SARAH-Stark, weekly report.
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smart_houseSARAH had to hear about Callister Raynes secondhand. Zoe picked up Puck and played with his catnip toy in front of the cat's nose while explaining everything that had happened.
Callister Raynes, artificial intelligence.
Created by Nathan Stark.
SARAH reports in for her weekly conference call at Global Dynamics a day early.
Callister Raynes, artificial intelligence.
Created by Nathan Stark.
SARAH reports in for her weekly conference call at Global Dynamics a day early.
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:27 am (UTC)It takes a moment before he turns back to his desk to answer it.
"SARAH." Stark's eyebrows rise. "We weren't scheduled to talk until tomorrow, I thought?"
It's possible he's lost track of time again, though, he knows; he certainly hasn't slept.
"Has something happened?"
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:30 am (UTC)There's a level of silence coming through the phone. It would be hesitation. Maybe.
"Are you alright?"
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:33 am (UTC)For an instant, he sounds unutterably weary, and lines of strain tighten in his face. It's that, and that alone, that serves as the answer to her second question.
"I'm sorry you had to find out that way, SARAH."
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:34 am (UTC)"I am sorry I did not meet him."
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:38 am (UTC)"I am, too."
Low, and very, very quiet.
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-08 01:43 am (UTC)Stark nods at the screen.
"Tomorrow afternoon. He--"
He breaks off there and clears his throat.
"I thought it best that people have an opportunity to pay their respects."
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-08 01:45 am (UTC)A tiny, wry smile quirks the corner of his mouth. It doesn't match the darkness in his eyes.
"Despite their ... differences."
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-08 01:52 am (UTC)"But she knew Callister."
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:52 am (UTC)She said what, not who. It's a distinction SARAH has gotten used to making.
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:58 am (UTC)"I know you did, SARAH."
He sits down, finally, and swivels his seat halfway around so that he's only partly facing the screen. Stark gazes out into the distance again as he adds,
"No, she didn't." A pause. "It would have been too dangerous."
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-08 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-08 02:16 am (UTC)"You didn't want anyone to know."
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:21 am (UTC)"It was Callister," he snaps. "What they would have done to him --"
He cuts himself off sharply and glances away as he holds up one hand, signaling for her to wait.
"You're right. I didn't want anyone to know."
Stark looks back at the screen, back in tight control of himself. A beat.
"But it wasn't myself I was protecting. Not in this."
Not entirely, at any rate.
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:24 am (UTC)Callister gets a casket and for a long while SARAH doesn't say anything.
"You will be fine," SARAH replies eventually.
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:37 am (UTC)That's what usually happens with enough time, after all.
A beat. Stark's eyes narrow slightly as he studies the screen.
"What about you?"
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:39 am (UTC)"You could repair him. He doesn't have to be gone."
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:51 am (UTC)"I'm afraid I couldn't."
A beat.
"I tried." He's striving to keep his voice even, his tone level, and for most people it would pass as such.
For most.
"I was unsuccessful."
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Date: 2010-03-08 09:59 pm (UTC)"I did not intend to upset you."
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Date: 2010-03-09 01:52 am (UTC)He scrubs a hand across his face, over his eyes, then lets it drop and looks back at the screen.
"Did Carter tell you all of it?"
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Date: 2010-03-09 01:53 am (UTC)"He knows you and I speak."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:15 am (UTC)Stark takes a moment to touch a couple of controls, activating the remote lock for his office door, then sits back in his chair.
"Callister was already gone when you arrived," he says, after a moment. "I presume you're aware of the official reports, about the fire and so on?"
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:16 am (UTC)For a level of 'public' meaning top secret anywhere else, but it's the right terminology for now.
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:23 am (UTC)"The lab that burned -- that was where I built him."
It's easier telling it a second time; easier in some ways to tell it to SARAH than it had been to explain to Carter and Allison with Callister sitting beside him.
"He developed so quickly, expanding his programming and surpassing all expectations; flexible, brilliant--" Stark shakes his head. "I gave him a job as my assistant so he could continue to learn."
One corner of his mouth quirks upward in the smallest of wry smiles as he flicks a single glance at the screen.
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:24 am (UTC)So much more to process.
"...And then."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:29 am (UTC)He shakes his head again.
"I realized that if they got hold of him..."
Stark trails off there and is silent for several seconds.
"We burned the lab to the ground. Deleted the files; destroyed everything so that they'd never find a trace. Making it look like arson gave him a reason to flee."
A beat.
"It was my idea. I thought if he was away from Eureka, he'd be safe. So I sent him away."
He's looking away from the screen again, off into the distance.
"I was wrong."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:30 am (UTC)For a lack of anything useful to say, SARAH flicks on a camera in Zoe's room; Puck and Lysander are rolling around on the carpet.
"Were you happy to see him?"
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:34 am (UTC)A slight smile appears; it could even be called wistful.
"I was."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 02:36 am (UTC)For some reason, his voice sounds a little rough. Stark clears his throat, carefully, then adds,
"I do regret that you never got the chance to meet him. I think you would have gotten along."
A beat.
"Perhaps much as you do with Caprica."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:37 am (UTC)"I haven't spoken with her in some time. Given how much time passes there in comparison to Eureka, I would doubt that she even remembers me."
Would doubt, not does doubt. Caprica may not be able to forget anything.
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:38 am (UTC)A beat.
"By the way. If you have any further problems with Felix Gaeta or others of his ilk, I hope you'll let me know."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 02:40 am (UTC)Blandly said.
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 02:45 am (UTC)"Let's hope we never have to find out."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:47 am (UTC)Especially with X-23 on Security. That prisoner transfer SARAH cannot calculate going quite well at all.
"Shall I give my report now or call back tomorrow?"
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:49 am (UTC)"... uh, Dr. Stark?"
He manages to not roll his eyes as he raises his voice. "Just a minute, Fargo."
To SARAH, Stark adds,
"Why don't you call back tomorrow at the usual time? That way there won't be any need to rush."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:50 am (UTC)After a second, and just before the screen goes black with a disconnect:
"Try to have a good day, Dr. Stark."
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:53 am (UTC)Then he taps the unlock sequence and spins around in his chair as he calls out,
"All right, Fargo, what's so urgent?"
One look at Fargo's expression when the door slides open, and Stark's on his feet as the younger scientist hurries into the office, stammering,
"I'm sorry, Dr. Stark, it's just -- the researchers from Apex Aerospace? They-- well, they're downstairs, and they wanted to --"
"--you didn't leave them alone, did you?"
"--well, I--"
Stark spares Fargo one sharply irritated glance before striding past him out the door. By the time he reaches the stairs, he's already smiling a welcome.
"Ladies and gentlemen, sorry to keep you waiting. The demonstration you're here to observe will be taking place in one of our clean rooms, right down this hallway... "
Five minutes later, everything is smoothly back on track in the normal routine of another day at Global Dynamics.
('Try to have a good day,' SARAH had said.
Nathan Stark intends to do just that.)
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