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Tweak says, "I am SHERLocked"

Charlotte "Chuck" Charles (pushedback) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2015-07-13 11:03:00

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charlotte charles, jack harkness, ton phanan

Day 332 - closed to Ton
[ It was a morning like any other. A morning just like yesterday and the day before that, of warmth and curling up against Ton's back, arm loosely draped over his waist. An arm that's a little heavier today than it was the morning before — there's still a ring on her finger.

She smiles happily in her half-sleep, burrowing her nose into his spine. A sneaky tactic to get him to wake up, for sure. If this doesn't work she might just toss Gadget on him. ]

[ Video, closed to Jack ]

Hey, Jack! I have a favor to ask you. Well, two, actually.

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	pushedback 2015-08-04 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	[ Oh boy does that make her frown a whole lot more than a girl who routinely drugs people with homeopathic mood stabilizers should ever be allowed to frown. ] That's awful! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-04 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	[He gives her a wry look.] Not nearly as awful as trying to deal with traumatised people running amok all over Cardiff. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-08-04 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	So instead of dealing with the problem, you just pretend it never happened? I'm really disappointed in you, Jack. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-04 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh come on, you know things are never that simple! [Or are they, where she comes from? It's a very different world, after all.] It's necessary. We don't have the resources to deal with mass hysteria. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-08-05 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	[ Okay, okay. It's not that simple. She likes to think it is and she definitely believes most people make it more complicated than it needs to be, but it's not simple. Fine. ] But you're not talking about mass hysteria, you're talking about erasing someone's memories of an event because that's the easier way out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2015-08-06 03:56 pm UTC (link)

[He gives her a wry look. She's hardly the first person ever to have questioned him on the moral rights and wrongs of retconning people.]

Because it only takes one person going to the press - or hell, these days even just social media - with stories about any one of the very real threats to the human race we face every day to stir up something that has the general public getting in our way as we try to save them.

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	pushedback 2015-08-06 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	What press, Jack? It's not about that! We're not home and you still wish there was some way to just... just forget what happened? Do you want to forget being my brother too? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2015-08-06 08:53 pm UTC (link)

I meant back home, all of that. Here... No, of course I don't want to forget that. That was wonderful. [Spoken simply, a surprising lack of dramatics, considering this is Jack, but it's very evident that he really means it.]

I was mostly joking, really. I haven't ever actually used it on myself like that. [No matter how tempted he's been, more than once.] Only on occasions when forgetting something was absolutely, critically necessary.

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	pushedback 2015-08-07 07:13 am UTC (link)
	...Okay. [ She deflates, reluctantly. ] Okay. I... I don't know your world or your work or any of that. Maybe you have perfectly good reasons. [ Boy, is he sounding a lot like Ned right now. At least in her head. ] I just don't want to be part of what you want to forget. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2015-08-07 07:37 pm UTC (link)

[They're not brilliant reasons, admittedly, but Jack's had a long time to justify them to himself. Especially since he's been retconning people right back since he was a Time Agent. Any outrage he ever felt at the idea was a long, long time ago.

Which is why he grabs the opportunity to abandon that side of the conversation with both hands, when she gifts him with an opening.]

I don't want to forget you either. Yesterday was wonderful. I had so much family around me - I felt so warm, so loved, so wanted...

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	pushedback 2015-08-10 08:43 am UTC (link)
	You're still loved, you know. Even if we're not related by blood. [ And if it wouldn't break the time-space continuum (otherwise known as thread order) she's probably adopt him on the spot. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-10 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	[He blinks at her for a moment, taking this in; then he smiles, softly.] Good to know. Thank you. It's weird, in some ways perhaps the wardens have actually done us some favours with this particular little stunt. Made us realise what the people here mean to us. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-08-11 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Right? I could say a lot of bad things about them, but some things they kind of get right. You have to give them some credit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-13 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	Only a little, though. I mean, these are the same guys that made my boyfriend get engaged to Spike. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-08-14 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	As awful as that was, I can't help but wonder... was there a point to it? Did you learn anything new about Spike? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-18 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	That underneath everything, he's a hopeless romantic? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-08-18 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously? [ She's shocked! Shocked I say! ] You're kidding! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-29 10:40 am UTC (link)
	[He grins.] Just think what a good little member of society he could be if he focussed all that adoration on the right person! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-08-29 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, doesn't he have a girlfriend? I'm pretty sure I heard he has a girlfriend. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-09-01 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, but she's another vampire. That's what I meant when I said the right person. [Someone like Buffy. He's pretty sure he remembers someone telling him about that, in Spike's future, back home.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-09-01 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose that would make sense, hitting it off with another vampire... has she caused any trouble, though? I mean, are all vampires terrible? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-09-05 09:52 am UTC (link)
	[His mouth twisted a bit.] She's... not as bad as him. But she wouldn't help us stop him, at the time. Kept going on about it all just being his nature and so on. She's very much on his side. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2015-09-05 11:27 am UTC (link)
	[ Hmn. ] You know... as angry as I was that he tried to bite Ton- [ And all those other people, of course. ] -I can't help but wonder now that it's all done... do we really know that much about them? Vampires. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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