http://bonhomme7h.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bonhomme7h.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2011-08-08 08:05 pm

It's like paradise, spread out with a butter knife :: [OPEN]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Réjean has decided that more people ought to celebrate and help raise a bit of dosh for one of his favourite bars. See: flyer.
Where: The Apache.
When: Misdi night and into the wee hours of the morning.
Warnings: Discussion of Pickman's manky feet.

The Apache is much the same as it always is: dimly lit, with the jukebox playing in the background, and the bartender serving whatever's on tap. Tonight, the bar is packed with people from all across the city, different cantons and cohorts, all out to celebrate surviving the fungal plague. Patrons are encouraged to buy tickets for a door prize with the proceeds going to repair the damage tunnelling ants made to the cellar.
captaincocksure: (confidence)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-14 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I know the feeling. I mean--my job. I've had to be in that situation, of watching while people go through really hard things and not being able to help. I don't envy you that experience."

The smile comes back and he holds up a hand. "Let me get that beer. Don't go anywhere, Toshiko. My seat's depending on you."

He vanishes momentarily into the crowd.

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, someone has to man the fort, right?" Might as well make the best of the situation you're given, Tosh figures. There are too many more important things to expend energy worrying about changing.

She nods in agreement as Jim heads off on his beer errand, and after a moment turns and plonks her feet up on the seat of the other chair, just to be sure no one gets any ideas. That is, of course, assuming he actually intends to return, which Tosh doesn't necessarily take for granted.
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[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-16 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice. Nicely done."

Jim returns with a beer in each hand and the brightest grin on his face, because clearly this is awesome. "Now that's a proper defense of property. Done with style! I like it."

He holds out a beer for her to take. "As promised. A beer for a seat."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-16 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Tosh grins right back at him, because he came back, which is indeed awesome, and even kept his end of the bargain. She drops her feet back onto the floor and takes the offered beer.

"Why thank you, Mr. Kirk," she laughs. This might be the best party she's been to in a long time. "So what do you plan to do while you're here besides fight giant insects?"
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[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-16 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Please, just Jim's fine." He settles into the seat saved for him, reaching across and tapping his glass against hers as if in a toast, not waiting to be invited or for one to even be proposed.

"Plan?" He shrugs a bit, sipping from his beer. "Don't really have one beyond 'get out of here and get home to my ship'. They tell me I can't but I've never been big on listening to what 'they' say. I need to try."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Then I'm just Tosh," she offers back, clinking her glass to his with a grin.

"If there's a way in, there's a way out. I mean, this isn't my first time in one of these places, so there's pretty good evidence right there." Then something specific in Jim's statement hits her, and her expression grows both curious and wary. "What sort of ship?"
captaincocksure: (heroic)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-18 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Really, Tosh." And now she has even more of his attention, never mind she had all of it a moment ago. More than full attention. Something like that. "How did you get out before?"

He smiles a proud little smile as he answers her question. "She's a Constitution-class Starship, the Federation's Flagship. Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise, at your service."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't really my doing, I didn't have a choice in it. But my point is that it does go both ways, I'm sure it must. It makes no sense otherwise. There's got to be some kind of temporal-spacial field or boundary of some kind but that's not impossible to get past, just really complicated."

Oh. A spaceship. That makes her even warier -- sure, he looks human, but so did Mary. "What planet are you from?"

Sometimes it's easy for Tosh to forget that not all aliens are out to kill you and nest in your remains, or destroy the existence of your entire timeline on a whim. But he does seem nice... (but then, so did Mary).
captaincocksure: (enter the captain)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-19 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
The smile's still there--he doesn't mind the interrogation. It seems he's different enough from most of the arrivals, based on the conversations he's already had, that offering information about himself seems to lead to them.

"Earth," he says. "I was born and raised in Riverside, Iowa. I enlisted in Starfleet in 2255 and was commissioned Captain of my ship in 2258. It had just turned 2259 right before I wound up here."

A pause, and then: "...I'm human, in case that was going to be your next question."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh!" Tosh is not unfamiliar with time travel, and the information clearly puts her much more at ease. "That's all right, then. Guess it was pretty obvious, huh? It's just...where I come from, most of my experience with aliens has been pretty negative. Not that there aren't perfectly nice aliens living perfectly peaceful lives, but I don't usually run into the nice ones."

It sounds pretty prejudiced, she knows, but being dropped unceremoniously into a new dimension has caused some of the old gut reactions to kick in. "You know...it's sort of funny, now that I think on it -- all the Captains I know have names starting with J. They're all more than a bit flirty, too."
captaincocksure: (new captain in town)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-22 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
He shrugs slightly, still smiling. "I figured. I guess I'm from far enough away that I might as well be non-human, to people from other times. Can I ask what your experience is that you've had negative experiences with other species, and that you've further had experience with another flirty J-initialed Captain? You can't drop juicy things like that into a conversation and leave a guy hanging."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I don't know, you seem perfectly human to me. And I've met people from a lot further into the future than 2259. Unless you're using a different calendar, of course."

Tosh smiles at the question about Captains, glancing out into the crowd for a moment as if looking for someone. "Well, one would be my former boss, Captain Jack Harkness. Who's actually around here somewhere. And the other would be his former...partner, I guess, Captain John Hart. Who I suspect is sort of indirectly the reason I'm here."
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[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-22 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Jim nods and sips his beer as he listens. "Far as I know, Earth's calendar has always stayed the same. So 2259 should mean the same thing to you as it does to me."

He follows her gaze into the crowd. And for a moment there's another pang of homesickness, of longing. Not that he'd wish this fate on anyone but it must be a comfort not to be alone here.

"Really. Why do you think this Captain John Hart is behind you being here?"

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-23 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Less of a comfort perhaps than Jim would imagine, but this isn't Tosh's first rodeo -- she's learned to adapt and immerse herself.

"Well not directly, of course, but he's responsible for the series of events that led to me being shot and killed. Not that I'd be immune to inter-dimensional kidnapping if that hadn't happened -- I mean, Jack and Ianto are here, after all -- but this is their first, and it's my third. And I think if I'd been able to go back home after the first, chances are better that it wouldn't have happened again."

For all the talk about her own death, Tosh seems very at ease with topic.
captaincocksure: (eyes down)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-24 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Very at ease. Jim doesn't know whether to be impressed, worried, or sad.

"Let me make sure I'm following you--this is the third one of these places you've been dragged into?" he asks, keeping his tone light. "Damn. I guess I should stop complaining."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Tosh shrugs one shoulder, feeling a little sorry for seeming to make light of Jim's situation. "You get used to it, but I don't think this is all that normal. I like it though, I get to meet all kinds of interesting people."
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[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-24 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
He grins at that, nodding. "Now that, I can attest to." He pauses, making the sort of face one makes when they're taking a mental inventory. "So far I've met a lord of some far-off land who has a horse, a healer, the most chipper guy ever, a girl who wants me to forget her name--"

He turns his face, leaning in ever so slightly. "And you." His tone completely, obviously is trying to imply that she's the most interesting one of all.

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-25 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well now. Tosh isn't dumb enough not to recognize a line when she hears one, but she's spent her life too starved for attention to not be affected all the same. She blushes just the slightest bit, pursing her lips in a smile.

"I've met a handful of...very nice, normal-seeming people." None of whom actually are, but it's not like they wear signs proclaiming TELEPATH or SERIAL KILLER or SUPERVILLAIN. "And you."
captaincocksure: (hee)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-26 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
He grins at that, genuinely pleased. Look, he spent his entire adult life up until assuming command of the Enterprise making a career of not being your average, nice, normal-seeming (and therefore unremarkable and not at all memorable) person.

"Well, maybe we can trade off. I can start meeting the normal ones and you can start meeting the colorful ones."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-29 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Normal gets a new definition when you work for an organization like Torchwood -- and you get a new appreciation for the things that can't be classified as normal.

"That sounds like an interesting proposition, but how am I supposed to find the colorful ones? Are you going to direct them my way?"
captaincocksure: (amused)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-29 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Jim grins. "I could. I could weed out the really out-of-hand ones first, that way, too. Weirdo screening. Everyone should have it."

He takes a sip of his beer, surveying the crowds for a moment, before adding, "Not that I don't think you could take care of it yourself."

[identity profile] warped-inside.livejournal.com 2011-08-30 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Good save," Tosh laughs. "I can take care of myself, but I appreciate the sentiment. I suppose it would save me time to not have to deal with the weirdos. Assuming we have the same definition of weird."
captaincocksure: (flirty smile)

[personal profile] captaincocksure 2011-08-30 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
He laughs too, with a self-deprecating shrug. "Thanks. I sometimes remember to make sure I don't get sent packing in the first conversation."

Another sip of his beer and he nods--she's got a point, what constitutes a weirdo in a place like this, between two people whose professional lives consist largely of dealing with things that are just not normal? "Guess we'd have to come to a mutually agreeable definition. So nobody slips by who shouldn't."