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MHA #6, Thursday Morning
General Diane Beckman, Sarah noted as the video conference screen came up on her laptop, never seemed to leave her desk. She also never seemed to be tired, even when she was summoning Sarah to a videoconference at 7:30 a.m ( Read more... ) -
MHA #6, Late Sunday Evening
Sarah did not come back from the West Coast alone. An adolescent golden retriever followed her, detouring to sniff at interesting spots on the carpet. And, in addition to her suitcase, Sarah carried a bag of supplies from Everything But the Monkey ( Read more... ) -
MHA #6, Friday Night
Sarah was done giving her final official report on the events of the last few days; there was no need for her to blankly sit on her bed and stare at the closed videoconferencing software pulled up on her laptop ( Read more... ) -
Android's Dungeon, Thursday Midday
Sarah sat at a conference table she'd dragged into the store and read through the file on the Stark Industries deal one last time ( Read more... ) -
Stark Industries, Wednesday Evening
It had been surprisingly easy to get an appointment to see Tony; Sarah suspected he thought the offer to sell him a mine was her way of getting another date with him ( Read more... ) -
MHA #6, Wednesday Night
Sarah gave her father and Rusty a few minutes to start picking their way through the cold dark streets before she went into her bedroom, shut the door, sprayed some extra squirrel repellent, and logged into the video conferencing system.
( And it's NFB time ) -
MHA #6, Tuesday Evening
Sarah was nervous in spite of herself as she took the food out of take-out cartons and put it on plates. Introduce me to your friends, her father had asked, and Rusty seemed the one least likely to make things go very, very badly indeed ( Read more... ) -
MHA #6, Monday Evening
Sarah was not flailing.
She was simply cleaning very, very thoroughly.
And kind of hoping the causeway would eat her dad.
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MHA #6, Late Monday Morning
Sarah breezed back into her apartment after her weekend posing as a Russian mobster's girlfriend -- which was really a reminder that she needed to update her Moscow slang -- and, to catch up on what she had missed, loaded the podcasts from the weekend while she unpacked ( Read more... ) -
MHA #6, Friday Evening
Sarah had been listening to a lot of Elton John since Tuesday, and he was still singing from her stereo as she threw clothes, accessories and weapons into a duffel bag. A car would meet her at the causeway just before midnight.
( Cut for shameless songfic. )