Second Floor Common Room

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Sam was laying on her back on one of the sofas, pretending to study and finish her homework, but really watching bad daytime television.

ETA: Sam has now left, but the television was left on and the book she'd been reading was face down on one of the end tables.

[ooc: Feel free to use for your own homework or loafing.]

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A replicator crawls into the second floor common room carrying something in one of its many legs.

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Sam heard the tap of little feet and wondered if the common room needed to be fumigated.

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Seeing the One Who Looks like Her, the replicator approaches the human female and stops one foot away before dropping the item it was carrying. A cellphone in need of charging. With Kara Thrace as speed dial #1. The replicator waits.

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Sam looked over and saw the cell phone. She promptly picked it up and checked the speed dial.

"How did you get this? Where's Lee? Unless I missed something and he's already back, in which case, please disregard that last question."

And then she remembered it couldn't speak.

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Monitoring her reaction, the replicator reported the situation into the link, gave the human a mock bow and quickly moved to the window for escape!

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Sam jumped up and ran for the replicator, reaching out to grab it. "Not so fast, there, buddy. If you can't tell me where you got this, you can show me. Now."

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Captured, the replicator squirmed and whirred pathetically. It was not instructed for this situation and was unsure as to how to proceed. It could not harm the human but it would most certainly be destroyed if it led her to him. It stopped moving at once as it listened for orders.

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"Well?" Sam glared at it and resisted the urge to crush the replicator beneath her foot. She slid Lee's cell phone into her back pocket.

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The order was faint and vague but it was sure that it was a confirmation to lead the Smaller Human She to the boy. It squirmed again and leapt out onto the ground. Twirling around in a circle, it then made for the door.

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Sam followed the replicator, keeping a very close eye on it as it made its way across the floor.

Unarmed and without a jacket or cell phone of her own, she couldn't help thinking this wasn't a great idea. Still, it was Lee, and he might need her help.

And if he didn't? Well, she'd wish him a Happy Valentine's Day and go back to watching tv.

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The replicator kept moving across the floor and through the open door to the hallway, monitoring if Not-She was following.

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Sam followed as closely behind the replicator as she could without stepping on it.

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It scurried down the hallway, jumped up the protective rail on the stairs and slid all the way down to the ground floor because this little replicator was a bit of a show off and/or reckless and/or headed to its doom and in need of a little fun. It eyed the dorm door and Not-She's heat measurements and stood stationary at once.

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Sam chuckled a little at the replicator's antics. Once you got past the fact that they wanted to destroy humanity, they were actually pretty cute.

"Why have we stopped?" She stuck her head out the door and took a look around.

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Noting that the human had stopped and was not going to go get proper warming outer materials, the wee replicator reformed into the shape of a very miniature human and did a shivering motion with its arms.

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Sam rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll go get my jacket. But you better not go anywhere."

She ran up the stairs and into her room, grabbed her jacket (and her cell phone), and ran back down the stairs to the first floor, putting it on as she went.

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The replicator did a quick tap dance while waiting. Then it DEFACED SCHOOL PROPERTY dissolved a bit of the metal on the door frame and replicated a few more pieces. This particular replicator hated waiting.

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Sam stopped in the hallway again and looked down at the herd flock bunch of replicators and the melted door frame. "That's going on Eighth's bill, you realize."

"C'mon, let's go." She waited for the replicators to lead the way.