Meatslop: It's what's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner [Open]
It had been months since Stacy had released Sarah Kerrigan but the meatship hadn't seen very much of her. It wasn't because she preferred to spend her days alone, at least not solely. It was safer this way. For her and for everyone else on the ship. She had come clean to the Captain, given him a short explanation of her reign as the Queen of Blades
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John Crichton could say one thing with any certainty and that was that he really, really, really didn't like Stacy's idea of food. It made food cubes look five star. At least that didn't have puke's texture. He didn't care how filling it was supposed to be or how it was supposed tailored to a human's nutrient needs. It looked like old puke and felt like it, if he'd made it a point to go running his hands in week old - all right, stopping that train of thought right there ( ... )
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"Soylent Green?" There was a time when she wouldn't have needed to ask but the Daligig felt that mind reading either wasn't an important power or it was too much of a threat. Now she had to focus if she wanted to read someone and that was something she would rather avoid doing.
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"I've never seen a movie. And it hasn't been 2373 in a long time but I take it we are from very different universes."
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"Yeah, that's what I'm hearing. I mean, last I checked, it was 2000 for me," John said. Felt weird to be using Earth dates again, "years" instead of "cycles". He resisted the urge to go pointing at Sarah's dreads, if only barely. Definitely would've stood out back home. "So you're serious? Not even one? Star Wars, Star Trek (with the whales), Blade Runner? Nothing?"
Wow. Talk about depressing if nothing at all made it to her time. He would've thought at least the Three Stooges would've made it. John wasn't sure what would get her to smile but he figured if she was anything like him, talking might at least distract Sarah. It was either that or they could eat in silence and he didn't know about her, but he knew he wasn't ready for that.
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"None. I never had time for them." Which was a nice way of saving she spent her formative years drugged, neurally reprogrammed, and killing people instead of sitting around watching movies and eating popcorn. "Some of them sound vaguely familiar. A lot of people cling to what we have left from Earth. Sentimental or wishing for better times."
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Real straight-laced, he guessed. John had to admit, he couldn't picture someone who hadn't seen any movies or TV, ever. And there was that thing again, talking about Earth like it was gone. John was tempted to ask Sarah what she meant by that; he was sure he wouldn't like the answer. It didn't sound like she meant it in the Yeah, Ohm got my dimension too kind of way, like it was more in the present and not something from earlier. So maybe it wasn't that she was bummed out about?
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"If you can call it business. But no, I'm not the sentimental type. There's no point wishing for something you can never have again." She was struck by how false those words were for her now. What had she been doing all day? It was stupid of her and she knew it but somehow she couldn't make herself not think about what she could never have.
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It wasn't as if he didn't have suggestions for what Sarah here could do for fun - they were just all, y'know, really normal stuff in his opinion, nothing real sci-fi about it. Still, he was willing to give Sarah some pointers if he felt she was up for it. Woman looked like she could use a break in his opinion. For all he knew, her idea of unwinding might be as to-the-point as the Peacekeepers, so that'd be...interesting.
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Granted, some of them might not apply on a ship like Stacy, but he was pretty sure he'd seen some kind of Media Library when he'd been goofing off with the omnicomm and poking at what it had on it. Might be a place to start. Sarah had a lot of catching up on movies, for one.
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"If you knew me then you wouldn't offer."
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"Hey, it's movie night sans the popcorn. I'd say that's nice and slow for you," John said. Maybe he wasn't sure what her deal was and maybe he had to go through the whole getting to know you song and dance all over again with a new crew. He figured all he was doing was offering her a fun time. That was it, not fun-fun or any big commitment or anything he thought could get blown out of proportion. Sarah didn't strike him as the clingy type. Lone wolf brooding into the disgusting food here, sure.
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"Tell me you're not asking me on a date." Kerrigan concentrated on him in an attempt to read his mind. Damn the Daligig for making this hard on her. She used to long to be able to turn off the ability to read others' minds and but right now she wished everyone was an open book.
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"Uh," John blinked. If he had been asking for a date, that would've been a real blunt way to say "no". "That wasn't the plan, no. I was thinking more just I said I could make some suggestions and it's criminal if you haven't seen Blade Runner."
Assuming they even had Blade Runner. He had no idea what was there that he could show Sarah, only that the more he thought about it, the more he was determined to at least show her how to have some fun, non-date style.
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"In that case, yes." She couldn't believe she just said that but this was for the greater good.
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