59 - Action/Phone

[ceasetoexist]

[Action; Locked to 502 Ricardo]

[Well. Someone's pissy and annoyed after last night's dream. And because of that? Pokey is loud as hell as he gets up and storms off to the kitchen, somehow making a mess as he prepares a bowl of cereal for breakfast. Just fuming.]

[Phone]

Oh wow you morons put two and two together. Guess what? The town is probably brainwashing you idiots into thinking people aren't here. Whatever we were promised, we didn't get zip. I can't speak for anyone else but, uh, I'm legit. So stop running around like morons acting like anyone here is a clone or something.

[Action, Around Town]

[Pokey is busing running around like a moron, trying to search out the people he knows and see who was or wasn't replaced. So far? He isn't happy about the results, and he's busy hustling through the streets pushing over anyone in his way to see who's still here.

Picky? Slugger? Yeah, he'll also be heading for both your houses soon.]

[OOC: Pokey's been erased, so he'll seem like one of those doppelgangers yep.]

Comments

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey just stares for a moment, before looking away again. He can't. He can't look at this version of Lucas, and he can't think of anything to say, and he can't anything as far as anything is concerned. So he just stares a moment before beginning to turn around and walk away again.]

...Maybe.

Or maybe I just realize what I really am for once.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas slowly pockets the yo-yo again.]

...Pokey.

Pay attention to what happens. ...And see if that's what you really want.

[And that was that. Lucas turns away as well and begins to head home. If only he could be so emotionally detached from his own gut-jerk instincts every time he saw Pokey. The fake, in his eyes, had been a boon today.]

[friendly-ghosts.livejournal.com]

Then come to the big Christmas tree on Christmas eve, okay?

phone, backtagging ftw

[echidna]

[ ...

It takes her a little while to respond, it's just dead air and quiet breathing for a minute or two. ]

Knock it off, it's not funny.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Deadpan. Just utterly deadpan.]

Aaaaaaaaaand you fell for it. Wow. I am just in shock.

[echidna]

I said knock it off!

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Are you serious? I just told you it was a trick! Why are you even listening to the stupid friggin' town?!

[echidna]

I'm not listening to the town, I'm listening to you.

And you aren't Pokey.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

And you're not Jade, because you're rational and calm and thinking things out!

Oh wait, no you're not! So I guess you're Jade after all!

How am I not me?

1/2

[echidna]

Because you're-

[ She stops abruptly, as though stunned. That did sound a lot like... but- it's not him. She can't let herself believe that it is. It'll only hurt worse. ]

[echidna]

You're not even good at pretending.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Just quick, bitter laughter at that.]

Oh! O-ho! You got me there! How can I argue with such genius deduction! I don't know how we haven't managed to solve what's going on here with a genius detective like you on the case!

Say, though, you know? You want to maybe list all the times I've been right, and you've been wrong? I think that'd be something you ought to consider looking at.

[echidna]

Well it's not like I keep a book of... of all... [ She knows she's said this to him before, the real him, and the familiarity of the conversation makes her actually shudder on her end of the phone line. ] Why do you have to try so hard to pretend to be him?

[ Because this fake is really good at it. ]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's because I am him! I am him I am him I am me!

Why do you even care?

[echidna]

Because Pokey is my friend and I don't appreciate someone else pretending to be him!

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh well gee I guess I must not be much of one if you can't tell I'm actually me!