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[inthedeadzone]

Several hours had passed, long enough for Capa to be taken to the clinic, long enough for him to find a place to stash the suit, hoping no one would tamper with it while he was gone. It wasn't the suit itself he cared about, only that it would be in good condition when he found the right equation to get off the island

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[wishesandsmoke]

"Do I need a password now?" Eden asked, arching an eyebrow as she mounted the steps to the Compound. She still wasn't sure what the hell was going on, but it made the fact that she'd saved her winter things a relief. Bundled up, she'd struck out for somewhere a little better heated, Mr Muggles and Origami both snuggled up in her arms, neither animal, for once, complaining about their situation. She'd expected the building to be flooded, but she hadn't really foreseen some guy just stand there and peeking out.

[inthedeadzone]

Although Capa heard the words, heard the young woman's voice, he didn't immediately react, waiting for Icarus to appear in the sky. A gust of wind hit them both and he winced, looking at her with a faint frown.

"No, I'm sorry," he said, stepping back and holding the door open for her to come inside. The stitches pulled tight and he pressed his other hand to his chest, hoping none of them had torn. "I was just looking for something."

[wishesandsmoke]

"In the sky?" Eden stepped carefully past him, offering a wry smile as she did so. "I don't think you'll find much up there but snow today." He wasn't dressed for the weather at all, but that was nothing new here. The clothes box wasn't always so keen on the appropriate attire. That she didn't recognize him meant far more. Though she hardly knew everyone, she'd been on the island long enough to know at least faces.

[inthedeadzone]

"In the sky," Capa confirmed, wishing for just a glimpse of Icarus. The bomb would be too dangerous, too out of control, but Icarus could still be there.

Even as he wished for it, he knew it wasn't true. It would never be possible. The ship and his bomb and everyone on board were gone. "A space ship," he said, then stepped back and let the door close behind him. "But she's not there."

[fuckjazztoo]

There is a draft. It's the first thing 1900 notices on his way down the hall in the opposite direction; there is a draft, and a man standing in the doorway. 1900 doesn't think he's seen the man before (but then, he hasn't seen most people), but the man is standing in the doorway letting in cold air and rogue snowflakes and 1900 is compelled to approach him. One would think these people had never seen a snowstorm before.

He is halfway to asking him to please shut the door when he pauses after catching sight of the man's expression. He clears his throat and says, amicably, "Hello. You look a bit lost." 1900 knows that look entirely too well.

[inthedeadzone]

Still considering the sky, Capa shook his head, although that wasn't strictly the truth. They were all lost, every one of them on this island, and Capa wondered if they'd all hit some sort of Bermuda Triangle, a rift in time and space. "No, I was just looking for something," he answered, pulling the door shut and closing out the window and the snow. "I know where I am as well as everyone else here does, which isn't very well, I guess."

But it was enough. He had the facts. Island, usually tropical, unable to leave.

[fuckjazztoo]

1900 shrugs, glancing at the snow one more time before the door is closed. "Most people seem to have accepted the kidnapped-to-a-foreign-island thing," he says. "Sometimes, I still wonder when the ship will float up and I can go home. But I haven't been here very long." He grins a bit sheepishly and shrugs again.

"And that's probably not very interesting. Did you just get here?"

[inthedeadzone]

Nodding, Capa leaned against the wall behind him, one hand going absently to his chest. Beneath his shirt, he could feel the stitches and he rubbed his fingertips against them briefly. "A few hours ago," he confirmed.

Saying I fell from the sun seemed rather dramatic and so he didn't say it. Instead, he just said, "I hit the ground outside in the snow."

[king_ofkings]

Adrian had seen far worse chills in the snows of Antarctica. Normally, he might weather them from inside Karnak, but it was a test of his character to withstand the colder moments of it. He found the man on his walk for supplies and paused to regard him, curious as to the suit.

"You seem to have picked an ill time to go for a walk," Adrian noted.

[inthedeadzone]

Hesitating, Capa shook his head, still looking out at the sky before he finally turned and pulled the door shut. "I know better than to go for a walk in the middle of a blizzard," he answered, one corner of his mouth nearly turning up into a smile.

"Did I see you earlier?" he asked a moment later, having studied the other man. "I just arrived, but I feel like I saw you when I was still..." He trailed off and gestured at himself, trying to mime wearing the suit.

[king_ofkings]

Adrian didn't say a word at first. Neither did he offer any form of reaction. He merely regarded the other man and watched his movements. Adrian was in a simple purple parka, allowing himself to stay warm amidst the snow. "I've been coming to fetch preserves. Perhaps you saw me then," he offered calmly, seeing no cause to panic.

[inthedeadzone]

"Maybe," Capa answered, although he wasn't sure. Having only been on the island for a few hours now, he wasn't sure who he'd seen and who he hadn't. Most of the people who had passed by had been a complete blur, with the exception of John Sheppard and the doctor in the clinic who had patched him up.

"Preserves," he repeated. "You think this is going to last long?"

[resident_alice]

The ATV was having trouble. Alice was surprised it managed to move through the snow at all, even though it was slow going and she was half-frozen by the time she got to New Atlantis. John wasn't there, which meant he was either at the Compound or doing something stupid - Alice headed for the Compound first, because she didn't even know where to start with the 'something stupid' part.

She parked as close as she could get, dragging a tarp over the ATV before stomping off towards the building. The tarp probably wasn't going to help, but the vehicle was military-grade and probably wouldn't rust through once the snow melted.

If the snow melted.

Alice pulled her headscarf off as she approached the steps. The fabric was nearly frozen through, and she swore under her breath when it crackled and dripped ice down her neck. Then she looked up.

The man standing at the door probably wasn't the absolute last person she expected to see, but he was pretty fucking close.

"Jim?" She stopped and stared.

[inthedeadzone]

At first, Capa didn't realize the woman was speaking to him and he moved aside, holding the door open so she could go inside if she needed to. A part of him wanted to move off into the snow, really search this island, but he knew he'd need a jacket for that task and he didn't know where to find one.

When she didn't move, he frowned and looked over at her. She'd said a name, but he shook his head, because it wasn't his. "Capa," he corrected, still standing on the front step in the snow, his shoes and socks growing wet.

[resident_alice]

Clones, Alice thought, feeling sick. At least it wasn't one of hers. At least he wasn't dead. Despite this, she found it hard to process at first, and it took standing there staring for a few moments longer for her frozen throat to start working again.

"Sorry," she croaked. "You look like someone I used to know." Jesus, the spitting image.

[inthedeadzone]

At the tone of her voice, Capa's frown grew deeper and he suddenly felt like he should be the one apologizing. What for, he wasn't sure, but he didn't like to make anyone sound like that.

"I'm sorry," he said and the apology was genuine. He must have looked an awful lot like this Jim, but if Capa couldn't dismiss the idea that he'd fallen to another world, he couldn't dismiss the idea that he looked that much like another person. "Robert Capa," he added, still standing aside, holding the door open for her.

[the_support]

It wasn't the first time Ellie had to treat someone John Sheppard had to drag in. This man was a little more cooperative than Elle had been, though just as insistent about staying out of the clinic as much as possible. She'd been worried about him leaving, but she knew she couldn't make him stick around. She hadn't expected to see him again, especially not in front of the door. She watched him for a moment, frowning thoughtfully.

"You should at least get into something warmer, you know," she commented, though not chidingly. Her arms folded against her chest in a vain attempt to keep herself warm, too. The weather was getting worse instead of better.

[inthedeadzone]

Some people had a way about them that invited you to feel comfortable -- rarely astronauts and never scientists in Capa's experience -- and he couldn't help but smile a little at the sight of Dr. Bartowski. "Would you believe me if I told you this was a pleasant summer day where I came from?" he asked, but shut the door all the same.

The woman had stitched him up, after all, the last thing he wanted to do was give her a cold by accident just because he'd been too busy searching for Icarus.

[the_support]

She furrowed her eyebrows at that, though she certainly didn't not believe him. "You'll see pretty soon people come from all different places here, so I don't doubt it. Is that why you were in that suit?"

Admittedly, she was grateful that he'd closed the door. Even wearing a layer or two, it was still pretty cold.

[inthedeadzone]

"In a way, yes," Capa answered, glancing back at the door briefly before he let the wall take his weight, resting there. "I was wearing the suit because I was in space, trying to push a bomb into the sun."

Smiling wryly, he rubbed the bridge of his nose, then pushed his hair back off his face. "I was trying to push a bomb into the sun because the world I came from was in the middle of a solar winter."