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[likesthecoat]

[Filtered to Lorne]

Because you worry :).

We've had an old colleague return unexpectedly, and it's causing some tension. However, her knowledge in this case may be invaluable, so we're doing our best to work together.

So that's what's up with me. I can't exactly say "all's well," but it certainly could be worse.



[Filtered to Owen, Gwen, Tosh and Jack]

I'm perfectly content with turning over all duties of tending to Suzie to Gwen. I'm not certain I could look her in the eye, to be frank.



[ooc: mun is fleeing for chiropractor's and supper. will be back later.]

Comments

[harpermd.livejournal.com]

You and me, both.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

The part that makes me sad is that I liked her before. I mean, as well as you can like someone you don't really know.

[harpermd.livejournal.com]

Yeah. We -ah - got on well, before the glove came into the picture. I'm beginning to realize I never really knew her either.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should have found TIC sooner. It might have prevented . . . something.

Of course, if someone is determined not to share themselves, nothing will force them to.

[harpermd.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Case in point.

[harpermd.livejournal.com]

What?

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update. I'm trying not to worry, but I think it's genetic.

I take it you didn't part on the best of terms? I know that can be frustrating. But it seems like you think she'll be able to help you work this out, yeah? So that's something anyway.

I was escorting Zelenka on some exploration this morning, and we found something that made me think of you. And I've just realized that I can't tell you any more than that. Sorry. It was definitely a good thing though.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

No, it was a bad time all around. She is helping us, but . . . it's not the best situation. (Think Edward Norton asking Anthony Hopkins for help in Red Dragon. That's the nearest analogy I can think of.)

Was it coffee? ;)

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

That bad, huh? Just don't get yourself eaten or anything.

Coffee I could tell you about.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

. . . oh, remind me to tell you about that sometime.

Very true, unless it were a special, classified, top secret sort of coffee.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

...I'm not sure I want to know...

If it were a special, classified, top secret sort of coffee that was special, classified and top secret because it was amazing, I think I might just toss that NDA out the window and tell you about it anyway.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Let's just say there's a reason I'm never eating veal again, and it has nothing to do with ethics.

*beams* You'd do that just for me? Aww.

[sato-toshiko.livejournal.com]

Me too, having her back is very unsettling.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Not to mention I don't think I've ever seen you so angry.

[sato-toshiko.livejournal.com]

Haven't you? I think a lot of it is because she was one of us. Somehow that makes what she did even worse.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

I've been lucky that way, I think.

Yes. Someone we trusted and believed and then she betrayed us.

[sato-toshiko.livejournal.com]

Do you think using the glove would've done the same to the rest of us? If we'd been able to use it.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

I don't know. If its effects are like an addiction, perhaps; if the glove attuned to some underlying problem, probably not.

If you take two people and put them in the same situation, it's rare for them to react exactly the same way. Some people crumple under what makes other people thrive.

[lovethisplanet.livejournal.com]

So long as she seems moderately okay with it, so am I. I'd hoped Suzie might be more cooperative with Gwen since they never worked together, and she doesn't seem to have rejected her in any way yet.

I wish I could get drunk, but something tells me that would be a very bad idea.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

And if the glove works with empathy . . .

I don't particularly like where that thought is going.


(I have sake for later.)

[sees-so-much.livejournal.com]

It's hard for me, too. Looking her in the eye, I mean. Nothing compared to what all of you must feel about her, but I just... I didn't mean to do this to her.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

No one's blaming you.

At least, I'm not.

It's hard to know what to feel, really.

[sees-so-much.livejournal.com]

I know. Thank you for that.

I think she blames me, but it's hard to tell how much is just bitterness.

There needs to be a manual or something: How to Deal with the Incredibly Awkward and Deeply Horrifying Things that Happen to You at Torchwood.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's in the employee handbook, right after What to do in case of alien invasion part 57 and before the bit about the care and feeding of dinosaurs.

Unless she's forgot the manner of her death entirely, it's all bitterness.