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[[/module]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:author-label-source start=--
|name=Zenobiyl
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= **SCP-7097** by [[*user Zenobiyl]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:author-label-source end=--]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:acs-animation]]

[[include :scp-wiki:component:anomaly-class-bar-source
|item-number= 7097
|clearance= 1
|container-class= keter
|secondary-class= none
|disruption-class= vlam
|risk-class= notice
]]

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[[include component:image-block
name=Fly|
|float=true
|align=right
|caption= **SCP-7097, dormant**]]

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-7097 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell. LCD displays are to constantly stream reality TV programs, and triple-wide ventilation systems are to diffuse various perfumes in one-hour intervals.

**Addendum-7097-1 (01-27-2023):** A minimum of 250,000 live female Drosophila specimens are to be contained near SCP-7097's cell.

**Addendum-7097-2 (02-08-2023):** SCP-7097 is to be released from its cell one day per week. SCP-7097 has unlimited visitation privileges, and all questions regarding the entity are to be directed to Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly.

**Description:** SCP-7097 is a sapient entity that inhabits female members of the Drosophila genus,[[footnote]]Commonly known as fruit flies.[[/footnote]] and has a strong proclivity for learning and/or sharing personal secrets.

SCP-7097 will inhabit the nearest suitable Drosophila specimen after dying, with no noticeable change in personality or mannerisms. The entity is fully aware of this and may attempt breach-by-suicide if insufficiently entertained. If sufficiently entertained, SCP-7097 will become dormant and unresponsive.

SCP-7097 has an innate sense for secrets, which testing determined is a form of anomalous olfactory detection. SCP-7097 often utilizes this sense during communication, and it has been known to make unsolicited remarks about Foundation staff and/or initiate games such as truth or dare.

**Addendum-7097-1 (02-07-2023):** SCP-7097 is capable of recording and replaying video and audio from its compound eyes and antennae, respectively. Recordings produced by the entity achieve quality benchmarks far beyond any Foundation technology.
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[[collapsible show="+ Interaction Log Four" hide="- Interaction Log Four"]]
 _
**Foreword:** Although SCP-7097 was recaptured, the entity attempted to evade capture by hiding in Dr. Landstrom's esophagus. In order to avoid further containment breaches, Dr. Landstrom had to be classified as potentially contaminated and detained with the entity.
 _
[[div class="blockquote"]]
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= **[Video & Audio Log, 3:43 hours]**
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [shouting]:** How many times do I have to tell you: //[banging door]// I. AM. NOT. A FLY!!!
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** SCP-7097 was in your upper digestive system for over an hour before we located it. Who's to say it didn't lay eggs there in the hopes of reincarnating at the perfect moment? The second we let you out we could have another breach on our hands! 
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Wait, what? //[turns to SCP-7097]// You went down my //gullet?//
 _
**SCP-7097:** What? I had to hide somewhere!
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** That's disgusting!
 _
**SCP-7097:** Oh, //please.// You are //not// the victim here, mister fish-breath.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [to Dr. Mendoza]:** Can't you give me some insecticide to drink?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** And risk missing an egg? Do you have any idea how much time and money it cost us to re-contain that thing after the last-
 _
**SCP-7097:** That thing has a //name.//
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** //[sighs]// I'm not letting you out, Michael. Consider this your punishment for letting a skip into the mess hall.
 _
//Dr. Landstrom bangs on the door for three minutes before slumping to the ground.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** Welcome to my world, buddy.
[[/div]]
 _
//SCP-7097 and Dr. Landstrom converse and play party games for several hours.//
 _
[[div class="blockquote"]]
 _

= **[Video & Audio Log, 12:24 hours]**
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** -so they wrote a letter inviting me to interview, and I've been at the Foundation ever since. Hard to believe it's been a year since then, some days it feels like I just got here. You?
 _
**SCP-7097:** I... woke up in a desert field about a year ago, //[furtive glance]// and that's all I can remember. I kept trying to find friends out in the world, but most people just swatted or screamed at me.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Duh, who'd want to befriend a fl- Ah, that came out wrong!
 _
//SCP-7097 is silent.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** Dick. 
[[/div]]
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
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= **[Video & Audio Log, 17:12 hours]**
 _
//Dr. Landstrom is attempting to read an edition of Teen Vogue strewn on the ground.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** You really like this drivel?
 _
**SCP-7097:** More than the wall, at least.
 _
//Dr. Landstrom pauses.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Say, why'd you want to talk to Grace so badly anyways?
 _
**SCP-7097:** Because I blamed her when I got locked up. I thought she wasn't really my friend, but I was wrong. I owe her an apology...
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [to Dr. Mendoza]:** Hey! Can you put Grace on the intercom for a second?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [into intercom]:** Dr. Kelly has more important responsibilities than entertaining you two, especially after the ruckus you caused.
 _
**Dr. Kelly [to Dr. Mendoza]:** Can't you put me on for just a little bit?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [to Dr. Kelly]:** No, and I don't want you loitering around here anymore. I told you Michael will be fine, now please get back to your work. 
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [into intercom]:** You won't be hearing or seeing Dr. Kelly for the foreseeable future. I'll also have someone send remote work equipment through the pneumatic doors so you can get back to your research, Dr. Landstrom.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [to Dr. Mendoza]:** Can you at least quit it with the perfumes? This room smells like a flower store!
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [into intercom]:** //[pauses]// Negative.
[[/div]]
 _
//Dr. Kelly volunteered to drop off the remote work equipment for Dr. Landstrom. Upon reaching the cell doors she entered without authorization.//
 _
[[div class="blockquote"]]
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= **[Video & Audio Log, 18:43 hours]**
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Hey guys!
 _
**SCP-7097:** Grace!
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Grace? Why'd they lock //you// up?
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** I'm just here to drop off some equipment for-
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [into intercom]:** Grace! My instructions specifically said //not// to enter SCP-7097's cell!
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Whoops, //[winks]// guess I missed that part. 
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [into intercom]:** You've been exposed to the entity; I can't allow you to leave that cell.
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Good thing I brought some stuff to eat then.
 _
//Dr. Kelly opens her backpack, revealing a store-bought birthday cake, lighter, candles, and various baked sweets.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** Are those... for //me?//
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Happy late birthday, Cassidy.
[[/div]]
 _
//Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly host an impromptu birthday celebration in SCP-7097's cell. The entity becomes dormant afterward, and Dr. Mendoza attempts to relocate Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly to a more secure holding facility.//
[[div class="blockquote"]]
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= **[Video & Audio Log, 1:43 hours]**
 _
//Dr. Mendoza is speaking to Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly from the outside of the quarantine cell door.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** What do you mean by 'security hazard'?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** We're picking up some unusual signals outside the facility.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Unusual in a bad way, or in a good-
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** //[sigh]// Look, I don't know exactly what it means. All I know is that you two need to be moved to a more secure cell. 
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** What's going to happen to Cassidy?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** The fly? I'm leaving it here. It's not like my men are yearning to haul half a million flies across this facility again.
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** She'll be all alone.
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** So what? It's an //insect,// Grace.
 _
**Dr. Kelly [indignant]:** No! I mean, Cassidy's more than just a bug.
 _
//SCP-7097 is roused from sleep.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [to Dr. Kelly]:** It's not like we're leaving her alone for good, alright. Just until whatever's going on gets sorted out.
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** //[rubbing eyelids]// I don't have time for this. You two need to leave this cell, now.
 _
**SCP-7097:** Leave? Who's leaving?
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** It's nothing Cassidy, we're just figuring some things out that's all.
 _
**SCP-7097 [to Dr. Mendoza]:** Hey!
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** Not now, SCP-7097.
 _
**SCP-7097:** No, I want answers! First you keep me locked up like I have the plague, and now you want to take away my friends? What did I ever do to deserve this?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** That's class-
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Answer the question, or I'm staying.
 _
//Dr. Mendoza glares at Dr. Kelly.//
 _
 **Dr. Mendoza:** Fine, you want to know why I'm doing all this? We caught your //friend// sending a homing signal to an enemy base somewhere in Utah. While you were bending over backwards to throw it a party that thing was trying to broadcast our location to a //goddamn enemy organization!// And now that you know you could be culpable if anything happens, same as-
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Homing signal? //[turns to SCP-7097]// You sent a homing signal out?
 _
**SCP-7097:** No! I don't even know //how// to send a homing-whatever!
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** We're lucky the fly's signal couldn't escape before we moved it, or we'd be sitting ducks for whatever terrorists built that creature. //[looks at Dr. Kelly]// This isn't a daycare, Grace. The things we lock up are //dangerous,// and-
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Erm, you said the signal was sent when we were doing the //birthday celebrations,// right?
 _
**Dr. Mendoza [slowly]:** Yes...
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** So the skip wasn't in this cell yet. The cell with EMI shielding. //Signal-blocking// EMI shielding.
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** Yes, but the signal couldn't have escaped the facility in such a small timespan without a clear path to the outdoors. Since SCP-7097's cell is fully enclosed by concrete,-
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Not fully.
 _
**Dr. Mendoza:** //[sharp inhale]// The vents.
 _
//The facility-wide alarm system activates, and several detonations are heard in the distance. The facility generator suffers critical damage rendering all site-wide electrical devices, including the opening mechanism for the quarantine cell door, powerless.//
[[/div]]
[[/collapsible]]
[[collapsible show="+ Interaction Log Five" hide="- Interaction Log Five"]]
 _
**Foreword:** With the facility power grid offline, automated defense systems fail to respond to attacking forces. All Foundation staff are sent to defend the perimeter, leaving the containment centers unmanned. Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly remain trapped in the quarantine cell with SCP-7097.
 _
[[div class="blockquote"]]
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= **[Video & Audio Log, ##red|N/A##[[footnote]]The following logs, which were recorded by SCP-7097, lack time-stamps, and there was no time-stamped CCTV to cross-reference the footage with due to the widespread power failure.[[/footnote]] hours]**
 _
//The Sector Three quarantine cell is seen from SCP-7097's perspective. Dr. Landstrom is huddled in a corner and Dr. Kelly is conversing with him, but Dr. Mendoza can no longer be seen outside the cell doors.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** We're all gonna die. //[clutches head with hands]// We're all gonna //dieeeeee!//
 _
//Dr. Kelly slaps Dr. Landstrom across the face.//
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Sorry! It's just... you were going kinda bananas a second ago.
 _
//SCP-7097 remains silent in the corner.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** No, you were right to slap some sense into me. It's just... there's so much I haven't done. I never got to learn how Mendoza got so serious. I never finished my book about bugs. //[sideways glance at Dr. Kelly]// Not to mention, I, erm, never even told y-
 _
//Dr. Kelly is holding a copy of SCP-7097's questionnaire form.//
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** I see now.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [flustered]:** wha-
 _
//Dr. Kelly is looking at SCP-7097.//
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** On the questionnaire you left one answer blank. And you said-
 _
**SCP-7097:** -that I was a failure. //[pauses]// //Am// a failure.
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** //Cassidy...//
 _
**SCP-7097:** The people attacking us aren't here to retrieve me; they're here to kill me. //[pauses]// Same way they killed me back at the old lab.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** You were //lab-grown?//
 _
**SCP-7097:** Yeah, and they gave me every spying ability under the sun. Not that it mattered; after I failed their tests those bastards tried to kill me. I ran away then, and I didn't stop running until I got here.
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** That's horrible.
 _
**SCP-7097:** I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys. It's just... I was scared... //[sighs]// I was scared you wouldn't be my friends anymore if you knew I was a spy.
 _
//SCP-7097 gestures above its head with an appendage.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** And now look at us. Locked alone in a cell while this whole place falls apart. //[looks down]// I failed you both. I understand if you don't... want to be friends anymore.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Are you kidding me? Thanks to you I got into more trouble this //month// than in the past year!
 _
**SCP-7097 [eyes downcast]:** Oh, I see...
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** And I loved every second of it. //[chuckles]// Befriending a fly wasn't exactly on my bucket list when I got this job, but I'm sure as hell glad that I met you.
 _
**SCP-7097:** I don't understand... Aren't you mad at me?
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Everybody makes mistakes Cassidy, //[smiling]// us included. 
 _
**Dr. Landstrom [muttering]:** I mean, you //did// fly into my esophagus that one time...
 _
//Dr. Kelly glares at Dr. Landstrom.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** -But I got a few days off of work from it, so I suppose we're even!
 _
//SCP-7097 wipes non-existent tears from its compound eyes.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** Thanks you guys. I wish everyone was as nice as you...
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Don't worry about Mendoza. She might be harsh, and strict, and unyielding-
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** -and humorless!
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Right... but deep down she cares about protecting others. It's the whole reason she started working here. 
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Exactly. Not to mention Mendoza's as much of a badass as she is a hardass. I'll bet she's probably at the backup generator by now, with a trail of enemy corpses in her wake.
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Come to think of it, hasn't it been a while since she left?
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** You don't think...
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Maybe she took a wrong turn?
 _
//Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly are silent.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** You two wait here.
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[[/div]]
 _
//SCP-7097 autothysized and inhabited a specimen in the Drosophila specimen storage area. The entity escaped the now-offline storage area and travelled through the facility's ventilation systems, before locating Dr. Mendoza.//
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= **[Video & Audio Log, ##red|N/A## hours]**
 _
**SCP-7097 [muttering]:** Yep, that's her. I could smell perfume that bad from a mile away...
 _
//SCP-7097 exits the ventilation shaft and approaches Dr. Mendoza from behind. She is accompanied by a middle-aged white male.//
 _
**SCP-7097:** Vera! The hell are you doing with this guy? The backup generators are down the //other// hallway, and we-
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**SCP-████:** ##purple|//Freeze.[[footnote]]SCP-████ has the capacity to make his speech cognitohazardous at will. Colored text has been used in this document to indicate usage of this anomalous ability.[[/footnote]]//##
 _
//SCP-7097 is immobilized instantaneously, and falls to the facility floor.//
 _
//The middle-aged white male turns around. His now-visible face is identified as that of SCP-████, a class-five anomalous hypnotist.//
 _
**SCP-████:** //[looking around]// Now, where could you be hiding... ##purple|//Tell me where you are.//##
 _
**SCP-7097 [dazed]:** Right here, mister pretty voice.
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**SCP-████:** Well I'll be damned. //[grabs Dr. Mendoza by the chin]// Is //this// what they have the great Vera Mendoza guarding now? Pathetic, honestly. //[Feels the eyepatch where his right eye used to be]// You've gone soft since we last met.
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**SCP-7097 [dazed]:** What a voice... You should join the Opera or something.
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**SCP-████:** Fuckin' annoying too. //[crushes SCP-7097 with his shoes]// Now, let's get out of this joint. ##purple|//Show me where the helicopter is.//## We've got some catching up to do, //Vera.//
[[/div]]
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
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= **[Video & Audio Log, ##red|N/A## hours]**
 _
//SCP-7097 reinhabits a specimen in the Drosophila storage area. A conversation can be distantly overhead.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Alright, here's another one: how do you find out the sex of a chromosome?
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**Dr. Kelly:** I dunno Mike, how?
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Pull down its genes!
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//Dr. Kelly laughs, while Dr. Landstrom scratches the back of his neck.//
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**Dr. Kelly [laughing]:** You should write that one down.
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** I thought about putting it in my book on insects, but I dunno if anyone would read it. Not exactly professional, you know?
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** I'd read it. In fact, I'll be the first in line! 
 _
//Dr. Landstrom is blushing.//
 _
//SCP-7097 reaches the door to the quarantine cell containing Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly.//
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Grace... there's something I've been meaning to-
 _
**SCP-7097 [shouting]:** I'm back guys!
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Cassidy! What happened out there?
 _
**SCP-7097:** Mendoza's in trouble, I think some guy is hypnotizing her.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** You mean //the hypnotist// is out of his cell?
 _
**Dr. Kelly:** Do you know where they went, Cassidy?
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**SCP-7097:** Sure, but I can't stop that guy alone. One word from him and I'll fall into his trance again. He wasn't even looking at me the last time!
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Yeah, that guy's voice is powerful enough for brief hypnosis on its own, not to mention a command given with direct eye contact. 
 _
**SCP-7097:** //[slowly]// Just his voice?
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** Yeah, just his voice. Talk about overpowered, am I-
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**SCP-7097 [playing recording of SCP-████]:** ##purple|//Freeze.//##
 _
//Dr. Landstrom, Dr. Kelly, and SCP-7097 are all immobilized for five minutes.//
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**Dr. Kelly:** //[rubbing head]// Ooh, what happened? I feel like I just woke up with a hangover...
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**SCP-7097:** //[rubbing antennae]// You're not kidding...
 _
**Dr. Landstrom:** What did you do, Cass?
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**SCP-7097:** //[pauses]// I figured out how we're gonna save this place.
[[/div]]
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//SCP-7097 discusses its plan with Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly. After a few more minutes the entity leaves and travels towards the Sector Three cockroach farm.//
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= **[Video & Audio Log, ##red|N/A## hours]**
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**SCP-7097 [shouting]:** Gerald! Where are you?
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//The Site Janitor is cleaning cockroach excrement off the floor nearby. He doesn't react in any way to SCP-7097's statements.//
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**SCP-7097:** There you are! Why didn't you answer me before?
 _
//The Site Janitor spots the entity, and removes a set of audio players from his ears.//
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**Site Janitor:** Sorry about that, I like to crank up the tunes when I work. //[shudders]// Blocks the sounds of cockroaches getting it on.
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**SCP-7097:** So when you turn those up you can't hear me talking?
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**Site Janitor:** Well yeah, but I can just turn it down now-
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**SCP-7097:** No, //[pauses]// turn it up. Listen carefully to what I say next, then crank that volume to the max and hit play. The fate of the facility rests in your hands, Gerald.
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**Site Janitor:** ...Ok?
[[/div]]
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//SCP-7097 explains its plan to the Site Janitor, and the two travel towards the backup power generator room.//
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= **[Video & Audio Log, ##red|N/A## hours]**
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//The Site Janitor is playing "Highway to Hell" at maximum volume while running towards the backup generator room, with SCP-7097 tucked inside his front breast pocket. As they turn a corner an enemy combatant enters their field of view.//
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**Combatant [into walkie-talkie]:** Hostiles! We got-
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**SCP-7097 [playing recording of SCP-████]:** ##purple|//Freeze.//##
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//The site janitor continues traveling towards the backup generator, with SCP-7097 immobilized inside his pocket. The two encounter three additional enemy combatants seconds later, but they are already immobilized.//[[footnote]]According to witness testimony, SCP-7097's original hypnotic command propagated through enemy communication devices and resulted in near-total paralysis of enemy combatants for approximately five minutes.[[/footnote]]
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//The Site Janitor reach the backup generator room approximately two minutes later. He successfully activates it once inside after an additional three minutes.//
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**Site Janitor:** That should do it...
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//SCP-7097 unfreezes and gestures to the site janitor, who removes his earpieces.//
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**Site Janitor:** What happened back there? All those guys were frozen in place; did you do that?
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**SCP-7097:** I don't know... everything was kind of a blur. Did you say all the soldiers were paralyzed?
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**Site Janitor:** Yeah, I thought some super-paralyzer SCP broke loose or somethin'.
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**SCP-7097 [muttering]:** //Super-paralyzer...//
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**SCP-7097:** Can you show me to the intercom system?
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**Site Janitor:** I think so. What for?
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**SCP-7097 [grinning]:** You said it yourself, Gerald: the super-paralyzer SCP just broke loose.
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//SCP-7097 and the Site Janitor make their way to the facility intercom system without incidence, passing over numerous dead enemy combatants along the way.//
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**SCP-7097 [into intercom]:** Attention, lowly mortals... //[grandiose voice]// It is I, the all-powerful paralyzer! 
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//SCP-7097 pauses.//
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**SCP-7097 [into intercom]:** With a wisp of my power I have paralyzed your armies, and made fresh sacrifices for later consumption. That's right; I eat people. I eat //people!// If you Chaos Insurgents don't get the fuck out of my house I'll eat your brains!
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//SCP-7097 frantically gesticulates its appendages.//
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**SCP-7097 [into intercom]:** Even now my third eye sees the presence of a powerful being on the helipad. Leave the mortal in your hands to me, O gifted one. I wish to juice her squishy skull for a libation, but I will eat yours instead if you leave me no other choice. //[pauses]// And leave her alive, if you would. I like fresh flesh and tender brains.
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**Site Janitor:** ...What the fuck was that?
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**SCP-7097 [sheepish]:** I may have gotten a //little// carried away...
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[[/div]]
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//The surviving Chaos Insurgency attackers flee the facility in a blind panic, and Foundation staff contain nearly all prisoners or released entities with the help of automated security systems. SCP-7097 locates Dr. Mendoza on the facility helipad.//
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= **[Video & Audio Log, ##red|N/A## hours]**
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**SCP-7097:** Vera! Are you alright?
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**Dr. Mendoza:** I feel tired, and I have an awful headache... It must have been //him.// //[pauses]// He got away, didn't he?
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**SCP-7097:** Yeah, but I got the backup generators working with a little help.
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**Dr. Mendoza:** You- I don't understand... Why would you do that? You work for-
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**SCP-7097:** My friends. I help out my friends, and those bastards were //not// my friends.
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**Dr. Mendoza [muttering]:** I was wrong about you. I'm sorry.
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**SCP-7097:** Could you repeat that? //[smiling]// I couldn't //quite// hear you.
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**Dr. Mendoza [gritted teeth]:** I'm sorry. That's the last time you'll hear it from me; don't forget you still caused this attack even if you did so unwittingly.
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**SCP-7097:** Do I get to spend some time outside my cell now?
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**Dr. Mendoza:** //[pauses]// I'll make a call...
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[[/div]]
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//After securing the facility Dr. Mendoza released Dr. Landstrom and Dr. Kelly from quarantine. She sent a request to Site Director Max Maxwell for revised containment procedures and reassignment from her current position as guardian of SCP-7097. The following was the reply://
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> = **//Although I would normally advise against your suggestions, the unique circumstances with regards to SCP-7097 justify revised containment procedures. It makes no matter whether we imprison an entity or befriend it; so long as it is contained. I'm approving your request to allow SCP-7097 out of its cell one day per week, and I'll throw in unlimited visitation privileges since it prevented us from suffering a single casualty. With regards to your other request, I'm only signing off on it due to your history with SCP-████. Be careful Vera, this won't be anything like last time.**//
> = //Site Director Max Maxwell//
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//Dr. Mendoza gathered all Foundation staff assigned to SCP-7097 to announce her retirement from guarding the entity.//
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= **[Video & Audio Log, 12:25 hours]**
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**Dr. Mendoza:** As you well know, our facility recently suffered a severe attack from agents working for the Chaos Insurgency.
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**Dr. Langmeyer:** Are we safe, or will they come back?
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**Dr. Mendoza:** We suspect they will not be returning any time soon. Thanks to Dr. Landstrom, we were able to develop a device that can intercept the enemy homing signals permanently, so long as SCP-7097 remains inside the facility perimeter. Furthermore, the... //actions// of SCP-7097 resulted in the enemy forces suffering devastating losses with no casualties among our staff. They lost badly, //[pauses]// and I doubt they will soon forget it.
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**Dr. Kelly:** Are we going to lose our jobs, what with the damage and all?
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**Dr. Mendoza:** On the contrary, you and Dr. Landstrom are being reassigned.
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**Dr. Kelly [eyes downcast]:** Oh, I guess I should've expected that.
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**Dr. Mendoza:** You're being assigned to SCP-7097 research and containment. //[pauses]// My old job.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** //Your// job? You mean to tell me they fired-
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**Dr. Mendoza:** No, Mike, I wasn't //fired.// I chose to leave.
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**Dr. Kelly:** Why? Where will you go?
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**Dr. Mendoza:** Although we re-contained over thirty-five escaped prisoners and entities, one was able to get away during the chaos of the attack. He has abilities that represent a grave danger to the Foundation, and to society at large.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** //The hypnotist.//
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**Dr. Mendoza:** I have experience dealing with SCP-████, so I'm joining an MTF squad tasked with hunting him down.
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**Dr. Kelly:** But he got you this time, didn't he? What if that happens again?
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**Dr. Mendoza:** He may have caught me by surprise today, but I've beaten him before and I'll do it again.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Before? You fought //the hypnotist// in the past?
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**Dr. Mendoza [smiling]:** Why do you think he's missing an eye?
[[/div]]
[[/collapsible]]
[[collapsible show="+ Interaction Log Six" hide="- Interaction Log Six"]]
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
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**Interviewer:** Dr. Landstrom
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**Interviewee:** SCP-7097
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**Foreword:** Dr. Landstrom inquires about the entity’s video evidence of prior events.
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= **[Begin Written Transcript]**
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//Dr. Landstrom and SCP-7097 are silent for several seconds.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** ...‘Fresh flesh and tender brains?’
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**SCP-7097 [blushing]:** I was ad-libbing, alright? It's not like that hypno-freak would've let Vera go if I asked him nicely, would he?
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//Dr. Landstrom laughs.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Listen Cassidy, we got a request from Director Maxwell, and-
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**SCP-7097:** --That bald freak? What the fuck does //he// want?--
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**Dr. Landstrom [whispering]:** //Shut up!// That's my boss you're talking about, and he //reads// these transcripts!
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**SCP-7097:** Fine, whatever. What does //his waxiness// need our help with?
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**Dr. Landstrom:** //[sighs]// You see, during the attack our CCTV wasn't working. Director Maxwell learned about your recording powers from Dr. Mendoza, and, well, he wants you to send recordings of everything that happened.
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**SCP-7097:** That’s a //lot// of footage.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** I mean, it's only a few hours of-
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**SCP-7097:** //Only// a few hours? Do you have any idea how high my video and audio quality //is?// I heard your fellow eggheads spent years trying to replicate that hypno-freak's powers with thousand-dollar stereo mixers, and I did it on my first try with just these antennae!
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Alright, no need to get a swelled head Cass- wait, how did you find out about that?
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**SCP-7097:** What part of //gossip fly// don't you understand, Mike?
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**Dr. Landstrom:** ...Touché. At any rate, it’s pretty important that we have a timeline of events during the attack. We need your help.
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**SCP-7097:** Sheesh, alright. Fair warning though, it’s gonna cost you.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Whatever you need we can provide. Dr. Kelly and I have executive decision-making privileges when it comes to your care, now that Dr. Mendoza left.
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**SCP-7097:** That’s all well and good, but you didn’t seem to understand what I said.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** I beg your pardon?
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**SCP-7097:** It’s gonna cost you. //Personally.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** I… what?
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**SCP-7097:** Let me put it another way. If you want my tapes, //Mike,// you’ll need to earn them first.
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//Dr. Landstrom blinks incredulously.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** ...Ok? What exactly do you want me to do?
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**SCP-7097:** Oh, that’s easy! All you’ve gotta do is play a simple game with me.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Which game?
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**SCP-7097:** Truth or Dare!
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Oh, God no...
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**SCP-7097:** //Come on,// it’s not like you’re gonna die from one little game of Truth or Dare. Look, I’ll even let you have the first move!
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Fine, //[sighs]// Truth or Dare.
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**SCP-7097:** Truth!
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//Dr. Landstrom pauses for a moment.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Where did you come up with the name Cassidy?
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**SCP-7097:** To be honest, I didn’t really //come up// with my name.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Really?
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**SCP-7097:** Nope! I got it from the lab where I was made. Those eggheads had an acronym they used as a shorthand. I guess people got tired of calling me “the entity” all the time.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** What was it?
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//SCP-7097 flexes its antennae. A recording of a male voice says “And this is the __Counterspying Anomalistic Sapient Silent Identifying Drosophila Entity!__ But you can just call her Cassidy for short.”//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Hmmm, some of those terms are kind of a reach. And-
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**SCP-7097:** And they used an “e” instead of a “y” to make the acronym fit, I know. It doesn’t really matter what those eggheads were trying to say. Cassidy wasn’t some stupid nerd-speak term to me, it was my //name.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** And you never thought about changing it? Even after all this time?
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**SCP-7097:** Not a chance. It helps remind me of how far I've come.
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//SCP-7097 attempts to wink with its compound eye.//
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**SCP-7097:** Not to mention the fact that Cassidy’s a pretty awesome name.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Well, I’m glad to hear you like it. What else-
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**SCP-7097:** Oh no you don’t, lover boy. Now it’s //your// turn.
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**Dr. Landstrom [blushing]:** //lover boy?//
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**SCP-7097:** Oh, and no pressure or anything, but if you choose truth I’ll definitely make you tell me all the other //juicy// classified secrets about that hypno-freak.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** You know I can't. For God's sake, I'd be fired on the spot!
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//SCP-7097 giggles.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** I choose dare.
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//SCP-7097 laughs.//
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**SCP-7097:** Oh, Mike, Mike, Mike…
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**Dr. Landstrom:** What?
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**SCP-7097:** Don’t you know how to spot a trap when it’s right in front of your //face?//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Trap? What do you-
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**SCP-7097:** You know that one place that serves [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2253|protoplasmic booze]]] near Site-77?
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**Dr. Landstrom:** You mean Sandy's Cocktail Parlor?
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**Cassidy:** Gee, really original naming there. And yeah, that place. It's //Grace's favorite.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** What does that have to do with-
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//SCP-7097 giggles even more.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Oh... //no...//
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**SCP-7097:** Oh //yes.//
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**Dr. Landstrom:** I //can't!// You //know// I can't!
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**SCP-7097:** Are you gonna chicken out //now?// Because if you do that, I'll tell Grace what you were about to say to her back in that cell.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** How would you-
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**SCP-7097:** I was outside the door, genius, and I've got enough brain cells to connect the dots. Not to mention Gerald told me about the flowers addressed to Grace that //someone// threw in the dumpster.
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//Dr. Landstrom cringes.//
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**SCP-7097:** You //like// her. Even an idiot could figure out your little secret, and when it comes to secrets, I'm Albert fucking Einstein.
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//Dr. Landstrom's head is in his hands.//
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**SCP-7097:** And here's another newsflash: she likes //you.//
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//Dr. Landstrom’s head jerks up.//
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**SCP-7097:** Oh, don’t act so surprised. It’s obvious if you just pay attention. She likes your weird jokes. She likes your weird way of talking. And she even likes your billion-page nerd book about bugs. Honestly, it’s crazy how the both of you are so weird in the same ways. Sometimes I think //you two// should be the anomaly, instead of my perfectly normal self.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** You mean that?
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**SCP-7097:** What, the liking you or the thing about you being weird?
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**Dr. Landstrom:** //[glares]// The first part.
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**SCP-7097:** Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. Take some initiative Casanova, and find out for yourself.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** But I wouldn’t even know what to say!
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**SCP-7097:** Remember that one time in the cafeteria?
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**Dr. Landstrom:** That disaster?
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**SCP-7097:** Not how I remember it, but ok. Anyways, you just let me handle the wordplay. It’s my specialty after all. All you've got to do is show up and look pretty.
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**Dr. Landstrom:** Well, I suppose I can-
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**SCP-7097:** And for God’s sake, wash that lab coat every once in a while. You smell like fly pheromones with it on!
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**Dr. Landstrom:** So... can you hand over the recordings now?
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**SCP-7097:** I'd be happy to! After your date with Grace.
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//Dr. Landstrom sighs.//
[[/div]]
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**Closing Statement:** SCP-7097 handed over recorded logs one week after Dr. Landstrom's date with Dr. Kelly. Shortly afterward, Dr. Kelly sent a message to Site Director Max Maxwell. The following was his reply:
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> = **//Thank you for your message, and congratulations on being promoted to co-head of research into SCP-7097. To your question, there isn't a strict ban on relationships between Foundation staff. Were we to try and enforce such a policy, we would quickly lose many of our best and brightest agents! That being said, the Foundation does advise caution in delicate matters such as these. Use your best judgment, Grace. As for your request to take a joint leave of absence on February 14th, I'll put it through the standard review protocol and let you know in about a week.//**
> = //Site Director Max Maxwell//
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> **Addendum:** **Request approved.**
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