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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 21:18:09 GMT -5
"Okay," Delfina nodded, then started walking toward the diner, carrying her backpack on her back.
She stopped when Mater pulled up, "Hey, Mater."
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The twins peered at Pheonix's side, "When he ready to come out?"
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"Good ol' country boy Mater," shrugged Ebony, "but he's nice, last time I saw him was the first time I was here with Darcy."
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Post by Insane Pirate Dragon on Nov 14, 2007 21:28:13 GMT -5
'Nice to see you again as well'. Alexis signed the the tow truck.
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"He'll be ready when its winter," Phoenix said. "Thats still a while away."
"They're doing fine," she said as she looked up as Atsuko came up. "They're just asking questions about the baby."
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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 21:40:34 GMT -5
"So how have things been going here?" asked Delfina.
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"Ooh," the twins' amber eyes grew larger, "Mama say that when we came. We have same birf'tays."
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Post by Evangeline on Nov 14, 2007 22:02:26 GMT -5
"They're picking up a lot of words." Atsuko raised her eyeshades. "Smart as whips, they're gonna be. So how're you holding up?"
"We're doin' great." the tow truck nodded. "Miss Sally just added three new cones to her motel. Lightnin' just turned three storefronts inta his headquarters. The Weathers just closed a deal fer some land out in th' valley, an' Elizabeth n' Ed are gettin' hitched soon." He paused as he realized he was getting into unfamiliar territory for the newcomers. "She's Doc's niece, an' he's the deputy."
"Hello." Lightning and Strip came up.
A high pair of seafoam-green tail fins approached from another direction. "No, don't tell me- you're Delfina, right?"
"So this is where Darcy got her new paint?" Kendall asked, glancing towards a tall, neon-laced spire. "Ramone's?"
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Post by Insane Pirate Dragon on Nov 14, 2007 22:07:24 GMT -5
"Maybe," Phoenix nodded to the two Vipers. "Don't know the day until he comes."
"Now I'm just fine," the Trans Am said as she got to her tires. "A little worn out and stiff for the past few weeks. Nothing really major."
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Alexis blinked as the finned car came forward.
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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 22:14:32 GMT -5
Delfina blinked then nodded, "Okay."
She waved as Lightning and Strip came up, but turned when Flo approached her, "Hi, yeah. I'm Delfina Thompson. Nice to meet you."
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Ricardo came up and nuzzled Phoenix as she stood up, "Hola, Bonita."
Then he smiled toward Atsuko, "And I'm helping her as much as I can."
The twins looked toward at Atsuko curiously.
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"Yeah, that was my doing," said Ebony, "I brought her here because I wanted to see her in something more respectable than that ugly, old paintjob she had before. I had the money to pay for that too. She's been grateful to me ever since."
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Post by Evangeline on Nov 14, 2007 22:33:12 GMT -5
"I thought I recognized you from TV." The show car woman nodded. "That broadcast some time back. I never forget a face, no matter what species. Name's Flo, by the way."
In the back lot, the trailers had been parked in such a way as to cover two sides of the enclosure for the horses. Julian, Lazaro and Joshua brought out bales of hay as Tess and Kyon filled water buckets and brought them over. The twelve horses, four dogs and three goats already had a curious audience in the forms of a VW microbus, a small forklift, a Porsche, and a Model T. The animals stared back with varying degrees of curiosity.
"She's a really sweet girl." Kendall noted, "Even if I've said it a dozen times before. She deserves better than how she was treated." He glanced over to Flo's "So, you hungry?"
"That's good practice for later on." the 240 Z grinned. "Once that kid is born, you two are gonna go a long time without a full night's sleep, I can tell you."
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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 22:44:15 GMT -5
Delfina pointed at Alexis, "And this is Alexis Ross. She doesn't speak, but she's nice and friendly."
She turned back to Flo, "I had a feeling that you'd be the one who ran the diner here."
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Ebony nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I think so, too." She looked toward the diner, "Come to think of it, I'm pretty hungry after that drive. Let's go over."
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"Well, since I myself babysat for Ebs once just to take the pressure off of her, so I know how that is," said Ricardo.
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Post by Insane Pirate Dragon on Nov 14, 2007 22:48:06 GMT -5
Alexis raised her and and signed 'hello' to Flo.
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"Is it going to be that bad?" Phoenix laughed. She had still to be around and other infants besides the twins.
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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 23:00:06 GMT -5
"Ask Ebs to tell you about being woken up in the middle of the night by these little mischief-makers sometime," Ricardo indicated Kestrel and Falcon, who tried their best to look 'innocent'.
"Mama say we hungry babies," said Kestrel.
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Ebony made her way over to the diner with Kendall and pulled into a stall.
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Post by Evangeline on Nov 14, 2007 23:04:15 GMT -5
"Been doin' it since 1957." Flo proclaimed proudly. "Chrysler willing, I'll be doing it on the day I die."
Kyon came running up. "Guys, Murgha and Spirit are tied out with the others. We just watered them."
"It was with Mike." Atsuko rolled her eyes. "It was three months before he'd sleep through the night."
"Looks like a friendly place." Kendall pulled in with Ebony and waited for one of the girls to come up. The Miata twins would have been there, if they weren't over in the back lot gushing over the animals.
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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 23:12:51 GMT -5
"That's really something," nodded Delfina, and then she pointed toward the diner where she saw Ebony and Kendall, "I think you have some customers now, Flo."
(((((OOC: Delfina would've wanted to bring Spirit, too...)))))
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"Last time, Darcy and I got a free breakfast before we had to leave," said Ebony, "and Flo is really nice. You'll like her once you meet her. She runs this diner and she makes the best-tasting fuel ever. Even has citrus shakes, of which I'm gonna get."
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Post by Insane Pirate Dragon on Nov 14, 2007 23:17:25 GMT -5
Phoenix blinked for a moment and shifted uncomfortably on her tires.
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'Thanks'. Alexis signed. 'I'll see how he's settling in a little bit'.
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Post by ebonyviper on Nov 14, 2007 23:27:17 GMT -5
Noticing Phoenix's uncomfortable look, Ricardo nudged her gently, "Are you alright?"
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Post by Evangeline on Nov 14, 2007 23:38:00 GMT -5
"Where's it hurting?" Atsuko asked bluntly.
Murgha had been put on the inner end of the picket line so that he would be farthest from any disturbance, for he was still young and jumpy. That didn't stop him from flinging his head up and scanning for potential threats between every gulp of water.
"Watch out for that black one at the end." Darcy warned the other cars who'd come up to check things out, "He's flighty."
"He looks just like the critter on Ferrari's crest." Lizzie cackled. "Luigi's been waving that in our faces for years. I wonder what he'd think to see a live one?"
Guido was heading off to tell him, it seemed.
"Think I'll go for that myself." Kendall nodded as Flo came up.
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