All Of These Familiar Faces [OPEN]

[throwoutthebook]

WHO: Trip Tucker (Rudolph Wright) & Major Malcolm Reed (Vincent Stark), open
WHAT: Running into a (not so) familiar face right after waking up
WHERE: Living Quarters
WHEN: April 21st
WARNINGS: All additional threads take place after the first one with Trip and the Major. Tag one or tag both, either is fine!



Could this day get any more ridiculous? First, Trip had had to deal with alien Nazis who were trying to take over the time stream and damn Suliban who tied him up in a closet. At least he'd found out the Captain wasn't dead, so there was one plus. Then, he'd woken up in some strange place and told that everything he ever knew was a dream. That he was really this Rudolph (Rudolph? Really? Wasn't Charles Tucker the Third enough of a mouthful?) Wright guy who'd been put to sleep to avoid some Disaster and that was about all he'd gotten before he'd just stopped listening.

This just had to be another trick. First, the Enterprise had been pulled through time and now he'd been pulled into some other reality. That was the only way he could make sense of this. And he was going to find a way home and nothing or no one was going to stop him, no matter what proof they tried to show him that he belonged here. He belonged on Enterprise, on Earth or in Florida, he'd except no other substitutions.

Trip had searched the room he'd been shown to, and after finding nothing but more frustration, he decided he better go take a look around. There had to be something in this cave that could help him find a way out of here and he was going to find it.

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[throwoutthebook]

At the familiar voice, Trip couldn't help grinning as he spun around, putting his ID in his pocket in the process. "Mal? Malcolm, is that seriously you?" Because it sure looked and sounded like him, amused tone and everything. "They told me the same thing! Sure as hell don't believe 'em now!" They'd even put them beside each other. How stupid were these people?

"You jus' 'wake up' too?" Trip walked up and couldn't resist pulling his best friend into a hug. It was both to reassure himself that Malcolm was real and in relief that he wasn't alone in this strange place.

[agonybooth]

"Of course it's me. Did you think otherwise?" The look he gives Trip is one was very 'no really who did you think I was.' If he wasn't completely disoriented by everything, he would make a smartass comment, but he didn't, instead deciding to deal with the more important issue at hand. "This seems to be a large screw up on their part if they truly wanted us to believe what we remember was just a dream."

Out of the many things he expected from Tucker, getting hugged by what he thought was the same person was definitely not one of them. He tenses up at the hug and just stares at Trip for a moment before fighting his fight or flight urges to respond to his question. Clearly something had gone wrong with Tucker upon waking up in this place. "Yes, I have just woken up, actually."

[throwoutthebook]

"Hey, with everything that's been goin' on, can't be too careful." Trip can't manage any expression besides relief. It really had been a long day but this helped immensely. He couldn't think of anyone better to be stuck in this situation with then Malcolm Reed. "Tell me 'bout it. They even have us roomin' next to each other. Least they coulda done was keep us apart." Not that Trip was complaining but still. Would have made more sense.

While Trip expected a little tensing on Malcolm's part, some habits died hard especially when his friend was stressed, he hadn't expected anything like that. And the staring, like he'd never seen Trip before was very odd. "Are you feelin' alright?" He asked, completely concerned now as he let's go, but keeps one hand on Malcolm's shoulder, just in case.

[agonybooth]

"So you would have denied saying anything if I said I was Vincent Stark, the name that's supposed to be really mine?" He'd have to remember that in case he stumbles upon anyone else from the Enterprise. Though, it could be far worse and he could have ended up with someone like Hoshi instead of this weirdly upbeat Tucker. "It could be some sort of elaborate trap, trying to trick us into actively working against them so that we can be made into examples."

"Of course I'm not feeling alright," Malcolm grumbles in annoyance as he looks at Trip. Best not to point out that the hug is what messed with him badly. Who knows how this mentally damaged Tucker would respond to that. "Do you think I would be after everything so far?"

[throwoutthebook]

"Course not! You don't believe that as much I don't believe I'm Rudolph Wright. Rudolph, can ya imagine a worse name?" Trip rolled his eyes. Really, the ridiculous name didn't help the believability factor. "Malcolm, I know you are prone to paranoia, but do you really think they'd go that far?" Though, it did make some sort of perverted sense. "Guess we'll just have to be careful."

"Well yeah, I guess, but ya looked a little startled when I touched ya." Not that Trip could really blame Malcolm for feeling a little off, but it hurt a little since he thought they were past him being uncomfortable when Trip touched him. Trip touched his friends, he couldn't help it. Though...the more they stood here, the more Trip was getting a weird feeling about Malcolm. He couldn't place it quite yet, just...weird.