Closed: In another life, I would be your girl.

[11calls]

Who: Alex Reagan and Richard Strand.
When: Early on in the AU plot.
What: The same two people who go to bed aren't the same two people who wake up in the morning.
Where: Dome 300 (their dome)
Warnings: No idea yet.
Notes: Closed log.


They’re sleeping, the way they always do with both of them curled up in the sunken bed that dominates the bedroom floor of the dome that they’d been sharing for over a year now, barring the nights when she’d been kidnapped. But it’s not the same two of them that went to bed as it is when they wake up. Not by a long shot. When Alex wakes, it’s not to the sun shining in her windows. Before everything happened with the show, Alex did sleep quite late and needed to set several alarms so she could make work on time.

Right now the only alarm that she’s had is that her face is pressed against someone’s bare chest. Not an entirely unheard of thing happening but it’s not something that she remembers from last night where she had just come home from work alone and had gone to bed alone. Definitely gone to sleep alone and not wherever the fuck this happened to be that was definitely not her sunny bedroom in Seattle!

Attempting to throw herself backwards off the bed, the dim light from the Sphere catches her eye, and the wall around the bed catches her back and Alex can’t help but to let out a scream at both. It’s a true scream and not a sound that Alex actually makes very often, but it’s very her nonetheless. More than that, it's very loud in the small and enclosed space of the bed that the two of them were currently in.

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[11calls]

Alex just gestures towards it. “Well take a look because I’m definitely not making this up!”

[nobasisinfact]

The fish are an odd addition as he looks out the window, but something catches his attention more than that. It's the little gold ball that seems to be attached to the back of Alex's ear.

"Have you always had that?" He's afraid he already knows the answer.

[11calls]

Alex just blinks at the question for a moment, before she reaches up and touches the space behind her ear. When she finds a weird growth of a thing, she just frowns sharply and twists to look at him. "I've never..." But then she moves onto her toes and looks at his ear. "You've got one too."

[nobasisinfact]

His hand instinctively moves to his ear and when his ring connects to the ball there's a slight clink. Feeling around it he tries to tug it off only to end up wincing in pain.

"I think it's embedded." He tries again, with the same result.

[11calls]

“Same with mine.” The frown is evident in her face and Alex just moves towards what she assumes is the bathroom and it’s full of his and hers products in various levels of use which makes her frown. Still she pulls harshly on the small golden globe and it doesn’t do anything. “Whoever is doing this is really committed to this bit.” Because she doesn’t just mean the gold thing.

[nobasisinfact]

Now that he was dressed, Richard was far less frazzled (As if anyone noticed). He began looking around with a frown before finding a bottle of scotch and some glasses. He poured himself a drink.

"It's possible it's some sort of experiment." He took a drink and began to browse the books. His handwriting was on the notes - odd. "If it is, I've no idea what it's trying to test - yet." He'd find out, of course, he would. Then he would get out of here and get back to Coralee.

[11calls]

“Who the hell has this kind of funding though? I mean that’s not exactly rational.” Which is something Alex can’t deny feels good to say to Strand. “I mean. The brainwashing alone for one or both of it is the sort of scope that you’d find on like deep web boards or something. Let alone the bottom of the sea or wherever we are.”

[nobasisinfact]

"Places can be modified." It's a fact, outside could be nothing but an old warehouse building made to look like they're under the ocean. As for deep pockets, he knew exactly who had those. "As for deep pockets, I know exactly who would have the funding to do this." Warren's money was more than enough to set up something this elaborate, and Coralee had already told him that the man wanted him for something. The question was why he added this girl.

[11calls]

"Maybe." Alex doesn't know if she agrees with that, because while technology is good, she doesn't know if it's this good. She touches her ear again, trying to dig the golden sphere behind it out by searching for any sort of differentiation where it meets her skin. She doesn't find one, but that doesn't mean that Alex stops trying to create one with her fingernail and a wince.

"The Warren guy you were talking about before? Who is he anyway? I've never heard of him, and I'd done my research on you really thoroughly before you finally agreed to meet me after I'd called you eleven times and talk to your publisher."

[nobasisinfact]

He reaches up to gently guide her hand away from the device. "Don't dig." His voice is a bit gentler though. The truth of the matter was that she's only a kid. If she's not working for Warren than she's as much a victim in this as he is.

"Thomas Warren is a very well known entrepreneur. He's also an obsessive monster who wants nothing more than to destroy my life."

[11calls]

Alex just frowns at him. “If they glued it on with like prosthetics or something there should be a way to find the edge.” It’s a logical thought from someone who is more logical then she otherwise normally would be. And besides she wants it off.

“Why does he want to destroy your life so badly? And why is he pulling me in to do it? I’m just a journalist for Pacific Northwest stories.”

[nobasisinfact]

"You're only succeeding in making yourself bleed." He can smell the enhanced iron in the air. "As for why, he thinks I'm some sort of key to the end of the world."

[11calls]

Alex just scowls at him, but she does pick up a tissue from the nightstand and put it on the skin behind her ear anyway. There's more than a healthy dash of skepticism in her when she asks: "why? Are you like a secret knight Templar or something? Illuminati? I thought you're just an author and a professor? That's what you just said."

[nobasisinfact]

"I'm none of the above, but obsession doesn't need logic." He's fairly certain he's pieced the threads together that explain Warren's obsession with him (with Coralee leading the way). That doesn't mean he's planning on telling this girl that.

[11calls]

"But he needs to be obsessed with you for a reason. He didn't just pick you out of a phonebook or anything. If it was my world, it'd make sense: you're a big name skeptic with an institute set on debunking everything. Why is he obsessed with just a professor and author?"

[nobasisinfact]

"My father was involved with the exchange of occult relics." That's as far as he's willing to give to a complete stranger.

[11calls]

"He was?" Alex just considers that for a moment, and she touches her fingers to her face as she does it. "I wonder if that's something that the you from my world has in common with you." It would explain some things, but she doesn't add that, though it's probably obvious on her face.

"But he's willing to set this all up, something that costs at least hundreds of thousands of dollars because your father was involved in occult relics? There has to be more than that."

[nobasisinfact]

Richard offers a noncommittal shrug this time. "You're trying to apply rationality to the obsessed. It's doubtful you'll find an answer you want."

[11calls]

Alex is just going to mutter: "well, that's one thing that doesn't change about you."

[nobasisinfact]

He raises a dangerous brow. "And what is that?"

[11calls]

“You being evasive when asked a direct question.” Alex doesn’t back down from the brow. Instead hers raises too.

[nobasisinfact]

"You're looking for me to say something like my having some form of magic powers and am some sort of anit-messiah. I don't and I'm not."

[11calls]

"But you know more than you're saying. You can't bullshit me that well, Strand." Alex is just going to scowl. "And none of that explains what the hell I'm doing here."

[nobasisinfact]

"I don't owe you any insights into my personal life and history."

[11calls]

"You're the one who's saying that I'm here because of some obsession someone has with you. You do owe me something because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you and whatever boner this Thomas Warren has for you."