Tatter smirked as she was told for the
hundredth time today that she was their favourite character on the show.
She nodded and smiled as she took the sharpie and signed her name on
the glossy 8x10 photo of her face.
Leonard Nimoy probably felt like
this, she thought. Here she was sitting at a booth at a convention and
signing autograph after autograph. It was a good thing that she was
getting paid $1,000 for just a few hours of work. She knew that she wasn't
top end of the sci-fi convention scene. Heck, Wil Wheaton was making
more than her, but considering Wil was also an internet geek that upped
his convention fee as well.
"I like your performance in the episode 'Die
Now, Pay Later'," a little girl said. "It moved me."
'Die Now, Pay Later'
was her breakout role in the series. Up until then she was just a secondary
character only guaranteed five minutes of screen time. After that
episode her screen time doubled and eventually tripled.
The little girl
brought out her sketchbook and flipped to a page showing Tatter as her
character. "Could you please sign this?"
Tatter marveled at the
illustration; she had seen her fair share of artwork and fan drawings
but this one was a definite labour of love. She was afraid to even mark
it for fear of ruining such a masterpiece. She placed down the sharpie
and reached for a ballpoint pen. She knew the sharpie would bleed on the
paper and a pen wouldn't. This was going to be a very special
autograph... one that might even pay this girl's way into college
several years down the road if she was willing to part with it.
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