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365 Gay Sharks
Day 284, Word Count: 2682
Theme: October; Jumping the Shark
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together we make each other strong
Alphas, Bill+Gary, PG
It's takes time to get used to Gary. Somewhere deep down, they know it isn't Gary's fault that he's the way he is, but sometimes it's frustrating to deal with all of his quirks. Then again, they all have their quirks, and that's why they're bad at working team sometimes. Doctor Rosen says they need to learn to work together, otherwise what they're doing is never going to work.
So they have to learn about each other.
Nina and Cameron take the most direct route to that outcome, while Bill and Gary take a more meandering route. Bill did promise to let Gary drive (Gary is still mad, because Bill didn't say lessons, he said he could drive the car), so he takes Gary out in the car and tries to teach him how to drive. The results are about as disasterous as Bill expected, but Gary seems so genuinely happy to be learning that Bill keeps at it.
He doesn't do things for himself often, Bill knows, so maybe it's that. Either way, between the driving lessons and their little adventure together, Bill's beginning to warm up to Gary.
He still thinks messing with Gary is fun, but now Gary seems to understand that it's friendly and not mean.
In the end, Bill thinks, that's why he decided to say. At the "DCI" moreso than the FBI, Bill feels like he has a home. They each have flaws, mostly relating to their respective abilities, but they've all realized that together they have more people who understand them than anywhere else.
Together they can solve problems no one else can.
directions to a place I've already been
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice+Cheshire Cat, PG
The Cheshire Cat peers down at Alice, and Alice stops, waiting to hear what he has to say. He is never very helpful, but sometimes it is nice to chat with a someone that is not herself. The Chesire Cat grins, as he always does, but Alice does not grin back. Though Wonderland remains quite as confusing as ever, Alice is now at ease in it and she has learned that smiles make the Chesire Cat more riddley than usual.
"And where," the Chesire Cat says, "might you be going to-day, Alice?"
"I'm going to visit the Hatter," Alice replies plainly, "for he lives just down the way."
"I do believe," the Chesire Cat says as he flicks his tail, "you'll find that his house is actually downward and sort-of to the left."
And then, with his usual lack of warning, the Cheshire Cat fades clean away and Alice is left by herself once more. She sighs, for Wonderland is ever-so confusing and she'll never get the hang of it.
"Why," Alice says aloud, "downward and sort-of to the left isn't even a valid way to be going. Well, it isn't a valid way to be going if you're not in Wonderland, but seeing as I am in Wonderland . . ."
With a small sigh, Alice headed in a downward and sort-of left direction. There were so many quirk to navigating Wonderland that Alice found it quite a wonder anyone got anywhere at all.
The Adventure of the Tangled Mermaid
Sherlock (BBC), John+Sherlock, PG
John catches a great many strange things in his nets every day - most of it the discarded detritus of London at large - but he's never caught anything quite so strange as wht's currently in his nets. It is, if John isn't mistaken, a mermaid that's struggling to break free of John's nets.
Because John would rather not repair any damage the mermaid might to to his nets if she doesn't get free, John swiftly lowers the nets onto the neck and walks over to where the mermaid is now trying to wiggle free of some seaweed twisted about her. She doesn't seem to notice him coming closer, and as John approaches, he notices that it's not a mermaid he's caught in his nets, but a merman. Crouching down next to the merman, John tries to put on a friendly smile.
"I'm sorry for getting you caught in my nets. I didn't mean to, you know."
"No," the merman says, pulling a hermit crab from his hair, "I suppose it's more my fault than yours. I was curious about your nets and managed to get myself tangled in them."
The merman finally turns to look at John, and John can tell he was going to say something more, but instead tilts his head to the side, eyes curious. John's not sure what the merman is thinking, but John holds out his hand.
"I'm John Watson."
The merman blinks and then takes John's hand, "Sherlock. It would have been nicer to meet you under other circumstances, but I suppose these will have to do."
John laughs, "Do you need a hand getting back into the water?"
There's a moment, brief as the blink of an eye, where Sherlock looks as if he's going to say that he doesn't need any help at all. And then - John can see it on his face - it sinks in how far he is from the sides of boat and Sherlock frowns.
"I suppose I do."
When Sherlock acquiesecs, John carefully lifts him up and puts him down in the lifeboat before stepping in next to him. Lowering the boat, Jogn waits until they are almost down and then grabs onto the ropes holding the boat up. Sherlock drops himself into the water and sends a splash up, soaking John. Sherlock comes back up, bobbing in the water, and John waves to him.
"Goodbye, Sherlock! Next time you're curious about a boat, perhaps you should ask me instead of getting yourself caught up in a situation you can't get yourself out of."
Sherlock looks like he's going to say something, only he doesn't, just dives back into the water and swims away. As John pulls his lifeboat back up, he wonders if he will ever see Sherlock the merman again, and if anyone would believe him if he told them the tale of how he once caught a merman and then let it go.
Night of the Living Dead (At Last!)
Big Bang Theory, Penny, PG
Penny's not entirely sure how she ended up starting an argument between Sheldon and Leonard about the viability zombies, but she's pretty much given up understanding how their minds work. The important thing here isn't exactly that she started the arguement, but the fact that Sheldon is now threatening to create a zombie army and Leonard is baiting him and telling him that it'll never work when the door opens. It's Raj and Howard, because it wouldn't be anyone else, and Penny has a headache.
Like, it's not that Penny can't follow the conversation (she mostly understands what Leonard and Sheldon are saying, she thinks), it's just that all she had said was that maybe they could watch the zombie movie marathon that was on the TV and then Leonard had said something about how zombies aren't even possible and then Sheldon had launched into one of his (mostly unnecessary) lectures only this time it wasn't about quantawhosit mechawhatsits it was about zombies.
Sending a pleading look toward Raj (who avoids eye contact) and Howard (who makes a face Penny assumes is supposed to be sexy but is really just gross), Penny hopes that they can stop the madness that is a scientific arguement between Leonard and Sheldon. Except . . . She really should have expected that they would join in on it too. Like, was there ever going to be a time where Raj and Howard weren't going to argue about zombies?
Sighing, Penny makes a tactical retreat to her apartment. While they're arguing, she'll just watch the marathon herself.
we're all stars
High School Musical, Ryan/Chad, PG
"Please come," Ryan touches his fingers to Chad's shoulder, "It'll be fun."
Chad frowns, clearly still adverse to the idea of going to the Pride Parade with Ryan. It wasn't even a date thing, because Ryan just wanted someone to be excited and jump around with that wasn't Kelsi and Chad knew that it was just. Well. Okay, fine. He doesn't have a reason why he won't go other than it's gay! and that's pretty much the most awful excuse since it's a Tuesday because Chad is roommates with Ryan Evans, dictionary definition of gay. Also he's slept with Ryan once or twice, but that's kind of besides the point here. The point is really that Chad never says no to Ryan.
One of these days he'll work on saying it, but it hasn't happened yet and so Chad sighs. He was going to end up going to the parade whether he wanted to or not, and who knew? It might be more fun than Chad was currently thinking it was going to be.
Which, of course, is how he ends up covered in glitter, wearing a feather boa, and tangling his fingers with Ryan's on the day of the pride parade. They may be slightly tipsy, courtesy of Ryan's little pre-parade celebration, but they're mostly walking in a straight line and it's . . . a lot of fun, actually.
Like, Chad knows that being around Ryan in general is fun, but he's forgotten how much fun it is to be with other people. Kelsi's right there giggling along with them, and it's been a while since Chad's been anywhere but to work, to pick up Ryan from work or to get more groceries. It's the whole freelance design thing, Chad thinks, coupled with the fact that he works at Starbucks. Usually, at the end of the day, Chad is glad to be away from people and the headaches they give him that he forgets hanging out can be fun.
Ryan glances over at him, smiling that particular smile Chad has come to associate with I told you so, and Chad lets him be smug. He's got pride to flaunt.
and I become my own worst enemy
Power Rangers RPM, Dillon, PG
Dillon doesn't know why the team still trusts him. The Venjix technology is slowly taking over his body, and he can feel himself battling with it. Doctor K is attempting to slow the takeover, but she can't stop it and Dillon doesn't know if he feels safe being around the team when, at any moment, he could be forced to fight against them. He stays, though, because he knows that the team needs him, no matter the risks. After all, wasn't that how he came to be on the team in the first place?
He's there because they need him, and he needs them. They give him the will to keep fighting, to keep going even as the virus takes him over.
It's the little things, like Summer handing him a tool when he's working on his car or Flynn showing him a new device he's made. Even Scott's awkward pats on the shoulder and Ziggy's stupid shadow puppets help Dillon remember why he has to fight the Venjix virus running through him and what he's fighting to protect, because it's not just his team that is depending on him, it's the whole of Corinth City.
At one time, that wouldn't have mattered to him, but it matters now. Keeping the City safe matters, because it buys them time to try and fix what's gone wrong. It matters because almost all of the people that Dillon cares about are in Corinth and he's not about to lose more people to a overgrown computer virus.
No. Even if he's becoming the very thing he's protecting Corinth from, Dillion is still going to fight, because if he doesn't then Venjix will have won and he can't allow that. He's fought too hard against Venjix to give up, and he has faith in Doctor K.
They will win. They have to.
(DON'T) PANIC
TSN RPF, Andrew+Jesse, PG
In a very small New York apartment with the customary high rent and traffic at all hours which was only important to a young man named Jesse Eisenberg and perhaps his landlord, it was eight am on Thursday morning and life on planet Earth was probably going to end soon. Poor Jesse didn't know that small fact, nor did he really care that the world was going to end because, as far as he was concerned, the world was ending right then.
You see, Jesse was having a panic attack.
It was brought on by a great many things, such as the construction going on outside his partment, the sudden and intense claustrophobia he was feeling, the fact that his best friend was from a ssmall planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from London, as he had originally claimed.
That friend was named Andrew Garfield and he had first come to Earth because he had heard it was quite quaint and also no one there knew anything at all about life outside their planet as they were in the very earliest stages of their development. It was only just yesterday that they decided to come down from the trees, afterall, and they were still in the stage where they doubted if that was a very good idea in the first place.
Andrew found this all very interesting and although he did a great deal of research on how best to blend into the Earth culture, there was still something just a bit off about him. Perhaps it was the way his hair seemed to sometimes be made of plastic (it was) or the way his eyes seemed to stare into your very soul (they didn't), but Andrew struck his Earth friends as an overly excitable and extremely cheerful guy who had some small eccentricities (the percieved ability to speak to birds was among them).
The problem, however, was that Andrew was quite stuck on Earth and as interesting as he found it, he really really wished to get off of it. He knew, if the chance presented itself, how to flag down a passing ship and also see the Wonders of the Universe for less than 40 Altairan dollars a day. It was knowledge Andrew had gleaned from his travels researching for the Hitchhiker's Guideto the Galaxy, which was arguably the most sucessful book of its kind to be on the universal market. It was on its fourth edition.
Jesse was still having a panic attack.
"I'm sorry," Andrew said, unsure of how to handle this situation, "but really Jesse. I told you that you ought to sit down before I gave you the news."
Jesse continued to have a panic attack.
"Really, Jesse, we have to go. The Vogons will be here very soon."
It appeared that Jesse's panic attack would not be subsiding at any point in the near future. Andrew sighed.
"All right, I'll leave you to your strange Earth habit. I'm going to go grab you a towel, because the Vogons are coming and Earth will very soon be demolished."
Leaving Jesse to his panic attack (not a wise choice, but the Hitchhiker's Guide had nothing to say about Earth panic attacks and therefore Andrew was quite unequipped to handle them), Andrew went to collect a towel for Jesse because it was, to be quite honest, the single most useful thing that a hitchhiker could have about him. Jesse's towel was blue-and-white-striped, 7$ from the local department store, and Andrew shoved it into a convenient rucksack which happened to be laying about Jesse's apartment. He then returned to Jesse and set the rucksack in front of him. Jesse appeared to have calmed down a little, and Andrew grasped his shoulder.
"I know you're only from Earth and you've never even been to the next planet over, but you have to trust me, Jesse. Do you trust me?"
The overwhelming concern (and also slight psychic coercion) coming from Andrew made Jesse nod slightly. He was still panicking (his best friend! an alien!), but there was a sense of certainty about Andrew that made Jesse feel a little more calm. Andrew handed him the rucksack, and Jesse absently took it as Andrew stood.
"Right then," he said, "we've got a spacecraft to flag down."
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Day 284, Word Count: 2682
Theme: October; Jumping the Shark
This post is part of the 365 Gay Sharks project. If you would like to learn more about this project, click here to read more about it. :D
collected fics from
fic_promptly about a month ago.
together we make each other strong
Alphas, Bill+Gary, PG
It's takes time to get used to Gary. Somewhere deep down, they know it isn't Gary's fault that he's the way he is, but sometimes it's frustrating to deal with all of his quirks. Then again, they all have their quirks, and that's why they're bad at working team sometimes. Doctor Rosen says they need to learn to work together, otherwise what they're doing is never going to work.
So they have to learn about each other.
Nina and Cameron take the most direct route to that outcome, while Bill and Gary take a more meandering route. Bill did promise to let Gary drive (Gary is still mad, because Bill didn't say lessons, he said he could drive the car), so he takes Gary out in the car and tries to teach him how to drive. The results are about as disasterous as Bill expected, but Gary seems so genuinely happy to be learning that Bill keeps at it.
He doesn't do things for himself often, Bill knows, so maybe it's that. Either way, between the driving lessons and their little adventure together, Bill's beginning to warm up to Gary.
He still thinks messing with Gary is fun, but now Gary seems to understand that it's friendly and not mean.
In the end, Bill thinks, that's why he decided to say. At the "DCI" moreso than the FBI, Bill feels like he has a home. They each have flaws, mostly relating to their respective abilities, but they've all realized that together they have more people who understand them than anywhere else.
Together they can solve problems no one else can.
directions to a place I've already been
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice+Cheshire Cat, PG
The Cheshire Cat peers down at Alice, and Alice stops, waiting to hear what he has to say. He is never very helpful, but sometimes it is nice to chat with a someone that is not herself. The Chesire Cat grins, as he always does, but Alice does not grin back. Though Wonderland remains quite as confusing as ever, Alice is now at ease in it and she has learned that smiles make the Chesire Cat more riddley than usual.
"And where," the Chesire Cat says, "might you be going to-day, Alice?"
"I'm going to visit the Hatter," Alice replies plainly, "for he lives just down the way."
"I do believe," the Chesire Cat says as he flicks his tail, "you'll find that his house is actually downward and sort-of to the left."
And then, with his usual lack of warning, the Cheshire Cat fades clean away and Alice is left by herself once more. She sighs, for Wonderland is ever-so confusing and she'll never get the hang of it.
"Why," Alice says aloud, "downward and sort-of to the left isn't even a valid way to be going. Well, it isn't a valid way to be going if you're not in Wonderland, but seeing as I am in Wonderland . . ."
With a small sigh, Alice headed in a downward and sort-of left direction. There were so many quirk to navigating Wonderland that Alice found it quite a wonder anyone got anywhere at all.
The Adventure of the Tangled Mermaid
Sherlock (BBC), John+Sherlock, PG
John catches a great many strange things in his nets every day - most of it the discarded detritus of London at large - but he's never caught anything quite so strange as wht's currently in his nets. It is, if John isn't mistaken, a mermaid that's struggling to break free of John's nets.
Because John would rather not repair any damage the mermaid might to to his nets if she doesn't get free, John swiftly lowers the nets onto the neck and walks over to where the mermaid is now trying to wiggle free of some seaweed twisted about her. She doesn't seem to notice him coming closer, and as John approaches, he notices that it's not a mermaid he's caught in his nets, but a merman. Crouching down next to the merman, John tries to put on a friendly smile.
"I'm sorry for getting you caught in my nets. I didn't mean to, you know."
"No," the merman says, pulling a hermit crab from his hair, "I suppose it's more my fault than yours. I was curious about your nets and managed to get myself tangled in them."
The merman finally turns to look at John, and John can tell he was going to say something more, but instead tilts his head to the side, eyes curious. John's not sure what the merman is thinking, but John holds out his hand.
"I'm John Watson."
The merman blinks and then takes John's hand, "Sherlock. It would have been nicer to meet you under other circumstances, but I suppose these will have to do."
John laughs, "Do you need a hand getting back into the water?"
There's a moment, brief as the blink of an eye, where Sherlock looks as if he's going to say that he doesn't need any help at all. And then - John can see it on his face - it sinks in how far he is from the sides of boat and Sherlock frowns.
"I suppose I do."
When Sherlock acquiesecs, John carefully lifts him up and puts him down in the lifeboat before stepping in next to him. Lowering the boat, Jogn waits until they are almost down and then grabs onto the ropes holding the boat up. Sherlock drops himself into the water and sends a splash up, soaking John. Sherlock comes back up, bobbing in the water, and John waves to him.
"Goodbye, Sherlock! Next time you're curious about a boat, perhaps you should ask me instead of getting yourself caught up in a situation you can't get yourself out of."
Sherlock looks like he's going to say something, only he doesn't, just dives back into the water and swims away. As John pulls his lifeboat back up, he wonders if he will ever see Sherlock the merman again, and if anyone would believe him if he told them the tale of how he once caught a merman and then let it go.
Night of the Living Dead (At Last!)
Big Bang Theory, Penny, PG
Penny's not entirely sure how she ended up starting an argument between Sheldon and Leonard about the viability zombies, but she's pretty much given up understanding how their minds work. The important thing here isn't exactly that she started the arguement, but the fact that Sheldon is now threatening to create a zombie army and Leonard is baiting him and telling him that it'll never work when the door opens. It's Raj and Howard, because it wouldn't be anyone else, and Penny has a headache.
Like, it's not that Penny can't follow the conversation (she mostly understands what Leonard and Sheldon are saying, she thinks), it's just that all she had said was that maybe they could watch the zombie movie marathon that was on the TV and then Leonard had said something about how zombies aren't even possible and then Sheldon had launched into one of his (mostly unnecessary) lectures only this time it wasn't about quantawhosit mechawhatsits it was about zombies.
Sending a pleading look toward Raj (who avoids eye contact) and Howard (who makes a face Penny assumes is supposed to be sexy but is really just gross), Penny hopes that they can stop the madness that is a scientific arguement between Leonard and Sheldon. Except . . . She really should have expected that they would join in on it too. Like, was there ever going to be a time where Raj and Howard weren't going to argue about zombies?
Sighing, Penny makes a tactical retreat to her apartment. While they're arguing, she'll just watch the marathon herself.
we're all stars
High School Musical, Ryan/Chad, PG
"Please come," Ryan touches his fingers to Chad's shoulder, "It'll be fun."
Chad frowns, clearly still adverse to the idea of going to the Pride Parade with Ryan. It wasn't even a date thing, because Ryan just wanted someone to be excited and jump around with that wasn't Kelsi and Chad knew that it was just. Well. Okay, fine. He doesn't have a reason why he won't go other than it's gay! and that's pretty much the most awful excuse since it's a Tuesday because Chad is roommates with Ryan Evans, dictionary definition of gay. Also he's slept with Ryan once or twice, but that's kind of besides the point here. The point is really that Chad never says no to Ryan.
One of these days he'll work on saying it, but it hasn't happened yet and so Chad sighs. He was going to end up going to the parade whether he wanted to or not, and who knew? It might be more fun than Chad was currently thinking it was going to be.
Which, of course, is how he ends up covered in glitter, wearing a feather boa, and tangling his fingers with Ryan's on the day of the pride parade. They may be slightly tipsy, courtesy of Ryan's little pre-parade celebration, but they're mostly walking in a straight line and it's . . . a lot of fun, actually.
Like, Chad knows that being around Ryan in general is fun, but he's forgotten how much fun it is to be with other people. Kelsi's right there giggling along with them, and it's been a while since Chad's been anywhere but to work, to pick up Ryan from work or to get more groceries. It's the whole freelance design thing, Chad thinks, coupled with the fact that he works at Starbucks. Usually, at the end of the day, Chad is glad to be away from people and the headaches they give him that he forgets hanging out can be fun.
Ryan glances over at him, smiling that particular smile Chad has come to associate with I told you so, and Chad lets him be smug. He's got pride to flaunt.
and I become my own worst enemy
Power Rangers RPM, Dillon, PG
Dillon doesn't know why the team still trusts him. The Venjix technology is slowly taking over his body, and he can feel himself battling with it. Doctor K is attempting to slow the takeover, but she can't stop it and Dillon doesn't know if he feels safe being around the team when, at any moment, he could be forced to fight against them. He stays, though, because he knows that the team needs him, no matter the risks. After all, wasn't that how he came to be on the team in the first place?
He's there because they need him, and he needs them. They give him the will to keep fighting, to keep going even as the virus takes him over.
It's the little things, like Summer handing him a tool when he's working on his car or Flynn showing him a new device he's made. Even Scott's awkward pats on the shoulder and Ziggy's stupid shadow puppets help Dillon remember why he has to fight the Venjix virus running through him and what he's fighting to protect, because it's not just his team that is depending on him, it's the whole of Corinth City.
At one time, that wouldn't have mattered to him, but it matters now. Keeping the City safe matters, because it buys them time to try and fix what's gone wrong. It matters because almost all of the people that Dillon cares about are in Corinth and he's not about to lose more people to a overgrown computer virus.
No. Even if he's becoming the very thing he's protecting Corinth from, Dillion is still going to fight, because if he doesn't then Venjix will have won and he can't allow that. He's fought too hard against Venjix to give up, and he has faith in Doctor K.
They will win. They have to.
(DON'T) PANIC
TSN RPF, Andrew+Jesse, PG
In a very small New York apartment with the customary high rent and traffic at all hours which was only important to a young man named Jesse Eisenberg and perhaps his landlord, it was eight am on Thursday morning and life on planet Earth was probably going to end soon. Poor Jesse didn't know that small fact, nor did he really care that the world was going to end because, as far as he was concerned, the world was ending right then.
You see, Jesse was having a panic attack.
It was brought on by a great many things, such as the construction going on outside his partment, the sudden and intense claustrophobia he was feeling, the fact that his best friend was from a ssmall planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from London, as he had originally claimed.
That friend was named Andrew Garfield and he had first come to Earth because he had heard it was quite quaint and also no one there knew anything at all about life outside their planet as they were in the very earliest stages of their development. It was only just yesterday that they decided to come down from the trees, afterall, and they were still in the stage where they doubted if that was a very good idea in the first place.
Andrew found this all very interesting and although he did a great deal of research on how best to blend into the Earth culture, there was still something just a bit off about him. Perhaps it was the way his hair seemed to sometimes be made of plastic (it was) or the way his eyes seemed to stare into your very soul (they didn't), but Andrew struck his Earth friends as an overly excitable and extremely cheerful guy who had some small eccentricities (the percieved ability to speak to birds was among them).
The problem, however, was that Andrew was quite stuck on Earth and as interesting as he found it, he really really wished to get off of it. He knew, if the chance presented itself, how to flag down a passing ship and also see the Wonders of the Universe for less than 40 Altairan dollars a day. It was knowledge Andrew had gleaned from his travels researching for the Hitchhiker's Guideto the Galaxy, which was arguably the most sucessful book of its kind to be on the universal market. It was on its fourth edition.
Jesse was still having a panic attack.
"I'm sorry," Andrew said, unsure of how to handle this situation, "but really Jesse. I told you that you ought to sit down before I gave you the news."
Jesse continued to have a panic attack.
"Really, Jesse, we have to go. The Vogons will be here very soon."
It appeared that Jesse's panic attack would not be subsiding at any point in the near future. Andrew sighed.
"All right, I'll leave you to your strange Earth habit. I'm going to go grab you a towel, because the Vogons are coming and Earth will very soon be demolished."
Leaving Jesse to his panic attack (not a wise choice, but the Hitchhiker's Guide had nothing to say about Earth panic attacks and therefore Andrew was quite unequipped to handle them), Andrew went to collect a towel for Jesse because it was, to be quite honest, the single most useful thing that a hitchhiker could have about him. Jesse's towel was blue-and-white-striped, 7$ from the local department store, and Andrew shoved it into a convenient rucksack which happened to be laying about Jesse's apartment. He then returned to Jesse and set the rucksack in front of him. Jesse appeared to have calmed down a little, and Andrew grasped his shoulder.
"I know you're only from Earth and you've never even been to the next planet over, but you have to trust me, Jesse. Do you trust me?"
The overwhelming concern (and also slight psychic coercion) coming from Andrew made Jesse nod slightly. He was still panicking (his best friend! an alien!), but there was a sense of certainty about Andrew that made Jesse feel a little more calm. Andrew handed him the rucksack, and Jesse absently took it as Andrew stood.
"Right then," he said, "we've got a spacecraft to flag down."
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