[040] I had visions, I was in them

[notafuckingnut]

[PUBLIC - video]

I got an idea. A brilliant fucking idea.

How about we just...don't get off when the ship stops. I mean...it's pretty much always some shithole, an' even when it isn't you can't stick around. So what's the point in gettin' off at all? Just tie yourself down if you gotta, or stay off the damn deck period, and fuck it.

Then at least we wouldn't have everybody so fuckin' pissed about it all the time.


[PRIVATE to Lua]

How long I gotta stay on this shit again?


[PRIVATE to Seth]

Can we do something? Like...I don't even care what. But I'm going fucking stir crazy over here. And you owe me.

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...I thought I tagged this already. ughhh work.

[notafuckingnut]

I acknowledge it...

[truth_is_cold]

This is really more of an open dismissal than acknowledgement. [Plus, you know, telling them that it's their own fault.]

[strangehistorian]

I've been an advocate of this for awhile...

[alwayshasaplan]

Hey, don't turn your nose up, the Mexican shit still has real sugar in it. [And tastes something like twenty times better than normal in his opinion.] Usually I have a bottle of rum but I've been holding off lately.

[A sigh] The jungle shit was mostly sweaty and dirty. Did run across some giant cockroaches at one point. That was gross. Everything's bigger in the fucking jungle.

Some of the architecture...reminded me, though.

[notafuckingnut]

Well at least somebody else thinks it's a good idea.

[notafuckingnut]

Okay, okay, I'm not. It's fine.

[See? He'll even take a sip to prove it. ...and okay, it's better than the usual stuff but hush.]

...oh yeah?

[There's no need to ask what, he can guess. So maybe it wasn't such a bad thing Seth sent him back so early; he likes to think he's past it, but he still has nightmares about the place.

Which would explain why he suddenly looks uncomfortable.]

[notafuckingnut]

Whatever.

[Because that's...really the only way he handles an argument he didn't start.]

[sharpememory]

Man, that alien beach resort was pretty fun though.

[surrenders]

[Right to the point of things, for once; she can tell when he's being evasive and all that stuff about "until it clears up" is a way of hiding what's worrying him.] You can't ignore it. Nobody should have to live like that.

[alwayshasaplan]

Yeah. [He rubs his hand over his face like he does when he's tense about something and prefers not to talk about it but has to anyway.]

You know me, Richie, usually I put the past in the past and that's that. But this time I got regrets.

Lots of regrets.

[He blinks rapidly at the ceiling and then takes a hasty gulp of his soda.]

[notafuckingnut]

It's not like it was before. I don't have to listen.

And anyway. I take enough that it drowns it out completely I can't think period.

[notafuckingnut]

....I'll give you that one, it was pretty good.

[notafuckingnut]

...like what? Bitch died, that's all that matters.

[What are you talking about, Seth, why are you getting all weird?]

[surrenders]

You never told me about that part.

[alwayshasaplan]

It's not all that matters.

But I never did tell you the story of what happened afterward, did I? I should probably fix that.

[sharpememory]

Seriously! I went on a boat ride and everything. I even made out with someone.

[notafuckingnut]

...never told you what?

[notafuckingnut]

Nah. You said what you wanted to do, but not really what happened after.

[He's listening. Making himself comfortable and everything.]

[notafuckingnut]

Oh yeah?

[surrenders]

It's still there.

[alwayshasaplan]

Well.

[He sat back down on the bed.]

Everybody got killed except two tough guys and Jacob and his kids. Then they rose up and we had to kill them again. The two guys changed and broke open one of the windows, and all these goddamn bats started streaming in. Each one was actually a vampire.

[sharpememory]

Yep. But I don't kiss and tell, so that's all I'll say about it.

[notafuckingnut]

Well...'cause it's fine. I mean, that's not...

I was just wondering how long I gotta be on 'em. Not...that's not even the problem.

[notafuckingnut]

[...Ugh. Cue face pulling.]

You serious? What, guys that were already there weren't enough?

[alwayshasaplan]

Well, we kicked everyone's ass who was inside, so they sent in reinforcements.

We escaped to a back room, but Jacob got bitten covering our asses. That guy turned out to have some giant-ass balls, believe you me. In the time he had before he turned he helped us arm ourselves with shit we found in the storeroom. Then he started blessing the water from the tap.

I swear to you, when we hit that door, it was that guy's faith that made the difference. That blessed water hit them like battery acid. It was the most fucking amazing thing I ever saw. Haven't been able to forget it.

...they whittled us down. At the end it was just me and Kate. But we lasted til dawn. Then Carlos showed up and thank God he listened when we told him to blow the doors down.

[A long sigh. He pulls out a fresh pack of Red Apples and taps one out, then offers the pack.]