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What in God's name ever convinced you and that Temple fellow that it was a good idea to build your own [particle accelerator]? No matter how redeemingly phallic it must be for you to have control over something that size and shape that doesn't mean you can play with it whenever you feel like it, you know.

can i get a redo of this jump? because i would really appreciate being stuck in space with a different coworker.

[ among... other reasons. ]

[ it's not like being reprimanded is a new thing, but this is somewhat out of left field. (which... means it's likely been put under an encryption. originally, anyway.) ]

this is cambridge, isn't it.

[ don't worry, chapel will forward all the good bits from their conversation. ]

yep. how did you--oh, you knew lady cambridge, didn't you.

(and it is really weird how that sentence almost sounds normal, jsyk.)

[ bless you, chapel hill. ]

yep. it was a while ago, but we talked a few times. she was [ the poshest most bona fide bond girl ever and quite scary actually ] alright and honestly i've been expecting this to happen for a while now. not with... cambridge specifically, but the whole alternate reality thing? that's not exactly news.

we're using 'alright' as code for 'scary', right? because in that case, she was alright. also, if you listen to her, my name "should have been" catherine. the more you know, i guess.

we have like five dudes with the same face onboard and some days it seems like everybody but us is fictional, but i don't think we've ever had someone switch genders before? so i guess that's exciting. kind of. [ read as: WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE CAMBRIDGE. ]

scary. definitely. i'm less surprised about the fictional people because of fiction theory even if that's a bit more philosophical than strictly scientific. it sort of ties in with the mutiverse theory no matter how you look at it. this is all way back, but i spoke about it at length with a few people kirk, spock, sherlock and this bloke called capa. as far as i can tell the ones with the same faces are from completely different realities not just slightly changed ones, like man... cam. i actually had a professor once who

[ —connor pauses, staring down at his communicator.

well, that's a first. he'd never really mentioned cutter in direct conversation before, especially not to his friends. but it's chapel, they work together, so he figures it's all right; it's about time he stopped being secretive about things, let the beans spill a bit. secrets get people killed, like recent events have shown only too well. and talking about stuff makes it seem a bit better. objectively.

he swallows down a brief pang of bitter nostalgia and continues typing. ]

who came back from a trip and said he was from a different version of reality he said our workplace didn't exist where he was from, that everything changed. he kept asking where 'claudia brown' was. i watched him leave, and i was there when he came back, and he was definitely different. really weird thing was, this lady called jenny lewis came to work with us a bit later as our pr person except my professor said she looked exactly like claudia. i'd never seen her before in me life. i believed him back then, but i believe him even more now. hard to ignore the facts when they're sat right in front of you.

anyway, sorry, went on a bit there. ... any particular reason why 'catherine'?

oh. apparently everyone in cambridge-prime's universe was supposed to be the opposite gender from the universe i'm from, and my family is painfully irish catholic. ergo chapel-prime is actually named catherine. [ prime notation is probably the mature way of telling the cambridges and their universes apart...

but he's totally adopting mancam, let's be real. ]

that's… either a hell of a lot of coincidence and some bermuda triangle fuckery to boot, or you got a jumpstart on the rest of us in figuring out parallel universes.

[ or connor's lying, which is a possibility—but why bother to lie about something this… not pointless, per se, but something that proves a point which doesn't even need proving?

and he would really, really like to know what kind of trip sends you on a jaunt to a parallel universe, but he'll ask that later. ]

but yeah, by now it should be obvious that the multiverse theory is actually true, crazy as it sounds, and the jump drive's pulling us all together somehow. doesn't make it any less weird to see doppleganger after doppleganger (sp? fuck the germans), by any means, but at least explains it.

not that anyone back home--my home, anyway--is going to be able to prove it when we get back, but you've got a shot, sounds like.

(and this much convergence between universes onboard the ship worries me a little, because i'm not sure if the fact that there are definite patterns in who's being pulled in means anything or not, but that's probably a conversation for another time.)

trust me, i'm pretty sure i got a major jumpstart.

[ ha ha ha. convergence theory. funny you should mention, chapel. not that connor's going to mention, it's just... funny you did. ]

i've been trying to keep track, but it's difficult. we ought to sit down and discuss it sometime - might get somewhere. maybe where cambridge can't see us? oh, i meant - sorry, i don't know your real name. catherine's a pretty substitue, though. i mean, for lady chapel, obviously. i'm assuming your actual name's not... it's not connor, is it?

lucky you, then. i'd be jealous--but i'm experimental, not theoretical. and yeah, let's not discuss wacky physics theories via texts and say we did. my schedule's pretty clear, so whenever you want to meet up is cool with me.

ha, no, my real name's not connor. or chapel hill. it's gabe. (dr. gabriel sinclair, if you want to be extra-official. see what i mean about the irish catholic?) call me whichever, i don't mind.

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[ oh, chapel. none of it is theoretical. none of it. ]

right-o. i've - actually, my girlfriend's only just got here so i'll try and iron things out with her before i get back to you. shouldn't take more than a day. day-ish. wow, a proper title and everything! you're well flash now, mate. i think i'll stick to chapel for now, if that's alright?

oh man, congratulations! well, semi-congratulations. glad you get to see your girlfriend, not so glad she's stuck on the s.s. space australia with the rest of us.
seriously, no rush.

[ ha ha ha let's not talk about chapel's dating issues and facetwin issues and generalized boston issues. HE'S HAPPY FOR YOU, BRO. AND NOT AT ALL FAINTLY ENVIOUS. ]

i still can't figure out how they let me out of the building with a doctorate, but it's too late now. no take-backs.
yeah, that's fine with me. doubt anybody'd know who you meant if you said "gabe", anyway. (except oxford and cambridge, but they don't really count.)

[ see connor. see connor be oblivious to chapel's relationship problems. 8( ]

thanks. it's really good to see her, but yeah, you're definitely right. the sad thing is i'm not sure if it's safer for her here or safer back home. we lead exciting lives. mind sharing? i never actually got mine. or graduated. sort of got... well, not 'sort of' got. got really distracted. but i'll just keep pretening i've earned phds in physics and palaeontology and nobody'll suspect a thing.

Tony came out of the jump, right?

what? haven't you seen him?

No, and check the network. If Pepper says it...

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