((Yes, well, if Eileen had been around, there probably would have been some yelling and then his resolve would have given, I'd bet. As it was, I figured I'd go for broke and do everything I'd been slowly getting around to. :D Glad you enjoyed it!))
She's slow to leave her laptop and hesitant as she kneels by Johnny's gift. Sure that there are no coincidences, sure that she can be sure of nothing. People could be dying, dead, friend and strangers, and she feels her name, his name for her, stretched across her back. She sees it all go back to him, to Walter, back to DeSalvo, back to Wish House, back to Dahlia, back to her father and his father and his father, back to a mine and back to a hospital, back to rope in a prison, muskets firing, hands in chains, back to a disease, back to crosses and churches around a Mother Stone, and further and further, so many threads in so many directions and she knows she's not someone who can follow them. She isn't clever or wise or heroic. She was meant to be a small person with a small life. Twenty seconds with a cold boy in a cold subway and it should have stopped there. But it didn't, and now she is smaller and her life is bigger, with the wise and the clever and the brave, and there is nothing she can seem to do but make cute jokes
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I should have looked, shouldn't I? I should have been there. I should have been checking my phone. Why didn't I check my phone? I would have seen. Why didn't I check my phone?
No. No, I'm... I'm not the one Walter wants to hurt right now. Until he remembers 302, he's projecting - projecting, is that the right word? - projecting onto me. I think. Walter thinks he's saving me. I'm not the one he's trying to hurt, not on purpose. He wants to hurt Henry and Johnny and anybody else.
Maybe Johnny got out and Walter didn't. Maybe it worked. God, I hope he got out...
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But may I just say, awesome scenework, dude! That was a damn fun read! ))
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Oh, my god.
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He's okay...he disappeared at the end. So he got away, right? He had to.
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I hope so. I hope so.
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This can't be right. Cynthia was right. This cant be right.
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...did he try to hurt you?
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Maybe Johnny got out and Walter didn't. Maybe it worked. God, I hope he got out...
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I don't know.
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