"The coast is clear!" Fontaine said, hopping out of the vent.
"Are you sure?" Finn asked in a whisper.
"Yep!" Fontaine said, still in her normal voice. "Come on, you need to stretch your legs."
"Plenty of stretch room in here," Finn muttered as he crawled slowly toward the vent.
Fontaine grinned. "It's time you got a tour of the Aronnax."
Finn, nearly in the hall, froze. "What if someone sees us?"
"It's not a full tour," Fontaine said with a sigh. "But Dad and Ant are in the study, and Mom's studying some new fish she spotted this morning. And we can reach a lot of places without passing any cameras."
"Sounds like a security risk," Finn said, regaining his smile as he squirmed out to stand beside Fontaine.
"It's pretty rare for a pirate to actually get aboard," Fontaine said. "Not without help."
Finn's response was interrupted by Kaiko's voice through Fontaine's wrist comm.
"Fontaine, have you seen my fabric ruler?"
"Uh..."
Fontaine was briefly distracted by the stunned-fish look in Finn's eyes. Finn spun and practically dove back into the duct, vanishing in seconds.
"Fontaine?" Kaiko repeated.
"Oh, yeah," Fontaine lifted her communicator. "Ant was using it earlier. Something about Jeffrey getting fat."
"Of course Ant was," Kaiko said, fond exasperation in her voice. "Thanks, Fontaine."
"No problem." Fontaine lowered her comm and peeked back through the vent. "You can come out, nobody's here."
"I just... don't want to take any chances," Finn's muffled voice said.
"Since when?" Fontaine scoffed and dropped the vent cover. "More cookies for me then."
Fontaine leaned against the wall, waiting. A moment later, the cover slowly lifted.
"Does the promise of cookies get any boy moving?" Fontaine asked, startling Finn.
The boy glanced at her with a sheepish grin. "Your mom makes good cookies."
"Well, I can't argue there." Fontaine pushed herself off the wall and started down the hall. She smiled when she heard Finn's feet pattering after her.
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Interning on the Aronnax
Fanfiction(AU starting on S1E7; mostly drabble-sized chapters) Finn makes his choice, but somehow gets kicked off of the Aronnax and the Dark Orca. Joining the Nektons is still his hope, but first he has to convince them that he's a good guy. Luckily, he's go...
