Romantic Resurrections <A JP by the lovely Becca, and the even love

Who: Rufus, Vanessa
Where: Les Royal Niples
When: After the return from New France
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Rufus smoothed down his hair once more and pushed his glasses up his nose.
Again. He was nervous beyond words. Vanessa was coming to talk to him.
VANESSA was comeing to TALK to HIM. He gulped and shuffled in his seat, he'd
been waiting for twenty minutes already.
Vanessa, of course was running late. She was after all a Chrysler, and with
that came the family trait of never thinking ahead, therefore she'd decided
to wait until she actually had to be at Parrot's to even start getting
ready. Luckily, being a hologram it didn't take long, a quick request to
Holly, to cycle through a few outfits and she was off. She didn't know what
exactly Rufus had in mind tonight, but hey, it was an excuse for a drink if
nothing else. She quickly adjusted her skirt, and shuffled out of her
quarters, dahsed back in to grab her keys, then once more to grab her
wallet. She walked halfway down the corridor and ran back again, this time
to ask Holly to actually give her some shoes....
Finally, 20 minutes after she was meant to meet Rufus, she was on her way!
Rufus grumbled. Ten more minutes had gone by. Vanessa wasnt going to turn
up. Who was he kidding? He was just a sad lonely pathetic loser. A geek.
Nothing more. He got up to leave.
Vanessa tripped over her own feet as she darted into Parrots, and decided
that now, was a good time to look at the time.
"Smeg..." she mumbled, "8:30 already?"
She spotted Rufus standing up from his seat at a nearby table and ran over.
"You didn't think I was gonna stand you up did you?"
Rufus eyes shot up fromt he floor and despite himself he grinned from ear to
ear.
"Well.... Urm.... I.... Urm..." He managed, pulling out her chair for her in
an attepmt to rectify the situation.
Vanessa sat down, "So...." she said, as Rufus took his seat again, visibly
sweating, "What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Erm..." said Rufus. "How about a..a..a..d..drink first?" his voice goinf
pretty high pitched at the end of his verve-wracked sentence.
Vanessa smiled and said:
"Yeah sure. White wine spritzer please. With soda." Rufus got up to go to
the bar, tripping over his own feet and nearly landing on his face. He
blushed a fantastic shade of crimson.
Vanessa shook her head with a smile, whether it was a smile of happiness or
embarrassment she wasn't sure. One emoition she was sure of however was
anticipation, Rufus had said something about being able to help her, she
didn't know how...but it was something do with her holographic status. She
was eager to find out what, but before that, she was gagging for that
drink....she looked over at the ba
r where Rufus waited to be served. He was shuffling nervously, and looked
back at Vanessa shyly.
He got drinks, only a coke for himself. Although he suspected the bartender
had spiked it with something. He made it back to the table and sat down,
giving Vanessa her drink. He sat there, quiet, too nervous to speak.
Vanessa sipped her drink, and slumped back into her chair. "Just what the
doctor ordered..." she sighed, "Actually...he ordered the death of my
brother but a girls gotta drink!" Rufus shuffled nervously. "Oh come on it
was a joke!"e!! Keto, Jay.....oh never mind!"
"I think I can make you human again" Rufus blurted out. Unsure where the
confidence came from.
Vanessa was stunned. Not sure what to say, Speechlessness wasn't a usual
trait of hers but here she was, stunned silent.
She realised suddenly her mouth was gaping open, and thought that probably
wasn't the most attractive she'd ever looked, so snapped her jaw shut and
went back to being shocked. "Wha....what did you say?
"It worked with Dad.... If you dont count the midget." Rufus said, now he
was onto science he'd relaxed a little bit. "Its easy for the most part. The
hardest part will be finding some old DNA of yours." Rufus said, leaning
forwards.
"You can really do that?!" she asked, still shocked, excited, but shocked,
could she really be lucky enough to get a second chance at life? "Sure" said
Rufus, "If you can get some DNA...."
"Jay kept alot of my stuff from when I was alive when I first died...he gave
it back to me when Holly brought me back online...there's gotta be a strand
of hair on an old necklace or something...."
"I mean. It will be possible. I'm sure." Rufus smiled. He was happy that he
could help Vanessa, even if she could never like him.
"What do you need me to do?" Vanessa asked.
"Find something, anything that contains your DNA, call me, and bring it to
the science decks where I'll meet you......"
Vanessa leapt out of her chair, "Why not come with me to find it! There's no
sense in waiting!" She grabbed Rufus's hand and ran out of Parrott's
dragginf him toward her quarters......
<to be continued>