Day 57: Music Room (Fourth Shift)

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While Peter was glad that he had been able to meet not one, but two new patients and give them some advice, he had to admit that he was itching to see a familiar face by now. Actually, it was one in particular that he was looking for, and one that most people who knew him would have been able to guess on the first try. In others words, he hadn't

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After the cold of the previous shift, Gren decided it would be a good idea to come in and warm up. He didn't know quite how long he'd continue to feel okay, and there was no point in pushing himself.

He'd thought about catching whatever ancient movie they were playing in the Sun Room, but when he walked in and saw what it actually was, he decided that would be a distinctly bad idea. The last thing he needed was a war movie, however old it might have been. So he pushed on through to the music room, knowing he'd be able to find something to occupy himself with.

Gant was on the keyboard when he walked in, so he paused a moment to listen, and then moved towards the back where they kept the ancient audio equipment. Someone else was already there, looking through the selection. Maybe he'd be able to offer some advice? None of the stuff on hand looked the least bit familiar to Gren.

"Do you know if any of this is any good?" He gestured at the music collection. To be honest, he wasn't even sure he knew how to use the equipment on hand.

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[Not at all!]Luckily for Peter, the CDs were pretty well organized by genre. He decided to search through the pop section first -- not because it was his favorite type of music, but because it tended to be the most memorable due to the sheer amount of radio play. One of the first things he found and recognized was one of the Spice Girls' albums. That had obviously never been his thing, but he remembered how the girls in his class had been obsessed

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Gren looked over the equipment again and decided that, yes, it was probably going to take him a bit to work out how to use everything. They hadn't even gone digital yet. It gave him half a mind to complain to someone. ...not that it would do any good.

"Usually jazz or classical," he replied. "I think most of this collection is probably before my time."

It was nice that the guy had paused to help him out. Maybe that was just the nature of the place--they were all in this together, after all. "Sorry if I interrupted you. I'm Gren, by the way." Introductions never hurt.

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Before his time? That explained the confusion, then. It sounded like the guy was from the future, or from some planet that used more advanced technologies. It was all a little too close to some of those sci-fi shows for Peter to believe it, and yet he did anyway. It was kind of amazing, the things he'd believe these days.

"All right, let's find the classical section," he responded with a smile as he moved down the room in search of a section with that title. He figured that was going to be easier to find than jazz, and so it was a good place to start.

Though he paused when the man spoke up again, offering his name. "Oh, it's fine. I was just having a look around. Nice to meet you, Gren," he said, offering his hand even as his eyes scanned for a sign reading Classical. "I'm Peter."

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"Likewise, Peter. And thanks for the help, I appreciate it."

He leaned in to look at some of the labels himself, not recognizing most of the titles he was seeing. Not surprising, really. He could only imagine how much stuff had been lost to time and the gate accident destroying so much of Earth. Maybe he'd set aside time to listen to more of it, at some point, just to get an idea of what used to be out there.

Today, though, he just wanted something familiar.

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With introductions out of the way, it didn't take Peter too long to find the section that he'd been looking for. He started to look through the selection, trying to pick out something that was well-known. Granted, if this guy was from the future then he might not recognize any of it, but...

"Hey, how about some Beethoven?" It was his fifth symphony, one of those ones that everyone had heard. "This is universally known around this time." Not that he was certain about what year they were in at this point, but if anything they had just gone into the past a few years. Not much changed in that amount of time.

He opened the CD case and pulled out the disc, wandering over to a CD player so that he could pop that open and place it inside. "You just put the CD in like this and then fit the headphones over your ears. Press the play button and you're good to go." He moved away so that Gren could take a shot at it, seeing how the player was on a cord that prevented it from being moved too far from the counter it was on.

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"Sure, that sounds fine." That one had definitely not been lost to time, as it were. And it had been awhile since he'd listened to any. Going from dead to this place had really cut down on his music appreciation time.

He watched as Peter got the disc out and put it in the machine--well, that wasn't very complicated at all, was it? Not a format he was used to for music, but as far as technology went, it all made a kind of sense. It did make him wonder what the quality was going to be like.

He picked up the headphones and fitted them on before reaching over and hitting the button. Sure enough, the music started up, a little quietly, but still enough to be heard over Gant's playing. "Not so hard after all. Thanks," he commented with a smile.

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"Sure thing," Peter replied with a nod, glad to be able to help someone, even if it was relatively trivial. The man seemed legitimately happy to be able to listen to what he'd picked out. Sometimes it was the little things that meant the most, after all.

Still, he realized that music was very often a private thing, especially when it was being listened to on headphones. He didn't want to talk to the man when he was trying to appreciate the music, and so he made sure to wander off and continue his browsing from before. He didn't know if their conversation was over there or if Gren would have some more questions for him in a short while, but it seemed fine either way.

He had to admit that the noise coming from the keyboard was starting to get a bit tiring, and so he quickly started to search for a CD of his own.