2 Flights

[2ndnightshift]

I'm in the process of sifting through the guide. Thanks to the gentleman who forwarded it. Outdated or not, it's been helpful so far. I found a reasonable apartment and temporary clothes--any tailors around. A job, well, I'll have to figure that one out in a while.

This is the City. It's 2009. They're here. So now what.

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[lastpunchline]

Well. If it isn't Daniel.

and he thinks damn i better start running

[2ndnightshift]

Ten minutes.

[Action] and lose that spare tire, owl-boy

[lastpunchline]

[He's waiting there, as usual. He managed to find clothes that weren't, you know. An old robe. And he's smoking a cigar]

[Action] smoking kills, funnyboy

[2ndnightshift]

[Ha, he can make it there in ten minutes. Dan has glasses that have the same frames of his other ones, the prescription is off. And lo, he has civilian clothing as well.]

[Action]

[lastpunchline]

[He takes a look around]

So how long have you been here, Dreiberg?

[Cut right to the chase]

[Action]

[2ndnightshift]

[He's in the process of catching his breath trying to make it look as laborless as possible.]

Five days ago.

You?

[Action]

[lastpunchline]

I've been around about three.

[He takes a drag and smiles at the catching of the breath]

You saw me land. Or something like that.

[Action]

[2ndnightshift]

I saw.

[He nods. A frown settles onto his mouth at the smoke and conversation. Dan shoves his hands deeper into his pockets.]

I didn't think it was real.

[The first time or the second time, or was it all the same time. Who would have thought he'd keep falling?]

[Action]

[lastpunchline]

Yeah? Neither did the inkblot. But I managed to convince him.

[He pauses]

So who's here? Not L-not the second Silk Spectre, I would have already heard a fucking earful.

[Action]

[2ndnightshift]

[He and Rorschach talked. That's good...somehow.]

No. She's not here.

[To say that Dan really wishes that she was is a woeful understatement. He takes off his glasses, irritated that they aren't his own and to clean them.]

Adrian Veidt isn't accounted for.

[That'd work, right?]

[Action]

[lastpunchline]

[Some days, Eddie cannot believe how nerdy the man in front of him is. Hollis Mason was a tattletale and a self-righteous jackass, but at least he didn't wear those stupid glasses]

Ozymandias.

[Oh, man, is there a score there]

You've seen him.

[Action]

[2ndnightshift]

[Dan tucks the glasses into a pocket. May as well just squint. It would give him less of a headache. If stupid glasses were his worst shortcoming, he'd be appreciative....but they're not.]

We dropped in at the same time.

[And he still had the bruises to prove it.]

[Action]

[lastpunchline]

[Eddie is managing to not reach for the space where his gun should be]

Yeah? And what were you doing with him?

[Action]

[2ndnightshift]

[He doesn't need to move for it. Dan knows already that would have been his first move if he had a gun.]

Trying to get to the bottom of things.

[The operative word being trying. His vision isn't clear but Dan looks Eddie in the face. This is not a joke or manipulation. Then again, with how much he knows, Eddie must be looking for the next big twist too.]

[Action]

[lastpunchline]

[He looks Dan back in the eyes and...what is that.]

Yeah? Any luck with that?

[He doesn't move, he doesn't indicate. He just flickers his eyes over to where he thought he saw a man in the shadows]

[Action]

[2ndnightshift]

[He tenses, hands still back in his pockets. Behind him? To the side? Dammit he shouldn't have taken off his glasses.]

Not as I had hoped.