Log: Adrienne and Sue: The same thing they do every night, try to take over the world. (Backdated)

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Adrienne and Sue play a practice game of chess before the upcoming tournament and catch up as they play.

Sue stared at the scene in front of her. She could do this, she'd done it before. There was no time for hesitation she decided reaching down to the chess board in front of her. "Are you sure you don't have the Professor or Dr Grey in my head while we're playing?" she asked with a laugh. "I should be able to beat you at least once." Especially if she wanted to win the New York Open next month.

"You have beaten me," Adrienne reminded Sue, smirking. "You beat me when I was insane, remember?"

"That doesn't really count," Sue countered, "you were insane. It was hardly what I'd call a fair match." She grinned at Adrienne, "I'll beat you in a fair match one of these days."

Adrienne scoffed at that. "It's nice that you have that ambition, Jeter. Keep dreaming. But hey, keep in mind I've got...mrrrft number of years on you," she said by way of encouragement, making a random muttery sound in place of an actual number. "You're better than I was at your age. You're going to kick ass at the invitational."

"Exactly, the way I figure it's only a matter of time before you start slipping in your old age then," Sue shot back with a teasing grin. "You know as an adult teacher type person you really shouldn't mumble so much Yogi," the teenager stuck her tongue out at Adrienne before leaning back in her chair to observe the board. "Maybe. I hope so, but this is my last chance to walk away with a win. Next year I have to enter the adult's category. You know with all the people who've been playing for ages, like you." The blonde look at Adrienne curiously, "Why don't you sign up this year?"

"Because I don't know if the mansion could handle two chess champions," Adrienne smirked. Although, really, if she was taking the kids to the tournaments anyway... The thought had crossed her mind, but she'd been quashing it. Nah. She wanted to start this club for the students, not for herself. "And I'm not technically teaching right at this moment," she pointed out, "I'm whupping your ass, so I should be able to mumble all I want." She made her move but then rose from her seat and went to grab the little radio she usually took to the gym with her. "Mind if I put the ball game on?"

I dunno, it's a pretty big mansion," Sue countered. "I'm sure we could fit in one more champions here somewhere. Maybe the professor has an unused wing or two he hasn't been using. Aren't we supposed to learn from our mistakes or something? So in a way you still are teaching aren't you." the teenager stuck her tongue out at Adrienne as she leaned forward to make her own move. "Go ahead," Sue gestured at the radio, "it'd be easier than checking on the phone. Besides who knows, maybe it'll distract you enough to let me beat you."

"Resorting to any method of beating me possible, huh?" Adrienne replied with another smirk as she turned the radio on. Sue's line about fitting one more champion in the mansion had greatly amused her. "But what if I were to enter, and I won, and you lost? That doesn't seem like good teaching to me," she pointed out. "It seems irresponsible. Because it would affect your self-esteem. You might become all emo on us.Then your dad would be calling me up asking what the hell happened to his happy daughter, and I'd have to tell him that I negatively affected your self-esteem by winning a chess tournament. Then I'd probably get fired. And I'd have to become a prostitute."

"I know, it's a horrible despicable tactic, I blame my teacher, you should take it up with her." Sue replied sticking her tongue out playfully at Adrienne. "Hmm, yeah that sounds like it could be a real problem, we wouldn't want you getting kicked out of the mansion and being forced to roam the streets." The blonde smiled, "On the other hand what would it do to your self esteem if I won and you didn't?" she teased. "There is a pretty simple solution to the whole problem, we just both need to win, that way everyone gets what they want."

"Oh, touché," Adrienne nodded in response to Sue's comment about what it would do to Adrienne's self esteem if she won and Adrienne didn't. "Okay, maybe I will enter. I can't avoid a challenge," she smirked. "But I've never competed in chess before. Any pointers?"

"Win," the teenager stated in a matter of fact voice as she grinned at Adrienne. "I was always told to play the player, you should try to psych them out or distract them if you really wanna win." Sue leaned back and smiled at Adrienne. "Just go and have fun, you're good enough to win it without worrying about anything there."

"Psych them out? Distract them? You mean, like, with my feminine wiles?" Adrienne suggested with a smirk. "I can probably manage that. It's how I've gotten pretty much everything in my life." She stopped talking to give the board her full concentration for a few moments, made her move, and started talking again. "So you and Matt broke up, huh? How are you doing with that?" Normally she wouldn't ask about the students' romances, but she felt more investment in the Matt/Sue relationship than any of the others, because of her discussions with them both during Matt's struggles with his addiction.

"I've always found that just talking at them works pretty well too. People get so focused on playing the game that the happy bubbling girl on the other side of the table who won't keep quiet tends to unsettle them and throw them off their game. Whatever works for you at the time I guess, I once saw someone totally psych out their opponent with just one move on the board, didn't have to say or do anything else, it just threw his opponent completely off his game."

At the mention of her relationship with Matt the blonde's face fell and she gave a small sigh, "I'm doing ok," she assured the older woman. "I don't even know what went wrong, one day we were fine but then it got harder to make time. For the last few months we didn't even hang out at all." Sue looked over at Adrienne, "Are relationships always this hard?" she asked in a small voice.

"Hmm, maybe I should ask my opponents about their love lives," joked Adrienne, "or for relationship advice." She figured both she and Sue were now sort of distracted from the game. "I don't know, to tell you the truth," she admitted. "I'm probably the worst person to ask about relationships. I haven't had many healthy ones in my lifetime. I think what I'm probably supposed to tell you, though, is that, y'know, anything that's worth it takes a lot of work and struggle. I'm not sure, though. I can't help thinking sometimes that, if you're with the right person, it shouldn't be hard."

"It would be so much nicer if it was easy," Sue agreed, "I totally get where you're coming from, I get you need to work at it but can't they be just a little bit simpler." The blonde stared at the chess board, looking through it, but not actually seeing it. "I guess the whole if it were easy it wouldn't be worth doing rule applies here too," she noted looking up at Adrienne with a wry smile, "I really hate that rule." Sue cast her mind around for another topic to discuss, "So if Tandy manages to beat you in the fantasy league do we get dinner or something?"

Adrienne chuckled at her, glad for the change in subject. "You mean if she beats me this week? Or for the year? And why would you get dinner if she beats me? I think these dinners should be individual, and if you beat me you get dinner. But then does that work both ways? Are you going to buy me dinner if I beat you?"

"This week of course," Sue replied in a mock scandalized tone, "You don't think you're gonna get off that lightly if we beat you over the whole year do you? Gonna have to do something nice for that, although you're right it's only fair that you get the prize too if you win. Hmm," the blonde stroked her chin pensively for a moment before a bright grin blossomed on her face, "Well all I need to do is make sure I don't loose then."

"That's the spirit," Adrienne answered, amused. "So did you hear back about any of those internships you applied for?" she asked Sue, hoping for another distracting conversation topic as she made another move on the chess board.

Sue grinned at Adrienne the chess board, temporarily, forgotten. "I did! I have interviews next month," the blonde bubbled excitedly. "They really liked the robots I made for Angelica. uhmm Miss Jones, they're not very advanced but apparently they 'show potential." Sue beamed at the older woman, it had been a good day when she got that e-mail.

Now it was Adrienne's turn to be distracted from the game. She shivered and made a face. "Robots? Why on earth would you want to build robots?" she questioned, shivering again.

"Why wouldn't I?" Sue asked, cocking her head to the side as she look at Adrienne, "They're really cool, and they're ultimate test of engineering and programming. You have to think about the chassis, the motors, the programming, it's everything we've learned condensed into one body.It's like the engineers holy grail."

"You should be thinking less about chassis, motors, and programming, and more about how it could become sentient and kill us all," Adrienne said without a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "Haven't you ever watched Doctor Who? Robots kill people all the time. Do you really want to be responsible for that?"

Adrienne's seriousness took Sue by surprise, "Robot's can't kill people, not unless you program them too," she pointed out. "And then it's not their fault, it's whoever programmed them. Like you wouldn't blame a sword or knife for killing someone. They can't just gain sentience like they do in fiction, A.I. is just a pipe dream right now. YOu can make a machine appear intelligent, but to have a robot that could reprogram itself so it can kill? That's not somethign you have to worry about." The girl smiled at Adrienne, "besides, there are way bigger an more complex robots than anything I can make right now everywhere, all I've got are little spiders, I think they might be able to give you a massage, but not much more than that."

"Thinking like that, that they can't gain sentience, that's how they're going to... wait. What? Spiders? You made spiders?!" Adrienne jumped out of her chair as if she'd been bitten by something. "WhywouldyoumakerobotspidersohmyGodohmyGod!" she shrieked.

"Because they're easy to make and aren't gonna fall over when the ferrets try knocking them over." Sue explained staring at Adrienne in worry, "I just made them so Angel's monsters would have something shiny to play with." The blonde stood up peering around the room with a confused look on her face before looking back at the adult, "Are you alright?"

Adrienne glared at the girl. If she was still looking for an edge to the game by distracting Adrienne, she'd found a doozy. "I. Don't. Like. Robots," she answered through gritted teeth. She looked around the room again, as if there might be a robot hiding in one of the corners, but then sat back down. "Robots are creepy as hell!"

"But they're everywhere," Sue pointed out. "We use them everyday. Your computer, the coffee machine, I'm not sure how anyone at the mansion could live without their computers or the coffee machine." The teenager settled back into her seat and contemplated the board in-front of her trying to plan her next move.

"Those aren't robots," Adrienne insisted, making a face. "Those are just machines. Like cars. Robots are different!"

"Well you do get self driving robotic cars today," Sue noted with an innocent smile, "besides have you seen the coffee machine in the kitchen? It's way more complex than anything I could come up with."

"I will never get a self-driving robotic car," Adrienne pointed out. "And again, the coffee maker is a machine. It doesn't have legs and arms!" Maybe that was what freaked her out so much about robots.

"A robot is just a machine capable of autonomous action," Sue replied, "You just tell it what to do and it does it without you having to keep track of every little thing, they don't need to have arms and legs to do that. Like a Roomba, totally useful and never gonna take over the world or anything."

"That's exactly what the Roombas want you to think," Adrienne warned. "And then next thing you know, they're singing the 'Humans Are Dead' song."

"Well at least we'd die clean," Sue quipped with a smile as she reached over to the board to pick up a piece. "Imagine being attacked by a horde of Roomba's playing that song, now that would be scary." The blonde looked down at the piece in her hand before grinning at Adrienne as she placed it back on the board, "Check."