(closed) I want to be the one to walk in the sun

[strangel]

WHO: Clone Club
WHAT: sisters' night in
WHEN: nowish?
WHERE: Sarah & Helena's room
NOTES: language, potentially weird science and Helena standard warnings

( It was good idea. True, they were not having nail polishes yet - she and Cosima had not had success with this project.

The room is carefully laid out. She and Sarah's beds are on opposite sides, and on the wall with the window, a giant teddy bear is propped, with a blanket strewn across its legs. Helena has been sleeping on the bear rather than on her bed, because it is special and Sarah got it for her, and it smells good. Her bed, by contrast, is currently the resting place for many snacks, and the broken crate they had been in when they fell through the rift is more broken, now, some of it on the floor at the end of her bed, other parts shoved haphazardly under her bed.

(She has tried to tidy it up, partly for Sarah's sake, but something about her space still radiates nest rather than human residence.)

On the floor there are some cushions, lots of food (every type of peanut candy snack imaginable, almost, along with the weird and alarming combinations Helena thinks are delicious), candles are lit around the room (some precariously dripping wax) and a couple of wine and whiskey bottles. Alongside her, as well, is a sack. She has been protecting it fiercely. )

Come in, sestras. Have seats.

( She is trying really hard, guys. Like, so so hard. Look what a good normal sister event this is.

Helena, herself, is sitting cross legged on a cushion on the floor, hair as wildly messy as always, though she self-consciously smoothes down her shirt. This is good. They will discuss good things and feelings and eat much sugar. )

Comments

[youwonscience]

No, not me.

[Cosima almost reaches for the gloves again, habit, but then decides to leave them off.]

I haven't been encouraged to do a lot of field work recently. The last time went kind of bad, which totally was not my fault, but as Helena said, I'm not much use when actual fighting breaks out. Keep the geek in the lab, I think is the idea.

[She's sure she could volunteer for more field missions, if she wanted. But she hasn't done that.]

And no progress with trying to trigger the shard under lab conditions, so far. We'll see. People who've been here less time than me have done it, so it's not purely duration.

[strangel]

( Helena's gaze drops, and she looks at the fish blade unhappily before setting it down. )

I do study.

( So quiet as to be barely audible, as she doesn't look at Sarah, and not at Cosima either. Sarah's favourite sister, the one who does not try to teach her about knives and defence, who froze up just like Sarah did.

But it is fine. She will keep Sarah safe, and she will keep the soft favourite safe. And she is not jealous! She is not.

(She is, extremely, and unreasonably. And that is why she is now being silent, and shoving peanut butter candies into her face.) )

[coppelganger]

[ Sarah shrugs, looking back at her own hand. The anchor shard hurts, sometimes, a low ache that she notices for a bit, and then it seems to fade off. When she's not actively thinking about it, she doesn't really notice the light. Which is kind of depressing in its own way, both the fact that she's almost gotten used to it and the fact that it's happened in just a few months. ]

Maybe it's got to do with emotion. Channeling it, or something. That'd be hard to do in a lab, yeah?

[youwonscience]

Yeah, and it's not something I've got a lot of experience to build on. I'm working with the team studying rifts, but it's not like we've got anything similar back home I can refer to.

[A pause, then to Helena:]

You may do better than me, observing, if you're out in the field more. Sometimes you need good fieldwork to point the experiments in the lab the right way.

[strangel]

Fieldwork. I am not farmer.

( Ah, yes. Observe, outside her natural habitat, the Sulky Twin, an unpredictable creature.

She makes a quiet grunt. )

Maybes.

[coppelganger]

[ Sarah could be the bigger person and say something nice to her twin, but whatever, she's not there yet. Instead she huffs out a sigh and unpeels a peanut butter cup. ]

She doesn't mean farming, she means doing work outside a lab, meathead. [ Then, to Cosima, ] Well, til someone figures it out, seems pretty pointless to try. I mean, we've got swords and arrows and shit like that, anyway. [ Who needs weird magic!!! ]

[youwonscience]

I didn't figure you were rushing to sign up for the research division, [she says, not unfondly.] There's lots of other shit to do, if you decide to sign on for real. I didn't, for a while, but... the Inquisition's not perfect, but they're fighting against a guy who literally wants to destroy the world. I've seen a hint of what it looks like if he starts winning, and it's bad news.

So as long as I'm here, I thought, might as well try to help.

[strangel]

( SESTRA, STOP BEING SO MEAN.

Helena perks up a little at that and, after considering for a long moment, fishes out a box of peanut butter cookies, and gently nudges them towards Cosima. )

Is good thought.

( Quietly, perhaps bordering on the realms of sheepish. Maybe. )

What if all three of us are trying to work out? More minds thinking could be good. I can try this... fieldworks.