The Dorm Roof, Saturday Evening

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally hums happily as she carries more than a couple buckets of paint up to the roof. She manages to shout "Party on the roof!" a few times while doing so, so more than a few folks might hear about it.

She's set out lots of paint, brushes, a boombox blasting some tunes, and some cans of soda. It's time to give the Viper a non-regulation paint job. Possibly with go-faster stripes or cool flames.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi was sitting on her windowsill when she heard somebody shout "Party on the roof".

Curious she slides out onto the ledge and shimmies up the drain pipe.

Slowly her eyes, and braids, peek up over the edge of the roof.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally is wearing her pink-paint splattered clothes from her earlier artistic efforts involving Lee and John's doors. She smiles when she sees Pippi peeking her head up.

"Hi Pippi! You want to help? I'm painting my ship."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" she says as she clamored up onto the roof.

"I wondered who this thing belonged to! Do you have a design in mind?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Not military grey," Cally says with a nod. "Otherwise, I just want everyone who wants to pitch in to, like, have fun with it. I've taped over the bits that shouldn't get painted, so, just have at it."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi gave the Viper an appraising look.

"Flames." she said finally.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Flames sounds good," Cally nods. "What color, do you think?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... Red." she replied with a nod.

"Red makes things go faster."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"I think I've got red in here somewhere," Cally says. She looks through the buckets carefully. "A-ha!" she exclaims, picking up one bucket and popping it open. "Here we go."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Great!" she said grabbing a brush. "...Did you want to paint it all over some other color first?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm." Cally scratches her chin and thinks. "Yeah, that sounds good. I'm thinking... Orange."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Orange has red in it! Make go faster!" She said as she looked through the collection of paint for orange.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally points at the biggest bucket. "That's the one," she says, picking up a big brush. "This thing'll be the fastest Mark Three ever."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Huzzah!" said Pippi picking up a can of orange and spinning it in her hands to mix the paint up before they opened it.

"Where'd you get this thing?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"My dad mailed it to me," Cally says, pulling out a screwdriver to help pry open the paint can. "We used to have it in our backyard."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Wow." said Pippi for the second time today (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/721341.html?thread=27831741#t27831741) while images of the Viper up on blocks in an overgrown lawn floated through her head. "That must have been some delivery truck. Was the delivery guy hot?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, he didn't send it whole," Cally says, popping open the orange paint can. "He sent it piece by piece, and I put it back together."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"How fast does it go now?" She asked waiting looking the ship over and giving some thought to optimal flame placement.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea," Cally says with a shrug, starting to spread a nice basecoat of orange on the Viper. "Anakin is supposed to test fly it sometime soon, though."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That'll be exciting!" she said dipping her own brush into the orange.

"How's the motor bike coming along?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that," Cally says, chewing her lower lip for a second. "There was some, erm, complications with that."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh no!" Said Pippi, who had somehow got some orange paint on her nose already. "Did it 'splode?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Nope, it, erm, well, I think the modifications we made to it kinda turned it into a temporary bodyswap type machine," Cally scratches her nose with her brush hand and ends up getting paint in her bangs. "So, yeah, we've kinda kept that under lock and key, since."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi mulled that over as she painted an orange smiley face on the nose of the Viper and then painted over it.

"That doesn't sound comfortable."

And for some reason that reminded her.

"Oh hey! Can you guys still build me an emergency outboard motor for my boat?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah!" Cally says, going back to painting. "I'll got on that with Bridge A-S-A-P. Should have plans for that somewhere in the library, so all we need to do is piece one together."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to paint my boat red so it goes faster!" she said with a grin.