[RL following on from this]

[nonesodangerous]

Tieria was putting the finishing touches to his makeshift disguise while waiting for the others to arrive. He had found some baggier clothes that belonged to Mikaela that managed to fit him, and he had managed to scrape his hair back into pigtails.

He didn't currently make the most fashionable girl, but it was enough. After all, despite what other people said, he still found his appearance rather male, and the last thing he wanted to do was draw attention to himself by obviously being a man shopping for girls' clothes.

He decided to give make-up a miss for now, however. He didn't trust himself not to make a complete mess of it.

"This is ridiculous," he sighed, looking at himself in the mirror.

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[drcuddles.livejournal.com]

Cuddy, on the other hand was not disturbed at all. She started to look around the house, picking up her baby to start playing with while the others were bickering between them.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen had started towards Tieria, but Nena-san had been faster. Now she could only stand helplessly and wait for them to come back.

Her fists clenched and unclenched repeatedly. Karen hated doing anything "helplessly."

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

It had seemed normal enough to start with, like any two people having a private conversation away from the others. The sound of Tieria's low voice and Nena's girlish giggles could be heard through the door, but not what was being said.

But after a few long minutes and eventually, a lot of very peculiar noises (had that been a yelp?), there was only silence in the next room.

[majorhacker.livejournal.com]

...Motoko really didn't like some of the noises coming from the other room. Concern winning out, she walked over to knock on the door as calmly as she could, her other hand moving automatically to her side. What the hell was she doing to him in there? The way she had darted over and carted him off was strange.

"Tieria, are you alright in there?"

[trinities]

After a few more seconds of silence Nena opened the door, a smug grin on her face. "We're back!" she announced.

It had been a matter of connecting to Veda and severing the connection that was paralyzing him from the other side; there had been a few tricky moments but she managed in the end, with the result that she cheerfully re-entered the room like the cat who ate the canary, Tieria following behind her, walking normally on his own two feet.

[lovelovegoddess.livejournal.com]

She still had no clear idea what was going on, but she knew that Tieria was better again and that was all that mattered. Minako bounded over and gave the both of them quick hugs, a grin stretched from ear to ear on her face.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

Haruhi beamed widely and pounced on Tieria as soon as she saw him exiting the room, just behind Minako. She flung her arms joyfully around his waist and cried out, "You're all fixed now! That will save us the trouble of dragging you around! And you didn't get badtouched either!"

[drcuddles.livejournal.com]

Cuddy, on the other hand, was suspicious. No patient would be able to recover like that so quickly. She kept her mouth shut, though she was unsurprised at her theories.

"Shall we? Someone becomes a pumpkin in about two hours." She said cheerfully, indicating to the baby that was now fast asleep.

[oceanicbutterfly]

"Yes, we should get going," Karen said, trying to sound like she wasn't surprised by Tieria's abrupt recovery. And failing.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

The looks of surprise on everybody's faces were plain to see. Although, thankfully, no-one had asked about what precisely just happened in that other room, Tieria knew that they were all going to be suspicious now. He wanted to berate Nena for being so careless in front of them, but at the same time, how could he be angry when she'd...

...well, he didn't know exactly what she'd done, but he was able to move now. It still felt tiring to stand, but nothing like it had done. He suspected it was just sore from the lack of use of his limbs.

Tieria returned the hugs politely, and then went to stand close to Motoko. She would be able to support him, should he need it.

[majorhacker.livejournal.com]

She had been momentarily stunned to see him walking and stared at Nena. What did she do that enabled him to walk again? Could she be anything like Tieria? Motoko pushed her curiosity to the side for now, she could ask later. When Tieria came over near her, she dropped a protective hand lightly on his shoulder.

"The taxis should be here by now, so if we can all take this little party outside?"

((Cue taxi ride to mall and we are there, if you please?))

[trinities]

Nena entered the mall gleefully, trying her best to be at the head of the pack. She was getting a chance to do two of her favorite things-- be incredibly girly and bother the hell out of Tieria-- and she wasn't going to wait for anyone else to jump in and take the lead.

[lovelovegoddess.livejournal.com]

The mall. The only place that could ever come close to a manga cafe in Minako's heart. It was--oh, cute boy. She watched him walk into a store and forced her attention back to the matter at hand. Tieria. Clothes buying. Making him look like a girl. Those were the objectives. It still didn't mean it couldn't be fun!

Maybe a trip by the food court when this was all over. It would test his social skills in his disguise!

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

Haruhi marched over to Tieria and grabbed his hand, a determined, and dangerous look to anyone who knew her well on her face. "If you wanna be a girl and get good fitting clothes, you're gonna need some "assets". She dragged him along behind her, ignoring any protest from him and expecting everyone else to follow to the starting place: Victoria's Secret.

[drcuddles.livejournal.com]

Cuddy didn't feel her age until right then. There was something about young girls (and Tieria) looking for bras. She sighed, looking at the other bras that she could wear. She looked at several types of lingerie- no pantyline guaranteed.

"Tell me when Tieria needs to try the underwear on, I'll pose as his adoptive mother," Cuddy said distractedly, raising her eyes at the red and gold underwear.

[oceanicbutterfly]

"What about this?" Karen indicated a rather lacy bra. It was light blue, much to the surprise of no one who knew Karen to any extent whatsoever.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

Tieria may have been a not-quite-human ex-Veda terminal trained in heavy-arms mobile suit warfare, with a good eye for tactics and programming, but he was still (theoretically) a teenage boy. And a teenage boy who didn't particularly like showing his skin at that. He felt embarassed for the models in the display pictures.

"Wh-why do you need to--?" he spluttered out at Cuddy, already thoroughly unnerved by the shop's contents and the very real fact that he was going to have to wear some of it.

This is a mission, he reminded himself, and being a convincing female student is the objective. This is life or death. There's no use getting stupid over the first step.

[majorhacker.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Motoko had gone searching through bras as well, slightly amused by the whole situation at hand.

"What do you think of this one?"

She held up a solid, pale lavender one as she continued picking through some of the different styles and colors.

[trinities]

"No way, he needs something flashier!" Nena declared, holding up a dark purple one that was mostly lace and bows. "Don't do something if you're not going to do it all the way!"

[lovelovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Minako proudly held up her contribution of a somewhat risque golden bra and pantie set. "Something sexy for those days when you have to dress up nice! Or," she reached for a slightly more reserved red one, "for when you get a date!"

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

Suddenly the scheming cogs in Haruhi's head came to a screeching halt.

"Do you even know what size you are?"

[drcuddles.livejournal.com]

As if some alarm went off in her head, Cuddy picked up a padded B cup bra that was approximately Tieria's size.

"Before we choose color, we have choose bra type." Cuddy commented before she hailed a shop clerk.

"Excuse me, could I get a dressing room? My daughter is trying on bras for the first time and she's a little shy. If I could measure her myself?"

[oceanicbutterfly]

...oh, right. That was important information, after all. Karen wandered back to where she'd picked out the bra, and looked to see what other sizes were available.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

"I'm male," Tieria said in a hushed voice, doing his best to look nowhere in particular. "I don't have a size!"

[majorhacker.livejournal.com]

"You'll need some sort of a size if you want to pass yourself off as a woman," she told him matter-of-factly. "If you don't want the smallest size they have in the store, you're going to need something heavily padded or even as far as fake breasts."