I can see John's deepest darkest secret that he keeps locked away under a thousand layers of misdirection:
John knows, *knows* that if any one ever found out, he'd be subjected to endless days, or even weeks, of torture from every person at Lackland. So he signs out for an overnight pass, packs a bag, and gets a ride to the bus station.
After his ride has driven off in a cloud of blue smoke belching from the tail pick, he walks in and changes out of his uniform, stashes it in a locker and walks out the other side of the station and hails a cab.
Throngs of people surround Sunken Gardens, and John lurks on the edge of the sidewalk until he spies the scalper. John hands over twice what he could have paid if he'd bought it in advance, but that would've meant letting the cat out of the bag when mail call came.
It's not like he has anything else to spend his pay on.
John takes the ticket and sits in the assigned seat until the house lights go down. Then he steals forward, brushing through fans until he's right next to the stage, where the warm up band is playing.
The house breaks out into screaming and yelling, and this is it: Billy Ray Cyrus, Live!
LOL. Also, John would possibly have never used those names, but of course it was a challenge from McKay, and he's totally going with it.
He might've come up with something like those names, eventually, but now that McKay's brought it up, he's definitely keeping at least one for sheer spite. I doubt he'll manage to name them all, though, even if he wanted to try-- I think just one or two would make the point-- because even if the astronomers (not to mention the whole rest of the city) were willing to give up the rights to him, I don't think their professional dignity would allow "Joe Bob".
"Okay. Explain this to me one more time. What the hell makes 'Joe Bob' a more ridiculous name than 'Pegasus'?"
"Four thousand years of history, damn it! We want names with decorum, we want names with dignity--"
"Actually, I wanted to name one of them after my mother. You know, just the little gray one."
"Pierre, time and place--"
"It's just, then maybe she would forgive me for not being a doctor."
"Good God, Pierre, this mission is CLASSIFIED! She could never, ever know! And-- oh dear god he's crying."
"Huh. So the tact thing isn't just McKay. He always said so, but I--"
John knows, *knows* that if any one ever found out, he'd be subjected to endless days, or even weeks, of torture from every person at Lackland. So he signs out for an overnight pass, packs a bag, and gets a ride to the bus station.
After his ride has driven off in a cloud of blue smoke belching from the tail pick, he walks in and changes out of his uniform, stashes it in a locker and walks out the other side of the station and hails a cab.
Throngs of people surround Sunken Gardens, and John lurks on the edge of the sidewalk until he spies the scalper. John hands over twice what he could have paid if he'd bought it in advance, but that would've meant letting the cat out of the bag when mail call came.
It's not like he has anything else to spend his pay on.
John takes the ticket and sits in the assigned seat until the house lights go down. Then he steals forward, brushing through fans until he's right next to the stage, where the warm up band is playing.
The house breaks out into screaming and yelling, and this is it: Billy Ray Cyrus, Live!
LOL. Also, John would possibly have never used those names, but of course it was a challenge from McKay, and he's totally going with it.
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He might've come up with something like those names, eventually, but now that McKay's brought it up, he's definitely keeping at least one for sheer spite. I doubt he'll manage to name them all, though, even if he wanted to try-- I think just one or two would make the point-- because even if the astronomers (not to mention the whole rest of the city) were willing to give up the rights to him, I don't think their professional dignity would allow "Joe Bob".
"Okay. Explain this to me one more time. What the hell makes 'Joe Bob' a more ridiculous name than 'Pegasus'?"
"Four thousand years of history, damn it! We want names with decorum, we want names with dignity--"
"Actually, I wanted to name one of them after my mother. You know, just the little gray one."
"Pierre, time and place--"
"It's just, then maybe she would forgive me for not being a doctor."
"Good God, Pierre, this mission is CLASSIFIED! She could never, ever know! And-- oh dear god he's crying."
"Huh. So the tact thing isn't just McKay. He always said so, but I--"
"Would you just GET OUT OF HERE?!"
...Or something like that, perhaps. ^^ Heh.
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