Jeimu/Sal's Reality (and Jeimu's Consciousness), KSC, Florida, Ludicrous O'Clock in the Morning

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Four weeks of nothing but torrential rain had hit Florida.

As such, Endeavour wasn't going anywhere. And Jeimu was stuck. She hadn't planned on her six month sojourn being preceded by a four-week quarantine.

The quarantine was long enough for separation anxiety to seep in.

She missed Newfoundland.

She missed him.

Laying on her back in the too-hard bed, Jeimu closed her eyes and concentrated. She'd promised herself that she wouldn't do this - that she wouldn't reach out to him while she was gone.

She couldn't help it though.



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The landscape that her mind created was a woodland vista with a large clearing. The air was warm and the sky was blue. Birds twittered somewhere in the distance.

She was sitting under a tree, looking around at what she'd managed to do. It even impressed her.

A sigh escapes her lips as she looks down at the ground, speaking with a voice that was uncharacteristically quiet and meek sounding.

"I've missed you," she whispers to a presence she feels almost instantaneously.

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Her will bends. The decision she's half come to already is instantly erased. He's letting her fly for six months. The least she could do for him would be to retain her hair.

"I was only thinking about it," she says with a crooked smile. "I wasn't going to do it. Not unless the crew come and shave me while I'm sleeping. I wouldn't put it past them."

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"They're right nuts, eh?" His eyebrows lift as he looks at her thoughts about her crewmates.

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"Completely." She smiles. "But we trust each other enough. Maybe I'll have you meet them after this is all over. I've already been invited to three barbeques in Houston. And you've been invited to them as well."

She sniggers. "They don't believe you exist."

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"What?" He looks down at her. "Ain't ye showed 'em my picture?"

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"Yep. They think I pulled it off the Internet."

It was true - she had a reputation of being fiercely focused and dedicated to her line of work. Not the kind of person who'd get married.

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He snorted again. "Like ye'd pull up a homely dope like me if you was gonna do sometin' like that."

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"What d'you mean, homely? Billy Peddle is homely. You are not homely. Where the heck'd you get that idea?"