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Interplanetary Travel 101: This Is Not Kansas

Nov 21, 2008 00:41

She checked the seals on her Hazmat suit a few more times and then made sure the hoses were working properly, which they were. Lam was fairly confident the suit was sound -- she did this every time -- and stepped up to the shimmering ripple of the gate, her hands full of equipment to deal with just about anything save major surgery. SG-12 was still ( Read more... )

dr. daniel jackson, debut, dr. carolyn lam, trance gemini, harry sullivan, cameron mitchell

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shot_my_shoes November 21 2008, 14:10:00 UTC

"That's a little warm for a tropical island." There weren't many people who would dress like that, even if that was all the clothes box gave them, so Harry wondered if she was a new arrival. That he hadn't seen her around before told him nothing because he hadn't really been concentrating on who was around. He smiled at her anyway because it never hurt to be friendly.

shot_my_shoes November 22 2008, 16:48:28 UTC

"It's definitely better than not having it at all." He sighed. "There doesn't seem to be a way home."

savedthatjaffa November 23 2008, 01:51:50 UTC

"That you know of," Lam said, eyebrows raised. "Maybe there is one and it just hasn't been found yet."

shot_my_shoes November 23 2008, 12:27:34 UTC

"True." He couldn't disagree with that. "But I know people who have been here longer than me and if there was a way out of here, they'd have found it." Sarah was definitely one of those people, he was sure.

savedthatjaffa November 23 2008, 16:29:00 UTC

"Maybe they weren't looking in the right spot," Lam said quietly. "Just because no one's figured it out yet, doesn't mean its impossible."

shot_my_shoes November 23 2008, 16:47:20 UTC

"I wouldn't rule it out completely. It's good to have some hope, at least." And it didn't seem fair to tell someone else they were doomed. That was something they'd have to decide for themselves later on.

savedthatjaffa November 23 2008, 16:50:30 UTC

"In my line of work, when you lose hope people die," she said very quietly.

shot_my_shoes November 23 2008, 16:55:54 UTC

"It's more than just hope they need," he pointed out. "But that's a help, I'm sure."

savedthatjaffa November 23 2008, 17:16:10 UTC

She frowned lightly.

"If you're a crap doctor," she said, "hope isn't going to help your patient. Skill is, of course desirable, but the moment you lose hope in a patient's recovery is the moment they stop believing in their own survival. Different methods for different doctors, I suppose." Lam shrugged lightly. "The same thing applies to getting home. Either you lose hope and settle for this," she spread a hand, "or you keep hoping and keep searching. There's nothing wrong with either, it's just a matter of preference."

shot_my_shoes November 23 2008, 17:46:35 UTC

He folded his arms. "I'm not a crap doctor." Even if he wouldn't use that word, he still wasn't. Here, that was the only thing he had and he wasn't going to take criticism from someone who barely knew him and certainly had no idea of the sort of things he'd seen at UNIT.

"Good luck in going mad searching," he said, and walked away. Although, to be fair, you could go equally mad settling for this.

savedthatjaffa November 23 2008, 17:54:49 UTC

"...that was the use of the hypothetical 'you'," Lam shot after him with a sigh. "And it's not mad searching if it ends up in finding something." She rubbed at the bridge of her nose and frowned deeply before walking off in the opposite direction. It wasn't mad to want to find a way home or to even hope for one. She kicked a booted foot at the sand, refusing to give up hope on her first day.

You didn't just...abandon hope.

You didn't.

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