Welcome to Gaia! ::

Given the bizarre new surroundings, texting out of the blue didn't feel particularly awkward to him anymore. Even fringe people like himself had to feel a connection to everyone else involved, like they had all been part of a deeply buried conspiracy. New memories or not, he couldn't shake the feeling of being other that didn't involve having magical powers. (Although that too, even in this new universe, seemed to be an oddity.)

So he texted Temperance a few times when he guesstimated she wasn't at work and eventually asked about meeting with her. A cafe was where they eventually settled on, and he arrived early that afternoon to avoid the snow, rubbing his hands as he settled into an empty booth. Jack settled his duffle bag next to him and waited, declining anything beyond water when the waiter stopped by.

"Simultaneously fine and not fine," Jack replied. "I traded off coffee for smoking. Coffee." He just realized he hadn't ordered one when he sat down and rubbed at his face like he was warding off a headache. "I'm assuming you've been faring about as well?"

"I wish," he grumbled.

After taking of sip of water, Jack unzipped his duffle bag. "Took some trips through the Internet and the library, try to verify the date and all. Time technically passed in the same manner, but there are a couple of things missing."

He took out a certain packet of pages, shuffled them into order, and presented them to Temperance. It was the date of the Blackfriars incident, but there wasn't one word about a police stand off. In fact, everything seemed to had gone swimmingly.