Robotic Vampires

In-between

The hallway scrunched underfoot as Ria walked mid-day to technology after having what was a rather bad moment with Easton in the storage room, she finally reaches the threshold, stays a second at the entrance, and walks in. Ria approached Norman shyly, adjusted her sleeves, and sat beside him, "you seem cool today, any other new stuff about me that you've found out,"

"I don't want to talk," Ria said, "no one said you had to. You can nod once for yes and twice for no,"

"I don't want any of that either,"

"Silence it is…" both focus on their work for a while, "I don't like quite, I feel there's something you're not telling me,"

"If you want to know something apart from who holds my second brain, I'll tell you,"

"I don't have any questions for you, cuz all my questions will just end up arousing mine curiosity,"

"I can't say less, but I think that part of things not arousing curiosity was completely rotted out," Norman chuckled, "you rotted it out, I guess,"

"Yeah, I did, and I'm going to fix things every best way possible," she stops and looks him straight in the face, "not just killing you, but bringing down the heaven with it,"

"You're welcome to try, but I think the noisy circumstances in the hallway the other day made you forget how bad it would be if I die," Norman chuckles,

"There's always another way, I know it and I'll find it,"

"Let me make it clear once more, you cut me the robots goes nuts for 30 minutes, you kill me - worse - the run mad forever," Norman said, "And so you know the next time you attack me, Easton dies, that would tell you, you have just once to shoot your shot, and if it goes South. Which is most like to, you won't have a husband to run to afterward,"

"Funny, how you use the word afterward as if you believe in it,"

"There's always hope for the living,"

"I don't understand, you sound like you're in a cage yourself,"

"You can't eat one slice and believe the whole bread is delicious,"

"What do you mean?" Ria paused and turned towards Norman, "if this is your way of making me pity you, nice try* but trials don't work on me,"

"I don't have anything to prove to you,"

"Yeah, you do…" Ria smiled, "you're not done with your robots,"

"Are you challenging me to a contest,"

"First person to complete their robots, gets the day off,"

"Perfection takes time, but I won't be stuck in here either," Norman stands and walks out. Still walking towards the threshold, he says, "goodbye, Ria, you can help complete mine,"

"Piece of scrap," Ria says. She plays with the robots after a few stitches and soldering, she hears a low but effective word blow through her right ear, "how's the escape plan going,"

"Who's that?" Ria turns around and gets shocked by the person whistling, "Kayden, it's been a while, I've not heard from you,"

"Yeah, I'm really happy for you, getting married to God in heaven, it's amazing, I mean you're already pregnant right," Kayden said. Ria turned around and kept the focus stuck on her two-unfinished robots, "have I said anything wrong,"

"No, you're not," Ria makes a hard smile and turns around again to Kayden, "we have a lot to discuss,"

"Yeah, we do,"

"Firstly, have you gotten your radio yet, or…"

"Nope, hoping to get it today,"

"Ok, may not be using it because of my position, I'd say,"