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sylum challenge #031- time Numb3rs/Sylum Allie
*gator blushes* I forgot what my tags are supposed to be.*
Gator Note- this is typo-corrected, and a few words reworded from what I sent to the Sylum list.

Title: prompt 31-Time
Title Time Out for Fun - or, go fly a kite
Author: Allie the Gator
Word Count: 748 according to NoteTab
Fandom: Numb3rs Charlie/Don
Rated:G
warnings: mmmm... none? Charlie/Don, but G rated (IMHO)
A/N: preview, will go on LJ Monday sometime. I got the 'joke' out of a Sunday comic (Overboard, Aug 13, 2006) and this story, literally, formed itself on the way to my next driving job. I was so glad I wrote the draft first, or I never would have been able to rewrite it after the computer ate the first copy.

Oh, Allie see's a new friend walking her way. His name is Charlie. Allie just met him when he and his brother/mate came to the mansion recently. His brother was a cop, named Don. Allie got kind of confused when everyone had the same names.

Charlie's Don kept calling Charlie Chuck. He also kept calling Allie, Al. Allie usually just blinks at him when he calls her that. Sometimes, she will blink, then roll. That always makes everybody laugh. So, she usually saved that for when other people were there. She didn't want her tricks to get old.

Charlie finally arrived at the edge of Allie's area of the swamp. He had his shoes off, and shorts on. He just walked right on into the water! Not many people were that comfortable with Allie's swamp. When he was in just about to his knees, Charlie reached out with the flat of his hand and slapped the water, calling out with what Allie could hear was a laugh, "Allie, girl! Come here, Allie That Big Old Scarey Gator!"

Allie stopped playing Log, and blinked and grumbled. When Charlie let loose with a high-pitched "EEEP!" at discovering Allie was the log only a few feet from her, Allie grumbled a laugh.

With a happy laugh, Charlie sloshed over to her. Leaning down slightly, Charlie showed Allie what he had in his other hand. "Ever seen a kite, Allie?" He asked.

Allie looked at him and blinked in confusion. Charlie pointed up at the sky, "some people, generally kids, fly them up there in the sky." Allie looked up where he had pointed. Just over a year ago, there had been big, old, thick trees. Back before the Bad, Bad storm.

Charlie looked around. He blinked, looked again. Then, nodding, "yeah, maybe not. Bet those trees used to be pretty big, huh?"

Allie grumbled her agreement.

Charlie sprang upright with an exclamation "Okay, then, let me show you!" He turned and walked back onto the ground, slightly toward the manor. Allie waddled up to the edge, watching as the young man started running a bit, loosening the string tied to the kite.

The kite arced up, and up and up. Allie watched as it got bigger and higher. When the Kite was fully unfurled, and Allie got a good look at it, she let loose with a delighted happy, loud bellow.

"You like that, do you girl?" Charlie asked with a big grin.

Allie just threw her legs out, dropping flat on her belly to the ground. She watched as the giant, bright green alligator, with a very long tail was bouncing and swaying and dancing in the air above her swamp. She watched it start to fall to earth with a swoop, Charlie did something with his wrists, and the stick of wood the string was tied to, and the kite swished back up into the air.

Charlie looked over at the entranced gator. With an excited smile, he said "you really can understand how a kite flies by looking at Bernoulli's Theorem, Allie. It explains in a very precise manner how air pressure and velocity are interacting up there."

Charlie glaces back up at the kite, giving it a tiwst to make the tail dance around. Allie slapped her paws in the mud. Excitedly, Charlie continued "the actual equation is 'P' over 'P' plus velocity squared over two plus 'GZ' equals..." Charlie trailed off. He and Allie both looked up at the man snickering at them on shore.

"Hey, Chuck, you aren't really expecting Al to remember all that, do you?" he asked with a laugh.

Charlie thought about what he was just talking about, and snickered softly. Turning to Allie, he looked at the vacant expresion on the gator's face. With a grin, he crouched down, with a pet to her head and back, he smiled, "yeah, I know, just shut up and swoosh and swoop, right girl?"

Allie thought that was the most intelligent...well...only thing...he said that she understood.

Allie grumbled and rubbed against the man, being careful of the kite in the other hand. "aaaw, Charlie," Don murmered behind them, "I think she just likes to hear you talk, you know?"

Don sat beside her, watching as his brother ran back out to fly the kite again. They all enjoyed their afternoon with their family. Everyone at the manor taking time out to come and watch, or try to fly the kite.

October 22, 2006