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x5_alec

[Room 311, very very late Monday night]

Jun 06, 2006 02:37

( More than simple nightmares )

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tyler_gone June 6 2006, 14:47:24 UTC

From his light sleep, Tyler heard noises. "Alec?" he mumbled. "You okay?"

x5_alec June 6 2006, 16:19:53 UTC

He was silent a long time, throat dry, until he finally managed to string some words together, albeit not very loudly. "Sorry. Couldn't sleep."

tyler_gone June 6 2006, 16:46:31 UTC

"Believe me, do I get that," Tyler said. "It's fine, I wasn't that asleep anyhow."

x5_alec June 6 2006, 17:20:35 UTC

Alec didn't answer, and it might have seemed he'd fallen back asleep until he spoke again.

"How do you know what's real?"

tyler_gone June 6 2006, 17:25:04 UTC

"I take pills," Tyler said, and sighed. "You're asking the wrong guy."

x5_alec June 6 2006, 17:54:19 UTC

"If it's not real, then it doesn't matter who I ask," he said quietly. "You're taking pills now? To sleep?"

tyler_gone June 6 2006, 18:00:46 UTC

"Sleeping," Tyler said.

He gauged how much to tell Alec, then decided to go for it. "You remember what I told you the first week, about how I might start losing time and get weird if my insomnia got too bad? They help with that, too."

"Right now, here, is real," he added. "I think. Do you think it isn't?"

x5_alec June 6 2006, 18:10:36 UTC

"Losing time. Blackouts?" He swallowed against his dry throat, but didn't bother trying to get up for water or anything.

"But there's no way to tell for sure," he said. "I don't know. Maybe."

tyler_gone June 6 2006, 18:17:43 UTC

"Blackouts," Tyler agreed. "More or less, anyhow."

He rolled over restlessly. "It's under control now." Even if you aren't, the first Tyler's voice mocked from the back of his head.

He paused, hesitating. "You aren't a hallucination, are you? Because if you are one, then this isn't real."

[OOC: Going AFK. Back around 5-ish my time.]

x5_alec June 6 2006, 18:57:30 UTC

Alec huffed a soft laugh. "Some things should just work," he said, a touch bitterly. "Your brain is one of them."

He shivered a little as a shiver slid down his spine and, thankfully, faded. "Could be. No way to be sure, is there?"

tyler_gone June 6 2006, 20:50:31 UTC

"Yeah, well, I didn't get that brain model," Tyler said, voice softly mocking.

He flopped back and was silent for a long moment. "So you don't know that I'm real and I don't know that you're real, and neither of us entirely sure this is real and ... fuck. We're probably just the insane projections of a brain in a jar somewhere."

x5_alec June 6 2006, 22:55:44 UTC

"Think we could trade them in?" He asked, not particularly hopeful.

"I could almost live with that. Maybe if we think about it hard enough, someone will knock it off the shelf," he said, reining in the edge of hysteria that rose with the morbidity.

tyler_gone June 7 2006, 01:04:40 UTC

"One or the other," Tyler shrugged. "Trade them in, knock it down, whatever."

He sat up and reached for a clean t-shirt. "It's almost morning. I'm going to go find some coffee. You want anything?"

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