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Sadde and Bell in Worm
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Sadde feels... strange. They poke that feeling this way and that, trying to make sense of it, and tentatively conclude their crush on Chelsea, with whom they hang out somewhat frequently, is the cause of it. And the fact that she's bi and Bella isn't. And she's so nice and pretty and cute and she gets them, and sure, Bella gets them, too, but it's—different somehow, even if they can't quite put a finger on what the difference is. It just is.

They don't have fights. There isn't conflict, per se, in the relationship. Just a sort of... unease. A loss of synchronicity. They're sure as soon as Chelsea goes (must she? She could stay...) everything will come back to normal, even as they fall further and further in love with her.

Unrelatedly, one day Lorica's patrolling and gets a report about a building near her where no one's answering any doors.

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So they do not disagree out loud with her. Going theory still is that this is a copycat. Winter doesn't actually freeze anything, and this looks more like a homage than anything—the Nine themselves like to either make a map of destruction from tiny town to tiny town or to go big scale in big cities and make the news in splashy ways. Not that, of course, the huge body part 9 didn't make the news, and in fact now that the populace is more used to the idea of having bots spread out around town (since the incident with Blasto's minions) they request Lorica to do so.

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Lorica bulks up the hardware bot supply considerably. She makes a stationary installation to churn out some of her parts; it doesn't get that close to self-replication.

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And then it is: Christmas!

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Yaaaay.

(Sadde receives: a slightly-denser-than-popular-level psychology book!)

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Yaaaay indeed!

(And Bella receives: a book of the kind one reads for English class which Sadde made sure she hasn't read yet.)

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Yay!

And would Sadde like to come to the Swan family Christmas dinner?

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Sure! Christmas dinner sounds like a swell idea.

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It's Christmasy, and dinnery. There is a tree and a turkey.

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The turkey's delicious, and Sadde makes sure to compliment it.

(Feeling a bit squirmy about being there for some reason—she'd thought she was over the 'being nervous around Bella's parents' thing?)

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"You okay?" Bella murmurs.

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"Think so, we can talk later," she replies.

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She squeezes Bella's hand.

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...Squeeze.

Dinner. Dessert! Presents.

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Presents!

A warning from her bot!

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...Lorica goes and puts her helmet on to see what's up.

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Screams! Lots of screams from inside another apartment building!

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"Dad, Glam, got an attack in progress."

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"Where?" she—they ask, costuming up.

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Lorica relays the address and gets into the rest of her armor as Renée sighs and packs away the food for later.

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Glam's already in costume then, and just waiting for Transit and Lorica.

(The screams have stopped, but as the bots go investigate in a bit more detail it becomes clear that all of the windows are boarded up and the doors are locked.)

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"Dad, drop Glam off at HQ - bot'll path you to the building -"

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So Charlie drops Glam off in HQ and then he and Lorica vanish again.

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Glam: is dropped off!

The PRT has already been notified and is on its way.

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And how would the PRT like her to play this?

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