ataraxion | 010; (VIDEO) forward-dated to late on the 25th

[What you are seeing is Topher. Topher looks a little like hell. Someone may or may not have been avoiding dealing with one of his empathy links for SCIENCE (the first one worked out fine- that's how he knows enough to figure this out, but the second one...) ... Also, it's possible he's been occupied running scans and trying to figure out if he's wrong, which... he's still not convinced he's not.]

I've been working.... [He pauses, plants a palm on his forehead, and sucks in a breath.] I've been working on a theory. It's not entirely sound yet, but I was trying to run through every logical possibility before entertaining the notion that it might actually be... that, and... no dice. None. And it was bad enough when it was just memories, but now- now. Oh, it's much worse.

Whatever this is, it's on a synaptic level- whatever one person feels, the other person feels too. Observe. [He picks up something sharp and pricks himself, which makes him hiss in pain.] Now someone out there felt that. That means that we are doing some serious groupthink weirdness without the whole "all of us are Borg" BS- SO FAR. Who knows what it'll be in a few weeks. Or days. And what was the last thing 90% of us experienced that involved groupthink? Anyone?

[YEAH, TOPHER'S HAVING A BAD DAY. HOW ARE YOU?] I think we might be in trouble.

[He rubs his face.] And is anyone who was fully assimilated on Strela even still around? 'Cause that'd be a start to maybe possibly proving me wrong. Or right. But let's err on the side of blind optimism and assume my fancy medical degrees in neurology mean nothing and I'm just talking out of my... bottom area. Whatever.

[Maybe you should deal with your link first, Topher. MAYBE. There's science to do, okay.]

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He told you? [well that changes things significantly and it shows in her demeanor but her reaction wasn't directed at topher it was more about chuck.

sarah is definitely not happy about it in the least but at this point she is not even sure why she is surprised that chuck was telling people and naturally it only made her job that much more difficult. she was his handler though and he should have trusted her enough to tell her so the fact he didn't left her pretty offended] How long ago was this?

Edited 2013-12-19 06:35 (UTC)

I'm a neurologist. The only neurologist on this ship. He wanted me to... fix it. Which, incidentally, I didn't get a chance to do. [He rubs his head.] I dunno. A few months ago? Not long before he left.

[sarah just lets out a sigh in response while she's still trying to process all of this along with chuck's reason for going to him in the first place] I know. You mentioned that part already— I just wish he'd at least said something to me.

You didn't tell anyone else then?

I can keep secrets. [Said very forlornly, because really the kind of secrets he keeps are rarely good.] Patient-doctor confidentiality. I think he had a reason for keeping it from you and Casey, but I didn't ask.

[she just looks at him for a moment as if trying to determine where to believe him or not before she just nods. chuck was more trusting of people than she was and while that was what she liked about him, it was also dangerous for a number of reasons.

regardless of that, if topher didn't tell anyone and also managed to avoid telling both her and casey like chuck probably wanted then maybe she didn't have too much to worry about] Not from me he shouldn't have but I can kind of guess what his reasons were.

[she just lets out a sigh] If you didn't tell anyone that's good and it was all I wanted to know.

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