001 - A Bad Day For Everyone

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki Kirihara appears on the plane looking very, very pissed. Her Sig P230 is unholstered and leveled at…

…no one.]

Tch.

[She lowers the weapon, very slightly, taking in her surroundings. Or rather, the lack thereof.]

Contractor!

[She turns in a slow circle, tension wrapped around her like a creaking spring.]

Contractor! Show yourself. You’re being stupid. Using your power on a member of the NPA will get you killed. It isn’t worth the laugh.

[A pause. She’s starting to get angry again.]

Show yourself!

[She looks up, down, around at the stars, and a pained expression crosses her face. Barely audible, she mutters,]

You people… know how to be cruel.

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[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Was the mention of insensitivity a sort of apology for the continued line of questioning, then?

[didorothy]

No; I don't apologise for questioning unless I think an apology is warranted. I'm going to take that as a 'yes.' Is there any idea as to who might've been responsible for those events?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She sighs.] I'll grant you the truth of suspected sabotage. If there is any indication of who it was, it's likely beyond my clearance.

[didorothy]

[nods, frowning]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

What about you? How did you end up in 1973?

[didorothy]

[tugs on his sleeves] Car accident.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Raised Eyebrow of Curiosity]

And what--it threw you into the past?

[didorothy]

Or put me in a coma. Or, as the Doctor suggested, I've been partially temporally displaced, which means I'm in a coma and back in time.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She frowns her own frown of thoughtfulness]

You can't simply be hallucinating, can you? If the Guv knows you, and he isn't some personal projection.

I know you aren't projecting me, or Li-san, and the histories that some of these people have are too complex to simply be conjured up in one unconscious man's head. So, by extension, it's likely that you aren't projecting your Guv. And if you aren't projecting him, then he must be real, and so must be the fact that you're in 1973--possibly temporally displaced, was it? but still in 1973.

[Frown of thoughtfulness deepens.] I would think, at least.

[didorothy]

[nods, looking at the ground]

It seems like it.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Headtilt.] You said 'or put you in a coma.' You have reason to believe it's all a dream?

[didorothy]

There's evidence to indicate that, whether it is a dream or not, I am comatose in 2006.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

What sort of evidence?

[didorothy]

Evidence that I can't ignore. Not that it can't be put into question. Everything can, at this point.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Which would you rather--being both in a coma and given a chance to live, if only in a dream, or being locked in the dark until you either wake up or die?

[She looks out at the jumbled-up stars.]

I've heard that people can hear the voices of their loved ones, in situations like yours.

[didorothy]

Which would you rather have, Section Chief Kirihara? Would you rather be helpless in the dark, or would you like to risk caring for something that might not even be real?

[follows her gaze, expression blank]

Maybe they do, when loved ones visit. I'd think they're more likely to hear doctors and nurses.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Tired smile] Caring for something and risking yourself is better than waiting in fear that you'll discover the unpleasant. Do the people here matter to you? Regardless of how it feels to be here, doesn't it seem even more unreal than a past year on your own world? Every brush with another is a risk. Sam-san.

[She rubs one eye.] That makes sense, I suppose. I wonder if the world you're in might fracture, every once in a while, to let that sort of thing in.

[didorothy]

[a pause, and then he sighs] Televisions, telephones, and radios. I hear and see them through that. Sometimes it's directly into my head, but generally it comes through some sort of technology. [a slight grimace] When they O.D.'d me, there was a crossing guard sign, a milk lorry, and some paperwork that decided to update me on my condition. But that was the day I woke up to Gene Hunt as a puppet, kicking in a puppet nonce, so it's definitely not the 'norm' of the situation.

Or maybe I'm just mad.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[A touch of surprise.] I see. [She frowns, thoughtful.] If our worlds had more in common I might have something to offer--as it is, all I can say is I don't think you're mad.

[Tired and sardonic go into a blender and come out with her tone of voice.] Unless this is some sort of Jungian hysteria.

[didorothy]

Never was a fan of Jung. I'd have more to level against him if it was.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Small smile] Me neither, actually.

[A thought] How did you join the Manchester police in 1973? Do they not do background checks when you take the officer examinations?

[didorothy]

One of the things I woke up was this. [holds up the badge] Apparently, I'm a transfer from C Division in Hyde, by my own request. [frowns] Demoted to DI. I don't like the implications of that.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I would imagine not. [Ponder.] Do you not have access to the record of your service?

[didorothy]

[shakes head] There's not a lot on me here, just the transfer papers. C Division might have it, but I've never gone down to Hyde. Thought about it a few times, but I was always too busy. Which could be my mind trying to keep me from going there.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Dark thought.] Or the influence of the Twins.