Melvin: “well, girls my recommendation is to wait, you are very young, and you have Louise’s and mine approval, you are living together and enjoying all what that entail, what is the rush?”

There was no answer; each girl has her own reasons which are not the same for both, Tina wants to have Bette with her there in the lab or in the wormhole, but with her, and Bette wants to protect Tina, but to be in control, to keep her lover safe and out of reach from other girls, after all, Tina has a huge sex drive and being she, Bette, far away, temptation is strong, and who knows; yes…, possessiveness for Tina and jealousy for Bette, though love is indisputably in the background, they still need to cope with their insecurities.

New Pasadena, 9:00 am. Friday, September 7, 2057. New CalTech-Biochemistry building – Top-floor lab

Bette and Tina have been working together trying to find a solution about the ’vanishing’ of the robot probes; they initially figure out that because the probes usually send the report after arriving at the final destination, the devices didn’t arrive any place or they are still traveling or have been destroyed, those probes are probably irrecoverable; perhaps, a new idea is to make new probes able to send information every certain time, however, because of the complicated dimensional conundrum that is a wormhole where time doesn’t change or even doesn’t exist, this one is not a good option; finally the girls decide treat the problem in two steps: first of all, send probes for short distances through the wormholes and get the reports, and then send them longer distances and get more information, but they have to use a parameter different than time or distance, so they will use energy units of consumption from the probes’ batteries; a second step is to work in a more complex robot probe that could send information continuously all the way to its destiny, which may be changed at volition of the person who is monitoring the device; another problem they were working in, is to find the way to defend their people from the Uber-Vamp and Willow is helping them on it, because she fought  the turok-han vamps, fifty-five years ago, and so far, what it is known is that the display of a huge source of light can kill them; but the problem are the ‘good’ vampires, the ones in Giles’ group, Angel and Spike, they could also be affected, so they have to study the problem more carefully; for Tina this last issue has to be solved quickly, because Bette is going to the cabin in two days and the blonde has already nightmares about the safety of her girlfriend. To optimize the time, Bette is working on the location of the   Hellmouth’s portal, and she has started sending the probes since early morning and she is recording their data; while Tina was focused in the Uber-Vamps. According to Willow, it was Spike who changed into a big source of a mystical sunlight killing all the Uber-Vamps fifty-five years ago, when they closed the Hellmouth; the question is, how a vampire could change into sunlight and after few days be alive again?, maybe they have to ask Spike, and Willow should be the one designated to talk to him; so, Tina with the help of Nicky has ‘wired’ Willow with powerful transmitters using the same technology of her hphone , which is currently used to communicate the lab with the wormhole; so, the plan is, Willow will go with Angus, to the cabin, the excuse is to carry more hphones for the scoobies, and the professor is going along because he needs to check on Dr. Janeway who is in the wormhole for the first time.