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Pavel Chekov ([info]candothat) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2016-12-05 21:11:00

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Entry tags:aidan reilly, jack harkness, jim kirk, john constatine, kitty pryde (aoa), pavel chekov (au)

Day 405 [closed action | open action]
[action | closed to Kitty]

[As it happens, waking up three years older than you were when you went to sleep is mildly disorienting. Waking up in bed next to someone who wasn't present in any of those three years compounds the effect. Chekov--newly twenty-four and, as far as he can remember, fresh from yet another near-death experience--sits up with a start. This is definitely not his room at Yorktown Starbase. This is...

MarinaNova. He's in bed with Kitty. He has been here for one-hundred twelve days.

Chekov lowers his head to his hands and groans. There are two different yesterdays in his mind, both equally vivid and real, and it's way too early to deal with that.]


[action | open]

[Chekov, three years older than he was yesterday and considerably more dazed than usual, does a circuit of the dome. Everything has a not-quite-rightness to it that he can't put his finger on and he feels oddly out of place. He isn't, of course. He was here yesterday, and he remembers that yesterday like it was... yesterday, which it was. But he also remembers a yesterday where he was a universe away and waiting for the Enterprise to be rebuilt. In that universe, he was on year three of a five-year mission.

He's looking for Kirk, specifically. It would be easiest to call him up, but Chekov would much rather talk in person.]


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[info]candothat
2016-12-12 12:09 am UTC (link)
[It's tempting to decline since Chekov isn't particularly comfortable talking about things that are troubling him, but coffee. He hesitates again, then nods.]

I think that I would like that, thank you, but only if you have nothing that I would be keeping you from.

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[info]foreverjack
2016-12-12 09:58 am UTC (link)
Eh, no, just general patrolling kind of stuff. Nothing that can't wait! [He smiles, and holds the door open for Chekov to pass through, gesturing towards the various different types of comfy seating so Chekov can pick whatever he's most comfortable with - chairs, couch or beanbags.]

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[info]candothat
2016-12-14 12:44 am UTC (link)
[Even if Chekov is still feeling indecisive about talking, Jack is making it too easy for him to go in, flop on a couch, and ask the helpful server bot for a coffee. )Hopefully he won't say anything he regrets. Jack is Kitty's good friend and Chekov did put his foot in his mouth this morning by telling Kitty that he loves her. He should probably not mention that.)]

Thank you for offering to talk with me. [Because when you don't know what you should say, politeness is the way to go.]

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[info]foreverjack
2016-12-16 03:11 am UTC (link)
[Jack would be delighted to hear that Chekov told Kitty he loves her (he may have his own rather strong feelings towards Kitty, but he doesn't ever expect to make good on those and he'd like her to be happy, as he is) but yeah, it might be a little awkward talking about that as yet.

He sinks down into the corner at the other end of the couch so that he's angled enough towards Chekov to make conversation inviting but not staring straight at him as if giving him the third degree.]

It's my pleasure. [He waves a hand at Chekov's clearly newly updated body.] I take it you've had a memory dump?

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[info]candothat
2016-12-16 10:30 pm UTC (link)
[Somehow, Chekov has managed to remain entirely unaware of the thing-that-isn't-really-a-thing-but-sort-of-is that Kitty and Jack have. Someone should mention it before it comes out in an extremely awkward way.

He sits up straighter on his end of the couch and glances down as if to affirm that, yes, he was the one who was being gestured at.] I have, yes. Three years happened last night.

Has this happened to you?

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[info]foreverjack
2016-12-18 08:13 am UTC (link)
[Oh well, that will be fun when it comes to light then!

He smiles wryly at Chekov's glance down at himself, reflecting that it must feel even weirder for Chekov than it did for him. At least his body didn't get any older, or not discernably so, anyway.]

Three years, wow. Yeah, it happened to me a few months ago, but mine was only about fifteen months. Still felt really disorienting though!

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[info]candothat
2016-12-18 09:45 pm UTC (link)
[At least Chekov isn't the jealous type?]

Only fifteen months is still too much to happen in one night here. [He's grateful that Jack knows what's it like. It's the sort of experience that can be entirely understood only by those who have done it.]

Did it take you very long to make sense of this [he pauses, looking for the correct phrase but settling for one that's just close enough] chronological dissonance? Everything feels as though it happened years ago and yesterday at the same time.

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[info]foreverjack
2016-12-20 03:10 am UTC (link)
[Good to know!]

Chronological dissonance. [He repeats the words, rolling them around his mouth, because that seems a particularly good way of describing it.] Neat phrase. And yeah, that's exactly what it felt like for me, too. I used to time-travel on a regular basis, but even that didn't prepare me for this! It did take a few days to get my head around it, yeah. Still feels disorienting when I think about it too much!"

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[info]candothat
2017-01-07 08:17 pm UTC (link)
[Even as off as he is, the approval means something to him. His phrasing is very rarely praised.]

That is the problem, I think--thinking too much. [He tilts his head, curious.] You time-travel on purpose?

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[info]foreverjack
2017-01-09 11:18 am UTC (link)
[He laughs, because thinking too much is not something he's usually accused of.]

Might be easier to try not to think about it and just give your brain a chance to assimilate it.

And yeah, I used to be a Time Agent. Time-travelling was more or less my job description. [He quirks an eyebrow.] Why did you say 'on purpose'? Have you time-travelled by accident - beyond ageing three years overnight?

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[info]candothat
2017-01-14 10:52 pm UTC (link)
Not easier, maybe, but saner. [He smiles a bit ruefully. Chekov of yesterday didn't do anything ruefully.]

A Time Agent. [Just. Trying to understand a job where hopping around time is desirable.] Personally, no, I have only ever traveled forward as everyone else does. It is theoretically and even physically possible where I'm from, but the only time that it has ever happened was... unfortunate. No one sane would attempt to travel through time. [A beat.] I mean no offense.

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[info]foreverjack
2017-01-16 11:52 am UTC (link)
[Yeah, he's starting to see glimpses of the changes. Even if he doesn't know Chekov all that well, some things are impossible to miss.]

None taken. [He gives a wry smile, but his mind is busy processing Chekov's words and what they might mean. Nothing personal to Chekov, apparently, but something he was close to, nonetheless. He tries to keep the tone light because, hey, he's supposed to be making Chekov feel better here, not worse!] Believe it or not, quite a few people travel in time, but unfortunately not all of them have good intentions. That's where Time Agents came in. It was our job to try and stop those people interfering in the timelines.

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[info]candothat
2017-01-16 11:38 pm UTC (link)
[Chekov sure did put his foot in his mouth there. It's extremely rude to dismiss someone's career as insanity and he's appropriately embarrassed.] Ah--sorry. Of course it would be necessary to take action in such situations.

How is time travel achieved in your universe? How do you minimize the risk of unintentionally altering timelines yourself? [As a physicist from a universe where time travel is not terribly well-understood by virtue of being too hazardous to test extensively, he's sincerely interested.]

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[info]foreverjack
2017-01-17 03:48 pm UTC (link)
[It certainly wouldn't be the first time someone's called him insane. Water off a duck's back, really.]

You minimise the risks by being really careful, and by trying really hard to catch the people who might change things. [With a grin.] As for how you travel - well. If you're a Time Lord, like the Doctor, you have a fabulous, beautiful time machine that's bigger on the inside and flies like a beauty.

If you're a Time Agent, you have this. [Holding out his left wrist to show the wide leather strap around it, and flipping it open to show Chekov the controls.]

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[info]candothat
2017-01-17 09:41 pm UTC (link)
[Jack gets a politely skeptical look because being really careful doesn't seem like enough of a precaution when time is involved. He is saved from attempting to articulate that sentiment in a kind way by the prospect of looking at an actual time travel device.]

This is much more convenient than a TARDIS. [He and a Doctor had a rather nice conversation about the TARDIS long, long ago in another universe. Chekov hesitantly moves closer to inspect the wrist band, curious but trying not to be too invasive or pushy.] Does this generate closed time-like curves? Not here, I mean--I think the wardens must frown upon such things--but in your universe?

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[info]foreverjack
2017-01-18 11:31 am UTC (link)
[Of course being really careful isn't really enough, but it's the best they can do, and still better than letting renegades run amok. At least Time Agents were usually aware of the more important things that had to happen.

He grins at Chekov's assessment, rather pleased to find someone actually comparing his wrist strap favourably to the TARDIS, which is pretty rare.] Convenient, maybe - when it works - but nowhere near as comfortable!

[He shakes his head, smiling.] And don't ask me exactly how the physics work. I'm a pilot, not an engineer. I can fly the thing, but I don't understand how it works! Not that the time-travel function has worked in years, anyway, I'm afraid.

((OOC: My brain now hurts from looking up closed timelike curves! I get the principle, but I couldn't work out if they applied to DW time travel or not!))

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[info]candothat
2017-01-18 03:26 pm UTC (link)
But more sensible, as well. Hiding an anachronistic accessory would be simpler than hiding a large blue box. [Starfleet would have a fit about time travel methodology in the Whoniverse. Running around time and space, parking telephone booths in the past... madness!

He's not disappointed in Jack's inability to break down the mechanics. There are plenty of people in MarinaNova to talk physics and engineering with.] May I ask why you still wear it when when you can no longer pilot through time with it?

((OOC: Heh, not to worry! I just get excited when the physics geniuses have an opportunity to physics. Feel free to handwave if it's ever necessary!))]

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[info]foreverjack
2017-01-19 04:39 pm UTC (link)
We-ll, the blue box was originally designed to camouflage herself. [Look at him, all these years later and he's still prepared to defend the Doctor, and the TARDIS.] And she still has a bit of a perception filter about her, so people don't notice her as much as they ought to.

[He presses a couple of buttons on his wrist strap and it starts playing music - In the Mood - which always makes him smile.] I still wear it because it's a part of me, now. Holds a lot of memories, this thing. It used to do more, too, before the AIs froze most of its functions. It could scan things, teleport, support holovids - loads of things. Now about the best I can do with it is programme it to turn off the bedroom lights.

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[info]candothat
2017-01-21 11:59 pm UTC (link)
A perception filter... like a cloaking device. [He nods, somewhat glad that he isn't affiliated with Jack's people. The risks that they must take every time they travel though time makes him and his overly cautious tendencies nervous, and he's just listening! (It's interesting, though, and much better than talking about what happened at home or where Chekov's head is.)]

Aha, well. Controlling lights and playing music are very important functions. [He smiles a little, still trying to determine how the wrist strap works just by looking at it.] It's important, too, to have some of your home here with you. In places like this, something sentimental is more valuable than something useful.

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[info]foreverjack
2017-01-28 08:55 am UTC (link)
Yeah, almost a cloaking device. Not quite invisible but more... unnoticeable, if that makes sense?

[He smiles at Chekov's attempt at levity, appreciating that his head is still very full of other, much more serious, stuff.

He looks down at the strap and smiles.] It's very important to have something like that. For a long time, I never had a home, never put down roots. This was the thing that always came with me. What I turned to to remember things. It still holds a lot of records. Some of them got corrupted at the same time as the vortex manipulator shorted out, but I've still got some things in there.

[He presses a few buttons and the tiny screen sparks into action with information about some random alien species. He shrugs.] This kind of thing came in useful when I was working for Torchwood.

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