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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 19:17:30 GMT

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“SOMETHING LIKE THAT.”

He considers what happened, what information he’s recollected, and what to omit. Eventually, he finds the right measurements for the perfect concoction. Just enough to give her a taste while slowly poisoning what she knows and what happened.

“Some of us remember better than others but no one knows for sure.”

Despite her being out of sight, he nods his head dismissively.

“Not really. I have to actively flex my MISTY TERRAIN. Like a muscle.”

His smile is sardonic, shared between his Pokemon as he accepts his role in all of this.

“But I used it in the dream, like any other action, and the consequences applied all the same.”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 19:39:35 GMT

“Hm. Sounds weird.”

Not terribly so.

She didn’t want to steer straight down the subject. Looking towards the MISTY TERRAIN spilling from the kitchen, she called with a willfully softer tone.

“How are you doing?”

Lulu still wouldn’t check on him physically. Perhaps she was safe under pretense of simply not wanting to see her beloved in such a state. Getting into bed with the mist was different than slipping around on the blood beneath its sparkling veil. This was too real.

Still, she couldn’t leave. Not like this.

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 20:07:03 GMT

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“MANAGEABLE.”

An apt description of his outlook on life. No matter how impossible the odds, there is always the chance to tackle it to the best of his abilities. Should he falter, then so be it. But until then, the most he can ask of himself is to put up his greatest effort. That’s why nothing phases him.

It’s all a test of will.

But he doesn’t have to play that part. There are many masks to wear. His voice grows quieter as he dons a more solemn look.

“Sorry to ruin the night.”

It lingers like the terrain. Abstract.

“I missed you.”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 20:54:01 GMT

So, he wouldn’t die, maybe.

Bittersweet.

Of all the things she wanted him to be sorry about, this was not one of them.

“Don’t.”

To hear that he’d missed her was something she had to really think on. Was it a lie? How did he feel about her, really, or rather, who he believed her to be? Had it all been a setup? A slick, merciless reversal?

Had there ever been any truth at all?

Oh, she loathed him.

“I missed you too. You’re going to be alright?”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 21:16:00 GMT

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A LIE THAT’S IDENTIFIABLE IS NOT A LIE AT ALL. The perfect act requires perfect mystery. Being unable to tell right from wrong, left from right, is what truly makes a performance. To understand the human mind, the emotion it encompasses, requires insanity to pull off.

But the road to success is not meant for the mentally stable—a sociopath by every meaning of the word.

“Sorry.”

There is dejection in his voice. A memory once cherished becomes the medium of which he draws emotion. A slack jaw reaction stifles his voice, leaving it crack and battered.

“I—”

“Yeah,” he breaks vernacular. “Having you here means a lot, Lulu.”

His laugh echoes resignation. She can hear him lean back in his chair. His eyes stare at the ceiling for good measure.

“Even if I’m a pool of my own filth.”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 21:43:51 GMT

“Stop apologizing.”

Her tone was shallow, detached. His apologies were disgusting. A man of his stature didn’t bleed like this, much less say ‘sorry’ twice in a row.

The fact that she could see so much weakness in the one who had been able to pull one over her was only a nauseating insult to injury.

In a pool of his own filth.

Her jaw clenched a moment with fresh memory.

“Does it?”

Her brow furrowed, to herself.

“Do you mean that?”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 21:57:36 GMT

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“INDEED.”

There is a pang of questioning in that answer. As if she has no right to question him. They both know why she does but admittance of it means their game is over. He can feel his throat hitch as the tension thickens.

“Why wouldn’t I?”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 22:09:29 GMT

His love had been a lie. She’d not sat next to him in the beginning with true intentions, but he’d outdone her by a landslide. He’d gotten her back, whether he’d known it or not—and broken her very sanity in half.

She was nothing to him. This was a game.

She couldn’t play it anymore.

“Don’t you remember?”

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 22:33:21 GMT

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“OH.”

There is clarity in that response. As if he knows. But, like with all things, Fernando keeps his reply concise but vague. It leaves him the flexibility to travel either road. A branch in options allows him to always pick the best one.

“Lulu—”

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POSTED ON Aug 22, 2021 5:00:55 GMT

“What, Fernando?”

Her grin was twisted. To hear the realization in his response was like a building climax, and she reveled in it. It was a sick sort of amusement, like that of a sharp-toothed creature playing with whatever it intended to rip limb from limb and consume whole once the joke had run its course.

Her voice remained soft, for now.

“Tell me you love me.”

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POSTED ON Aug 22, 2021 21:14:59 GMT

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“I’M—”

A heavy exhale breaks apart the sentence before he can commit. He treads carefully. Emotions are demonstrated, articulated, all in a performance born from need. How much does he feel? How much does he mean?

Calculations that build from a lifetime of saving face and wearing masks.

“Sorry.”

And then he clears his throat.

“But I love you, Lulu. I love you.”

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POSTED ON Aug 22, 2021 22:01:17 GMT

Sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Fuck.

Her shadows began to manifest, climbing up to consume her body whole, and she welcomed it. Her fingers flexed as they blackened and warped into something otherworldly. The darkness swaddled her like a warm blanket, and she disappeared into its depths.

“I said…” Her voice traveled strangely, in only a moment, without footsteps as she slipped through the shadows of the kitchen, careful to be quick, and stay above the mist. At one point, syllables would come from directly behind him. “Stop apologizing.”

Again, it then shot back to somewhere else, beyond the threshold of the kitchen.

“Will you tell me about the woman with the white hair?” There was a grim laugh. “From your dreams.”

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POSTED ON Aug 23, 2021 0:02:35 GMT

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FERNANDO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SUPERSTITION. He trusts his sense as lifelines. When her voice spooks him he immediately beams his vision onto his Pokemon. Instinct keeps him still, practice makes him wary. He knows better than to turn and embrace her reveal.

But there is a variable he has not accounted for. The pain from his arm festers at her call. Emotions, laden by action, bubble in the nook between bicep and forearm, wriggling in a fit of rage.

“I don’t dream.”

His voice bears its fangs. It has the bite that comes with having to stave off his undoing. Gurgling noises gush from his wound, spilt freely as does his MISTY TERRAIN start to fill the room.

Defense mechanisms come in many forms. His blooms in a way Bed, Bath, and Beyond never could.

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POSTED ON Aug 23, 2021 11:31:42 GMT

A bright, teleporting light stole the Gardevoir from the room as it began to fill with the sparkling, aromatic mist.

Lulu could smell it; feel it begin to beckon her, but her shadow slithered further into the apartment, away from the high his powers offered.

“Oh, sure you do. Everyone does, even if they’re just nightmares. Believe me—I would know.”

Her voice projected more so he could hear as she kept her distance, echoing down the hall.

“Kyogre… Ultra Beasts… Team Rocket killing Dialga…”

She laughed again, mocking, because even to her, that seemed ridiculous. But, if that's what would get to him...

“You really don’t care for kyle lopez , do you? ’Couldn’t be assed to step out in the rain.’ That’s pretty good.”

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