[Daniel] The Crux of the Matter
Who: Daniel, Blaise
Where: Medical Facility: Control Room
When: Day 20, afternoon, picking up from Close Encounters with the Dead Kind
Invited: Locke, the Doctor, Megabyte, Scott, Alex (Dean, Sam, Jon and May when they return from their recon with something to report)
Status: Complete ( Read more... )
Where: Medical Facility: Control Room
When: Day 20, afternoon, picking up from Close Encounters with the Dead Kind
Invited: Locke, the Doctor, Megabyte, Scott, Alex (Dean, Sam, Jon and May when they return from their recon with something to report)
Status: Complete ( Read more... )
"Personally, I think the first thing the women should be told is the fertility treatments. Make sure precautions are taken if they want to avoid potential consequences."
The Doctor looked darkly at the screen showing the current prisoners. "You know, a century ago, I'd be advocating mercy. Get what is needed from them, then find a way to keep them alive and healthy until the local authorities can deal with them. What does it say about me that I don't really find myself caring overmuch so long as they can't cause any further harm?"
He'd learned the consequences of mercy and moral integrity could often be worse than being cold bloodedly expedient. The price of refusing to commit genocide had been to commit it twice over. Maybe this anger and cold nature was part of this incarnation only, but he rather though not. It was more a hard, bitter lesson that went to the core of who he was. He couldn't even mourn his former idealism.
"To be honest, I'm rather glad you are in charge, as it were. My own inclinations are a bit too personal. Never thought I'd face that." He muttered the last. "At least you can distance yourself a bit more than some. "
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"Well, we know that theoretically the fertility treatments shouldn't have worked on Daisy. And none were given to Claire, so the concerned parties there would be Ami and Rose." He spoke more loudly this time, so that his words could be heard. "My primary concern is finding out what they know about us, how they know it, and what they know about this island."
"Whatever they were told," Alex said.
"And what were you told?" Daniel asked.
Alex shrugged. "I wasn't told anything. Other than I live here and it's . . . it's supposed to be home. It's their sandbox, but Carlson's really in charge. And even he isn't."
Daniel tried to make sense of her words. He wondered if she spoke like that on purpose or if it was some byproduct of how she'd been raised, or if DHARMA had experimented on her as well. "This place is fully stocked. There have to be supplies coming in here. Do you know anything about that?"
"The drops," Alex nods. "They come when the drops come."
Now, they were getting somewhere. "When do the drops come?"
"Last month. Before you came. It'll be a while," Alex said quietly. "They're irregular. I've never seen a drop or picked up one. I've only put the things away after we get them back."
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"Does the drop ever include food or supplies you considered strange? Like for feeding non-humans?" Sam asked.
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Scott's nose wrinkled the closer he got to the control room. (We need to check the air vents,) he thought, wondering what was producing such a stench. By the time he got to the control room he was nearly nauseous. "Something must have died in the air vents," he said without preamble. Then he noticed Dean's and particularly Sam's discheveled appearances. "Oh. Hi."
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Dean smirked, "Nah, I even sound smarter than that, idiot. What my brother failed to properly describe was that we found some non-human formed bipeds in the graveyard. Ain't even looked like any demon we've fought before, though that doesn't rule out the possibility. Either way, was wondering if Alex noted anything unusual in the drops that might possibly be associated with it. It'd be a big leap, to be sure, but they've seemed to have a greater fondness for non-humans than extra-dimensional. Figured we'd just ask."
Sam stopped for a moment with his head cocked to one side. "Time Lord...did you even *come* from this dimension, moreless galaxy?"
This time, Dean went to open his mouth, and then changed his mind, shut it, and shook his head.
ooc: by the by, the boys reek of sulfur and rot.
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"You smell like death. Actually, you smell worse than death," Daniel tried to breathe through his mouth. "Go now. We don't mind waiting for your report."
Again came a measure of sympathy for General Hammond and Jack.
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The Doctor was, however, considering the boy's words. "Non-human bipeds not like their usual demons... could be alien. Maybe Ripley and I aren't the only ones they've gotten. I'll have to take a look, later."
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Sam sighed, shaking his head as he followed his brother out of the room. "The name's Sam, Dean. S-A-M. Say it with me."
"Sammy?"
"Nooooo."
"Sammifer?"
"Dean..."
"Sambalina?"
Sam punched Dean in the kidney for that one. He hoped noone else had heard that particular made-up name.
DEAN AND SAMBALINA EXIT. (But they'll be back.)
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"What did I miss?" Scott asked. "Have any decisions been made? If these 'doctors' have done anything remotely close to the other women that they did to Ami..." His fists clenched. "Death is too good for them."
"I agree," Locke put in. "Unfortunately our resources are limited. Perhaps not as much as before, though, Scott. Alex said that supply drops are made every few months."
Scott frowned thoughtfully. "Drops? By air? If so, where the hell are the supplies coming from?"
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Daniel's response was cut off by Alex. "Outside," the girl answered as though there was no other answer. "Where else?"
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"We can't get to them, but that also means that they can't get to us," Daniel finished. "I'm sure there's a lot more, Damon only went over the basics, and I think that it might be pretty impossible to tear him away from Claire's side right now. But," Daniel patted the file folders and waved at the computer, "We have full access to everything and plenty to work with.
"We know what they were doing, even if we don't know why, and we know who they are. Unsurprisingly, our good friend Ethan is some sort of Ph.D."
"He's a shrink." Alex looked up from tracing invisible circles on the console desktop. "Filthy, dirty little monster. I don't like the way he feels. I don't like it when he asks me questions, or . . . touches me. He's evil, he's really evil."
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Alex frowned, puzzled, for a moment. Then her eyes widened. "Oh! No. Not like that. He just feels dirty."
Scott breathed a small sigh of relief. The fact that Ethan hadn't molested Alex didn't mollify any of his early actions, though. Scott smiled, and it wasn't a pleasant one. "Leave Ethan to me," he told the group. Daniel opened his mouth to protest, but Scott pressed on. "I won't hurt him, as much as I'd like to. It tears Ami up too much. But it can make it so that he'll never, ever raise a finger to hurt anyone ever again."
OOC: fikgirl, if Alex is OOC let me know and I'll repost. As for Scott's plans for Ethan, he'll elaborate if requested, but I'd like to keep that "off screen." You know, for suspense. *evil grin*
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“Let Scott at him first, but Scott, don’t do anything you can’t live with later. Consider what may seem like a good idea now against how you look your children in the eyes later.” Scott didn’t have centuries to come to terms with things. “Besides, we’ll need to question him when you’re done. If you can make him more… pliable, in good conscience, then all the better.”
"Ethan will be the hardest to break, then. But he'll break. He may recognize every method we use, but by his own notes, he won't be able to stop the effect." The Doctor looked at Daniel. "Have those cells checked out to judge their sturdiness, but don't have them cleaned up."
The Doctor drummed his fingers on the table. "We question them one at a time, and do NOT return them to join the others, but take them to this holding facility. They aren't to have contact with one another after that. We pick an interview room and dress it for each prisoner. Files, Pictures of the women and a list of things done to them, and security stills of whichever person interviewed interacting with the women, preferable in a menacing way. Make sure they are visible to the prisoner."
Blaise and Daniel were looking at him. "I can manipulate with the best of them, and I've had a lot more practice. Besides, I'm an unknown, unpredictable element. Nothing scares a being so much as the unknown."
"Besides, if all else fails, I'll just keep talking until they'll do anything to just shut me up."
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"Between you, Ripley, and Scott I think we have plenty of 'bad cops," Locke stated. "Manipulation -- not my forte." (There's the understatement of the century,) he thought bitterly. "I can guard and strongarm if necessary." He wasn't a violent man, but after what the prisoners had done to the women, violence would be easy.
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