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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:28 am
Archie sat ouside in the sun, living wand in his lap and a book in his felty hands. The book was called The Interstellar Space Travel Guide, and it was boring. He didn't even really know why he was reading it - he never wanted to go back to the Puppet Planet, and they never wanted him back. Still, the chapter on Homemade Rockets was proving to be at least mildly entertaining. Certainly not something to be left around, in case any of the kids he had rehomed came back with awesome reading skills or something. He didn't doubt that any one of them would be eager to return home.
He turned the book over on his lap and stared down the block. A new baby was scheduled to land today, and he silently wished for some way to determine more precise pod arrival times.
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:03 pm
Sissi rubbed her eyes and peered down at the piece of paper with an addresses scrawled across it in her jumbled handwriting. She was supposed to pick up a kid here, right? She glanced back at the house that matched the address. I was expecting a launch pad...but.. stranger things have happened.
She rubbed the creases out of her cotton shirt and checked herself in the reflection of a car; hoping she wouldn't make a bad impression. And slowly walked up to the door, knocked twice and waited, hoping who ever was supposed to be there was..home.
She was excited to say the least this meant she would have an child, better yet an alien child to take care of, what could be better? Her family's scientific legacy would go on she'd be able to prove she wasn't a screw up at being a genius.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:28 pm
It took him a couple of seconds to hear the knocking. He was outside, after all, and was more concentrated on the strange wisp floating at the end of the stick he carried than anything else.
When he realized what he had heard, Archie stood up suddenly, and the book he had been reading fell into the grass. "Oh hey, around here!" he yelled. Whoever it was might be just the person he wanted to see. "In the yard!"
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:29 pm
Sissi perked up and started to walk around the house, "Sir this is very unprofes-" she stopped getting a glimps of Archie, her jaw dropped. Unprofession was certainly the word. This seemed like a house, her eyes twitch flashing over the surrounding area. A giant...bulls eye.
"I believe I am in the wrong place, I was told to pick up an alien child here?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:56 pm
"Oh yeah, this is the place! It's just that..." he leaned over and retrieved his book, glancing at a piece of paper stuck into the back, "...she hasn't arrived yet." He walked over to where Sissi was standing and stuck out his hand to shake.
"I'm Archie. Would you like something to drink? Or, ooh, we just bought these little chocolate cookies too, they're really good." The wisp at the end of the wand Archie was holding with the hand he wasn't offering to Sissi wriggled about happily.
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:31 pm
Sissi shook his hand looking at the wisping wand awkwardly, "I'm sorry, I've been thinking about /her/ as an experiment and not as a child, the scientist in me," she blushed and looked at Archie smiling, "I'm Sissi Reed."
Looking at the giant target she blinked, "So...when will she be here? What did she do?" She slid her big red notebook out of her bag and started to rummage around in her purse for a pen. She wanted to take note of everything that happened.
She would of course grow out of this, well..hopefully...once she met the little girl.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:36 am
"Oh, I didn't mean to make you feel bad about the girl thing. And who knows, sometimes they come out the opposite of what they used to be." Archie didn't elaborate on this vague statement, he just shoved the wand in his pocket and continued talking. "She neglected some kids put into her care, if I remember right, and she should be here very soon. In fact..."
Archie didn't need to see the computer banks in his living room to know that there was a ship approaching, because he could see it with his own two eyes. "There." He pointed up off over Sissi's shoulder at a faint, black speck speeding toward the ground.
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