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The rain had faded away approximately a week before but Helen hadn't really had the chance to get out in the sun and just enjoy it. First, it was wanting to finish a book she'd found in the Compound, then it was clinic duties...but on a Sunday afternoon, even she had to admit there was very little in the way of work she could contrive. She had,

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[theunascended]

"Isn't that always harder than it seems?" Loki was down at the water examining the crustaceans and Daniel was just ambling along after him. He whistled sharply when he stopped, so that she wouldn't go too far. "I always get lost in my own work, even here when there's not as much that I can actually do." Teach. And more teaching.

"Hello, Dr. Magnus. I promise I don't think you're Sam this time."

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"Hello, Dr. Jackson," Helen said pleasantly, smiling up at him. "I promise not to think you're my friend Jimmy this go around and I think we'll be better for it. Out for an afternoon walk?"

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Daniel nodded down at the water's edge. "Loki takes after her namesake. She's a troublemaker if she doesn't get what she wants and what she wanted was a walk. How does..." He looked down at her book and his eyebrows rose. "How does Tolkien seem like work?" Come to think of it, he wasn't sure what her doctorate was in.

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"Well, I was overanalysing," Helen admitted, blushing a little. "I have a tendency to think too much, even when I'm trying to relax."

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"What do you do, then? Literature teacher?" He didn't think there were any people with doctorates actually in the Lord of the Rings and he wasn't sure what else work-related could come from that type of novel and a modern-seeming woman. At least she'd been dressed in modern clothes when she'd first arrived.

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"Surgeon," Helen clarified. "But I'm a jack of all trades, really. I have to be, given my position within the Sanctuary network. I...rehabilitate certain types of people, if you will."

[theunascended]

"Certain types?" Daniel asked, although it wasn't exactly hard to put two and two together. Her reading a book about elves and dwarves and hobbits and her profession one of surgeon. "I take it those people aren't exactly human?" There was no judgment in his voice. He'd known and liked several non-humans. Just curiosity.

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"Not always, no," Helen said, trying to hedge a little. "Sometimes just...talented humans."

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Daniel waved a hand. "I've dealt with aliens. Whatever you're going to say you worked with, I'll believe you."

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Helen smiled a little easier. "Super-powered humans, then," she explained. "We call them Abnormals, in addition to any number of strange creatures that roam the earth. Will helps me."

[theunascended]

"Then I'll bet you were from a different universe than I'm from," Daniel said easily. "Because out of everyone, our team would have been the one to hear about something like that." They would have had to consider whether it was an impending invasion.

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"Ah, I imagine it was anyway. I met Samantha," Helen said, frowning slightly. "I don't think there can be two women so impossibly alike in the same universe."

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"Cloning technology," Daniel pointed out, being all too familiar with Ba'al and his clones. "Or maybe custom built androids." The way he spoke made it obvious he had experience in both areas. "But no, usually the only way it happens is other universes."

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"Your world sounds like an interesting one," Helen said, tilting her head a little in thought. "I could get bogged down for ages in comparative minutiae. Let's hope we can find something to distract me before I waste your days asking you questions," she teased, smiling a little.

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Daniel laughed. "Oh, probably not. I'm an anthropologist among other things. I'd be happy trading fact for fact to see just what the differences are, so don't think it'd be just one-sided. I'm sure we could have conversational fodder for weeks based on just internal threats from not-so-nice creatures on Earth versus outside invasions from not-so-nice aliens from off-planet."

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"Ah, but this is the first holiday I've had in years," Helen said, waving it off. "We'll compare cultures later. Today, I'm enjoying the beach and a good book and fine company."