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[hellofist]

[Cass is kind of nervous about this, fidgiting on her place on her bed and chewing on her thumbnail as she tries to figure out something to say. If there's someone from home who can hear her, she wants to talk to them. But... they're all dead, aren't they? Or if they're not dead, they're here with her. Or recently dead but returned to life which is good.]

Um. Hello? It's Cassandra.

[What if she gets Cain? Or Shiva? This was a mistake, it's just inviting more bad things to happen on the barge.]

Never mind.

[And the feed shuts off there.]

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[hellofist]

[That's true enough. Cass nods, sighs a bit heavily, and sits up straighter. The similarity to Dean doesn't escape her, but it's the attention she feels because of her appearance that distracts her more than that.]

No, guess not. Who... are you?

[kissthatgoodbye]

[Alec, for all his surface similarities and even personality similarities, could not be more different from Dean if he tried; for one, the military runs through him like his bones. For two, he's infinitely more suspicious, even though he's smiling just the same cocksure way, flirting along the same lines.

Everything about the X5 simply ends just below the skin.]

Name's Alec, sweetheart. Who were you expecting?

[hellofist]

[Sweatheart. It feels different, when he says it. Cass frowns, fidgets a little more in her seat before answering him.]

Friends. Family. People... I know.

[She knows his name now, but not enough about who he really, really is.]

New friends are good, though.

[kissthatgoodbye]

[Alec waits, more attentive than the way he keeps fidgeting and glancing aside would suggest, intelligent eyes missing little enough when he is looking at her. He raises his head expectantly when she begins talking again.]

Yeah? Having any luck?

[He can tell he makes her uncomfortable, though he doesn't know why; is she another that knows his twin? She didn't react like the rest of them did. He grins at her anyway.]

Sure. Friends. We can be friends.

[hellofist]

[His body says such interesting things and it's not long before her curiosity wins over her awkwardness.]

Some. Meeting... interesting people.

[She's clearly counting him in that.]

Do you... know anyone here?

[kissthatgoodbye]

[He was already grinning - her insinuation that he's interesting is enough to broaden that, though, encouraged when he needs very little to begin with.

Then he exaggerates a wince, completely insincere.]

Ouch. Yes. Kind of. You guys have my clone running around there, hopefully not killing anyone.

[He doesn't actually feel any connection to Ben except maybe some annoyance; his empathy with a fellow Manticore transgenic cancels out the resentment for someone who was the direct cause of six months of basically torture, and vice versa. He also doesn't know him at all.]

[hellofist]

[She's never met Ben, so she assumes he means Dean. It would explain things, but Dean doesn't have a twin, so it... really doesn't help at all.]

Look like Dean. But... Sam is his brother. No Alecs.

[kissthatgoodbye]

[Alec raises an eyebrow - he's gotten the Ben routine a couple times, but this is the first he's heard of a clone of his named Dean running around, and Sam was Max's twin. Definitely nobody's brother.]

Holy crap, how many of me you guys got running around over there? How's the ship handling the sheer awesomeness?

I don't know any Deans. I was talking about Ben.

[hellofist]

Handles awesomeness fine. Lots of... not awesome, to balance out.

Don't know Ben.

[Three people with Dean's face doesn't really seem like a bad thing, though.]

[kissthatgoodbye]

Yeah, well, that's life.

[Excuse you, three people with Alec's face.]

Good. Pretty sure you don't wanna.

Look, honey, it's been real? Kind of. ...okay I'm not so sure this is, but it's been somethin'.