Room 238, Saturday afternoon

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Aeryn is taking petsitting seriously. Vladdie's bottles are in the fridge, the curtains are closed, Yoda is far away from the sea monkeys because although she doubts there would be a problem unless she put Yoda in the tank, she'd rather not take any chances, and she's not running from the room at all. So far it's not going badly.

And she keeps looking at the ceiling to make sure Vladdie's not up there.

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"You look like you're about ready to jump into battle," John remarks from his place on the sofa.

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"There shouldn't be any battles," Aeryn says. "Unless the toaster tries to escape."

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"What're the visitors doing right now?"

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She walks over to see, and reports, "Vladdie is playing with a dust bunny, and Yoda is still a turtle."

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"You're a good petsitter." He smiles and then proceeds to lay down on the couch because he's lazy. "Pets like when you sing to them."

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"I think they're both fine for now," she says, moving his legs just enough so she can sit.

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"So, no singing?" He frowns at her.

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"I never sang to Sean and he was just fine," she points out.

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John starts to answer but, it's at that moment that Betram chooses to zip from under the couch and immediately heads over to where Vladdie's playing.

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Aeryn looks over and sees Vladdie stand up, dust bunny forgotten, trying to check out the possible new friend.

She just hopes Bertram doesn't zap the puppy.

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Betram stops and waves his eyestalks at this new creature. And then he proceeds to whirl around Vladdie at very high speeds.

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Vladdie yips and then flies up above Bertram. Because he can.

"Should I separate them?" Aeryn asks, because she has no idea.

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Bertram skitters around underneath where Vladdie had just been and flails his eyestalks up at him.

"They're not hurting each other. They're just playing," John says.

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Aeryn shuts up and watches as Vladdie hovers a little closer, still yipping like he's having a conversation.

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Bertram titters at him and makes blooping noises.

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Vladdie barks more enthusiastically, doing a circle around Bertram in the air.

"I have no idea what's going on," Aeryn admits.

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There's a sudden pounding from the freezer.

Open this door, you witch.
It's fricking freezing and I'm starting to twitch!

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Vladdie's ears twitch at the new voice, but he does another circle around Bertram before barking at the freezer.

Aeryn facepalms.

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There's more pounding, louder this time.

Open the door! Are you hard of hearing?
Open this door or I'll make sure you'll be disappearing!

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"You can't do that," Aeryn argues, not thinking about the fact that she's challenging a toaster.

Vladdie floats over to investigate, and barks curiously.

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"You're challenging the toaster," John helpfully points out.

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"I'm aware," says Aeryn, who is now. "It needs to be put in its place."

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Bertram, amused by the commotion, takes a picture of Vladdie in the air. And then he skitters over and takes a picture of Aeryn...who might have her mouth open at the time.

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Aeryn glares at Bertram.

Vladdie meanwhile doesn't seem to know what to do, because there's something new in the freezer, but the DRD takes pictures. So he kind of flies up and back between the two.

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John encourages Bertram by sitting up and putting bunny ears on Aeryn. Bertram snaps that picture too.