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likesthecoat) wrote2007-07-21 01:17 pm
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log for Near: Cardiff
Ianto promised Near a good restaurant, so he's put on a suit and made reservations. Now he's just waiting for Near (and his driver.)
(Which makes him laugh. Near has a driver.)
(Which makes him laugh. Near has a driver.)
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He's quiet a moment. "I mean, I deal with aliens every day. That's my job. And sometimes they're so lost . . . I can't imagine what it's like, looking at a different sky, but the notion of it is just terrifying."
[ooc: Hee. I figured as much.]
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"I don't think I'd mind, so long as I knew a bit about where I was going beforehand. If Lorne is there, and Sheppard, it can't be that bad. I remember talking about the place with Lorne before I knew where it was, and he kept saying how special it was and how he felt about leaving. I mean... I don't think I'd want to go somewhere if I didn't know anything about it, but... I wouldn't mind seeing where they are."
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He sighs. "We're still explorers when it comes to outer space. There's so much we don't know."
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"Of course-- we don't even know our own planet properly, after all. I just mean... I wouldn't want to randomly hop in a ship bound for somewhere utterly unknown. I'd be quite uncomfortable with that. But if it was somewhere people I knew and trusted had been, and I had a safe way home... I couldn't imagine not going." He smiles a little. "The curiosity would plague me too badly."
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"Look, the only way I can really explain it is you're afraid of monkeys, I'm afraid of space travel. It's not rational, it's not logical, it's just how I feel.
"Anyway, we're here."
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"I'm sorry," he adds, after a second's pause. "I didn't mean to press you about it."
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Knowing what's out there doesn't make him want to see the rest of it.
[ooc: Dozing off. Will be back tomorrow.]
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He steps out of the car and follows along for a minute, trying to think of something to say.
"I think my curiosity gets the better of me sometimes," he says eventually. "It's gotten me into trouble before..."
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"If that's even possible. I don't know if... visiting... is a viable option. It's still a military base, after all, and highly secret. I don't imagine they get a lot of visitors."
[ACK, SORRY! I had a lot of threads going on for a while and this totally slipped my mind. My bad, sorry.]
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He goes on once they're (relatively) alone again, "Martha seems to think she can take me to him."
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"She probably could," he says. "But that doesn't mean that she should. I mean... Not without an invitation, or at least some sort of agreement first. Aside from the personal implications, it could go very badly for Lorne if he were to have a visitor show up on-base without clearance. I know she and Sheppard are... close, though, so maybe that would stand in your favour..."
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"I've met the man she travels with. Briefly. I don't care for him."
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"The Doctor, isn't it? Well, I don't suppose you'd have much chance of avoiding him if it's his... ship." That probably isn't quite the right term, but Near figures it will do in the circumstances. "Have you mentioned that to her?" he asks, curious to know how Martha would have taken that. She did seem quite fond of him, after all...
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He lets the other subject drop; Near knows virtually nothing of the Doctor, and little of Martha, really, but from the little he does know, he can't imagine that the man would let her get hurt...
Still, there's no point in saying anything, especially considering the fact that Ianto is obviously better-informed, and would be unlikely to take an irrational dislike to anyone. For Martha's sake, though, Near hopes he's wrong.
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"So how are things at Whammy's?"
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"They're good, actually," he says. "It's progressing well. I thought we'd meet more opposition for the changes, but... Well, I'm L now, for one thing, and for another... I think they knew a change was needed, really. The percentage of failures was... quite high," he says quietly, thinking of Mello. And A. And BB... Not to mention all the others who disappeared into anonymous mediocrity upon leaving the Wammys House. "But I don't think there are any potential dangers in the current crop, and I'm going to personally oversee the selection of new children, so hopefully that will make a difference," he says, fiddling with the lip of his wine glass.
It had better, he added silently.
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He takes a sip of water, and continues:
"I'm not doing things the same way he did, though. L was... L was first. He was raised independently of other children, and I don't think he realized how bad things were for those of us who were being trained to succeed him. It was... very intense, and very competitive. The first child tipped to succeed him killed himself at fifteen. The second became a serial killer, and L ended up having to go after him. And then there was Mello and myself, and they weren't sure which of us L would choose, but he died before he had the chance. They offered us the position jointly, but Mello declined and ended up in the, ah... criminal underground," he says, with a bit of a sniff. Eighteen months later and that still pisses him off. Wonders will never cease.
"...So clearly, this business of spending your entire childhood being trained for a job that only one person can hold is a bit... counter-productive," he says with a shrug. "It's not good for the children, and it's not good for "L". So... While I'm still the 'world's foremost detective', I don't plan on working alone, as he did. But I still command the respect of various governments and agencies, especially after catching Kira," he adds. "So really, when I said I wanted things changed, they didn't have much choice but to go along with me."
He grins at this. Narcissistic, but he's terribly proud of it, really.
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"And you're hardly mutants fighting supervillans. Just . . . ordinary blokes. Who fight supervillans."
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"Still, drug cartels and human trafficking rings are nothing to laugh at. Dangerous work all around." He toys with his glass. He's still got healing cuts from his last dealings with Weevils.
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