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Who: addison montgomery + you
When: the rest of may
Where: a bar, the library
Summary: tdm prompts, getting her feet, losing her feet (alcohol)
Warnings: drunken disaster addie

► THE LIBRARY

Is this on yours too?

( she'd made them do a printout of the list, grabbing a pen from one of the desks and scribbling notes on it. it was weird, having a list that had her name attached to it but without any memory of having read any of the books. not that she'd had time to read a book lately, her last vacation had gotten sidetracked and well-- apparently she was now in gloucester.

so she was ignoring it, analysing lists and trying to do something that felt fine and normal when nothing really felt fine and normal. as if her life was normal anymore anyway )

I can't say I recognise the name... Which is weird, right? Reading a book you don't know you've read and probably haven't actually read? Right?

[ copied from her tdm ]

► A BAR

( she'd found a bar, she'd found wine. more than one glass if addison was counting (she wasn't). there had been some very nice men that had tried to explain this place to her, had been gentle about it but it was hard to accept. they'd seemed nice, believable and something had wanted to believe them. but she couldn't.

it didn't help that even before coming here her head had been reeling, that her emotions had been blown up and focusing on anything else when there were answers that she needed was hard. answers that she couldn't get. her brother was sick, her could die and... she could do nothing.

so wine had been the good answer. wine had been the only answer. lots of wine was the answer because addison really didn't want to be able to think of anything )

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[ Access to a library should have been the best day since finding himself yanked from his life and dropped into who knows what the hell this is. It should be, but then there were rivers and now this madness.

He glances up, realizing he's being addressed and he looks over to make sure its the same title he's still investigating.

Nodding to the question, his expression sours. ]

Yep. It's really weird.

[ He sounds as perplexed as he looks, his voice softly accented with the rounded sounds of Kentucky Appalachian. ]

Want to hear weirder? You can't get a copy of it neither. They say they don't got it, can't get it, and maybe might have it in a few months. And? Run into two others saying the same thing. You already have a card here too?

That's what I've heard but how does a book appear on everyone's lists and they somehow don't have a copy of it?

( because she'd never heard of the book before to read about it and it couldn't suspiciously just happen to already be on loan.

it was really weird.

she shakes her head, unsure whether baffled or annoyed fit best for this )

This is the first time I've been to this library. The card, the books... none of it's right.

Makes me wonder if it even exists for real or just something they made up.

[ Which isn't even more comfortable to think about. Why make it up? What is it meant to get them?

It's all leaving him with an uncomfortable itchy sensation right between my shoulder blades. ]

You ever even been to this town? Because I know I've been no where near this place before so no way I have a card here. Or anywhere, honestly.

I've never even been to Massachusetts before.

( and she'd had to really do some asking to get the geography of the place. or she'd found a postcard. something )

I don't even have a library card at home. The books I read I tend to keep.

Yeah, me neither.

[ Which is why all this is bothering him. Though it makes him think maybe she's there like him and not one of the locals who give him a look like his accent is weird. Have they heard themselves? ]

About this state or a library card. I wonder... You new here and work for the company that brought you to the area? Because I'm wondering if maybe they had something to do with it. Trying to make us feel at home or something.

I don't work for them.

( and at this moment in time addison wouldn't. though one day that will end up changing, she's a doctor, she can't walk away from people )

But it doesn't mean you're wrong, pretending that this is our home, that we have lives here... it sounds like something that could be done.

It feels like that. I mean, I know there's no way that I had any of this in any way. Or been here.

[ He's not sure how normal it is not to have a library card, or not to have a identification at all. ]

I want to get my hands on this damn book. There has to be a reason for it. Right? Less suspicious if there were more books showing, or different titles. So there has to be a reason.

[ He sighs before realizing he hasn't shown a lot of the manners most humans seem to share. ]

I'm Pope, by the way.

Addison.

( and he has a point, having a copy of the book would be informative )

Maybe someone in town has one? Not that it'd be easy to figure out.

Maybe. Worth checking around, if nothing else.

[ He pauses, considering that for a moment. ]

Don't people sometimes upload books to the internet? Might be able to find a copy there. Or at least some of it to get an idea.

What if we find it and then regret that we'd looked?

( that was always absolutely a possibility. it usually happened a lot for addison's less well-thought out ideas )

Sometimes not know is better.

[ His head cants slightly, considering her for a moment. ]

Do you really believe that? I mean, life is about finding out what I can and this is a real life mystery that we're starring in.

The mysteries I usually solve aren't anything dangerous.

( at least not to herself, they could be dangerous to her patients but that was why she solved them, to save lives )

I'm not interesting in getting any deeper into a mystery.

► LOG

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