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A door opens in the side of the old Hook and Ladder No. 8 building, and Ray stepped through. Holding the door open, he gestured for the others to follow him into the alley.

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[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

"I hate to draw this out, but I've got to ask... what do you mean 'worse'?"

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"He has become...steadily more erractic. He is more hostile as well, and is likely to try to hurt someone if he thinks you are trying to take his freedom." He paused. "I'd suggest you avoid that subject around him."

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"what he said," Michelle said, nodding towards KARR.

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

"And thus a danger to himself as well as everyone else," Bonnie filled in with a sigh. "I see."

And she didn't want anything bad to happen to the Kitt here, either - but in such a situation, what could she do? Have Karr turboboost into him and leave him wreckage to pick a CPU out of? Such things only worked once over, even with more than one reality to choose from.

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"Yes. It is an unfortunate situation, and one that we have yet to solve."

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

"And one I can't figure out either. But... you have a private line where I can reach you if I get an idea? I can send messages through Kitt... Our Kitt."

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Michelle hesitated a moment, then nodded. She fished a worn-looking receipt out of one pocket. "If anybody's got a pencil, I can give you- thank you, Dr. Stantz- the contact information for my mobile unit. Voice, data, and GPS decryption code in case we have to be located personally." Her mouth twitched. "Just because every mobile unit sold in the country for the past three years has to have global positioning tech in it, doesn't mean it has to be easy."

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"I prefer it not being easy. It makes things easier for us, I think."

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"Ya think?" Michelle returned, but she was too busy writing out the contact data to look up or put much heart into it.

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

Bonnie couldn't help but grin a bit at the exchange. "Familiar much?" she murmured to Karr. "Thank you. And if you need to contact us, well... Would you be willing, Ray?"

She looked up with a bit of curiousity. If not, they'd find another way.

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

Michelle's KARR chuckled, his scanner brightening a bit.

Bonnie's made a chuckle of his own. "Slightly..."

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"Sure, Bonnie," Ray said. "Any time, you know that. I think you know how to get hold of me, Michelle..."

She nodded. "Between your web site and the New York yellow pages, I think we're set, yeah." She took a deep breath. "Thank you, by the way. All of you."

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

"Hey, we're here to help. I think that's something that's universal," Bonnie nodded and stood, offering her hand to Michelle. "And I'm sorry about that... mishap..."

"So am I," said Kitt. "Terribly. I'm much more used to people knowing that I can do that."

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"I know now, but I would prefer not seeing it again." Michelle's KARR paused. "I like being in working order."

"I hope we haven't traumatized either of you too much," Bonnie's KARR added in.

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Michelle leaned over and shook Bonnie's hand firmly. "As long as KARR here's okay, I'm fine with it," she said. "I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this whole multiple-universe thing. I think I should probably watch some Star Trek or something when we get back home."

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

Bonnie chuckled. "Believe me, it takes a while for most of us to get used to it. By far. Read some Maxwell Planck. It might help."

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"I would prefer it if you avoided 2001, though. Please." He wasn't in the mood for sci fi at the moment.

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"I'm not gonna sit still for a three hour long movie that doesn't have any dialogue whatsoever for twenty minutes at a stretch, KARR." Michelle wrinkled her nose. "And I hear the end is one long acid trip anyway."

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"I would just like to not hear the 'Daisy' song for awhile."

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

Bonnie chuckled. "You two have it out on the road," she said. "You have a good reason to retreat and I think you should, before suddenly three weird cars catch some unspeakable attention."

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"... yeah, you're probably right," Michelle said. "Okay, then. We'll be in touch..."

She patted KARR's roof lightly before reaching for the door.

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

"Goodbye," Michelle's KARR said as the door swung open a bit for her.

"Goodbye, and for god's sake, don't get yourselves caught if the drone thing doesn't work," the Milliways KARR said. "It would be emabrassing and dangerous."

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

"And contact us if you need us," Bonnie nodded.

"Take care," added Kitt, and Bonnie made her way over to her own Karr's driver's side door.

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"Trust me, I don't like the idea of spending any more time with the boys from Nonesuch than I absolutely have to," Michelle said. She paused for waves to the others, including Dr. Stantz, and then swung into the driver's seat with the door shutting behind her.


"Well," said Ray, who had settled in with Kitt. "That adds an entirely new dimension to my world that I hadn't anticipated. Funky."

[prototype-karr.livejournal.com]

Michelle's KARR backed up and turned, his scanner flahsing rapidly from side to side. "I think once we find somewhere safe, I am going to go hide for awhile."

Bonnie's KARR opened the door, his scanner moving steadily as he thought. "I think this cures any curiousity I might've had about alternate universes."