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Sky Smith ([personal profile] creepyfreezone) wrote in [community profile] taxonomites2012-05-18 10:44 am

001 - Holo: Arrival - Another Ordinary Day

“-why don’t they teach what really happened, because that was far more interesting.” As soon as the little girl registered the change in her environment... she quickly clutched at her ears and shut her eyes. It might not be for most people, but to this little girl the room was very very loud. Louder than anything at home ever was, it was all vibrating and it was very distracting. It was worse than the Veritas ship, plus there she had the lovely distraction of terror.

It took more than a few moments for her to finally speak again, “Sarah Jane? Mr. Smith...” After a brief flash of worry over her features she seemed to relax. Growing more used to the vibrations in her mind from all the energy flowing around the city. It was more abrasive than Earth’s electricity, but it wasn’t too bad after a few moments. She did seem to be handling the abduction remarkably well for someone so small.

As she crouches down at the edge of the pedestal she hops down to the ground ignoring all the steps like you would expect from a child without a parent to suggest that might be dangerous. Plus, the abduction overrides any other dangers at hand. “Is anyone there? I would like to go home. Sarah Jane was explaining several events in Earth’s history that were wrong. I was having fun with those stories, and there are much better ways to get her attention.”

After all, to Sky aliens showing up was an interesting distraction after having tea. If she freaked out every time she saw someone that wasn’t human it would be very hard to look in the mirror. She was still looking around the room when her expression grew troubled, and her eyes instantly fell to the item on her wrist. She didn’t reach for it, or try to remove it, she could feel how it was connected to her. “Sarah Jane will be very upset if this isn’t removable, I’m not allowed to have piercings yet. I’m not sure why, because some are very pretty, but I’m not.”

Sky quickly realized she was slipping away from the point and moved over to the other thing in the room that she could feel that wasn’t the room itself. Picking up the tablet and having no issue with it. She is, after all, exceptionally clever. Studying it for a little longer than five minutes, with no sign of realizing she’s still broadcasting... until she looks straight forward, so maybe she did notice. “Whoever is listening to this broadcast, what’s a paranoia? I don’t think I have one with me.”
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-05-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"It could be very bad," he agreed with a nod. He could only imagine the reactions across the world, the people that would be hurt that had nothing to do with those that were taking advantage of others. "You have to realize that those companies are held up by stock holders and those employed by them. Taking them down would topple entire worlds not just the economy of the companies taking things from everyone," he pointed out, frowning slightly. Not that he had let it hold him back but then he did work decently to ensure the companies held, even when he destroyed those that needed to be.

"You're young though and you've got plenty of time. It's kids like you that chance the world." One way or another.

"I see." And he did though now he was really curious about so much. "Just who is we," he asked, trying to sound nonchalant. "I can't imagine you working for the government."

He shrugged. "Is that one percent worth it if you killed me? Or the dragon here? Or ended the lives of the unicorns at the zoo," he asked, playing on the things he thought could stop someone from that risk. Another time he wouldn't mind but Kitten and her life was another thing.

"They're very protective of how we get here, and how those that have gotten out did it."

He fell silent, thinking about that, watching her look and that careful wording. "Adopted. Not like your mother either," he said more than asking. "It was some of the wording. I don't sense electricity and I operated on a higher level than most humans."
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-05-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
He wanted to ask more, like who UNIT was. Or details that would tell him just about what this earth she was from was like because he was beginning to think there were a few differences between his London and hers. He stopped himself though, curiosity one thing and rudeness likely to get him nowhere.

"Were you investigating these aliens before you got brought here," he asked, thinking it was a damn accurate leap of intuition to consider. "Don't exactly seem like the good type to me." He paused at that. "Are there good aliens?" Logic said there would be but he wasn't betting on it.

Boy, he hadn't expected that one after the pony thing. He chuckled, nodding. "Yep. They got freed recently. We could have used you then." Because he was betting she could have caught one unlike some others. "They're at the zoo though. Everything from common critters to things that make me want to rant." Because he had sworn if they came near Kitten he'd fight tooth and nail to keep her free, and he'd meant it.

"English is a messed up language. They stole from everyone and then didn't set rules that made enough sense." Speaking as many as he did, English being a native language, he still had toubles with it. "Being around them, you'll get it down more. Same as anyone for whom it is a second language."

So now the aliens were kidnapping their own. Loverly.

"Then don't claim this Myers woman. Sounds like Sarah Jane is your mother," he said with a nod. "You still like London though?"

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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-05-30 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Damn. There went that theory we might have tried to use," he admitted, obviously still putting thought into how they ended up there and what ti might take to get back, even if he didn't make a deal about it. He might be making a life here, but that didn't mean he had accepted he had no other choices.

"Not a fan of toads, I admit, but knock yourself out, Kid. I'm betting they've got horses and ponies." At least he assumed they did. He wasn't much of a zoo person, and had become less of one since meeting a dragon.

"Wait, you didn't have a language at all before you were twelve," he asked, brow arching. "How did you communicate before then? As for learning it, ask. Talk to people. You'll pick up the idioms and all soon enough, I'm betting. You're quick." For a kid or an adult. He wished they all were like that.

"Only place you should live," he said with a smile. "No, that's not true. I love California too, and even if we get back, I won't be moving back to England any time soon." He still wasn't welcome back, if he was honest, which he wasn't going to be. "More traveled than I am. I'm impressed."

"How old are you," he asked suddenly. "Not what age you're meant to be but what age are you?"
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-05-30 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn but that was a logic he couldn't argue with, even if he chuckled. "At least not in ways we easily recognize as such, or want to hear. Cries tend to mean something but I would rather not listen enough to try and translate," he said with a snort. "You know that isn't just something that non-earthlings deal with, right? Lots of people born and bred here don't get references, or get them wrong. Especially Guy Fawkes," he said, shaking his head ruefully.

Despite himself, Josef laughed. "There are parts of California that aren't exactly like that but others that are rich with culture and heritage. I moved there from Chicago about sixty years ago. All I seem to remember from back then was orange groves and would be starlets in huge sunglasses and kitten heels." He slumped softly as if sighing. "I admit, I miss what it was like back then. There was a glamour to it that you don't find often. Suppose though if I hadn't been dragged here, I would be moving on soon." If he had survived the explosion, he wasn't sure he could explain how to the world.

"I think that's a perfect way of marking your age," he said with a nod. "It only makes sense. So..." He had to ask, he couldn't help himself. "Do you know anything about the aliens here?"
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-01 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Not as huge a life saver as the idea about petrol, but that wouldn't be a horrid idea of an invention. The trouble would be needing cries and experimentation. Not only do people not tend to approve of experimenting on babies, not as if there are any here. I suppose there might be ones without bracelets but not sure how accurate those cries would be," he admitted, putting way too much thought into this. "You're quick though. I don't think you'll have any trouble catching onto idioms and such."

He nodded. "If anyone asks, you're twelve and had twelve great birthday parties to prove it," he said with a chuckle. "Why not celebrate the one you were born on? Or whatever you want to call it." Again he nodded though he would have loved if she'd known something more. No one seemed to know a lot and that bothered him more than knowledge would have. "Guess we'll have to learn as we go."
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-04 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I have very little experience with them," he admitted. "I also don't think children are very common in this place either. Some seemed pretty upset when they arrived." He could see why. Bad enough thinking about one like Kitten, a teenage dragon, in Taxon but then there was families and all to consider. Even if adopted.

He seemed to blink at that, straightening. "Do you think your mother will come looking for you," he asked. Someone with experience with aliens could prove beneficial in trying to get them out of wherever they were and back to the worlds they had all come from.

"Wait, back up. Let's go back to the destroy an entire race thing," he said, arching a brow. I know we're talking birthdays but I'm kind of curious about you destroying a race, and just how and who this race is." How could he let that go? It was something new for him, that was for sure. "Go with the better memories. Always go with them if you have the chance."

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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-04 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hope. That's what that sensation was. Definitely catching Josef's attention as he picked up a pen on his desk, toying with it. "Makes one consider just how easily she might find this place, and a way back." Of course, that was accepting it was all true, that this was the reality of the child's life and not a story. Or worse, an out and out lie.

"Wait, what?" That couldn't be true. Now he was hoping for an outright lie. Even if he wasn't exactly fond of children, he couldn't imagine turning one into a bomb. "How could someone do that to you," he asked, shaking his head. If he could accept what he was, he could take the story at face value. "You are sure you're safe now, right?"

It wasn't the kindest question but he was curious to know. "And there's no way to reverse it?"
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-05 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
"It is an advantage though. For many of us aliens were a concept we didn't believe in. With someone on the other side who believes in it, who knows what might happen," he said, shrugging slightly. Despite his very nature, he was truly trying to be helpful for the child. He just wasn't entirely good at it. "They're mercenaries, or just determined?"

"That's semantics," he noted, horrified by the idea. For years he had put to death any that endangered children, used them or fed from them. Worse was turning them. To make one as a bomb was horrific, even to him. "Likely a different reality from the people I've met and even the times they've come from." Such as he and Mick and things not quite lining up.

"I don't think anyone would be very happy with that happening to you." He chuckled though at the thought. "There's way to make sensors to make it happen. I'm sure you could figure it out with a bright mind like yours."
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-09 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, we certainly don't want a repeat of that now, do we," he said, shaking his head. He had so little experience with children after so many yeas of them being off limits and part of a strict rule system he enforced that it was endearing to him beginning to get to know this one.

"Then nothing to worry about here then," he said, knowing he was lying out of his teeth. The aliens, should they find it useful, could do who knew what to that poor child.

He frowned, realizing he hadn't a clue. "Since I don't know what a boron based lifeform is, I don't think there are but, if there are, I'm sure that we can work on avoiding things for you." Likely. Depending on what they were.
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-10 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"They do that about a lot of things," he said with a laugh, thinking back on how things were in his world. "Every time something was found that pointed to those like myself, most wrote it off as anything but accepting the truth. It's easier for them to live in their delusions and pretend life is safe and predictable."

He found it almost frightening in that he couldn't imagine hiding from the truth. The more a person hid, the less they could work to protect themselves.

"Oh. I see. I don't know why but was thinking it was less to do with their make up and more the planet they were from or such." He hadn't been sure about aliens until he came to this place. Now that he was accepting their alien overlords - evil or not was still to be determined - other forms of aliens were a lot easier to accept. "A lot of issues with those on your Earth?"
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-11 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Josef was silent a moment, double checking the connection to be sure that it was just between him and Sky. Assuring himself that it was, he considered the exact words he wanted to use. "I'm... I was human," he admitted. "But that was nearly four hundred years ago." He was so careful about that word, not one to use it though he had come close, admitting to many honestly what he was.

"Well, I guess you can't blame him though what happened to them if you didn't wipe them out? Are they still a threat to your world," he asked, definitely curious about her life.
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[personal profile] loveawkward 2012-06-11 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
His nose wrinkled, considering just how to say this without that word he was so careful to avoid. "Not so much scientific genetic manipulation as something that kind of falls between science and magic. I was... some call it an infection that changes the person's DNA so they require a different diet, lack the need for oxygen and have a body that heals constantly so they don't age."

It was a better explanation than he gave most.

"How is the fleshkind different from me, or others here," he said, knowing he was different from most."

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