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Alex Reagan ([personal profile] 11calls) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2018-06-26 12:34 am

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Who Alex Reagan and You.
What: Alex needing company while she's being bored out of her mind and supposed to be taking it easy for a week.
When: Whenever you want it set for this week period!
Where: Howard's her and Strand's house
Warnings: None.


[Alex Reagan was not a still person by any means. She was someone who normally was a ball of energy, even when she was entirely sleep deprived and exhibiting all sort of bad judgment. Even the nights where she couldn't sleep, Alex got up, did work, did something so she wasn't just... laying there and not doing anything. This was something that she was seriously having a problem with after she'd spent the first day following the rescue basically sleeping and not being aware of the world. But now that at least some of that sleep debt had been paid off, Alex was bored, and restless and had proclaimed to Richard that she was losing her mind more than once.

Because she'd tried to work, he'd taken away her devices, which reminded her of being home when she was supposed to not use her electronics after ten pm. It was frustrating, because she was a god damn adult, but she'd also agreed to take it easy if he didn't push for her to go to the hospital. It wasn't Alex's fault that she couldn't manage to simply be stubborn and wear him down until he let her go back to normal. Nope, it was all Richard's.

Still, she'd managed to compromise for the big and comfy sofa and company so it wasn't a total loss. After all, she'd declared, that she didn't want random people in their bedroom, and she knew that he'd agreed, because well, Strand was private, save for when Alex put him under a microscope and she was making a good faith effort not to do that anymore. At least not here.

So, when people showed up to the stupidly ornate Victorian house that was still in the process of being put together inside, they were greeted by a annoyed Strand who informed them that "The insufferable one is over there on the couch. You deal with her. You may need wine, or scotch." Before he retreated to a nearby room. And when they came into the living room, Alex was propped up on pillows, and her bruises were in various shades of fading, and she just chirped out as if they were her best friend in the world even though they may not be:
]

Hey!
bestsir: (explorer)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-10 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He smiles a little, almost nervously. ]

Thank you—forgive me, I certainly did not mean to imply any importunate behaviour on your part. It is simply that ...

[ A pause. ]

Have you ever heard, in your world, of the Franklin Expedition?
bestsir: (official explanation)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-11 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods, almost relieved. ]

I have wondered if it is common knowledge. Of course, it seems that there are many different versions of the known universe here—a multi-universe, as it were—and perhaps the expedition does not exist in others.
bestsir: (studious)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-12 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods, smiles ruefully. ]

This is all a great deal of information to keep abreast of.

[ A pause, and he makes a decision. As he speaks, he chooses his words carefully, and it might be obvious that he's eliding the worst, but the worst can wait for when he trusts her more. ]

I may as well tell you. Before I came here, I sailed with the Royal Navy Discovery Service as assistant surgeon and naturalist on the HMS Erebus, under the command of Sir John Franklin. She sailed into the Arctic, alongside the HMS Terror, on a mission of exploration to map a passage through the Arctic to the Orient.

We became trapped in the ice, and were ultimately forced to abandon ship. We struck out for what we hoped would be safety, but ...

[ How to say it. ]

I do not think we succeeded.

[ There are volumes of grief and loss in that sentence. ]
bestsir: (cold)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-17 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A small, grateful smile. ]

I have thought to ask, but ... I want to know, and yet I fear the answer.

[ He's afraid that they will be remembered for the madness and misery into which they descended. That those who came after will have discovered the desperate means that the men resorted to, for survival. He wanted to be remembered, but not like that. ]

Eventually I suppose I must know. Else someone shall tell me unthinkingly, and I would not like to find out that way.
bestsir: (in the ice)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-18 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods. ]

You are right—it is better, I suppose, that I take control of my own destiny, as it were. I shall do so in time.
bestsir: (little smile)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-22 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the offer. I may take it.

[ He looks around. ]

It is a very impressive library.
bestsir: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-25 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Harry finally realises that this isn't just a regular house in Riverview with a well-stocked library. ]

This is—Mr Strand's actual house?
bestsir: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-26 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I did not realise that it such a thing was possible.

[ He's imagining now a house-shaped spot on the ground in the city that Alex and Richard come from. ]

Does this happen often?
bestsir: (now what)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-27 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think that it was ... brought here, as we were? Or could it be [ and this prospect fills him with a vague sense of horror, though he can't explain why ] that it is some kind of duplicate?
bestsir: (explorer)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-07-30 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Harry frowns, trying to make sense of this. ]

So it vanishes from its place of origin, and returns all but instantaneously, such that those at home would never be the wiser?

Time is a stranger thing than I realised. This place is stranger than I realised.
bestsir: (profile)

[personal profile] bestsir 2018-08-01 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Harry just shakes his head. ]

I suppose I shall learn to ... if not become accustomed to it, then to at least be less constantly disturbed.