[Outside World]

[john_ofdarkness]

At first glance, the room is like any other--a door that opens off to the second-floor hall, another door set into the right wall, a window with the curtains drawn almost completely together. In his perennial search for cigarettes, the room appears to bear little consideration.

The gap between the curtains catches John's eye, and he draws in a slow and shaking breath.

He closes the door behind him, then throws the curtains wide open; he half-expects to see the grounds, the trees, the walls of the Mansion curving in on themselves ... but instead, he sees a neat little chain-link fence and a line of identical two-story houses. The sight makes him laugh, that startled, honest laugh that sounds half-foreign on his lips. "Jesus Christ," he says to himself, low; "I'm in suburbia."

John swings open the second door, taking note of the address as he goes. Wherever he is, there's got to be a convenience store somewhere in the area--and he's dying for a few cartons of cigarettes.

Comments

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

See you in a week. Or a few years. Or never. *waves* Ta.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Want me to say anything to James for you?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Tell him-- *hesitates* Don't say anything. But see that he's here, in a week.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

I can't even tell him that you were here?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

No sense in it, if I can't make it back.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

You're asking me not to tell my lover that his twin brother made it back into the real world. I'm a terrible liar, John. He'll know something's up.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Tell him, then, since your heart's already set on it.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Can I say that you said hi?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Can I tell him you acknowledged his existence at all?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Why should you want to?

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Why shouldn't you want to?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Tell him whatever the hell you want to tell him, then. *heads off for the house from which he'd emerged, earlier that afternoon*

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

*calls after him* Fine, be that way! *and, of course, his first words to James will be something along the lines of, "John was here. He says hi! :D"*

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*... jerk. XD*

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

*John won't say hi to his brother, and suddenly Buzz is the jerk? well!*