041: Hey, It's Just an Ordinary Day

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[Hei appears on the Plane in a nice armchair, a coffee table and a widescreen TV. There's various plates of half-eaten food on the table that Hei is slowly working through, as well as a stack of papers with handwritten notes on them. Some of them look to be notes about cars again, but there's also some scribbles with a few Tokyo districts written down, as well as what look like details about them.]

[For now, though, Hei seems to be preoccupied with what's on the TV. Namely, I Love the 70's. 1974, to be exact--and even more specifically, the segment on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Deadpool got Hei to watch I Love the 80's, and Hei decided to follow up :|]

Killing someone with a chainsaw wouldn't be very efficient, though...

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[And hello equally long pause]

It was, all things considered.

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[Small smile.] Good.

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[Jack can't quite muster the smile back] Might have done me good to forget.

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[Nods.] Like...being blind, and then being able to see just for a day, only to lose it again. [Blinks and shifts awkwardly cause that was really philosophical for Hei.]

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[This time Jack does smile, but it doesn't seem to quite reach his eyes] You make do with the darkness.

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[Returns the smile, but it's rather fake.]

We're not really cut out for this, are we?

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think not.

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[Distant look, though the fake smile is still on his face.] I think I've known it for awhile now...

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I used to be a long time ago. Got in too many years of practice, I guess.

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Nice while it lasted, though?

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Definitely enjoyed it. [Jack wonders what Hei would think if he knew that the time Jack is talking about was when he worked for the Time Agency, aka his life while addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, and adrenaline]

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[Hey, whatever makes you happy.] I'm going to have to leave Tokyo. Soon.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

South America is gone, isn't it? Where are you going to go?

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Somewhere else in Japan, for now. I wouldn't go back to South America anyway. [Pauses.] Though China...

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You could blend in in China easily. Do you know how to speak the language?

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I'm from there originally. Haven't I told you that?

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First time I've heard it.

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[Small smile.] I grew up in the Sichuan province. In the middle of nowhere. I can speak Mandarin and some Cantonese.

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All set for China then.

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[Laughs.] I suppose so.