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log; you won't find faith or hope down a telescope
GOVERNMENT WORK SUCKS // OTA
Jane groaned and laid her head down on her desk.
She knew the answers, but she had to put on a good show. Any delay that she could give this government, the better, because it would give the resistance a better chance to catch up or surpass them in solving this portal technology. It was the most she could do, as outright sabotage was proving to be harder to do with theoretical work and she did not want to risk something exploding on them—or worse, accidentally working.
If you’re a fellow government worker, feel free to sympathize. If you’re a government overseer, feel free to prod her. Or explain why you’re looking over her shoulder, because if you’re not either one of those, then why are you in her lab?
SNEAKING AROUND // OTA
The Mission Impossible theme song was not playing inside her head as she snuck down hallways and into various rooms, using a fabricated badge to unlock doors and computers along the way. She was a serious mole that took her double agent role very seriously. She was collecting information for the resistance and she was not secretly getting a thrill from it.
The building was supposed to be empty, but of course, anything can happen. If you should happen to stumble upon her, are you friend, foe, or uninterested janitor?
WHAT IN THE WORLD? // CLOSED TO LOKI
Jane could not believe this. She stared at the address in her hand. She looked up at the building in front of her. If the person who won her bid at the auction was Loki, she was going to scream. The possibility of that happening were astronomically low—she ran the numbers—but since when did statistics and probably ever work in her favor?
God, what she wouldn’t give for Darcy and one of her tasers.
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"Hey, Rainbow Brite, how goes the number crunching today?" Sure, the nickname was utterly inappropriate, but he'd seen a thing about how if you actually looked at the plot, the entire show was about a girl who'd been involved in slave labor, and, well, look at their lives.
"Figured you could use a boost, since one of us can actually enjoy caffeine." And if the world hadn't already been well on its' way to becoming a hellhole by his twenty-first birthday, he might have regretted not being able to get drunk, either.
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Jane sits up and smiles at him. He really was wonderful, and when they got out of here, she was going to make sure he ended up in a world that deserved him and a world he deserved. Something completely opposite of this. “Thanks, Bart. I like everyone needs a boost. Work is going as well as always.”
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There were so many levels of what was going on that it made him beyond twitchy at times. It barely took a thought to send out one of his "glitches" in a silent effort to make sure the coast was clear enough. That he'd started using the energy duplicates any time the whim took him, sometimes having one do something stupid like show up at a place they were guaranteed to be seen with a silly dance or other prank lent the air of lack of control. Hiding behind that let him pretend. And, well, sometimes they did just pop out without him planning it.
"What's your take?"
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But seeing his pranks, even as the higher ups continued to berate him and threaten to take action, gave her hope and steeled her resolve. If he could stick it out, so could she.
“I’m not sure. We don’t know if someone is on the other side of the porter controlling it, but I am certain that the people brought here were not willing. We’re dealing with something we don’t fully understand and honestly, the government should be working on better policies than the current ones instead of forcing results out of us.”
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"I haven't talked to a lot of people, but even back before, getting here tended to be a surprise. I didn't expect it, but the government was sure willing to step in and take advantage of the situation," Bart said. And that was as close as he usually would come to expressing disapproval, because you never really knew who was listening.
"I think the higher-ups just want answers, and they assume that if they keep pushing, someone will figure it out. It's like the patrols and everything else. We do enough of whatever, it's supposed to bring results. Just try not to be a squeaky wheel in this big machine. That's my job."
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“I’ll try not to, but they could have been more polite and understanding about the whole thing. No one chose to be here, any more than anyone asked to be born. I’d certainly be more cheerful in the morning if I had a team who just wanted to learn and discover alongside me, not meet some impossible demand from higher ups who haven’t left their offices in years.”
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He's seen how Jane gets when she's elbow deep in research chasing down some anomaly. At least the kinds that won't result in someone getting to play involuntary lab rat.
"The higher ups are never reasonable. It's like one of those unwritten laws of the universe."
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“Of course. Doing science all day would be a dream come true, if I could get funding without any strings attached.”
As she said many times, she’s no biologist of any sort. But if she could research black holes and prove theories and help humanity understand the world better? God, she would love that.
“Someday I am going to find a law book and make that a law.”
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He's used to finding ways to smile while the world burns. He doesn't know what else to do, really. Running is his thing, and if he could make that be more useful, he would. Connecting with other folks in the resistance while representing the government was a challenge, but one he'd been uniquely suited for. Being able to be in multiple places at once with his glitches was something nobody else could easily duplicate.
"I'd read that book, too."
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She has notebooks and programs and even the making of a portable device that could tap into the energy fields that the porters are tapping into (if that theory is correct). She is pulling out all the stops on these projects and her research and she is not slowing down.
And meeting people like him, who won’t give up when the going gets tough, is all the fuel she needs to keep working despite the obstacles in her way.
“I’ll write a dedication to you.”