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[orangetoughguy]

So these two guys are walking home from a party on Halloween night, just for laughs they decide to take a shortcut through a cemetery. About midway through they hear a tap-tap-tap coming from the fucking dark. Tap-tap-tap chink. Tap-tap-tap. They're tough guys, they wave it off, but you know they think they gotta walk a little faster. Well they walk faster but the tapping gets louder. Now these guys are ready to piss their pants, they're holding on to each other for fucking life. Finally they come across an old groundskeeper with a hammer and chisel chipping away at one of the headstones.

"Holy shit, man," one of them says after catching his breath, "you scared us half to death." The other one says, "we thought you were a ghost! What the fuck are you doing working so goddamn late?"

The groundskeeper growls, "those sons of bitches spelled my name wrong!"

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[saidrepent]

What makes you say that?

[orangetoughguy]

Coming back just in time to walk in on my storytelling.

[saidrepent]

I've been back for a few days now. [And White noticed before Freddy here. His feelings, they are crushed.]

[orangetoughguy]

I know that.

[His husband told him!!]

[saidrepent]

[Well it didn't sound like it!!!]

Didn't feel like saying hi?

[orangetoughguy]

[Told him two days too late maybe 8(]

Do you feel like saying hi?

[saidrepent]

[He shrugs a little.] Well, here I am.

[orangetoughguy]

Can't say you're happy to be back?

[saidrepent]

No, I can.

Being in the City is better than the alternative right now.

[orangetoughguy]

Do I want to know what the alternative is?

[saidrepent]

[He has to pause for a moment.]

Do you remember how much time was left on my clock?

[orangetoughguy]

Kind of. I can forget things pretty quick too.

[It's Raymond's choice.]

[saidrepent]

[He sighs, and when he speaks again, his voice lowers.]

I had two seconds.

[orangetoughguy]

Is your time up?

[He actually still doesn't have a solid idea how it works once the time's gone.]

[saidrepent]

Yeah.

[Somehow that isn't as difficult to admit as he'd thought it be. But then again, he hasn't actually said the words and I'm also dead.]

[orangetoughguy]

[Does that make Raymond outright dead? Inanimate? Will he start rapidly aging like that guy in Indiana Jones?? Important questions. But first...]

You know I think I owe you a drink.

[Like hell he does but it's way cooler than saying he wants to be nice and treat Raymond to one.]

[saidrepent]

[Good job, Freddy; he actually smiles at that.]

I'd appreciate it.