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jane foster ([personal profile] bifroster) wrote in [community profile] capencowl20202020-01-17 05:53 pm
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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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[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2020-01-18 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Not too long after Jane's head hits the desk, a to-go cup of her favorite coffee is put down in front of her, along with a bag of bakery goodies. Bart may not like his job, but he doesn't mind dropping in on the brain trust now and then. His overseers don't realize how much he can learn just by walking through one of the labs, and while it's rarely complete, information is valuable, and he doesn't have to take anything out, thanks to his eidetic memory.

"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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[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2020-01-18 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"We're both probably gonna be pretty busy with the goings-on at Stark Tower. Never thought people would just start showing up again," Bart said, running a hand through his hair in a nervous gesture. "Least I could do is spend time with my favorite scientist."

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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[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2020-01-20 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
He'd been at this a long time, on this Earth longer than he'd managed to stay put anywhere else. That made him invested, and while he was trying to keep up appearances, he hoped maybe things would change soon.

"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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[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2020-01-24 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, be real, doc," Bart said, giving her a sly grin. "If you could substitute 'lab' for 'office,' you'd happily be one of those folks who never see the sun unless it's work-related."

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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[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2020-01-25 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"In the mean time, if you find any way to predict porter activity, or maybe reroute it, I'd love to hear about it," Bart said.


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."