Dark Matter Birthday Fic Idea
According to Joseph Mallozzi, not much time passes between episodes of Dark Matter, so when AU Wexler said in Season 3 that his primary counterpart, who died in Season 1, had been missing for a month, it was accurate. Which means it hasn’t yet been a full year since the pilot.
So with that in mind, and I’m honestly surprised no one has thought of this before, I can totally see the Android throwing the crew a surprise birthday party on the anniversary of their awakening. Half of them don’t even know their birthday birthdays anyway. Since it was her awakening, too, perhaps she’d even wipe her own memory of doing the planning after it was all set up, so that she could be surprised as well.
Preferably in an AU where One wasn’t killed off due to creative interference by the execs and was still with the crew as Mallozzi originally intended. Although he was going to bring him back in Season 4 if the show hadn’t been cancelled, so if this is set in the future, an AU might not be necessary for him to be on the ship (although Mallozzi’s blog post said “would return as an ally in Season 4″, so I’m not sure he’d have been a crew member again as opposed to helping them from his position as head of CoreLactic, in which case an AU would be needed in order for him to be on the ship on the day, unless the Android sent him an invitation).
Anyway, feel free to grab this idea. Multiple people even, I don’t mind; in fact, I encourage it!
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