Cosima Niehaus (cosima_niehaus) wrote in freedomtownic, @ 2015-06-03 10:45:00 |
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Entry tags: | !thread, cosima niehaus (cosima_niehaus), darcy lewis (6credits_myass) |
No One Wants Space Madness
Who: Cosima and Darcy
Where: The Park
When: Friday, April 10th
What: Making a new friend!
Status: Log, Complete
Since she'd spent far too much time in her lab at the hospital lately, Cosima decided to go for a walk to clear her mind. She missed her home, her sisters, Kira, Delphine and Felix, but she realized that the worst thing she could do was dwell on the family that she had no way of contacting--to dwell on things that she couldn't change. So instead, she went for a walk and tried to appreciate where she was. Of all the places she could end up? Freedomtown wasn't all that bad, after all.
Darcy, on the other hand, had pretty much anyone that she wanted here (Ian could go kiss a truck, as the kiss she planted on him was totally a heat of the moment thing!), although she needed to make a point to check in with Jane soon. They hadn't spent too much time together, sadly. Currently, though, she was apparently on the same wavelength as Cosima, figuring that it was a nice day and all, so she'd take a walk in the park this place had. There were certainly worse ways to spend a day, right?
Cosima smiled and gave Darcy a finger-wave. "I guess we had the same idea, huh?" She said. Even before finding out that she was genetic clone she was a social being, and that wasn't about to change anytime soon, it seemed.
Darcy nodded. "Can only hang around my room for so long before I start getting cabin fever," she said, then grinning. "Or Space Madness," she added playfully.
Cosima laughed. "And no one wants space madness, let me tell ya. You feel up to some company? I promise I'm not a creep or a anything," she added quickly with one of her disarming smiles.
"I'm pretty sure I could handle it even if you were a creep," Darcy teased, grinning back at her. "I think I can definitely handle the company, though." If anything, she needed it.
"Awesome," she replied, falling in step beside Darcy. "I'm Cosima, by the way." She introduced herself with an easy smile. "And I've been here siiiince... wow. July. How crazy is that?"
"I'm Darcy," she offered, smiling back at her as they walked. "And me, too! Time kind of both flies and stands still here sometimes, honestly. It gets really hard to tell the difference anymore."
"I know, right? I tend to use daily markers to try to keep track of things. Like 'the day that guy drove into a tree' or 'the day Spider-Man was treated for concussion'," Cosima joked with an easy smile, letting her eyes flick over Darcy's form, curious about the woman walking beside her. "The people here are definitely interesting."
"That is an impressive way to keep track of things," Darcy admitted. Now she wished her time here had been spent treating Spiderman for a concussion! "And interesting isnt even thebhalf of it."
"That does have me curious about you," Cosima admitted. "What did you do where you were from?" They didn't seem too dissimilar in age. Maybe Darcy was a student too?
"I worked as an intern for a physicist named Jane Foster," Darcy told her. "I was a political science major in college, but I wanted a more interesting way to get my science credits than to just sit in another class, so I ran off to New Mexico and got to meet a Norse god in the process."
"And seriously, who could turn down meeting a Norse god?" Cosima laughed. "That's wild. Political science, though. I mean," she swooped a hand over her head, "wow. What kind of career are you hoping that leads to?"
"I know, right? Not every day you get to take a Facebook photo of Thor." That was still hilariously one of Darcy's proudest moments. "Not too sure initially what career I was going for. I kind of picked something I enjoyed. Then I got wrapped up with Jane and probably absorbed more astrophysics information than most lay people completely by accident."
Cosima chuckled. "Well, it sounds like you lead quite the interesting life. Kudos to that." Not that Cosima didn't have quite the interesting life, but... obviously they both knew where they ended up, huh?
"True that," Darcy agreed. Her life was insane. "What about you? What was your life like before you ended up here? " She figured Cosima's life was just as crazy.
"Up until... I guess about a year or so ago, I was studying to complete my PhD in Experimental Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and then, and here's the kicker," Cosima laughed, "I found out that I was a clone."
Darcy's eyebrows went up when Cosima said that. "Wow...really? That's gotta be a freaky thing to learn. How'd you even learn that?"
"One of my sisters tracked me down... after another sister tracked HER down. Apparently we were getting killed left and right over in Europe... but that's another story ENTIRELY." Cosima laughed. Her life really was wild lately, for sure. "Let's just say things haven't exactly been boring lately. And that was BEFORE coming into space."
"Oh god, sounds like you DEFINITELY lead an exciting life." That didn't sound like the half of it! "So, what do you think of being stuck in space like this? Excited? Pissed off?" Darcy asked.
"A bit of both," Cosima admitted, wrinkling her nose and laughing. "I mean, this place is amazing and I've met a lot of interesting people." Which included Darcy! "And it's given me time to work on something, which I would have done at home... but there was a lot of distractions. But in saying that, I really miss my family. And okay, my girlfriend. She's French, so she could say the world was ending tomorrow and I'd still swoon." She and Delphine had their moments that weren't light and fluffy too, though.
"Sounds like you've got a lot at home waiting for you," Darcy said with a smile. She had to admit that she didn't really have all that much. Honestly, most of the people she did care about were here, and she knew that Ian would at least watch Erik and make sure he didn't get into any trouble (no more running around naked at Stonehenge she hoped!).
"I do," Cosima replied, lightly nibbling on her bottom lip in thought. "Between us, though? I've been here for almost a year and I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever go home."
Darcy nodded. "Yeah, sometimes I wonder that, too," she admitted. "I admit, not in a huge hurry to go home, but I do wonder how long we're gonna be stuck here." Plus, she knew that there were plenty of people like Cosima that had people at home that they missed desperately.
"I guess all we can do is hope for the best and make the most of the time that we do have here," Cosima replied, always one to try to put a positive spin on things.