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[puppydogeyes]

[FILTERED TO JAMES T. KIRK, TONY STARK, CAROLYN FRY, NETHERLANDS, IANTO JONES, NATHAN PETRELLI | ENCRYPTED 95%]

[The feed opens on what's probably a familiar view to some of them: the corridor right outside the bridge, the doors locked closed. In the unfamiliar, though, there's a Doberman sitting very patiently right beside it. And then the camera flips to show Taylor instead, like she'd been messing with the encryption and forgotten to have the video pointing in the right direction. Either way, she looks annoyed.]

Don't think this is gonna be a surprise to anyone, but Ward is AWOL. [A beat.] Or MIA. Who knows, this fucking ship.

[But she thinks it's more likely the latter.]

Betting Resnik's the same, if anyone wants to check.

[Because she doesn't need to comment on this in relation to those other two turning up, does she.]

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[suddenlycaptain]

[ No, she definitely doesn't. Carolyn looks unsettled anyway, having ducked into the shuttle she was working on to take the call and now glad she did. ]

Resnik could be in any of the vents, but I'm willing to go with your bet on this one.

[ One hand swipes across her face. ] They weren't looking for Ward. They were looking for a woman, the captain who doesn't say she's a captain. [ Or some bullshit. ] Could be her.

[ Not like anyone hasn't guessed that, but she may as well say it. ]

[puppydogeyes]

Resnik? Could be.

[Because Resnik did always seem like the more active of the two, even if Ward played guarddog for the bridge.]

Could be they were just saying more cryptic bullshit.

[suddenlycaptain]

Could be.

[ She sighs, rubs her temples for a moment, ignoring the grease on the back of her hand. ]

But it's cryptic bullshit that they seem to think means something. Same as Caffrey did when he came back.

[ She didn't have the patience for it then, barely has the patience for it now -- only it's unsettled her, now. ]

[puppydogeyes]

[That gets a pause, a frown pinching her brow that's less the annoyance of before and more consideration and caution over what she's going to say next.]

Caffrey's done it a few times. And he was arguing with them.

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[goldshirt]

She's not down there.

[Jim exhales, it sounds weary, like this isn't a conversation he wanted to have but knew it was somehow inevitable. like maybe he hadn't wanted to be proven correct.]

My bet is on her.

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[suddenlycaptain]

They run all over the ship.

[ Fun times. ]

They've either looked back at what's been happening on the network or they've gotten information some other way. They knew my name, and I wasn't around when they... disappeared. [ Died. ]

And they said I didn't have to ask. That I "knew", and asked me to tell them if I see her. [ She scowls. ] What the hell does that mean?

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[goldshirt]

[Jim rubs the back of his neck; he's not sure how they could have known that. but they were definitely acting like they knew a lot more than they were saying. they sounded like Caffrey, but there was clearly some tension there.]

You were the only one who mentioned Resnik.

[his gaze comes back around]

Spock and I have been discussing the possibility that she isn't just an engineer.

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[coffeeking]

And just when we're making new friends with old faces. Coincidence?

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[suddenlycaptain]

I don't think anything's a coincidence on this ship.

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[cargojet]

It's gotten pretty Invasion of the Bodysnatchers around here. Honestly not sure what to make of it.

Generally people aren't going to be any more aware than usual that they're not around. Or shouldn't, unless the information gets circulated. Might be an idea to make sure that doesn't happen. Don't need armies storming the bridge.

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[coffeeking]

Didn't Gallagher's message say something about impostors?

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[cargojet]

Something like that. The last thing we need is yet another excuse to be suspicious of each other, but I can't see any way around it.

At the risk of being reactionary: They could be anyone. The real key is finding out how much of a danger they are.

[puppydogeyes]

That's why I locked this.

[She's dealt with enough people talking about storming the bridge, she isn't adding fuel to that fire.]

We can decide how or if we tell our departments, and if it needs to go further.

[cargojet]

I'll put those I trust the most on the case. They can keep their eyes open for leaks and any hint that they're not as absent as we thought.

Tracking our new old friends' activity will be top priority too.

[goldshirt]

Their numbers were 002 and 003, jump five. I don't know if that'll help.

[he only knows because he knew Tim, saw them go under in the network- but those numbers hadn't come up when the posted.]

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[handelaar]

Not really.

[To both. But all the same.]

Y'want me to check, or - [A slight frown over the encryption and he nixes the second half of that sentence.] I can ask 'em to look out for the other two.

[puppydogeyes]

[A slight shake of her head.]

Anyone's gonna check, should be engineering. [Because that's where Resnik should be.] And I'm thinking we all need to be watching out for them. Not expecting your department to do anything active, just wanted you aware.

[And she values his opinion enough to want him in on any discussions that might happen about the situation.]

[handelaar]

Got it. But you're not tellin' the whole ship.

[Totally neutral. He's not really for or against telling the ship at large, because like she said - it's not surprising. As far as he's concerned all he needs to know in regards to that is what to tell his own people.]

[puppydogeyes]

No. 'Less it starts looking like they've really gotta know, most us telling them is gonna lead to is more tries on the bridge.

[Ward wasn't an active presence normally. His complete absence, if it was permanent, could be a problem, but in the immediate, it didn't change a hell of a lot.]

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[starked]

Even if we check we'll find the same fucking thing. They've disappeared, no one can find them and we've got two people who should be dead and made into puddles if they weren't.

[ a beat. ] If she knew they were going to come and look for her of course she and Captain Ward himself decided to run off.

[puppydogeyes]

If she knew.

[Her tone isn't completely defensive of Resnik (or Ward), just sceptical of the idea they have any more clue what's going on than the rest of them.]

Where would they go? Out with the monsters?

[starked]

I'm being gracious.

[ Which is to say, he's definitely betting she knew. She's too smart not to know. ]

They've been on this ship before us. If they didn't go out in with the monsters, there's somewhere else they knew to go to that we can't get to.

[puppydogeyes]

Think you're underestimating the depths of this ship's potential fuckery.

[Not that she was giving Ward and Resnik the benefit of the doubt, but it didn't matter where you knew to go to if hallways could loop on themselves for days.]

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[suddenlycaptain]

Why is that an "of course"?

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[starked]

Disregarding your own feelings toward running, if you knew someone who is at the moment, actually defying every general rule about living and dying on this ship and looks like those two do and you knew a way that saved your own ass, would you take it?

Could be waiting for them to disappear to where they appeared from or who even knows. But that would be why it's an of course.