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[likesthecoat]

As usual, Ianto is sitting at the bar with a cup of coffee and his diary.

If one were to peek over his shoulder, one would see the words, "Today is my birthday" written at the top of today's page.

But one wouldn't do that, would one? It's terribly bad manners.


[tags of smallness: Maj. Evan Lorne, Billy Kaplan.]

[ooc: Work-relate slowtime in effect.]

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[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"I first found a door at an upscale Turkish restaurant in New York. Go figure. Serendipity or evil cosmic plan? You be the judge. The doors tend to follow me, although inconcistently. I once found one in the shower on a giant aircraft."

[likesthecoat]

"Sometimes," Ianto says, "I come here when I open the door to a coffee shop.

"Today I was on my way home from work and stopped to get some chips, and what do you know, here I came."

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"One of these days I'm going to do a survey of as many bar patrons as I can find, and ask them about their doors - where and when they find them, how long the doors last, etc. - to see if there's any discernible pattern. It would be a completely altruistic and heuristic endeavor for all the people that have told me that their doors alarm and/or frighten them. Patterns are reassuring things, if they're comprehensible"

She eyes him speculatively.

"For someone that's never been off planet, you don't seem surprised at all to meet giant green women."

[likesthecoat]

Ianto shrugs. "I've never been offworld, that's true, but I've seen more species than mere humans."

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I didn't mean to imply that you're not a seasoned and worldly gentleman," she replies, cheerfully and hopefully reassuring.

"I'm human, by the way. A human with an interesting relationship with gamma radiation, but a human nonetheless."

[likesthecoat]

"You . . . live on it?" Ianto guesses.

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"No. I was given a transfusion of blood that was heavily mutated by gamma radiation. That transfusion activated a rare gene - a gene that I possess, along with a select few others - which in turn caused me to gain some strength, stamina, healing ability, muscle mass, and to turn green when I feel in the mood. You could drop the Empire State Building on me and I'd walk away whistling."

This might be the understatement of the last millennium. Or two.

[likesthecoat]

"Blimey," Ianto says. "I'd say sorry but the benefits don't seem that bad."