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Tweak says, "Lets get out of here"

Aidan J. Reilly (redclayheroics) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-09-07 21:50:00

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aidan reilly, alex karev, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), malcolm reynolds

392 - open action
[ Okay, full disclosure, Aidan is still reeling from the surprise visit the other day but he has chores to do and things to work out and yeah okay maybe he's doing that thing where you give yourself a thousand things to do so you don't get too stuck in your head but of course that doesn't work an-

He needs some coffee. A lot of coffee.

Aidan can be found scurrying about the dome, appropriately distracted, tripping over kite lines and mainlining coffee. He'll make a stop at the clinic for a checkup, drop by the Athletic Center to practice his baseball throws in a manner that can only be described as aggressively determined and then later, at the end of the day, he'll slowly deflate in the Memorial Garden, planting some heather with great care. Strong, sturdy, able to withstand tough climates... yeah, this is about something. He'll stay there until after nightfall unless someone makes him leave. ]

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	redclayheroics 2016-09-09 07:39 am UTC (link)
	I usually make a pot at home. This stuff isn't strong enough. [ His mom's coffee could strip off paint. ] Just got a lot on my mind, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-09-11 10:28 am UTC (link)
	[His eyebrows go up even further.] Okay, now I'm really worried! [Though he does soften it with a grin.] Anything you want to talk about? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-12 02:00 pm UTC (link)
	I used to live on a farm. Coffee is what kept us going. [ Stalling, for sure. ] It's just... this place, I guess. Th' other day, y'know... when all those people dropped in. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-09-12 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	[That sounds like there's definitely a story in there somewhere. He jerks his head towards a nearby table to ask if Aidan would like to sit down and tell him about it.] Someone popped up that threw you for a loop? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-13 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	You could say that. [ Deep breath. Oh boy. ] My kids. Mine and Rebecca's. From th' future. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-09-13 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	Yours and... Rebecca's? [That throws him for a good moment, let alone Aidan.] That shouldn't even be possible! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-14 06:11 am UTC (link)
	Yeah well, a lot of impossible shit happens here. [ Don't ruin his dreams, Jack. Don't. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-09-15 03:11 am UTC (link)
	[He chuckles.] You don't have to tell me that! [Shaking his head wryly.] Come and sit down and tell me about them. How old were they? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-15 05:35 am UTC (link)
	[ He does sit down, a little stiff. It's a weird thing to talk about in general and it's always weird to talk to Jack considering how absolutely flustered the man makes him. ] Uhm... Alex was sixteen, I think. Don't know 'bout Jamie, but maybe ten? She was young. Way too young to be here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-09-24 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	[He whistles through his teeth.] Phew, that is young! Thank goodness it was only for a day - and perhaps she won't remember it anyway? [Not that that's much help to Aidan, whom he's sure won't be able to forget it, nor stop thinking about it, for a good while to come.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-27 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	Hopefully not — it was weird for all of us, but I think I calmed her down well enough. [ As for Aidan, he doesn't want to forget. Ever. This is the reason he needs to fight his way back home. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-10-04 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	I guess at least she had you and Rebecca here. Even if you didn't know here, it must have been a comfort. How's Rebecca holding up? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-10-05 09:06 am UTC (link)
	'bout the same as me, I guess. Still reelin'. We never talked about kids or nothin', I don't even really think she ever wanted any, so... 's a bit weird. It'll be fine but it's weird. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-10-05 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	[He gives a wry smile.] I'd be surprised if you had talked about having kids. You haven't been together that long, have you? And besides, it's supposed to be an impossibility here! So, I guess it's an idea it'd take time to get used to even if you were planning a family! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

redclayheroics
2016-10-07 04:42 am UTC (link)

Three months, just about. [ Something like that. Time is weird. He hesitates a little for this next bit, chewing on whether he should talk to Jack about this or not but you can't feature this much in his shower fantasies and not grow some sort of trust. ]

It is impossible here... so that makes me wonder if those kids were even real. We ain't from th' same world. If we go home... can she go with me?

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foreverjack
2016-10-07 11:24 am UTC (link)

That long? [That takes him vaguely by surprise, but then he hasn't really bothered keeping track of time that well here. Ianto could probably tell him down to the second.] But still very early for talking about families, yeah!

I have no idea if they were really real or not. [Even if he suspects they were just some sick sort of joke made up the AIs to fuck with them, he's not going to say it out loud, not when Aidan's so obviously still raw about it.] But as far as I can see, there's absolutely no reason why she couldn't go home with you. Wherever and whenever we were taken from, our bodies are all together now, aren't they? If we can just wake up, we can leave together. That's my plan for me and Ianto, after all.

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redclayheroics
2016-10-10 06:19 am UTC (link)

[ He nods - yeah, three months, which sounds like a lot but feels like very little. It also marks the third relationship he's been in here, if Euphie even counts. So much happen in prison. ]

I'm hopin' it's that easy. [ Or they get stuck in whatever's on the other side. He knows a thing or two about getting stuck in bad places and that was at home, not in another world entirely. ] And, uh... even if it is, there's no tellin' she'd go with me. She got stuff to do back home, same as me.

That's good tho. If you guys can go together.

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foreverjack
2016-10-12 03:17 am UTC (link)

[If you want to talk about so much happening in prison, how about the incredible polar changes Jack and Spike have gone through!]

Yeah, that does complicate it, doesn't it? Depends whether you believe the story about duplicates living our lives for us back there, I guess. If there are, then perhaps it's not so pressing to have to get back. [He shrugs.] Of course, our cases are different. Ianto only has six months to live and I - well. I guess I'll never know for sure while I'm here, but I was on my way out after my latest memory dump and the way things were I didn't know if I'd come back from it.

[He takes a thoughtful sip of his coffee.] Although none of that may have actually happened. Rebecca told me you ended up back in your younger body over at the pleasure prison? So maybe none of these memory dumps are actually real at all!

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redclayheroics
2016-10-13 10:22 am UTC (link)

[ Oh, he's not touching that. He doesn't like Spike but he also doesn't know Spike, so... yeah. Staying well clear of whatever's going on there. ]

I did... believe about th' clones, I mean. Dunno what that says about me wakin' up being twenty again, but if none of this is actually happenin' then maybe we've really only been here for however long it's been.

[ And then a thought strikes him. ]

What if... the memories aren't ours. We don't leave here, yeah? What if the memories are from our clones?

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	foreverjack 2016-10-13 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	[Jack blinks, reassessing.] I... never thought of that idea. That certainly could explain it! Although... [He grins.] Aren't they supposed to be better behaved than us, in the wardens' view. If that was my clone, he certainly behaves a hell of a lot like me! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-10-16 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I mean... I guess? But I don't think they can be too different or people would notice, right? Maybe we'd do even worse stuff if it was us. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-10-17 03:10 am UTC (link)

Yeah, perhaps. [He shakes his head, smiling.] It really is a bit mind-boggling to try and think about, isn't it? However I try to make sense of it all, I never can really decide what to believe.

I do choose to believe the bit about our physical bodies being in those pods, because that makes just about the most sense of any of it. And if that's true, it at least does mean we're relatively safe and not going to die the way we would if we'd stayed back home, and that we're physically all together so, really? The way I see it, there's absolutely no reason why we couldn't eventually leave together if we chose to do so.

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	redclayheroics 2016-10-17 10:26 am UTC (link)
	Just a matter of finding our way back home, then. [ He sighs, heavily. That seems to be a constant problem in his life - finding a way back home. Does he remember where home is anymore? Who even knows. ] I need more coffee if we're going to keep talkin' about this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-10-18 03:12 am UTC (link)

[He glances round and waves to the serving bot, the one he's been nicknaming 'Taylor the Latte Boy' ever since the day he ended up singing to him that one day.] More coffee, Taylor. And make it extra strong!

[Turning back to Aidan] Do you mean you're expecting it to be hard to find home even after we've got out? Or just that it's going to be hard to get out? [Which he's certainly not disagreeing with.]

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	redclayheroics 2016-10-18 05:11 am UTC (link)
	Both, I guess. Do we even know where we are? Maybe it's different where you're from but it's really not easy to just get places where I'm from. You gotta know where you're going an' even then it's a matter of figuring out a way to get there. If we're not in th' same world even... I dunno. I'm not smart enough to figure that out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)