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eddie likes to (riddlethem) wrote in doors,
@ 2014-03-13 09:24:00

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catwoman, harley quinn, poison ivy, riddler

[Private to Selina K.]

Riddle me this: Have you ever been to the greenhouse? This place is fascinating.

[Private to Harl and Pam]

I invited the kitty to stay. Is that alright? [Blink.] Also, I think I saw a man kill himself when I left to get snackies. He was standing across the street, walked into an alley and he just shot himself. Is that alarming? I feel like we should be alarmed.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-13 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	I'm becoming an eccentric hermit and this is just the place to do it. She keeps to herself. I've donated a lot of my blood to her, though. Part of me thinks it's for actual science, the other part assumes it's so she can teach her babies to enjoy drinking my blood. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-13 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Does this have something to do with your little unexpected fit of violence? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-13 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, sort of. Personally, I think it's gotta be an early midlife crisis. I don't like parties anymore. Or mansions. Or fundraisers. Or champagne. Since that's all my friends and business partners are, I decided to hide. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-13 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Do you still like Stephanie? If you tell me that you don't, I'm going to be very, very worried. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-13 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	I tried to break up with her! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-13 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	[Shock!] Why? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-13 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	We weren't gelling. Stephanie and I never started this relationship based on love like you and Bruce. It's all cameras, PR, what suit goes with her dress, etc, etc. Real love sounds complicated and tiresome. I didn't want her to go through that with me. Especially during, well, whatever this is that I'm doing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-13 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	You weren't gelling? And I think Bruce shares your opinion about love, so maybe it's going around. What is that you're doing, Edward? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-14 04:59 am UTC (link)
	She's a princess and lately I haven't been feeling like royalty. [Blink.] What happened with Bruce? There's a mystery to be solved. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-14 05:05 am UTC (link)
	He didn't actually explain. He just apologized for how things ended, or something equally polite. Anyway, I was thinking of heading to the greenhouse myself. Tell me about your mystery. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-14 05:10 am UTC (link)

Oh goodness. Yes, you should come here. There's plenty of room and once you get used to the spores and slobber it's not so bad.

I think we've all been brainwashed. Your sister acted strange the first time I met her, which indicates she might have already known me. I attacked a police commissioner out of the blue. Things are starting to pile up. The question is, why? And, did we all agree to it?

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-14 05:14 am UTC (link)
	I just want to be out of the Manor. Slobber, I can deal with. I apparently know someone named Tony, and he mentioned a plague. Do you remember a plague? Because I don't. And how did Em act strangely? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-14 05:20 am UTC (link)

Trust me, you'll feel a lot better once you're here.

Plague? Tony? None of that is ringing any bells. But! It might be further proof that our lives are a lie. Ohoh.

Em got snappy with me for no good reason. I was humoring her history whatever occupation. I was smiling even when she tried to cut me down. And, YET when she found out about the commissioner she tried to touch base with me. Odd, isn't?

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Re: Selina K/Eddie N

spacecowboys
2014-03-14 05:38 am UTC (link)

Will I? Do you miss Stephanie?

[Cursor blink.] Our lives aren't a lie, Eddie. I remember everything. How can that be a lie?

What did she snap about? And I thought she was friends with you and Stephanie, so why wouldn't she contact you when you did something so strange? [...] I've been sick, and I think that's what's making me think things are off. Maybe you're sick too? Are you feverish?

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Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-14 05:45 am UTC (link)

I have to turn my brain off to miss her. I have to stop thinking and bam there it is. Aching for her at night to be by my side. I don't remember ever feeling that way.

Because whatever the alternative is, we've all decided it was best to forget it.

Ghosts. Death. I was just fooling around and she said I didn't know the first thing about being dead. And, maybe she's right. She could also be very wrong. Contacting Steph makes sense, but I didn't know her until our awkward dance nights ago.

[Blink. Blink.] Turn the light off, Selina. In your brain. Just turn it off for a moment and see what happens.

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Re: Selina K/Eddie N

spacecowboys
2014-03-14 05:49 am UTC (link)

You don't? Why not? I always feel that way about Bruce, and everyone knows that you and Stephanie are meant to be together. [Cursor blink, because she doesn't actually have anything to back that up with.]

Edward, we're not the type of people who forget things. We're too capable for that. Forgetting is cowardly, and I'm no coward. I don't think you are either.

[...] What does Em know about being dead? She had a perfectly normal life. So she's been a little sick, but not death sick.

[A very long cursor blink.] I don't want to.

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Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-14 05:55 am UTC (link)

[Blink.] Trust me, our relationship was a fabrication. An easy, simple way to make more money for the both of us. [Blink.] And yet, when I tried to break things off with her, she wouldn't let me and I couldn't actually find the words. [Blink.] There's something more with Stephanie and I want to know what it is even if it turns out to be something bad.

Then, there's a chance we're being played with. And, I know neither of us are really all that fond of that idea.

I can make her freak out by either mentioning riddles or death. Don't you think that's an indicator?

[Blink, blink.] Just for a moment. So you know.

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Re: Selina K/Eddie N

spacecowboys
2014-03-14 06:03 am UTC (link)

I don't think your relationship is a fabrication. [More cursor blink.] I would know if it was, wouldn't I? I mean, I'm great at seeing through things, Edward. And I would know if I was being played with. So would you.

[The cursor just blinks for awhile when he mentions riddles and death.] Em never freaks out. [But then there's more cursor blinking, because that's obviously not true.]

[...] Maybe I don't want to know. Whatever it is, maybe we're all better off not knowing.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-14 06:07 am UTC (link)
	You wouldn't say that two weeks ago. [Blink.] Maybe you aren't great at seeing things. Maybe you are just not a fan of the unknown. [Bliiiink.] When you get here, I'll show you the conversation we had. It's strange and she's not taking it well. That's true. But, we're not cowards, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-14 06:23 am UTC (link)
	I have no problem with the unknown, Edward. I just don't think you and Stephanie are casual. It doesn't feel right. Alright. I have a doctor from another door coming to visit me, but I'll be there right after. It shouldn't take long. [Cursor blink.] Fine. How do you expect me to turn the light off? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-14 06:32 am UTC (link)
	Which proves whatever we forced ourselves to believe is a liiiie. Good. Sit down somewhere comfortable and stare at a lamp or a vase that's about a room away from you. Don't look away from it. Don't think about anything except it. That vase is your fucking universe now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Selina K/Eddie N

spacecowboys
2014-03-14 06:43 am UTC (link)

[She doesn't respond to anything at first. She begrudgingly does what he says, a hand to the back of her neck as she tries to rub away that persistent ache. And this, she thinks, is stupid. Still she stares at the lamp in the lab she's currently in, wondering how a perfectly normal, green banker's lamp is supposed to--]

[Minutes later. Cursor blink.] I must be hallucinating.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-14 06:44 am UTC (link)
	Tell me what you saw. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-14 06:45 am UTC (link)
	The lamp [...] it's broken. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-14 06:49 am UTC (link)
	And a second ago it was working fine, right? When I tried it, I was at the park. The nice one I like to walk Matilda at. I was staring at this really interesting statue, some kind of policeman from the 1800's posing proudly. Then, after a moment, the statue was crumbled, covered in graffiti and missing an entire arm. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)