[video, voice] what goes around comes around

[maddest]

[The device flicks on. Static.

Then, purple- only purple. White. Break's coat, the beautiful off-the-shoulder, white one that he lost almost a year ago during that episode with all of the blood. It's back in one piece.]

What-

[Then the feed flicks off. On again, very briefly, as he bangs it on the table. Sound.

Then to video- there's Break's elbow, Emily's dress.

On. Rap rap rap. Someone's knocking it against a table to see if it can be broken open.]

-why does it keep chirping, Emily?

[This is almost exactly how he arrived, nearly two years ago to the day. And here we are, come full circle, about to smash the PCD on a table corner in idle, non-technologically oriented curiosity.]

Comments

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Oh, I generally don't.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Then perhaps you'll fare better.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Than most?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

That too.

Tell me, is it at all creepy to end up in a world surrounded by friends you never knew you had?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm not looking at it that way.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

So how are you viewing it?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

A whole bunch of people I don't have to win over.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I suppose. It still sounds unpleasant.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I doubt you'll have to go through it. You don't seem like the kind of person who has very many friends.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I don't intend on ever trying.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Problem solved.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

And what will you do now?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Settle in. Find a little food, find a little water.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Good luck with it.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

How did we know each other?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Relatively well, in a sense.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Friends, then?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it that.

But I dissected you, and I don't think you ever got over it. Stubborn. Still, it didn't keep you from coming back.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You did what?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Dissected you, is your hearing gone too? Well, vivisected, you were alive the entire time. I'm a scientist.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Why precisely didn't I kill you?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

You couldn't. Without your chain here, there's little you could've done. Though you were still interesting without it, rest assured.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Without my-

I see.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Has that changed? I always thought I'd been missing out on an interesting experience.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Come find out. I'll give you a new experience, one way or another.