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[cahooted]

This is Flynn. Hi!

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[ex_this_ismydesign36]

You'd think or you'd hope?

[cahooted]

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.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

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.

[cahooted]

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.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Then it sounds like you still have hope.

[cahooted]

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?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I am more practical, than hopeful these days.

But that was the case before I arrived here.

[cahooted]

No kidding.

You still traveling with House?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Why do you ask?

[cahooted]

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

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

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.

[cahooted]

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.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

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.

[cahooted]

I guess I just like to pretend I am.

Is that mutually exclusive? Horrible people often need help.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

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.

[cahooted]

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.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I believe it matters as well.

They may be gone, though sometimes I wonder, but regardless our fates are intertwined now.

Horrible things happened to the people of this town, and someone tried to erase them ... sweep them under the bed like inconvenient bits of dust.

[cahooted]

You want to give them justice?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I believe they deserve it, yes.

[cahooted]

[There's a pause before the next text comes in.]

Never thought I'd see the day where we get to agree on something.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

We can call it an anomaly, if you like?

[ Will knew that he pushed Flynn ruthlessly, even to the point of cruelty at times. Perhaps there was something about Flynn that reminded Will of himself, before he had tumbled to the frailty of his own mental instability.

Will hadn't let himself study it too closely, though he realized he might have to start factoring it in to their conversations in an attempt to stop being deliberately provoking.]

[cahooted]

[Flynn chuckles at the screen, running his hand over his beard. Talking to Will is unpredictable, always. Sometimes their arguments drive Flynn through the roof and sometimes there's... this.]

That's funny. Didn't know you do funny.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ He was often unpredictable to talk with, and sometimes you couldn't even be sure who was talking, depending upon how tightly one of the monsters was wrapped around his mind at the time.

But for the moment, Will is also chuckling softly. ]

I have my moments. Though usually they are unintentional.

[cahooted]

[It's a nice change of pace and a welcome truce on this already exhausting day. If they can make it through a conversation without provoking and prodding at each other Flynn will gladly take it, no questions asked.]

I'll keep that in mind.

So how are you these days? Besides being unintentionally funny.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Who knew what miracles were possible?

Maybe they were both just too run down by time at this point for either of them to pick up the habitual poking and prodding. ]

Mostly in one piece. Say what you will about House, but he's good for keeping our hides intact, so long as we don't give in to the urge to be too self-destructive with our experiments.