Glimpses into the terrible future // Closed

[bilocates]

Who: Alex Regan, Richard Strand, and Simon Reese
What: Reviewing Season Three of The Black Tapes Podcast together.
When: Well into their trip post party planet, forward dated
Warnings: This will be a disaster




You know how Simon's terrible? He bluntly states the truth of others while obscuring his own. He skulks around like a cat, leaves cryptic clues, and haunts floor four?

Well, he hasn't dropped those habits. After hiding it for weeks he leaves a recorded version of Season Three on Alex's pillow one day. No explanation, no identification, but she'll know it was him.

Who else would it be?

Then he waits. She'll reach out.

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[bilocates]

Simon's not even the one Richard's hurt the worst. This is a long pattern of behavior for the man and one he's really going to need to get a grasp on before any of them can get any real work done. Fortunately back home Simon has made a point to exclude Richard Strand from any of his own workings, Alex can deal with that mess. Here he isn't so fortunate, and here he will absolutely hold the bastard accountable for his behavior.

As such, this display still didn't appear to impress him much, though Simon was typically difficult to read and especially so when he was being extra guarded. As he was right now. Simon wasn't gentle, Alex should know that fairly well by now. Because of that he wasn't about to jump on the reassuring Richard train, if that's what Alex wants to do that's her prerogative. For Simon's part while he was willing to drop his open hostility for the time being, he wasn't willing to accept that apology regardless of how rare they were. That only spoke of Strand's pride, not of whether or not he had any genuine intention to change.

Only action would prove that much. Words were empty without action, and in his mind often useless.

Instead he thinks it's time to hang up on this conversation, so to speak, and continue when cooler heads could prevail. "We should pick this up later." He suggested, or rather in Simon's flat way insisted.

Time to reflect.

Think about this, Richard, think about who you've become. What you've become. And do better. He'll be waiting in the meantime.