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Tweak says, "My spidey senses are tingling."

Samuel Jessop (newprometheus) wrote in bellumlogs,
@ 2010-01-18 12:07:00

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ichabod crane

Who: Cole and Sam
What: "Hanging out." Or Sam is desperate and Cole is upset and memories suck, okay, alrigt.
Where: 802
When: The day after the memory goings-on.
Warnings: TBA

Sam was at his wits end when Cole called and asked if he wanted to hang out. He agreed without thinking, his mind completely on the memory of Cole's he'd seen, on Jude.

He'd been doing pretty well these last few weeks. The further time had distanced him from what had happened in his lab that day, the easier it had been to pretend everything was fine. But now all that was shattered.

He was starting to really hate knowledge, to treasure ignorance like a special, golden thing. He hadn't wanted to know where Jude was, really, he had to admit that to himself. He'd liked the not-knowing, the mental place where he could pretend she'd gone back to her fiance and everything had turned out just fine.

And now that he did know, he had to know more, even though the logical side of his brain was screaming at him that knowledge was what had gotten him into this mess in the first place. Cole was his only link, and even if he couldn't tell him what had happened, he could try to steer him in a direction where he could glean more information from him.

God, what if something happened? What if he'd inadvertently gotten Cole mixed up in this mess, and now he got hurt by it?

It was with a sick feeling in his stomach that he went to Cole's apartment. He knocked on the door. He looked a bit disheveled since he hadn't slept or eaten, subsisting on endless coffees as he tried to find something to occupy himself all night long. He was wearing a clean shirt, at least, and his panic was buried far beneath the surface, but there was no hiding the fact that he didn't look well.

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	newprometheus 2010-01-19 05:10 am UTC (link)
	Sam felt cold dread settle even deeper in him. "Oh." He looked pale. "I'm sure she's fine. Maybe she's just had a rough time lately or something." The excuse was half-hearted. Sam didn't know what to do, now. He stabbed, hoping against hope, at the one thing that might make this a little better. "Where does she live?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blackcatsrbad 2010-01-19 05:13 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, maybe." Cole tilted his head to the side. "You really didn't sleep much last night, did you?" He thought for a moment, trying to remember the forum posts. "Uh... I'm pretty sure she lives in P2. Here, I mean-- sorry. I forgot you wouldn't have known." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	newprometheus 2010-01-20 06:21 am UTC (link)
	"No," he said, smiling wanly. "Not after yesterday. I'll sleep better tonight." He nodded, trying not to let it show how that just completed his misery, brought it full circle. He was too exhausted to even really be upset about it. "Well if you want to try to see her again, at least she's close." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blackcatsrbad
2010-01-20 08:24 pm UTC (link)

"That's just the thing. Do I want to try to see her again?" He'd planned on bringing it up in a far more tactful, casual manner, but lack of sleep combined with his anxiety threw that out the window. "She's the one who left me on a boat, and in the dark, too. Shouldn't I wait until she initiates some sort of contact?"

Cole managed to cut himself off before he rambled on any longer, sucking in his breath and letting it out in a long sigh. "On a slightly more pressing manner, why did we see other people's memories in the first place? I know the building is kind of... strange, but this takes it to a whole new level."

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