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eyemind2021-01-03 09:40 pm
aparticularlyhollowlaugh) wrote in eyemind2021-01-03 09:40 pm
first statement } audio; un: archivist
[oho, what’s this? a new voice on the network?]
Erm … I suppose it’s customary in a situation like this to introduce myself. [he lightly clears his throat before continuing:] My name is Jonathan - erm, Jon. Sims. [and he really has to bite down on the impulse to add the archivist after that.] I am somewhat new here and have yet to meet many of you. [which is intentional, on jon’s part.] But I - I actually just have a question, seeing as - if I understand the situation correctly - we are all from different places.
[jon hesitates for a moment and takes a deep breath to steady his nerves. public speaking is so much less comfortable than reading statements into a tape recorder.]
Have any of you heard of something called The Vast?
Erm … I suppose it’s customary in a situation like this to introduce myself. [he lightly clears his throat before continuing:] My name is Jonathan - erm, Jon. Sims. [and he really has to bite down on the impulse to add the archivist after that.] I am somewhat new here and have yet to meet many of you. [which is intentional, on jon’s part.] But I - I actually just have a question, seeing as - if I understand the situation correctly - we are all from different places.
[jon hesitates for a moment and takes a deep breath to steady his nerves. public speaking is so much less comfortable than reading statements into a tape recorder.]
Have any of you heard of something called The Vast?
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[there’s more that comes through accidentally on the glyphlink: Aside from being kidnapped yet again into some science fiction adventure story, who knows how far away from home. Perfectly fine. he sounds tired.]
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I suppose it couldn’t hurt. Kitchen on board in a few minutes?
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[Richard, but Alex doesn't say it, she probably really doesn't need to considering everything. It's easier for Jon to understand their relationship or whatever it was than it is for Richard himself.]
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[jon is decidedly Not a strand fan, but he’s not going to harp on it. there’s no sense in putting alex in an awkward position between the two of them.]
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I'm not really sure he actually knows how to do it. I've only seen him do it twice I think. [And never directly to her other than the time that he'd sad it as essentially a 'fuck off' moment. But still she does like him quite a lot too. Way too much for a reporter and her subject. What are journalism ethics again? Alex Reagan doesn't know her.]
He gets jealous. Like a lot. He thinks we're romantically involved even though I told him more than once that this wasn't like that. And I'm so sorry you need to deal with all of this.
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[jon's quiet for the rest of the short trip to the kitchen. if alex ever wanted to hear what a bluescreening sounded like? this is it. jon still looks utterly bewildered when he arrives at the kitchen and finds alex.]
He really thinks that you and I ... ? Erm, I don't mean - that is, I mean no offense to you, of course, you seem like you'd be quite a lovely person to date, but I'm - I mean, we hardly know each other, and my life is - it's extremely complicated at the moment, to say the least, I - I'm not in a position to be romantically involved with anyone ...
[oh, and there's that whole thing with martin, back home. jon's finally halfway realized that there is a thing - a feelings thing - and he's not sure what to do about it, if anything. not that can do anything about it at the moment, short of martin turning up on this ship as well, and what are the chances of that happening? jon sighs loudly and rubs a hand down his face.]
Sorry, I'm just - this may be the first time I've ever been accused of something like this. [he laughs dryly, because what is his life.] I take it that he's jealous because he's got an interest in that respect?
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[An understatement, that, and Alex offers him a perfectly made cup of tea, because there are benefits to having that connection they do and one of which is knowing small things like that.]
And I thought he did for a while. Right now, I have no idea. He's... he's from way earlier in our working relationship than I am and things were exceptionally complicated before adding in the time difference here.
[You know, Coralee, his father, all of it.]
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If he's from an earlier point in time, wouldn't you have something of an advantage, knowing what's happened between then and now?
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I told him about it. Well, the most important things anyway. When I was doing my investigation there was a lot that came up. Things that he would have preferred me not to know. And things he didn’t know but he should have. I couldn’t have just kept him in the dark about them. I can be an asshole but he deserved to know that his wife is alive, even if the circumstances of it are...less than ideal.
[‘Less than ideal’ in this case meaning ‘was actually an agent sent to marry him to keep tabs on him by his enemy even if she fell in love with him. And she still abandoned him to think she was dead for twenty years and cost him his daughter and his sister. ]
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[becoming some kind of monster, trying to stop the world from ending in a horrible transfiguration of one of several manifestations of fear, sorting out his feelings about martin ...
ah, yes. martin. jon frowns into a sip of his tea. maybe it’s for the best that they missed each other here ... or maybe that’s just what he’s told himself he wants to believe. seeing martin would mean he’d need to put his finger on what exactly that dull ache in his chest means.]
Erm ... if it wouldn’t be too awkward, could I ask - what did Martin tell you, when he was here?
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[Honestly, Alex doesn't think that it will, especially with everything that's going on with them here. God, she wishes that he'd ended up coming in from somewhere closer to where she was from.
But Alex buries those thoughts when Jon mentions Martin, and she wraps her hands around her cup for a moment with a frown.]
It's a little fuzzy, honestly. Like I was connected with him like I am with you but I can't remember very much about it. I remember more what he was like when he wasn't my partner. I know he was completely livid with Navi because he was from a time when you'd gotten together with him and the you that was here before wasn't.
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I see ... [he smiles thinly again, a weak attempt at brushing off the sudden churn of emotion inside of him.] It's difficult to imagine Martin truly livid about anything. I suppose it's a good thing he - well, he must've been sent back to where he belongs, right? That's better. For him, I mean.
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But yeah, I think it's definitely better. And if it's any consolation, he's probably back with that future version of you. And you're with the past version of him.