides, treats like this were made to be eaten weren't they?
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Post by Virginia Grace on Sept 20, 2016 22:00:14 GMT -5
Genie smiled as Lydia whispered back to her. She certainly hoped that this wouldn't be the last date they went on together and by the look of things it seemed like they wouldn't have any trouble there. Hanging out with Lydia was nice and snuggling with Lydia while they watched a movie was nice too. If there was more of both of those in the future Genie thought she would be very content with that but Lydia was right, they would just have to see.
A little yawn escaped Genie's lips as she found herself getting perhaps a little too comfy snuggled up with the pretty Dionysus girl. The movie was good but Lydia was warm and soft and after spending all day working in the forge it was very comforting to be close to someone. “Well hopefully this won’t be our last movie night either.” Genie smiled as she reached across Lydia for another bite of chocolate hoping the sweets would keep her awake. “I’ve had a lot of fun tonight and I can’t really complain where we ended up either.”
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Post by Virginia Grace on Sept 20, 2016 21:57:08 GMT -5
“Me?” Genie asked in surprise. She had been happy to hear about all the cool projects and expansions that Leon had in store for the car but she hadn’t expected him to actually ask her for her opinion. Most mechanics liked to keep their car projects all to themselves after all. It was a sentiment that she could certainly understand so it was a little surprising when Leon looked to her for some possible improvements. That wasn’t to say Genie wasn’t up to the task but she didn’t want to overstep her bounds.
“Well if you insist I could totally think of some spiffy designs that would help you out.” Genie drummed her fingers on the table in thought as Leon told her about the HUD and the AI systems he was thinking about. Those were good but if he really wanted to make his car stand out there were a few more things that she hadn’t heard him mention yet. “Well if you’re going to be doing any type of flying outside of camp you’ll need to make sure you have some kind of stealth or cloaking system. Don’t want anybody seeing a flying muscle car zooming around after all or there would be questions. Also, what about reinforcing the cabin with some armor and bullet proof glass? Never know what kind of monsters you’ll run into up there and it’s good to be prepared.”
Genie smiled. This was a fun project and her mind was already lighting up with some more possibilities. “If you wanted you could super charge the thrusters so that you could go for some max burn and top speed when you needed it. That would help to get away from those tricky wind spirits and it would be worth thinking about some all-terrain landing gear as well in case you had to land some place you didn’t expect like the North Pole.” She giggled at that thought and picked up a piece of the thruster assembly to start working on it. “Bet Santa Claus would be real jealous if you stopped by his place with this beauty.”
It was easy to get carried away or lost in what she was doing. Sometimes hours would pass with Genie working on a new project in the forge and she would end up working late into the night without even realizing it. In fact, that was one of the reasons that the girl had claimed a corner of the forge as her own personal little home away from home just for those late nights when she didn’t want to come back to the cabin. She had even strung up a hammock and painted the wall with her name in cute bubbly letters and pastel flowers. It was just kind of her thing.
Fortunately for both of them Leon jumped in before she could get too far and started talking about his time in the war and some of the things he had lost. Genie didn’t like the way that those thoughts seemed to darken her brother’s mood. Wars weren’t right but that didn’t really help the situation now. Now all that was left was just to try and do right by the people who had fought in them and hope you could make things a little better. That being the case Genie turned on a little of her trademark charm hoping that she could push away a little of the darkness with her bright smile and warm attitude.
“Yeah I suppose that would be hard for you but those scars and stories are a part of who you are. We all have stories but that make us who we are and I for one wouldn’t want to have my siblings any other way.” Genie didn’t look much on peoples’ physical appearance. All in all it wasn’t really what was important. What was important is that her brother had survived all that and he was here with her now and Genie didn’t really want to waste that. “I would really like to listen to your story sometime. I’m not squeamish and I’d like to learn more about you if that’s something you think you might want to do.”
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Post by Virginia Grace on Sept 7, 2016 23:07:23 GMT -5
Yeah maybe she was overreacting just a bit but Genie couldn't help but grin like a loon when Lydia took her hand. The Dionysus girl had hands that were soft and warm and probably a lot different than her own which were worker hands. That the other girl didn't seem to mind was definitely a good thing. Genie kept smiling and let her fingers relax gently into Lydia's hold making sure to give it a happy little squeeze as she turned her attention back to laugh at a particularly funny part of the movie.
Holding hands was a fairly simple gesture but it did help with the nerves just a bit. With renewed confidence Genie snuggled in a little closer to watch the movie. It was a good one after all and if Lydia considered it a favorite then Genie wanted to make sure she got all of it that she could. In the meantime she enjoyed having Lydia beside her and enjoyed the good chocolate reaching over her every so often to grab a bite and sneak a look at Lydia while she did so. It was hard to pay attention but she tried her best and just to let Lydia know she was having a good time she leaned over and whispered, "You have really good taste in movies. Chocolate too. Maybe dates too? I know at least one who would agree."
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Post by Virginia Grace on Sept 2, 2016 11:41:35 GMT -5
You're right buddy, even Florida fans love Neyland. GBO!
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 31, 2016 22:46:16 GMT -5
Well it is time for me to make my annual pilgrimage to those lofty mountains of East Tennessee to that football mecca that I call home so it looks like I too will be going on a short hiatus this weekend as well. Being that the start of the football season is tomorrow for me I've taken the day off and plan for a long weekend with the girlfriend so yay me. I probably won't be around much tomorrow since it shall be my football day but I should be in and out of the cbox after that. There probably won't be much posting going on until I get back on Monday evening but I should be around and may get a few done if you leave me one. We will see. Until then have a great rest of the week guys and if you are looking for me I'll be right about here.  |
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 31, 2016 22:32:51 GMT -5
Genie listened intently to everything her brother had to say. He certainly sounded excited about his car but that was fairly normal in her mind. It was the people who didn't get excited about and love their cars that she wondered about sometimes. To her, Leon calling his car baby wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. In fact, she had used quite a few amorous names for her own many projects before and she wasn't planning to change those old habits any time soon no matter what people said about how close she was with her machines.
"That's good. I'd hate all that extra power to go to waste. Why I bet you could fit it with all kinds of tools gadgets and weapons that would definitely help you out of you're going on a quest." Genie didn't know how many quests Leon planned on going on but a flying car could have a lot of uses some of which were more for fun. "Maybe I've just been watching too many Inspector Gadget reruns or something but there's so much that you could do with this girl. She's already pretty awesome but it sounds like you've got some great things planned too."
Genie had really been kidding about the whole sweet talk thing. There was no keeping it in the family for her. She already had someone she was interested in and besides the barn door didn't quite swing in Leon's favor even if things had been different. Still, Genie wasn't lying when she said she was excited to help out. There was something about working on old cars that just got her on a high like few other things she knew. That being the case when Leon brought her back to his workbench and pushed the plans over to her she snatched them up eagerly to look them over.
The designs he had made didn't look like they would be such a much at all. As she read over the plans a smile broke out on her face and she nodded along as she made sense of everything. "Yeah we can definitely make this work and it looks like you've already done a lot of the ground work. I know you won't like pulling her apart but I think she'll forgive you once we have these upgrades installed. She'll definitely be the shiniest Camaro on the road and I bet she's really going to move in the sky too. Plus if it makes you feel any better I'll stay away from the install points until the last minute just so we can keep her intact just as long as possible."
Genie set down at the worktable as her hands began to pour over the parts and pieces that had been laid out to work on. She only glanced up when Leon came back over carrying his LMG and set it down on the table. "It certainly is big." She said with a chuckle. Genie wasn't too big on guns, probably another reason why she and her step father couldn't seem to get along, but she could deal with them as long as she wasn't the one firing them. Sometimes they were a necessary evil especially for soldiers. "So you were in Iraq? I bet you have some interesting stories. Don't worry though we'll make sure we make room for all your babies. Even the ones that make big booms"
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 28, 2016 22:11:16 GMT -5
Genie grinned. She liked that Lydia thought she was cute. That wasn’t usually a word that she heard a lot covered in grease and soot as she usually was. Luckily Lydia saw through all of that or at least seemed to. It gave Genie little flutters in her stomach that she liked and whenever the Dionysus girl was around those flutters seemed to come pretty often. Right now as Lydia snuggled in beside her those flutters were pretty stirred up and Genie was absolutely loving it.
"Yeah I don't think I've ever seen this one before. It looks good though so hopefully we'll like it." Resting her head gently on Lydia’s as the movie started Genie settled in for some fun and if her eyes kept drifting to the cute girl beside her so that she wasn’t paying much attention well that was okay. It was still a nice movie either way but Lydia was the real reason she was here. Eventually, without making a big deal about it, Genie’s hand may have found its ways to Lydia’s and rested against it. Lydia could take the hand if she wanted but Genie left that part up to her. After all she still wasn’t sure how far Lydia wanted to take this if anywhere at all.
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 28, 2016 22:07:55 GMT -5
It was nice to be able to talk to someone who actually spoke car for once. Genie would often start spewing out simple explanations of how some things worked and people would just look at her like she had suddenly grown a second head. She didn't really understand how something so simple could trip people up with thoughts of asexual reproduction but it was kind of embarrassing to realize you were the only one in the room who knew what you were talking about. In Leon's case this was a pleasant change from the norm for her.
"Yep. That's me." Genie said cheerfully as her mind returned to fantasizing about the legendary engine. The Z/28 was all well and good in its own right but there was something special about the ZL-1. It was enough to make a girl weak in the knees or at least it was for Genie who could think of nothing better than really letting this beauty tear loose on the open road which was where she was meant to be. "You can call me Genie though. Everybody does." She chuckled a little. “Well everybody except for my step dad.”
Apparently Leon knew a little more about her than she did about him but that was okay. Genie couldn’t really concentrate on her strained relationship with her step father when there was a beautiful classic car in the room. Besides, Leon apparently had a few more tricks up his sleeve and that was far more interesting. She would ask him about it later but right now she let herself be led around to the back of the car admiring it all the way and watched as the boy opened the trunk to reveal the pretty little Camaro’s big secret.
"Ain't that shiny..." She said in obvious awe as she saw the reactor pulsing with silent blue light. It was indeed pretty shiny but more than that Genie meant it was pretty awesome too. The words kind of meant the same thing when Genie got excited. "Must have took some doing to contain all that energy. I wonder what all that could be used for..." Ideas were already starting to fly through Genie's head like tiny little shooting stars. It wasn't the time to reach up and grab any of them now but she would definitely save a few for later.
“Well I’ve got to admit you’ve definitely got her souped-up. With that power I’m betting you’ll have no problem keeping her airborne. You could probably even add in a few extra systems just for fun.” Genie chuckled and nodded her agreement. Her mind could run all day just on the possibilities but to actually get to help? Yeah that sounded pretty awesome. “You really know how to sweet talk a girl don’t cha? I would love to help you out. You just tell me where you need me and I’ll put a little bit of the old Genie Grace magic to work. With both of us working on her why I bet we’ll have this girl flying in no time.”
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 25, 2016 23:04:15 GMT -5
Genie was in high spirits as she made her way to the forge this morning. While it was certainly not uncommon for the girl to be smiling on her way to work today her smile was perhaps a little wider and her step a little more peppy. There was good reason for all this of course. Not only was she coming off a date that had gone extremely well but today was the day that she was finally going to finish her strawberry picker machine and that was a pretty big reason to celebrate as well.
A new machine always got Genie excited. The excitement of finishing a project that you had been working on for a long time, the joy of bringing "life" to what had only been inanimate metal weeks or months before, these were all emotions that ran through her mind every time one of her projects neared completion. It really was why she loved her work and she fully expected to feel that soaring sense of accomplishment as she walked into the forge today but she never quite made it that far.
If there was one thing that could have distracted Genie from her work it was the familiar sounds of classic rock coming from the garage area. When she was younger Genie's mom had always listened to classic rock while she worked in the garage and the girl had many fond memories of helping her mom change the oil on someone's VW Vanagon or the tires on someone's old pickup truck. It was a way of life for her growing up and she couldn't help but be curious enough to poke her head around the corner to see what was happening.
What she saw when she peaked around made her eyes go wide with delight. Almost as if it had jumped out of one of those memories she saw one of her brothers working on and a beautiful 69 Camaro and suddenly all thoughts of projects went out the window. Genie's eyes grew as wide as saucers as she watched the wings expand. It was amazing and Genie knew right then that whatever this beautiful lady was intended for that she needed to be a part of it.
Watching as the wings were folded back up and the car was pulled back into the garage Genie decided to step around the corner to go investigate. By the time she made it into the garage Leon was already hard at work on some other components and Genie took a moment to examine the beauty before her letting her hands run over the smooth, hard angles of the classic muscle car enjoying the feel of the strong American steel under her fingers. Finally, reluctantly she tore her eyes away from the pretty little Chevy and looked over at her brother. “She purrs like a cat that just got the cream. Do ya have the Z/28 in there or were you able to get one of those amazing ZL-1's? Either way it looks like you'll have to reroute the power through a secondary generator if you're going to get enough lift to get her off the ground. Could do some simple modifications though..."
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 25, 2016 22:50:05 GMT -5
The chocolate was only shared with people Lydia really liked and Genie was glad she found herself in that category even if it hadn't given her access to some of the best chocolate she had in a while. "Do you always invite the folks you really like over for movies and games?" She said with a smirk. All things considered she thought she really liked Lydia too. What did that mean? Well Genie wasn't so sure on that but she did like getting to know the girl and didn't think she would mind getting to know her even better.
"That one looks good." Genie said as she read the title. It looked like a pretty sappy one but Genie could dig it. "I told you I wasn't too hard to please." She rolled over so that she could get a little closer to Lydia. They would need to be close to watch the movie on the laptop screen or at least that's what she told herself. In any case that excuse worked about as well as any other she could come up with. She snuggled in trying not to be a creeper but getting as comfy as she could just the same. "This is going to be an awesome movie night.”
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 21, 2016 23:34:35 GMT -5
"A rom-com sounds nice." Genie confirmed as Lydia brought over her laptop. Those were usually just as good as comedies and they had the bonus of having some mushy gushy stuff too which Genie secretly liked as well so long as they had a happy ending. Some romantic movies were sad and just there to make you cry and that was no fun. Fortunately she didn't think that would be a problem this time.
Genie had just begun flipping through the movies on the laptop when Lydia had the idea about the chocolate. She glanced up to watch the girl go over to her dresser and pull out a few bags of what she called the "good kind". Genie took a look at them as Lydia brought them over and smiled."Wow talk about special. I didn't know you liked me that much." Taking a bag genie popped a chocolate into her mouth and let out a little sigh of delight. "You're right though. This is the good stuff. Now all we need is a great movie and we'll be all set."
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 19, 2016 23:19:59 GMT -5
Lydia seemed to light on one of Genie's ideas as the drumming stopped. The Hephaestus girl brightened a little and before long she was staring up at Lydia with excitement in her eyes. A movie sounded like a great idea and Genie hardly ever took the time to watch them usually. "Oh yeah a movie would be cool." She said excitedly. "What's your favorite genre?"
This was going to be fun and even though Genie had no idea what was popular right now or even what Lydia liked she was sure they would find something in common. "I'm up for anything but I like funny stuff the best." She said with a giggle. It was probably no surprise that the girl's favorite movies were comedies. Genie like to laugh and when a good comedy was on she tended to laugh a lot. Of course she was pretty flexible too but given the choice of something serious or scary and a comedy she would chose to smile any day. Besides, anyone could write sad stuff but it took a genius to really make people smile. "Too bad you don't have any popcorn."
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Post by Virginia Grace on Aug 15, 2016 19:40:44 GMT -5
Genie hoped Lydia was right because she took a lot of pride in her machines. In fact, to hear her talk about them one might think they were her children sometimes. She had put a lot of work into making them after all so they were important to her. "Maybe you're right." The Hephaestus girl said with a smile. "I just get excited when I make something work you know? That's half the fun of getting to work in the forge like I do."
Genie probably could have gone on about projects or other things she was working on but as the monopoly game was put away something seemed to change. The conversation turned to what they should do next and was Genie wrong or was there a little uncertainty in Lydia's voice. They could play another game of course, Genie wouldn't have minded at all, but there seemed to be something else on the Dionysus girl's mind. "We could play another or you know, watch a movie or something. I don't really have anywhere I have to be so really I'm all yours." She watched Lydia curiously. There seemed to be a nervousness about her now that Genie didn't like. "Of course if you have something specific in mind we can try that...What are you thinking?"
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