.09. [VOICE] i return

[tangentdarko]

I gotta admit, I didn't really think I'd be coming back here. I think I got trapped in some kind of time loop, because I went back there just to come back here again and I.. I experienced the same thing over again there anyway. Who cares if I die again if I'm going to come back here to be redeemed? Again. [...] You can't just.. take a person away for a month and expect them to come back all eager to change. I didn't wan-- [...]

Okay. I'd rather be here than just.. gone. It's like chapter seven said.. "The Manipulated Living will do anything to save themselves from Oblivion." Grandma Death was right. I don't want to fall into Oblivion. I'd rather be here.

[Long pause.]

Are Paddy, John, and Warren still here?


[Fail!Private to Tommy, meaning public:]
Hey, Tommy.. Are you still my warden? I know it's been a month, but I didn't really have a choice to leave and I don't want to come back and start all over again unless you moved on and you want me to start over..

Comments

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

I don't know.. I guess I've been gone for awhile.

..You're the science guy, right? Or are you the inmate? I can't really tell you two apart.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Hey. So what's the flood?

Are you still in charge of the kitchens?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

I think so.. that cowboy guy?

Where did he go?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I guess.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

I haven't got a clue.

No, I'm not, I decided to fuck that shit and go put myself in charge of the spa. Fancy a pedicure?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Then stop listening. Dick.

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

Scientist. And...it really has been a while.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

It sounds like an opposite flood. Right?

What's not for dinner? Will you make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Wait.. How do I know you're not affected by that opposite flood thing?

What's the punchline to the joke with the cowboy?


I couldn't help it, you know? The Admiral sends me home for a month, I have to go home. It's not like I could just come back whenever I wanted. I had to close the tangent universe again.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Not right at all, what bullshit are you talking?

Beef stew, a-la-Abigail Marston is not for fucking dinner. No. Who eats pumpkins anyway, and Thanksgiving's miles away.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

This is really weird....

[...]

[...]

That sounds good..

Does that mean we are having Thanksgiving this year?

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

We didn't have Thanksgiving this year. The Admiral decided to take it off us. Because he's a bastard.

He cancelled Christmas too. Don't even get him started on Chinese New Year.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

...

...

I don't get what you're saying. I guess I'll just wait a few more days, or you can try again if you want.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Right. There was Thanksgiving. It happened already. We did, in fact, have pumpkin pie.

And do not talk to me about pumpkins. Ever.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

How could you have Thanksgiving already? It's only the 2nd or something.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Because we're magic. [Paddy wants to explain. Honest, Donnie.]

[left-that-life.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that cowboy. He jus'...left. Disappeared-like.

Were you a friend of his?

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

'First, we assume a spherical horse in a vacuum,' I believe.

Again?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Good job, man.

Yeah. The closing of the portal in the Tangent Universe was what brought me here the first time. I wasn't in the artifact, but I became the manipulated living and I think that meant I wasn't the living receiver, because she said that the living receiver got supernatural powers and I don't remember having any of those, except for the time at the school, but I don't really remember that either. I think Frank was the living receiver and I was the manipulated living because that just.. it just makes more sense.

The primary universe apparently got a hole torn in it again or something because I went back there and woke up in the golf course like I did that first time when the jet engine crashed into my room and then I relived the same month that I had before I died.. twenty-eight days and almost seven hours, technically. Frank was there again but it was like he didn't remember the first time and I knew I had to go along with the same thing because otherwise I might have derailed the mission and then the Primary Universe wouldn't have been restored..

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that shouldn't affect holidays..

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

When is he coming back?

Yeah.

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

[And he stares because he got only about forty seven percent of that.]

Well. Then you have done what you needed to.

Again.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

And yet, it does.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but why?

I'd kinda like to understand it, you know?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

So when the third Thursday rolls around, we'll just act like it's not a holiday..