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[coffeeking]

Good morning, children! Did you have a nice jump? No, me either. Anyone else feel like they were being watched this time, or I am being especially paranoid?

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[acapriciousthing]

Some things are dampened, but that's still working. I don't tend to use it much here, I'll admit.

[What's the point?]

I'm pretty sure it's only a piece of me, if that helps at all.

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[coffeeking]

That... does help, yes.

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Um, could we possibly have a conversation face-to-face? [though the thought is frankly intimidating] There's something I want to ask you. Not over the network.

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[acapriciousthing]

Sure. Where are you right now?

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[coffeeking]

Uh, can you meet me on the first floor of the passenger deck? We can talk in the rec room.

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[acapriciousthing]

I'll be right there.

[And she does mean right there. Teleporting.]

action;

[coffeeking]

[Ianto heads out to the hallway from his room, and is a little surprised to find Death already waiting for him. Why he should ever be surprised to see Death on his doorstep though, he has no idea. That's fairly normal. He smiles nervously.]

Thanks for coming. Um, the rec room is this way.

[He gestures down the hall, leading the way.]

Re: action;

[acapriciousthing]

[She gives him a reassuring smile as she follows along. She's used to nervous.]

It's no trouble at all.

[coffeeking]

[Ianto glances at Death as they walk. She's familiar in a way that shouldn't be possible, but it doesn't unnerve him like he thinks it probably should. It's like walking down the hall with an old friend.

Then again, he's dead, isn't he? Or was. And she lingered close, a constant companion, even before he died. She still lingers close now, both this piece of her and her concept.

When they get to the rec room -- thankfully empty -- he invites her to sit first. He knows she's not really a lady in the strictest sense of the word, but she looks like one and it's an ingrained courtesy.]

[acapriciousthing]

[She'll take the seat with a polite nod. Manners.]

So... what's on your mind.

[She's open, receptive. People always have a lot of questions. Sometimes she has answers.]

[coffeeking]

[It's difficult not to fidget like a child, but staying still is worse. His fingers wrap over and around each other for want of something better to do.]

The thing is, I don't know how much you're... you right now. Your job, I mean. So I'm not sure you'll even know what I'm talking about, but... My partner, Jack. Jack Harkness. That's not his real name, but it's what he's gone by longer than anything, I think, so it's his name now.

[and now you're rambling, Ianto.]

The thing is, he can't die. Or he can, but he comes back. Over and over. You don't... you don't keep him. The Doctor told him it's because he's a fixed point in time and space, but he's not a thing, he's still a person and people are supposed to die eventually.

Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

[It's possible he's spilling his guts and all of Jack's secrets to an aspect of Death so diminished she doesn't know any of this, if she ever did. Maybe Death doesn't touch Jack because he's a blind spot.]

[acapriciousthing]

[That's... not at all where she expected this to go, really]

I can't be a hundred percent sure how it works in your particular world, since it's not my jurisdiction. But in general... the key word is eventually. Every now and then, you get someone who has a lifetime longer than a human would expect. Sometimes it's just the exact right set of circumstances.

Other times it's because someone meddled where they should not. The universe has a habit of setting those to right.

People who die and just refuse to stay put aren't quite as common. But every now and then, there is one. [Superheroes]

In the end, it's a matter of where they fit in the long view.