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[orangetoughguy]

accidental audio

[Look when you're trying to learn how to use this device thing there are going to be mistakes. This is one of them. Beep beep. Click.]

"I thought he died."

"No, he didn't die. They don't do that kind of shit. It's Happy Days."

[Beep of a button being pressed. Slurping a drink.]

"Well he disappeared."

"Yeah, they call it college. At least in TV land. Either way, after a while it didn't matter."

[More shuffling...and maybe the crinkling of a wrapper...then:]

"You seriously watched Happy Days?"

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[adamantined]

That guy you're with. The one you're talking to. If he ever gave me his name, I can't remember it, but he did say something about a show on TV called BJ and the Bear. Hence, BJ.

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[orangetoughguy]

[Oh he doesn't like the fact that this makes Freddy the goddamn Bear.]

I gotta fix that. Too much TV rots your brain.

[Hypocrite, meet one.]

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[adamantined]

What about the educational programs?

[Like ones on manatees.]

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[orangetoughguy]

You got a recommendation for me, Miss?

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[adamantined]

I'm not a Miss. I'm a Claire. And anything on the Discovery or National Geographic Channel will prove that point wrong. Come back to me when you've seen Planet Earth.

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[orangetoughguy]

I'm from it, Claire.

[Sorry Claire, 1992 is where it's at.]

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[adamantined]

You didn't exactly strike me as the Martian type.

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[orangetoughguy]

I'd hope not. I ain't green.

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[adamantined]

Not everyone from space is green.

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[orangetoughguy]

You'd know?

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[adamantined]

Earth is in space. And you aren't green.

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[orangetoughguy]

[. . . . . . . .]

Damn.

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[adamantined]

Besides, haven't you ever seen Star Wars?

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[orangetoughguy]

Yoda was green. Ackbar was orange.

[Claire doesn't know it but he sort of just walked into that trap.]

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[adamantined]

[Give her a moment to remember who Ackbar is. She only recently learned that it's a trap.]

And Darth Vader was Mufasa. The point I'm trying to make is that this isn't the day and age when Martians and other aliens are only green or goopy and gross. And in this place, you're likely to run into someone from Mars who looks like they come from your neighborhood.

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[orangetoughguy]

And you know this because...?

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[adamantined]

Well, I've been here two years and almost two months, now.I think I've got a pretty good grip on the situation.

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[orangetoughguy]

You too? I don't plan on bein' around that long.

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[adamantined]

No one really has a say in how long they're here for, unless you -

[Claire bites her lip to stop herself where she is.]

You sound a lot better than the first time I heard you over the Network.

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[orangetoughguy]

[Curiosity piqued over that "you--" but then she says that.]

What first time?

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[adamantined]

You were trying to get something. It was a few days ago, right after you and BJ had just gotten here. It was probably accidentally posted, too.

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[orangetoughguy]

Oh. That. Yeah I think I remember that.

[Whew. He thought she was going to mention his bloody drop in.]

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[adamantined]

[It's the drop in that she's thinking about, but she is trying to go about this delicately. You can't just ask people if they're dead.]

So you're doing better? From that.

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[orangetoughguy]

[Play it cool, Freddy.]

Yeah, a lot better. At least this time I know who I'm talkin' to and how.

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[adamantined]

What were you trying to get that first time, anyway?