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I am FINISHED with my TERRIBLE workshop and I need to occupy my brain, so, ASK ME STUFF!

FIRST — the first two sentences of my current project

LAST — the most recently written two sentences of my current project

NEXT — the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.

[insert prompt here] — you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project

THE END — i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it

BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project

POV — something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

"Current project" is a bit ambiguous, so I'll pick things at random or you can specify:
--D9/D6 rebellion pre-QQ
--Victors rebellion pre-QQ
--The Sentient Octopus AU
--Hogwarts
--Leverage Victors!AU
--Random unposted one-shots

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Before the beginning, random project :D?

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Sara isn't quite sure what to expect the first time she goes to the shop. She's Reaping age now, and Mom and Dad approve of kids having responsibilities and contributing to the family even if they're not sure they approve of their daughter working as a mechanic. But Matt works there already and he says Sal needs the extra help, and so they shook their heads and said they would let her try it, see how it goes.

Sal told Matt the same thing when he asked, so now Sara is following him out past the schoolyard fence and toward the industrial part of town, the areas Mom won't let Sara go by herself. It's not far, and she chats with Matt about moving across the street to the Secondary School, about teachers and students and friends and pretty soon they're there.

And there's a kid, tiny and dark, with short hair curling around her ears, sitting on top of the hovercraft parked in the middle of the shop. She looks up when they come in, grins at Matt and stands up, slides down the nose of the craft and drops down in front of them.

"Hi, Matt," she says, sliding a screwdriver into her back pocket. "How's Secondary?"

Matt reaches out and tousles her hair and the kid pulls away, trying to scowl, but she's laughing so it isn't very effective. "An hour longer than Elementary," Matt says, "just long enough for you to steal the fun jobs."

The girl grins. "Damn straight," she says, "I'm pulling the access panel now, we gotta fix the hydraulics for the takeoff fans."

"So what'd you leave for me?" Matt asks.

"There's a short somewhere in the central ring," she says. "First quadrant isn't firing."

Matt rolls his eyes. "So Sal wants us to crawl around checking connections?"

"No, Sal wants you to crawl around checking connections," the kid says, grinning. "I'm busy."

She pauses, looks over at Sara. Her smile stays put, but her eyes narrow. "You're the new girl?"

Sara raises an eyebrow. "Guess so," she says. "I'm Sara."

"Rokia," the girl says, sticking out her hand to shake.

"How old are you?" Sara asks, because she can't quit wondering.

"Almost ten," Rokia says, defensive, "but I've been working here as long as Matt."

Sara glances over at Matt, who laughs. "Yup, she'd just gotten here when I started."

That was almost 2 years ago, late winter when Matt had started showing up at school without lunches, when he'd snuck into her house at night because his parents couldn't pay their heating bill. This kid's been working here since she was eight years old? There's got to be a story there. But from the defensive look on Rokia's face, it's not one she's going to get today.

"Okay," Sara says, shrugging. "So, somebody show me what to do."

Matt and Rokia trade a glance. "Come with me," Matt says, "you can tell me when I've found the short."