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You tried genealogy websites..?

No, it's not that. I just can't figure out what sort of person I'm supposed to be for my family or my friends and...

Were you teasing me?

...a little bit.

You could try this new thing everybody's doin'. It's called Multiple Personality Disorder. That way you can be every type of person your family and friends are hoping you'll be... I highly recommend it.

Now I know you're teasing me.

Well, you sound like you need cheering up.

Yes, I guess I did. I mean, yes I did. No guessing involved. Thank you.

Sorry, it's still a bit odd for me to have strangers try to talk me out of a mood.

Most of the time I only manage to talk people into moods. Or so my Lieu tells me. You gotta name?

Who's Lieu?

Yes. Hera Agathon. What's yours?

My Lieutenant. I'm a cop.

Hera, huh? That mean something in...uh, a language other than English?

Ray Vecchio. Nice to meet ya.

Oh, okay. I'm in the ROTC, myself. I just didn't know if you mean a person's name or... well, I didn't know. Sorry. *little smile*

It's a human name. I'm not sure why I got it because I'm not human, but I did. Hera was one of the Lords of Kobol, though.

Hi Ray, and thanks again. And you too. Do you do this a lot? Cheer people up?

ROTC? Is that like...Pirates of the Caribbean but with...rioters or something? Hey, no problem, I'm just used to calling him Lieu.

You're...you're not human. Okay. I actually meant, y'know, foreign, but uh, I guess not human can be classified as foreign.

Hey. Uh, I try, hah. You're kinda the only one it's worked one...

*blink* You're a cop and you don't know... okay, maybe it's different for you, then. ROTC is short for "Reserve Officer Training Corps". I'm a cadet, but hopefully I'll get a comission soon and become an officer.

Oh. Yes. Sorry, I keep forgetting that people can't tell that I'm... *sigh* It's not a big deal. Really. I've had to live with it all my life.

Really? Why?

*faint grin* It was a joke. See? Cheering you up before was a fluke. This is what most people have to put up with - lame jokes about Johnny Depp. Bet ya real glad it was me who came to cheer you up now, huh?

You sound pretty normal to me.

Re: lame joke.

*shakes her head, smiling* Maybe I'm just bad at picking up on jokes, then. I don't think it's you at all. It took me a bit to figure out that you were teasing me before, remember?

I do? *blinks* Thanks, Ray.

*laugh* That's 'cause I'm real subtle.

Yeah. You're a little shy, kinda uh, unassuming but normal, y'know?

Me neither *sighs*

Why not?

Because I am out of my time and I am not all I seem.

That sounds exactly like me, actually. But you're an adult. You're supposed to have everything figured out by now.

*laughs somewhat bitterly* I thought I had everything figured out. And then I went and screwed everything up so now I find myself here, with problems I can't control.

Oh, so screwing things up seems to be a universal thing then, huh? *tiny smile*

Yes, I do believe it is. *smiles weakly*

That's not exactly comforting, you know.

Sorry, I'm having one of them days.

Dr Henry Jekyll *offers his hand*

I guess I am, too.

Nice to meet you, doctor. I'm Hera Agathon. *shakes his hand*

Pleased to meet you *smiles softly*

*smiles back* You seem fine to me, by the way.

He's quiet, for now. When he's quiet then I... look okay.

Wait. Who's "he"?

He, is Edward Hyde. It's complicated...he is a part of me. I wanted to separate the good from evil, I made a potion and took it. The result was him. He is everything I sought to erase.

So there are two parts to you?

Wow. I'm beginning to realy understand you now. *little smile* Same here. I'm part human, part Cylon. I can't ever get rid of the Cylon part of me even if I wanted to, and the Cylons have killed so many humans we can't keep track anymore.

Yes, there is two parts. He can take over when he wants and the transformation is painful, so very painful. The differences are so obvious, unless you know me. He is evil... he hurts, lies, cheats...kills *looks down and sighs*

Oh.

I... haven't killed anyone, but there's always a part of me that thinks I might. Or that I'm supposed to.

I'm trying...the people I work for, they're trying to help my subdue him.

Has it been working?

We haven't found anything that works yet. We are trying to find out what I did when I took the potioin. But he has been quiet lately, I'm not sure why.

You're your mother's daughter. That much is obvious.

That's not true. She's... no, it's not.

It is. Slight changes in the details, but the same themes overall.

How do you know that?

You both straddle a fine line of existence -- human... cylon. She may be one and act like the other, whereas you're neither one nor the other exclusively and aren't sure where that leaves you exactly. Ultimately, though, what either or you are or are not are those small, differing details. What you both are is uncertain, confused, lost... She seems relatively well adjusted, though.

She is. That's why we're different. I'm tired of everyone telling me about how "special" I am, or how there's some kind of plan waiting for me. I just want to be me.

Isn't that a bit of a contradiction? You want to be you, but with a few exceptions when it comes to those parts that you don't like, the parts that make you unique... that make you Hera. That's not being you at all.

You are special, like it or not. That's what you are. Can't change that. But it's not who you are.

Really? And so who, exactly, am I?

Even if you're having trouble with it now, no one but you can truthfully answer that. Not your mother, not your father or me, not... the 'gods' -- it is gods with you, isn't it?

Yes. It is. And I know I'm supposed to figure it out, but I wanted you to tell me what you thought about it.

That's not how it works. Besides, I have no idea who you are. You've already made it clear that you don't want to hear what you are anymore, what's in store, you're path. All I know is who you were... but that was a long time ago.