Issue #5: I Was A Yankee Doodle Zombie (25% Droning)

[boostedfailure]

[Action 1] 1489 Kramden Road

[Mike was up with a start looking around.  Mayfield, still this hole, still, why was it he thought he had memories growing up here.  Completely nonsensical ones, maybe getting up and looking around the house would help.  Probably not though, it was still a prison.  Putting on his flight ring he let out a breath and started downstairs.]

[Phone]

"So uh, is the town trying to do something weird today?  I thought I had a dream about growing up here, and a few odd memories.  Thing is, I know they're fake, cause they say Ted never existed.  This place normally dicks with us on holidays, right?"

[Action 2] Around Town

[Booster Gold is on patrol...  Sort of.  He's flying around town looking over places with a bewildered look.]

"How the hell could I ever confuse this place for 25th century Gotham?  I mean, I'm not being shot at and I'm just up here in the air.  Ugh."

Comments

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Ok. What's important to you. I mean REALLY important to you?"

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

"The--the...my--Dex--" Why is it so hard just to answer one simple question? She can do this. "My...Dexter. And getting--home." Home, yes. With her family. With Tony--no with Toris--no...her mother--daughters--why is it so hard just to settle on one? Both sides, both sets of feelings seem just as real.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"This place is all a lie. Focus on the truth, what your heart wants not your head. Yeah I know it sounds sappy, but... You think I'd rather have the wife 2.5 kids and family over a life of being a public failure... But one of those isn't real and I'm not lucky enough for it to be the later."

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

It sounds easy enough, but every time she starts to warm toward one side, every time it feels--or it seems--right, the other side comes rushing up. "But what if you're wrong?"

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"If I'm wrong we all live a very boring life and when we wake up from this dream you can slug me."

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

"It's not boring it's..." Actually, yes it is. Terribly, mind-numbingly...normal, and what was wrong with normal? She had a husband and children and... "It's not as easy as just...picking a side." That much both halves of her memories agree with.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Look, I can't tell you what side is right. I can tell you what side is the real horrible truth, but, I can't make you listen and decide. You know, it'd be really nice to live this lie, hell of a lot less dangerous and stupid but... Its got too many holes."

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

"...What holes?" Maybe she could latch on to those, and it'd be easier. Unless there were holes in the other one, too. What if they weren't holes at all?

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"With me it was a friend from home. Who just doesn't exist in Mayfield, and Mayfield has tried to use him against me before. So... Was easy enough to put the pieces together."

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

"So you...remembered a friend who isn't here, but you've had experiences dealing with him here?"

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"When the town.. It wanted us to kill each other... It threatened him, but, he died back home. It was a jumble in the beginning but I think I have it sorted out and how can you threaten someone who doesn't exist?"

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

She frowns a moment. In one of her memories, during Christmas, the town showed her a vision of Dexter, alone and completely miserable in his humanity...but... "At Christmas...but Dexter does live here. He's just--a neighbor." A neighbor, or the half-human man she loved. Which was ridiculous, because she loved her husband. Didn't she? "That's not...really useful t'me."

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Dunno, I don't know him, but, maybe give him a call to get your story straight?"

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I...s'pose I should do that." If she could settle on whether or not she knew his number long enough to call.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Well good luck with it."

[dimensioncannon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah...thanks."