[Scott] Day 20 (morning): Back to Reality (open tag)

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The heavenly aromas of coffee, bacon, and eggs gradually roused Scott from a deep sleep. (Ami's making breakfast,) Scott thought muzzily. Something about that wasn't right, though. Eventually he realized what: Ami couldn't be making breakfast because she was curled up beside him.

Grinning, Scott hugged his wife closer. Ami stirred slightly, sighing contentedly. Nevertheless a sense of wrongness nagged at him. Scott tried but failed to open his eyes. (Why am I so tired--)

"Yes, Dr. Jackson, I was going to start another pot of coffee!"

(McKay?) The man's voice was like nails on a blackboard, which helped Scott claw his way to consciousness.

"'Save the world. Make more coffee.' I have to do everything around here," McKay groused. His voice was somewhat muffled, as well as the sounds of cabinets opening and closing and water running from a faucet.

The past few days' events rushed back to Scott. He groaned, which made Ami whimper slightly. /It's all right,/ he soothed. Her emotions evened out as she calmed. The fact that he felt anything at all from her was a good sign. (She's recovering. Sleeping, not comatose. Thank god.)

Scott carefully untangled himself from Ami, glancing around as he did so. They were still on a mattress in a corner of the cafeteria. Since the bunker was underground he couldn't tell if it was day or night. Judging from how hungry he was -- and how badly he had to pee -- Scott figured he'd been out for a long while.

After making sure that Ami was stable and sleeping soundly, Scott stiffly got to his feet. "Good morning," someone said.

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[Alex] Avoiding rounds (tag Kenzaki, Methos, open)

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This was one of the ones whose file Alex had access to. Well, Alex didn't have access, Reenie did, but breaking Reenie's encryptions and passwords had always been a fairly easy task. The only person less of a challenge was Ethan, but after getting into his database and logs a few time, Alex decided that he was so slimey and dirty that she just didn't want to go there anymore.

Reenie, like all of DHARMA, didn't have access to everything. Carlson was big on "need to know," and he decided who needed to know. Sometimes Alex was fairly certain that even he didn't know everything and that doling out in bits and dribs was his own way of feeling special and maintaining power.

While Alex truly didn't know everything about everyone in the facility right now, she knew about this one. Reenie's specialty was DNA, taking it apart, rewriting it, unraveling it and making it better. Psychic ability, self-healing, longetivity, all of it was coded in the DNA. Reenie had wanted samples from this one, but Carlson deemed him too dangerous and not worth the risk to the Life Extension Program to even try and bring him in.

Alex didn't know everything about him, but she wondered if Carlson was right. A lot of people around here were listed as dangerous -- and they were.

Eventually, she'd be called in to ask the important questions. She wouldn't mind so much if it were only about the others, but not about Reenie. She'd hand them DHARMA on a platter, but not Reenie. Never Reenie.

Before Dr. Pierson, who really wasn't a licensed doctor right now, but she'd heard he was nicer than House, appeared Alex had been hoping that she would be temporarily forgotten about and could hide out for a while.

(No such luck.)

From where she sat, moving the slowly cooling eggs on her plate, Alex shook her head. "I don't need one, but if Daniel thinks I should have one then I'll do it." She tilted her head and studied the young man on the floor, and said in Japanese, "Dr. Pierson would like to know if you're in need of a checkup."

She felt surprise from both of them. Kenzaki's eyes widened.

"Was that right? Did I say it properly? I've learned Japanese, but I've never had a real live person to practice on before."

[Kenzaki] Avoiding rounds (tag Alex, Methos, open)

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"I can understand you, Arekkusu-san," Kenzaki said in surprise. "Your accent is very good." She actually had a somewhat serious accent, but he wasn't going to tell her that.

He looked up at Pieruson-san. "Pieruson-san," he said, "I am fine." Knowing that the medic would understand him, he turned back to Arekkusu-san. "There are not many here who speak my language." He'd have to be a little careful from now on, now that Jakkuson-san knew his secrets. No need to alarm this woman.

[Methos] Avoiding rounds (tag Alex, Kenzaki, open)

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OOC: How much does Alex (and Dharma) know about Methos? Just the Immortal part or the whole shebang?

"Your accent is very good," Methos agreed dryly. "You should send Linguaphone a recording."

Methos propped the door open with his foot and leaned against the frame, thinking. A teenage girl on a remote island, raised by scientists who may or may not have caused so many weird and wonderful people to arrive on this island. She didn't look entirely happy at the moment, but that might be something to do with the fact that her home was overrun by strangers. Then again she hadn't exactly been clammering for the prisoners' release, despite one the guards apparently referring to her as "Gevalia's kid." Possessive in the sense of a test subject or daughter?

"Tell me, have you been here all your life? Are we going to have to worry about your parents posting reward notices around the island?"

There was a sense that he should recognise her from somewhere, however that wasn't unusual; far too many names and faces had been filed away in his head over the years. Not everyone stood out quite so flamboyantly as Jack Sparrow.

[Alex] Slip of the Tongue (tag Methos, Kenzaki, open)

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OOC: Alex knows that Methos heals fast, and appears to be nearly impossible to kill. She also knows that he's very old, likely around 1000. (*giggle*) She doesn't know about the losing of the head, Quickenings, or that he's 5000 years old.

Alex's smile at Kenzaki's compliment turned to a frown at Dr. Pierson's words. (Ok, so I need to work on my accent.) She wondered if he was always so dryly sarcastic.

The eggs were pretty cold by now, and Alex shoved them to the side of the plate. "I was born here. That's what I was told. I was born here, and I grew up here."

"Here as in this complex or this island?"

"Do I look like I've been locked away inside a cement building for sixteen years?" Alex asked with a considering tilt of her head. She knew the answer, which was why she asked the question: she was tanned, she was in good shape, and her growth was a little bit above averages in height for females her age.

She studied him, tried to do something she generally didn't -- read him, scan him -- but the static interference made her back off before she even skimmed the surface. "I was raised on the island. It is my home. And Reenie's my only family, I guess."

Ducking her head, Alex chewed her lip and focused on moving the eggs to the other side of the plate. She'd said too much. She should never have mentioned Reenie. (But Reenie isn't here, Reenie went back to the settlement.)

[Kenzaki] Slip of the Tongue (tag Methos, Alex, open)

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(OOC: This is a reaction to Tara's magic in the conference thread)

Kenzaki frowned. The two of them were speaking English, and his still wasn't good enough to understand them.

"Could you speak Japanese, please?" he tried to ask, but for the second time in less than 24 hours, his words didn't come out in Japanese. It was a language that he'd never heard before, and judging from the expressions on the other two, neither had they.

"Sorry," he said before hoping that he'd remember how to speak in his own language soon.

(OOC: He's speaking in Undead, which hasn't been used in 10,000 years, so even Methos and Daniel would never have heard of it, much less heard it.)