Literally Pirateninja (shadowcat) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-06-21 16:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, kitty pryde (shadowcat) |
"Holy crap."
Who: Kitty (narrative)
What: Dreaming about hopping around the timeline, and then waking up to find the X-men's computer system in her room
When: Today
Where: Her apartment
Status: Complete
Rating: PG
A soft hum roused Kitty, not that she was particularly bothered by being woken from her dreams. She'd been dreaming about her friends again, and her lovers. Ilyana and Rachel especially. They'd been so close, only to go so far away. Ilyana to her death, and Rachel...Rachel...She wasn't sure. There was an ache there, but the memory was blank. She couldn't grasp it.
The newer dream had come in glimpses. Different worlds, different versions of her, trying to get back to their place, their earth. She stared at the ceiling and wondered if this is what that was. That she'd gotten lost in the time stream like Rachel had been, and was waiting to be pulled out. Would it be Rachel, returning the favor?
She resolved to write a letter to both of them, in this time. To apologize to Rachel for drunkenly trying to kiss her, and to check up on Ilyana and her brother. She hadn't seen either of them in years, not since before she'd gone to London. Not that she was feeling particularly charitable to the robot.
There was an insistant beep and she sat up in bed. There was a console just a few feet away, and she stumbled out of bed to check it out.
"Holy crap."
It was beautiful. At the sound of her voice a holographic display read Katherine Pryde, Voice Identification Accepted. Welcome!
She put her hands on it lovingly, almost reverently, the alien metal cold to the touch. The code was just as beautiful, the security algorithms out of this world. The encrypting and decrypting abilities of it were beyond anything she'd ever seen. She could break into almost any system undetected, if she were careful enough.
There was just one problem, and she spent hours trying to solve it. Kitty had one of the most powerful computers on the planet and she couldn't network it. Try as she might, she couldn't get it to recognize either the wireless protocols or even ethernet or USB cables.
But that wasn't going to stop her, because one way or another she was getting this thing on the internet.