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22 August 2008 @ 02:44 pm

OOM: Edward needs to learn how to have fun.

"I think we'll start with Dagobah," Jenny told him as she walked towards the cockpit of her small shuttle. "According to my computer, it's a small swamp planet discovered a thousand years ago by a sect of Jedi who had broken away from the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire after a deceleration decreeing all religions founded upon fictional works were null and void. There's not much there now. It's been abandoned... um, well, for a while."

She stopped by her chair, turning around to make sure that Edward had indeed followed her from Milliways.

Her shuttle wasn't much, Jenny knew, but she considered it her life. It was the only home she had (unless you counted the room in Milliways) and her only means of actually doing anything. Well, anything remotely interesting. Random knickknacks from various planets were scattered about the room, mostly concentrated away from the cockpit and in the back of the shuttle. A couple of photographs of herself and Bart were taped on to various walls. Her prized piece of psychic paper was lying underneath a stack of books.

It felt more like a home now than when she commandeered it from Messaline.

"Well?" Jenny slid into the pilot's seat and looked at him. "Whatcha think, Edward?"

Tags: edward cullen, milliways, oom

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:09 am (UTC)

He didn't say I know. He didn't even think it.

Carlisle had taken his death, his soul, any chance for an after life from him and he'd woken up into an entirely new world, when he thought never to wake up again. He didn't have a grudge for those things anymore, but lucky was a hard term to agree with.

He knew he was blessed to have both Carlisle and Esme. He couldn't have managed this long without the both of them.

"Is there any way to look for him?" Edward followed the path the machine had been set to, shifting now and then to judge how the craft moved different at speeds or being turned or shifted. Figuring out how best it flew while all of their discussion ran.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:20 am (UTC)

She shrugged, tugging up a leg into her chair as she shifted in her seat to better watch him. Edward was a natural at flying. Jenny found nothing to worry about while he was at the cockpit. But his reaction to her comment, that was something else. Something not so expected.

He didn't seem as happy about it as she would have thought.

"Maybe. He comes to Milliways sometimes, supposedly. I've never seen him there." Not her proper father, anyway. "But aside from that? It would be such a coincidence. All of time and space. Would you bother looking for your dead daughter if you were him?"

Jenny sighed and leaned back. She doubted it. Her rueful smile confirmed that thought. "I'd like to meet them someday, though, if you don't mind. Meet Carlisle and your brother and whoever else is in your family."

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:25 am (UTC)

"That would be complicated." It was an answer to both her last statement and the part of her own father in Milliways. Families all seemed to fall under that somehow. "None of them know I come here."

Even Alice hadn't picked it up.

Or if she had she was being silent on it.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:31 am (UTC)

"Oh," Jenny murmured, genuinely disappointed. She sighed again, moving to rest her head close to his shoulder. "Maybe they'll come too, someday. Would you introduce me then?"

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:33 am (UTC)

"That would depend on who it was and how they reacted to the discovery, and, not failing your own familial mention, if I even know about their presence here."

Having Jasper open the door, or, worse, Bound, could be a travesty. Rosalie would love the garage but dislike the company. Emmett would get bored quickly enough no matter what entertained him. But Carlisle, Esme and Alice would be charmed by many facets of this place.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:44 am (UTC)

"I'm going to take that as a yes, then."

Or, at the least, a yes to those certain family members he considered safe to show about and introduce to others. Jenny understood well enough. Protect others and protect your own in the process.

"If I ever find my father, I can introduce you to him. He's brilliant in his own way."

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:46 am (UTC)

"Is he as crazy as you?"

There was a quiet, teasing tone there, and he smile as he started warily watching another planet coming into view still in the far distance from them.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:53 am (UTC)

She tilted her head, noticing the planet (Astroland, finally!) and mostly ignoring it. He was teasing her and it made Jenny smile. It was kind of nice.

"I... I think so? He thinks a mouse is an effective diversion tactic. A mouse!" Jenny laughed. "And then he yelled at me when I knocked the guard unconscious. You're right! He's utterly mad!"

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Edward Cullen: Liquid topaz to rule them all

themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:56 am (UTC)

The Coming Storm. The Lonely God. Names she attributed his legend more than him. And yet plagued herself in small moments about wondering she would become them.

Two months old and they were the whispered secrets at the very back.

"A mouse?" Edward's look was laughably confused as he shifted faster.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 05:12 am (UTC)

"A mouse," Jenny confirmed with another giggle. "He wanted to distract the guard. It would've been easiest to just ki-"

Right. Killing was bad. There were alternatives to killing. There were always alternatives, she reminded herself. And they existed for a soldier, too.

"We needed to get past the human faction of Messaline to find the Source and end the war before the Hath and humans wound up slaughtering each other. Which we did."

And then she had died.

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 05:17 am (UTC)

Which was unsettling and yet not. It didn't make her less mortal, just mortal with a much longer time frame ability. Mortal long enough to almost be considered immortal. But not close enough to almost to bridge the gap to where his kind were.

Edward...didn't like the idea of her dead though.

"You had a very exciting life for such few hours."

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 02:49 pm (UTC)

"Yeah," Jenny agreed, tilting her head up to smile at him. Seconds later, her head returned to its resting position, now against his shoulder rather than his chair.

"It was exciting. Right up until the end. General Cobb didn't want the war to end. It had lasted for generations and, it turned out, only for seven days. He was going to shoot Dad. I... well, I took the bullet instead."

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 03:35 pm (UTC)

Edward didn't shift because of the presence of her head, light as a bubble, rested against him now. Not that he needed to, he could sit still for days and it wouldn't bother him, but it made him quite aware of not moving until. Her memories were fuzzy yet clear, still grainy the way his now compared to his human memories.

He continued to toy with the controls, figuring out which made what go faster and what the controls were that he wasn't using. Brave, or reckless, or selfless.

"And since then?"

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 03:44 pm (UTC)

Jenny had no complaint about his toying with the controls. Faster, in her expert opinion, was the best thing in the universe. Well, one of the best things. Up there with Bart and feeling like you belonged and helping people.

"Spent up a regeneration, stole this shuttle, and decided to see the universe myself. Save planets, fight evil, run."

And then there were the things not spoken. Falling in love, for example. Making her own family. Struggling to fit in somewhere. Wanting to be accepted. Those were private goals, goals she wondered if she would ever fully accomplish.

"Befriend dull vampires and make them into fun brother type people instead," Jenny added in as an afterthought, giggling a little as she spoke.

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 03:49 pm (UTC)

"Nice to know there are so many of us." Edward shook his head at her last words, feeling the smaller chasm between what she said and what she didn't, as the planet grew larger and larger before their eyes.

"Are you going to tell me anything more about this Astroland before I step on to it?"

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 03:56 pm (UTC)

"Nah," she responded to his first statement. "You're definitely one of a kind."

Which was more than okay by her. Jenny liked unique and Edward, it seemed was very unique in his own brooding-type way. Maybe he'd tell her about it sometime. She hoped so.

Jenny straightened up in her seat as the planet grew larger. It was growing too large too quickly. She shook her head and gave Edward a sharp look. "First, you need to slow down. Astroland's on an unsuccessfully terraformed planet. Which means there's going to be a dome and a traffic controller that wouldn't appreciate you crashing into his base."

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:01 pm (UTC)

Slowing down wasn't too hard, even if his lips dipped toward a frown. Going slower was quite boring after being faster. Even as he felt wary about an unknown multitude of circumstances about to great him, he couldn't be swayed from thinking the planet was beautiful.

An orb of stupendous color suspended in the endless black.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:06 pm (UTC)

Domes were scattered here and there on the planet's surface, glossy structures with a rainbow tint that covered expansive areas of land. One such contained Astroland, with the galaxy's largest and fastest hover coaster. Some were mining projects and others were small settlements, homes to the individuals that worked along side the robots at the park.

"Yeah, I don't like slowing down either," Jenny stated in response to his frown. "But trust me. I had an entanglement with traffic control on Stars' End a few days ago. It's even more dull than you used to be."

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:12 pm (UTC)

Even as the roller coaster flipped against her mind, other people's words and her imagination and excitement entangled with research, he studied the domes domes that would keep the sun from his skin. It wasn't something he wanted to deal with so far outside any comfort zone.

"Was that before or after breaking Jay out of jail?"

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:20 pm (UTC)

She had done her research. Astroland was comprised completely of artificial lighting. Edward had nothing to fear, even if Jenny still believed he wouldn't stand out at all. Not in a place with Raxacoricofalapatorians and Star Poets and all other sorts of aliens she couldn't even put names to yet.

Jenny laughed at his question and shook her head. "After. And we're going to be on our best behaviour, okay? I don't need to go about breaking you out of jail, too."

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Edward Cullen: Serious with a side of Not Laughing

themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:27 pm (UTC)

He cast a glance down at her, with a chuckle. The thought of her, so small and fragile and devil may care, trying to break him out was ludicrous. He hadn't even seen a prison that could hold him (which giving the expanding universe in his view might change, but hadn't yet).

"As if I was the one who need to worry about that," Edward said, pressing the best behavior implication back on her. He followed the lane in front of him, watching for where to go.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:32 pm (UTC)

Jenny rolled her eyes at that and playfully elbowed him in the ribs. Her nose wrinkled at the impact, not out of any sort of pain but out of frustration that he would barely notice the action. That, she thought, wasn't fair.

Stupid, indestructible vampire, she thought with a definite fondness. She'd find a weak point in his physiology at some point. Now that she had seen him smile and heard him laugh, it seemed like a good enough new goal.

"There's not a prison in the universe that can hold me," she answered arrogantly as the lane of spaceships slowly began to move dome ward. It was an infuriating wait. Jenny was almost tempted to seize the controls from Edward and find a back way in. "I'm good at what I was born to do."

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themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:39 pm (UTC)

"Which wasn't breaking out of jail cells," Edward continued. Her restlessness mingling into his, settled in his seat since it wouldn't move much and it was amusing to watch her squirm. "Unless you were covertly leaving that out."

He'd know. He ~~eated her brains~~ listened while she spoke, to all the things she connected to her words. The soldier in her was still there, but it wasn't the centrifugal point.

The line continued to bring them down further into the biosphere.

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bitunlikely.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2008 04:48 pm (UTC)

"No, but I am a soldier, remember? I know how to use my environment to the best advantage."

Jenny might have been striving to be something more than a soldier, but her inheritance would always be a part of her. More than that: she was clever, her father's daughter to no end. Even if she was still coming into her own, Jenny knew things. And knew how to use situations and people.

It could even be fun, sometimes.

Although none of that knowledge could make this line go any faster. She sighed and shifted around in her seat again. They were entering orbit now, the line leading to a smaller dome next to the bigger one. But it still wasn't quickly enough.

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Edward Cullen: The Fits Everything Expression

themidnightson on August 24th, 2008 04:56 pm (UTC)

She shifted about like a child and Edward did his best not to smile at how her antics fit her age more than her words. It was not a comment he could make out loud. Not something shared.

"Only a few minutes now."