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.]

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[Action]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[And down Pokey goes. He glowers a bit as he looks up to see what happened.

And glowers even more when he sees Slugger. What's standing in front of him? Isn't Slugger. He'd know. He'd know for sure. They really did replace some of them. Son of a bitch.]

.....Bastards.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[There's a fleeting rush of elation as Slugger picks himself back up, but it quickly dissolves when he gets a better look. This wasn't Pokey. He doesn't know how he knows or what it is that betrays the fake, but it's definitely a fake.

He eyes the other Pokey with a wary, disappointed look...]

What do you want?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Just a brief snort of disgust, and Pokey shakes his head, mockingly.]

Oh. Nothing.

I just came to see if someone I cared about was here.

Guess that was a mistake on my part.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[His eyes narrow. Not just because this fake sounds and acts just like his friend but because he's reminded once again of Mayfield's trick.]

...

You still remember me, too?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey just puts on the biggest, shit-eating grin he can muster at that.]

Uh. Sorry. No.

Can't say I remember any dumb imitations lately.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[The warped, metal bat slices through the air at Pokey's head, just barely grazing the hair on his head.]

No! You're not supposed to remember me at all! No one is!

[Growling, he takes another powerful but aimless swing, this time nowhere near Pokey. He's just swinging it in rage and shouting.]

The dream said I wasn't supposed to exist!

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey stumbles backwards, falling ass-first into the snow behind him as he tried to avoid the bat. He scurries back a little as Slugger continues to swing, more out of caution then fear. And sneers at him.]

Oh poor baby. You fell for it huh? Idiot.

[He stares at Slugger for a moment, face tightening.]

Idiot! Why did you do it?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[The frozen ground absorbs the impact as Slugger brings his bat straight down into the snow. Yes, he fell for it. Like a total idiot he fell for it.]

I did it so that y-- So that nobody else would!

[Slugger's hands tremble on the grip but he doesn't lift the bat from the snow. He just hangs his head, defeat in his voice.]

But you-- But he did it anyway.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh who cares!

[Pokey scrambles up to his feet, trying to dust himself off and failing miserably in his attempts due to how upset he is.]

Who cares!? You weren't even supposed to miss me but this town cheated! As always! They took him instead of me when he had-he was more important than I was! And now we're stuck with you.

[And his voice? Just drips with hatred for the clone in front of him.]

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Slugger looks up, teeth bared and clenched.]

That's wrong. They took you and left me.

[He begins to straighten, the bat still hanging in his hands, and his eyes slip into the shadows beneath his cap.]

I tried to make it different but... I wasn't enough. I wasn't good enough.

I wish I were a fake. But I'm not.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Don't say that about him.

[His voice is angry. Harsh. Anger isn't particularly unknown to Pokey, but it's rare for it to be anything other than a short, fleeting emotion, that comes and goes. But right now? Is one of the few times it was really just burning brightly. Fiercely.]

Don't you ever say that about him, you piece of crap! He is good enought, was good enough. I was the worthless one.

Why is he gone and not me!

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Shut up!

[His whole body tenses up. He can feel it wanting to shift into a monstrous form and he's trying very hard not to lose control of himself. While he hates what the fake is saying, it does sound like something the real Pokey would say.]

Tell me. Why do you think I'm fake?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why do I think you're fake? Why do I think you're fake?

[That's indignation but, really...he doesn't know for sure why he thinks Slugger is fake. It's just...something he feels.]

I just....look at you! You're totally fake!

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[He looks Pokey in the eye and asks again with more force.]

What is fake.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Stop asking me that!

[Because he doesn't know. He doesn't know. You just are.]

Give him back!

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Even if Pokey doesn't say it, Slugger senses it.]

...You don't know.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

......

[He grits his teeth, before finally shaking his head.]

No. I don't.

[But because the worst always happens? He knows you have to be fake.]

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Same here. It's a feeling. [albeit a strong feeling]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

.....Why?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

I don't know.

[For the moment, he's just staring at Pokey trying not to picture him as fake. It doesn't work well.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That isn't what I meant.

Why did you say yes to the dream?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

I told you...

[He doesn't want to repeat it but maybe it would do good to explain it with less shouting.]

I thought if I did it, no one else would. It would just be me and nobody would ever know.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well okay then!

That's cool! It's not like anyone cares about you or anything.

[He's so full of hypocritical bullshit right now his eyes are brown.]

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Like you weren't thinking the same.

[Don't even deny that he's got you there.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...I wasn't thinking the exact same.