*Stumbles in* Eh.. How long was I out? What'd I miss? *Reaches for NanoFate*
EDIT: Ha. Page for NanoFate.net D:
You missed a lot :3 You won't find much NanoFate here anymore
@DezoPenguin:That was a great thing to wake up to <3 I'm very glad you liked the chapter ^_^
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*waves to Keroko* Now I see what you (um, Keroko, not Satashi) meant that Syn was a good debater--she picked up Vivio's hug-and-kiss-friend example and totally took it to the house!
I'd like to point out that there is a difference between Keroko's Syn and my Syn. Since she said I could have free-range on Syn and use her anyway I want, I kind of made my Syn (Sata-Syn as she was called.... that's funny :3 ) into her own person. The things in my stories that she does doesn't necessarily mean official Syn does them. For example, everything in PS!V was made up by me. Her personality (besides being one not to think before speaking) and her quirks (such as her love to cook, how she's dealing with the situation, and her foot fetish lol) were thigns that I added into her character. The things that double as Keroko's Syn (such as the way Syn can articulate her feelings perfectly, or how she can grasp Vivio's example and run with it) are just happy coincidences that happened when I wrote them and tehn Keroko said her Syn can do it as well.
So unless Keroko documents papers saying that I can give Syn officialness and share the character, please remember that my Syn isn't the official one and that the things in my story don't mean that they're how Kero-Syn would really act ^_^
Vivio slowly climbed out of her bed and stumbled across her apartment. The world blurred around her but the hope that Syn was behind the knocking on her door gave her the energy to make it the rest of the way. Once she managed to reach the door, she leaned against the frame and unlocked it. Instead of a young blue haired girl waiting to talk to her, she instead found a more mature woman looking at her with a mix of shock and pity. "Hey Allquall," Vivio mumbled, eyes closing and letting her head fall against the frame.
"Eyes, you look like hell, what happened!?" The woman quickly helped the blond walk back to her bed, where she slowly crawled into it and laid face first. "Are you okay? you never came back for your checkup and when I asked I was told you haven't even come to work all week or updated your webpage! I was worried!"
"Ah." Vivio stayed silent after the short mumble but reluctantly allowed herself to be rolled over and sat up on the bed. "I want to lay down..."
"You need me to check on you." The woman sat down on the bed and started giving her a one-over. "How do you feel?"
"Dead."
"Be more specific please."
"Throwing up, my throat hurts, my eyes sting, my chest s tight, I don't care about anything."
Allquall looked at the girl a little closer. The normally shining gold hair was dull and lifeless, and instead of the faint sweet smell of perfume, she smelt sweat and neglect. "Eyes, why didn't you come in? Your cold got worse, I'm certain you have the flu now. Didn't you get pills to prevent that?" Vivio looked away. "Are you eating okay?"
"I'd just throw it up."
"Are you taking care of yourself? When did you last shower and change your sheets? You need to stay clean, you will feel better."
Vivio shrugged. "I dunno..." The hands keeping her up left and she laid back down on the bed, cheek on her pillow. "I don't really care."
"What's wrong with you?" The woman asked softly. "I've never once seen you not smiling and bouncing off the walls."
Staying quiet a moment, Vivio finally opened her eyes again and looked up at the woman. "Syn left me... After that I... I just got sick." She once again looked away and faced her pillow, fighting back the urge to cry again.
"You can't not take care of yourself because your girlfriend left you. If you don't get better you'll be in trouble."
"I know but...I don't know..."
Allquall stood up and tucked the girl in. "I'm going to prescribe you something and get your pharmacist to deliver it. She's your friend right?" She got a small nod. "Okay, I'll do that... Vivio, take a shower, you smell like ten kinda of ass." She got a small smile, but it was enough for her. "Really. I'll be back tomorrow to check up on you. May I leave your door unlocked for a few hours?"
"Yes."
"Okay, Angel will be by shortly. If she can't, I'll take it to you."
"...Thank you." For the first time in a few days, Vivio felt as if laying in bed and dieing wasn't the only solution to how she felt at that moment.
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Syn felt a small shake on her shoulder and jerked slightly in shock, blinking and turning to the side to see Riyuu looking at her oddly. "Huh?"
"You're spacing out again." The girl told her in a matter-of-fact tone. "You've been like that the past few days, what's up?" Her accented voice came casually while she stirred the dish in front of herself. "Are you having problems?"
"Yes." Syn sighed and went on auto pilot, once again disregarding the recipe she was supposed to stick to and going by what she wanted to add to the meal she was preparing. "Girlfriend issues."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it works out okay."
"Already broke up." Syn declared her task done and walked away to plate it before anymore questions could be asked. "Wan, order up." The next ticket was taken and she went about making it along with one more on the side. 'I wish I could just go a day without having to think about this crap again.' Her mind went off again as she moved around, purposely trying to avoid the pity looks she was getting from her boss. 'It's already been a week and two days for crying out loud.' While her current orders were cooking, she stared at the food and thought to pass the time. 'She's probably with some guy right now, getting a load on her face.' The bitter thought both pleased her and pissed her off at the same time, leaving her with a knot in her stomach. 'Bastard touching my girlfriend...'her motions got rougher while tossing the contents of a skillet around. 'I have have half a mind to... damnit Syn, stop thinking about it!'
The girl angrily kicked the bottom of the stove and huffed out. "I thought I saw a bug," she spoke, voice clearly mad. "It wasn't, so we're okay." Her eyes closed and a breath was taken, images of Vivio having sex with faceless people invading her against her will. 'Damn it! Why am I so mad!?'
"Syn," Wan's voice came, snapping the girl back to the present. "I have a customer out here who would like to speak with you."
"With me?" Syn tried to figure out who she knew that would request to see her. "A girl?"
"A guy."
Syn wiped her hands and walked out along with Wan, being left alone at a table where a tanned man was looking at her. "Miss," he began. "Did you prepare the meal I just had?"
Looking down at the mostly cleared plate, Syn nodded. "I did."
"I heard that this place recently hired a new chef and that the food here was suddenly a lot better. The newspaper even reported complaints about people parking next door because your parking lot was full."
"Well... We have been busy lately." Syn tried to think where this was heading.
"Miss, My name is Tempest, I own The Shiny Sword downtown. I would like to hire you as my new chef."
Syn blinked again. "Wait, the really fancy place?"
"Yes, miss." He nodded. "I could offer you three times what your pay would be here, and even creative liberty on creating new dishes."
"Sold." Syn stated before the man could even start his next sentence. "When can I start?"
"Tomorrow."
"What time?"
"One PM to nine PM." He stood and shook the girl's hand. "I look forward to it."
"Me too," Syn smiled and walked back to the kitchen. 'Finally! Something good in my life!' She looked at both wan and Riyuu giving her questioning looks. "Sorry girls, I just got hired on at another restaurant because I kept changing your recipes." The dissapointed looks on their faces made her soften just a little. "I'll leave my changes with you, too." She got smiles and a few words of encouragement, and even a promise fora good reference if thy called.
With a grin, Syn started finishing the day. 'I can't wait to tell-' Her hands stopped, hovering above what she was reaching for. '... Like she would care.'
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Vivio smiled at the camera pointing to her bed and moved her hand back from the record button on it. "Hello, everyone," she greeted with her normal opening. "I'm sure a few of you are looking at your screen right now and thinking: 'A week of no updates and all we get is a video diary?'... Well, sorry, but yes for now..." She sniffed and laid her cheek back on her pillow, pulling the covers up to her neck. Her hair was still a little messy and her face was still stained a splash of red from her sickness. "I have the flu it seems."
After pulling her sheets up to cover her mouth, she let out a cough that she had been trying to repress. "I'm doing better, but I still can't get out of bed. I'd love to take some pictures or something for everyone but...Yeah, I'm really sorry. I know you pay for my site, and I should have some type of spare pictures incase of emergencies but... I never thought about doing that before. To make up for it, I promise I'll do a video every day for a week."
The sick girl sniffed again and exhaled a ragged breath. "Well, for the past week and some days, I haven't done much to really tell you about my life... I've stayed in bed for most of it... and..." She closed her eyes. "Remember my girlfriend? She found out about my job... No, it didn't go well... She dumped me and I haven't heard from her since. I know it is my fault for not telling her, but..." Again she sighed. "I won't talk about that anymore. I'm feeling a lot better than I did since I first fell ill, so I'm going to try and start updating the page in a day or two. Please send me emails if you have any ideas on what you would like to see updated. I'm sorry again for the lack of updates."
Reaching down to the floor, Vivio picked up a sheet of paper. "I couldn't sit at my desk long enough to print out all the emails I wanted to reply to, so I just wrote down what I remembered. I'm sorry if it's not your exact question." clearing her throat, she began. "First, another one that has been asked many, many times. What fetishes do I have? Not many. I like it when the person I'm with moans, I'm not sure why. Besides that... I like tight clothes. I wouldn't really say 'bondage gear' but something like that. Latex, too tight zip upped leather, and...well, being gagged. Please, don't ask."
Offering a smile, she felt her spirits lift when she thought about all of her fans spazzing out over that information. "Next, I wrote... I can't read it, hahaha." Her giggle calmed her down and she squinted. "I need to learn how to write better... oh, this one! I laughed so hard!" Her lips stayed in a smile. "Someone asked what I saw my male co-workers eat to "Sweeten the load" so to say." She giggled again and shook her head as best she could. "Lots of things, but mainly there is a little packet that they put in their drinks that supposed to make it taste sweet. I'm sure people will ask so I'll answer: No it doesn't work. Honestly, I'd be scared out of my mind if I was going down on a guy and got a mouthful of strawberry flavored splooge. I don't know what I would think!"
"I got a few questions not about work, I want to spend some time on these. Let's see, we have... My favorite food? Fajitas." Her gave a small bittersweet smile at a memory. "Also, what is my favorite movie? I'm not really sure on that one, so many good ones. I like the new comic-book movies that are coming out lately, so I'll just say that genre is my favorite." Sniffing again, she covered her mouth and coughed. "Someone else asked what I do in my spare time. That's easy, I watch a lot of movies, but I read the most. I have some reading glasses that I wear, I'll take a picture in them sometime."
She sniffed yet again and looked back at her list. "Let's see...Am I satisfied with my life? Honestly... Yes and no. As far as my general life is concerned, I am happy. I have a lot of loyal fans, who send me kind emails, I am starting to get enough money to eat a little better, and all-in-all it's pretty good. Besides that... I'm not really happy with my love life... I'm still..." She shook her head. "I don't want to ruin this by crying about my ex-girlfriend. I'm going to move on, okay?"
Vivio skimmed her paper. "What do I do to relax? Reading relaxes me, but so does eating. I love chocolate, chocolate is salvation. Other than that, I'd kill for a massage to relax me, but that's really expensive....let's see... If I could change anything in my life, what would it be?" She gave the camera a gentle smile. "I'd have been more honest with her...Okay, I'm starting to ramble. I'll upload this after I take a small nap. I hope everyone out there is having fun. Remember, my new movie is coming out this Firesday, so pick it up okay? Please send in the comments and vote for me, ne?" She winked and blew a kiss. "This is Eyes, signing off."
The camera was cut off and Vivio fell back into her pillow. 'I hope I was cheerful enough...' A knock on her door informed her that her friend Angel had stopped by again to check up on her and she pushed herself up and out of bed to go answer the door.
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"There she is!" The call across the filming set made Vivio pause her walking to the nurse's office and look over to where a few of her friends were gathered. "Come here, Eyes!" The blond came to Spacebrotha's call and looked up at him questioningly. "Congratulations!"
Vivio, not knowing what she was being congratulated on, replied in the best way she knew how: "Huh?"
"You haven't heard!?" Another man asked her, shocked. "Eyes, the new movie was a hit! You broke both your previous records on the first day! the first day, Eyes!"
Vivio looked at them, trying to decide if what she just heard was a joke or not. "...Are you being serious?"
"Yes!" The group yelled at once.
The girl stared at them blankly for several moments before a smile started coming on her face. "Really?" She got nods. "Really, really!?" Again she was nodded at and pat on the back while a few others ruffled her hair. "Oh wow... Wow..." Her words wouldn't come out, still in a small state of shock. "What... Were the sells?"
"Almost thirty thousand already." Spacebrotha put his hands on Vivio's shoulders and started guiding her to the director's office. "You need to talk to the boss, I'm sure you'll be pleased at what he has to tell you."
"O-Okay." Vivio nodded and readied herself when she was dropped off in front of the door. A deep breath was taken and she knocked, being bid entrance. "You wanted to see me, sir?"
A man with long black hair and thin wireframe glasses smiled at his best star. "Yes, Vivio, please have a seat." He motioned to the large chair in front of himself and let the girl get comfortable before continuing. "I'm sure you heard about our record sells on your new video?"
"Yes sir, I just found out. Allquall made me stay at home for the past week and a half because of the flu; today is my first day back."
"Oh yes, I heard about that. How are you feeling?"
"Fine, thank you." She couldn't help but shift in her seat from the excitement and curiosity.
The man leaned back in his chair and folded his hands together. "Vivio, I will cut straight to the chase. You have gotten extremely popular lately. It seems that every video you are in sells better than those released without them. In short, you have become a type of spokesman for our company. Your career as an adult entertainer truly begins here and now. If you would like, I can draw up a contract for you to become a bigger star than you currently are. This new position gives you a higher cut from your webpage, and your pay from scenes done will increase as well. In return, we will require you to take certain jobs every so often to promote our company. These may include a guest appearance at strip clubs to help sales there, going to interviews at magazines, and this isn't confirmed yet, but there are certain gaming companies, such as Key, that have an eye on you for voice acting roles."
Vivio opened her mouth to reply, but her words died before they could form. A cross between a gasp and a pleased laugh escaped instead and she was sure her mouth was hanging open. Although awestruck, her boss continued on. "You will also be given more equipment for your home use and a higher discount at our stores. Because of this you will be required to do a minimal of bi-weekly updates for your web page. Also, you will be on call for scenes in future movies which you will be required to take. You will have pull on your tags, but as you will be under contract, you must do a set number of scenes, be they for commercial release or pay-per-view online."
"That's... A lot at once." Vivio finally managed to speak. "I... I don't know what to say."
"You have until the first of the year to decide." He passed her a folder. "Please read over this, it will dictate the things you will need to do if you agree to the enhanced contract. You have a while to decide so please think about this carefully."
"Yes sir." A shaking hand reached out to take the folder and hold it to her chest, a smile still on her face, "I will read over it all right away!"
"You do that. Now, go out there and catch up on what you missed while sick."
"Yes sir!" Standing, she shook the man's hand and retreated out of the office. Once the door was closed behind her she turned to look at her group of friends all grinning at her. "I've been offered an enhanced contract!" She declared, voice breaking from her excitement. Several cheers came all at once and she was picked up by different people in bone crushing hugs. Somewhere along the way she heard that a party was in order and she couldn't agree more.
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Another chicken wing was attacked by Vivio as she watched her friends and coworkers laughing at each other as they shared stories from past jobs and teasing her about her future in the industry. The blond grinned at them while chewing on her snack, almost choking when one of them said that she had some white stuff on her face. A napkin was employed and the dressing from her wing was wiped clean oh her chin with a giggle.
"So, Eyes," One of them spoke to her during a temporary lapse in laughter. "Going big time now, you're not going to forget about us little people are you?"
Vivio took the chance and grinned at him. "The only thing little about you is your performance parts." A collected group cheers around them made her smile around the straw in her mouth. "But really," She spoke around it, old habit of chewing on them resurfacing, "I think I'll still be on the same sets when I'm not going around to the different studios for my other jobs. We'll still see each other when I do my web page scenes."
Another chicken wing was grabbed and nibbled on, the time going by as fast as the food was. Another hour passed by at the bar and her thinking began to get fuzzy from the good times and the drinks. Finally having to call it, Vivio excused herself before she got drunk and couldn't drive herself home. On the way out she took a large intake of the cold air to clear her head and stopped in her tracks when she saw a flash of blue hair entering a taxi. "Syn!?" Her feet ran towards that direction but the vehicle was already turning onto the main road, leaving her with the question if that really was her ex or not.
The good mood left the girl briefly, allowing a small bittersweet memory of the past little while. As she tried to shrug it off she made her way back to her car and drove home a little slower than normal. Her door was unlocked and the girl stepped into her dark house, closing the door behind herself with a small click. The lights were turned on after a few moments and she sat down on her couch, looking down at the folder in her hands that would outline her new career as a true star among the industry. 'Somehow,' she thought to herself while opening it. 'I feel a little bad that I have no one here to share this with...'
A quick shaking of her head cleared the thought and she made her way to her bedroom, taking out her camera and clicking it on. "Hey everyone!" She called out cheerfully. "You will not believe my day today." The device was set on the stand and she began stripping to change into her night clothes.
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Syn growled to herself as she parked her car. Reaching over to her passenger side, she picked up the plastic bag and opened her door only to slam it behind her before walking down the parking lot to the adult store. 'I can not believe my friend got me this as a gag gift for my birthday.' She felt her cheeks color as she walked in the door and was instantly greeted by sexy lingerie. 'I need the money, otherwise I wouldn't bother returning this...' A sales clerk greeted her when he noticed the girl standing at the door in shock. "Um, hi," She told him lamely. "Uhm, my friend bought me this as a gag gift." She held up the bag. "Can I return it for the money?"
"Possibly," the man told her while taking the bag. "Let me ask my boss, okay?"
"Okay." Syn nodded and leaned on the cash register bar, thanking her lucky stars that no one was there so early in the morning. 'As if crap like this wasn't already on my bad side.' Out of the corner of her fire red eye she noticed a girl she recognized quite well on the front of a magazine. 'Front cover, she's doing well for herself.' Reaching over to it, she felt her throat tighten as she flipped through the pages to pass the time waiting.
'Interview with Eyes, an Evil Rick's special.' The girl read the words mentally. An image of Vivio, fully dressed, was on the page. The bright smile and sparkling eyes were captured too well for the girl, and she flipped the page so she wouldn't have to look at them. A small glance at the photos of Vivio slowly undressed was spared before she went to the interview.
Rick: Eyes, Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed in my magazine.
Eyes: It's an honor.
Rick: <chuckles> Thank you. Now, your career has recently skyrocketed. What do you think caused this?
Eyes: I'm not really sure myself. I think it was my recent movie that got people to notice me.
Rick: I see. Tell me about it?
Eyes: Well, it's a love story about a man and woman who are born in families that hate each other. Their parents disagreed on their relationship so they meet together in private. The woman's parents found out and tried to marry her to someone else which caused the man to come save her before the wedding.
Syn rolled her eyes and turned the page. 'Not the typical porn plot. She might as well be screwing them all.' She looked at the now topless pictures of her ex girlfriend, lips turning up slightly. 'She's gorgeous, I'll give her that.'
Rick:Interesting. How many scenes did you partake in?
Eyes: Three.
Rick: Impressive. I've also heard that you have a web page as well that has gotten popular. Many people have done video diaries, but yours seems to attract people. Why is that?
Eyes:<thinks> I'm not really sure. I just record my daily life, I didn't think it was that interesting. It may be my replies to fanmail that they like. Those are always really funny.
Rick: Speaking of daily life, it's rumored that you were recently in a relationship, how did that work out for you?
Syn paused, re-reading the words before turning the page. This time the images were skipped entirely and the words were sought out at once.
Eyes:< stays silent a moment > We broke up... She didn't like my job.
Rick: Is there anyone else you are seeing now then?
Eyes: I... I don't think I'm going to date anyone else.
Rick: Must be complicated. Was your last one that serious?
Eyes: <Pauses again> ...I thought so... She taught me the difference between sex and making love... I really, really loved her... still do.
Rick: I'm sorry it turned out that way... If you could tell this person anything, what would it be?
Eyes: I'd... tell her that I'm sorry I hurt her... and that I honestly...I... <She wipes her eyes> I'm sorry, can we talk about something else?
"Miss?" The voice made Syn jump and yelp, spinning around to see the person standing before her. "Here is your return." He held out money and a receipt while trying not to laugh.
"Oh... thank you." Syn took the money and kept it in her hand a moment before holding out the magazine. "Can you ring this up for me?"
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"Good choice." The man accepted the magazine and went behind the cash register to scan the tag on it. "This is my last copy."
Syn tried to stay calm about buying her first pornographic magazine. "Oh? Good brand?"
"Not insanely, but it has the interview with Eyes in it." He pointed to the girl on the cover. "She sells more than I've seen in a while. You should check her webpage, it's almost as if she's just a normal girl instead of the trashy ones you normally see."
The female took her change and stuffed it into her front left pocket. "Yeah, she's a nice girl..." With that, Syn left the store and jogged to her car quickly. Still a little warm from before, she felt herself relax a little. The heat was turned on and she looked around before opening the magazine again and looking at it once more. The interview offered no more references to herself so she instead looked at the images of her ex girlfriend. 'No telling how many people are seeing these...' Despite the bitter thought, she couldn't quite summon up the anger inside of herself that she had from before. 'She said she still loves me...' The issue was tossed in the back seat and she rubbed the bridge of her nose. 'I'm so going to regret this...'
Backing out of her spot, she ignored a car full of guys staring at her as they went past. Once on the main road back into town she drove past her usual turn off and continued on until she took the familiar exit leading to an apartment complex she never thought she'd go into again. Her car door was closed quickly after she exited her vehicle and she slid her hands into her pockets to keep them warm as she walked through the light lair of snow on the ground. A small elevator ride later and she found herself in front of Vivio's door.
Only a second passed by before she knocked, moving her hands back to her arms to rub them briskly while waiting for a reply. When nothing came she knocked once more, this time louder. Again no sound was heard from inside. 'I wonder if she's asleep?' The clock on her phone informed her that the girl should be up by now. 'If I call her she will probably just ignore me... Dammit.' Syn knocked a final time and waited for a response. When Vivio didn't answer, the girl sighed and sat down in front of the door. Her jacket was huddled up around herself and she hugged her knees, leaning back against the door while waiting.
As the time passed, Syn went from playing on her cell phone to resting her eyes while leaning against the door. After dozing off a moment, she opened her eyes and looked across the empty hallway as the lights above the elevator started moving up to the current floor. The doors opened and a blond walked out of them, eyes downcast as she tried to dig out her keys from her purse while still holding the two paper sacks with her arm. When she was close to her door she looked up and almost dropped her things at the sight of Syn standing and sorely rubbing her legs. "...Syn?"
"...Hi." The two girls just looked at each other for several long moments. "I...saw your interview in that magazine."
"...Oh." Vivio looked away and towards the floor. "I'm sorry, I made sure they never mentioned your name."
"It's not that." Syn cut her off.
Vivio looked at the girl and saw the slightly shivering hands followed by a notice of Syn's quivering bottom lip. "You're frozen! How long were you waiting out here?"
"I don't know, maybe an hour or so."
"Why didn't you just call me or come back later?"
"I don't know if I would have come back after I left..."
Vivio felt her chest tighten. "Would you... like something hot to drink?"
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"Sure." Syn stepped out of the way of the door and watched Vivio fumble with her keys a moment before reaching out and taking the bags from her. Now free from her burden, Vivo quickly opened the way into her house and cut on the lights.
"I'm sorry my place is a mess." She tried to take the bags back from Syn but the other girl already moved to the kitchen to set them down on the counter. "I should clean up..." Her hands went to grab the magazine that her interview was in from the counter but found Syn picking it up instead. The girl leaned against the wall and opened it, turning to Vivio's section and began to read the rest of the interview while the blond reluctantly went back to putting up her things.
By the time hot chocolate was made, Syn had already claimed a spot on the couch and was looking through another single pose section of her ex-girlfriends pictures. Vivio bent over in front of the girl and offered the steaming mug of liquid chocolate and milk and smiled softly when Syn's hands touched hers briefly while taking it. "Thank you," Syn whispered before sipping on it. "That's just what I needed."
"Good." Vivio sat down next to the girl, so close that their sides were pressed together and legs touching. She held her own cup and sipped it while waiting to see if Syn would move away or not. Her answer came when Syn took another small drink of her beverage and leaned forward to set it down on the small coffee table in front of them.
"So..." Syn began, clasping her hands together and staying bent forward slightly. "Let's talk about it?"
Vivio sat her mug down as well. "I had everything planned out the first time but now I don't know what to say..."
Syn looked down in her lap. "It's been about a month since then, huh?"
"Three weeks, five days."
The words made Syn close her eyes. "I'll start with a question. Why?"
"Why to which part?" Vivio almost whispered, looking down as well.
"Why do you do it? How...do you let yourself be filmed doing that?"
Vivio let out a small sigh. "Its a long story and doesn't have much to do with us... I guess... it began when my parents died... I was adopted and my mama's wife adopted me as well. We... had a really happy life but one day they went out and... never came back." She stopped for just a moment. "All of my parent's friends were hurt. I remember being at the funeral, almost eighteen years old, staring at the caskets... My parents were very well known but none of their closest friends were there. They were all in the hospital, barely alive. I was alone with many people that I didn't know, listening to them say how it was a miracle that anyone made it out alive at all, how that it was such a loss for my parents to be gone... And it was then that I realized something: as long as I was with the people I cared about, I would constantly be in the position that could leave me alone at the graveyard again."
Syn looked over at her in a silent statement that she was listening. "They were in the military," Vivio kept on. And were always sent on dangerous missions. Call me stupid and young, but I couldn't take it. I...left... and was on my own. I didn't want to ask them to take care of me because of my pride...or maybe it was something else... but I was alone. I tried to find a job but no one wanted to hire an inexperienced person like myself. At times I thought about going back but... after I left, I knew I couldn't." Vivio took a long intake through her nose. "I was behind on my rent, had no food... and I overheard some girls talking about a studio looking for girls to be in a pornographic movie... I heard they paid really well and..." She closed her eyes and looked down. "I sold my virginity to eat and pay my bills."
Syn stayed silent a moment, chest aching at the sadness in the voice. "So," Vivio continued on. "I cried that night, and many nights after it. I thought I was a whore, just some trash... but I had food and I paid my rent...A few days later I was called up by the studio and they want to know if I'd do another one..." She sighed. "I needed the money so I did it. After that I didn't sleep for almost two days and made myself sick with regret."
"Why did you keep on then?" Syn finally asked.
Vivio didn't answer at first and finally shrugged a little. "I don't know.. I was scared, I guess. I tried to find other jobs but I couldn't seem to get anyone to hire me... I never stopped looking... in fact most of my money went to bus fare while going from place to place. I got a few part time jobs along the way but they didn't pay enough and... well..."
"You did more to make ends meet?"
"...Yeah. I kind of... got used to being a whore. I would..." She hesitated. "I needed money so... They treated me really bad there. would call me up, film me, and pay, then make money off it. It wasn't until I met my current boss that my life started getting better. He hired me on as staff, introduced me to professionals, and I.. made a friend." This time she smiled slightly. "Someone who treated me with respect... didn't belittle me, call me names... He told his friends about me and we all met up. I found other girls in the career and they explained to me how it worked. From there I... accepted it." She moved her hands while trying to explain it better. "I wasn't some back alley call-girl anymore. I had a real job that paid me respectfully, had contracts, I could turn down anything I wanted to, people began talking to me, inviting me over for dinner, and just wanted to hang out instead of using my body... I don't know, I guess I found a place to belong so I clung to it... A year passed, then another and another... Before long I had my own apartment... I had a car, food, bills sometimes got behind but I never got evicted or anything."
"I'm sorry to hear that..."
Vivio took Syn's offered hand and held on to it. "Hey, we all have our bad stories right?" She got a weak smile in return. "That's what lead up to now... I got popular and...well, it's an honest job with a big studio who takes care of me. I'm respected by most and the rest even look up to me. I know it can easily be called a shady job, but... it's really not that bad when you understand it."
"I see..." Syn felt better once Vivio's voice became less sad and more proud of herself for overcoming everything. "Okay, I can see that now... Okay."
Vivio looked at her ex for a while before squeezing the hand holding onto hers. "Go ahead, ask."
Taking a breath, Syn started. "Why didn't you tell me this at the beginning?"
"I was scared you would use me and leave me."
Syn blinked. "Why did you think that?"
A small smile. "You did try to pick me up the first time we met."
"...Okay." Syn accepted that. "Even so, shouldn't that be more of a reason to tell me?"
"I... didn't want you to see me as some easy girl."
"Well you kinda are one if you sleep with everyone you see." She winced. "Sorry. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
Vivio shook her head. "You had every right to."
"Okay..." Syn took a long intake of breath. "Tell me... How could you say all those things to me while having sex with other people, job or no job."
"It's... not exactly like that."
Syn felt a flash of anger flare through her before calming down once more. “Explain it to me.”
“Well...” Vivio thought hard. “Imagine this... You have a friend that you've known since childhood. Your parents are really close, and you basically grew up as brother and sister.” The two girls shifted so they were looking at each other and Vivio reached over and took Syn's other hand to hold as well. “Now, this friend stays close to you all your life. You go to your high school prom together as friends, you live together during college, and all that kind of stuff.”
“Where is this going?”
“If this friend,” Vivio continued. “Went away for a while and then came back to you, wouldn't you give them a hug and a kiss?”
“Probably?”
“And would that be cheating on your girlfriend if you did?”
Syn looked at her blankly. “Vivio, giving a life-long friend a hug and a kiss isn't the same as screwing someone.”
“No, no,” Vivio shook Syn's hands lightly. “Look at it deeper. It wouldn't be cheating because the emotion and feeling behind the hug and kiss is not romantic. Its a casual brother/sister type of feeling, right? It wouldn't be cheating because of that, right?”
After thinking about it a moment, the blue and red eyed girl finally nodded. “Okay, it wouldn't be cheating.”
“Right.” Vivio nodded. “So, this is where it gets a little hard... The emotions you would have with your friend are the same as what I have at work. Even though you kissed your friend, it's not cheating because there was nothing behind that kiss. What I do at work is the same, because there is no emotion behind it as well.”
Syn moved one hand from Vivio's to rub her eyes before allowing it to be re-taken. “What if...” She began. “If I, out of the blue, told you I had sex with that friend? Several times while we were dating.”
The blond stayed silent for several seconds. “I... would feel hurt... betrayed...” She held Syn's hands tighter. “But that's different, that's-”
“My friend,” Syn cut her off. “Is a nerd, is anti-social, and would never get laid because of it. So I felt sorry for him and had sex with him. How would you feel?”
Vivio opened her mouth and closed it a moment later. “...Hurt.”
“Do you see what I'm getting at?” Syn whispered. “Even if I could accept that you had no emotion behind it, even if it was nothing but work to you... You had sex with someone else.” Again the blond couldn't reply. “Vivio, I trusted you. I... I would have never thought you would do that. You lied to me-”
“I never lied!”
“You purposely mislead me so I wouldn't figure it out.” Syn snapped at her angrily. “And... not just once.”
“But it didn't mean anything!” Vivio tried once more. “It would be the same as you and your friend!”
“The means don't justify the act! What would you say if you saw photos of me doing it!?”
“That I trust you!” Vivio flung herself onto Syn, pushing her back onto the couch and clinging to her. “I trust you! I would believe that there was nothing behind it!”
“Vivio, get off me!”
“No!” Vivio held onto her tighter, voice breaking as she struggled to stay on top of the girl. “Syn, I would always believe you!”
Giving up on getting the blond off, Syn let her hands rest on either side of herself and looked up at the ceiling. Vivio's heavy breathing and loud sobs echoed against her chest for only a few moments before she felt the dampness of the tears that followed. “Vivio...”
“...Yes?”
“If you said you trusted me about my friend... would it be okay if I had sex with him the next day?” The girl nodded against her chest without hesitation. “And if I wanted to have sex with his friend at the same time?” This time the nod was hesitant. “And they recorded it so they could watch it with all the rest of their gang later... and then I went and had sex with all of them?”
Vivio gripped the back of Syn's shirt tightly, crying so hard now that she started to hiccup. “But you love me!”
“Does that make it okay for me to do that?”
“Yes!” Vivio sobbed out, pressing her face closer to Syn's chest. “I trust you! I believe you! So it's okay!” Her breathing started to get raspy, words barely being able to understand over the tears.
Syn sighed and stared at the ceiling, finally allowing one hand to move up and lay across Vivio's back. “I don't know if I could accept something like that...”
“But I love you...”
“If sex means nothing to you, what about when we-”
“That's different.” Vivio managed out, still gripping Syn's shirt tightly in her fist. She didn't lift her head to look at her friend, but instead stayed with her forehead down on her chest. “ We made love...” A hiccup made her pause. “That was special...”
“Why did you wait until after that to tell me what your job is, and not before?”
Vivio tried to calm herself but her breathing was getting shorter and harder, throat making it hard to speak. “I wasn't-wasn't sure if... if I knew wha-what love was.” Her words were starting to get more broken apart now. “You... you showed me...I l-love you.”
Syn closed her eyes and ignored the warm trickle of saltwater rolling past her ears and into her hair. Silence passed over them once more and the girl on bottom slowly began to move her palm over Vivio's back to try and calm her down. The broken gasp slowly started to fade away and the hiccups departed. “Vivio...”
“...Yes?”
Syn opened her eyes and had to blink a few times to make the lingering tears fall. “I need to go.”
“Please stay.”
“I can't.”
“Why?”
“Because I can't.”
Vivio shook her head and gripped Syn's shirt tighter. “If you go... you'll never come back.”
“I have to think.”
“You can think here.”
“No I can't.” Syn moved her hand from Vivio's back and gently rolled her over towards the couch so she could sit up. “Vivio, you know there are only two ways this will ever work out, don't you?” She accepted Vivio's hands and gave thema small squeeze to show that she was being sincere.”Either I learn to accept you for everything you do...”
“Or... I quit my job.” Vivio finished the sentence softly.
“We need to think.” Syn whispered, shaking her head at the pleading look she was getting. “I have to go.”
“Please...”
Syn stood up and walked to the door, stopping when she felt her shirt being grabbed and Vivio's forehead pressed against her back. “Vivio.”
“Promise me,” the girl managed out. “That you won't avoid me.”
Syn opened the door and felt her shirt between Vivio's fingers being gripped harder. “I promise that I'll think about this really hard.” Several moments passed by before her shirt was reluctantly released and she walked the rest of the way out of the apartment.
SATASHI *RUNS and give a bear hug* you are awesome, love it you amazing writer.
the way you done it, the way you put Syn and Vivio back, the last parts i cry when i read it, i want more, please update soon.
i wonder what Syn decided about Vivio, will she accpet Vivio with everything?
No update right now :3 but I'm happy to have gotten such good replies to last part. I was REALLY scared that I wouldn't do it good enough since everyone was so vocal about them when they broke up. I tried really hard on that segment to make it stay realistic. If anyone else has anything to add to it, I'd love to hear it. Even though I can't really reply to specifics without giving away the story, I still read it all ^^ Penguin-chan especially makes me smile with those kick butt comments and suggestions.
Oh, and Evil Rick is making me a signature that is breathtakingly awesome about PornStar!Vivio. I can't wait to show it to everyone when he's done ^_^
No update right now :3 but I'm happy to have gotten such good replies to last part. I was REALLY scared that I wouldn't do it good enough since everyone was so vocal about them when they broke up. I tried really hard on that segment to make it stay realistic. If anyone else has anything to add to it, I'd love to hear it. Even though I can't really reply to specifics without giving away the story, I still read it all ^^ Penguin-chan especially makes me smile with those kick butt comments and suggestions.
Oh, and Evil Rick is making me a signature that is breathtakingly awesome about PornStar!Vivio. I can't wait to show it to everyone when he's done ^_^
don't be scared the way you wrote it, it's more than excellent, let me tell you something if i wrote the same story as you i wouldn't write it the way you do.
it's perfect in my view, and it's a peice of art, i'm so sorry when i became as you called it so vocal when Syn and Vivio broke up.
You missed a lot :3 You won't find much NanoFate here anymore
How come? The site is more popular than ever... I haven't been around... but I have had the host moaning at me about the ever increasing bandwidth usage.
I'm done with the fanfiction though. My own IP eats what free time I have now. -__- But hey, what with the film coming sometime ...fairly... soon, there will probably be a revival.
How come? The site is more popular than ever... I haven't been around... but I have had the host moaning at me about the ever increasing bandwidth usage.
I'm done with the fanfiction though. My own IP eats what free time I have now. -__- But hey, what with the film coming sometime ...fairly... soon, there will probably be a revival.
Probably there are more authors than ever writing nanofate at fanfiction.net (which is proportional to an increase in the nanofate fanbase, which directly impacts on our bandwidth usage for nanofate.net, as it has proved xD), I have seen many new authors both for English and Spanish communities recently, but it seems like they are only posting the fics there, which isn't bad because if something is posted only in this community most people will miss it.
Vivio slowly climbed out of her bed and stumbled across her apartment. The world blurred around her but the hope that Syn was behind the knocking on her door gave her the energy to make it the rest of the way. Once she managed to reach the door, she leaned against the frame and unlocked it. Instead of a young blue haired girl waiting to talk to her, she instead found a more mature woman looking at her with a mix of shock and pity. "Hey Allquall," Vivio mumbled, eyes closing and letting her head fall against the frame.
"Eyes, you look like hell, what happened!?" The woman quickly helped the blond walk back to her bed, where she slowly crawled into it and laid face first. "Are you okay? you never came back for your checkup and when I asked I was told you haven't even come to work all week or updated your webpage! I was worried!"
"Ah." Vivio stayed silent after the short mumble but reluctantly allowed herself to be rolled over and sat up on the bed. "I want to lay down..."
"You need me to check on you." The woman sat down on the bed and started giving her a one-over. "How do you feel?"
"Dead."
"Be more specific please."
"Throwing up, my throat hurts, my eyes sting, my chest s tight, I don't care about anything."
Allquall looked at the girl a little closer. The normally shining gold hair was dull and lifeless, and instead of the faint sweet smell of perfume, she smelt sweat and neglect. "Eyes, why didn't you come in? Your cold got worse, I'm certain you have the flu now. Didn't you get pills to prevent that?" Vivio looked away. "Are you eating okay?"
"I'd just throw it up."
"Are you taking care of yourself? When did you last shower and change your sheets? You need to stay clean, you will feel better."
Vivio shrugged. "I dunno..." The hands keeping her up left and she laid back down on the bed, cheek on her pillow. "I don't really care."
"What's wrong with you?" The woman asked softly. "I've never once seen you not smiling and bouncing off the walls."
Staying quiet a moment, Vivio finally opened her eyes again and looked up at the woman. "Syn left me... After that I... I just got sick." She once again looked away and faced her pillow, fighting back the urge to cry again.
"You can't not take care of yourself because your girlfriend left you. If you don't get better you'll be in trouble."
"I know but...I don't know..."
Allquall stood up and tucked the girl in. "I'm going to prescribe you something and get your pharmacist to deliver it. She's your friend right?" She got a small nod. "Okay, I'll do that... Vivio, take a shower, you smell like ten kinda of ass." She got a small smile, but it was enough for her. "Really. I'll be back tomorrow to check up on you. May I leave your door unlocked for a few hours?"
"Yes."
"Okay, Angel will be by shortly. If she can't, I'll take it to you."
"...Thank you." For the first time in a few days, Vivio felt as if laying in bed and dieing wasn't the only solution to how she felt at that moment.
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Syn felt a small shake on her shoulder and jerked slightly in shock, blinking and turning to the side to see Riyuu looking at her oddly. "Huh?"
"You're spacing out again." The girl told her in a matter-of-fact tone. "You've been like that the past few days, what's up?" Her accented voice came casually while she stirred the dish in front of herself. "Are you having problems?"
"Yes." Syn sighed and went on auto pilot, once again disregarding the recipe she was supposed to stick to and going by what she wanted to add to the meal she was preparing. "Girlfriend issues."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it works out okay."
"Already broke up." Syn declared her task done and walked away to plate it before anymore questions could be asked. "Wan, order up." The next ticket was taken and she went about making it along with one more on the side. 'I wish I could just go a day without having to think about this crap again.' Her mind went off again as she moved around, purposely trying to avoid the pity looks she was getting from her boss. 'It's already been a week and two days for crying out loud.' While her current orders were cooking, she stared at the food and thought to pass the time. 'She's probably with some guy right now, getting a load on her face.' The bitter thought both pleased her and pissed her off at the same time, leaving her with a knot in her stomach. 'Bastard touching my girlfriend...'her motions got rougher while tossing the contents of a skillet around. 'I have have half a mind to... damnit Syn, stop thinking about it!'
The girl angrily kicked the bottom of the stove and huffed out. "I thought I saw a bug," she spoke, voice clearly mad. "It wasn't, so we're okay." Her eyes closed and a breath was taken, images of Vivio having sex with faceless people invading her against her will. 'Damn it! Why am I so mad!?'
"Syn," Wan's voice came, snapping the girl back to the present. "I have a customer out here who would like to speak with you."
"With me?" Syn tried to figure out who she knew that would request to see her. "A girl?"
"A guy."
Syn wiped her hands and walked out along with Wan, being left alone at a table where a tanned man was looking at her. "Miss," he began. "Did you prepare the meal I just had?"
Looking down at the mostly cleared plate, Syn nodded. "I did."
"I heard that this place recently hired a new chef and that the food here was suddenly a lot better. The newspaper even reported complaints about people parking next door because your parking lot was full."
"Well... We have been busy lately." Syn tried to think where this was heading.
"Miss, My name is Tempest, I own The Shiny Sword downtown. I would like to hire you as my new chef."
Syn blinked again. "Wait, the really fancy place?"
"Yes, miss." He nodded. "I could offer you three times what your pay would be here, and even creative liberty on creating new dishes."
"Sold." Syn stated before the man could even start his next sentence. "When can I start?"
"Tomorrow."
"What time?"
"One PM to nine PM." He stood and shook the girl's hand. "I look forward to it."
"Me too," Syn smiled and walked back to the kitchen. 'Finally! Something good in my life!' She looked at both wan and Riyuu giving her questioning looks. "Sorry girls, I just got hired on at another restaurant because I kept changing your recipes." The dissapointed looks on their faces made her soften just a little. "I'll leave my changes with you, too." She got smiles and a few words of encouragement, and even a promise fora good reference if thy called.
With a grin, Syn started finishing the day. 'I can't wait to tell-' Her hands stopped, hovering above what she was reaching for. '... Like she would care.'
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Vivio smiled at the camera pointing to her bed and moved her hand back from the record button on it. "Hello, everyone," she greeted with her normal opening. "I'm sure a few of you are looking at your screen right now and thinking: 'A week of no updates and all we get is a video diary?'... Well, sorry, but yes for now..." She sniffed and laid her cheek back on her pillow, pulling the covers up to her neck. Her hair was still a little messy and her face was still stained a splash of red from her sickness. "I have the flu it seems."
After pulling her sheets up to cover her mouth, she let out a cough that she had been trying to repress. "I'm doing better, but I still can't get out of bed. I'd love to take some pictures or something for everyone but...Yeah, I'm really sorry. I know you pay for my site, and I should have some type of spare pictures incase of emergencies but... I never thought about doing that before. To make up for it, I promise I'll do a video every day for a week."
The sick girl sniffed again and exhaled a ragged breath. "Well, for the past week and some days, I haven't done much to really tell you about my life... I've stayed in bed for most of it... and..." She closed her eyes. "Remember my girlfriend? She found out about my job... No, it didn't go well... She dumped me and I haven't heard from her since. I know it is my fault for not telling her, but..." Again she sighed. "I won't talk about that anymore. I'm feeling a lot better than I did since I first fell ill, so I'm going to try and start updating the page in a day or two. Please send me emails if you have any ideas on what you would like to see updated. I'm sorry again for the lack of updates."
Reaching down to the floor, Vivio picked up a sheet of paper. "I couldn't sit at my desk long enough to print out all the emails I wanted to reply to, so I just wrote down what I remembered. I'm sorry if it's not your exact question." clearing her throat, she began. "First, another one that has been asked many, many times. What fetishes do I have? Not many. I like it when the person I'm with moans, I'm not sure why. Besides that... I like tight clothes. I wouldn't really say 'bondage gear' but something like that. Latex, too tight zip upped leather, and...well, being gagged. Please, don't ask."
Offering a smile, she felt her spirits lift when she thought about all of her fans spazzing out over that information. "Next, I wrote... I can't read it, hahaha." Her giggle calmed her down and she squinted. "I need to learn how to write better... oh, this one! I laughed so hard!" Her lips stayed in a smile. "Someone asked what I saw my male co-workers eat to "Sweeten the load" so to say." She giggled again and shook her head as best she could. "Lots of things, but mainly there is a little packet that they put in their drinks that supposed to make it taste sweet. I'm sure people will ask so I'll answer: No it doesn't work. Honestly, I'd be scared out of my mind if I was going down on a guy and got a mouthful of strawberry flavored splooge. I don't know what I would think!"
"I got a few questions not about work, I want to spend some time on these. Let's see, we have... My favorite food? Fajitas." Her gave a small bittersweet smile at a memory. "Also, what is my favorite movie? I'm not really sure on that one, so many good ones. I like the new comic-book movies that are coming out lately, so I'll just say that genre is my favorite." Sniffing again, she covered her mouth and coughed. "Someone else asked what I do in my spare time. That's easy, I watch a lot of movies, but I read the most. I have some reading glasses that I wear, I'll take a picture in them sometime."
She sniffed yet again and looked back at her list. "Let's see...Am I satisfied with my life? Honestly... Yes and no. As far as my general life is concerned, I am happy. I have a lot of loyal fans, who send me kind emails, I am starting to get enough money to eat a little better, and all-in-all it's pretty good. Besides that... I'm not really happy with my love life... I'm still..." She shook her head. "I don't want to ruin this by crying about my ex-girlfriend. I'm going to move on, okay?"
Vivio skimmed her paper. "What do I do to relax? Reading relaxes me, but so does eating. I love chocolate, chocolate is salvation. Other than that, I'd kill for a massage to relax me, but that's really expensive....let's see... If I could change anything in my life, what would it be?" She gave the camera a gentle smile. "I'd have been more honest with her...Okay, I'm starting to ramble. I'll upload this after I take a small nap. I hope everyone out there is having fun. Remember, my new movie is coming out this Firesday, so pick it up okay? Please send in the comments and vote for me, ne?" She winked and blew a kiss. "This is Eyes, signing off."
The camera was cut off and Vivio fell back into her pillow. 'I hope I was cheerful enough...' A knock on her door informed her that her friend Angel had stopped by again to check up on her and she pushed herself up and out of bed to go answer the door.
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"There she is!" The call across the filming set made Vivio pause her walking to the nurse's office and look over to where a few of her friends were gathered. "Come here, Eyes!" The blond came to Spacebrotha's call and looked up at him questioningly. "Congratulations!"
Vivio, not knowing what she was being congratulated on, replied in the best way she knew how: "Huh?"
"You haven't heard!?" Another man asked her, shocked. "Eyes, the new movie was a hit! You broke both your previous records on the first day! the first day, Eyes!"
Vivio looked at them, trying to decide if what she just heard was a joke or not. "...Are you being serious?"
"Yes!" The group yelled at once.
The girl stared at them blankly for several moments before a smile started coming on her face. "Really?" She got nods. "Really, really!?" Again she was nodded at and pat on the back while a few others ruffled her hair. "Oh wow... Wow..." Her words wouldn't come out, still in a small state of shock. "What... Were the sells?"
"Almost thirty thousand already." Spacebrotha put his hands on Vivio's shoulders and started guiding her to the director's office. "You need to talk to the boss, I'm sure you'll be pleased at what he has to tell you."
"O-Okay." Vivio nodded and readied herself when she was dropped off in front of the door. A deep breath was taken and she knocked, being bid entrance. "You wanted to see me, sir?"
A man with long black hair and thin wireframe glasses smiled at his best star. "Yes, Vivio, please have a seat." He motioned to the large chair in front of himself and let the girl get comfortable before continuing. "I'm sure you heard about our record sells on your new video?"
"Yes sir, I just found out. Allquall made me stay at home for the past week and a half because of the flu; today is my first day back."
"Oh yes, I heard about that. How are you feeling?"
"Fine, thank you." She couldn't help but shift in her seat from the excitement and curiosity.
The man leaned back in his chair and folded his hands together. "Vivio, I will cut straight to the chase. You have gotten extremely popular lately. It seems that every video you are in sells better than those released without them. In short, you have become a type of spokesman for our company. Your career as an adult entertainer truly begins here and now. If you would like, I can draw up a contract for you to become a bigger star than you currently are. This new position gives you a higher cut from your webpage, and your pay from scenes done will increase as well. In return, we will require you to take certain jobs every so often to promote our company. These may include a guest appearance at strip clubs to help sales there, going to interviews at magazines, and this isn't confirmed yet, but there are certain gaming companies, such as Key, that have an eye on you for voice acting roles."
Vivio opened her mouth to reply, but her words died before they could form. A cross between a gasp and a pleased laugh escaped instead and she was sure her mouth was hanging open. Although awestruck, her boss continued on. "You will also be given more equipment for your home use and a higher discount at our stores. Because of this you will be required to do a minimal of bi-weekly updates for your web page. Also, you will be on call for scenes in future movies which you will be required to take. You will have pull on your tags, but as you will be under contract, you must do a set number of scenes, be they for commercial release or pay-per-view online."
"That's... A lot at once." Vivio finally managed to speak. "I... I don't know what to say."
"You have until the first of the year to decide." He passed her a folder. "Please read over this, it will dictate the things you will need to do if you agree to the enhanced contract. You have a while to decide so please think about this carefully."
"Yes sir." A shaking hand reached out to take the folder and hold it to her chest, a smile still on her face, "I will read over it all right away!"
"You do that. Now, go out there and catch up on what you missed while sick."
"Yes sir!" Standing, she shook the man's hand and retreated out of the office. Once the door was closed behind her she turned to look at her group of friends all grinning at her. "I've been offered an enhanced contract!" She declared, voice breaking from her excitement. Several cheers came all at once and she was picked up by different people in bone crushing hugs. Somewhere along the way she heard that a party was in order and she couldn't agree more.
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Another chicken wing was attacked by Vivio as she watched her friends and coworkers laughing at each other as they shared stories from past jobs and teasing her about her future in the industry. The blond grinned at them while chewing on her snack, almost choking when one of them said that she had some white stuff on her face. A napkin was employed and the dressing from her wing was wiped clean oh her chin with a giggle.
"So, Eyes," One of them spoke to her during a temporary lapse in laughter. "Going big time now, you're not going to forget about us little people are you?"
Vivio took the chance and grinned at him. "The only thing little about you is your performance parts." A collected group cheers around them made her smile around the straw in her mouth. "But really," She spoke around it, old habit of chewing on them resurfacing, "I think I'll still be on the same sets when I'm not going around to the different studios for my other jobs. We'll still see each other when I do my web page scenes."
Another chicken wing was grabbed and nibbled on, the time going by as fast as the food was. Another hour passed by at the bar and her thinking began to get fuzzy from the good times and the drinks. Finally having to call it, Vivio excused herself before she got drunk and couldn't drive herself home. On the way out she took a large intake of the cold air to clear her head and stopped in her tracks when she saw a flash of blue hair entering a taxi. "Syn!?" Her feet ran towards that direction but the vehicle was already turning onto the main road, leaving her with the question if that really was her ex or not.
The good mood left the girl briefly, allowing a small bittersweet memory of the past little while. As she tried to shrug it off she made her way back to her car and drove home a little slower than normal. Her door was unlocked and the girl stepped into her dark house, closing the door behind herself with a small click. The lights were turned on after a few moments and she sat down on her couch, looking down at the folder in her hands that would outline her new career as a true star among the industry. 'Somehow,' she thought to herself while opening it. 'I feel a little bad that I have no one here to share this with...'
A quick shaking of her head cleared the thought and she made her way to her bedroom, taking out her camera and clicking it on. "Hey everyone!" She called out cheerfully. "You will not believe my day today." The device was set on the stand and she began stripping to change into her night clothes.
Spoiler for PornStar!Vivio pt.35:
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Syn growled to herself as she parked her car. Reaching over to her passenger side, she picked up the plastic bag and opened her door only to slam it behind her before walking down the parking lot to the adult store. 'I can not believe my friend got me this as a gag gift for my birthday.' She felt her cheeks color as she walked in the door and was instantly greeted by sexy lingerie. 'I need the money, otherwise I wouldn't bother returning this...' A sales clerk greeted her when he noticed the girl standing at the door in shock. "Um, hi," She told him lamely. "Uhm, my friend bought me this as a gag gift." She held up the bag. "Can I return it for the money?"
"Possibly," the man told her while taking the bag. "Let me ask my boss, okay?"
"Okay." Syn nodded and leaned on the cash register bar, thanking her lucky stars that no one was there so early in the morning. 'As if crap like this wasn't already on my bad side.' Out of the corner of her fire red eye she noticed a girl she recognized quite well on the front of a magazine. 'Front cover, she's doing well for herself.' Reaching over to it, she felt her throat tighten as she flipped through the pages to pass the time waiting.
'Interview with Eyes, an Evil Rick's special.' The girl read the words mentally. An image of Vivio, fully dressed, was on the page. The bright smile and sparkling eyes were captured too well for the girl, and she flipped the page so she wouldn't have to look at them. A small glance at the photos of Vivio slowly undressed was spared before she went to the interview.
Rick: Eyes, Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed in my magazine.
Eyes: It's an honor.
Rick: <chuckles> Thank you. Now, your career has recently skyrocketed. What do you think caused this?
Eyes: I'm not really sure myself. I think it was my recent movie that got people to notice me.
Rick: I see. Tell me about it?
Eyes: Well, it's a love story about a man and woman who are born in families that hate each other. Their parents disagreed on their relationship so they meet together in private. The woman's parents found out and tried to marry her to someone else which caused the man to come save her before the wedding.
Syn rolled her eyes and turned the page. 'Not the typical porn plot. She might as well be screwing them all.' She looked at the now topless pictures of her ex girlfriend, lips turning up slightly. 'She's gorgeous, I'll give her that.'
Rick:Interesting. How many scenes did you partake in?
Eyes: Three.
Rick: Impressive. I've also heard that you have a web page as well that has gotten popular. Many people have done video diaries, but yours seems to attract people. Why is that?
Eyes:<thinks> I'm not really sure. I just record my daily life, I didn't think it was that interesting. It may be my replies to fanmail that they like. Those are always really funny.
Rick: Speaking of daily life, it's rumored that you were recently in a relationship, how did that work out for you?
Syn paused, re-reading the words before turning the page. This time the images were skipped entirely and the words were sought out at once.
Eyes:< stays silent a moment > We broke up... She didn't like my job.
Rick: Is there anyone else you are seeing now then?
Eyes: I... I don't think I'm going to date anyone else.
Rick: Must be complicated. Was your last one that serious?
Eyes: <Pauses again> ...I thought so... She taught me the difference between sex and making love... I really, really loved her... still do.
Rick: I'm sorry it turned out that way... If you could tell this person anything, what would it be?
Eyes: I'd... tell her that I'm sorry I hurt her... and that I honestly...I... <She wipes her eyes> I'm sorry, can we talk about something else?
"Miss?" The voice made Syn jump and yelp, spinning around to see the person standing before her. "Here is your return." He held out money and a receipt while trying not to laugh.
"Oh... thank you." Syn took the money and kept it in her hand a moment before holding out the magazine. "Can you ring this up for me?"
Spoiler for PornStar!Vivio pt.36:
"Good choice." The man accepted the magazine and went behind the cash register to scan the tag on it. "This is my last copy."
Syn tried to stay calm about buying her first pornographic magazine. "Oh? Good brand?"
"Not insanely, but it has the interview with Eyes in it." He pointed to the girl on the cover. "She sells more than I've seen in a while. You should check her webpage, it's almost as if she's just a normal girl instead of the trashy ones you normally see."
The female took her change and stuffed it into her front left pocket. "Yeah, she's a nice girl..." With that, Syn left the store and jogged to her car quickly. Still a little warm from before, she felt herself relax a little. The heat was turned on and she looked around before opening the magazine again and looking at it once more. The interview offered no more references to herself so she instead looked at the images of her ex girlfriend. 'No telling how many people are seeing these...' Despite the bitter thought, she couldn't quite summon up the anger inside of herself that she had from before. 'She said she still loves me...' The issue was tossed in the back seat and she rubbed the bridge of her nose. 'I'm so going to regret this...'
Backing out of her spot, she ignored a car full of guys staring at her as they went past. Once on the main road back into town she drove past her usual turn off and continued on until she took the familiar exit leading to an apartment complex she never thought she'd go into again. Her car door was closed quickly after she exited her vehicle and she slid her hands into her pockets to keep them warm as she walked through the light lair of snow on the ground. A small elevator ride later and she found herself in front of Vivio's door.
Only a second passed by before she knocked, moving her hands back to her arms to rub them briskly while waiting for a reply. When nothing came she knocked once more, this time louder. Again no sound was heard from inside. 'I wonder if she's asleep?' The clock on her phone informed her that the girl should be up by now. 'If I call her she will probably just ignore me... Dammit.' Syn knocked a final time and waited for a response. When Vivio didn't answer, the girl sighed and sat down in front of the door. Her jacket was huddled up around herself and she hugged her knees, leaning back against the door while waiting.
As the time passed, Syn went from playing on her cell phone to resting her eyes while leaning against the door. After dozing off a moment, she opened her eyes and looked across the empty hallway as the lights above the elevator started moving up to the current floor. The doors opened and a blond walked out of them, eyes downcast as she tried to dig out her keys from her purse while still holding the two paper sacks with her arm. When she was close to her door she looked up and almost dropped her things at the sight of Syn standing and sorely rubbing her legs. "...Syn?"
"...Hi." The two girls just looked at each other for several long moments. "I...saw your interview in that magazine."
"...Oh." Vivio looked away and towards the floor. "I'm sorry, I made sure they never mentioned your name."
"It's not that." Syn cut her off.
Vivio looked at the girl and saw the slightly shivering hands followed by a notice of Syn's quivering bottom lip. "You're frozen! How long were you waiting out here?"
"I don't know, maybe an hour or so."
"Why didn't you just call me or come back later?"
"I don't know if I would have come back after I left..."
Vivio felt her chest tighten. "Would you... like something hot to drink?"
Spoiler for PornStar!Vivio pt. 37:
"Sure." Syn stepped out of the way of the door and watched Vivio fumble with her keys a moment before reaching out and taking the bags from her. Now free from her burden, Vivo quickly opened the way into her house and cut on the lights.
"I'm sorry my place is a mess." She tried to take the bags back from Syn but the other girl already moved to the kitchen to set them down on the counter. "I should clean up..." Her hands went to grab the magazine that her interview was in from the counter but found Syn picking it up instead. The girl leaned against the wall and opened it, turning to Vivio's section and began to read the rest of the interview while the blond reluctantly went back to putting up her things.
By the time hot chocolate was made, Syn had already claimed a spot on the couch and was looking through another single pose section of her ex-girlfriends pictures. Vivio bent over in front of the girl and offered the steaming mug of liquid chocolate and milk and smiled softly when Syn's hands touched hers briefly while taking it. "Thank you," Syn whispered before sipping on it. "That's just what I needed."
"Good." Vivio sat down next to the girl, so close that their sides were pressed together and legs touching. She held her own cup and sipped it while waiting to see if Syn would move away or not. Her answer came when Syn took another small drink of her beverage and leaned forward to set it down on the small coffee table in front of them.
"So..." Syn began, clasping her hands together and staying bent forward slightly. "Let's talk about it?"
Vivio sat her mug down as well. "I had everything planned out the first time but now I don't know what to say..."
Syn looked down in her lap. "It's been about a month since then, huh?"
"Three weeks, five days."
The words made Syn close her eyes. "I'll start with a question. Why?"
"Why to which part?" Vivio almost whispered, looking down as well.
"Why do you do it? How...do you let yourself be filmed doing that?"
Vivio let out a small sigh. "Its a long story and doesn't have much to do with us... I guess... it began when my parents died... I was adopted and my mama's wife adopted me as well. We... had a really happy life but one day they went out and... never came back." She stopped for just a moment. "All of my parent's friends were hurt. I remember being at the funeral, almost eighteen years old, staring at the caskets... My parents were very well known but none of their closest friends were there. They were all in the hospital, barely alive. I was alone with many people that I didn't know, listening to them say how it was a miracle that anyone made it out alive at all, how that it was such a loss for my parents to be gone... And it was then that I realized something: as long as I was with the people I cared about, I would constantly be in the position that could leave me alone at the graveyard again."
Syn looked over at her in a silent statement that she was listening. "They were in the military," Vivio kept on. And were always sent on dangerous missions. Call me stupid and young, but I couldn't take it. I...left... and was on my own. I didn't want to ask them to take care of me because of my pride...or maybe it was something else... but I was alone. I tried to find a job but no one wanted to hire an inexperienced person like myself. At times I thought about going back but... after I left, I knew I couldn't." Vivio took a long intake through her nose. "I was behind on my rent, had no food... and I overheard some girls talking about a studio looking for girls to be in a pornographic movie... I heard they paid really well and..." She closed her eyes and looked down. "I sold my virginity to eat and pay my bills."
Syn stayed silent a moment, chest aching at the sadness in the voice. "So," Vivio continued on. "I cried that night, and many nights after it. I thought I was a whore, just some trash... but I had food and I paid my rent...A few days later I was called up by the studio and they want to know if I'd do another one..." She sighed. "I needed the money so I did it. After that I didn't sleep for almost two days and made myself sick with regret."
"Why did you keep on then?" Syn finally asked.
Vivio didn't answer at first and finally shrugged a little. "I don't know.. I was scared, I guess. I tried to find other jobs but I couldn't seem to get anyone to hire me... I never stopped looking... in fact most of my money went to bus fare while going from place to place. I got a few part time jobs along the way but they didn't pay enough and... well..."
"You did more to make ends meet?"
"...Yeah. I kind of... got used to being a whore. I would..." She hesitated. "I needed money so... They treated me really bad there. would call me up, film me, and pay, then make money off it. It wasn't until I met my current boss that my life started getting better. He hired me on as staff, introduced me to professionals, and I.. made a friend." This time she smiled slightly. "Someone who treated me with respect... didn't belittle me, call me names... He told his friends about me and we all met up. I found other girls in the career and they explained to me how it worked. From there I... accepted it." She moved her hands while trying to explain it better. "I wasn't some back alley call-girl anymore. I had a real job that paid me respectfully, had contracts, I could turn down anything I wanted to, people began talking to me, inviting me over for dinner, and just wanted to hang out instead of using my body... I don't know, I guess I found a place to belong so I clung to it... A year passed, then another and another... Before long I had my own apartment... I had a car, food, bills sometimes got behind but I never got evicted or anything."
"I'm sorry to hear that..."
Vivio took Syn's offered hand and held on to it. "Hey, we all have our bad stories right?" She got a weak smile in return. "That's what lead up to now... I got popular and...well, it's an honest job with a big studio who takes care of me. I'm respected by most and the rest even look up to me. I know it can easily be called a shady job, but... it's really not that bad when you understand it."
"I see..." Syn felt better once Vivio's voice became less sad and more proud of herself for overcoming everything. "Okay, I can see that now... Okay."
Vivio looked at her ex for a while before squeezing the hand holding onto hers. "Go ahead, ask."
Taking a breath, Syn started. "Why didn't you tell me this at the beginning?"
"I was scared you would use me and leave me."
Syn blinked. "Why did you think that?"
A small smile. "You did try to pick me up the first time we met."
"...Okay." Syn accepted that. "Even so, shouldn't that be more of a reason to tell me?"
"I... didn't want you to see me as some easy girl."
"Well you kinda are one if you sleep with everyone you see." She winced. "Sorry. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
Vivio shook her head. "You had every right to."
"Okay..." Syn took a long intake of breath. "Tell me... How could you say all those things to me while having sex with other people, job or no job."
"It's... not exactly like that."
Syn felt a flash of anger flare through her before calming down once more. “Explain it to me.”
“Well...” Vivio thought hard. “Imagine this... You have a friend that you've known since childhood. Your parents are really close, and you basically grew up as brother and sister.” The two girls shifted so they were looking at each other and Vivio reached over and took Syn's other hand to hold as well. “Now, this friend stays close to you all your life. You go to your high school prom together as friends, you live together during college, and all that kind of stuff.”
“Where is this going?”
“If this friend,” Vivio continued. “Went away for a while and then came back to you, wouldn't you give them a hug and a kiss?”
“Probably?”
“And would that be cheating on your girlfriend if you did?”
Syn looked at her blankly. “Vivio, giving a life-long friend a hug and a kiss isn't the same as screwing someone.”
“No, no,” Vivio shook Syn's hands lightly. “Look at it deeper. It wouldn't be cheating because the emotion and feeling behind the hug and kiss is not romantic. Its a casual brother/sister type of feeling, right? It wouldn't be cheating because of that, right?”
After thinking about it a moment, the blue and red eyed girl finally nodded. “Okay, it wouldn't be cheating.”
“Right.” Vivio nodded. “So, this is where it gets a little hard... The emotions you would have with your friend are the same as what I have at work. Even though you kissed your friend, it's not cheating because there was nothing behind that kiss. What I do at work is the same, because there is no emotion behind it as well.”
Syn moved one hand from Vivio's to rub her eyes before allowing it to be re-taken. “What if...” She began. “If I, out of the blue, told you I had sex with that friend? Several times while we were dating.”
The blond stayed silent for several seconds. “I... would feel hurt... betrayed...” She held Syn's hands tighter. “But that's different, that's-”
“My friend,” Syn cut her off. “Is a nerd, is anti-social, and would never get laid because of it. So I felt sorry for him and had sex with him. How would you feel?”
Vivio opened her mouth and closed it a moment later. “...Hurt.”
“Do you see what I'm getting at?” Syn whispered. “Even if I could accept that you had no emotion behind it, even if it was nothing but work to you... You had sex with someone else.” Again the blond couldn't reply. “Vivio, I trusted you. I... I would have never thought you would do that. You lied to me-”
“I never lied!”
“You purposely mislead me so I wouldn't figure it out.” Syn snapped at her angrily. “And... not just once.”
“But it didn't mean anything!” Vivio tried once more. “It would be the same as you and your friend!”
“The means don't justify the act! What would you say if you saw photos of me doing it!?”
“That I trust you!” Vivio flung herself onto Syn, pushing her back onto the couch and clinging to her. “I trust you! I would believe that there was nothing behind it!”
“Vivio, get off me!”
“No!” Vivio held onto her tighter, voice breaking as she struggled to stay on top of the girl. “Syn, I would always believe you!”
Giving up on getting the blond off, Syn let her hands rest on either side of herself and looked up at the ceiling. Vivio's heavy breathing and loud sobs echoed against her chest for only a few moments before she felt the dampness of the tears that followed. “Vivio...”
“...Yes?”
“If you said you trusted me about my friend... would it be okay if I had sex with him the next day?” The girl nodded against her chest without hesitation. “And if I wanted to have sex with his friend at the same time?” This time the nod was hesitant. “And they recorded it so they could watch it with all the rest of their gang later... and then I went and had sex with all of them?”
Vivio gripped the back of Syn's shirt tightly, crying so hard now that she started to hiccup. “But you love me!”
“Does that make it okay for me to do that?”
“Yes!” Vivio sobbed out, pressing her face closer to Syn's chest. “I trust you! I believe you! So it's okay!” Her breathing started to get raspy, words barely being able to understand over the tears.
Syn sighed and stared at the ceiling, finally allowing one hand to move up and lay across Vivio's back. “I don't know if I could accept something like that...”
“But I love you...”
“If sex means nothing to you, what about when we-”
“That's different.” Vivio managed out, still gripping Syn's shirt tightly in her fist. She didn't lift her head to look at her friend, but instead stayed with her forehead down on her chest. “ We made love...” A hiccup made her pause. “That was special...”
“Why did you wait until after that to tell me what your job is, and not before?”
Vivio tried to calm herself but her breathing was getting shorter and harder, throat making it hard to speak. “I wasn't-wasn't sure if... if I knew wha-what love was.” Her words were starting to get more broken apart now. “You... you showed me...I l-love you.”
Syn closed her eyes and ignored the warm trickle of saltwater rolling past her ears and into her hair. Silence passed over them once more and the girl on bottom slowly began to move her palm over Vivio's back to try and calm her down. The broken gasp slowly started to fade away and the hiccups departed. “Vivio...”
“...Yes?”
Syn opened her eyes and had to blink a few times to make the lingering tears fall. “I need to go.”
“Please stay.”
“I can't.”
“Why?”
“Because I can't.”
Vivio shook her head and gripped Syn's shirt tighter. “If you go... you'll never come back.”
“I have to think.”
“You can think here.”
“No I can't.” Syn moved her hand from Vivio's back and gently rolled her over towards the couch so she could sit up. “Vivio, you know there are only two ways this will ever work out, don't you?” She accepted Vivio's hands and gave thema small squeeze to show that she was being sincere.”Either I learn to accept you for everything you do...”
“Or... I quit my job.” Vivio finished the sentence softly.
“We need to think.” Syn whispered, shaking her head at the pleading look she was getting. “I have to go.”
“Please...”
Syn stood up and walked to the door, stopping when she felt her shirt being grabbed and Vivio's forehead pressed against her back. “Vivio.”
“Promise me,” the girl managed out. “That you won't avoid me.”
Syn opened the door and felt her shirt between Vivio's fingers being gripped harder. “I promise that I'll think about this really hard.” Several moments passed by before her shirt was reluctantly released and she walked the rest of the way out of the apartment.
Saaaaaaaad chapter!
I think Syn is not taking the right direction while asking Vivio to leave her job
Three chapters? And what about those who are long, as in ranging from 20k to 30k words?
A case by case basis. If your chapters are OMG HUEG, then you might only need two. I'm not doing just one, though, unless someone gives me a good reason to, so one-shots are for the most part out of the question (I will make the occasional exception though, if I feel like it ).
And also, Evil Rick: Staring at your avatar too long makes my head explode.
Hmmmm after so long time I've decided to post some of my thoughts.
Though I haven't seen any (or at least not that much as I have been used to) NanoFate here I must admit a lot of interesting stories is floating around. I know I have been, and I still am lazy to voice my opinion but today something made me to do so.
@RadiantBeam: Your Lutecia x Vivio stories made my day, but in second story I for some reason enjoyed the most these parts where Nanoha wanted to watch them. I guess for that we should thank to DezoPenguin.
But I think that Vivio is used extensively these days, like Nanoha and Fate year ago. I wonder what character will be under scope few months later....
@DezoPenguin: Every time I read your reviews I fell a pang of envy. I just hope that when I reach your age I will be able to write such quality reviews/texts too. So please continue with that, I'm glad I'm at least able to read and understand them.
And at least @Satashi: I will admit it without torture, I strongly disliked PS!Vivio from the beginning, but when the story started to be more serious I slowly become to like it. But my natural curiosity did not allowed me to miss it and now I'm glad I read every single part. My reasons for disliking were especially these ones who work in adult entertainment industry (I had once such "honour" to speak shortly with one of them and it was somewhat disgusting.) and that I especially like stories in which main couple begins as pair of two pure, innocent beings. You may call it a fetish or so, I don't care.
But when it started to be interesting to me and when I began to wait for every new update was the point when confrontation of their "worlds" was inevitable. I mean the point when Syn and Vivio began to be serious. The point when it began to smell like reality. For myself, who has quite simmilar point of view on sex and such things like Syn is especially interesting to read (or watch) and imagine myself in their positions. And personally, if I were Syn I doubt I would ever be able to forgive Vivio (or forget deeds).
I feel like I should write more or write more sophisticated text, but I'm not DezoPenguin so I leave such itellectual (I hope I used right word, if not I'm sorry) stuff to him. As KoSSa, I think I wroten enought.
Just one thing. I'm really want to read conclusion of PS!Vivivo no matter what is going to happen.
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Once some one asked me where I came from. I just pointed behind myself. When the same person asked where I was heading, I just pointed towards the horizon I was looking at. "It's simple, I neither belong here nor there. I am just walking..."Current fandoms: RWBY - White Rose, Frozen - Elsanna and all previous.
How come? The site is more popular than ever... I haven't been around... but I have had the host moaning at me about the ever increasing bandwidth usage.
Ah, NanoFate is still huge at other places, but here at AS it's focused more on other pairings, like Lutecia/Caro for example. Though there's still plenty of it around to enjoy :3
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Saaaaaaaad chapter!
I think Syn is not taking the right direction while asking Vivio to leave her job
Can't wait to see what will hapen now
Let's hope she comes around :3'
Cookies to rick for my new siggy/avatar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by KoSSa
@DezoPenguin: Every time I read your reviews I fell a pang of envy. I just hope that when I reach your age I will be able to write such quality reviews/texts too. So please continue with that, I'm glad I'm at least able to read and understand them.
And at least @Satashi: I will admit it without torture, I strongly disliked PS!Vivio from the beginning, but when the story started to be more serious I slowly become to like it. But my natural curiosity did not allowed me to miss it and now I'm glad I read every single part. My reasons for disliking were especially these ones who work in adult entertainment industry (I had once such "honour" to speak shortly with one of them and it was somewhat disgusting.) and that I especially like stories in which main couple begins as pair of two pure, innocent beings. You may call it a fetish or so, I don't care.
But when it started to be interesting to me and when I began to wait for every new update was the point when confrontation of their "worlds" was inevitable. I mean the point when Syn and Vivio began to be serious. The point when it began to smell like reality. For myself, who has quite simmilar point of view on sex and such things like Syn is especially interesting to read (or watch) and imagine myself in their positions. And personally, if I were Syn I doubt I would ever be able to forgive Vivio (or forget deeds).
I feel like I should write more or write more sophisticated text, but I'm not DezoPenguin so I leave such itellectual (I hope I used right word, if not I'm sorry) stuff to him. As KoSSa, I think I wroten enought.
Just one thing. I'm really want to read conclusion of PS!Vivivo no matter what is going to happen.
you did great on saying what you wanted to. Infact, I'm really happy that you didn't like it at first but then started to. It makes me feel nice. Hopefully when I re-do the fist few bits it will be more... professional? After all, it was never intended to be a serious story until about half way though >.< Thanks alot for the kind words!!
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Originally Posted by Kagerou
A case by case basis. If your chapters are OMG HUEG, then you might only need two. I'm not doing just one, though, unless someone gives me a good reason to, so one-shots are for the most part out of the question (I will make the occasional exception though, if I feel like it ).
And also, Evil Rick: Staring at your avatar too long makes my head explode.
@RadiantBeam: Your Lutecia x Vivio stories made my day, but in second story I for some reason enjoyed the most these parts where Nanoha wanted to watch them. I guess for that we should thank to DezoPenguin.
But I think that Vivio is used extensively these days, like Nanoha and Fate year ago. I wonder what character will be under scope few months later....
Heh, thank you very much. ^__^ I've actually recieved a few requests to continue on with the Lutecia/Vivio stories from what I've built with Never Been Kissed and Never Confessed, but I must admit I'm a little hesitant about it. I honestly didn't think the pairing would be this popular.
And DezoPenguin is awesome. I owe him a lot for writing that omake for me. :3
This little fic is called A Day In The Lab. I give a special thanks to Black_Wolf for beta-ing the story.
Spoiler for Semi-NSFW Lilgumba's 1st Nanoha fanfic:
Earlier that day Fate was supposed to meet with Nanoha. However, Nanoha never showed up at the place they had agreed to. This was uncharacteristic of her and Fate worried that she might have become ill. The blonde decided to visit Shamal to see if Nanoha was there.
Fate walked into Shamal’s office and saw Signum sitting there at the desk. Confused she walked up to the pink haired woman and asked, “Hey, have you seen Nanoha anywhere?”
Signum nodded and replied, “Shamal had to do some tests but needed an extra hand in the laboratory. I refused to go with her into that…that place.” The woman shuddered at the thought and continued, “Nanoha walked by and Shamal grabbed her.”
“That’s strange. Why is that laboratory so bad?” wondered Fate.
Immediately the older woman stood up, grabbed Fate by the shoulders, and looking directly in her face exclaimed, “Testarossa! Don’t even think about going in there! You don’t know the horrors that occur in that lab. If you have any common sense at all you will not go into that abominable place and wait until Nanoha comes screaming….I mean running back!”
Shocked by the uncharacteristic traumatized look on Signum’s face, Fate stepped aside and said, “What’s wrong with you? It’s just a lab. How bad can it be?” She then broke the contact between her and Signum and proceeded to leave the office. Signum stood there shaking her head back and forth and returned to sit down by the desk with her face flushed.
Relieved to know that Nanoha was not sick, Fate walked down several corridors until she reached the laboratory section. Fate glanced around the area and noticed how white and sterile looking it appeared.
‘This is really kind of creepy. I’d go insane if I was cooped up in a place like this all the time,’ thought Fate. After some exploration, she reached the door that had Shamal’s name on it. As Fate was approaching the door she heard voices.
“Hey, want to see my favorite toy?” said one voice excitedly.
“Sure!” said the other voice.
Fate thought to herself, ‘That’s Shamal and Nanoha’s voice but what toy could they be talking about?’ Fate decided to listen more.
“It’s so big! The more I stare at it the more I want to touch it!” stated a very excited sounding Nanoha.
Shamal giggled and said amusingly, “I love how it moves around. It heats up just at the right spot too.”
Fate’s eyes grew wider as she stood there listening to what was being said. ‘Moves around? It heats up? Wha….wha…what the heck are they doing in there?’ thought a now flustered Fate.
“Really?” questioned Nanoha. “Can I take it out and try?”
“No you shouldn’t…,” Shamal warned but it was too late.
“Aaaaaaaah,” Nanoha cried simultaneously as Shamal screamed out her name.
“Don’t do that so quickly! You’re too inexperienced for that right now,” scolded Shamal.
“Nyah haha,” laughed Nanoha.
The door opened suddenly and a startled Nanoha and Shamal looked at Fate. Fate’s face was red and she was breathing slightly heavier than normal. Fate saw the two women next to a lab bench. A Bunsen burner on flaming a beaker Shamal was removing with tongs.
A highly embarrassed Fate thought, 'That was what they were talking about?’
“Fate-chan! Sorry about not meeting you earlier. Shamal needed help with some tests. Time must have passed by without me noticing. I’m sorry. Hey!” Nanoha said as she twirled around once. She asked while blushing, “How do I look?”
Fate slowly scanned up Nanoha and saw her in a white lab coat that was gently accenting her curvy features. “Grea…uh…wow….um…y..you look n…nice,” stuttered Fate blushing profusely.
Nanoha revealed a big grin. Fate turned her eyes towards the ground. The brunette noticed Fate’s face getting red and asked, “Are you okay?” The girl swiftly moved closer to Fate and placed a hand over Fate’s forehead. Unfortunately for the blonde, that proximity allowed her to see just how well that lab coat was accentuating Nanoha’s assets and her face turned redder.
“My, my! That’s not good Fate. Come here!” said Shamal as she escorted Fate to the lab lounge area. Once Shamal placed Fate on the couch she told her, “Stay here for a bit. Nanoha and I have a few more tests that need to be performed. It should not take much longer so please rest up and I’ll take a look at you after we are done.”
Fate nodded while Shamal returned to the main laboratory area. Lying down on the couch, Fate sighed and covered her eyes with an arm. She whispered to herself, “I can’t believe I got so worked up over that.”
Several minutes passed by when Fate heard Shamal ask Nanoha, “Can you reach into here? I know it’s tight but your hand should fit.”
Nanoha replied, “Oh! It’s so warm and damp. It feels so good like it’s clinging to my skin.”
Fate raised an eyebrow and listened more as Shamal said, “I like the feeling too. I can’t do it often because it makes me sweat every time. I don’t want to get all messy and have to deal with patients without cleaning up.”
Sweat fell down Fate’s face now as she imagined what could be happening in the other room. Her thought process was interrupted by, “Nanoha! Come quickly”
“I’m coming! I’m coming! I’m almost there,” Nanoha loudly replied.
This was too much for Fate to handle. She wanted to see what was going on. Immediately she got up from the couch and ran into the laboratory area. Unbeknownst to her, Nanoha was running from the side area of the laboratory when they crashed into each other. Petri dishes flew all over the place and crashed upon the floor.
“Nanoha!” Shamal screamed. “Are you okay?”
“Nyah haha. Sorry Shamal. I wasn’t watching where I was going and ran into Fate,” said Nanoha. The brunette, still grinning sheepishly, stood up, took Fate’s hand and assisted the red-faced blonde.
“Wh…what were you doing Nanoha?” asked Fate.
“Oh. I was getting these petri dishes out of the incubator for Shamal over there. It’s so warm in there and humid. It feels almost like a sauna. Why? What’s wrong Fate-chan?” asked the concerned woman.
“It’s nothing Nanoha. Maybe I am feeling under the weather. I think I’m going to lie back down on the couch,” explained Fate giving Nanoha a weak smile before turning back to the lounge area.
The day was long for Fate. She did not understand what was going on in her head. Defeated, Fate plopped face first into the couch and began to doze off. When she was at the edge of slumberland she heard voices once again.
“Oh! This feels so weird yet good,” exclaimed Nanoha.
“Nanoha! Get off that! It’s mine!” yelled Shamal.
Nanoha whined and stated, “But I like the vibrations! It makes me all tingly inside.”
Fate sits up with a shocked expression. ‘Vibrations….inside….what the heck is Nanoha sitting on? It’s Shamal's at that!’ thought Fate.
Shamal countered with, “I don’t care. You keep sitting on it like that and you are going to break it! Do you know how much that costs?”
“Wow! It’s an expensive brand! I wish I had one of these at home. I could let everyone sit on it,” a giddy Nanoha babbled.
‘…for everyone to share? Nanoha! I can’t believe this!’ thought an extremely flustered Fate.
Fate heard from the other room Shamal’s grunting and Nanoha screaming, “Aaaaaaah! Don’t pull me off! Wait just a few more minutes!”
Fate could not take it anymore. She quickly got off the couch and cried out, “Bardiche! Sonic Form!”
Her companion responded, [Yes Sir]
With a flash Fate exited the lounge area crashing through the laboratory door without one glance back as Shamal finally pulled Nanoha off the flask shaker.
“Fate-chan?” asked Nanoha as Shamal checked to make sure the flask shaker was not broken.
Fate ran back into Shamal’s office and found Signum still sitting at the desk. Signum glanced up at Fate’s red and traumatized face.
“You see…I told you not to go into that lab. Vita and Shamal were in there the other week together…,” said Signum and after releasing small shudder continued, “I can never look at them the same again.”
The exhausted Fate slumped down to the floor, hugging her knees and began rocking back and forth. “Nanoha….Shamal….Nanoha….Shamal…”
In the laboratory, Shamal wondered out loud. “What happened to Fate? It’s funny though…”
Nanoha asked, “What is Shamal?”
Shamal pondered for a second and responded, “The same thing happened to Signum the other week when Vita and I were in here doing experiments.” Nanoha laughed at the remark.
After some time passed and the tests were completed, Shamal said, “Thank you for all your help Nanoha. I have some pumpkin pie in the fridge. Would you like some?”
“Yes! I love the taste of pumpkins!” exclaimed a happy Nanoha.
“Excellent,” Shamal replied. “It’s so mouth watering and it goes really well with whipped cream.”
Ah well your first bit of fic and it's cracktasti-*shot*
But really it was very amusing and made me smile. hope you do more Gumba.
and pumpkins really are delis-*shot*
@PS!V With all this talk I'm just going to stand back and read and comment on the irc, too many comments and it'll turn into the PS!V board ( I've noticed the walls of text are starting to get to where the word count is longer then the part itself).
As for me, I'm working on something but alas it's keeping me from writing any crack :c.
@PS!V With all this talk I'm just going to stand back and read and comment on the irc, too many comments and it'll turn into the PS!V board ( I've noticed the walls of text are starting to get to where the word count is longer then the part itself).
You know, that's a good point. The next time I do a wall-of-text review, I'll spoilertag the thing to save space. In fact, I think I'll go back and do that to the last one.
Vivio slowly climbed out of her bed and stumbled across her apartment. The world blurred around her but the hope that Syn was behind the knocking on her door gave her the energy to make it the rest of the way. Once she managed to reach the door, she leaned against the frame and unlocked it. Instead of a young blue haired girl waiting to talk to her, she instead found a more mature woman looking at her with a mix of shock and pity. "Hey Allquall," Vivio mumbled, eyes closing and letting her head fall against the frame.
"Eyes, you look like hell, what happened!?" The woman quickly helped the blond walk back to her bed, where she slowly crawled into it and laid face first. "Are you okay? you never came back for your checkup and when I asked I was told you haven't even come to work all week or updated your webpage! I was worried!"
"Ah." Vivio stayed silent after the short mumble but reluctantly allowed herself to be rolled over and sat up on the bed. "I want to lay down..."
"You need me to check on you." The woman sat down on the bed and started giving her a one-over. "How do you feel?"
"Dead."
"Be more specific please."
"Throwing up, my throat hurts, my eyes sting, my chest s tight, I don't care about anything."
Allquall looked at the girl a little closer. The normally shining gold hair was dull and lifeless, and instead of the faint sweet smell of perfume, she smelt sweat and neglect. "Eyes, why didn't you come in? Your cold got worse, I'm certain you have the flu now. Didn't you get pills to prevent that?" Vivio looked away. "Are you eating okay?"
"I'd just throw it up."
"Are you taking care of yourself? When did you last shower and change your sheets? You need to stay clean, you will feel better."
Vivio shrugged. "I dunno..." The hands keeping her up left and she laid back down on the bed, cheek on her pillow. "I don't really care."
"What's wrong with you?" The woman asked softly. "I've never once seen you not smiling and bouncing off the walls."
Staying quiet a moment, Vivio finally opened her eyes again and looked up at the woman. "Syn left me... After that I... I just got sick." She once again looked away and faced her pillow, fighting back the urge to cry again.
"You can't not take care of yourself because your girlfriend left you. If you don't get better you'll be in trouble."
"I know but...I don't know..."
Allquall stood up and tucked the girl in. "I'm going to prescribe you something and get your pharmacist to deliver it. She's your friend right?" She got a small nod. "Okay, I'll do that... Vivio, take a shower, you smell like ten kinda of ass." She got a small smile, but it was enough for her. "Really. I'll be back tomorrow to check up on you. May I leave your door unlocked for a few hours?"
"Yes."
"Okay, Angel will be by shortly. If she can't, I'll take it to you."
"...Thank you." For the first time in a few days, Vivio felt as if laying in bed and dieing wasn't the only solution to how she felt at that moment.
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Syn felt a small shake on her shoulder and jerked slightly in shock, blinking and turning to the side to see Riyuu looking at her oddly. "Huh?"
"You're spacing out again." The girl told her in a matter-of-fact tone. "You've been like that the past few days, what's up?" Her accented voice came casually while she stirred the dish in front of herself. "Are you having problems?"
"Yes." Syn sighed and went on auto pilot, once again disregarding the recipe she was supposed to stick to and going by what she wanted to add to the meal she was preparing. "Girlfriend issues."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it works out okay."
"Already broke up." Syn declared her task done and walked away to plate it before anymore questions could be asked. "Wan, order up." The next ticket was taken and she went about making it along with one more on the side. 'I wish I could just go a day without having to think about this crap again.' Her mind went off again as she moved around, purposely trying to avoid the pity looks she was getting from her boss. 'It's already been a week and two days for crying out loud.' While her current orders were cooking, she stared at the food and thought to pass the time. 'She's probably with some guy right now, getting a load on her face.' The bitter thought both pleased her and pissed her off at the same time, leaving her with a knot in her stomach. 'Bastard touching my girlfriend...'her motions got rougher while tossing the contents of a skillet around. 'I have have half a mind to... damnit Syn, stop thinking about it!'
The girl angrily kicked the bottom of the stove and huffed out. "I thought I saw a bug," she spoke, voice clearly mad. "It wasn't, so we're okay." Her eyes closed and a breath was taken, images of Vivio having sex with faceless people invading her against her will. 'Damn it! Why am I so mad!?'
"Syn," Wan's voice came, snapping the girl back to the present. "I have a customer out here who would like to speak with you."
"With me?" Syn tried to figure out who she knew that would request to see her. "A girl?"
"A guy."
Syn wiped her hands and walked out along with Wan, being left alone at a table where a tanned man was looking at her. "Miss," he began. "Did you prepare the meal I just had?"
Looking down at the mostly cleared plate, Syn nodded. "I did."
"I heard that this place recently hired a new chef and that the food here was suddenly a lot better. The newspaper even reported complaints about people parking next door because your parking lot was full."
"Well... We have been busy lately." Syn tried to think where this was heading.
"Miss, My name is Tempest, I own The Shiny Sword downtown. I would like to hire you as my new chef."
Syn blinked again. "Wait, the really fancy place?"
"Yes, miss." He nodded. "I could offer you three times what your pay would be here, and even creative liberty on creating new dishes."
"Sold." Syn stated before the man could even start his next sentence. "When can I start?"
"Tomorrow."
"What time?"
"One PM to nine PM." He stood and shook the girl's hand. "I look forward to it."
"Me too," Syn smiled and walked back to the kitchen. 'Finally! Something good in my life!' She looked at both wan and Riyuu giving her questioning looks. "Sorry girls, I just got hired on at another restaurant because I kept changing your recipes." The dissapointed looks on their faces made her soften just a little. "I'll leave my changes with you, too." She got smiles and a few words of encouragement, and even a promise fora good reference if thy called.
With a grin, Syn started finishing the day. 'I can't wait to tell-' Her hands stopped, hovering above what she was reaching for. '... Like she would care.'
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Vivio smiled at the camera pointing to her bed and moved her hand back from the record button on it. "Hello, everyone," she greeted with her normal opening. "I'm sure a few of you are looking at your screen right now and thinking: 'A week of no updates and all we get is a video diary?'... Well, sorry, but yes for now..." She sniffed and laid her cheek back on her pillow, pulling the covers up to her neck. Her hair was still a little messy and her face was still stained a splash of red from her sickness. "I have the flu it seems."
After pulling her sheets up to cover her mouth, she let out a cough that she had been trying to repress. "I'm doing better, but I still can't get out of bed. I'd love to take some pictures or something for everyone but...Yeah, I'm really sorry. I know you pay for my site, and I should have some type of spare pictures incase of emergencies but... I never thought about doing that before. To make up for it, I promise I'll do a video every day for a week."
The sick girl sniffed again and exhaled a ragged breath. "Well, for the past week and some days, I haven't done much to really tell you about my life... I've stayed in bed for most of it... and..." She closed her eyes. "Remember my girlfriend? She found out about my job... No, it didn't go well... She dumped me and I haven't heard from her since. I know it is my fault for not telling her, but..." Again she sighed. "I won't talk about that anymore. I'm feeling a lot better than I did since I first fell ill, so I'm going to try and start updating the page in a day or two. Please send me emails if you have any ideas on what you would like to see updated. I'm sorry again for the lack of updates."
Reaching down to the floor, Vivio picked up a sheet of paper. "I couldn't sit at my desk long enough to print out all the emails I wanted to reply to, so I just wrote down what I remembered. I'm sorry if it's not your exact question." clearing her throat, she began. "First, another one that has been asked many, many times. What fetishes do I have? Not many. I like it when the person I'm with moans, I'm not sure why. Besides that... I like tight clothes. I wouldn't really say 'bondage gear' but something like that. Latex, too tight zip upped leather, and...well, being gagged. Please, don't ask."
Offering a smile, she felt her spirits lift when she thought about all of her fans spazzing out over that information. "Next, I wrote... I can't read it, hahaha." Her giggle calmed her down and she squinted. "I need to learn how to write better... oh, this one! I laughed so hard!" Her lips stayed in a smile. "Someone asked what I saw my male co-workers eat to "Sweeten the load" so to say." She giggled again and shook her head as best she could. "Lots of things, but mainly there is a little packet that they put in their drinks that supposed to make it taste sweet. I'm sure people will ask so I'll answer: No it doesn't work. Honestly, I'd be scared out of my mind if I was going down on a guy and got a mouthful of strawberry flavored splooge. I don't know what I would think!"
"I got a few questions not about work, I want to spend some time on these. Let's see, we have... My favorite food? Fajitas." Her gave a small bittersweet smile at a memory. "Also, what is my favorite movie? I'm not really sure on that one, so many good ones. I like the new comic-book movies that are coming out lately, so I'll just say that genre is my favorite." Sniffing again, she covered her mouth and coughed. "Someone else asked what I do in my spare time. That's easy, I watch a lot of movies, but I read the most. I have some reading glasses that I wear, I'll take a picture in them sometime."
She sniffed yet again and looked back at her list. "Let's see...Am I satisfied with my life? Honestly... Yes and no. As far as my general life is concerned, I am happy. I have a lot of loyal fans, who send me kind emails, I am starting to get enough money to eat a little better, and all-in-all it's pretty good. Besides that... I'm not really happy with my love life... I'm still..." She shook her head. "I don't want to ruin this by crying about my ex-girlfriend. I'm going to move on, okay?"
Vivio skimmed her paper. "What do I do to relax? Reading relaxes me, but so does eating. I love chocolate, chocolate is salvation. Other than that, I'd kill for a massage to relax me, but that's really expensive....let's see... If I could change anything in my life, what would it be?" She gave the camera a gentle smile. "I'd have been more honest with her...Okay, I'm starting to ramble. I'll upload this after I take a small nap. I hope everyone out there is having fun. Remember, my new movie is coming out this Firesday, so pick it up okay? Please send in the comments and vote for me, ne?" She winked and blew a kiss. "This is Eyes, signing off."
The camera was cut off and Vivio fell back into her pillow. 'I hope I was cheerful enough...' A knock on her door informed her that her friend Angel had stopped by again to check up on her and she pushed herself up and out of bed to go answer the door.
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"There she is!" The call across the filming set made Vivio pause her walking to the nurse's office and look over to where a few of her friends were gathered. "Come here, Eyes!" The blond came to Spacebrotha's call and looked up at him questioningly. "Congratulations!"
Vivio, not knowing what she was being congratulated on, replied in the best way she knew how: "Huh?"
"You haven't heard!?" Another man asked her, shocked. "Eyes, the new movie was a hit! You broke both your previous records on the first day! the first day, Eyes!"
Vivio looked at them, trying to decide if what she just heard was a joke or not. "...Are you being serious?"
"Yes!" The group yelled at once.
The girl stared at them blankly for several moments before a smile started coming on her face. "Really?" She got nods. "Really, really!?" Again she was nodded at and pat on the back while a few others ruffled her hair. "Oh wow... Wow..." Her words wouldn't come out, still in a small state of shock. "What... Were the sells?"
"Almost thirty thousand already." Spacebrotha put his hands on Vivio's shoulders and started guiding her to the director's office. "You need to talk to the boss, I'm sure you'll be pleased at what he has to tell you."
"O-Okay." Vivio nodded and readied herself when she was dropped off in front of the door. A deep breath was taken and she knocked, being bid entrance. "You wanted to see me, sir?"
A man with long black hair and thin wireframe glasses smiled at his best star. "Yes, Vivio, please have a seat." He motioned to the large chair in front of himself and let the girl get comfortable before continuing. "I'm sure you heard about our record sells on your new video?"
"Yes sir, I just found out. Allquall made me stay at home for the past week and a half because of the flu; today is my first day back."
"Oh yes, I heard about that. How are you feeling?"
"Fine, thank you." She couldn't help but shift in her seat from the excitement and curiosity.
The man leaned back in his chair and folded his hands together. "Vivio, I will cut straight to the chase. You have gotten extremely popular lately. It seems that every video you are in sells better than those released without them. In short, you have become a type of spokesman for our company. Your career as an adult entertainer truly begins here and now. If you would like, I can draw up a contract for you to become a bigger star than you currently are. This new position gives you a higher cut from your webpage, and your pay from scenes done will increase as well. In return, we will require you to take certain jobs every so often to promote our company. These may include a guest appearance at strip clubs to help sales there, going to interviews at magazines, and this isn't confirmed yet, but there are certain gaming companies, such as Key, that have an eye on you for voice acting roles."
Vivio opened her mouth to reply, but her words died before they could form. A cross between a gasp and a pleased laugh escaped instead and she was sure her mouth was hanging open. Although awestruck, her boss continued on. "You will also be given more equipment for your home use and a higher discount at our stores. Because of this you will be required to do a minimal of bi-weekly updates for your web page. Also, you will be on call for scenes in future movies which you will be required to take. You will have pull on your tags, but as you will be under contract, you must do a set number of scenes, be they for commercial release or pay-per-view online."
"That's... A lot at once." Vivio finally managed to speak. "I... I don't know what to say."
"You have until the first of the year to decide." He passed her a folder. "Please read over this, it will dictate the things you will need to do if you agree to the enhanced contract. You have a while to decide so please think about this carefully."
"Yes sir." A shaking hand reached out to take the folder and hold it to her chest, a smile still on her face, "I will read over it all right away!"
"You do that. Now, go out there and catch up on what you missed while sick."
"Yes sir!" Standing, she shook the man's hand and retreated out of the office. Once the door was closed behind her she turned to look at her group of friends all grinning at her. "I've been offered an enhanced contract!" She declared, voice breaking from her excitement. Several cheers came all at once and she was picked up by different people in bone crushing hugs. Somewhere along the way she heard that a party was in order and she couldn't agree more.
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Another chicken wing was attacked by Vivio as she watched her friends and coworkers laughing at each other as they shared stories from past jobs and teasing her about her future in the industry. The blond grinned at them while chewing on her snack, almost choking when one of them said that she had some white stuff on her face. A napkin was employed and the dressing from her wing was wiped clean oh her chin with a giggle.
"So, Eyes," One of them spoke to her during a temporary lapse in laughter. "Going big time now, you're not going to forget about us little people are you?"
Vivio took the chance and grinned at him. "The only thing little about you is your performance parts." A collected group cheers around them made her smile around the straw in her mouth. "But really," She spoke around it, old habit of chewing on them resurfacing, "I think I'll still be on the same sets when I'm not going around to the different studios for my other jobs. We'll still see each other when I do my web page scenes."
Another chicken wing was grabbed and nibbled on, the time going by as fast as the food was. Another hour passed by at the bar and her thinking began to get fuzzy from the good times and the drinks. Finally having to call it, Vivio excused herself before she got drunk and couldn't drive herself home. On the way out she took a large intake of the cold air to clear her head and stopped in her tracks when she saw a flash of blue hair entering a taxi. "Syn!?" Her feet ran towards that direction but the vehicle was already turning onto the main road, leaving her with the question if that really was her ex or not.
The good mood left the girl briefly, allowing a small bittersweet memory of the past little while. As she tried to shrug it off she made her way back to her car and drove home a little slower than normal. Her door was unlocked and the girl stepped into her dark house, closing the door behind herself with a small click. The lights were turned on after a few moments and she sat down on her couch, looking down at the folder in her hands that would outline her new career as a true star among the industry. 'Somehow,' she thought to herself while opening it. 'I feel a little bad that I have no one here to share this with...'
A quick shaking of her head cleared the thought and she made her way to her bedroom, taking out her camera and clicking it on. "Hey everyone!" She called out cheerfully. "You will not believe my day today." The device was set on the stand and she began stripping to change into her night clothes.
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Syn growled to herself as she parked her car. Reaching over to her passenger side, she picked up the plastic bag and opened her door only to slam it behind her before walking down the parking lot to the adult store. 'I can not believe my friend got me this as a gag gift for my birthday.' She felt her cheeks color as she walked in the door and was instantly greeted by sexy lingerie. 'I need the money, otherwise I wouldn't bother returning this...' A sales clerk greeted her when he noticed the girl standing at the door in shock. "Um, hi," She told him lamely. "Uhm, my friend bought me this as a gag gift." She held up the bag. "Can I return it for the money?"
"Possibly," the man told her while taking the bag. "Let me ask my boss, okay?"
"Okay." Syn nodded and leaned on the cash register bar, thanking her lucky stars that no one was there so early in the morning. 'As if crap like this wasn't already on my bad side.' Out of the corner of her fire red eye she noticed a girl she recognized quite well on the front of a magazine. 'Front cover, she's doing well for herself.' Reaching over to it, she felt her throat tighten as she flipped through the pages to pass the time waiting.
'Interview with Eyes, an Evil Rick's special.' The girl read the words mentally. An image of Vivio, fully dressed, was on the page. The bright smile and sparkling eyes were captured too well for the girl, and she flipped the page so she wouldn't have to look at them. A small glance at the photos of Vivio slowly undressed was spared before she went to the interview.
Rick: Eyes, Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed in my magazine.
Eyes: It's an honor.
Rick: <chuckles> Thank you. Now, your career has recently skyrocketed. What do you think caused this?
Eyes: I'm not really sure myself. I think it was my recent movie that got people to notice me.
Rick: I see. Tell me about it?
Eyes: Well, it's a love story about a man and woman who are born in families that hate each other. Their parents disagreed on their relationship so they meet together in private. The woman's parents found out and tried to marry her to someone else which caused the man to come save her before the wedding.
Syn rolled her eyes and turned the page. 'Not the typical porn plot. She might as well be screwing them all.' She looked at the now topless pictures of her ex girlfriend, lips turning up slightly. 'She's gorgeous, I'll give her that.'
Rick:Interesting. How many scenes did you partake in?
Eyes: Three.
Rick: Impressive. I've also heard that you have a web page as well that has gotten popular. Many people have done video diaries, but yours seems to attract people. Why is that?
Eyes:<thinks> I'm not really sure. I just record my daily life, I didn't think it was that interesting. It may be my replies to fanmail that they like. Those are always really funny.
Rick: Speaking of daily life, it's rumored that you were recently in a relationship, how did that work out for you?
Syn paused, re-reading the words before turning the page. This time the images were skipped entirely and the words were sought out at once.
Eyes:< stays silent a moment > We broke up... She didn't like my job.
Rick: Is there anyone else you are seeing now then?
Eyes: I... I don't think I'm going to date anyone else.
Rick: Must be complicated. Was your last one that serious?
Eyes: <Pauses again> ...I thought so... She taught me the difference between sex and making love... I really, really loved her... still do.
Rick: I'm sorry it turned out that way... If you could tell this person anything, what would it be?
Eyes: I'd... tell her that I'm sorry I hurt her... and that I honestly...I... <She wipes her eyes> I'm sorry, can we talk about something else?
"Miss?" The voice made Syn jump and yelp, spinning around to see the person standing before her. "Here is your return." He held out money and a receipt while trying not to laugh.
"Oh... thank you." Syn took the money and kept it in her hand a moment before holding out the magazine. "Can you ring this up for me?"
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"Good choice." The man accepted the magazine and went behind the cash register to scan the tag on it. "This is my last copy."
Syn tried to stay calm about buying her first pornographic magazine. "Oh? Good brand?"
"Not insanely, but it has the interview with Eyes in it." He pointed to the girl on the cover. "She sells more than I've seen in a while. You should check her webpage, it's almost as if she's just a normal girl instead of the trashy ones you normally see."
The female took her change and stuffed it into her front left pocket. "Yeah, she's a nice girl..." With that, Syn left the store and jogged to her car quickly. Still a little warm from before, she felt herself relax a little. The heat was turned on and she looked around before opening the magazine again and looking at it once more. The interview offered no more references to herself so she instead looked at the images of her ex girlfriend. 'No telling how many people are seeing these...' Despite the bitter thought, she couldn't quite summon up the anger inside of herself that she had from before. 'She said she still loves me...' The issue was tossed in the back seat and she rubbed the bridge of her nose. 'I'm so going to regret this...'
Backing out of her spot, she ignored a car full of guys staring at her as they went past. Once on the main road back into town she drove past her usual turn off and continued on until she took the familiar exit leading to an apartment complex she never thought she'd go into again. Her car door was closed quickly after she exited her vehicle and she slid her hands into her pockets to keep them warm as she walked through the light lair of snow on the ground. A small elevator ride later and she found herself in front of Vivio's door.
Only a second passed by before she knocked, moving her hands back to her arms to rub them briskly while waiting for a reply. When nothing came she knocked once more, this time louder. Again no sound was heard from inside. 'I wonder if she's asleep?' The clock on her phone informed her that the girl should be up by now. 'If I call her she will probably just ignore me... Dammit.' Syn knocked a final time and waited for a response. When Vivio didn't answer, the girl sighed and sat down in front of the door. Her jacket was huddled up around herself and she hugged her knees, leaning back against the door while waiting.
As the time passed, Syn went from playing on her cell phone to resting her eyes while leaning against the door. After dozing off a moment, she opened her eyes and looked across the empty hallway as the lights above the elevator started moving up to the current floor. The doors opened and a blond walked out of them, eyes downcast as she tried to dig out her keys from her purse while still holding the two paper sacks with her arm. When she was close to her door she looked up and almost dropped her things at the sight of Syn standing and sorely rubbing her legs. "...Syn?"
"...Hi." The two girls just looked at each other for several long moments. "I...saw your interview in that magazine."
"...Oh." Vivio looked away and towards the floor. "I'm sorry, I made sure they never mentioned your name."
"It's not that." Syn cut her off.
Vivio looked at the girl and saw the slightly shivering hands followed by a notice of Syn's quivering bottom lip. "You're frozen! How long were you waiting out here?"
"I don't know, maybe an hour or so."
"Why didn't you just call me or come back later?"
"I don't know if I would have come back after I left..."
Vivio felt her chest tighten. "Would you... like something hot to drink?"
Spoiler for PornStar!Vivio pt. 37:
"Sure." Syn stepped out of the way of the door and watched Vivio fumble with her keys a moment before reaching out and taking the bags from her. Now free from her burden, Vivo quickly opened the way into her house and cut on the lights.
"I'm sorry my place is a mess." She tried to take the bags back from Syn but the other girl already moved to the kitchen to set them down on the counter. "I should clean up..." Her hands went to grab the magazine that her interview was in from the counter but found Syn picking it up instead. The girl leaned against the wall and opened it, turning to Vivio's section and began to read the rest of the interview while the blond reluctantly went back to putting up her things.
By the time hot chocolate was made, Syn had already claimed a spot on the couch and was looking through another single pose section of her ex-girlfriends pictures. Vivio bent over in front of the girl and offered the steaming mug of liquid chocolate and milk and smiled softly when Syn's hands touched hers briefly while taking it. "Thank you," Syn whispered before sipping on it. "That's just what I needed."
"Good." Vivio sat down next to the girl, so close that their sides were pressed together and legs touching. She held her own cup and sipped it while waiting to see if Syn would move away or not. Her answer came when Syn took another small drink of her beverage and leaned forward to set it down on the small coffee table in front of them.
"So..." Syn began, clasping her hands together and staying bent forward slightly. "Let's talk about it?"
Vivio sat her mug down as well. "I had everything planned out the first time but now I don't know what to say..."
Syn looked down in her lap. "It's been about a month since then, huh?"
"Three weeks, five days."
The words made Syn close her eyes. "I'll start with a question. Why?"
"Why to which part?" Vivio almost whispered, looking down as well.
"Why do you do it? How...do you let yourself be filmed doing that?"
Vivio let out a small sigh. "Its a long story and doesn't have much to do with us... I guess... it began when my parents died... I was adopted and my mama's wife adopted me as well. We... had a really happy life but one day they went out and... never came back." She stopped for just a moment. "All of my parent's friends were hurt. I remember being at the funeral, almost eighteen years old, staring at the caskets... My parents were very well known but none of their closest friends were there. They were all in the hospital, barely alive. I was alone with many people that I didn't know, listening to them say how it was a miracle that anyone made it out alive at all, how that it was such a loss for my parents to be gone... And it was then that I realized something: as long as I was with the people I cared about, I would constantly be in the position that could leave me alone at the graveyard again."
Syn looked over at her in a silent statement that she was listening. "They were in the military," Vivio kept on. And were always sent on dangerous missions. Call me stupid and young, but I couldn't take it. I...left... and was on my own. I didn't want to ask them to take care of me because of my pride...or maybe it was something else... but I was alone. I tried to find a job but no one wanted to hire an inexperienced person like myself. At times I thought about going back but... after I left, I knew I couldn't." Vivio took a long intake through her nose. "I was behind on my rent, had no food... and I overheard some girls talking about a studio looking for girls to be in a pornographic movie... I heard they paid really well and..." She closed her eyes and looked down. "I sold my virginity to eat and pay my bills."
Syn stayed silent a moment, chest aching at the sadness in the voice. "So," Vivio continued on. "I cried that night, and many nights after it. I thought I was a whore, just some trash... but I had food and I paid my rent...A few days later I was called up by the studio and they want to know if I'd do another one..." She sighed. "I needed the money so I did it. After that I didn't sleep for almost two days and made myself sick with regret."
"Why did you keep on then?" Syn finally asked.
Vivio didn't answer at first and finally shrugged a little. "I don't know.. I was scared, I guess. I tried to find other jobs but I couldn't seem to get anyone to hire me... I never stopped looking... in fact most of my money went to bus fare while going from place to place. I got a few part time jobs along the way but they didn't pay enough and... well..."
"You did more to make ends meet?"
"...Yeah. I kind of... got used to being a whore. I would..." She hesitated. "I needed money so... They treated me really bad there. would call me up, film me, and pay, then make money off it. It wasn't until I met my current boss that my life started getting better. He hired me on as staff, introduced me to professionals, and I.. made a friend." This time she smiled slightly. "Someone who treated me with respect... didn't belittle me, call me names... He told his friends about me and we all met up. I found other girls in the career and they explained to me how it worked. From there I... accepted it." She moved her hands while trying to explain it better. "I wasn't some back alley call-girl anymore. I had a real job that paid me respectfully, had contracts, I could turn down anything I wanted to, people began talking to me, inviting me over for dinner, and just wanted to hang out instead of using my body... I don't know, I guess I found a place to belong so I clung to it... A year passed, then another and another... Before long I had my own apartment... I had a car, food, bills sometimes got behind but I never got evicted or anything."
"I'm sorry to hear that..."
Vivio took Syn's offered hand and held on to it. "Hey, we all have our bad stories right?" She got a weak smile in return. "That's what lead up to now... I got popular and...well, it's an honest job with a big studio who takes care of me. I'm respected by most and the rest even look up to me. I know it can easily be called a shady job, but... it's really not that bad when you understand it."
"I see..." Syn felt better once Vivio's voice became less sad and more proud of herself for overcoming everything. "Okay, I can see that now... Okay."
Vivio looked at her ex for a while before squeezing the hand holding onto hers. "Go ahead, ask."
Taking a breath, Syn started. "Why didn't you tell me this at the beginning?"
"I was scared you would use me and leave me."
Syn blinked. "Why did you think that?"
A small smile. "You did try to pick me up the first time we met."
"...Okay." Syn accepted that. "Even so, shouldn't that be more of a reason to tell me?"
"I... didn't want you to see me as some easy girl."
"Well you kinda are one if you sleep with everyone you see." She winced. "Sorry. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
Vivio shook her head. "You had every right to."
"Okay..." Syn took a long intake of breath. "Tell me... How could you say all those things to me while having sex with other people, job or no job."
"It's... not exactly like that."
Syn felt a flash of anger flare through her before calming down once more. “Explain it to me.”
“Well...” Vivio thought hard. “Imagine this... You have a friend that you've known since childhood. Your parents are really close, and you basically grew up as brother and sister.” The two girls shifted so they were looking at each other and Vivio reached over and took Syn's other hand to hold as well. “Now, this friend stays close to you all your life. You go to your high school prom together as friends, you live together during college, and all that kind of stuff.”
“Where is this going?”
“If this friend,” Vivio continued. “Went away for a while and then came back to you, wouldn't you give them a hug and a kiss?”
“Probably?”
“And would that be cheating on your girlfriend if you did?”
Syn looked at her blankly. “Vivio, giving a life-long friend a hug and a kiss isn't the same as screwing someone.”
“No, no,” Vivio shook Syn's hands lightly. “Look at it deeper. It wouldn't be cheating because the emotion and feeling behind the hug and kiss is not romantic. Its a casual brother/sister type of feeling, right? It wouldn't be cheating because of that, right?”
After thinking about it a moment, the blue and red eyed girl finally nodded. “Okay, it wouldn't be cheating.”
“Right.” Vivio nodded. “So, this is where it gets a little hard... The emotions you would have with your friend are the same as what I have at work. Even though you kissed your friend, it's not cheating because there was nothing behind that kiss. What I do at work is the same, because there is no emotion behind it as well.”
Syn moved one hand from Vivio's to rub her eyes before allowing it to be re-taken. “What if...” She began. “If I, out of the blue, told you I had sex with that friend? Several times while we were dating.”
The blond stayed silent for several seconds. “I... would feel hurt... betrayed...” She held Syn's hands tighter. “But that's different, that's-”
“My friend,” Syn cut her off. “Is a nerd, is anti-social, and would never get laid because of it. So I felt sorry for him and had sex with him. How would you feel?”
Vivio opened her mouth and closed it a moment later. “...Hurt.”
“Do you see what I'm getting at?” Syn whispered. “Even if I could accept that you had no emotion behind it, even if it was nothing but work to you... You had sex with someone else.” Again the blond couldn't reply. “Vivio, I trusted you. I... I would have never thought you would do that. You lied to me-”
“I never lied!”
“You purposely mislead me so I wouldn't figure it out.” Syn snapped at her angrily. “And... not just once.”
“But it didn't mean anything!” Vivio tried once more. “It would be the same as you and your friend!”
“The means don't justify the act! What would you say if you saw photos of me doing it!?”
“That I trust you!” Vivio flung herself onto Syn, pushing her back onto the couch and clinging to her. “I trust you! I would believe that there was nothing behind it!”
“Vivio, get off me!”
“No!” Vivio held onto her tighter, voice breaking as she struggled to stay on top of the girl. “Syn, I would always believe you!”
Giving up on getting the blond off, Syn let her hands rest on either side of herself and looked up at the ceiling. Vivio's heavy breathing and loud sobs echoed against her chest for only a few moments before she felt the dampness of the tears that followed. “Vivio...”
“...Yes?”
“If you said you trusted me about my friend... would it be okay if I had sex with him the next day?” The girl nodded against her chest without hesitation. “And if I wanted to have sex with his friend at the same time?” This time the nod was hesitant. “And they recorded it so they could watch it with all the rest of their gang later... and then I went and had sex with all of them?”
Vivio gripped the back of Syn's shirt tightly, crying so hard now that she started to hiccup. “But you love me!”
“Does that make it okay for me to do that?”
“Yes!” Vivio sobbed out, pressing her face closer to Syn's chest. “I trust you! I believe you! So it's okay!” Her breathing started to get raspy, words barely being able to understand over the tears.
Syn sighed and stared at the ceiling, finally allowing one hand to move up and lay across Vivio's back. “I don't know if I could accept something like that...”
“But I love you...”
“If sex means nothing to you, what about when we-”
“That's different.” Vivio managed out, still gripping Syn's shirt tightly in her fist. She didn't lift her head to look at her friend, but instead stayed with her forehead down on her chest. “ We made love...” A hiccup made her pause. “That was special...”
“Why did you wait until after that to tell me what your job is, and not before?”
Vivio tried to calm herself but her breathing was getting shorter and harder, throat making it hard to speak. “I wasn't-wasn't sure if... if I knew wha-what love was.” Her words were starting to get more broken apart now. “You... you showed me...I l-love you.”
Syn closed her eyes and ignored the warm trickle of saltwater rolling past her ears and into her hair. Silence passed over them once more and the girl on bottom slowly began to move her palm over Vivio's back to try and calm her down. The broken gasp slowly started to fade away and the hiccups departed. “Vivio...”
“...Yes?”
Syn opened her eyes and had to blink a few times to make the lingering tears fall. “I need to go.”
“Please stay.”
“I can't.”
“Why?”
“Because I can't.”
Vivio shook her head and gripped Syn's shirt tighter. “If you go... you'll never come back.”
“I have to think.”
“You can think here.”
“No I can't.” Syn moved her hand from Vivio's back and gently rolled her over towards the couch so she could sit up. “Vivio, you know there are only two ways this will ever work out, don't you?” She accepted Vivio's hands and gave thema small squeeze to show that she was being sincere.”Either I learn to accept you for everything you do...”
“Or... I quit my job.” Vivio finished the sentence softly.
“We need to think.” Syn whispered, shaking her head at the pleading look she was getting. “I have to go.”
“Please...”
Syn stood up and walked to the door, stopping when she felt her shirt being grabbed and Vivio's forehead pressed against her back. “Vivio.”
“Promise me,” the girl managed out. “That you won't avoid me.”
Syn opened the door and felt her shirt between Vivio's fingers being gripped harder. “I promise that I'll think about this really hard.” Several moments passed by before her shirt was reluctantly released and she walked the rest of the way out of the apartment.
awww. this is the saddest and best chapter so far!!!
I love how they talked about their situation and how much Vivio believes in Syn.
I wonder what Syn will do now...
So after saying I'd write this well... A looooong time ago. I just now did it!
This crack contains nudity so don't read it if you're offended by that kind of stuff. Nothing explicit or detailed so I think it's AS safe.
Spoiler for An Ace of Lyrical:
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*Flees*
It was... lackluster. The reason being that there wasn't really all that much detail on the fanservice. Now normally this isn't a bad idea for a fic (and indeed, it can be agood one) but for a fic that is obviously a fanservice fic, having very little detail on what the girls are wearing and their actions and emotions during the stripping sort of goes against the purpose of the fic. It's like writing a romance fic with very little emphasis on the romance.
My advice: Don't hold back! Dive full deep in the clothing, the actions, and the emotions of the characters. You're not trying to write an all-ages fic, you're writing a fanservice fic.
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*waves to Keroko* Now I see what you (um, Keroko, not Satashi) meant that Syn was a good debater--she picked up Vivio's hug-and-kiss-friend example and totally took it to the house!
Coincidence on Satashi's part or not, that's exactly how Syn works.
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Mind you, she's also being unfair--I can't imagine a scenario in which anyone who isn't a professional sex worker would have a pity-sex gangbang. And the sleeping-with-the-friend example doesn't actually follow what's going on, because there is an emotional link in the example, just not the emotion of romantic love. Indeed, the emotion might actually be non-romantic love, since in the example Syn would feel sufficiently strongly about this person to want to do something which she considers to be an intimate and personal act for them. Whereas Vivio's job is just that--Vivio's emotional link is confined to "weekly paycheck" and maybe a bit of pride if a scene or a movie turns out really well and garners praise. So Vivio would have more justification to be hurt than Syn would.
She's not being unfair at all, Vivio had a chance to explain things from her point of view, and Syn replied in kind. Feelings are hardly ever justified, much less controlled. Syn believes that having sex is the ultimate act of intimacy, for Vivio it is but one way to express love, and one she has only recently discovered. Vivio is struggling with new morales and feelings whereas Syn is now struggling with feelings and morales she has had for years. The fact that Syn is actually struggling to come to terms with Vivio rather then just stick to the believes that have served her well for years is an feat of its own.
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(a) Either Syn or Vivio or both will decide they aren't suited after all and break it off naturally and without major angst; or
(b) Syn will come to treasure Vivio as a person, realize that her job really is just a job that just happens to cross boundaries that most people draw in different places, and no longer feel squicked; or
(c) Vivio will come to realize that her feelings for Syn are sufficiently real and strong that she can take the plunge of abandoning her career (whether or not Syn still demands it); or
(d) Vivio will decide that Syn's inability to accept her as she is marks the relationship as fatally flawed because Syn cannot trust her, leaving them both in an angsty breakup; or
(e) Both (b) and (c).
There is also the option of Syn coming to terms with Vivio's profession, possibly by learning how it works from Vivio. This might even result in Syn learning to like the profession. Like how you learn to like a show you hated before through your friends.
Mind you, the above scenario is unlikely, and if it happens, then it would take a long time. There's a big gap between a show and pornography.
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I'd like to note that it seems highly unrealistic that Syn would be unable to deal with Vivio being in pornography but be fine with her formerly being in pornography, unless the problem she has with it really is confined to "you are cheating on me by having sex with other people" and nothing else.
The possibility is open, because it would show how much Vivio cares for Syn. However, this deal would be very unfair on Vivio's half. Should Syn come to terms with Vivio's profession, she will lose the morals she held close for years. Should they never see eachother again, both will lose eachother. Should Vivio quit her job for Syn, she would lose the life she has been struggling to give up.
I personally consider the surrendering of morales in the face of love and friendship a much lesser sacrifice that to give up years of your live.
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How come? The site is more popular than ever... I haven't been around... but I have had the host moaning at me about the ever increasing bandwidth usage.
The FF thread has a huge boost in alternative pairings, we even had a suggestive Nanoha/Shamal recently. Talk about rare!
It took a moment for everything to settle in. She was being offered a promotion, and a big one at that. Usually only project heads or field scientists were given their own Savant computers. For her to get one just on being promoted made it even more appealing.
"I-I don't know what to say..."
Gil grinned. "You could say 'yes.'"
Fate blushed lightly in embarrassment, realizing she still hadn't given an answer. "Yes. Yes, I accept!"
"Excellent. I'll push the necessary paperwork through and you should be issued your Savant computer sometime today. The Advance Lab should be up and running within the week should the kit be finished by tomorrow as planned. Until then keep up the good work."
Pleased with her acceptance, the older man turned his attention to the mostly complete papers on his desk that would make the promotion official. Since his attention was on his desk, he almost jumped out of his chair as a pair of slender arms wrapped around him from his side.
"Thank you, Uncle Gil!"
He watched as the blond almost skipped out of his office with a smile on his face. His gazed remained on the closed door for a moment before the smile faded. A press of a button re-activated his computer screen. The latest reports from the data recovered from their old Advance Labs by the recon team were still open. While he wasn't a scientists, the information did not look good. Also the pictures taken of the Plymouth recon group made the situation even more complicated. Gil leaned back in his chair and rubbed his forehead, hoping that Fate wouldn't hate him for the situation he had just thrown her into.
The rest of the day seemed to pass by at a snail's pace. Every time the lab doors opened Fate would look over, hoping it was the delivery of her new Savant computer. These computers were top of the line systems developed from the computer systems of the Arthas and then expanded upon. Thanks to the bio-research that was conducted the once silicon-based systems were upgraded with bio-systems. Not only did it make creating the computers easier due to the lack of silicon that could be produced on their new world but it also greatly increased their abilities. So much so that the fourth generation and up possessed an artificial intelligence. The original bulkiness of the design was also removed. Current seventh and eighth generation system were housed in a portable, square unit less than a meter on each side. While they weren't completely self-sustained, their internal power storage allowed them to run for up to three days at minimal function before needing to be attached to a power source. What also made Savant computers so desirable were their ability to remotely access the colony's data network as well as operate a vehicle. This made them invaluable for off-site research projects.
When her work shift came to an end, she was still anxious about receiving her Savant computer. She headed straight back to her small room that she shared with her mother to see if it had been delivered there. While she knew they just wouldn't leave something like that laying in front of her door, a small part of her hoped to find the computer sitting by her door when she got there. Arriving at her door she didn't find a computer but inside she did find a letter in the mail drop detailing her new security clearance. Usually such an upgrade would take several days but it would appear Uncle Gil pulled some strings to get it all cleared. She glanced at her clock and decided to wait on dinner to avoid the bulk of the crowd. Instead she opted to take a shower and hope that her computer would arrive when she was done.
As luck would or would not have it, someone was knocking on her door just as she stepped out of the shower. "Ah, one moment! I'll be right there."
She hastily dried herself and wrapped a towel around her still wet hair. A shirt and pants were thrown on before she opened the door.
"Delivery for Fate Testarossa."
"That's me."
"I need to see your ID for clarification and clearance." Fate fumbled through her discarded lab coat and produced the needed piece of plastic. It was passed through a scanner which beeped in confirmation. "Alright, just need you to press your thumb here and then sign."
After her thumbprint and signature was verified the cart that was sitting outside her door was unlocked and a familiar black box was handed over to her. She gave her thanks and closed the door, practically running over to set it down on her bed. A quick glance over showed it to be like the other Savant computers she had seen before. This one had a yellow, stylized lightning bolt rotating on the front display. Each Savant computer had a unique icon to distinguish it from others since their frames were all the same. Some people have even said you could tell how it was 'feeling' based on how the icon changed. Now that she had her own she was curious to see if it was true. However right now she was preoccupied with figuring out how to activate it. The icon was slowly spinning which meant it was operational but there were really no buttons other than ports to plug in devices or power.
"Um, hello?"
"Greetings, sir. I am Savant Computer CVK-792-BA. You may call me Bardiche."
A) See what Bardiche has to offer
B) Call up some friends abou ther promotion
C) Change to Nanoha's PoV
2008-11-10, 08:28
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How come? The site is more popular than ever... I haven't been around... but I have had the host moaning at me about the ever increasing bandwidth usage.
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hope you do more Gumba. 
Good work. (:
