http://defiantlyyours.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2005-10-29 11:35 pm
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[Room 306, Night] Gently there came a tapping...

6 opened the door to his dormroom and found himself face to face with Number 2. A different one, this time, but no less annoying.
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[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
6 scowled. "What do you mean?"

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"In truth, you're not even a teenager, 6. You're a 39-year-old man. After you resigned from high school, you found yourself at loose ends. Deprived of the educational experience, you sought a manner of completing it. You tried going back, but you were too old. You stuck out. Independent tutoring didn't work. Too isolated. You needed the high school experience, even as you mistrusted it."

[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
"You're not making much sense. Not that I expected you to."

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Virtual reality. After you'd exhausted all options, you turned to Yoyodyne Industries and their solution: create a high school inside your mind."

[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
"I find that unlikely. If they were trying to recreate a high school, why go to all the trouble to make it so fantastic?"

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
"There was... ah... trouble in the process. One of the lab technicians... well, accidentally downloaded the contents of his hard drive into the program. Pirated movies, television series, e-books. The boy had quite the collection."

[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Assuming all of this is accurate, that still doesn't explain everything. The number, for example. I highly doubt I go by '6' in the real world."

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
"What wasn't affected by the information dump was formed by your natural tendency towards paranoia and suspicion. You believed, at some level, that you didn't deserve a second chance. Subconsciously, you tried to ruin it. You gave yourself a number and took away your name."

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Number 2 smiled. "Charles Curtis, of course. One of my oldest and dearest friends." He sat down on the bed. "Which is why I'm here now."

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
"It is. Look, 6, there's been a problem. This process was supposed to happen in accelerated time, but it's not. It's happening in real time. Your body is beginning to atrophy. The longer you stay here, the worse it will get."

[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Why not just unplug me from this infernal device, then? Or is that not possible?"

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not. You're hardwired in. You have to speak the passphrase in order to exit the program."

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know it exactly. You have to speak your reason for resigning from your previous high school aloud. That's all they told me."

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I know that sounds ludicrous, but it's what they gave me. I only have a short span here. The matrix weakened a bit with this Parents' Weekend. It was obviously a subconscious call for outside help. Once that closes down, so does my window. If the program isn't off by then... well, I'm told the consequences could be quite alarming."

[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Much like the consequences if you don't leave my quarters immediately," 6 snarled, hauling Number 2 up to his feet. "Very creative story, but you won't get what you want from me!"

[identity profile] thenewno2.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh dear. You really are that far gone, aren't you, old friend? I understand you might need time, but there isn't a lot of it to give. I need the answer by tomorrow at midnight. If you need some time to think it over, take a stroll around campus. Take a look at everything around you and tell me it's real. Come home to us, Charles."

[identity profile] defiantlyyours.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
6 shoved 2 out the door. "You lot are getting sloppy.

"Be seeing you," he said with a salute before shutting the door.
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