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Claudia Donovan ([personal profile] notmyownage) wrote2011-11-23 12:38 am
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Room 317, Tuesday night

Claudia came back from the causeway looking the very definition of downtrodden. She'd spent all day trying to book a trip to Geneva without having to be rerouted through places of which only Azerbaijan even sounded familiar with no success, and now Scully was stranded in Baltimore instead of back in the dorms where she damn well belonged.

She made it back to her room just in time to hear her phone beep. She pulled it out, found a number that more closely resembled an IP address than anything phone related, and frowned. She hit play and listened to the message.

When it was done, she stared at her phone. "WHAT THE HELL," she told it. "PHONES ARE NOT FOR TROLLING, DICKBAG."

[ooc: establishy but also open should anyone want to stop by.]
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[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are we shouting at phones now?" Quinn asked, from her spot on her bed. It looked like she was goofing around on Facebook; in fact she was making a list of every single person no longer in her friends network.

The sarcasm was her defense mechanism, and she'd be damned if she let the cracks behind it show.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Only when they call you a 'teenage flesh lump'," Claudia grumbled. "That was the worst wrong number message ever."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe he was hoping you'd talk dirty to him," Quinn said, glancing over. "Tell him all about your ... flesh lumps."

Her nose wrinkled as she spoke.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Claudia gave a full body shudder. "Ew. He was pretty explicit about how much he hated all of us, actually."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Can I hear?" Quinn was intrigued now, and this promised to be mroe entertaining than searching for the rest of the McKinley High School football roster from memory.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you really want to." Claudia pulled up the message again and held the phone out for Quinn.

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Quinn listened, gave Claudia an odd look, then replayed the message before hanging up.

"Gross," she agreed. "What do you think the emptiness he was talking about at the end is? Is it some religious thing?"
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"It definitely sounds pretty abstract. And he mentioned 'Santos' at the start, there."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Saints," Quinn translated (thank you, Mr. Schuester). "Sorry he felt the need to share his perversions with you."
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's actually one of the less weird things that's happened lately." Claudia shrugged. "Wait, does he think that all the saints are a bunch of high school students?"

Did she really want to examine the thinking of the wrong number dialer who'd ranted on her voicemail?

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe it's more like swearing," Quinn suggested. "Like 'oh my god,' only not."

She gave Claudia a sympathetic look. "You're getting amazing disappearing people too, huh?"
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yep. No one I'm super close to yet, knock on wood. But my coworkers are both suddenly only children, and my universe apparently no longer has an HG Wells."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"My sister's gone," Quinn volunteered. "And a couple random people from school. And Ryan Seacrest."

Please don't ask how she knew that one.

"I keep hoping it's the island being weird and it'll be fine, but..."

She frowned. It had been way longer than your normal 'island being weird' thing.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh my god, your sister?" Claudia would be going nuts if Joshua disappeared again, so she thought Quinn must be repressing to sound even remotely calm about it. "That's terrible!"

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Repression was a Fabray family specialty, and it served Quinn well.

"It came up when I called my mom to tell her I couldn't make it home for Thanksgiving," Quinn said. "She told me I was too old for imaginary siblings."
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's just . . . wrong. In so many ways."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know," Quinn agreed, letting her surface crack a tiny bit. "She used to look out for me, when we were younger, you know? I was in her wedding. And now I called her husband and -- he said he didn't know a Franny. I don't know what else I can do."
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wish I could help." She wished Artie would stop thinking she'd messed with the wrong artifact and started believing that this was actually happening. "Feels kind of like we're helpless, this time."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"There's Wesley's email," Quinn said. "Maybe he and Ben and Ender and everybody will figure something out at that meeting. Or maybe it's the end of the world."

She wasn't remotely joking.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's ridiculous," Claudia said automatically. "The end of the world isn't going to happen for millions of years, when the sun goes nova."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Quinn gave her a skeptical look. "Uh-huh. And you know because you were there and saw it yourself?"
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Claudia pouted. "Shut up."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bite me," Quinn retorted, clearly not genuinely offended. It was more a ritualistic ... thing. A normalcy thing. "Anyhow, I hope you're right about the millions-of-years-from-now part."
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, well, anywhere but Fandom I totally would be. Any Earth where, anyway."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Great, now you have me wondering if we're technically on earth or if this is some bizarre simulation," Quinn groaned.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Claudia blinked. "Well, a simulation could potentially be hacked. . . ."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like in that Keanu Reeves movie?" Quinn asked. "Well, if it is one, maybe this is all because it got a virus or something."

Look at her, with that techy talk.
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, that'd make sense." No it wouldn't. Look, Claudia had already gotten it into her head to try to hack the multiverse. It was probably best not to expect actual sense out of her, possibly ever again.

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"It would?" Quinn's knowledge about hacking would fit on a postcard, so she was going to be impressed with herself. "I completely knew that."
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. I mean, you'd think there'd be some evidence of whatever is self-replicating and deleting the files --" meaning people, objects, and universes, "-- but other than that. . . ."

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-11-23 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe the evidence is how it's making us all feel like we're nuts?" Quinn suggested hopefully. "I dunno. It's a theory."
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[personal profile] notmyownage 2011-11-23 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm willing to try just about anything, right now," Claudia admitted.
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