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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.

far as i knew, you could've only known him as daddy or master or a secret third, worse thing.

( but fair enough. )

murphy's always managing, so that don't tell me much but i guess it's good enough.

( he's alive, he's still there, exactly where danny left him five, six months ago. that's the important bit. )

[ There's a delay here. News that could make things better, could make things worse hangs in wait, unsure if it's a kindness to complicate things, unsure if he cares to be kind. But he knows too how he's felt from waking until now, thinking he's left them behind. ]

You don't need to worry. He's got people.

( danny notices things, like the username strange sprouting up on the network overnight, like a several-second delay between texts, space enough for an indecisive breath. )

if you ain't gonna jerk my dick, don't edge me, strange.

You're back there.

back where? ( . . . ) rubilyk?

( it only takes him half a moment to digest it, then accept it. like, all things considered, that's not outrageous. weirder things have happened, and if they haven't, well. now they have. a danny here, and a danny there. he would be in two places at once. )

how's my body count looking?

[ Not a bad decision, then. Neutral, maybe. ]

Far as I know it's the same as it was. Don't quote me on that, I haven't been paying you that much attention.

so i've been a good boy. i'll let jem know you said so.

Edited 2024-11-11 20:29 (UTC)

Nothing but sweetness and light to me, so you can have it.

that don't sound like me. you sure i wasn't replaced by an alien clone?

	
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