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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 2010-09-04 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.
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[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?

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-14 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Is actually quite interested in the techno-babble]

It's not always down to biology... well, with some living beings. kinda. [He's tinkering with the scanner] You got any of Lynn's DNA at all?

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-14 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[But he's a closet geek. About some things]

[Phoenix takes a tiny amount and feeds the scanner. After a few seconds, he's sort of, just, staring blankly at Janie]

You sure this is Lynns?

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-14 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Frowning at the scanner, He tries recalibrating, and feeds it just a little more of the sample]

It's uhhhm.. Hnh. [Much angelic puzzlement]

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cue sensible, analytical mode]

Wull.. With no coherent theory on anything that isn't Kaldoan, but contains significant traces of the Perseus particle. The only possible logical explanation is.. [Irritably tosses the machine over his shoulder] ..Your scanner's fucked.

[identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slightly affronted by the suggestion he's even remotely a klutz] How could I have contaminated it? You watched me, I didn't even dare breathe that second time.

Anyway, it doesn't work like that. We can't accidentally pass the particle to another being.