video, 01

[unbridles]

Who: John Laurens
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: Aboard the Marsiva
When: Right the heck now.

[He wasn't expecting a bed. More to the point, he wasn't expecting to wake up at all; did someone wake up when they were dead? He's not sure. Well. At least he doesn't hurt after dying, though John can't remember it hurting much before, either. He sits up anyway, still clad in his continental uniform, now with a mysterious lack of bulletholes. In doing so, he jars the communicator nearby, and it falls to the floor with a clatter.]

Shit, what -- [Oh. Okay. There's a thing on the floor, he's surrounded by mysterious silvery walls, and he's trying not to panic. This is great. Maybe the thing will have some answers. So he picks up the comm and pokes at it, tentatively. That manages to activate the video, and behold, there's one seriously perplexed lieutenant colonel onscreen.]

--Um. Can anyone maybe tell me what the hell is goin' on? Is anyone there?

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[mucked]

I take it you weren't, then? [ alive. a hum of understanding. ] It's a common enough affliction in these parts. You'll be in good company.

[unbridles]

Definitely not as far as I can remember. This place makes a habit of that?

[mucked]

It does. For some.

[unbridles]

I'm hopin' you're not in the same boat I was, then.

[mucked]

Heavens, no. I have it on good authority that I've got at least a handful of decades left in me yet.

[unbridles]

Glad to hear it then, miss. [He offers her a small smile.] I'm gonna take a real wild guess an' assume you're English?

[mucked]

On the nose, yes. [ a beat. ] Although it's been an awful long time since I've been back there.

[unbridles]

I went to school in London for a while, but I ain't been there in some time, either.

[mucked]

London? Well, so did I. [ and bless her, but the school she attended actually still existed back in laurens's time. ] But my work keeps me in America, these days.

[unbridles]

[He lifts his eyebrows, and that smile turns into a grin.] Oh yeah? Where?

[mucked]

New York. With the occasional detour toward California.

[unbridles]

[!!! New York! A place near and dear to his heart. Aside from, y'know, the battles that were happening until recently. California, he's not so sure about, ain't it a colony of Spain right now?]

One'a my dearest friends lives in New York. Or, well, he does when he ain't with the General.

[mucked]

Military man, is he? [ she could go on and on about the person dearest to her from new york, but she's grown too accustomed to protecting that part of herself. no matter; steve can make his own friends. ]

[unbridles]

Yeah, he's a lieutenant colonel, same as me. Haven't seen him in a while, though, I've been down south an' he's up there with his wife an' son.

[mucked]

[ -- she eyes the uniform. considers the implication of military action. ] Peggy Carter, Lieutenant Colonel. Pleasure to meet you.

[unbridles]

[And he offers a gentlemanly bow. As much as he can over the comm.] John Laurens, miss. Pleased to meet you as well.

[mucked]

[ a crinkle of her nose. there's no immediate recognition there -- of course not, her education would have only provided her with bigger names. comparatively. back in england. ]

And what year did you leave behind?

[unbridles]

[Well, yeah, and the fact that he died before the war properly ended might have a bit to do with that, too.]

Last I can recall, it was August 1782.

[mucked]

Good God. [ peggy knows the uniform now, she realizes. a living, breathing revolutionary. well -- so long as he's here, it seems. ] Helluva year, Lieutenant Colonel.

[unbridles]

Yeah; it's definitely been an eventful one. [He hadn't been at Yorktown proper, but he'd definitely heard about it.]

[mucked]

I'm afraid I'm a bit beyond it -- 1947, in fact.

[unbridles]

So there's people from all sorts'a different times here. Good to know I'm not the only one playin' catch-up.

[mucked]

All sorts of times. Usually, I find I'm the one lagging behind -- many people you'll meet are from the 21st century.

[unbridles]

Damn. [A beat.]--Sorry, miss. [But to go back to an earlier topic, since it's caught his attention:]

You mentioned California, earlier. I'm gonna assume the states are a lot bigger'n the thirteen colonies I know for you, probably, yeah?

[mucked]

Much bigger. America takes up her fair share of the continent, now. Your thirteen colonies have grown to some forty-eight states.