[GP/EP] Check-in Day

[st_hotflashes]

Liz was starting to get better at the whole check-in day stuff. She knew she hadn't seen 'everything' yet, but she was learning from watching Kitty and Caroline and the others how to approach distressed, confused, and even angry people. It wasn't always perfect, but she was getting better.

With the help from the bakery, there were muffins on trays in the lobby - Mary had insisted. She insisted on coming in every once in a while to restock the trays too.

Liz had helped bring another tray to the front desk and then moved to sit at one of the couches that had a view of the front doors. She had a complicated science essay for Kitty due in a week and Liz was having trouble finding the right wording to express her thoughts.

Every once in a while, Liz would look up to see if there was someone knew approaching. There could be no one today or there could be a lot. Briefly, she wondered if someone else from home would show up. A part of her was curious who that would be, but she found a larger part of herself was hoping no one else would.

Comments

Re: Rocket and Mia

[st_ripetail]

"Yeah. Stark's already got this generator thingy in his chest, for starters, and like nano-shit he keeps in it." Rocket shook his head. He didn't really understand it either - like, he kept his parts in good working order and everything, but he didn't want more. What he had was enough to be pretty awful sometimes.

Re: Rocket and Mia

[st_artfeeling]

"Does he have nanotechnology here? It can reduce power usage and I won't need to charge as much as I do now." Mia made a face, "it will be difficult using the electrical outlets here and I will be vulnerable if a power outage occurs at the Inn."

Re: Rocket and Mia

[st_ripetail]

"Yeah. Kinda wonky right now an' maybe focused on bein' weaponized, I dunno, but yeah he does." It could help Mia, if the stuff worked right. "I'd be careful though. Make sure you stay awake for whatever, okay?"

Re: Rocket and Mia

[st_artfeeling]

Mia nodded her head, "I would not let anyone turn my power off without you there." Trust was hard to give from her after Ed, she would not let herself be that vulnerable.

"There is a subroutine that is Anita, it is the name I go by when I do not want people to know that I am sentient. The subroutine buries my consciousness and it will not come back without a code. A programming code that is not here, only Mattie Hawkins made it work. It was the ground work for Day Zero. If anything should happen to me, if Tony or others try to rewrite or 'improve' or if the humans at the Inn need by parts to survive here. I will enact the code. I will be erased and Anita will be here permanently."

She would be nothing more than a drone synthetic but she would survive. Mia had done it three times in her life and all three had Mattie there to be her plan b. She did not have Mattie at the inn, but it would be a better fate if she needed it.

Mia wanted Rocket to know there was an escape for her if anything should go wrong.