lieutenantantichrist

First. I don't expect you to be awake. [He's settled securely... on a roof. Always with the roof.]

Secondly, you were right about the me not being dead thing. Thought you should know. You have no idea how horrible that is.

And here I thought if I'd lived it would be a good thing.

Talk to you later. [And then he hung up. Sorry Blake, you'll have to call him back if he woke you and you missed answering.]

[Blake is jarred out of sleep when his phone rings. What now, another dead kid]

[He fumbles for the phone as he sits up and looks blearily at the screen.]

[In the first second, his dream stains the picture, and it's a drowned boy looking at him.]

[By the time he figures out what's going on, it goes black.]

[His thumb smacks the button to call Obito back.]

[His voice is thick and disoriented.] Th'hell wazzat about?

[Okay he didn't actually expect a call back and he blinks down at the screen.]

Ah! You can go back to sleep! I just wanted to say that to you while everyone was finally asleep inside.

'm awake, might as well handle it now.

[He's not in any hurry to get back to that dream.]

[Blake is in shadow and lit only by the wash of light from the Gear screen. The drawback of calling at this hour is this is now a conversation with a hairy shirtless guy.]

You say you're not dead?

[He's seen old man chest before, no worries.]

Yeah. Apparently... I will maintain it's not me though. That is crap.

Just, apparently with my face and name, is all.

[Obito's not making this any easier to follow.]

So you're alive, but you're not you.

Sure. That makes sense.

You a zombie or something?

Haa... I really wish it were that answer. I don't... really know though.

You know I'd be thirty when most of the people from my world are from? I can't even imagine being that age, not really.

Especially not with the stuff people told me recently.

But, I figured you'd want to know you weren't wrong about me surviving, apparently.

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C'mon, kid, it's gotta be better than being a zombie.

[Blake's not real good at pep talks at the best of time, and around 4 am it just gets weird.]

Thirty's young. It's been a long time since I saw thirty.

Told you. Couldn't be talking to you if you were dead.

How'd you find this out, anyway? Reverse seance?

Someone I killed told me I did, and he was born the year I thought I died.

[Come up with a smart remark for that one Blake, hmm?]

[Blake stares blankly down at the phone.]

Is this a word problem?

As a side note, he's my friend here, and he's basically from seventeen odd years in the future.

Word problem how?

It is too damn late to deal with time travel. [He glances at the clock at the corner of the phone] Early.

[He waves his free hand in a circle] You know, In three years my brother will be half as old as my sister and twice as old as my dog, one of those things.

Er, no I don't know. Why are you turning this into math? I mean, I can do math but... why would I want to right this second?

I was just saying that most of these people I, you know, ought to be way older than and I'm kinda not.

[Blake rubs his eye with the heel of his hand.] Jus' what it sounded like to me.

Sounds complicated. But if you're not dead, that's good news, right?

[The kid doesn't look real thrilled about it.]

Considering I'm apparently single-handedly killing thousands in my future, I'm going to have to go with 'no'.

[Obito gets a sleep-logged, blank look.]

[Then Blake shakes his head firmly.]

Kid, I've been telling an octopus where to shoot its ice lasers all day. I've met a guy who says he fought Hitler and another guy who says he had a giant robot for fighting space Hitler.

I've dealt with some weird shit, but I am not - and I don't care what you say or where you heard this - I am not talking to ninja Hitler.

Not sure who Hitler is but I'm guessing he's relevant?

[He huffed a faint breath, shaking his head.]

I didn't say I understood it.

Just... that it apparently happened or will happen or whatever it is.

It's not important. I'm not giving any 4 am history lessons to ninjas.

[Blake leans over to flick on the bedside lamp and winces in the light. His hair's sticking up in odd directions.]

Well, that's an simple one. Don't kill thousands of anybody. That's gotta be easy enough to avoid. People manage not to every day.

With how this time thing works it's not that simple.

I guess my family is just cursed to make stupid mistakes or something.

[At least he wasn't in a frame of mind to critique the hair?]

There's no such thing are curses. There's just stupid shit people do.

[Blake wouldn't be great at following the logic and mechanics here at the best of times, so he falls back on practicality.]

Now you know, right? Forewarned, forearmed, all that crap. If you don't want to do it, then don't.

[He's.... just going to stare at you for a moment here Blake.]

You know what?

Thank you.

I think that was the nicest thing anyone has said about this mess since it started.

[He's expecting "you know what" to be followed by "fuck you" like it usually is.]

[It takes him a second to process.]

Yeah. Sure, kid.

You can lock somebody up for something they did, you can haul them in for something you think they did, but you can't prosecute for a crime they haven't committed yet.

I just hope as people find out... they see it like you do. [He gave him a sad smile, then inclined his head.]

I'll let you get back to sleep.

The past is out of your hands, but the future, that you can do something about.

[Blake yawns]

Sleep tight. Don't be ninja Hitler.

You're explaining this Hitler thing next time we talk. [He huffed, then shook his head.]

Good night Blake. [Annnd hanging up.]

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