From Bob the lawyer: Am I still getting paid for this? Anyway; names, places, incidents are all fictional and used for entertainment purposes only. Any similarity is purely coincidental and unintended.
Hi kids,
It's your estranged uncle Bono here. I know it's been a while and a lot of things have happened but I'm slowly hopping back into the saddle of writing. I'm a little rusty but, I hope you enjoy the story and you all are doing well. I look forward to continuing to provide something to read when you're bored!
The Home Improver Store: Summer Camp!
It was a typical hot summer day at the Home Improver Store. Customers flowing in and out of the store, buying plants, soil, sprinkler supplies, lumber, concrete mix and the like. Angel sat in her office going over the mountain of reports on her desk. Customer Satisfaction reports, Out of Stock reports, Pro Service reports, reports for other reports. She swore, one day they would find her dead under all the damn paperwork.
A knock interrupted her thoughts as the door opened to reveal Annie, the Orc HR supervisor. Her arms were laden with various colored notebooks and papers.
"Got a moment?" She asked, sitting down with a smile.
The Succubus grunted as she threw down a print packet showing an update he of the top selling 40 merchandise classes for the week.
"Here."
"What is this?" Angel asked as the P'Orc slid a flyer into her hands.
"It's called 'Kids Camp,' it's a free summer camp for Human children. They're asking if maybe we can come on by for a day or two with some easy wood working projects for the kids to put together. I was thinking that we could use our kids workshop stuff that the store does once a month."
"I don't know know Annie... It's summer, the store's really busy..." Angel mumbled as she looked at the colorful piece of paper showing adorable children swimming, hiking and having fun.
"Did I forget to mention that all these kids are from either orphanages, homeless, were burned in fires or were abused?"
"Fuck, why don't you just stab me in the ovaries with a box cutter while your at it?!" Angel growled sharply while glaring up at her.
It was no secret that for many Mamono, kids were a huge weakness- especially Human kids whom they considered weaker and more vulnerable than any other. Throw in words like orphan or abused and they were sold on anything, which was exactly what the kind hearted P'Orc was counting on.
"Well alright, I'll just call and say we can't do it..." Annie said with mock sadness as she pulled the flyer out of Angels hands.
"Wait!" Angel all but shouted as she grabbed back the paper. Looking back down to it, at the children's faces, she slowly said, "I... think that maybe with some reworking of the schedule...we could... perhaps do it. It would be a good will gesture... to give back to the community that is..."
She finished, stumbling over her words, as she fought to justify her backtracking.
"Really? Are you sure?"
"YES! I mean... Yes, It would be good publicity for the store."
"Okay! So it's next Monday, who should we have go? Aside from us of course."
"Hmm," Angel leaned back in her chair in thought, "They should be parents or at least have some background with kids... I'll have Anon with me, but a few more would be helpful..."
"Matt and the Jenny's?" Annie asked.
"Just one Jenny. We still need coverage for 69."
"Sure, Matt and Jenny the Living Doll."
"Automaton." Angel corrected.
"...I thought you and her were ok now?"
"We are, but she's still a bitch and I'd rather have the robot."
"Karem and Edward?" Annie asked, ignoring the pointed comment from her store manager.
"Aren't they both going out on maternity leave soon?" Angel frowned.
Flipping through the pages of a blue notebook, Annie checked.
"At the end of the month, yes they are."
"Then yeah, that's good."
"I'll add in Diana too. If we don't, I think she'll just show up anyway." Annie laughed.
"Don't. They're not together with her anymore."
The P'Orc raised her eyebrows at that and pinched her lips together in an 'O.'
Angel sighed and rested her head on a hand, "She ended up falling for another cashier and there was some drama... They eventually made up and now everyone's friends again but no threeway marriage anymore."
"Workplace relationships, huh?" Annie said with a knowing smirk.
Angel snorted a laugh and rolled her eyes as her spade tail kinked to the side behind the chair.
"Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But the seven of us should be enough."
"That's totally awesome," Annie said excitedly as she jotted down the names in another notebook.
"What about Regina? I'm sure the kids will love her growing flowers for them!"
"No." Angel said firmly, her face darkening.
"Why?"
"Regina is... still recovering. She wouldn't do well there." She replied quietly.
"Oh..." Annie mumbled in a small voice, "Well it's okay, it shouldn't be a problem."
Angel nodded solemnly, "That should do it?"
Clearing her throat, the P'Orc forced a smile and replied, "Absolutely, I'll get the changes done right away."
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"Dual power reserves, capable of storing both alternating current from standard forms of electricity and direct current from spirit energy." Jenny the Automaton stated as she pushed Matt's hands against her firm yet slightly soft, bare nipple-less breasts.
"You know, when I said I wanted to know more about Automatons, I didn't think you would teach me like this." Matt said as he met her blue robotic eyes. The two were on the California King that took up most of the bedroom the married foursome slept in.
In a rare moment, when it was just the two of them in the shared apartment, he commented that he was curious about the workings of Automatons. Somehow things ended up with both of them naked in bed.