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[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

Suzi has a citrus drink, a book, and her feet dangling over the edge of her chair. Her left foot, of course, goes jingle every thirty seconds, but she even does the ankle shake when she's not wearing the anklet.

She's got her Security badge on, even if she is a counselor rather than a regular security person. After all, someone might just have a question, or want to talk to someone semi-official.

Suz will never be able to think of herself as an official anything except channel. Not that Milliways has, er, any renSime.

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[stubborn-annie.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't. On the other hand, it has got a baseline human who's not really looking forward to going home just yet.

"Hello, Suzi."

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Annie." Suzi says, patting a nearby chair and uncurling, "What's wrong? ...That's not rude, is it? To ask? I'm just zlinning you and you're all knotted up? I can help with that, if you want? And also listen."

[stubborn-annie.livejournal.com]

"No, it's all right," says Annie, sitting down. "Harry's got a mission ahead of him, and it's going to be considerably more dangerous than... well, anything he did in the Army, really. I'm worried about him."

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Do you want to talk about it?" Suzi asks, "Even if you don't want me to balance the fields for you? It's part of the biological imperative, so you'd really not be bothering me at all."

[stubborn-annie.livejournal.com]

"Balance the- I'm not sure I know what that means," Annie admits. "It sounds harmless..."

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Um." Suzi thinks for a moment, "Imagine that your stress and strain is a pebble dropped into water? I can set up an equal and exact opposite to that stress and strain that will smooth it out for you, at least while I'm here? And you can talk about it, which is usually therapeutic too? It's one of the things channels do at home; we balance the fields and talk to people so that they can calm down and think about things without the stress getting in the way."

[stubborn-annie.livejournal.com]

Annie thinks for a bit; then she nods. "All right," she says. "Please. It's been a while since I've actually been this nervous about one of his missions."

[wheelsy_sheriff]

And well now, she's someone Bill hasn't seen in awhile.

When he spots her he smiles and walks over, the smile getting a little wider when he sees the badge. "Heya Suzi! Lookit you, you got a badge now?"

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Bill!" He's someone she hasn't hugged for a while.

So she launches herself at him, "Uh huh. Counselor? So that they have someone to talk to? Or so that everyone does sort of? Because that's what channels do, too."

[wheelsy_sheriff]

Bill laughs as he gets hugged. "Counselor? Well that's good. With all the crazy that goes on in this place I'm sure there's gonna be more then a few folks grabbing your ear. How you been?"

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Probably. I've been good? My friend Deitmar sort of died only not really and he's not human anymore but we're not sure what he is because it's very new and strange and he's around a level four augmentation normally but he's learning how to be slow?" ...Yeah. Yeah. It's Suzi.

[wheelsy_sheriff]

And Bill's not really sure how to respond to that. "Well glad he ain't dead. How'd that happen?"

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea." Suzi says, "It was pretty scary. Richard came in convinced he was dead and was going to bury him." Which would have been bad. Very bad.

[gavemea_45]

He's pretty agile, but as Sam ducks around a group of people the edge of his messenger bag smacks into the back of her chair.

"Oh hey-- sorry about that--"

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem!" The itty-bitty be-tentacled woman in the chair says in a perky tone, "The bar is pretty crowded?"

[gavemea_45]

"Kinda looks like it, yeah--"

It's at this point he spots the tentacles and recoils, just slightly.

"Um. I'm sure you get this a lot, but..."

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I'm human. Yes, they're normal. I'm a symbiotic sub-mutation of a subspecies of humanity from roughly three thousand years in the future of the only other person here from my universe. I was born in 4848 and came here from 4871. I really do mean symbiotic, too, and the tentacles are the mechanism by which the other subspecies and mine share Transfer." Her voice doesn't get even the slightest bit less perky while she says it, "My name is Suzi Darley. Suzi if you're friendly and Hajene Darley if you're formal or wanting distance from the weird."

[gavemea_45]

"...ooookay."

Sam grins, a little sheepishly.

"Yeah, I guess you do get that a lot. Sorry."

A beat.

"And I'm Sam. Winchester."

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"It's pretty close to a one-to-one ratio of people I meet to people who ask." Suzi says cheerfully, "But explaining Sime biology was actually one of the jobs of my sub-mutation back home anyway? So it's something I've been doing since I was twelve and found out that I was a channel." The dorsals of her right arm wave at him (they're actually dainty, in their way. The same smooth cream-tea color as the rest of her skin) "We don't find out if we're Sime or Gen until puberty, that's when we either grow tentacles or don't. I'm very pleased to meet you, Sam."

She is, too. Suzi loves meeting people. It lights up her face; which is delicate, cheerful, and certainly not hard on the eyes.

[command_dot_com]

"Suzi!"

Oh wow, that's a lot to zlin from an old friend, it feels like it's been ages since Dot sat down and had a chat with Suzi. Because it probably has.

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Dot!" Suzi leans over for a hug, "It's been ages!"

[command_dot_com]

Dot hugs back, smiling oh she definitely needed some girl time.

"I know... things back home just... the spam hit the fan and I needed to hide out here for a while. How are you and Whistler?"

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"We're good. I still can't bake, but we're good!" Suzi says, "It's...I love him? And he loves me? He's been working a lot, and I got hired here? It's good to be useful."

[command_dot_com]

It must be.

"Mmmh..." Dot picks up her knitting from the Bar, time to deflect, find out how your friends have been and find cheer in that! "I see you've gotten a badge...how did that come about."

[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Someone needed to do interviews, and you can't lie to Sime." Which means that she does zlin Dot's deflection...but she'll let her get away with it. "So they picked me, and kept me on as someone for Security and people to talk to?"