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Connor stared at the swinging doors leading to the diner and through the ocular conjoined windows where glossy red stools and patches of sunlight were visible through. Contemplating a decision mid-execution wasn't something he usually did. Routes were planned in advance and adjusted on the fly based on new information, but he'd run across no one since his first morning at the inn. Instead, he was stuck in a self-defeating loop. All attempts to communicate with Cyberlife or even access the world wide net were unsuccessful each and every time. Even entering stasis resulted in nothing--Amanda wasn't even present in the virtual garden. Connor had opened his eyes to his designated room of pastels from a lifeless, frozen hellscape and felt no better for it. But while he still functioned, he could still investigate on foot. Gather testimonials. Seek other residents for advice.

Really, that was the only thing left.

Finally passing through the threshold, Connor took a quick stock of the diner and deemed it no different from any other--no hidden cameras or bugs. At the sight of the first body--a cook and presumably a human (though he'd learned not to assume)--Connor approached the counter. "Hello."

Date: 2019-02-09 06:48 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Content.)
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"Yeah," he says. "Still alone. I miss everyone back home, but it's not so bad here. The people are nice. There's food. There's shelter, medicine..."

It was more than what he had back on the island, anyway. The only thing he was really missing was his friends back there. And he really wished one of them were here. Especially Charlie.

Date: 2019-02-09 07:39 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Awkward.)
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"Me? Originally or more recently?"

Date: 2019-02-09 08:49 pm (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Content.)
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"Dude." Connor wasn't the first android he met, but he still found himself eyeing Connor with interest anyway. It was weird how much they looked like humans. Probably felt like humans, too. Not that he was going to touch him.

"I'm from Miami, but I was living in Santa Monica before I wound up on the island." A beat and then: "I'm from 2004."

Date: 2019-02-09 09:30 pm (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Lips puckered.)
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Hurley leans over the counter.

"You ever hear about Oceanic Flight 815?"

Date: 2019-02-09 11:36 pm (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Awkward.)
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"Basically it crashed in the Pacific. A bunch of us survived. We were there for about three months before I wound up here."

Hurley straightens, picks up his glass, still full of ice, and fills the glass with water.

Date: 2019-02-10 05:06 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Skeptical.)
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"Yeah, well, this was a weird island." Hurley takes a long sip of his cool water. "There was this smoke monster and this other paranormal stuff and there were these people called The Others and the Dharma Initiative with all these weird bases all over the island."

For a second, it looks as though that might be the end of it, but then Hurley continues: "And there was this French chick, Rousseaux, who was there for like 20 years and some guy stole her baby before all of the people on her plane died. A lot of stuff crashed on the island. Boats and hot air balloons and planes and stuff."

Date: 2019-02-10 06:44 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Awkward.)
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"We found her," he says, "But then she died." Then, as if suddenly remembering something, Hurley shifts where he stands, and eyes Connor with that same curious look he gave him when he first told him he was an android.

"Do you need to be plugged in?" he asks, thinking of the island and its lack of electricity -- at least outside of the creepy Dharma facilities and the Other encampment. "Or are you solar powered or something?"

Date: 2019-02-10 07:20 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Lips puckered.)
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"Yeah," Hurley says. "Just an ordinary guy."

Date: 2019-02-10 09:26 pm (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Lips puckered.)
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"You got ordinary humans back home?" he asks. "Or are people enhanced with, like, cybernetic eyes and have telekinesis and stuff?"

Date: 2019-02-10 10:35 pm (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (For real?)
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"Do people not get..." Hurley's brows furrow, like twin fuzzy caterpillars twisting upwards. "...bored?"

Date: 2019-02-10 11:19 pm (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Awkward.)
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Hurley hmms at that.

"What's your mission? You still doin' it here?" Hurley can't imagine Connor will have an easy time quelling fears. People here had all sorts of hangups.

Date: 2019-02-11 01:37 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Lips puckered.)
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"I'm not bad," Hurley says and he leaves it at that. He's never been really good about talking positive about himself, even though his psychologist back when he was in the hospital was always trying to get him to do things like write lists of things he liked about himself. "I am gonna have a much easier time finding work cooking than you're going to find investigating androids. There's only one other android here and she's really nice. She works here sometimes."

Date: 2019-02-11 02:12 am (UTC)
st_illkindalost: (Lips puckered.)
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"Yeah, Mia. She's not in right now but she might be working later. We don't really have a schedule. People just show up and work when they're free." True enough, most people tended to come in on the same days and hours each week out of habit, but there was no guarantee that just because someone worked the same time/day last week that they'd do the same now.

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