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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-07-31 11:22 pm

Meet-n-Greet

After being released from stasis, having the slime removed from their bodies and clothed in the creepy, pulsing leaf-suit that everyone wore, and being taken to the Weapons & Possessions lockers to collect their belongings, the new arrivals would find themselves standing in the Observation Deck. Round windows lined the fleshy walls, revealing the bright display of lights that was inter-dimensional travel. They would also discover that there were people--members of the command staff and crew that had woken earlier--waiting for them.

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-01 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know anyone." Not even you, John. Even if you do weirdly look like her friends. "No. Not much."

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-01 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well that makes two of us," he mutters. He'll have a headache before the day is out, he knows it.

"Sorry." Is any of this even his fault? Probably not.

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Sucks to be John. Just wait til she has her panic attack. "Sorry? Okay."

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
It'll be marvelous and depressing. Subconsciously John has already started steeling himself for it.

What? Live with Sarah Connor long enough and you can see incoming bouts of crazy. Even in something that's just a panic attack. "Well what am I supposed to say? I'm not someone you know, or trust, and neither of us know what's going on and we barely know each other and it fucking sucks."

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Allison tilts her head and watches him. That's not weird is it. "Yeaaaah. I just don't know why you're sorry. It's not your fault, is it?"

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
John's expression isn't weird either. Oh, wait...

He shrugs. "Probably not." And yet? You'd be surprised how much shit in John's life was really the fault of the future version of himself. So he's hedging his bets.

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Just in case. It's a good move. If that really was his future self.

Sure his expression isn't weird. It gets a weird one right back. "What?"

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"What what?" Oh John that fools no one. "It's nothing, you remind me of someone that's all."

It is so not all.

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah? Me too." Weird, right.

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
More sighing. "Not very surprising." Would he rather remind her of Kyle and Derek or not? That's the question.

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
He gets a weird look for that. "Why not?"

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
More sighing. Might as well get out with it (sort of). "I'm related to Kyle. In a...different timeline, I guess."

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, John, if you'd just said 'related to Kyle' she would've bought it. The other part just ups the weird factor. "Uh huh."

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't they have TDE in your version of the future or whatever?" John you're not helping. Granted he's also running out of patience with life in general.

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
"TDE." Staring at him. "Are you talking about bubble tech?"

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Staring at makes John glower, a little, before turning away. "Yes, bubble tech."

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"What're you, his dad or something?" Oh, Allison. The things you say. "I didn't know we brought people forward."

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"No." Deep breath and frowning. "No. And it's not very often, they're usually sent back from what I can tell."

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
She tilts her head again. "Okaaay." Hmming. "You must be important then. Who sent you forward?"

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Important." You'd think it was poison, the way John says it. "Tired of that. I hitched a ride with a woman named Catherine Weaver. Her son and my friend had bubbled out ahead of us."

Kinda sorta the truth, right?

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Your friend who I remind you of?" That's not exactly untrue, is it? "Or her son?"

[identity profile] antitachyonic.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, the friend you remind me of. They both had gone forward but I'd never met her son before."

[identity profile] godelsolution.livejournal.com 2009-08-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh. Weird." Shrugs. Shall they move on?