lieutenantantichrist | [8] Video/Action for Goldenrod, backdated to around the 9th

[Jail is fucking boring.]

[They'd stuck Blake in a cell for a while until they figured out something about community service. It was a lot faster than back in the real world, but even crazy bullshit island has red tape. Blake's not sure whether that's nostalgic or not.]

[Cells are the same everywhere, too. He's never been on this side before. The novelty wears off fast.]

[He wishes he had a ball to bounce against the wall or something. They didn't even leave him any of his animals for company. Maybe that's a good thing. He doesn't know how he's going to explain this to Steve.]

[There's nothing but a book, and there's only so much anybody can take of The Dratini Code.]

[Blake leans back on the hard bunk and tosses his phone in one hand. When he got in here the one thing he was sure of was that he didn't want to talk to anybody, but nothing weakens that conviction like a couple hours alone with the hot, uneasy feeling in the back of his head.]

[He flips the phone open before he can think about it too much and says the first thing that comes to mind.]

[The face that comes up on the screen will look a lot less combative and more withdrawn than usual.]

Hey.

You think they have the Shawshank Redemption around here?

Maybe with one of those stupid puns in the title, and he digs his way out with one of those mole things. A little tiny one for finding rocks.

Seems like everything around here is like back home but turned the local kind of stupid. Do they even make any real original movies?

[In the crappy florescent lights shared by jails everywhere, the lines on his face look deep and weathered.]

I'm tired of nothing but the same old thing.

((OOC: Open for calls and visitors! Blake's in jail for punching Parker, but you don't have to broach the topic if you don't want to. He's not real proud of himself, so he'll pussyfoot around it unless asked directly. If you definitely don't want it to come up, just put in an OOC note.))

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She wouldn't cooperate with a few questions and I was running out of patience.

Kneed me in the balls, too.

You punched someone because they wouldn't answer your questions. [More deadpan .] What the hell did you want to know that badly??

[Blake grits his teeth] If she'd kidnapped a little girl, asshole.

[His eyes raise up.] Did the kid's pokemon just randomly show up with you?

Yeah, but that'd be easy to set up. Snatch the kid and drop their animals in the mail, and nobody ever comes looking.

First time Bro left, I looked everywhere. He was just gone. It's happened to a lot of people I know. You remember I said I've been here five times?

A week long coma made me older, giving me a year of experience on top of that. How does that make sense?

Wait, that asshole was gone? Why couldn't he've stayed that way?

[That's a damn tease, kid.]

Five times...that's too much for anybody.

[But it gives Blake a little glimmer of a traitorous hope; that if Emily really is gone, she might come back.]

[He reminds himself not to hold his breath.]

There's plenty of things that don't make sense around here, but one thing's for sure: however the world works, some scumbag'll take advantage of it.

And they're not going to play but rules you know. Old man, you're operating with an out-dated playbook.

[That gets on Blake's nerves.] I don't care if you just got out of the world's most educational coma, you're still a kid. You're no big expert on how any world works.

There's criminals and assholes wherever you go. Here's no different.

You're right. But not what I'm asking of you here. [For a kid, there's not a trace the snap bothered him at all. He's gone from punk kid to completely unreadable in his expression and body language.] I'm asking how you're going to operate from here on.

[Blake's not expecting that. It's not a question he's really thought about, possibly because he's been avoiding it.]

I don't know, all right?

This- [he rubs his hands through his hair, trying to yank his thoughts straight] -this isn't working.

That's why you have to decide. [He pushes his shades back down over his eyes. They had started to hurt from the light.]

Great, that helps a lot. What are you, a therapist? [The word has a sneer to it.]

Nah. You're going to look down on whatever I say due to my age, anyway. This way I'm cryptic and still get my point across.

You go out of your way to be a special kind of pain in the ass, don't you.

[Blake's chagrined that he even admitted to being at a loss.]

[He lets out a long breath.] I'm too old to learn any new tricks.

Nah. There's time for everything. [He phrases time oddly, like there's a vastly greater meaning to that than he's saying outloud.] You just got to take that step towards it.

Because really. You want to see these bars more often or never?

Damn teenagers. You all think you're gonna live forever.

And now you sound like a damn parole officer.

[Blake's a little amused despite himself. He's heard that speech a lot, but it's never been given to him before.]

Just saying what you would, isn't that right?

Anyway, living forever? Nah. Not happening.

Nah. Once somebody's behind bars I don't give a damn what happens to them, unless they have information. My part's over.

Good thing you haven't planned on it. You might've been real disappointed.

Speaking of that, people don't die here. It seems like they do then time distorts, resetting them which isn't supposed to happen. Time is a fickle thing.

That's what I've heard, minus the time travel crap. I'm not gonna run off a cliff to try it out.

Who knows what happens when you get old enough to keel over.

I actually know, but only for one universe.

[Blake throws his hands up] Oh, just the one.

You know time travel and the afterlife.

Kid, somewhere out there, there's a hell of a book deal waiting for you.

I'd rather bury it all in the backyard and be normal. [It's rare, but he's stone cold serious.]

Afterlife, nah. Time? That's my thing. But this is getting off topic. Your answer?

Yeah, can't be easy being a time-traveling ghost.

About whether I wanna come back to this depressing place? [He looks around the barren cell. Course not. Don't be stupid.

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