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This is not an EP, I just don't have the energy. However, threads need to happen between Harkness and The Doctor (with a bit of Chase to solve that puzzle), Cuddy, Daniel and Ianto (together or seperate), Ace, and always House. So...top level and we'll thread and that way they'll all be in a tidy bundle for me to NOT DROP!


Jack was there, at the door. Waiting. He wasn't quite what to sure, or how long it had been, but ever since Halloween he had either been smoking pot ot House had been shooting him up with something to keep the dreams under control. He didn't know where to turn, so he played an insane game of ring-around-the-rosies and it had lead him to this door.

Now all he needed was an idea of what to say.

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[theunascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Adria was gone. There wasn't any way to fix this. At least, not with her help. "And your dreams? Any idea why you're turning yourself into a walking pincushion?"

He wrapped his hand in Jack's and moved it off of his chest.

He'd return to the idea of the memories shortly.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

He simply shook his head. "I itch, I think."

[theunascended.livejournal.com]

"Usually it's just your brain that itches," Daniel said, unconsciously moving his thumb in circles around the back of Jack's hand. "Tell me more about these new memories." He hesitated, remembering Jack's reaction last time. "If you're ready."

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

He took a breath and nodded, then sat. He started with what Daniel was familiar with, the Academy, the breeding, the life Jack had always known. And then he started over as a child on a desert world. The stories were more clear, but hit and miss with specific details.

"But I've been seeing her face," he said, telling him about the mom he'd been dreaming of for a while now, the blonde. "I can see he face, I can feel her when she touches me."

[theunascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel considered the stories, thinking about it. "How old were you, Jack? Five, six? Nine, ten?" Daniel clearly remembered his parents death, but for the rest of his memories...well, they certainly didn't have the rich detail of the memories of the Academy. His were closer to the memories that Jack'd had on the desert world.

"Did you ever remember just being a kid at the Academy? I mean, nothing like that can be perfectly ordered. Humans just aren't built like that."

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"It all overlaps, Daniel," he sighed. "I was twelve when my father died. I remember every single detail of that. The Academy is just a blur of faces and information and training."

[theunascended.livejournal.com]

"Something should stick out, though, Jack. At the Academy. You're just repeating facts back. Not...not anecdotes. Nothing that seems to have the least amount of emotion attached to it. I've seen enough societies to know. Humans always have emotions. Aliens, too, for that matter." Just not always the same range of emotions.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"I remember my Interrogation instructor," he said. "She was ruthless, but really good. We all went through an interrogation and she was there, behind us, telling us how not to break."

At least, he was pretty sure. Had she been at the Academy? Or the Time Agency? He scowled, trying to recall details.

[theunascended.livejournal.com]

"Easy, Jack," Daniel said when he saw the scowl. "The memories aren't going to come if you try to force them." Although he winced a little when Jack mentioned an interrogation instructor. Just what had he been through? He moved his thumb over Jack's hand again, trying to be reassuring.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"I know that," he snapped, then immediately looked sheepish. "Sorry. It's just all twisted together. Face in both...worlds...I guess. I can't tell what's real and what isn't."

And for a fleeting moment after he admitted it, he wondered if Daniel would have found a decent reason to pay him back for stabbing him in the thigh.

[theunascended.livejournal.com]

"And I'm probably not making it easier with my questions, am I? But I'm just trying to help and I know that you know that." Else Jack wouldn't have immediately apologized.

"I'm the one that should apologize, Jack. I'm treating this more as some sort of puzzle to figure out rather than a friend needing help."