[020: voice]

[inhistorybooks]

So, Ray's gone. I'm startin' to wonder if I'm ever gonna get assigned ta someone for more then a couple weeks before they vanish.

... There's somethin' I don't understand. Now, I don't pretend ta know people's reasons for needin' to go back home or anything, but I don't understand why wardens choose to leave permanently without completin' their deal. Choosin' ta leave everything for god knows how long ta complete a deal isn't somethin' you just toss around lightly. You're makin' a commitment to another person, and packin' up and leavin' because it's too hard or somethin' just seems...

I don't get it. And again, I'm not sayin' people who disappear are at fault, or that I get why people leave or anythin' but...

I'm here to do a job. And I'm not leavin' until it's over.

[Private to Fred]

Kinda weird meetin' someone when we're not actually ourselves and with a whole buncha memories that kinda... aren't ours, but it was nice ta meet you.

[Friends Filter - Martha, Kay, Capa, Sarah, Tim, Rex, Four, Kirk (yes even you), anyone else who should be on it.]

How's everyone doin' after that breach?

[Filtered to Tosh and Harper]

I know this might be some kinda "too many cooks in the kitchen" thing, but would either of you mind if I come down and take a look at the engines or somethin' once and a while? It's just, it's been kinda weird not havin' engines ta keep an eye on these last couple months and I'm not lookin' to step in and take over or anythin', I just want somethin' a little different then fixin' laundry machines and cleanin' up after people. [He's a chief engineer, not a maintenance guy and all that.]

Comments

Friends Filter

[whattheytellyou.livejournal.com]

I'm all right. Thanks, Trip.

I spent it in a coma, so I really can't complain.

Friends Filter

[inhistorybooks]

How've you been doin' otherwise?

Re: Friends Filter

[whattheytellyou.livejournal.com]

Aside from the incident with my inmate, I'm holding up. Yourself?

[Friends]

[peektuttut]

All right. You?

[Friends]

[inhistorybooks]

Coulda been worse, I guess. How often does that kinda thing happen, exactly?

[Friends]

[peektuttut]

Not often. This is the fourth that I can remember.

Engine room filter

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't bother me. We used to have Data working here too, so I can't see a three-Warden rotation being too many. It's not as if maintaining the engine room is an afterthought.

Engine room filter

[inhistorybooks]

Well, I'd sure appreciate it.

[Private]

[most_feared]

It was hard as hell when my first inmate left too, actually. He was a cowboy. Might have yelled at us for whining during the breach.

How're you?

[Private]

[inhistorybooks]

No kiddin'. When was he from?

I'm all right. Things coulda been worse, although I'm not really sure what I'm supposed ta do with all this memories.

Friendzzzz

[requiresssacrifice]

I'm fine. It was an entirely uneventful couple of days for me.

Friendzzzz

[inhistorybooks]

Guess that's better then nothin'. Can't say I saw you around much.

Friendzzzz

[requiresssacrifice]

I was mostly confined to the saloon-slash-brothel.

[Pause. Ew.]

As help staff, not... anything else.

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. For the longest time I had inmates that showed up and then left. It wasn't until Swing showed up that I had one with staying power. It's normal to have inmates show up and then quickly leave.

gdi Four should be on that filter too I r fail >.>

[inhistorybooks]

Guess that's kind of reassuring. I was startin' ta wonder if it was somethin' person.

Who's Swing?

pfft no worries

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

He was my old inmate. He graduated-now he travels though space with another graduated inmate, the Rani.

Private - daw we're real friends c:

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I'm doing alright.

How many inmates is this for you?

Private - Starfleet types need to stick together 8]

[inhistorybooks]

Three. I'd be offended with the Admiral but I'm not sure how that productive that'd be.

Private - daw

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I find blaming him for everything is fun anyway. The faceless douche.

private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

I'm... sorry about your inmate.

But as far as why people leave? I personally don't get why they stay. Or why they came in the first place.

Because if I was... alive, in my own world, and I was offered this? I'd have too much of a sense of duty, too many things I wouldn't want to miss, at home to stick around for. Especially if I found out what being here entailed.

I don't think it helps that people come and go like water, but I can't blame people for leaving. They probably do have somewhere better to be.

private

[inhistorybooks]

All due respect, Sarge? I've got plenty of stuff back home to return to, and I've got a pretty strong sense of duty, too. But what I'm here for's just as important as bein' back on Enterprise doin' my job, and all that is still there, waitin' for me when I'm done. Time won't even pass. But if I go back now and never come back? My daughter'll stay dead. I don't know everyone's deals, but I assume most people who've made deals've made similar ones, because what else would you willingly sign yourself away to be here for?

So sure, I'm just as homesick as the next person, and I'd love to go home tomorrow, but I'm not gonna, because that somewhere better for me'll still be there whether I head back tomorrow or in a week or next year. But if I leave tomorrow, Elizabeth won't be, and that's more important to me then just goin' about my business back home.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Aye, and... you've got a point. It's probably one I find difficult to see sometimes because I think there's a different perspective on the whole thing if you're dead.

But I imagine there are some people who didn't quite imagine how much they'd be signing away, and might have decided they'd be better trying to get the terms of their deal somewhere else, or in another way. [he won't mention how bringing people back to life rubs him up the wrong way, as he's not that tactless.]

I just couldn't imagine staying away from where my original sense of duty and care lay for so long. But I also couldn't think of a thing to strike a deal for, so perhaps it is just a different perspective on things.

Private

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

I'm doing as well as I was before.

Private

[inhistorybooks]

Got any more door hinges that need fixin'?

Re: Private

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I learned when I was seven that one shouldn't take apart necessary pieces of the house. So my hinges are fine.