Fourteenth Gate [Video]

[forsometimenow]

Who: Jennifer Keller and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Wonderduck, or elsewhere if you want to take it there
When: November 6th

[When the feed clicks on without any intervention, as Atroma-made devices are wont to do, Jennifer's still asleep. However, it's but a few moments before she wakes, giving a gasp and looking around for a moment, confused, before it sinks in, and she lets out a moan of frustration.]

Goddamnit. [Then, realizing her communicator is turned on, she grabs it and turns it off, with a long-suffering sigh.

After talking to Beverly, Jennifer takes some time to check out her ship and its crew, making sure things are the same as they were when she went to sleep- for she'd gone home for a while, and been kept busy. Satisfied that nothing major had happened in her absence, when Jennifer makes a deliberate broadcast, this time she's holding up a new sponsor gift- a gray jacket with yellow stripes and a black leather jacket, replicas of her uniform from home. Except the Atlantis logo reads ATLANTA, and the pegasus has been replaced by a unicorn, and the yellow stripes on her jacket are very... neon.]

Now that I'm awake again, anybody want to start a sports team called the Atlanta Unicorns? Atroma was kind enough to welcome me back with these, and it struck me as a very good team name. Thanks, sponsors, you're the best.

[The sarcasm is laid on pretty thick.]

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[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer gripped her friend's hand, gave it a squeeze before closing her eyes and letting out a long sigh, before opening them to wink at Beverly.]

I think that makes us even now, right? So no more naps for us for a while.

[dancingmd]

No more naps.

[Beverly leans over and kisses Jennifer’s temple. It’s agreed (Though of course they both know there’s nothing they can do to prevent it).]

[forsometimenow]

[And that made Jennifer go a little red, but she was feeling more grounded now.]

... I'm glad I did get to go home, though. I saw for myself that my life is waiting for me, just like it was. It's reassuring.

[dancingmd]

Good. Then it won't be quite so hard to lose you when the time comes.

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer closed her eyes, slowly inhaling an exhaling as she did so. When the time comes. It was an inevitability, she supposed, even though she had no idea how long it would take.]

When the time comes... because it will. I'm just glad to know for sure that they never missed me back home, never had to deal with me vanishing. Unless alternate universes are in play, which is always possible.

[dancingmd]

Oh don't even start there... Gives me enough of a headache thinking about Jim and Dr. McCoy, much less all the other possibilities.

[forsometimenow]

[And that teased a smile out of her.]

I guess I'll try to just live in the moment as much as I can. The one I went back to will keep going as normal when I get back, so the others will take care of themselves.

[dancingmd]

[Beverly wraps an arm around Jennifer’s shoulders and pulls her in closer.]

We should do something fun… I guess a spa is not really an option at the moment but I’m sure we can think of something.

[forsometimenow]

I'd like to just stretch my legs a bit... maybe get back to the garden on the Iskaulit. I haven't been over there to tend to the plants in a dog's age.

[dancingmd]

"A dog's age"?

[Beverly's eyes sparkle with the discovery of yet another old-fashioned phrase.]

I haven't heard that one before!

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer giggled.]

Really? It's pretty common back home... but then again, you're from far into the future, no?

[dancingmd]

Mmm. About three hundred years.

[forsometimenow]

[She shook her head in wonder.]

And Simon was even further than that. It's good to know that humanity still thrives that far ahead, though. In my time we're worried we're either going to nuke each other to oblivion or global warming's going to get us before we can find another place to live.

[dancingmd]

Mmm. Simon's world is very different from mine though. No one else but humans out there.

[forsometimenow]

Alternate universes, then. Still, there's a strong possibility humanity will survive, and that's good enough for me.

[dancingmd]

We're a pretty tough and stubborn race, when it comes down to it.

[forsometimenow]

Darn humans. We just don't give up, no matter what the odds are.

[dancingmd]

Much to the annoyance of some other species.

[forsometimenow]

Like the Wraith, on my part. Humans are food to them, but we did everything we could to make the experience unpleasant.

[dancingmd]

Mmm. Though even our allies can get frustrated.

[forsometimenow]

Yeah... especially when you never seem to be making any progress. When you're up against an enemy that's equally tenacious, sometimes they don't want to wait for results.

[dancingmd]

Hopefully we'll just be stubborn enough for Atroma.