The cheerleaders were meeting at three fifty for stretching, prepping, and maybe a run through.I headed to my locker, and dropped my bags down next to...it. I spun the dial, put in my combination, and grabbed a towel. I headed to the showers for a quick rinse off.Brit was in there too."Hey," I said."Hey." Nervous?" Why would I not be?" Don't know. But let's try not to worry. We have a show to give, and our boys to cheer for," I gave her a sly grin, and she couldn't help laughing.I rinsed off the. That didn't bother me at all; in fact, I was beginning to think I wouldn't mind at all being 'more than friends'. On the other hand, I wasn't about to damage the friendship we did have by pushing things further than she wanted to go.It was getting late, by my standards, when Emma stood and told me, "Come on, Gerry," and led me by the hand to her room. Her room, like all the others, was a fair size and had a double bed. Inside the room. She closed the door and stood, looking at me. "Gerry, I...". I already started developing a cure. And with your help I'm about 98.69% sure I can develop a vaccine before we can ever get to the late stages on the sickness. " Very well. Should I run some kind of calculations?" The metal girl asked, her perfect robotic brain already working hard. "No. Unnecessary. I have a different task for you. One more I require your talents and unique traits of your synthetic...frame." The salarian answered. "In order to synthesize a cure I will need genetic material.. You were never supposed to know.’ ‘I’m not angry!’ Lee promised. ‘I’m…I guess, amused, really. But mostly curious. Why would you do a thing like that?’ ‘Lee, there’s something you obviously don’t know about me. Your parents didn’t either, when they hired me, but the friends who recommended me to them did.’ She turned and went to the kitchen. ‘Want some eggnog? I’ll tell you all about it.’ ‘Um…yeah, sure! Mom and Dad are having that at their party, but it’s spiked.’ ‘Oh, mine will be, too,’.