There are days, rare days, but days when I try to live my life like a normal person, like someone who functions, like a person with a heart. When Orpheus started coming back piece by piece, I hoarded bottles of pills, pills to settle me, pills to make me calm and help me sleep. I'm almost never drug-free. The love went out of me and, pint by
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"That looks pretty lethal," he said to the girl at the bar. Her drink is acid green, radioactive poison. Usually, as a rule, the brighter the drink, the less alcohol. It could be a pick up line. A bad one.
Jack Shephard has awful taste in women.
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I take a drag on my cigarette and turn to look at him, careful not to breathe smoke in his face.
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There was a time he might have said that. Young and cocky. New in the department and invincible. The son of Chief of Surgery and nothing could touch him.
Things change quickly.
"I probably wouldn't," he said instead. He'd been coming to that place long enough. Living in New Tokyo and spending his nights in Siam. Nothing surprised him anymore. Or he liked to think so.
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"And what would it take to surprise you?"
I could tell him stories. I could tell him about heartache, and love and loss of love.
Nobody wants to hear those things, though. I've got no-one to tell my stories to.
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The only real problem was Wilson couldn't find the kid House had told him to look for, and he wasn't just going to walk up to people and ask. He had that much savvy.
Sighing heavily, he took a seat next to a pretty brunette and offered her a smile before ordering a scotch, neat.
"Hello," he said, giving her a nod as he turned around with his drink.
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It never hurts to try and smile, but I'm out of practice and it hurts, and I'm not sure what it ends up looking like.
This is what he did to me, in going.
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"Nice place," he tried, assuming if it worked back in college it might be okay here. "Come here often?"
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I nod.
"Often enough. What about you?"
The green drink burns all the way down.
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