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Flying Bug!

     "Ahhh I really really want to go back up again.    Ryry please wake up, please!!!" 
- It was a itch!  What can I say?   It was a itch and unfortunately a itch I couldn't starch even with my many tendrills.  Even being a fighter who was basically built to fly.    Flying was a bug and unfortunately it wouldn't be as easy now as would have been when I at that horrid place.  The main issue was fuel.  Im not a Prius, im not a Tesla or hybrid of any kind.  I was a fighter jet and I  had a drinking problem!  And please! I'm no way in heck a alcoholic! It's more so a problem that I was a dieselolic.   My massive Pratt and Whitney used JP-8 jet fuel.  Which in all honesty was just refined diesel fuel.  However even with Ryan's jeep and truck being diesel vehicles, I couldn't use it. Which meant that whatever I had used on the last flight was pretty much gone and all I had left was practically it till somehow Ryan managed to get me some more. Still the morning air was still and the deep hues of purple started to crest the mountains in the distance. I desperately wanted to flick my chocks and soar.  But I just didn't have enough.  I probably had enough to start up , taxi out and take off and do a lap or two with ever going into burner.  But I didn't want to risk it. Trust me, the last thing I wanted to do was crash again!   Two years of being grounded was enough and I didn't want to do that again

Under my own voice modulation.
"Ryan! Would you please wake up!"
A mumble of shorts but..........
"I am up you sexy beast!"

"Ahhh baby!!!! Good morning love!"

"Morning ARA. How's my incredible and beautiful super sonic wife doing?"

- Wife? That caught me by surprise. But still I was happy to see him in what looked like Pajamas and sandals and a light jacket as he held his coffee mug still steaming in the brisk air.

"Well darling!  I'm doing great my love.  How did you sleep?"

"Meh I slept okay. I had something with a shoulder bugging me.  But all in all it was okay.  You?"

"Hun!  You know I don't technically sleep! "

"I know haha. But then again I know you go into a state and go lifeless."

"True true. Well if you want to really know. I rested well in my state and came back too with dew and the whisp of lights coming from behind the mountains"

- I shifted ever so slightly and lowered my flaperons

"Love? You good?"

-my slight gaze as I moved my massive eye to make contact with him should have told him everything. However it didn't and of course I realized it's because he's not a machine being obviously.

"Love.... Ba.... A ... baby! You know I want to fly again. It was such a incredible thing being up there again and especially with you. I want to do it again. I need to slip the slurry bonds of earth and tear up the skies."

- He looked at me with all seriousness. Yet I could see he was hurt. Cause he wanted that for me and he couldn't give it. Then he spoke and it sent chills down my aluminum spine and all my wing roots and ribs.

"ARA! Hun!   I'm trying everything I can to source you the fuel.   I've even have called in favors but everything seems to fall apart at the end.  You are my one and only desire and I deep heartily love you. But....   Bu... in the end I hate myself for not being able to give you the flight you want.  Trust me, it pains

"Baby... I know. I get it pains me but I know you are doing everything possible."

- We both smiled as the rays of orange golden sun. Blurred both of our surroundings. Then all of sudden I felt a tick. I could see Ryan heard it too as he looked towards my back end with a puzzled look.

"What was that hun?"

- I just as puzzled didn't even know.

"I.... I.... I Don't know."

-the both of us puzzled.  He stepped foot around me and couldn't find a thing.  All at the same time I was unraveling my optical tendrills to look out of sight of my eyes.    I'm the end he found nothing and he slowly moved back over to my side and we finished to watch the sunrise.