The ride home isn't uncomfortable so much as quiet, Billy too caught up in his anger at the whole debacle at the party and wondering why he'd even thought it a good idea to go in the first place. He doesn't have anything to say yet, and when Billy occasionally glances across the carriage (it's not exactly roomy, but there may as well be a football ( Read more... )

Just like the restart of each loop, Billy isn't sure when exactly they're no longer in the office he's come to hate, or when Erik and Charles disappear. It occurred to him that it all could be a dream, but it's too real, too vivid, to personal to Erik for it to be anything but real and he's not sure what to make of it, so Billy concentrates on ( Read more... )

Sleep had been a little harder to come by the previous night, no matter how hard Teddy tried to comfort Billy and try to keep him feeling safe. It's hard to sleep fitfully when the threat of disappearing into your mind or someone else's without warning is always there, and even harder with nightmares. He'd taken a while to come down from the trip ( Read more... )