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notwhatiwas

✘ 23 ✘ two steps back

Jul 23, 2010 06:44

[Although this is definitely Vincent's userID, the voice that comes over the line is distinctly not his: It's higher, less cultured, less pained, and his words are spoken slower. The accent is the same, the vocabulary, but the voice itself is very, very different.]

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Audio ntjstapwn July 23 2010, 23:09:53 UTC

...Vincent?

[audio] notwhatiwas July 23 2010, 23:11:54 UTC

[Simply, succinctly, as though this is completely normal.]

Yes?

Re: [audio] ntjstapwn July 23 2010, 23:24:04 UTC

What did you do?

*Wasn't he asking before about...*

...Nirvana?

[audio] notwhatiwas July 23 2010, 23:33:28 UTC

[Clink as he takes a sip from his glass.]

Nirvana.

[Deep breath, he lets it out slowly. The exhale sounds supremely relieved.]

I thought it through. The exchange was...

[Difficult? Unpleasant? Stupidly sentimental?]

...nothing I can't replace.

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[COMMENTLOG!] messyturk July 24 2010, 02:49:18 UTC

[Reno grunts a greeting to the man sitting at the counter, he was never one for being paticularily perky first thing in the morning and the fact that he has to come all the way here for coffee and breakfast doesn't help his mood the first fifteen minutes of the morning.

He's wearing a t-shirt that would fit better on Heidigger, one shoulder visible through the overwide collar before he pulls it back up and orders coffee and whatever breakfast is today. A pair of rainbow tye-dye shorts keep him decent enough to be seen in public, and his bare toes curl around the horizontal bar of the stool he's settled in a few away from Vincent.]

[COMMENTLOG!] notwhatiwas July 24 2010, 02:53:24 UTC

[Vincent watches Reno take his seat, takes another sip of his drink, and then sets it down and leans his arms on the bar, crossed left over right.]

You know, it wouldn't be difficult to procure a percolator for your quarters.

[His tone is still more or less neutral, but there's an edge of amusement to it. It's...really nice to be able to feel that without worrying about what it could trigger.]

[COMMENTLOG!] messyturk July 24 2010, 03:00:21 UTC

Yeah, but then I'd never leave.

[Reno's tone is dry, and there's a touch of annoyance before he gives Vincent an odd look. He's pretty sure he's seen this guy somewhere before...or someone that looks sorta like him. Probably from the comm's or something. The thought is put away when a large cup of coffee arrives.]

[COMMENTLOG!] notwhatiwas July 24 2010, 03:03:23 UTC

Yes you would.

[He shrugs lightly, facing forward again.]

You take far too much enjoyment from getting into trouble to willingly hole yourself up for any extended period of time.

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[Audio] suited_spectre July 24 2010, 03:00:34 UTC

[What Vincent does is none of Tseng's business, and he would have left this entry alone if not for the obvious indication that something is off.]

Sometimes it's best not to remember. [A pause.] What did you do, Vincent Valentine?

[It's only after the question left his mouth that Tseng realises how much he probably sounds like Veld.]

[Audio] notwhatiwas July 24 2010, 03:05:27 UTC

Set back the clock--or calendar--far enough to feel the difference.

[He gives a very quiet sigh.]

This is one thing that's meant to be remembered.

[Commentlog!] suited_spectre July 24 2010, 03:23:57 UTC

[Tseng goes by the sound of glass and ice, to find Vincent alone again at Sergei's.

The man in blue is strikingly different from the man in red. Without his otherworldly aura Vincent looks almost childlike. Overexposed. Human.

Tseng approaches, sliding another chair over to the table, sitting down to face this strange image of the past, still with the eyes of its present self.

Delusional. It's not Tseng's place to judge, but he does regardless.]

Is this change permanent?

[Commentlog!] notwhatiwas July 24 2010, 03:28:27 UTC

No.

[Vincent's response is simple, honest. As much as he wishes he could go back to being what he used to be, Vincent knows he would never have gone through with this if it were permanent. That would be running away.]

I have forty-eight hours. Starting earlier this morning.

[Another drink, and then he turns to look at Tseng, brown eyes through short black hair. Even his facial structure is different, not half as gaunt as usual, the faint indentations of his skull much harder to pick out through the layers of skin and muscle. He searches Tseng's face for a moment before continuing.]

...You disapprove.

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[audio] notwhatiwas July 24 2010, 03:36:00 UTC

It's only temporary.

[He might be smiling, from the tone of voice.]

I'm impressed you recognized my voice.

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[audio] notwhatiwas July 24 2010, 07:20:16 UTC

...Thank you, Pamela. That's quite a compliment.

[Baww. He missed his voice. He's gonna miss it more when he loses it again.]