There are Places I Remember...

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:24 pm

Will Stanton sat in the XUB, not touching his drink.

He was staring at an iPad, flipping through news stories. Specifically, the stories from the States about Will Stanton being shot. Not focusing on the kids so much, but on the parents.

He sat there, staring, not touching his drink.

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by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:12 pm

"Hey," Sam says as she approaches.

"Not looking so good there, Will. Penny for your thoughts?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:45 am

"Mmm," Will nodded at Sam, gesturing for her to take a seat.

"Will Stanton was shot and killed on Sunderland Road two weeks ago. That's about three blocks from his elementary school, along the main road, near the ice cream and cake shop that's had his picture in it since he was two.

How do I know all that?" he asked, taking a sip from what appeared to be a banana daiquiri.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:40 am

"I ah... saw the news story. That's pretty weird," she says as she settles in.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:51 am

Will shook his head. "They didn't mention the ice cream shop in the news story. They didn't know why he was out there alone."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:57 am

"You say you're... remembering stuff?" She cocks her head.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:58 am

Will shook his head. "I can't be remembering stuff. I was never ~there~.

But I KNOW this place. I've seen this street before. I've seen..." he trailed off, scrolling down to a picture of the parents.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:32 pm

"...in your head, you claimed to know Miriam and I from some time before, too."

"But Miriam thinks it was just people you associated with us, maybe?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:36 pm

"Well, heads are full of symbolism and shit, right? Iconography? I mean, you've never been to Antarctica, right?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:44 pm

"Right, and it'd be before I was born, aye?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:52 pm

"Unless you also need a banana daiquiri," Will nodded. "It wouldn't make sense."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:08 pm

"Same goes for when you call Miriam 'Mel' I'd wager."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:10 pm

"So, maybe there was someone named Mel, and someone who reminds me of you, at the army base? I don't remember anyone like that..." he mused.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:12 pm

"It'd at least make more sense than you having met... another me, somehow."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:20 pm

"There's only one of you, that makes you special," Will said, in a little sing-song voice, looking back at the tablet with the news story on it.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:35 pm

"But then there's the bit where you... remember things about this poor kid."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:37 pm

"Yeah..." he trailed off. "I...how do I know these people?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:48 pm

"He's even got your name. Your face."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:56 pm

"I've NOTICED," he grumbled. "It doesn't make SENSE.

Ashley thinks I'm...not from around here."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:57 pm

"What, like you're an alien?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:11 pm

"Kinda. She says I've got some interdimensional whatzit on me. And that I'm low on potassium," he said, taking another drink of his banana daiquiri.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:46 pm

"So like... some parallel universe where everyone has beards?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:47 am

"Eh?" Will said, scratching his chin. "I mean...I guess? I don't know much about the subject."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:02 am

"It's like a science fiction thing, you know? Everyone good is evil, and everyone evil is good."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:10 am

"...so, you're saying I'm evil, then."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:12 am

"No? I have no idea what the Will Stanton of this universe is... er was? Like."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:21 am

"So, you're saying THIS Will Stanton was evil. The nine year old gunned down for getting...what, evil ice cream?" Will said, dubiously.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:29 am

"Well okay, the evil you can get up to as a kid is pretty limited, but maybe the potential was there?"

"I'm not trying to speak ill of a dead kid or anything."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:30 am

"Well, if you say so..." Will frowned.

"I don't like any of this."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 1:43 am

"It's not making a lot of sense, I'll grant."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:00 am

"That's not it.

It's just...now I'm a billion? I'm from...I dunno, some other universe? That's not who I am. That's not what I am. I'm normal.

I should have stayed a couch."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:14 am

"Are any of us really normal? If we're here?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:18 am

"Well, let's see. Are you a billion?" he said, laughing dryly. "Seen any dopplegangers murdered recently? See familiar faces you've never seen before?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:25 am

"It's not a competition."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:33 am

"No, of course not," Will sighed. "I'm sorry.

I just...none of this makes any sense and I hate it. Do you have any idea what it's like to be told you're not what you think you are?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:42 am

"...I might," she hedges.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:10 am

"It sucks. Screw that. I'm who I say I am, and that stupid science machine doesn't know it's scanner from a hole in the ground, am I right?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:15 am

"There's... more in your head than we let out the last time, Will."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:36 am

Will raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:18 am

"You remember us talking about how the lockbox was supposedly like... disaster recovery?"

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