First Floor Garage, Sunday Morning

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam had slept pretty well, but now had a burning desire to be greasy, which she was chalking up to a reaction to formalwear and heels. Since the other option--heading over to the gun range--didn't appeal right now, she was back with the swoop bike and trying to tweak the settings on the steering and brakes. They were still a little too sensitive for her, which shouldn't be a huge surprise, since they originally came from Anakin.

Within minutes, she was filthy, wearing a pair of old jeans and a sweatshirt, with a fresh pot full of coffee and doughnuts on the table, singing along to the radio.


[ooc: Open to everyone.]

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[ewbadwrongno.livejournal.com]

Nik peered down at her, blue eyes huge. "Ya need to tighten that with a hydrospanner," he informed her firmly. "Or else you'll turn into bug squash on the first corner."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, I knew that already," Sam mumbled, then turned around when she realized the voice was a little higher pitched than she was used to hearing. "Um, hi?"

[ewbadwrongno.livejournal.com]

Nik was crawling under the bike and had a smudge of grease on his nose already. "Hi!" he said, smiling. "I was trying to find caf but this is much better nananayway."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Should you be doing that?" Sam asked, worried in equal amounts for both the child and the bike. "And who are you?"

[just-like-mommy.livejournal.com]

After breakfast, Cameron and Marybeth were heading back to Cameron's room. Cameron was distracted on the phone and Marybeth spotted someone she knew.

"Auntie Sam!" she exclaimed, running over. "Whatcha doin'?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam blinked. The little girl didn't look like either her niece or nephew, but the odds of a random child calling her by the right name were astronomical. "Er, fixing the swoop bike."

[just-like-mommy.livejournal.com]

"Daddy has a swoopbike!" Marybeth said. "But Mommy says I'm too little to go for rides right now cause he goes too fast. I have to wait til I'm bigger or til Daddy learns to be more 'sponsible."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron hung up his telephone after leaving Veronica a message (http://community.livejournal.com/fh_alumni/15106.html?thread=2023682#t2023682) and followed after Marybeth.

"Yo, Sam," he said, looking a bit dazed as he listened to all the babbling.

[harknesshorde.livejournal.com]

Aiden had lost him. Jake pouted a bit as he kept walking, sort of looking for him only not really, 'cause he was bossy.

Oooh, garage! He ran inside, stopped dead when he saw his mom, then ran across to hug her legs. "Mommy! Aiden lost me." That was important. "Even if he said he didn't, he did and we left you a note on a tree and had cake but it wasn't a 'gate in disguise and what's that?" He'd caught sight of the swoop bike.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Mommy?" Nothing else after that really connected and she stared down at the little boy.

[harknesshorde.livejournal.com]

Jake stared up at her, still hugging her legs, and grinned what might be a very familiar grin. "Yeahhhh, and that means you have to show me what that is. Come on, show me." He took her hand and started tugging her towards the bike.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hold it," she ordered, for lack of anything better to do, and moving so that she was standing between the little boy with a familiar grin and unholy gleem in his eye and her swoop bike. "I...what's your name and rank, soldier?"

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

Josh wandered in, looking at the shiny and the tools and the motorcycles and the--was that like his dad's motorbike?

[justlowercased.livejournal.com]

Charlie had played in the park just long enough to get a little dirty, then she'd followed the stream of other kids up to the big big building.

Most of them seemed to know where they were going so she was on her own, but that was alright 'cause just then she saw someone she knew and that someone was dirtier than she!

"'unt Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!" She called gleefully as she hurried toward Sam.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" Sam was getting used to this by now, and grinned at the almost-clean little blonde girl, waiting to see which parent ran up to claim her. "What have you been up to?"

[justlowercased.livejournal.com]

"I's been playin'!" The little girl beamed. "Whacha doin?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I'm playing too," she grinned at the swoop bike, then at the door. Hmmm, no parents yet. "Where's your mommy and daddy?"

[harknesshorde.livejournal.com]

Aiden ran ahead of his two dads, skittering into the garage and looking around.

"Jaaaaaaaaaaaake? Are you in here?"

[harknesshorde.livejournal.com]

"It's about time you found me!" Jake declared from where he was trying to poke the swoop bike, "I thought you were going to take forever. You know you're not s'posed to leave me places."

[harknesshorde.livejournal.com]

"I didn't mean to," Aiden said, scurrying over. "But but but I found people!"

[harknesshorde.livejournal.com]

"I did, too!" He waved towards Sam, then raced across the garage at Jack.

[minor-k.livejournal.com]

"Is that her?"

"It looks like her. Only without so many wrinkles."

"Mom doesn't have wrinkles!" Lou hissed.

"She does, but we're not allowed to talk about them. Dad said so," Eddie replied, peering around the corner of the door. "What should we do?"

Louise sighed. "Whenever we get lost, even if it's a weird thing because Mom pressed the wrong button or Dad got the wrong people mad, we have to try to find them or someone we know."

"But she might be Replicarter, not real Mom."

"Replicarter is the stupidest name ever, Eddie."

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Shhh! She'll hear us. Wait here."

"No!" Eddie called, but Lou was already walking towards Sam with her hands behind her back.

"Excuse me?" she asked, looking as innocent as possible. "Are you a Replicator?"

Even if they wanted to wipe you out, it didn't hurt to be polite. Besides, Eddie would save her if she was a Replicator.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam turned around and blinked at the little girl. Well, no doubt she knew this one. "No, I'm not. But if I was, I could lie to you, couldn't I? Do you have another way to check?"

[minor-k.livejournal.com]

"We could get the disruptor thingy that other you built."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Ho boy. So, knew she was a clone and knew about replicators and how to destroy them. "Maybe we could save that as Plan B?" She suggested, then made a logical assumption, "So, I'm your mom, huh?"

Now all she had to do was figure out the identity of the little girl's dad.