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seven of nine ([info]borg) wrote in [info]toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-04-13 13:05:00

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Entry tags:! enterprise, - mess hall, lucifer morningstar | lucifer, seven of nine | star trek: voy

WHO: Seven of Nine & Lucifer
WHEN: 226404.13
WHERE: Enterprise, Mess Hall
SUMMARY: Borg drones are chronic workaholics.
WARNINGS: N/A (will update if necessary)
STATUS: Complete Log

In the Delta Quadrant, away from Starfleet's plethora of resources, there was always something that needed tending to, tasks that were in need of completion. There were no starbases to dock at, no maintenance crews to see to repairs, replacements, and upgrades. All of that had to be handled in house, divvied up amongst the crew — not always to the most qualified or rank appropriate, as sometimes even the senior staff (of which Seven was a member of) had to see to tasks usually left to the lower decks.

Which was why she was presently busying herself with realigning shorted out EPS relays in the mess hall. She could be out and about, exploring Yorktown, but had little interest in doing so. Not when there were useful things she could be doing aboard the ship.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-13 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Given that it was their last day at the base, Lucifer had very little intention of staying on the Enterprise. But he'd just dropped off four bags of new clothes in his room and then had been distracted by a conversation that led him to the mess hall.

And there he'd spotted Seven, so he figured he could pause his quest to spend the rest of his credits before departure to meet the ex-Borg who intrigued him for multiple reasons.

"What are you doing on the ship?" Lucifer asked, bypassing formalities. He'd seen member of the crew out and about, but somehow it didn't surprise him that Seven was somehow working, from the one conversation he'd had with her.

"It's not like we're leaving first thing in the morning, or anything," he added.

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[info]borg
2017-04-13 04:42 pm UTC (link)
"Attending to tasks neglected by those taking advantage of the shore leave," she answered smoothly, not bothering to look back at him.

Seven held up her tricorder to gape in the wall's paneling, tapping away at the controls. "The EPS relays have malfunctioned. I am repairing them."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-13 05:08 pm UTC (link)
"Why aren't you taking advantage of shore leave though?" Lucifer asked, taking a seat on the floor and leaning against the wall where she was working. "Surely the EPS relay things can wait if no one else was worried about them?"

Of course, he had no idea. She might be saving them all from certain death for all he knew about how the ship functioned. "It's Seven, right?" he asked. "At least take a break for a bit?"

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[info]borg
2017-04-13 10:34 pm UTC (link)
She paused in her ministrations, glancing over her shoulder. "Must you always seek reasoning?" Nonetheless, she provides him with an answer, resuming her scans. "I do not find Yorktown to be as appealing or impressive as others. It would be a pointless visit. My time is better spent here on the Enterprise."

The Borg had assimilated species with far more sophisticated technology, those who had refined the techniques Starfleet was employing in this revolutionary starbase down to an art. She did not need to walk any of its streets or halls to understand any of its significance.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-13 10:49 pm UTC (link)
"Yes. It's part of why my father hates me," Lucifer said with a shrug. "And who cares how impressive it is? It's off the ship, and there's things to do that don't involve flying through space."

He positioned himself better to study her, observing her as she worked. "And there's this entire concept known as free time, which is time where you're not working or regenerating and doing things that don't necessarily matter but are fun. Which is what you should be doing now."

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[info]borg
2017-04-13 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Parents were a confusing subject. Seven recalled hers — vaguely. Distorted images and voices, someone shouting for her to run and hide. Her recollections were still mostly obscured by her Borg nature, a large portion of them permanently lost when they were declared irrelevant and unimportant, not worth retention.

Mostly, they're just names in a database. The Hansens were as familiar to her as her own given name. (She didn't use it for a number of reasons. She didn't remember being Annika. That innocent little girl was gone.)

"I am aware of the concept." Shutting her tricorder, she stood and returned it to her hip. It was one of the few pieces of 24th Century technology that she'd arrived with and she made sure to keep it close at all times. "However, as previously discussed, I find it useless to me personally. It is beneficial to those who require mental rest, and I support the crew taking their leave, but I am not among them."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-13 11:24 pm UTC (link)
Straining his neck looking up at her, Lucifer asked, "You can feel emotions, right? You are human after all." He really didn't know much about the Borg, other than resistance was futile, but he figured that was probably not the best thing to say right then if he wanted to keep talking to her.

"I mean, I can. And I'm not human at all."

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[info]borg
2017-04-17 03:20 pm UTC (link)
"Partly," Seven answered honestly. "I will always be Borg. Being severed from the Collective will not change my biological dependency on my cybernetic systems. My body cannot function without them."

Such was the curse of having 'grown up' within a maturation chamber.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-17 03:50 pm UTC (link)
"How long have you been Borg?" Lucifer asked, the first of a half dozen questions he wanted to ask. "What happened? How do you feel about all of it?"

In some odd way, he related to her.

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[info]borg
2017-04-17 11:40 pm UTC (link)
"Eighteen years, six months, and twelve days," was the answer to the first question. As for the second—

Seven hesitated. Her father's voice rang out in her head, shouting for her to run and hide, accompanied by the sounds of her mother's screams. For a moment, she was back on the Raven, the deck plating beneath her feet buckling as the ship tore through the planet's atmosphere.

But it was only a moment, one that she did a remarkable job ignoring.

"My parents were careless. They brought a young child along with them in their attempt at studying the Borg. I do not fault them for the inevitable outcome."

(Yet.)

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-17 11:47 pm UTC (link)
Lucifer whistled. She could count it down to the day in an instant.

But her second answer was far more complicated. "You say they were careless but you don't fault them?" he pressed. "That sounds as if you do, and that you're justified."

Because the conclusion was inevitable, as she said. At least from the very little he knew. Futility and all. "Do you ever wish you'd had a normal life?"

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[info]borg
2017-04-18 12:35 am UTC (link)
She could count it down to the nanosecond, but knew from experience that most did not appreciate being given such precise measurements.

"It is difficult to feel malice towards those you don't remember." Her memories of her parents were scattered, broken. Chipped beyond repair with many fragments swallowed up by the hive mind, forever lost to the void of irrelevant thought. "Regardless of circumstance, my parents were not the ones to raise me. The Borg did — and no, I do not."

Wonder? At times, she toyed with the idea of being a 'normal' human being, but had difficulty formulating any semblance of an accurate representation in her mind. The attempt was always abandoned. It was pointless to theorize what-ifs, after all.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-18 12:49 am UTC (link)
"That's the logical conclusion, certainly," Lucifer conceded. "That doesn't seem to stop others though. Plenty of people are angry toward the parents who abandoned them, even if they've never met. Plenty hate my own father, without ever seeing him."

Giving her a shrug, he gestured toward a chair, if only to cut his angle of viewing down from where he sat on the floor. "But something happened, that separated you from the Borg. Which is a story I'd be very interested in hearing, but I have another question. What now? Here's this second opportunity to embrace your humanity."

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[info]borg
2017-04-22 03:45 pm UTC (link)
She felt emotions, yes, but it had been eighteen years since she was last able to perceive them, nevermind understand their context. Perhaps if she regarded the world from a more human point of view, the way she felt about things would be the same — but she didn't, and likely never truly would. Seven had simply been a drone for far too long.

Reluctantly, she sat in the offered chair. Although she was not as unaccustomed to sitting as she once was, she still preferred to stand.

"It was not my choice to be separated from the Collective," she said, unwilling to name any names, though she wasn't quite over feeling some measure of resentment towards Captain Janeway for making all these decisions for her. "And that is not a story that I am willing to share with you, but I am not as... gung-ho as they say, to embrace humanity and tire of everyone's insistence that I do."

Colloquialisms. Most of them flew right over her head, but every now and then, she picked up on a few choice ones that were explained to her and filed them away for (potential) later use.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-22 05:11 pm UTC (link)
Considering Seven for a long moment, Lucifer finally nodded. Free will was important to him, and she was exercising hers, even if he didn't fully understand it. It was one of the reasons he hated the expression stating he made anyone do anything. He most certainly did not.

"We're not entirely dissimilar," he mentioned. "At least our histories. Only our reactions are a bit different," he added, smiling slightly.

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[info]borg
2017-04-22 06:05 pm UTC (link)
That was something that constantly bothered her: Their insistence upon free will and the right to choose, coupled by their continued to reluctance to allow her to make choices they wouldn't make for themselves. Few seemed to understand that. Even fewer were willing to see things from her point of view.

"How so?" She inquired, curious.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-22 07:59 pm UTC (link)
"I was expected to fill a role without question as part of a greater plan," Lucifer replied. "I wasn't meant to have a will of my own, like yourself. Only I chose rebellion." He shrugged.

"And I'm not always comfortable with my own humanity." Lucifer was almost loath to call it that.

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[info]borg
2017-04-22 08:11 pm UTC (link)
"I was under the impression you weren't," she said simply.

Seven wasn't so naive as to assume that every humanoid being she encountered was human, regardless of their resemblance.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-22 08:24 pm UTC (link)
"Given that I've recently experienced mortality I'm not entirely certain anymore," he replied. "Either way feeling emotions like guilt or regret? I'll pass."

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[info]borg
2017-04-22 08:41 pm UTC (link)
"You were not originally mortal?"

Immortality was a ping for her, a throwback to her Borg roots that was as important as perfection to their collective desires. Had she remained a drone, she would have thrived for centuries without aging, sustained by the cybernetic systems and constantly regenerating nanoprobes in her blood stream. And while it's certain she'd live far longer than any human being was ever meant to, she won't live forever like a drone would have — could have.

She didn't know how she felt about that.

"I can agree with you on that." Regret? Guilt? No, thanks.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-22 08:59 pm UTC (link)
"Correct. And as far as I've been able to tell, I'm back to immortality." Which was a relief, he thought, except this had been a considerable change to the life he had been living.

"So what do you think about your life being uprooted, yet again?"

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[info]borg
2017-04-22 09:05 pm UTC (link)
Seven wondered how he was able to shift between the two states, but suspected it was far more complicated than it seemed. It always was, at least in her case. And what right did she have to ask when she wasn't willing to divulge her own liberation story?

A hypocrite, she was not. (Not always, anyway.)

"I am unimpressed," she said, "but I have adapted. This century is crude, antiquated, but there is... room for improvement."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-22 09:45 pm UTC (link)
"I've watched civilization develop from the start of time and this is far more advanced than when I was living," Lucifer replied. "So don't knock it too hard. It took a long time to get this far."

He'd probably taken up enough of Seven's time but he couldn't deny that she fascinated him. "I'll stop bothering you," he offered. "But you really should consider a trip to the base before we depart."

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[info]borg
2017-04-23 11:50 am UTC (link)
"So have the Borg," in a manner of speaking. The Collective possessed knowledge going back to some of time's earliest moments thanks to their assimilated knowledge. She could recall some of it — that which was deemed relevant, of course. The less important memories were, like much of her childhood, lost forever. Deliberately forgotten.

"You are not bothering me," Seven countered. "Were you considered an annoyance, I would have resumed my work or asked you to leave. I have done neither. I find your questions to be... refreshing. You ask. Not many do."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-23 01:59 pm UTC (link)
Lucifer glanced at her, and nodded again. "See, even more similar than I thought," he suggested. "Though my knowledge is limited to the earth and my father's realm. And well, my own, of course. My former realm."

Considering her for a moment, he added, "Well, is there anything else you wish I'd ask? Or that anyone would ask and not just assume?"

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[info]borg
2017-04-25 02:37 pm UTC (link)
Whereas Seven's knowledge was vast. On Voyager, she applied that knowledge readily where needed, but here she was reluctant to use it, mindful of the earlier timeframe. Nevermind wanting to avoid drawing unnecessary attention to herself. She full of not only valuable information, but technology as well. Her cybernetic systems were the most advanced thing in the quadrant, let alone the ship.

"This former realm of yours. Where is located?"

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-25 02:49 pm UTC (link)
"Hell?" Lucifer asked. "I don't even know. It's not exactly somewhere you drive to, or fly a ship to. The last trip I made, I had to die to get there."

And he almost hadn't made it back. "I've never concerned myself with the details of where, only what it was meant to be."

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[info]borg
2017-04-26 12:18 am UTC (link)
Hell — literal, actual Hell — was something of an unfamiliar concept. She was aware of the idea of so-called 'heaven' and 'hell' across a broad scope of belief systems, both alien and not, but the existence of a tangible realm had yet to be proven. Perhaps one didn't exist at all in her reality, but did in his. Seven wasn't a spiritual person in any way, but she was fascinated by the notion.

"It's enough that you know it is there," she suggested. "You find that satisfactory without justifying its existence by providing an exact location?"

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-26 01:44 am UTC (link)
"I ruled hell for eons, I was in charge of the torture of countless dead mortals for ages, and so yes, I find that satisfactory without an exact location," Lucifer replied, his voice on edge. "My wings would carry me back and forth between planes, now the only way I know to get there is to die and I don't plan on doing that. Because I don't plan on ever going back there."

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[info]borg
2017-04-26 02:49 am UTC (link)
Seven stared at him — hard, as if expecting her cortical implant to see wings which were not there and not visible to the naked eye. She could see things that were slightly out of phase, but that didn't appear to be the case here.

"I do not see any wings, unless your statement was meant to be metaphorical and not literal."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-26 02:54 am UTC (link)
"I had my friend Maze cut them off," Lucifer replied with a shrug. "Then I burned them for good measure. You're welcome to see the scars if you need visual evidence."

He glanced at her, as she was staring at him. "Do you realize you can come across as quite intense?"

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[info]borg
2017-04-26 03:10 am UTC (link)
"That will not be necessary. I will accept your statement without visual proof."

Were she ashamed of her Borg upbringing or capable of jealousy, she would envy his ability to mask those scars, to hide the remnants of what he once was. There were implants on her face and hands, bare for the world to see. (And many, many more hidden beneath her clothes, ones that were discolored and gruesome-looking.)

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-26 03:12 am UTC (link)
"Yes, but about that intensity?" Lucifer prodded. "I mean, don't get me wrong, Sev. I find you fascinating."

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[info]borg
2017-04-26 03:16 am UTC (link)
Sev? The optical implant over her false left eye arched slightly, but she didn't correct him.

"I am Borg," was her answer for that.

In other words: Yes, she'd been told that quite frequently.

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-26 03:23 am UTC (link)
"And I'm the devil," Lucifer countered. Of course, he could hide that. And he did. She couldn't, evidence even now by how she reacted to the nickname.

He grinned. "See, now I'm glad I interrupted you from your thrilling tasks of repairing malfunctioning... whatever those were."

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[info]borg
2017-04-26 03:44 am UTC (link)
"There are those who perceive the Collective to be the devil's incarnates," she provided, moving to stand once more. "EPS relays — A task I should return to."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-26 04:02 am UTC (link)
"Ironic, isn't it?" Lucifer asked, tilting his head to look up at her. "Given that my greatest sin was demanding to be able to make decisions on my own? To serve a purpose of my own choosing?"

He stood but couldn't stop himself from adding, "Speaking of choices, are you sure you don't want to venture to the base at least once? There is ice cream, after all."

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[info]borg
2017-04-26 04:05 am UTC (link)
Ironic, indeed.

"Perhaps another time," she said, moving back to the open panel. She glanced over her shoulder at him, "When my repairs are complete."

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[info]extraharley
2017-04-26 04:08 am UTC (link)
Lucifer shook his head, though he was slightly amused.

"Suit yourself, Sev," he told her, and headed out of the mess hall. There was only one day left at the base, and he didn't intend to return to the ship again until curfew.

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