Twentieth Patient

[whiskeyless]

Did I fall asleep? [a pause as she waits for a reply. But then she realizes what she just said and a new fear emerges]

Am I still Claire? I feel like her. [but she can see those entries from Clyde. She knows another personality was uploaded] How did I come back?

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[fiveby_five]

You wanna explain?

[whiskeyless]

Apparently I was on a "loss".

[fiveby_five]

You're one of those girls.

[whiskeyless]

Yes. [there's really no reason to deny it]

The original Dr. Saunders was murdered. I took his place.

[fiveby_five]

His.

So.. who are you? You even know?

[whiskeyless]

I don't know what my original name was, but in the Dollhouse I was called Whiskey. We went by the NATO phonetic alphabet.

[fiveby_five]

So what do you go by?

[whiskeyless]

I go by Dr. Saunders. Or Claire, sometimes.

[fiveby_five]

So how's that all ...work?

[almost wonders if somehow dimensions got crossed and that's really Fred and that's really her]

[whiskeyless]

Think of the brain as a computer that you can reprogram. That's what we do in my world. Echo and I are what we call Actives. My program is more permanent than hers.