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[superskelton.livejournal.com]

[On the Plane appears a figure who is by now probably pretty familiar to some. But this Chris looks a little older, and distinctly more eighties than seventies. Gone are the brown suits and knitted jumpers, replaced with a stonewashed denim jacket, patterned shirt, skinny polyester tie, and jeans tight enough they look as though they could have been painted on. His hair's acquired a few blonde highlight's too.

The one thing that doesn't seem to have changed since the seventies is his expression. He looks about as gormless as ever, and extremely confused about suddenly finding himself in the middle of space.]

Bloody hell.

...Ray? [He looks around again, as though he's fully expecting to suddenly find him right next to him.]

Shit... [He chews his lip, serious worry starting to creep into his features now. Nervous rambling is go.] Bit like that Hitch Hikers thing, this. Being stuck in the middle of space. Only I reckon I'd be dead by now if it were properly like that. [He glances nervously at his watch, breathing in to check he still can.] Yeah, definitely been here more than thirty seconds... Shouldn't even have been able to breathe to begin with, should I?

Maybe I've just lost it. Gone schizo, or something. Hallucinations, and that.

Or abducted.

...I dunno. Maybe abduction would be better. At least I don't think that'd last too long.

[ooc; Rebooted Chris, as noted in the OOC comm. ♥]

Comments

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

Don't see how putting you in a coma's done you any favours, Ma'am.

Be a bit hard for it to be, really.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

[She huffs a really dramatic sigh.]

I'm not in a coma. I was in a coma but now I'm not, even if, from your perspective, it looks like I am in a coma. Because, from my perspective, I'm completely conscious and precisely where I am supposed to be.

[God, Chris, get with the program, it's not that hard of a concept...]

How is everyone else? Besides the Guv, obviously. But how about Ray? And Shaz?

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

[And now he'll just be staring at her, because actually that is a bit of a hard concept to grasp.]

...Wilco.

[He shrugs, non-committal.] All right, I s'pose. Ray's been promoted, finally.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

Promoted? Well, good for him.

[It takes that a moment to sink in because, hey, wait a minute...]

Who's acting as DCI? Don't tell me they've temporarily put Ray in charge.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

Nobody, really. I mean, we've got a DCI, but the one they've stuck us with don't really have much to do with us.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

I suppose it will have to do. I'm sure Gene will be cleared soon enough and come back, if he manages to not do anything spectacularly stupid in the meantime. [She looks around casually.] So, Ray... I imagine he's a good DI? It must be challenging for him, what with the Guv run off and me still technically alive.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

[Chris looks a little uncomfortable at that.] Don't reckon he'll be cleared any time soon, Ma'am. Them that were doing the enquiry sort of already had their own idea of what happened.

Ray's not doing too bad, though. Not when you think on everything that's been going on lately.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

[This isn't sitting well with Alex either, and she frowns at him.] Well, there must be something that can be done for him. After all, you know he didn't do it deliberately. What do they think happened?

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

We don't know, Ma'am. Not properly, 'cause we didn't see it. They just think he shot you. On purpose.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

Well, he did shoot me, but it wasn't on purpose, Chris. I know the Guv doesn't have much going for him in terms of character, but there's a line even he won't cross.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

It isn't us who think it was on purpose. It's just they won't believe us 'cause we weren't there. And they're not going to take the Guv's word, are they?

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

No, I suppose they wouldn't. And their only witness is in a coma... [sarcastically] You could always tell them I've been communicating with you from the other side.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

[Snorts.] They'd think I'm cracked.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

[She laughs.] I wish there was some way I could go back, just temporarily. To help... I feel like I owe him that much.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

You still could come back. You know... If you woke up.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

I can't do that, Chris. And even if I could, I wouldn't know how to.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

You could wake up. I mean, I know you can't really do that on purpose, but you might do.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

No, I can't. I've worked so hard to get back home, and I know it's not fair to the Guv but... I have to find another way to help him.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

D'you reckon you could help him any other way?

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I don't really see how, unless there is some way I can go back with you from here, but there's no saying, even if I could, that I could actually get back to my own time.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

You've got to help us in some way, though. I don't mean nothing against Ray being in charge, but it's not the same without you and the Guv there.

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

Chris, I want to help you, I really do. But I don't know how to go about it. Like you said, I can't exactly just send on a message through you or anything.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know... I just don't know who else I could ask.

...Are you really from the future, Ma'am?

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

Yes, Chris, I am actually from the future. I'm... I'm sorry I hid it from you. But I think you can understand why.

[superskelton.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I wouldn't believe you if we weren't standing about in the middle of space. Still not too sure I haven't just gone loco, really.