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𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚂𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚅𝙴𝚂 𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴 : 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽

        ❝      i was with this chick once ? redhead … had a funny accent . welsh, i think ? eh , some shit like that . wore an eyepatch , she was alright . anyway , she sold really good stuff , the kind that’ll get you in big trouble with the cops if they ever smell it on you . so , we were like fooling around , having fun, and, like, i really liked this girl . shit , we were talking about getting married ! having five little adopted … baby bastards . or a pitbull . one day i overhear one of her housemates on the phone saying some really cryptic shit . like talking in numbers and code , and i think , this is like some undercover cop talk , right ? like in movies ! eagle one has left the nest , the eggs are ready to scramble or … WHATEVER ! so , she’s sleeping , the guy’s hyping his friends up for a raid that could be happening any minute and i’m panicking ! do i wake her up ? do i knock him out ? my brain’s racing so i do the only thing i can do : i grab all of her merch, put it in a big ass bag and i run into the night . i was squatting in boston when i heard she was a well-known drug dealer but , get this , the cops ? they didn’t have shit on her ! because all of her stash had gone missing . thanks to me , that chick avoided , uh , what , 25 YEARS ? that was the single most romantic shit i’ve ever done . sparing someone from that avalanche of bullshit ? real love , man . i like to think she knows i was the one who saved her … and even though i don’t know where the fuck she is right now , i feel comforted in thinking that she’s staring at the same moon as i am with her one good eye .   ❞   

𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚂𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚅𝙴𝚂 𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴 : 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽

                she blinked a couple of times , holding the same little sly smile she so often offered out to her oblivious patients . this was a strange condition to EXIST IN ; neither dead nor alive , neither gone nor there … lenore busker was following a script written by someone else . but she still chose how to interpret her role . her GHOST WRITER gave her plenty of liberty , he trusted her ability to ENTERTAIN but , every once in a while , another actor would go rogue . and boy oh boy , was blondie over here making it difficult for lenny to follow her lines . she felt uneasy at clockworks ( or at least , farouk’s version of clockworks ) and kept whispering little upsetting things into other patients’ ears .  ━━━ TSK , TSK , TSK , SYD !  don’t go ruining it for everyone else just because you’re not having any fun , you sourpuss .

    ❝    you have a tendency to romanticise destruction , sydney . you ever noticed that ?  ❞   lenny asked, doing her best impression of a serious functioning adult . she had bitten her tongue , keeping any childish comments regarding recreational choking to herself . but lenny was surprised when she found herself wondering which part of her head had thought of wrapping her hands around syd’s throat  . had it been her’s ? had it been farouk’s ? the big boss man certainly had some major CREEP VIBES … lenny tilted her head, lips only curling further as she examined syd from head to toe .    ❝    get some rest .  ❞    said the fake psychiatrist . and then … something else . lenny’s lips didn’t move . but she still said something to the blonde .  a whisper in a voice that didn’t quite match busker’s .

 ❝      YOU  COULD  SAY  THAT    .      ❞            did  he  follow  her  ?  no    .    but  he  knew  she  was  here    ,    and  that’s  …  that’s  probably  a  good  enough  answer  for  the  both  of  them  !  problem  is    ,    he’s  not  gonna  tell  her  a  thing    .    he  hasn’t  told  her  much  about  anything  lately    .    he  doesn’t  need  to  tell  her  much  of  anything    .    she  sees  what  she  sees    .    whether  that’s  good  or  bad  is  …  up  to  her    .    but  he  gets  the  feeling  she’s  not  gonna  see  very  much  of  the  bad                        come  on    ,    lenny  !  we’re  friends  !  best  buds  for  life    ,    travelling  through  a  world  that  wronged  us  !  i  won’t  let  anything                        anything                        anything  happen  to  you  !            ❝      no    ,    no    ,    silly  !  i  found  you    .    you  know    ,    the  way  you  …  well    .      ❞            never  mind    .    that  wasn’t  lenny  who  told  him  that    .

 he  chuckles    ,    and  it’s  …  it’s  real  full  of  humour    ,    so  at  least  there’s  that    .    but  it’s  the  unsettling  type  of  humour    ,    like  he’s  laughing  about  something  he’s  not  supposed  to    .              ❝      did  i  scare  you  ?  sorry    .      ❞            he’s  not  sorry    ,    but  it’s  the  words  that  count    ,    right  ?  he  trots  toward  her    ,    his  bare  feet  making  no  sound    .    whispers    ,    maybe    .    the  town’s  so  still    ,    they’re  audible    .    enough    .    his  eyes  are  on  her    ,    calculating    ,    still  (  they’re  not  blinking  ! )    .    and  then    ,    he  does  blink    ,    and  the  hostility  vanishes    ,    replaced  with  cool  amusement    .    always  amusement    .              ❝      yeah    .    figured  you  got  lost    .    there’s  not  much  to  see  here    .      ❞

          lenny squints at the kid . not in an overly-serious way : if lenny never takes anything serious she can never get hurt ; but she still eyes him from head to toe .  the kid’s swell , don’t get her wrong ! it’s been a FUCKING BLAST tagging along with him ... but there was so much dust around them now . lenny didn’t know what she had expected to happen but every place they set foot seemed to become a wasteland . and with each new wasteland , david seemed to get a bit more distant from her .      ❝     yeah , no kidding . seen more interesting stuff dripping out of bob’s mouth back at clockworks.  ❞     she mentioned with a flash of a smile. it slowly dissolved once david got closer . 

lenny didn’t CARE about anything .

she didn’t even care that much about HERSELF let alone the REST OF THE WORLD . but the more she looked at her friend’s eyes ( eyes that were now the same shade as hers ! ) the more she realised that might be a LIE SHE TOLD HERSELF . this was david . her david , the kid , her friend, her buddy , her brother ! but he didn’t speak to lenny like he used to . he had gotten so wrapped up in his world of hearing and travelling through thoughts that he seemed to forget that she couldn’t FOLLOW HIM THERE . and when he stared at her like that , without blinking , lenny couldn’t tell where david was REALLY LOOKING AT  ( at her, through her, into her ? ) . it reminded her of the time she had spent being stared at by a pair of big dark lenses . lenny reached out, offering her hand to be held.     ❝     hey , c’mere .  ❞     her patience was short though and resorted to grabbing david by the arm and yanking him down .     ❝     c’mon , c’mon, sit down ! i wanna do a thing .  ❞      as soon as she had gotten the kid’s attention she lifted her hand to david’s ear and snapped her fingers a couple of times .        ❝      anything ?    ❞      lenny whispered before snapping her fingers again.     

“Now, now,” Farouk said, laughing at her. This was all a joke to him. In that way, she was like him: she knew how to laugh at the darkness. “Would you believe me if I answered that question, meine Ärztin? If I spun you a tale of the sweet woman who was not afraid of me - or the handsome man who won my heart? Ahh, but you are not a romantic either. You understand, don’t you? Relationships are about power. Everything is.” 

                  lenny sighed dramatically at farouk , slumping into her couch in a rather DEFEATED MANNER . it was hard to play psychiatrist when she clearly wasn’t the one IN CHARGE OF THE WORLD SHE WAS IN , let alone THAT ROOM . her tongue flicked over the corner of her mouth.      ❝       listen , boss man . don’t know if you noticed but ,  uh    ━━━  you’re kinda on a whole other league of power dynamics than the one i’m at .   ❞      she flashed a smile at him . but it was horribly short-lived .       ❝       like , i’m tricking college students into buying tic-tacs at a rave while you’re ... straight up ... possessing people . exorcist style. SO .   ❞      lenny chuckled, shrugging at the sharp-dressed boogeyman . but the woman’s helplessness slowly shifted into a familiar devious grin she tended to slip in and out of so easily .      ❝       oooh , wait . is that why don’t wanna talk about it ?   ❞     lenny asked .  

           @corpusless  wants  the  worldkiller  .

 lenny’s  been  out  for  a  while  now    .    and  by  'out’    ,    what  he  really  means  is  'away’    ,    out  of  his  sight    ,    somewhere  he  hadn’t  followed  her    .    as  far  as  he’s  concerned    ,    she  should’ve  been  back  by  now    .    maybe  she’d  gotten  herself  lost  and  ended  up  wandering    .    so  he  shuts  his  eyes    ,    pushing  his  mind  out  like  a  blanket    ,    feeling  out  the  empty  landscape  :  until  he  finds  her    .    she’s  not  too  far  away (  then  again    ,    man    ,   does  a  couple  miles  seem  that  far  away  to  you  anymore  ?  )    .    he  pulls  his  mind  in    ,    squeezes  it  in  a  little  more  :  and  then  pulls  himself  through  space    ,    to  a  wall  a  few  feet  from  where  lenny  is    .    he  leans  against  it    ,    crossing  his  arms  over  his  vest    .              ❝      you  get  LOST  ?      ❞

although her eyes were open, lenny wasn’t really looking at anything in particular . instead she was snapping her fingers near her ears , over and over again . back at division 3 , lenny could swear she heard amy’s screams in each of those small snaps . they were horrible and loud and caused her to flinch   ━━━  but they were still better than this SILENCE . it wasn’t as if lenny loved having amy turning lights off and on inside her head, but she needed someone there . needed someone who KNEW the kid better than her . someone who knew how to HELP HIM . lenny snapped frantically . there were callouses blooming on her fingers . SHE HAD BEEN DOING THIS A LOT LATELY .         ❝      come out come out wherever you are .    ❞     lenny sung between gritted teeth .  it had been fun for a while : blowing shit up , kicking people in the teeth , spreading chaos with david by her side . but rigged games didn’t stay fun for long . THERE WAS NO ONE WHO COULD STOP HIM ! no chance for them to lose . no gambles to be made ... WHERE THE FUCK WAS THE SISTER WHEN SHE NEEDED HER ?