Emails to Nathan and Moira from one of his colleagues...

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To: Nate
From: Dom


What the hell is MacTaggart doing? I thought she was supposed to be helping you, not drugging you. Damn it, Nate... schizophrenia? You're scaring the crap out of me, you big oaf. Not that you weren't doing that before, but this sort of thing is not what I was hoping to hear the next time you checked in.

I know better than to ask if there's anything I can do. It was pretty clear to G.W. and me that there wasn't, which was the problem.

So I'll go to Seoul. I had nothing planned for the next few weeks except spending some of the money from this last job. Seoul's as good a place as any to find alcohol, decent music, and cute boys who can last all night. (Don't roll your eyes at me. I have to amuse myself somehow.) That way I'll be able to go north on short notice if Pete runs into trouble. Probably a HALO jump... Kun owes me one, he'll take me up.

Let me know if I have to play cavalry... and you're damned right about me reserving the right to do something embarassing to him if I do. Fucking North Korea... I hate the place. Our little 'vacation' there back in 2000 was no fun at all.

Just... take care, okay? I'll be in touch.

Dom

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To: MacTaggart, Moira
From: Domino {address masked}


I'm curious, Moira. Do you have any idea what the fuck you're doing with Nate, or are you just making it up as you go along? He sounds like he's worse than he was when he left. Schizophrenia... for fuck's sake, he was just having blackouts before. What, did you decide to make him your latest guinea pig for studying dysfunctional mutations? Poke him and prod him until he had the breakdown Bridge and I were worried he was heading for even before you got your claws into him again? I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything better. You're so into your damned research that your patients are just subjects to you, not people. Stupid of me, but I foolishly expected more from you, given that you claim to care about him.

And you're supposed to be so damned smart... you couldn't think of anything better than drugging him? You know what that does to him, how upset he gets if he feels like he can't react properly to what's happening around him. Trying to drive him crazy a little faster, are we?

I swear to God, if I don't hear from him that he's improving between now and the time that I get this little errand done for him, I'm coming over there and bringing him back to see G.W.'s friend instead. Oh, yeah. I know where you are, MacTaggart, and if those Mistra bastards get their hands on him because you dragged him back to the States, you're going to look back fondly on the days when I was just throwing things at your head.

Dom

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To: Domino {address masked}
From: MacTaggart, Moira
Subject:

*yawn*

Little girl, we've had this dicussion before, must we have it again?

Apparently.

Enough.

For someone who claims to know Nathan, you really don't, do you? Did you realize he's -letting- me? I'd never force him to take anything unless he wanted to. Nathan's a big boy, he can make decisions for himself.

I honestly don't know what your problem is. Obviously, Bridge trusts Nate's judgement (and my abilities), or else I'd have -him- breathing down my neck. And considering Bridge actually makes some semblence of sense, that's saying quite a bit.

Dragging him back to the States? Hardly. I let him know he could join me if he wanted and he decided that it was the best choice. Figure that he came to me in the first place, I'd say you best realize that it was his decision.

Are you -saying- Nathan's incompetant? The episodes are bad, but still...Domino...

I have tried everything humanly possible up until this point. There are circumstances that I'm not about to divulge to you or anyone else besides him, that led up to this.

You really don't want to be messing with me right now, little girl. Whether you believe it or not, I have his best interests at heart. So whether you're spitting hellfire at me or not, I could care less. But if you think for a moment that you intimdate me, child, I have seen far worse.

Go piss in your own corner of whatever country you happen to be in.

Love always
Moira

Subject: you don't get it, do you?

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Right now? He is incompetent. I don't say that lightly, believe me--damn it, the man's taught me just about everything I know that's worth knowing--but the Nate that slipped out of our hotel in Prague that night is not himself. He nearly got himself killed three or four times before we figured out something was wrong. We just figured he'd had a run of bad luck. (Don't you fucking dare laugh.) Then he fell off the side of a rock face on another mission and nearly got the rest of us killed. It was going on for that long and he didn't, or wouldn't realize he had to stop. His judgement's gone, Moira. Not just shot, gone.

So yeah, I have my doubts about how much deciding he's doing these days.

Dom

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He's never been wrong about having to come to me before. I know you don't like me, but he would never have come to me, even in the shape he was in, if I'm not that bloody good.

If I thought, for a second, that my presence and work did more harm than good, I would find another way.

Would it help if I sent weekly progress reports to Bridge's account? (Weekly...if something doesn't blow up, disappear, or there's a bloody alien invasion, that is.) Last thing I need is to have our security guy get annoyed because you guys are busting through the door...and Nate sucks at keeping in touch.

(The dragging him to America thing? If I thought Muir was safe for him right now, I would have brought him there. But it's -not- and I don't know when it will be again.)

~Moira

Subject: that'll do, I guess...

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Bridge has been stewing--keeps saying he doesn't want to bother you, but he's sure as hell been stewing, so I know he'd appreciate that, too.

Look, Moira, I guess I was out of line. He just... scared the crap out of me. Nate's not supposed to fall apart like this. It feels like it's against the laws of the universe or something...

Dom

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Weekly updates it is. I thought he would have been sending them himself but I really should have known better.

And, yeah, he's scaring me too. And not in the "he broke his room and killed my lamp" way. This isn't like when even he first had the virus. But if I have to drag him by the balls, kicking and screaming, into being better I will.

Moira