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Mar. 13th, 2010 12:23 pm
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This is an easy choice...

Right?  Fix everything, the entire mess.  Don't look back.  But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

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Date: 2010-03-15 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"That's..." Disturbing? Horrifying? Is he being amazingly selfish again?

"Alec'll bust your butt if you try it." Phoenix rubs his head awkwardly. "Hi."

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Date: 2010-03-15 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Janie. I'm over seven hundred and fifty, I know when small children are telling fibs." Not that Lynn had been very convincing, possibly deliberately.

"Anyway, it's my guess, you could only change everything if you managed to stop Vahl going forward in time. And he was much more dangerous those few months back."

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Date: 2010-03-15 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Then let's just pretend I'm hallucinating, shall we? Or.. talking to myself!"

He doesn't want to know, but has to ask. "Ian's immortality, for one?"

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Date: 2010-03-15 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"We're immortals. We screw up. It's tough on the rest of the universe - and ourselves - but we do."

That was much harsher than Phoenix meant it to sound.

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Date: 2010-03-15 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"No." He folds his arms stubbornly, then unfolds them and starts gesturing.

"But there's stuff we.. there's... things.. and... outcomes.. Oh, never mind."

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Date: 2010-03-16 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Okay. So what's happened that wouldn't have happened in this timeline?"

A kid. He has a kid. A son. Oh yes, Phoenix now has a baby boy, and he'd probably tear up half the universe to keep him. There's also the case of an extra Lynn in existence - he wonders if that's occurred to Janie.

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Date: 2010-03-16 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"I.." He's seen Janie this way before, all she seems to be able to see are her own perceived faults, nothing beyond that. ".. I know you had Lynn, before. In your other timeline - But I didn't have Sam. I'm not sure I was meant to, either."

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Date: 2010-03-16 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"I will." That spoken in a low, but 'just, anyone, DARE' tone of voice. Phoenix sighs and tries hard to drop the belligerent tone.

"Maybe you're right about that, I hope you are, maybe I am, but it's unprecedented and I can't explain it. But the fact remains, if things were to be fixed.. and I'm not saying you're gonna do it, but IF you did... you'd wipe the second version of Lynn out of existence."

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Date: 2010-03-17 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Well, maybe there's some way we can find out? And if you want to make things better, think of this.. If everything happens the way it originally happened, then Vahl won't have been found out, he'll be psychically torturing five young immortals for over another century..."

Phoenix trails off, realising that everything he's listed affect him. And it's Janie who's lost so much, there is no upside for her.

"Honey..." He reaches out to touch her shoulder, somehow 'I'm sorry' seems pathetically inadequate.

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Date: 2010-03-17 03:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
If he wasn't feeling very awkward lately himself, Phoenix would ignore Janie's sudden silence and just pull her into a hug... he should do that. He really should.

Instead he draws his hand back. "I know." He says softly. "And I know it sucks too. In theory you have the power to do it, and it's you who's lost the most."

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Date: 2010-03-17 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Uh, yeah, me too." He lies, abou tto let her get on with it, then Phoenix changes his mind and decides to at least try - After all, how much worse could it get?.

"No wait. Waitwait... this is dumb. We haven't fallen out or anything.. s'just... dumb. We're grown adults for Christ's sake."

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Date: 2010-03-17 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Too important?" That sounds consoling in its way, but a little strange too. "Sweetheart, that's our problem.. we see sex differently. I see it as you know, love, obviously - but also a friendship kinda thing. You see sex as... Actually, I have no idea how you see.. sex..."

Okay. He's just said the actual word to Janie. In direct relationship to them. Three times. Oh gods.

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Date: 2010-03-17 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
He'll be fine in a minute, he's just a tad bit.. gobsmacked. And a little upset for his friend, that she's lost such a wonderful connection in her life.

"You didn't use me." Phoenix manages eventually. "Even if you had, it.. Honey.. we uhh.. it didn't happen."

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Date: 2010-03-17 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"Why would I lie? You can deal with the truth. Look, Janie, we got bladdered, you went to bed, I stumbled about a bit in the dark and ended up passing out in the wrong bed. I know nothing happened."

The reason being somewhat undignified, so he doesn't volunteer the information. "You're worth more to me than that as well. Plenty more."

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Date: 2010-03-17 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
Phoenix sniffs and clears his throat. Even demigods can find it somewhat difficult to.... perform, after THAT many shots.

"What now? Well, it's just a-" He gestures some, "-- Thing. That happened. We got slammed and passed out. No biggie."

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Date: 2010-03-18 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashes-ascended.livejournal.com
"No awkwardness at all." Phoenix promises with a grin. Then he grabs Janie's lapel gently, pulls her forward and kisses her forehead. "But I do reserve the right to plant one of those from time to time. Shortarse."

"Now let's go take the kids out for ice cream."
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