cahooted | [Snowblind] IC Inbox

Oh, here we go.

My friend is a shell of his former self and takes joy in the pain of others. What do you think?

I have empathy, Flynn. I'm not psychic.

I can't read the evidence of your friend since I can't see the evidence of your friend.

Your evidence I can see and can interpret.

[Okay, that... genuinely throws him for a loop here.]

What are you saying here, you don't understand why I would be hurt by the fact that my friend asks for our death videos for entertainment? Or treats us like unimportant, lesser beings?

Because either you're messing with me or you need better friends.

I'm sure just about anyone who knows me would say I need better friends.

[ Seriously. His best friend is a serial killer who devours the rude and occasionally feeds the rude to his friends. ]

I'm sorry.

I didn't realize you and Peter were friends.

Oh.

I didn't realize you didn't realize.

[A pause.]

Don't think he'd agree these days, but yeah.

Maybe not, though most of us are feeling the strain these days.

[ There was a pause, before the next message came through. ]

How are the nightmares?

[ It's a stab in the dark, but Will suspects it's an appropriate one. ]

[There is a pause on his end as well.]

Vivid.

Yeah.

[ This was his way of confirming they were the same for him. ]

Hard to get that taste out of your mouth, so to speak, when you wake up?

Huh. Seems to be going around today.

You think at some point you'd just be over it.

You'd think or you'd hope?

I don't know. I don't want to give up on it.

I don't think there'd be a coming back from that.

I don't know that I'm a good one to speak with on that subject.

Or maybe I am, because I can speak from experience.

There can be something peaceful in coming to terms with, and accepting, that some things are impossible.

Yeah, I know. You're gonna point things out and it's just gonna make me angry again, as usual.

Appreciate it, though.

I don't want peaceful.

Then it sounds like you still have hope.

Of course I still have hope. If I didn't I wouldn't have anything to get angry about.

Of maybe I'm just a masochist, who knows.

What about you? Do you still have hope?

I am more practical, than hopeful these days.

But that was the case before I arrived here.

No kidding.

You still traveling with House?

Why do you ask?

Because I was wondering why I'm still traveling with Peter.

This place seems to encourage seeking companionship; an anchor to reality in the cold, dark night.

This coming from someone who lived a large portion of his life in a very solitary existence. If you don't count the dogs.

I used to think I could do that. The solitary thing?

I guess this town is just too small for it. And, you know, horrible.

Really? You don't strike me as someone suited to a solitary existence.

Horror is often in the eyes of the beholder. This town is suffering and it needs help.

I guess I just like to pretend I am.

Is that mutually exclusive? Horrible people often need help.

I wouldn't say it has to be mutually exclusive.

But I'm wondering how easy it is to lose ourselves in our own misery, that we forget the people who have already suffered greatly in all this.

Then again, I suppose you can make the argument that they're already gone, so why does it matter what happened to them.

That's a good point.

[He considers that for a moment.]

I think it matters what happened to them. But I also think it matters what happens to us along the way.

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