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[action_antihero]

[OOM: The Price of Success.]

The door opens and a man walks in, fiddling with his cellphone until he realizes that he's not quite where he thought he was.  At first glance he'll look famliar, but on second glance, people who know him may notice something...different.  It's not just the longer hair, neatly combed down; not just the slightly rounder

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[angela_edmunds]

Angela skips over, kitten on shoulder, and gives Jack a kiss on the cheek. She hasn't noticed the youthfulness yet--most adults look about the same age to her, really.

"Hey, Grampa!" she says cheerfully.

[action_antihero]

He hardly notices the girl approaching him, at least until she...plants a kiss on his cheek?

Grampa? The fuck?

Jack smiles a little awkwardly; this place just keeps getting weirder and weirder, and while he knows he should using his training, try to blend in, he's not entirely sure what he should blend in as.

"Uh, sorry, miss, but I think you've got the wrong person," he says, with a slightly embarrassed laugh.

[angela_edmunds]

Angela looks back, too amused by the 'miss' to be hurt. "Well, you're Jack Bauer, yeah? Or...are you a look alike? Sometimes that happens, here." She hops over to the bar and gets a milkshake, because she has the feeling that she'll need one.

[action_antihero]

That fact that she knows his name isn't really helping, surprisingly enough.

"Yeah, I'm Jack Bauer, but...I don't have any grandchildren," he says, slowly. Putting aside the fact that if he did have any grandchildren at the moment, Kim would be grounded until she was thirty, this girl looks about the same age as Kim is, which puts it into the not-biologically-possible category.

[angela_edmunds]

Okay, this was going to be tres awkward...

"Um. You will?" she offers, sipping her milkshake.

[action_antihero]

That doesn't help either. "Well...yeah, someday, but not right now," he says, eyeing her.

[angela_edmunds]

"How old is...Kim, right now?" she asks curiously. It feels weird calling her mother 'Kim'.

[action_antihero]

"She's fifteen. And how do you know her name?" he asks, a little more obvious in his suspicion now.

[angela_edmunds]

"Because she's my mom. Not biological, but she's my mom. Oh, I'm Angela, by the way. I'm from 2025." She grins.

"I guess you haven't been to Milliways before."

[action_antihero]

Kim...is...her...huh? This is making his brain hurt.

"You're-- Okay, this is some kind of joke, right?"

[angela_edmunds]

"Nope, no joke. We're in Milliways, the bar at the end of the Universe," she says, gesturing to the Observation window, "and I'm your granddaughter. Just...haven't been born yet, in your world."

[action_antihero]

Looking over where she's pointing, Jack freezes, stunned into silence by the sight outside the window.

"The end of the universe? How did I get here?" he asks, as much to himself as to her. He's still trying to figure out whether he should believe his eyes or not.

[angela_edmunds]

"Who knows?" Angela says, shrugging. "I guess if we amuse whoever pulls us in here enough, we just keep coming back. But it's not a bad place. Mom and Dad come in sometimes."

[action_antihero]

"Mom and D-- Okay wait a minute, you said Kim's your mother? Who's your father?"

Please, God, let it not be Kim's current boyfriend, Vincent. If that's who she marries later, he's going to have to head back home and frighten the little slimeball off, and Kim's going to hate him for that.

[angela_edmunds]

"His name's Chase. I probably shouldn't tell you any more than that...though you'll probably end up meeting him anyway." She grins slightly. "People have a way of meeting up with each other here."

[action_antihero]

"They do? Why, how many people do you know here from...outside?" he asks, still trying to wrap his head around the concept of a bar at the end of the universe.