Subject: "Maybe I will later."
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Posted on: 2015-03-29 21:50:00 UTC
"I mean, I've got quite a lot to catch up on. Canons to reread. I don't know why, but not all my memories copied over properly." She scowled down at the table. "I can't remember the last time I forgot something. Ironic, isn't it?"
"See, if I did get my hands on an escafil device, which would be a feat in and of itself, I'd have to either have fresh blood or directly touch my old self. Gotta have living DNA for it to work." Rina looked at the Guardsman, her eyes welling up. "Would it be possible to— to time travel back and I could get a sample? Old me wouldn't have to know, I can even neuralyze her and I wouldn't have any memory!" She clapped her hands together. "Yes, that could work! ...Couldn't it?"
"...almost anywhere in time and space," said the Guardsman, "so going back a few weeks ago in the PPC isn't totally out of the question. Besides, time works weirdly here. You're covered on that end. As for the device..." He scribbled an additional note his his booklet. "I can maybe place an equipment request though the DIA's Quartermaster. I'm gonna have to explain why I want a morph cube, yadda, yadda, yadda, but it's not totally out of the question. We'd need a morph-capable agent ready to operate it, though. I don't know any who are in HQ right now."
"Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill, Implausible Crossovers. I met him when I first came here and looked up his reports afterwards. Oh, this is just perfect!"
Rina was about ready to start cheering when a thought struck her. "But then... I mean, if something happened again... It's be nice to have the backup, you know?" She bit her lip, suddenly looking uncertain. "Um, this is a lot to think about."
The Guardsman facepalmed. "Ugh, of course. You know when I said Time Lords had 'total recall'? Well, I'm an embarrassment to the entire race now. Hooray. Anyways... yeah! It seems like you got yourself a nice, convenient way out of your predicament. Maybe too convenient."
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((Hold it right there, Emiran. You're going to make something go wrong.))
Rina smacked the Guardsman lightly on the arm, but her brow was furrowed. "Can you see others' timelines? Is it possible to pull this off? There's no 'fixed point in time' crap going on?"
((When in doubt, fall back to the basics.))
then looked back at the Guardsman, shaking her head. "I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm doi—" She glanced back and suddenly felt it. Her mouth fell open. "Oh my god, that is weird."
"He doesn't look like it but somehow this guy is at the centre of a fixed point in time. If you plan on sticking around the PPC for... thirty-odd more years then I highly suggest you talk to him. If not, then forget him."
"I mean, I've got quite a lot to catch up on. Canons to reread. I don't know why, but not all my memories copied over properly." She scowled down at the table. "I can't remember the last time I forgot something. Ironic, isn't it?"
"So long as they're Notary-free, of course. I seriously need to start watching my back around her: I'm sure that she'll try to strangle me in red tape now that I know that she had a friend at some point in her life." The Guardsman shrugged. "I'll deal with it when it will happen, I guess. But for now..." He picked up a menu on a nearby table. "Let's see. All of the sandwiches are off-limits... Hrm. Got any recommendations?"
"I mean, my old self used to love the tomato soup. Dunno if I still do or not. Might as well give it a try, I guess. I mean, who can hate tomato soup?" Rina grinned. "Seriously, though, thank you so much for just letting me talk. It's nice to be able to ask questions without worrying about having my head bitten off."
Vallon looked mildly sheepish. "I kinda prefer when they're tossed in with a bunch of other stuff, like in salsa. Straight-up tomatoes, though? Not my thing."
"Oh, thank you, thank you so much," she said, laughing with sheer giddiness. "I know a lot of this stuff is probably second nature to you, but I haven't the faintest when it comes to telepathy, and time sense, and probably a lot of other stuff I don't even know about." Her voice jumped up several notes and she grinned abashedly. "And regeneration aftereffects like you mentioned..."
((He's got no idea how much of a godsend he is, does he? XD))
"Steady on there, young lady. You're going to start hyperventilating if you keep this up," said the Guardsman. "Oh yeah, I totally forgot to ask: who's your partner? I suppose that they were the hero that turned you into a Time Lord, right?"
"And where in the name of all the authors he got the idea, I don't..." Her mouth suddenly fell open. "Oh my god, he actually remembered?" She began to laugh. "Sorry, it's just that fairly early into Rose Potter, I made a Doctor Who reference, and he didn't get it because he'd never seen the show before. I told him the basics, and mentioned that werepenguin guy. I had no idea he'd remember that!"
Valon's undivided attention was suddenly on Rina. "Have you ever been to Holiday World? Have you ever seen the Lazy Muncie video? How big a fan are you of Garfield?"
"Uh, yes, several times, no, and I prefer Calvin and Hobbes." She gave Valon an uncertain smile. "You from World One, or somewhere else?"
"I loved a maid as fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair.
I loved a maid as red as autumn, with sunset in her hair.
I loved a maid as white as winter, with moonglow in her hair.
I loved a maid as... uh..." Valon paused. "... dammit, George R. R. Martin hasn't shown the whole song yet. Oh well, I'm pretty sure that the maid has flowers in her hair in the spring verse."
"I couldn't tell you if it's been half an hour or five of 'em. I also couldn't tell you the difference between fifty and twenty feet, so spacial awareness is probably a good thing to have too, assuming Time Lords get that."
"I'll have the Buddhist pizza, please."
To any blank stares, Valon responded "You know... make me one with everything?"
"Isn't Rayner's partner a shapeshifter?"
"And more importantly, did they acquire their shapeshifting abilities though the Andalite device? If not, they can't use the cube to give others the ability to morph."
"Andalite? I think there actually is one of those here. Isn't he partnered with that cranky DIC agent?"
