[watching him work is still art, they didn't take that from him. julian is monitoring, on the tricorder, after the admission that he really did have a splitting headache.
judging by the way khan pales at the number, it's very significant. that must be how many survived, aside from them. how many cryotubes are left. how many he'd tried to smuggle out.
julian almost jumps up at the recording--he recognizes that face, he's seen that face, heard that voice. he didn't remember until now. it was in that grey time between julian and alexander, where he still couldn't remember much at all. he was gloating. saying that khan had provided him the perfect opportunity to destroy the evidence of what he'd done, and start a war beside. he'd gotten everything he needed from all of them--a ship and weapons from khan, biological agents from 'alexander', a crew willing to avenge a martyred captain from james--julian suppressed a violent shudder at the use of the false names for the two of them--and genetic information from joaquin that would enable them to begin reverse-engineering their augmentations.
this was a worst-case scenario. julian had no idea what they could do to stop it.
then he says something completely innocuous. thanks 'jim' for his service. calls him 'son'.
he wouldn't have thought anything but disgust at it, if nothing happened next.]
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judging by the way khan pales at the number, it's very significant. that must be how many survived, aside from them. how many cryotubes are left. how many he'd tried to smuggle out.
julian almost jumps up at the recording--he recognizes that face, he's seen that face, heard that voice. he didn't remember until now. it was in that grey time between julian and alexander, where he still couldn't remember much at all. he was gloating. saying that khan had provided him the perfect opportunity to destroy the evidence of what he'd done, and start a war beside. he'd gotten everything he needed from all of them--a ship and weapons from khan, biological agents from 'alexander', a crew willing to avenge a martyred captain from james--julian suppressed a violent shudder at the use of the false names for the two of them--and genetic information from joaquin that would enable them to begin reverse-engineering their augmentations.
this was a worst-case scenario. julian had no idea what they could do to stop it.
then he says something completely innocuous. thanks 'jim' for his service. calls him 'son'.
he wouldn't have thought anything but disgust at it, if nothing happened next.]