tucky | ♻ 007

I need to go to Zero. Right now.

[There's the sound of hurried footsteps in the background; she's on her way to the stairs.]

I didn't do nothing and I don't plan to, but I have gotten confirmation that the demons and dark creatures here are after me. I ain't crazy or imagining things, and I ain't looking for signs and messages when there aren't any-- I got told straight out by Doctor Facilier that I pissed 'em off and I'm a goner. I don't know if any place is safe for me now, but I heard Zero's better than most.

[She takes a moment to catch her breath; she's still half-running.]

Please let me down. I wouldn't ask if it weren't an emergency; more important than life or death. It's not my body that's at stake, it's my immortal soul.

[She turns off the public feed and records a series of private messages, partially intended to be goodbye notes if things go badly. She knows people come back from the dead-- but she doesn't know if they come back from having their souls corrupted by creatures from hell.]

[filtered to Cambridge]

I'm gonna have to miss therapy for a while, I think. Unless you can come down to do it.

I know lots of people don't like you, and maybe some of 'em have good reasons; I don't know. But you were good to me and I think a lot about the things you said.

[filtered to Dillon]

You were the first person here who was as nice to me as you were, and that will always be real special to me. For as long as I live, I will never forget that you saw all I was but still liked me anyway. You were right about all the ugly stuff in me, but I been trying to be a little better, and that's because of you.

[filtered to Dillon and Simon]

I need your help-- please. Please. I don't know what to do. Is there a way to get rid of them? Can we cleanse the ship?

[filtered to Iris]

Can you come and visit me sometimes? I think I might be down there for a very long time, and I'm gonna miss you. More than anyone, maybe. If something happens to me, I want you to know that some of the people here have been nicer to me than anyone's ever been, and you were a real big part of that. And I didn't end up hating the Barge, even with all the terrible things.

[filtered to Mason]

In case I don't see you again for a while, or in case they get to me, I hope you don't forget what I said about you being good and being worth a lot-- 'cause I meant every word. You are the best inmate here and one of the best people too, and I won't forget all you did for me.

[filtered to Merlin]

I'm sorry. I tried. I didn't go after 'em again, but they found me anyway. I wanted to do right by you, I really did, but I don't know what's gonna happen now.

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[He tries to keep his voice casual.]

No. No, he's just...a man who's been kicked down one too many times. I'm sure you've seen what that does to a person.

Yeah, I have.

[But not to Dean levels, though of course she doesn't know that.]

I've met plenty of people like that. Been like that myself, sometimes.

'E's been the wrong end of a lot of supernatural nasties, mind you, but no - Dean's as human as you are, lovey.

This is the second version of 'im we've 'ad here and all. The one we got to know 'ad won most of 'is fights against the odds. This one - this is the one that fought just as 'ard and lost.

[She frowns, trying to figure out how that would work.]

So he... won a lot, then went home and lost a lot? And then came back?

I'm really not sure. I know I talked to him, I know he was the one that addressed me about coming here to be a Warden, but I can't even remember what his face looks like. It used to bug me, but I've learned it's one of those questions we'll never have a solid answer to.

[She might as well just ask straight out.]

Do you think he's God?

Well, I guess brawn does come in handy, sometimes.

[He kind of likes having it, not gonna lie, but he can make due either way.]

Yeah. If someone's coming at you, you can't really think your way out of it. You just gotta-- bam. Give it to 'em.

That's true.

How's your hand to hand?

Uh... fine? I've fought people before and everything. People bigger than me, too.

I think that whatever's going on here is kind of.. beyond anything like that, somehow. Multiple universes and timelines and lifelines, I don't think it would be right to try and label him as sort of one single entity that we know from our world. From modern Earth, I mean. I think. I'm probably not explaining that right.

But there isn't anything beyond God. Hes God.

Kind of. The guy who was here before, you might as well consider him a different kid than the one here now. That's how he wants it.

Anyway the first guy, he was my Warden. Good guy. Tough as nails, but confident that he could win the day, you know? This one's tough as nails but he's convinced that he's in hell. Literally. So there's no reaching him 'cause he thinks he's already damned.

This isn't hell.

[She's very quick to say that.]

And I don't-- we're not damned. Not just 'cause we're here, anyway.

Our Dean - Cain's warden - 'e used 'is deal to stop some of the things that went wrong in 'is future. This one that's 'ere now is the one that didn't 'appen for. 'E's the version of the story with the bad ending.

And no, you know that and I know that. But Dean's been in Hell; 'e knows 'ow they can lie and mess with your 'ead and there's not a shred of trust left in 'im. 'Cause 'e just assumes if this is Hell we'd obviously all say that anyway, wouldn't we?

If he was in hell, how could he be here?

[She's stuck on hell being a place for vile, irredeemable people. How could someone who deserved that also deserve the Barge?]

Maybe. But some worlds might not even have religion, let alone Christianity specifically. It's kind of a mixed bag once you start thinking about the multiverse.

Even if they do'nt believe in Him He's still there. He created everything everywhere, even other planets and worlds. Even the barge.

Hmm. In that case, I'm not sure I believe the Admiral is God, then. Maybe someone that "works" for him. Something about him being "Him" doesn't totally add up.

[ meanwhile, Gwen's not really religious. at all. but she's curious about Tiffany's ..dedication to it, for sure ]

What part?

[Maybe it's the floods, if they really are accidental.]

[Cain doesn't have specifics to give her, and probably wouldn't if he did--it's a story Dean should be sharing. But he'll tell what he does know.]

He got pulled out. Rescued, I guess, by the Admiral. I mean he was only in Hell in the first place 'cause he was trying to do some good. I don't know--if the Admiral brought him here then he's still a good man, there's still some hope for him, at least that's what I try to tell myself. Gets hard to believe sometimes.

[Tiffany looks down at her lap, head still resting against Iris's arm.]

... That don't make sense at all. Hell isn't a place where people who're trying to do good go.

I think it's the idea that the same person/entity that created all life is also the same person that showed up at my father's funeral asking me if I wanted to come to the Barge and help people. I had no idea a place like this even existed until I was brought here.

God works in mysterious ways.

What was he like when you met him?

I wish I could remember. It's all very foggy. I remember everything he told me about the Barge, but I can't even remember what his voice sounds like.

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