xp_logs | Kyle & Dori: Death From Above!!!!! (Backdated)

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After talking with Hank, Doreen tracks down Kyle with flying death hugs. And squirrels.

Dori was in the branches. Fall meant that there wasn't as much cover as there normally was, but she was high enough up that cover wasn't the issue. She even made sure she was wearing a sweater that matched the brightly colored leaves, what was still left in the trees anyway.

She was an awesomely l33t stalking predator.

Just ignore the giggling.

Or all the squirrels clicking and tittering with her. She was stalking her equally awesomely l33t prey! She was waiting for just the right moment before running along one of the branches and taking a flying leap off, giggling insanely.

"GERONIMO!" she shouted before hitting her target. Why did people always scream that when they jumped off stuff? She'd never get that.

Kyle should have seen, or heard, or smelled the attack coming. But he just wasn't paying attention, or expecting attack from above. And in his defense, he had heard the noises and figured out something was going to happen... about three whole seconds before he was tackled by about fifteen squirrels, and one squirrel-tailed teenage girl. Three seconds was not nearly enough to get out of the way, it was only enough to sort of aim the fall to land into the largest of the leaf piles.

Of course, the leaf piles had been raked into the largest possible sizes for the very purpose of jumping into. That's what leaf piles were for, after all. Kyle picked his head up from the leaves, shook most of them out of his hair and gave a plaintive "Why?"

In Kyle's defense, she hit him from about twenty feet away, and could've done it from farther away than that. She giggled insanely, "Hi."

"Dude, did someone let you into the maple syrup or something?" Not that Kyle didn't have his goofy hyperactive moments. That sometimes involved getting into the maple syrup. "Why am I the target of squirrely attack from the trees today?"

Dori blew a leaf out of her face. It was on her nose and now her nose was all tingly, "I dunno. Because you were there and I was there and I thought I'd say hi and I didn't, but I had a lot of marshmallows today. They were on the counter. And really tasty."

Kyle nodded faux-sagely. "Those homemade ones? I bet the cooking class made 'em. We made those in cooking class like way back when I was in high school. They're fun and you can make them in flavors so you get like peanut marshmallows or chocolate ones or whatever." And he could eat them, unlike the ones from the bag at the store.

"Yeah, they were like totally the best things ever," Doreen said. And they were all gone. And some of them had still been warm. Oh god, she wanted more! But that wasn't important. She had a reason for doing this, a very not giggly reason.

But she really could only giggle. And blush. Bright red.

Kyle was going to stay in the leaf pile until she stopped giggling. Why did he have to be the target of the 17 year old's crush that could get him arrested. Why couldn't it be Kurt or Hank or someone else fuzzy? "So just random attack from giggling squirrel ninja?"

She did stop giggling, but the dopey smile didn't quite leave her face, even with all the squirrels jumping and chirping around her, "Well, I really should be reading stuff but I thought I'd come and tell you first that I talked to Mr. McCoy and to the Professor and yeah."

"Stuff? Stuff like files on a big database and mission reports?" Kyle asked, already knowing the answer. It was kind of a obvious voice-in-his-head-going-durr answer. "So you're good to go, and your mom was okay with it and everything? Score!" He threw his arms up in a celebratory gesture, flinging handfuls of leaves along with them.

"Yeah!" Doreen said, her tail curling happily. The hands up was responded with a happy hug. It was a friend hug. REALLY.

Kyle hugged back. Hugging was fine, he refused to not hug, he didn't care how many damn lectures he might have to ever sit through. "So when do we get you fitted for your awesome grey body armor?" He stopped himself just before 'leather pants'. As it was, he was pretty sure Dori had no idea she actually had a nice set of legs, and he didn't want to give her any reason to freak out, one way or another.

"You know, I didn't ask exactly but I have to finish the reading and I won't even play my games, but I'll do my homework because I'm supposed to do that anyway and ohmigod, isn't this the most awesome thing like ever?" she said, standing up with a bounce. She had gotten a hug from Kyle! Yay! And that entire sentence came out in one breath.

"Okay, step one, we teach you how to breath between words. Step two... " Kyle's grin was definitely evil. "Well, I can't tell you what step two is yet, but you'll find out pretty soon." He was pretty sure that she was going to hate him by Christmas. That was his goal. He and Laurie were already working on making Jean-Philippe hate them.

"Is it fun? I can't wait!" she twirled, squirrels dancing around her. They didn't know what the big deal was, but they liked the party, as it were.

"Are we gonna have squirrels on every mission now?" Kyle asked, laughing at the antics. "I dunno if the Danger Room is squirrel proof. Maybe we should give Monkey Joe his own code name. He can be.... Momo."

Monkey Joe who was nearby in his red collar started to dance about angrily and click and chirp. "That is totally his code name," Doreen said happily, "This is going to be so awesome! Today is like one of the best days ever!"

"Now we just have to convince Doc Hank to go as Appa for Halloween." Kyle had finally watched all of Avatar - a few days of using it as background noise for studying and he'd been hooked, if a little embarrassed.

"You totally have the best ideas," Doreen said happily, "I should go do the reading though. Omigosh, I'm so happy!"