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[kensei_yatta]

Hiro had been on the island for several weeks now. He couldn't believe it had almost been a month. It seemed like every day his 'celebrity' sighting list got longer and longer. He was happy enough with his life on the island, but he wouldn't be upset if his powers saw fit to start working again. He really had a lot to catch Ando up on

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[kensei_yatta]

The smile on his face faded into a look of confusion. "Jesus what?" he asked. It seemed like an odd expression to him.

"I apologize," he said. "I wasn't trying to scare people. What floor?" he asked, stepping completely into his new found role.

[kensei_yatta]

He nodded happily, making room in the elevator for her.

"I've been doing that all day," he shared.

[1000_cranes]

Charlie hadn't exactly been intending to get into the lift but, when she heard the shout, it startled her so badly that she dropped her laundry basket, spilling her and Ianto's clean clothes across the corridor.

"Oh, damn." She glared at the figure in th lift. "Hiro Nakamura! What the hell do you think you're doin' in there?"

[kensei_yatta]

"CHARLIE!" he exclaimed happily. "I am operating the elevator. Going up?" He gave a silly grin.

"Oh, do you need some help?" he said. He'd been so caught up with his elevator operator job that he hadn't noticed her laundry immediately.

[1000_cranes]

"You could help me, yeah," said Charlie, She didn't have it in her to be irritated with him, though, and she was smiling as she huffed her hair out of her eyes.

"You nearly scared me out of my skin, Hiro. You can't just go yelling at people."

[kensei_yatta]

He hopped out of the elevator and squatted down to help her pick up her things.

"I wasn't yelling, Charlie. I was just exclaiming happily," he said. "Yatta!" he demonstrated at a lower pitch. "See?"

[callofkaren]

Even with the stairs right there and the games two floors down, it was still a novelty to be able to take the new elevator, and Karen did whenever she could.

She just didn't expect to be startled out of her mind when the doors opened. "Jesus Christ!" When she got her breath back, Karen stared at the person standing in the elevator. "Hiro?"

[kensei_yatta]

"Hello," he said brightly. "It's me! Did you know other me?" He was so delighted with being recognized that he didn't even bother with the usual reaction of shock.

[callofkaren]

"Yeah," Karen answered with a laugh, unable to do anything else once she was over the surprise of seeing Hiro again. The whole thing with Pam was weighing on her so much lately, that seeing a friend come back without all that baggage attached was more than pleasant.

She darted inside when the elevator door began to close. "I'm Karen Filippelli, we met about a year ago, probably. I gave you a Wonder Woman comic, you told me Rogue from the X-Men was here, and thus, a friendship was born."

[kensei_yatta]

"She is?" He was elated to know there were more super heroes on the island.

"I wonder what Other Me did with that comic." He would love to read it when Charlie's hut was particularly quiet. "Nice to meet you, again, Karen Filippelli."

[historyisme]

In truth, it was not Hiro who was avoiding Adam, so much as Adam choosing against spending time in populated areas. The thought of further encounters with Hiro's self-righteousness was not the most encouraging thought for social interaction. The thought that he'd probably told every passerby about Adam's sinister deeds was nauseating.

He'd spent eight months on the island, and hadn't even done anything particularly underhanded. The way Hiro talked, the man should have been surprised he didn't control the entire island by now. Delusions, however, were never the most rational of things, and often proved remarkably resilient against things like logic and common sense

[kensei_yatta]

"Oh, it's you." His smile fading almost entirely. There was silence between the two of them for a moment.

"Going up?" he finally asked, though with less enthusiasm than he'd had all day.

[historyisme]

A century or two ago, he might've rolled his eyes. Now, he only sighed.

"You didn't expect me to be conveniently disappeared, did you?" He shook his head slightly, frowning. "Are you going to stand in there all day, Hiro?"

[kensei_yatta]

"Maybe," Hiro admitted to the first question.

"Only until you decide which floor," he insisted.

[gorramcheerful]

Who wouldn't want to take a look at the new elevators? 'Course Kaylee was already hoping they'd need someone now and again to tinker on the things, not that she knew the innards of a elevator proper, but she'd work it out, she reckoned pretty easy too. Had turning, working parts the same as Seremity

Kaylee wandered up to take a look, curious and dying to make use of the new novelty, never mind the place she game from had technology far in advance, and space travel, elevator rides were fun and there were always folk to talk to.

Or sometimes they came to you. To her complete surprise, as she stood waiting for the doors to open someone was there the second they parted and greeted her with a yell. Kaylee herself, did something between a gasp and a yelp. "Wǒde mā!" She put a hand to her chest as if to slow her pounding heart. "You okay in there?" She asked, between concerned and confused. She gripped the door to stop it closing on the guy.

[Wǒde mā! = Oh my god!]

[kensei_yatta]

He leaned sideways a little to see who was out there. He was quite surprised to see Jewel Staite. He only remembered her name because it was so unusual. Like Cloud Strife or Q.

"Yatta!" he exclaimed again. "Hello. I'm Hiro. Are you going up? Or down?" He was ready to press the button for her. Who didn't want to be trapped in an elevator with Jewel Staite after all?

[gorramcheerful]

Kaylee calmed some, well at least he wasn't hurt or under the impression he was trapped or anything like that. After all some folk were from times where there weren't anything near as fancy.

"Hiya." She grinned brightly, not so worried. You don't meet many this enthusiastic 'bout an elevator. " Nice t'meet y'Hiro I'm Kaylee." She peered in, looking undecided really, a brow arched. "Well t'be honest I ain't got anywhere so particular to go- ..I was just plannin' on takin' a ride." She walked in. "So, I guess it's your pick."

[kensei_yatta]

He'd met Kaylee! Everyone loved Joss Whedon. Everyone had been disappointed that the Firefly series had ended so early and everyone had been so elated that Serenity had been made. Everyone of course meant Hiro.

"Ok," he said as he pushed all the buttons. As the doors closed, he turned toward her. "This wasn't here before Saturday," he explained as though being the elevator operator had somehow given him particular insight into the device's mysterious appearance. In fact, he only knew it had appeared suddenly because Glen had said so.