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Derrial Book (1st_chapter) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2009-01-18 14:28:00

Entry tags:

book, marco, marcus rogan, rei hino, timey wimey plot

And here I was starting to think I'd dreamed this place up during my ... somewhat re-directed Mission.

Though I'm not sure that's much of a comfort, knowing that the last thing I remember before coming back here was a pretty severe case of lead poisoning.

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	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	Severe as in stabbed yourself in a vein with a pencil, or severe as in didn't dodge fast enough? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	More like that second one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	Can't say as I've been in the exact same situation, but I've been close. Well, 'least you aren't dead? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	Thank heaven for small favors, hm? I'm Book, I don't believe we've met. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	Amen to that. Name's Marco. So you were here before, too? Been told I was already here, but I don't remember any of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	I was, a very long time ago. Seems like it was a whole lifetime ago. Might have been. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I hear that. I spent the last ten years of my life on an Earth that got nuked all to hell by the natives. Place like that, sometimes you forget what a better world even looks like. Either way, can't say as I mind the change of scenery. It's nice not having to raid ruined clinics for the anti-rad meds inside. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	Well at least it's still Earth for you, and not Earth-That-Was. Even when I was here before it was living through history for me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Earth-That-Was? Yeah, I definitely don't wanna know what happened there. Must be an odd feeling. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing that bad, just outgrew the place is all. It was stranger the first time through. This time it just makes an odd sort of sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. Well, that's good. Better than some places. I've stopped trying to make sense of the whole alternate universe thing. Guess that's sense in itself, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	I like the way you think. Sometimes it's easier to just roll with how things are than it is to try and make them work the way they should be. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	That's the truth. My philosophy pretty much boils down to this: There's a time for struggle, but sometimes you've just gotta look at things and realize that what you've got is what you've got. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	Something they taught us at the Abbey was 'choose the hill you're going to die on', which basically comes down to the same thing. If it ain't worth dying over, don't die over it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	Sounds like a fine philosophy, that. Sounds like the Abbey was a good place to learn, for those that wanted to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	I like to think it was. After all, I turned out alright. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	imthecuteone 2009-01-18 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Seems like it. So, you learned at an Abbey. That makes you a man of the cloth, right? I was never overly religious, but I'd like to think I've got the terms right, at least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	Most folk use the title 'Shepherd' and that works well enough for me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Shepherd

imthecuteone
2009-01-18 09:20 pm UTC (link)

Like a guide, or a teacher. I think that fits.

I...actually have a question for you. It's come to my attention that the other me got married, and his wife from the future is here. She's pregnant.

I don't know her, but technically she is my wife, and it is my kid. I'm going to talk to her, obviously, but after that, I don't really...I don't really know what to do here. I want to do right by her, and by the baby, but I don't even know her...

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Marco

1st_chapter
2009-01-18 09:30 pm UTC (link)

Exactly like that.

That sounds like one helluva finicky situation.

Let me see if I got this right: When you were here before, and younger, you got married, and now you're back here from a different time-strand than she is?

Don't suppose either of you has been through one of these before? Where time just kind of does what it wants to and leaves the rest of us trying to keep up?

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Shepherd

imthecuteone
2009-01-18 09:45 pm UTC (link)

Something like that, although I don't remember ever being here before. So for all intents and purposes, it's like I've never met her.

She has. But she's pregnant, and my friend, who is also from the same future, says she's good for me, and she's pregnant. If it were just the two of us to think about, I'd try to feel her out about whether she even wants to be married to a man who might be quite different from the one she married. But that's unfair enough to her as it is, and even more unfair to the kid.

I'm not going to abandon this woman. If she asks me to go away, that's one thing, but I can't just knowingly leave her to handle this all herself.

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Marco

1st_chapter
2009-01-18 10:04 pm UTC (link)

Sounds to me like you're already on the right path: Talk it over first, see how you both feel about it after that. Come to a decision that works for both of you, mutually beneficial conclusion of some sort.

And keep in mind that these things never seem to last long, a week, sometimes two, rarely more than that.

Best advice I've got is the advice I give everyone: Trust your gut. That's what instincts are there for.

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	Shepherd imthecuteone 2009-01-18 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	A week or two? Huh. I guess that would make things easier. Still. I think it's best to prepare for it to last longer, just in case. Thanks. This is...it's going to be complicated, but I think it'll work out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Marco 1st_chapter 2009-01-19 01:40 am UTC (link)
	Doesn't hurt to make plans for the long haul, just in case. Just as long as those plans are flexible. Things do tend to work better when you look at them from that angle, the 'this will work' angle instead of the 'there's no way this can possibly work' angle. Like I said, I think you'll do fine. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	boyanachronism 2009-01-18 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	Welcome to the past! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	Well thank you young man. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	boyanachronism 2009-01-18 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Marcus. Do you need help with anything? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-18 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	No, but thank you. I think I'm all right, all of the things I had collected here before are still here, so that's consolation at least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	boyanachronism 2009-01-19 11:09 am UTC (link)
	Alright! If you need any help, put a post up and I'll do what I can for you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-18 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Book? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 01:41 am UTC (link)
	Yes young lady? Can I help you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 01:51 am UTC (link)
	You don't remember me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 02:04 am UTC (link)
	... I knew you when I was here before, didn't I? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 02:05 am UTC (link)
	You did, yes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 02:07 am UTC (link)
	I'm afraid you'll have to forgive me for not remembering your name, it's been... quite a few years. Another lifetime as I told some one earlier. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 02:08 am UTC (link)
	It's fine. I'm Rei Hino. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 02:10 am UTC (link)
	Well it's a pleasure to meet you again. I believe I'm still in the same place that I was when I was first here. I barely remember it, but I woke up here, so I presume it's the same apartment I had before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 02:12 am UTC (link)
	It seems fairly recently that you were just getting used to it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Really? Interesting. I know I didn't spend my whole Mission here, a good portion of it, but then one morning I woke up back where I belonged and finished from there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 02:24 am UTC (link)
	That's really weird. ... and my boyfriend is in his thirties now, so I really shouldn't be surprised by anything that happens here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 02:27 am UTC (link)
	That's what I keep hearing, that this kind of thing happens often enough that people flail about it for a day or two and it passes after a week or so. I suppose we'll find out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 02:28 am UTC (link)
	You're always welcome to visit the shrine if you need a place to think that's quiet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2009-01-19 02:31 am UTC (link)
	I may just take you up on that. Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2009-01-19 02:32 am UTC (link)
	You're welcome. I expect I'll be there a lot myself for the next few days. (Reply to this) (Parent)