Bristol Sector
Warehouse 13
South Dakota
2014
"Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead...Claudia isn't prone to wearing her headphones around the Warehouse. Generally, it's better if she can keep her ears open, and it's not one of those cases where she's pissed at someone and wants to make their life difficult
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However, in this case, the someone seems to have some kind of music thingummy in, which might make her easy enough to slip by.
. . . Jamie attempts to saunter very quietly, in case she opens his eyes and catches him, and starts trying to come up with plausible explanations for his presence in a warehouse.
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"If you ever lose your way--oh, hey, Jamie. A butterfly will--"
...WAIT A SECOND. She pulls the headphones off; this is clearly going to require some follow-up.
"Jamie! When did you get here? Did you use the door, or just... pop in?" If she had to guess, she'd say the latter - Toronto Sector's both a good walk from here and in a different direction - but this place is big enough that people could wander around for months on end without ever seeing each other. So it's better to ask.
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Jamie is sporting a distinct deer-in-the-headlights look for a moment before pulling himself together - however she knows him, and however she knows about him, at least it looks like he's not going to get imminently thrown out. A start!
And the number one rule when walking the bounds: whatever you're given, run with it.
"Popped!" he says brightly, and endeavors to look like he was in no way sneaking out at all. "Quite unexpectedly, actually."
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Claudia blinks at the deer-in-headlights face (she's pretty sure she told him to let her know if he ever popped in?), but shrugs it off. "Cool. You haven't been stuck in here too long yet, have you? Just making sure we didn't all miss something important."
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Jamie eyes her. "You haven't been, ah, expecting me, have you?"
He hopes not - that's yet more things he'll have to extrapolate by guesswork.
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"...You haven't met me yet, have you."
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"I might have been knocked on the head," he offers weakly, "and forgotten . . ."
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(It's not necessarily that he's that transparent; it's part of Claudia's job to be observant, and she's got the benefit of hindsight.)
"Anyway, hi, I'm Claudia, you're Jamie, welcome to the Warehouse, I better buzz Artie in on this." As she says that, she goes for a pocket on her tool belt.
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"All right, just to double-check, I'm guessing that we quite liked each other in Milliways," he offers, "and you're calling Artie to say hullo in a friendly fashion, and not to toss me into a dungeon? I'd just like to be clear."
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Even MacAsshole, really.
She pulls what looks like a black tin box out of her tool belt, though the resemblance doesn't really last once she opens it, and then presses a button on the inside. Hopefully, Artie's not too busy?
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"Jeez, down, boy. You met the Dimension-Hopping Kid yet? I dunno who all you've talked to in Milliways that I know and who you haven't..."
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"The wrinkle here is apparently he hasn't met me before now. But he's cool."
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"Pleased to meet you both. Whether or not it's for the first time."
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