Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part III

[bigdamnprincipal]

Look! More tables and chairs and food! It's like a miracle!

[WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE. OCD IS UP. This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

She'd seen Ransik turn himself in, and Nadira make a complete turnaround, but that wasn't quite enough to overcome a lifetime of conditioning in the belief that mutants were something sub-human and irredeemable.

Jen shook her head slowly. "Not the mutants I'm used to."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh? How so?" Isabel asked, curious.

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

After a year in 2001, Jen's perspective on her own time had definitely changed. Was there any way that this could possibly not sound disturbing?

"Mutants where I'm from," she said slowly, "are what happens when the . . . genetic customization process goes wrong. A flawed product."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

The conversation was serious, but Isabel couldn't help but ask a potentially stupid question. "Does anyone in the future actually have kids the old fashioned way?" She couldn't help but think of Jack and what had happened to him.

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"Not usually," Jen admitted. "If they can't afford the procedure, probably, otherwise that's pretty much just for . . . recreational purposes."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That's just weird," said the girl that was created out of abducted human DNA and alien essence who didn't even know if she could have kids, future potential children not withstanding.

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"I know. It sounds pretty wrong, doesn't it?" asked Jen. "It's supposed to be an ideal society, but . . ."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's certainly not my ideal," Isabel admitted. She shook her head, glad she was here and now and had no plans to visit the future.

"So anyway, I never introduced myself. I'm Isabel Evans, a senior, from Roswell."

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Jen wouldn't recommend it anyway. The commute was hell.

"Jen Scotts," she replied. "Junior, handwavey future city of vagueness la la, year 3000."

She paused. "Roswell? As in that Roswell?"

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That Roswell," she nodded, a bit sheepishly. "I mentioned that some students were aliens? You're looking at one."

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"A lot of the scholars in my time insisted that all the stories about Roswell were folk tales," Jen remarked. "No wonder you gave off an interesting reading on my scanner, then."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"We covered our tracks well then." Hopefully at least from this point in time. "We just want to be left alone to live our lives. At this point my biggest concern is getting into college and what I'm going to get my boyfriend for his birthday."

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"Nice normal concerns," Jen said with a touch of wistfulness.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel recognized that tone, she'd used it often enough herself. "Pretty much. It's a change for me, I'll admit."

"So what do you do in future? Something official? Or are scanners like iPods and everyone has one?"

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Jen pulled her new Time Force badge (http://pics.livejournal.com/time_flyer_5/pic/0000114b) from a pocket on her jumpsuit. "I'm with the Time Force Police, actually. Or . . . was, at least."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Time Force? Not Time Agency?" Because wow that would be just way too much of a coincidence. One Isabel really wasn't sure she was ready to deal with, not after knowing some of what they'd done to Jack.

"Was?"