random loose threads

[driftsintobuffetline]

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2016
January 29 - Returning from Submarining
February 13 - What are you thoughts on MARRIAGE?
February 16 - Day 1, Soviet Occupied Import Cities
March 12 - They were supposed to talk about Miles and Greg, but talked about themselves instead
April 14th - Kinks, Tatts, and Power Suppression
June - Admiring the Ring
July 27 - Hermann's New Car
After the Kaiju Test - Need a New Apartment

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[driftsintobuffetline]

He wasn't going to mention that Miles and Greg had seemingly arrived together and Greg hadn't taken Miles with him when he vanished. There wasn't enough data to prove Hermann's theory, but Newt was also not sure there was enough to disprove it. Which was frustrating, because if nothing else, he wanted answers.

"At least we have the letters and recordings in case something does happen." Hermann could be optimistic here, but Newt was feeling the weight of Miles' loss too much to be anything more than a realist. Someday, one of them WOULD disappear without the other, and it would be more than a weekend excursion and an excuse to return with new powers. Someday it would be permanent, or semi-permanent, or resultant in memory loss, and he wasn't going to delude himself into thinking it would be otherwise.

And it was probably going to be Hermann who disappeared, because that was how things went, Newt decided. He had no basis for the theory except that it seemed to happen to him again and again--people LEFT, and even here, the losses were more Newt's than Hermann's (or so it felt like). He would wake up some morning to find Hermann had vanished, or had been rePorted in with no memory of this place and...god. Maybe ten years older with a wife and kids. Who knows.

No no no. This was supposed to be a nice outing.

He put his hand over Hermann's where it rested on his arm. Don't go.

"I wonder," he said, noticing how his power suppressor bracelet bumped Hermann's arm, "if it'd be easier or a better solution to protect individuals from inter-dimensional porting than it would be to actually...create a general porter? An ounce of prevention or whatever, but, like. You can't destroy a disease, for example, so you inoculate individuals to protect them. Now, I mean, you actually also inoculate people to create Herd Immunity, which doesn't apply here because I don't think preventing you from being ported out is going to protect, say, Miles, but the idea still stands: what if we find a way to take someone OFF the Porter's radar?"

[mathemagier]

It was about as much as he could lie to Newton- cherry pick bits of data. Not the blanket reassurance Newton wanted, but a touch of hope at least. Though it seemed Newton's drift with Miles had already swayed him otherwise.

I'm still here, he tried to impart with all the sincerity he could muster.

Newton's idea was unorthodox, and raised too many questions that they didn't have answers to.

"It's possible," he conceded, unwilling to shoot the idea straight down on an anniversary. "But we'd need to understand how the Porter works first."

[driftsintobuffetline]

Newt heaved a sigh. Everything came back to understanding that damn Porter which they couldn't even get close to and which Qubit--one of the smartest people Newt knew--couldn't even manage to replicate. There would never be a guarantee.

He hated that word, Never. They could do better. They could improve their probability because that's what research and knowledge would do for them.

"Then we'll just have to do that." They had come to understand how Kaiju worked, how the Breach worked, when everyone said it would be impossible and that humanity was doomed. They had figured it out. He and Hermann were the Dream Team and as long as they were here together, with time, they could accomplish anything they put their minds to. "Because we've worked way too hard to get here. I'm not going to lose this."