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Tweak says, "Next time nail coffin shut."

Kate Todd (agentkate) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2009-01-17 00:17:00

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abby sciuto, anthony dinozzo, jack harkness, kate todd, leroy jethro gibbs, ziva david

DiNozzo, if this is your doing, I'm going to kill you.

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Jack

agentkate
2009-01-17 11:07 pm UTC (link)

I'm just so used to addressing people by their ranks. Habit of the job.

That makes sense. It just seemed like he was blaming me for dying. Or for being here. Or both.

No, no, I'd like to hear it. I've prepared myself for years with the knowledge that death can come at any moment in my line of work. But to actually be told I was dead and to come back from that? To be alive again? Nothing prepares you for that.

I don't know how to figure out if I'm really dead or alive. I'm years in the future from where I was, from where I should be, yet if I was where I should be, I'd be buried six feet underground.

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Special Agent Todd

flexibledancer
2009-01-17 11:17 pm UTC (link)

It's alright. I don't mind it, I'm just... not the most formal person in the world.

He's probably just blaming himself for letting you go. My friends had a similar reaction.

To be fair? If you don't remember being dead, you probably weren't. At least, not in your time line. There's a version of myself here, from the future, that remembers years of my life that I don't. But that doesn't make him any more valid than I am. What you remember, and believe, is all that matters.

Well, you don't sound like any ghost I've ever met. Like I said. I think it's pretty safe to say you're alive, ma'am.

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Jack

agentkate
2009-01-17 11:36 pm UTC (link)

You can call me Kate. I don't mind.

Like he's blaming himself for going through the grieving process?

So I should think of myself as in a different timeline? I guess that makes sense, we are in an alternate reality. Oh, DiNozzo must be having a field day comparing everything to every Twilight Zone episode and science fiction movie he's ever seen.

I think it helps a little thinking of it that way. In that reality I died, in this one, I'm here. I'm me. That works a little better.

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Kate

flexibledancer
2009-01-17 11:44 pm UTC (link)

Thank you.

And... no, I think it's more... well, like the reaction you had to the thought of being dead. He's brought himself to terms with the idea that you were gone. And you suddenly being back, and not remembering his grief, it's... a sort of shock, maybe? I don't know. I'm not the best source on this sort of thing, at least not from the other side.

Yes, that'd work. Different timeline, different universe. I have children here from universes where I'm married to different women. They're very real, and them remembering me as their father is very real, even if I don't remember it. So while your friends' remembering you were dead is valid, so is your being alive. Nothing is really mutually exclusive here.

Does that make any sense?

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Jack

agentkate
2009-01-18 12:13 am UTC (link)

It might be something like that. It's pretty hard to look at this from his perspective when I'd seen him no less than 5 minutes before arriving here.

You have children here from different universes? This is like something straight out of Star Trek or whatever those shows are called.

You know what, that really does make sense. Nothing's mutually exclusive. I'm going to have to remember that. Thank you, Jack.

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Kate

flexibledancer
2009-01-18 12:18 am UTC (link)

And that's fair. Just something to think about.

Oh, yes. An alarming number of them, actually. After four, though, it all sort of blurs together. And I don't know- I wasn't a huge fan of television, before getting here. They're named different things, in this place.

And you're welcome. I've been told I ramble, so if it gets too horrible stop me. But anytime you need to talk, I'm around.

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	Jack agentkate 2009-01-18 12:27 am UTC (link)
	After four? You have more than four children from alternate universes? Please don't tell me this happens to everyone too. No, this has been great. Thank you. The same goes for you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Kate flexibledancer 2009-01-18 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Oh, no, no. It seems my family is just... lucky, like that. Not to mention, there are a lot of us to begin with. I'll hope your safe, until you want the insanity. You're welcome again. It was nice to meet you, Kate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Jack agentkate 2009-01-18 12:35 am UTC (link)
	With that kind of insanity, I think I'll pass. Likewise, Jack. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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