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@@ -760,6 +760,141 @@ Alright, what is different then?
 
 Sara starts the car grumpily.
 
+NATHAN
+Well, we've already been over how different our lives are, which has a cascading effect on a lot of things, but literally anything else could be different. The existence of business, of notable historical figures or events, all sorts of things could be different. Did y'all have 9/11? The Holocaust? Covid? Antifa?
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+KAY
+Sounds familiar. There's gotta be *something* else that's hugely different, right?
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+NATHAN
+We can only find out through exploration. I would think that the differences we've already experienced imply there could be other quite notable discrepancies. Stuff well beyond the atomic level. Oh! We could have shown her your suit! I'm sure there are many differences-
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+SARA
+(growled)
+There is no way in hell that's happening.
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+KAY
+I do have a suit tailored to my needs and powers. Custom built and designed by the IMC.
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+NATHAN
+I was gonna say, I was assuming you also had one.
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+KAY
+Of course, can't live without it. I wear it at home all the time just for the AC.
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+SARA
+Yours has AC?
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+KAY
+Yours doesn't? How do you deal with hyperhydrosis?
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+SARA
+What?
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+NATHAN
+Sara doesn't *have* hyperhydrosis.
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+KAY
+Doesn't that make your healing powers less effective? Me sweating so much is how I can get enough fluid to revive someone. I literally have a tank on my suit for it.
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+Nathan and Sara exchange glances.
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+NATHAN
+A tank?
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+KAY
+Yeah, it collects my sweat, I'm exercising so it's a lot, it fills into the tank and I can mist it onto people. Are you not a combat medic like me?
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+SARA
+My powers don't work like that.
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+NATHAN
+Yeah, they're more just pheromones. The IMC gave her these little syringes for some healing but they really just introduce the fluid into the person's system if we *really* need them alive.
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+KAY
+*Need* them alive? You don't try to save as many people as possible?
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+SARA
+The IMC doesn't care about saving everybody. That doesn't mean I don't try, but they tie my hands. Sometimes literally.
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+KAY
+This is so interesting. You're telling me you can't just juice them and they'll wake up in a couple hours?
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+SARA
+No, it does work that way, but I don't have enough juice. *You* try collecting your own saliva samples to fill a single syringe. It takes ages. Anyway we shouldn't be talking about it, they'd have a fit if they knew I was *exposing* their secrets.
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+She finishes the sentence mockingly, obviously frustrated with the organization.
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+KAY
+Wow, for once in my life I'm glad I have hyperhydrosis. It's really the reason why I can help people. I only wish I could help more, but even all the sweat I produce isn't enough to help everyone. It's a blessing and a curse, to know that I could cure anyone of anything, including death itself, but that I will never be able to do so with everyone.
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+Small silence.
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+NATHAN
+You can revive corpses?
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+KAY
+Not like that! But yes. The IMC determined submerging remains, no matter how damaged, into the Juice, caused them to regenerate as long as there were enough nutrients. This was insane, they created a vat of the Juice mixed with nutrients, mainly protein, and tossed, well. They tossed all sorts of things into it but we straight up brought back someone's cremated remains. Like there was someone in the lab who had seen us revive animals, secretly sprinkled the urn in there, in just a couple hours his mom was back. Naked of course, but in her prime. She was hot by the way. She remembered everything.
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+NATHAN
+Holy shit.
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+KAY
+Yeah so you can imagine how insane that was. After the fluid in her lungs ran out enough and she could speak, she had a lot to say. Her son... well you can imagine. Hysterical. I'm not sure what he even expected, but it must have been... really something to see your mother back, younger than you. I haven't even spoken to mine since...
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+Silence again.
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+SARA
+I never knew that was possible. The only thing that's stopping me from saving people like that is enough Juice?
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+NATHAN
+We don't know that. We don't know the extent to your powers.
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+SARA
+Well I want to find out. We're bringing you to the IMC and you're going to help them help me save people.
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+KAY
+You can't demand that of me, I can't stay here forever. I want to go *home*, to *my* Nathan.
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+NATHAN
+(to Sara)
+For all we know, that's not even how it works. She might have a limited amount of time here.
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+SARA
+All the more reason to get here over there right now. Seriously, let's start now.
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+NATHAN
+The IMC is not going to be excited to learn about freaking quantum anomalies causing accidental interdimensional travel. And if they were, it'd be because they want to weaponize it.
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+KAY
+I'd hate to see them with that.
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+NATHAN
+You and me both.
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+They stop at a red light. Sara glares at Kay through the rear view. Kay purses her lips in response.
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+SARA
+I don't think they're even capable of that but that's not the point. Who cares if you can't be at home with *your* NATHAN.
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+She makes this remark with utter disdain. It is not subtle.
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+SARA (CONT'D)
+If you could save a single life and all it cost was being away from him, how long would it take for you to cave?
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+KAY
+I don't think you understand. I really love him. I can't live without him.
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+SARA
+(growled)
+Maybe that means you *need* to spend time away from him.
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+NATHAN
+I can't help but feel like-
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+SARA
+It's not your turn to speak.
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