001: [Video/Voice/Action] The FBI doesn't give ransom

[yesimagenius]

[Reid pokes at the communication device a moment, brow furrowed as he tries to figure it out. Finally the video flickers on and Reid is staring down at it. He's dressed in a button down shirt, tie and grandpa cardigan sweater. He's also leaning on a cane. He's nervous but managing to keep his cool. Reid is working at keeping his mind off the last time he was kidnapped. This isn't the same, he thinks to himself. He's not tied up. Maybe this isn't a kidnapping. Maybe...]

Uhm...I-I'm Dr. Spencer Reid with the FBI. I d-don't know who you are or where this is but someone will be coming for me. If you'd like to t-talk, you haven't done anything w-wrong yet. I'm not hurt. You need to talk to me n-now because holding a federal agent against his will is a crime.

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[notyetginger.livejournal.com]

One of their satellites. You know. Big, shiny things that whizz around in space.

My pleasure. I'm quite a fan of cardigans! Used to wear one, a few... well a while ago. We can leave it at that.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know what a satellite is but how did you knock it around?

You don't anymore?

[notyetginger.livejournal.com]

Knock is too strong of a word; I nicked it, really. Left the time vortex a bit too early and nudged the satellite.

Not anymore! It wouldn't match my hair colour.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

[Sorry Doctor, he's forgotten about the cardigan now]

Time vortex? I--uhm--like wormholes?

[notyetginger.livejournal.com]

Oooh, not exactly. Well, temporal wormhole.

Well, it's a bit too complex- not for me though, of course -to explain, so we'll just leave it at temporal wormhole.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

{Great now it's a challenge}

Do you produce them using electromagnetism or using atomic nuclei?

How is it different from a temporal wormhole?

[notyetginger.livejournal.com]

[ oh boy ]

It just is. Imagine a sort of... ball. Made of temporal... well time isn't linear, as most people imagine it. It's sort of a big glob of... timey wimey stuff. Sort of a giant ball made of rubber bands.

Complicated. Very complicated stuff.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

Right. We just measure it linear because that's the easiest way for us to understand it and track it.

[notyetginger.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Sort of.

All you really need to know is that time is very complicated. Exceedingly complicated. And that if you expose an egg to enough radiation, it'll boil. Brilliant, isn't it?

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

You'd just end up with radiation poisoning.


So you have a ship that can travel through a time vortex?

[notyetginger.livejournal.com]

It'll take stronger radiation than that to harm me. Our building blocks in the nursery had the same sort of radiation you use in x-ray machines. It is quite itchy, but harmful? No.

Yes, I do. I did. Well, I'm sure she's somewhere, just not where I'd like her to be!

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

Right. So...your ship didn't come with you. I g-guess that makes sense. I'm talking about a time traveling ship so yeah...that makes sense.