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Yelena Belova ([personal profile] musicdied) wrote in [community profile] pennysheets 2025-05-31 05:45 am (UTC)

After some intel

Yelena brings coffee and orange juice by the media room in which she and Bob had set their little camp up the night before, and lets him know there's cereal in the kitchen. She doesn't want to ambush him with horrors first thing in the morning, so after helping tidy up, she leaves him be to explore, and goes off on her own to shower and start working some of her contacts.

And then Ava returns, and they spend a few hours digging through the systems in the lab - only partially scrubbed, so they're chasing digital ghosts, which makes them both snicker. They break mid-afternoon, and apparently Alexei has gone shopping in the interim, which is a mildly terrifying prospect, but he has bought cookies, the little puffy marshmallow ones with jam and a thin chocolate shell that she'd loved when she was six years old and a hit of sugar could cure just about anything.

And maybe the curative properties of sweet treats aren't quite what she'd thought when she was six, but there's still something to be said for having cookies to offset bad news, so she snags a sleeve of the overly-sugared monstrosities, and sets off to find Bob.

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