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In Milliways, strange things happen.

Like little robot boys turning into real boys. And little ex-robot boys sitting at the bar, wolfing down French fries, hamburgers, and milkshakes, because, dammit, he's hungry.

Something is not right with this picture.

Perhaps someone should investigate?

[ ooc: locked to Chris Chappelle, thanks. ]

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Chris is in the bar looking for David. He wasn't in his room and it was getting late.

She spots him and pauses because something is not right with this picture. He's eating. He can't eat. She watched in shock as he drank some of him milkshake.

He's going to break himself.

"David! What are you doing?!"

David whipped around so quickly that he spilled the milkshake.

...oops?

Chris gets some napkins, handing some to him while trying to clean up the spill.

"You shouldn't be eating," she says, sounding both worried and a little annoyed. "You know that."

"But I was hungry."

Chris tosses the wet napkins into the garbage and sighs. She's wondering how she'll explain this to her dad and Elaine but then it dawns on her what he said.

"You're hungry?"

He nodded.

"My stomach felt funny, so I asked someone what it meant, and they said I was hungry and that I needed to eat. I told them I would break but they didn't listen. So I ate one of their fries...and I didn't break!"

Chris takes a seat next to David, trying to process this information. "How can you be hungry?" And how are you not broken?

"...Santa Claus made me real."

Chris opens her mouth to say something but unsuprisingly, nothing comes out. She purses her lips. Well. Yeah. Milliways.

"When did this happen?"

"A few days ago."

I am the worst babysitter ever.

"I see," she says slowly. "I didn't know Santa had been in the bar."

"I don't think he was really Santa. He was too skinny. But he had powers like Santa!"

Like Santa but not, that's a little worrying.

"I'll say. And he just turned you into a real boy?"

He nodded.

"How do you feel about this?"

"I haven't made up my mind yet."

"Did you want this to happen?"

"...yes."

"Ok. Uh," she rubs her forehead, "ok. My dad and Elaine are in for a surprise when they get back."

At this, David laughs.

Not a sudden burst of laughter, as he had been inclined to do in the future, but quiet laughter that built up into a full on giggle.

Despite her worries, Chris finds herself laughing too.

"So how do you like being human?"

"I don't know. It's...weird, I guess."

"Yeah..." She was going to say 'I know' but Chris knows she doesn't. She can't even imagine what this would be like.

"You might want to go easy on the junk food. You don't want to make yourself sick."

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