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[guppy_sandhu]

[oom: Weekly canonical update and reaction. Contains some swearing.]

There is a Guppy in the bar, at a booth, with a plastic bag of pieces of a broken vase, which would appear to have been grey with small black and darker grey dots on.
He has a tube of superglue, and is attempting to restore it to a state good enough for his housemate not to kill him. So far he's got about three out of twenty large pieces in place, and hasn't even started trying to add the little bits.

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[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

Adric, on his way outside, stopped, blinking, he liked puzzles, or, puzzling things out to put them back together again.

"Hello." he said brightly, "What've you got there?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"It was a vase. Until about ten minutes ago."

He forces a smile. "My housemate's going to kill me."

[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

Adric smiled once more, dragging a chair over to settle himself in, offering a hand, "I'm Adric. D'you want some help?"

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy shakes the hand.

"Guppy Sandhu, nice to meet you Adric."

He smiles, but his eyes don't quite match his expression.

"I would love some help, thanks."

He gets a piece of paper out of his pocket and draws a sort of beer glass shape.

"It was sort of this shape before I broke it."

[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

Adric nodded, studying the pieces carefully, pulling aside the ones that were the lip of it and the bottom, those were the easiest to find, at least for him, "Which end of it was the open end? And the spots go on the outside, right?"

He had something to do now, and it was a puzzle. He would be quite thankful for this really, as he was probably beginning to bother Bar with the requests for more junk-drawer items to build things with.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Yeah, that's right, black on the inside, spots on the outside. The open end is the one with the silver rim. The base is white, unglazed."

He pulls out the three he'd already glued back together.

"I managed to get these three bits together."

[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

Adric nodded, brow creased just slightly, arranging and rearranging, and re-rearranging the pieces into some semblance of order from base to lip, setting the pieces out as if the vase had fallen open from the top, sort of, as the pieces were spotted-side up, "Good, good, place to start."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Have you used this stuff before?"

Guppy holds up the superglue.

"Looks like you're a pro."

[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

He blinked at the glue, "Used what stuff?"

A crooked smile then, "I like puzzles." And so he did, he was better with numbers of course, but shapes weren't difficult.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Yes, that's what I suspected."

He holds up the tube again. "This stuff here is superglue. It dries in one minute hard, five minutes rock hard. I'm an Accident and Emergency doctor, and the number of times we've had people stuck to things with this stuff means we now just have a number for 'stuck with superglue' to save time. I'm just warning you that when we stick this thing back together, if either of us gets stuck to the pottery it may result in loss of skin."

[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

Adric smiled then, almost, but not quite, winking, "Well we'd best be careful then."

Another few minute rearrangements before he nodded, "I think that's done it, they should be in the right places."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy looks it over, nodding.

"Great, thanks. Now all we need is the glue. One piece at a time I think."

He puts a little glue on the topmost piece and holds it together.

"So what do you do back home?"

[blue-star-badge.livejournal.com]

Adric nodded, doing the same, almost maniacially careful not to get any glue on anything but pottery, "Oh, I'm dead, but before that I traveled with the Doctor for a while."

Again he leaves out the part about his death saving the entire span of human existance.

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Abusing Millitime, Michael wanders over at some point when Maria's gone back to their rooms with the baby, and eyes the vase.

"I can fix that good as new, if you want."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy looks up. He'd managed to prevent himself looking frazzled whilst there was the distraction of the baby, but now it's just beginning to show again.

"Could you please? That would be brilliant because my housemate is going to kill me if she discovers her favourite and only vase is now a mosaic."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Sure." He sits down and empties the vase bits out onto the table.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks."

He picks up bits and shows Michael.

"The grey and black spotty part is the outside. The black shiny part is the inside. The white base is the bottom. It should look a bit like a beer glass when it's the right shape."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

He's not as good at this as Tess was - can't pull the thing together from the mess of bits, the way she could. But he can piece it together and seal the cracks as if they were never there.

It's slower, but he gets the job done.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks. How are you doing that?"

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Molecular manipulation", Michael says absently, concentrating. "One of our powers."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Sounds useful."

He smiles. "If little Alex inherits that then he could become very popular with friends who have broken their toys."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael grins. "He would be. We'll see if he inherits anything, though."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy smiles and watches the vase miraculously recover.

"Is this a sort of magic then?"

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Something like that. It's a physical ability, though."

[guppy_sandhu]

"It's pretty remarkable."