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[11calls]

Who: Alex Reagan and Simon Reese.
What: Alex knows that Simon was there listening to her conversation with Strand and she’s calling him out.
When: Immediately following Alex and Strand talking.
Warnings: Stalking, demons, children in danger from demons, murder, the end of the world and everything else TBT-y in nature.


The conversation with Strand had felt like a small battle in a long war that he’d been in with Alex since he’d arrived here. While Alex wants to be hopeful about things getting easier once he actually listens to the show and the two of them are on the same page, right now she doesn’t have a lot of faith in it. Richard Strand, after all, can be famously contrary to her, and she knows that it’s only something that’s more likely to increase once he knows everything and realizes just how much she knows and how she discovered it. Frankly, Alex is aware of the fact that giving him the entire show is a quite good way for him to end up with ammunition to use against her just as much as he seems to now, but he deserves to know. More than that, if Richard Strand wants to condemn her for something, Alex would vastly prefer that he does it for her actual actions and not just what he perceives her transgressions to be for knowing what she does about him.

It’s a lot and Alex is just hoping that it doesn’t increase the animosity between Strand and Simon that he’d mentioned before. Strand has never been Simon’s favorite person and Alex is aware of that and since he’s been here, she’s also becoming more aware of the fact that he thinks that he needs to defend her or whatever. Being a grown ass woman, the thought that someone feels like he needs to defend and protect her chafes a bit, but Simon is the one who has all of the answers and he has been for a long time. What Alex wishes that Strand would understand is that she gets how much it sucks that you can only understand some things from your future from what the person ahead of you knows. The difference, Alex supposes is that Strand has trained himself not to believe in anything (even her, some tortuous part of her brain reminds her. It’s a familiar pain that’s leaned upon like a bruise but in the end it’s an old one and she knows how to deal with it.) and Alex can’t help but to believe.

Alex Reagan is a believer and she always has been. She always will be.

Because Alex is a believer, and because she knows Simon, as soon as she steps into the hallway that both Strand’s cabin and her own open onto, she just sighs and says. “Alright, Simon, come out. I know you were listening.”

Comments

[bilocates]

Alex did need protection. She didn't always know from what, and Simon never really made it obvious what he was doing, but she did need it. This Alex wasn't yet aware of the fact someone showed up in her bedroom to film her one night, for example. But these were things Simon wasn't likely to divulge very easily. The animosity between the two, however, had a whole lot less to do with Alex than she thought. Yes, Simon hated the way Strand treated her, but if that were the only issue he'd keep his nose out. No, they were at odds for more personal reasons.

She was also very right in that Simon had absolutely been listening in on that conversation. How could he resist? Not only were they both divulging some very interesting information, it was boring as hell on this space ship. Nothing to do, no leads to chase, what else is a bilocating psychic to do but to eavesdrop?

Although, it wasn't like he was going to be quick to come out of hiding and reveal that he absolutely had been creepily stalking. Again. Nor was he going to come out, but that was for a different reason. There's a long, long silence where it might seem like Simon was going to stubbornly refrain from responding at all before a single, almost reluctant...

Knock.

Yes, he was listening. No, he's not coming out.