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It's morning. Ray's awake.

He's also got two fairly thick books on advanced aviation systems and advanced composites welding. If the 'USED' stickers on the spines are anything to go by, they came from a university or college bookstore.

He's going to get permanent wrinkles in his forehead if he keeps frowning like that.

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Barry ponders this. "Don't you have to deal with at least some politics as a Ghostbuster?"

"Not if I can possibly avoid it," Ray mutters. "That's Peter's job. I'm not allowed to talk to the press, anyway, let alone the Mayor."

Barry chuckles a bit. "Hate to say it, Ray, but I can see why you might not be trusted with the press. I don't think you could do a sound bite with two month's prep. But somehow I don't see Peter being much better with the mayor. Peter's too cynical, even for New York. Though I could see him and Ed Koch hitting it off.

"By the way, any clue what happened to Peter's costume party?"

"I do just fine when Scientific American or Discover comes around looking for an interview..." He shakes his head. "No, unfortunately. I had this vague recollection of needing to ask him about that at some point, but I've had other things chewing on me in the meantime."

He nods. "Other things like poltergeists and men in black. It's okay. I haven't thought much about it, either.

"But the Bar being what it is, I'm sure we'll hear about it, or something like it, sooner or later."

"Yeah, on top of everything else..." He reaches for his coffee again. "I'm sure we will. By the way, do you have any suggestions on how I'd go about getting access to the service records of Navy pilots in the year 2008? Eddie- that's the AI out back- is kind of freaked about what might've happened to the humans he flew with. I told him I can't get anything from my time but I promised I'd try and get some answers for him anyway. I'm hoping to ask one or more of the CTU people, since they're from 2010, but..."

Barry ponders, and had to connect the initials to the actual agency. "CTU...ah, Jack Bauer, right. I don't know them, though Sara does. But I can't imagine that accessing Navy records would go down well. It would at best be seen as raising a red flag about people who aren't the bad guys, and at worst as one agency stepping on another's toes.

"That said, though, if Bauer is from 2010, he might be able just to search public or semi-public records."

"That's okay. I wasn't looking for full service records, really. Just 'are they alive or are they dead' stuff- you know, what the Red Cross reports would turn up. Of course, that's assuming Eddie's from the same universe as them, which isn't a healthy thing to assume- but I don't know anyone else who's from the future who's from a close future. I doubt the people from five hundred years out would count, and Max might be from 2040, but half of Western civilization's records disappeared with that EMP incident she told me about in her timeline."

Barry thinks, though he lets his mind skate over the future with an EMP. "Guess that might rules out Mel as well, since she's about 300 or 400 years ahead.

"But there is always Tim Hunter. He's from about 2011, I think, and he's got JLA connections. That might trump even CTU connections. Though it might not be ethical for him to dig too deep, either."

"That's fine," Ray says. "If there's a public record of whether they're alive or dead, that's all we really need. Their names are on the wall over there- someone posted about them first, but I figured I'd do some asking on a personal level just in case."

"Well, I'm sure you'll think of something. The Bar does have a way of making it all become clear." And now Barry rises.

"Think I will head back to my room for a bit. Have a good one, Ray."

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