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[the_infiltrator]

[Cameron doesn't appear distressed at all. She considered that she should, but it's too late to fix it now, the device is on. Even though people take distress more seriously if you're injured, she doesn't want to cut up her face just to get a quick answer.

Her voice isn't monotone, but it's abnormally mellow considering what she has to say.]

Hello. I'm looking for my brother. I think he came through here, and I need to find him. He could be in very grave danger.

His name is John. He is five feet, ten inches tall, and he has short brown hair. [A pause, while she considers the likelihood that Sarah is here, too. If she is, she'll be the one people will have noticed; she's louder.] My mother may be with him. Her name is Sarah.

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[theyalldieforme]

It was when we docked. I got out of there.

[Okay okay he knows he ain't getting rid of you]

There are AIs here. They're not Skynet.

[the_infiltrator]

What are they?

[Skynet isn't the only Intelligence out there, obviously. But it's the largest she knows of, and if it's a threat the others can be, too.]

[theyalldieforme]

For now, they're human.

This place made them human. GLaDOS and Wheatley.

[the_infiltrator]

[She looks at him a moment, and then lifts her hand--the glitched hand--up. She flexes her fingers one at a time. Diagnostics scroll across the edge of her vision.]

Why didn't it make me human?

[theyalldieforme]

[John takes her arm and looks it over]

Probably because you're shaped like one.

[the_infiltrator]

[She relaxes her hand for him, and right now at least her fingers aren't going through those tremors.]

Sometimes I act like one, too.

[Which is a joke she heard from the new librarian back home.]

[theyalldieforme]

[He looks unsettled]

Yeah, sometimes you do.

[the_infiltrator]

If we're in an alternate timeline, it's not urgent that we find a way home. Things will continue there with alternate versions of us.

[She keeps her hand resting palm-up in his.]

So what do you want to do, John?

[theyalldieforme]

Are you actually asking me?

You're still going to follow me around, aren't you?

[the_infiltrator]

Yes. You're still in danger.

[And she'll be extra-strength stalker for the next few months, since she's just learned that a) he's been alone; b) the John Henry thing; and c) they're in completely new territory.]

[theyalldieforme]

If you're going to stay in my room you cannot watch me sleep. I have to draw the line somewhere.

Besides I don't know if mom will be okay with that.

[the_infiltrator]

Your mom doesn't have a choice. I take my orders from Future John.

[In theory. Cameron kind of does what she wants, when it comes down to it.]

I can read while you sleep.

[theyalldieforme]

[Future John is a dick, Current John has decided. Clearly he never tried to masturbate with a robot in the room]

The room has only one door. You can sit outside.

[the_infiltrator]

[Or did he? B) ]

No. You're sneaky sometimes, and I haven't assessed the actual threat level here.

I'll give you five hours alone to sleep; I'll come in for the last three.

[theyalldieforme]

[Sob. HE IS SNEAKY SOMETIMES.]

Don't tell anyone you watch me sleep.

[the_infiltrator]

Why? Would they think you're a freak?

[Honest question here.]

[theyalldieforme]

Because normal families don't do that.

And we're still trying to be normal, here. As normal as people can be stuck on a spaceship.

[the_infiltrator]

Am I still your sister here?

[She's been Cameron Baum, but Reese seems to be a sacred name to them.]

[theyalldieforme]

You introduced yourself that way, and I've told a couple of people I have one, so yeah, you're still my sister.

Cameron Reese.

[Derek wouldn't like it but whatever]

[the_infiltrator]

[Poor Derek. She's going to flaunt that if he does show up, just to analyze and catalog the different ways he expresses rage.]

It's going to be harder to pretend here.

[theyalldieforme]

[Cameron you troll.]

Probably.

[the_infiltrator]

Are you happy here?

[This is a question she's used to being snapped at for asking. But she asks it again anyway.]

[theyalldieforme]

Don't ask that.

[Cranky John is back]

[the_infiltrator]

[She smiles. She likes when cranky John is cranky if she asks if he's happy without her. It means she still has a place.]

We could play video games on the holodeck. I learned about that.

[theyalldieforme]

About video games or the holodeck?