.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

[some-kinda-hero.livejournal.com]

Donnie?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Hey Claire.

[some-kinda-hero.livejournal.com]

I don't really want to talk to you right now, because there's this awesome flood...so maybe later.

[face!palm, apologetic look.]

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

What is it?

[yeehawkiller.livejournal.com]

I'm your warden.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Tommy is my warden.

[yeehawkiller.livejournal.com]

Who the fuck is Tommy?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

He's some.. guy, from hundreds of years ago?

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

Donnie.

Is "welcome back" appropriate?

[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.

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

No, I'm not here.

[Pause]

It's a flood. Hi, kid.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Hey. So what's the flood?

Are you still in charge of the kitchens?

[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]

It sounds like an opposite flood. Right?

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

[left-that-life.livejournal.com]

John....as in John Marston? Because he ain't here anymore.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

I think so.. that cowboy guy?

Where did he go?

[left-that-life.livejournal.com]

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

Were you a friend of his?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

When is he coming back?

Yeah.

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're back.


...Welcome.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I guess.

[warrenwhite.livejournal.com]

Wow, man. You came back? I didn't even know people could do that.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

I didn't know I could go back.. I wouldn't have anywhere else to go if I wasn't here, though. Besides death, I guess.

How have you been?

[warrenwhite.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know the feeling. If it's being here or being dead, I'd rather be here.

Pretty good, pretty good. I haven't even been murdered.