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[ Months ago, when he spoke to him just the other day. There are too many things it could mean: comforts in some of them, a flipside to every coin. ]

Any sign of an out?

strange, let's be real here. if you're asking me that, we're fucked.

( danny is many things, but a time-bending wizard is not one of them. )

[ Great. That would've been too easy, wouldn't it? ] What else is new.

the house ain't right. you can leave technically, but most people who try end up right back here with little memory of what happened from a to z.

Have you tried?

i haven't had a reason to want to try.

[ He almost makes a comment here, some cold criticism. Something stops him. ]

Why?

same reason you probably wouldn't have left rubilyk of your own free will.

[ Because he wants to kill the bitch in charge and ensure life goes on in her absence doesn't seem like it's the answer here, and failing that... ]

Who else is here?

john, house, jem. eddie, too, but he ain't ours.

[ All four of them. All four of them. What the fuck. ]

And we're sure this isn't the Void?

[ It's not a question he needs an answer to. Buying time. Time to get his head around waking up in the company of so much unfinished business. ]

we're not sure of anything. i think john thinks it is.

Edited 2024-11-11 02:36 (UTC)

John also thinks you're a special boy, so we'll keep our grain of salt handy
You all arrive together?

well, if god thinks it, it must be true. (:

more or less. john already disemboweled me as my welcome present in case you've still got some axe-grinding ideas in that perfectly coifed head of yours.

Oh. Thrilled to hear the family's still fully functional after relocating. How's your body count looking here so far?

that's between me and god, too.
and the general public, i guess.

single digits.

Well, that's something. The dead staying dead this time?

you wanna find out?

Why, you got a death wish? Here I was thinking you were happily settled.

if i didn't have a death wish, stephen, i wouldn't be in love with john gaius. kind of a core character trait in my happy little family.

Great. Try to keep it in the family then, ok? What I wanted was a yes/no answer.

you're such a downer.

people don't stay dead here, just like rubilyk, just like the place i was in before rubilyk.

I'm surprised you expected anything else.

Seems like a step up from both, congrats on the upgraded cell.

hope springs eternal.

i'm still sleeping on the floor most nights, so i don't know how upgraded it really is, but the scorching hot showers are a bonus, sure. ( stephen strange is a man of a hundred questions. danny's saved most of his, except this one: ) you familiar with john murphy, back in rubilyk?

You mean the same John Murphy under whose transformed influence I decided to come into your home and rip your daddy's heart out? [ To borrow some choice phrasing. You could say he's familiar, yeah. ] I saw him at a party recently. I'm not exactly his favorite person, but he seems to be managing as well as any of us.

	
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