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Tweak says, "PIVOT!!!"

Jack Landors (robinindahood) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2011-06-03 21:47:00

Entry tags:

jack landors, ruby winchester

Who: Jack and Ruby!
What: Reuniting!
When: After dinner!
Where: Mary's place and then maybe coffee!
Warnings: I don't foresee any!
ooc notes: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything is so exciting! I don't even.

It was like a weird case of de ja vu. Trapped in a nightmare, a backwards nightmare. How could he have forgotten an apocalypse, and people who obviously knew and cared that he was back. It was hard. Like a reoccurring headache. He was worried. What if he couldn't remember? Things didn't look familiar at all, there were a couple of times he had gotten lost on his way to Mary's to come see Ruby. Every hall seemed to look the same, and only the numbers made any sense. Even then it was boggling. Just how many floors on this place were there? It couldn't be the average building. It had too many sets of stairs, and too many numbers of rooms down each corridor.

Sam had told him that he helped build the place and could vouch for its security. Did that mean it was magically warded or designed, or whatever? And if so, what did that say about his sanity that he was questioning a magical building? Running a frustrated hand through his dreads he rounded another hallway and peered down into it, hoping he finally found the right floor and address. He didn't know how many more wrong turns his sanity could handle in one evening. Jack was still dressed in his S.P.D. uniform, though he'd unzipped the top layer jacket and it hung open. There was an obvious motif of red and black, his coordinating ranger colors and S.P.D. regulation uniform. The letters of the Academy ran up both sleeves of the jacket, and was written on the back as well.

Jack hated that he was trapped in a world where he only had his uniform, it wasn't the most comfortable thing to walk around in. But he finally did manage to find Mary's apartment and knocked on the door waiting for the demon he once knew to answer. The more he stood in that hallway, the more things started to click and his initial discomfort diffused.

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frostandsnow
2011-06-04 04:18 pm UTC (link)

Well this was weird. She was going to meet Jack. Jack who she remembered well from before. A friend of hers, of Sam's hell this kid had even tolerated Solo and his annoyances. And now he was back and he didn't even really remember her. It was all kinds of weird but it would take some getting used to, and wasn't that what this place did. It took getting used to having time travellers and Jedi around, having angels that weren't trying to kill her. Being married to a Hunter. She couldn't help smiling at that. Jack wouldn't have known about the marraige. If he'd remembered. It was a pity, she'd wanted him at her wedding. But he joined Andrea on the list of people she'd have had there if she could have. And she figured Sam would agree, so screw the seal and its ability to mess things up she was gonna make sure Jack remembered he had friends here.

Ruby had opened the door and soon spotted the confused ranger standing just outside her door having knocked just once. He had a strange mix of confused and uncomfortable and Ruby wondered had his stuff returned when he had. Maybe they were in an empty room somewhere or maybe he'd have to buy all knew stuff, which kind of sucked. She didn't understand how the seal did its thing but it seemed to conclusively wipe people from existance when it was done with them. Disappointing really but it made it easier to know they were safe and at home rather than in danger somewhere in their world.

"So how're you doing?" she asked curiously. It couldn't have been easy for Jack walking back into this life he'd once gotten used to and not remembering what he should have. "Did you figure out the food of the day?" she asked. Maybe he'd remembered this about her, maybe it was just that she was a demon with a hunter. Even that was pretty exceptional.

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robinindahood
2011-06-04 07:28 pm UTC (link)

Not everything had come back so easily. Infact as it stood the only thing he was starting to remember was peoples faces. Only select people, those who he knew well. Ruby and Sam, and Danny being the small group that his memory was allowing. He was hoping maybe by seeing Ruby face to face that things would become clearer. That his memories would somehow kick into over drive and he would remember everything, but unfortunately it wasn't the case. When she opened the door he did manage to stop looking so baffled and give her a tiny smile while he regained his barring. "It's like having some kind of weird amnesia. Like I'm pretty sure this is stuff I'm supposed to know, but if I try to think harder about it it only hurts my head. "He wanted everything to come back, he really did. The way Ruby looked at him, he knew it had to. There was something more to this world then just apocalypses and badness.

"I'm working on it. I think I remember something about pie, but it doesn't seem like that clicks with you. But it's connected to you." Jack was sharp, he would pick up on it eventually if it was there. He wasn't the type to just give up on his memories even if they were being stubborn and refusing to all come back as fast as he wanted. "I must be the lamest ever to forget everything. " It wasn't like he'd meant for it to happen. "How long was I gone?" To him it felt like a couple years. But here time didn't seem to match up for people.

"Did I have my own place before?" He had many questions. As much as he was trying not to overwhelm her with them he really needed the answers. They were important to his memory, he didn't like only having glimpses into memories he should have had full access too. Once more he didn't like the seal, how was it right that it got to decide what memories were important and which ones got taken away?

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frostandsnow
2011-06-11 02:02 pm UTC (link)

She couldn't have imagined that. The closest, she supposed, was when she'd thought she was that PA in the firm Zachariah had made them all believe they worked in. When the memories had felt so real but they hadn't been. She tried not to think about it too much, thinking about her little girl generally was a surefire way to annoy the demon. And she didn't know if she could have any of her own so the best way was not to think about it at all, which just on occasion lead to that muffled weird feeling she figured Jack meant. And he was probably right, there were probably stuff he was supposed to know that he just didn't get. He'd pick it up in time all going to plan. There were friendships and memories and experiances he had to get back on track with, and he would. She knew he would. It would just take time. "Don't push it too hard either" she warned. "Can't be the healthiest way to go about all this."

She laughed at the refrence to pie. Close but no cigar. "Pie isn't me no, You're looking at my brother in law Dean for pie. And no Jack, its not lame. Its another weird thing the seal does to people. Its another thing you have to get past." She thought about how long he'd been gone, "A few months. You were around when we were all thrown into a crazy hellfuture, then not long after that you were just gone." It was horrible how the seal did that, ripped friendships away from people.

"You had your own place yeah. But then everyone around here has somewhere to call their own. All we need to do is get you set back up and who knows, maybe things'll be clearer." Hopefully anyway, he deserved things to be clearer. Though that's what today was, right. Helping with all of that, she knew there were other things she'd have to explain if he didn't get his memories back. How she'd been working for Lucifer, or well, for Azazel but had switched sides, how she'd wound up married to a hunter, and his stuff too, training with Jacen Solo, getting into ridiculous trouble with Puckerman. All sorts of things. But that could come later. There was so much more to focus on first.

"You remember about me and how coffee should taste, right? Like tar, so much like tar you should be able to stand a spoon up in it and have it stay there. Lets go get espressos"

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