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[fated_end]

WHO: fated_end and messiah_maybe
WHERE: A random abandoned building in the slums.
WHEN: Sometime after Takaya's rescue.
WARNINGS: UHH NONE? References to violence, I guess.
SUMMARY: Takaya tells Jin about his experiences in the City, Jin (understandably) freaks out. Also evil will likely be plotted somewhere along the line.
FORMAT: Paragraph?

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[messiah_maybe]

Takaya had been thoroughly enjoying the small respite from the shitstorm the past two months had shaped up to be. He sat on the floor, back to the wall and one arm draped lazily over his knee, eyes closed, dozing for the first time in a long time. Living alone for six months had left him nervous, paranoid, lacking sleep and on a hairtrigger twenty four hours a day. To be honest, he was incredibly relieved that Jin was finally here to watch his back.

"Well enough," he answered simply, opening one lazy yellow eye. "Far more so than before you had arrived, at the very least." He sat up, hand instinctively falling where his revolver should be. It was still in asylum custody, most likely - a shame. He really did like that gun. Probably get it back later, when he wasn't in such bad shape. "And you, Jin? From what point in time did you arrive here?" He'd forgotten that Jin might not know that people could come from far separate points in time.

[fated_end]

They did still have the handgun Jin lifted from Katurian, though it wasn't a revolver like Takaya's had been. He was planning on giving it to his partner to use, anyway, since Jin could pretty much only aim accurately at point-blank range.

He shook his head. "It--doesn't seem to make sense." He'd thought about it a little bit, at least, though not in-depth. "You've been here for a while, you said, without me. But when I got here, the last time I'd seen you was in Tartarus -- January 31st." Which was the last time he'd thought he was ever going to see him, but anyway.

"I guess if that Porter or whatever can..." He made a vague gesture with one hand, "-drag people here from different dimensions, then it can manipulate time, too?" A question, because he wasn't quite sure. It seemed as good an explanation as any, though. He'd accepted stranger things before.

[messiah_maybe]

"I have been told that time stands still for those who arrive here." A pause, thoughtful and quiet - he gave Jin his full attention, though as always he didn't really show it in a way that people who didn't know his quirks would understand. "When the machine grows tired of us, it will return us to the point from whence we came. In my case..." Another pause, a more awkward one, because he knew this might not go over too well.

"I will return to the point in which I died. I assume it is a similar position for you?"

[fated_end]

Yeah. Awkward, but not at all unexpected. That was part of their true goal that night, after all.

"It -- would be, yeah." It didn't seem like the best time to launch into an account of his last moments; Takaya could likely make a good enough guess. He wasn't sure how his partner would feel about a suicide, anyway. Probably wouldn't blame him, but still.

"So what do we do? If we're just waiting to die again..." Then was it really any different from home?