Function \\ One

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[And suddenly, there is a Haraken, wearing a set of the by-now-familiar cyberglasses. The only indication that he's alarmed by this situation is the fact that his eyebrows go up. He pauses. Looks around. Pauses again.]

[He lifts up the glasses.] Ah... So it isn't...? [Blink. He resettles his glasses and calls up a set of floating blue screens around himself. Quietly, trailing off as he starts tapping away at the screens:] But it still seems to be functioning...

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[didorothy]

Manchester is Northern England. DI means Detective Inspector. I'm a police officer in CID - that's the Criminal Investigations Department. A Division is the section of the Manchester police force I'm part of, and 1974 is what year I'm from.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[Okay... okay... wait, year?]

...year?

[didorothy]

Year. People here are often from different worlds and different years.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[...beh?]

But you have glasses. You knew about the network.

[didorothy]

They were a present from Fumie.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

But. [But people from 1974 were stupid.]

[didorothy]

What is it?

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

You know what downloading and viruses are.

[didorothy]

I've always been very fond of technology.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[He will now test you, Sam. He doesn't want any weird adults near his friends.]

Then what's the Creeper?

[didorothy]

[...Sam has no freaking clue]

The what?

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

The Creeper. If you're from 1974 you should know.

[didorothy]

[...errr]

I'm guessing you're talking about something computer-related, and not to do with the sort of bloke I arrest from time to time?

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[He scowls and takes a step back.] What do you want with Fumie?

[didorothy]

[what the hell, they were getting along so well! Sam is showing this on his face for he is horrible at any sort of repression except the line-face sort]

Nothing. What would I want?

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[SCOWL!!] I don't know. I don't think like that.

[didorothy]

[sighs]

This is a dangerous place, Haraken. All I want for Fumie is to keep her from getting hurt here.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

Me too. Why are you lying?

[didorothy]

[Sam hesitates, and then says]

Because I don't like to talk about the time-travelling bit until a few conversations in.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[......]

Time travel?

[didorothy]

[a beat]

I was hit by a car and woke up in 1973. I'm from 2006. That's why I know about downloading and viruses.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[A look--almost like physical pain--flashes across his face and vanishes.]

...

...by a car?

[didorothy]

[nods]

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[Looking at the ground. It takes him a while to say anything.]

Oh.

[didorothy]

[gently]

Haraken?