Fourth Floor Common Room//Thursday Morning

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras had taken the medicine that Ms. Poppins had given her before bed last night. It had, oddly enough, tasted just like gingerbeer. And, it seemed to be at least somewhat effective.

Seras still looked rather corpse-like, but her appetite was back. Which was a good thing because the two pairs of jeans that she hadn't cut up while under the impression that she was, in fact, an anarchist punkish rebel, were starting to bag at the waist.

Still clad in pajamas and wearing thick, though mismatched socks, she'd made her way down to the Common Room and fixed herself (and anyone else who cared for some) a large batch of apple cinnamon oatmeal with lots of brown sugar.

She was now curled up on the couch, dividing her attention between her breakfast, the old Errol Flynn movie that was on tv, and her copy of the London Times, circa 1993.


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[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Everyone is now," Tyler nodded. "He sent my roomie to the clinic, though."

And had Tyler convinced he was losing time again.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"That sucks, man." Blair frowned and let out a deep breath. "Jamie feels really bad about what his duplicate did."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Well, that was fabulous.

Not that Tyler was identifying or anything.

"That's great, Blair. Really great."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"When he apologized to me, he sounded really sad." Blair was trying really hard not to come outright and tell Tyler not to be mean. "It was kind of sad, considering it wasn't even his fault."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"It's a part of him," Tyler said stubbornly. "If a part of you does something, you get to be responsible. You can disgust yourself, you can be angry at yourself, but you can't say it wasn't you."

No one gave him that choice, anyhow.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I don't like people who pollute." Blair said, looking at the wall. "Like, I seriously don't. They make me really, really angry. But when I'm facing one of them at a protest I don't hit them or shoot them because the rest of my personality compensates."

"I think when the bad Jamie was made it was just the angry parts without the rest of his personality to compensate. So in essence, it was him and yet it wasn't. I would hate to inflict just a bad side of me with no conscience on my friends, but I would hope they would understand that it wasn't truly me." Blair shuddered. "Wouldn't you?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler gazed directly at Blair. "I think you know this isn't all theoretical to me."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair blinked and frowned. "How so, man?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Great, he got to explain again.

"I have an alternate personality," Tyler said. "Much more secure, much more charming, much more violent. I don't always know everything he does." He paused. "It's under control right now."

He ran a hand through his hair. "So you could say I know what Jamie's going through."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"..." Blair blinked and leaned back. "Whoa, man. That's..."

"Wait, you know what Jamie's going through and you still hit him? Shouldn't you be treating him better than anyone else?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler shrugged, and his fingers went to the scar on his cheek. "Nobody gave me a free ride. Your body -- or your duplicated body, whatever, I'm not a mutant -- does something, you get the consequences."

Then again, he had never apologized. He idly wondered what would happen if he did.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"So you're going to do to Jamie what everyone did to you?" Blair shook his head. "If you knew what your other personality was going to do and had the opportunity to stop it, would you have?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I did," Tyler said. "At the end, I did. It's part of why my city is standing."

He shrugged. "I'm not asking for a medal. But no, Jamie doesn't get to say it was his evil duplicate and he's off the hook. Doesn't work that way."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I'm not saying he's off the hook. He has to apologize to everyone and that's not easy." Blair nodded.

"What happened to you because of what your other personality did?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler shrugged, letting it go. Apologies were the least of Jamie's issues; he also had to live with it.

Actually, that might almost be enough. Well, that and the suit.

"What I did or didn't do is a story for another day," he said lightly. "Nothing I want to talk about."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"That's fair, man. I don't want to push." Blair nodded. "I just, I don't know. I forgave Jamie for what he did to me and it's not place to make everyone else do that. I just hate to see waste, even if it's among people."

"You know, man." Blair added seriously. "If you ever do want to talk, I'm willing to listen. I'm pretty good at accepting people without judging."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I'll keep that in mind," Tyler said.

The rest of what Blair said wasn't quite in one ear and out the other, but he didn'tt want to adress it.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair sighed sadly, knowing this conversation didn't really go the way he hoped. "Thanks, man."