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Janie Taylor ([personal profile] a_time_slip) wrote2010-09-02 03:04 am

Writer's Block: Ground Control to Major Tom

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A boat.

I'll purchase a yellow cabin cruiser, and use it to sail through the years and cosmos.

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fails to reply for some while. Because he totally wasn't listening, due to staring at Janie's lips as they move]

Hunh? Lasers? That's... are they good?

I'll have the freakin' thing. Okay?

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is no problem, because he's currently checking out her neckline, hence the dumb expression]

Rift Raft. [gigglesnort]

I. Will.

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Is really. REALLY. Paying Janie so much attention. And that thing she does with her hair just sends him into.... Well, it's a nice place]

It's a great name! Sam'll love it. He has this rift thing going on.

:|

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Probably just as well? He's imagining something he really shouldn't]

He'll go nuts, just let me know whenever you wanna take Lynn out .. or if you're in the mood for a couple of noisy kids and a baby.

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[No. No, it doesn't help matters at all. Not that he'd ever want her to stop wearing them]

Um.. yeah. Lynn. [Paces a bit wondering whether or not he should discuss that particularly weird conversation]

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-04 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[And Phoenix probably shouldn't be staring.. so he'll scratch his head and examine the ceiling instead]

Nothing like that, she's great.. but has she, you know, mentioned anything about me lately?

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-04 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Actually managing to concentrate, kids are srs bzns]

Riiiiight. Doesn't she like Xander? She told me she did... [Phoenix looks somewhat bothered, and it might be obvious he's being evasive]

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-04 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[His ears almost physically prick up at that] She's told you I'm... ?

[Cue awkward gesticulating, finally arriving a a slightly dejected droop of the shoulders]

She keeps calling me Dad.

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-04 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Nono.. you're right, we don't do babies the human way. It's just not possible.

[Shakes his head] She just turned up at Roberts, or something, didn't she?

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-04 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. She was your daughter with Ian before the timeline split. Could she be Ian's somehow? Some kind of genetic copy?

[Though where the copy came from is more the issue here]

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-05 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. [Doesn't see this as particularly unusual in Lynn's case, or wrong. And he's particularly relieved that it isn't Cattivo]

Did you test me, by any chance? I mean, my people have made attempts to produce clones, or use their own genetics to mix with that of other races - it's never worked.

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-05 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He steps forward and puts a hand on her shoulder] It's okay. Of course.. here.

[He calls a medical swab and a glass tube into existence, takes a samples from the inside of his cheek, putting the swab into the tube and replacing the stopper] I really.. Janie, I know it's not possible.
Edited 2010-09-05 00:29 (UTC)

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-05 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[He moves to comfort Janie, with that usual feeling he gets of it being 'all his fault'.. and jumps a little as the machine clatters to the floor. Part of his make-up can often confuse equipment like this, and it gives Phoenix the germ of an idea. At least it's something they can try]

This just a bio-scanner? [Phoenix reaches down and picks it up] Or can we run some quantum tests on it?