Evan blinked, looking down at his hands and realizing that, somehow, he was back in his own adult body. His hair wasn't the wild mop that he'd had in Sunnyvale Institution and he had his real clothes back.
As used as he was by now to regaining consciousness in absolutely strange situations, he honestly expected something different to happen
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"Your answers are interesting, Evan Treborne. I suspect your sense of comedy is more useful to this school than 'legitimate' psychological counseling. You should bribe with storytelling, next time. You could make any truth a yarn the likes of which old troubadours would be jealous."
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Evan managed, somehow, to hold in a snarl. "My life is comedy to you, you side-show reject?"
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"Good for you," he bit out, unable to pretend civility at this point in life.
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Evan faltered, thinking of Kayleigh's reaction to his story. "Or thinks I'm right, too."
He sighed, moving backward a few steps and pressing himself up against the wall. He pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes, noting for the first time their pinched, burning sensation.
For all the losses of consciousness he's had, Evan can't actually remember the last time he's slept more than the few minutes called for in EEGs.
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"You and I are either dead and in an unknown hell, among the insane, or this is actually happening and perhaps as strange or stranger than anything you've seen in your life. So, tell me of it."
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"I've spent the last year going back and forth within specific memories, trying to alter events to change the lives of my friends for the better."
Evan closed his eyes, trying to force the tears that beckoned back in.
"To say I've failed is a monumental understatement. So I went back far enough that I wasn't born yet and strangled myself with my umbilical cord. If I don't exist, my friends and family's connections to me don't prompt them to make the decisions that lead to their ruin."
((I'm sorry, I have no clue how I missed this one! And, yes, the lack of logic in Evan's plan is rather GLARING. *sigh*))
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