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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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.

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Aeryn smacks John's hand. "I don't know what you just did, but don't."

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"I didn't do anything!" Of course, he does it again. And Bertram takes another picture.

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"Stop it," Aeryn tells him seriously.

Vladdie barks one more time at the freezer before abandoning it for what seems to be a much cooler friend, settling on the arm of the sofa to bark at Bertram.

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John barks at Vladdie.

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"What was that for?" asks Aeryn.

Vladdie barks back, looking back and forth between John and Betram and occasionally turning to the freezer.

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"I'm playing with him," John says and barks at Vladdie again. And makes weird faces.

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Vladdie settles in John's lap, barking back at him.

Aeryn looks back at the turtle, who is still a turtle.

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John yips at Vladdie and pets him gently.

"See, he remembers me. We've bonded after all."