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

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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	candothat 2017-01-19 01:04 am UTC (link)
	Our overseers at the prison I was in prior to this one were also not human. Some of them were studying us and our responses to situations that they created and controlled, I think because they wanted to understand our behavior. Others found us entertaining, like little animals. Which do you feel more like: a research subject, or a pet? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2017-01-19 04:54 am UTC (link)
	[ That's a really good question. One that has him stumped for a moment, chewing on a response. ] ...Both, I guess. I mean, talkin' to 'em I kinda feel like they don't hate us and then they do really shitty things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-21 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	[He nods.] This is what I've thought, also, and it makes no sense. Pets should be treated better and research subjects should be treated more indifferently. Not that how they think of us matters, probably. I'm only thinking out loud at you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2017-01-23 01:57 pm UTC (link)
	That's fine. I usually don't think 'bout this stuff, so it's kinda nice to talk to someone 'bout all this. [ Nice and exhausting. Good thing they're going for coffee. ] I dunno that it doesn't matter what they think 'bout us... th' way they see us gotta matter, right? If we can reason with 'em at all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-23 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	It is? [That gets a surprised smile.] If you ever want to talk about any of this, please tell me. I'm always thinking about it but certain that no one wants to discuss it. [He thinks about that.] Have you tried to reason with them ever? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2017-01-24 06:43 am UTC (link)
	I dunno 'bout reasonin'... I gave 'em a strawberry once. Dunno if they knew what to make of it, actually. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-24 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	Were they perplexed by the strawberry or the gesture? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2017-01-27 04:24 am UTC (link)
	Both, I guess. Maybe th' gesture, more. I think they think we hate 'em. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-27 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	No one hates them. [He frowns.] Do we hate them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2017-01-28 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	I don't hate 'em, but I bet other people do. They're kinda th' ones trappin' us here. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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