Week 11 – UDC 7 – Leap Week

Fun

As the world solidified around him again, two things became readily apparent. One, he was standing on a small raised platform in a green column of light in a large room filled with eerily familiar equipment. Two, information began to pour into his mind, alerting him to various small disasters, a power outage in something called Zone Five, and a traffic jam somewhere else on a connecting freeway. Also… wait. He knew the date! It… was that really the date?

Blinking in confusion, he stared down at his hands… his glowing, translucent hands. "Oh boy."

Play

Sitting on a table in a room with blue walls, Diana heard a noise and looked up to find a man, on the short side, older, wearing a combination of clothing that most people would think twice about. She frowned. "Do you… always dress like that?"

He paused for a long moment, looking at her. "Not always. Now, can you tell me your name and today's date?" She frowned again and told him. "Thank you."

"Where is here?" The question went ignored as the man left the room again, and Diana continued to frown. Something told her he'd be back.

Laugh

He heard the door open and close, and Al start to speak before the other man stopped in stunned silence, and Sam was finally able to tear his gaze away from his hands. "Am I dead?"

Al stared at him, standing there in the column of light, open mouthed, before shaking his head. "No, Sam. I… don't think so."

"Then why can I see through my hands?!"

"Not to mention the rest of you."

"Is the person in the waiting room translucent?"

Al frowned. "No, actually."

"Then what's going on here?!"

Consulting the handlink again, Al's frown deepened. "Haven't the foggiest."

Games

She'd given up sitting on the table that weirdly reflected a man she didn't recognize and had taken up pacing when the man from before returned. "Hi. You know… this room is really Spartan."

"What are you?"

Diana frowned at him. "What do you mean?" Two could play at that game. Unless… she glanced down at her unusually solid hands. "Oh. Oh!" The story she proceeded to tell him was far-fetched, but not the most unusual thing he'd ever heard.

Newly empowered with better knowledge, the man marched out of the room again, leaving her to frown once more. "I wonder why he needed to know all of that?"

Vacation

Two days, six meals, and three very indulgent bowls of ice cream later, Diana found herself back in the Flux of the NeuroBrain system at Public Works, finding little errors all over the place and ferreting out that which needed fixing in the system. Whatever else had happened in her absence, she'd arrived home to find Alex wondering who the man had been in her place, and Charlie waiting in cyberspace with a virtual picnic. Neither of those things would have been odd at all, had it not been for the detail of finding out just who the man was from the Pentagon files she'd cracked open… what in tarnation was a missing scientist supposedly stationed in New Mexico doing in her Flux stream? She'd wonder for a long time.

A/N: For those still confused as to what the crossover was: Quantum Leap. (Sam leaped into a Chimp once. This wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility. Unlikely, yes, but not impossible.)