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[gone_byebye]

The side door in the Firehouse alley opened, and Ray looked both ways before stepping through. "We're good," he announced, and led Kitt around the front. "Man. I can't seem to get over the whole 'walking out the door and into the universe I'm supposed to be in' thing. Watch, next time I try to go home alone I'll end up animated again or something similarly nightmarish."

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[steadfastknight]

Kitt's smile became a grin and he lifted his hand to cover it, feeling a surge of pride.

Amazing.

He felt like he really was witnessing... a birth, but a birth of a more spectacular kind than human. There were millions of human children. But how many AIs like this would there be?

He caught his lower lip in his teeth and waited, breath bated, to see...

[gone_byebye]

Ray glanced up, blinking at the change in the tone of the silence. "Is something wr-"

The vowel never even got formed. The blinking lights at the tips of the tailfins caught his attention before it could get that far. And then the tail-lights proper winked on.

And the rear turn signals.

And the headlights.

"Oh, boy," Ray said, taking a half-step back as the roof-lights slowly flared into life.

[steadfastknight]

And Kitt was grinning. He trusted Ecto - trusted she wouldn't hurt any of them, and that there wouldn't be any danger posed to any of them, intentionally. Kitt glanced at the laptop, reached over and tapped a few keys --

And he noticed, pointing it out to Egon, who was close - the CPU activity between files.

Kitt was eager to see this.

But he didn't transform. He didn't change forms because he didn't want to startle her, or come too close to her CPU and spook her while she was being noticeably active.

[gone_byebye]

Egon had to bite back a murmur of surprise, but he nodded to Kitt before looking up again. Ray was still staring at the car, not sure whether he ought to be gobsmacked or overjoyed or what.

There was a sudden spike in the CPU activity readout. Egon sucked in a breath and held it. Ray's hand came up over his mouth-

And then dropped, suddenly nerveless, as the car spoke.

"Daddy?"

[steadfastknight]

He was thrilled. Absolutely thrilled. Of course, he hadn't known what term to expect - Partner, Ray, Doctor Stantz, Father... But he hadn't really expected Daddy.

Yet, he was so happy to see it.

"I think congratulations are in order," he murmured.

[gone_byebye]

"I think a paper bag is in order," Egon said dryly. "He's either going to choke on his tongue or hyperventilate if he keeps making those noises."

A little too thunderstruck to do more than squeak, Ray put out a hand and stilled its trembling against one of the rear windows.

And then smiled, oh, how he smiled....