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Did a talking dinosaur steal a clock last night?
Did The Flash challenge a talking dinosaur that stole a clock last night?

[He's terribly boring, he is uninteresting, he is a dull guy who likes dogs and fishes as a hobby, look at this freaking unexciting guy and see nothing else okay okay.

Anger is something he's more than willing to show when that can be traced back to the idea of Freddie Lounds. It proved beneficial back home, has helped them both out here. It's true that Yuri Petrov seems to have dropped the issue, and it's true that enough time has passed that any sample taken wouldn't prove a damn thing, but keeping up the can't stand that Freddie Lounds game comes pretty naturally at this point. It's also sort of enjoyable. Better times, happier days, when the entire world around them wasn't as visibly shit as it later turned out to be.

Oh, if only Clark knew in how poor a position Will was in to imply he didn't know how to do his job.]

We were his job, a good portion of us a pain in the ass. Makes sense he'd act differently with us. [Swimming right along, don't mind him and his back to steady heartbeat and the wryness in his voice, especially about being a pain in the ass.] Just as it makes sense he'd act differently with his husband. Want to figure out what the angle is, good luck finding sources that aren't inherently biased in one way or another.

[Yes he did hear Clark say that he talked to others, but he's not asking about it, he is ignoring it as best he can la la la. He's not doing his old job here, not if he can help it. Sure, if something (or someone) comes up to motivate him...it could happen. Cases that don't involve mutilated corpses or people being thrown into asylum because of memory issues, ones that are put in front of him by certain people or in certain ways. If he showed a willingness to help out with everyone, he'd turn into something he doesn't want to be. Again.

Just let him play with worms, Clark, even if the fishing language gets his attention and is an on point way to go about getting more of his attention and very appreciated. Please. God. He's boring, come on.

He loves worms.]

YES Going to be a great new year.

[ Sure but ]

Did the Flash survive?

[but who cares tho]

I guess? You'd have to ask Freddie. She lives with the dinosaur. But I'm rather sure if he had killed any mammal, he'd let us know. Or one of the mammals would start shrieking about it. He's not very subtle. That's not a "just him" thing.

[ Probably John will care. ]

Oh, right right, I'll hop on that.

[ Actually shit maybe she will. Hi Freddie so can you just— Yes thanks. ]

Mammal? You talk like him, too. Fishing mate?

[John plz.]

No, I was referencing him. He calls us mammals. According to Freddie, that's not just an over the Network thing but an all the time thing.

[ Mutant alternate universe plz. ]

Well all right then.

[ Too headachey to give a fudge. Freddie babe, you will be the most useful in the future. When she is less headachey. ]

If he was successful, I could be young forever. New year indeed.

Edited (fucking comment i did not tell you to send yet!) 2015-01-02 08:25 (UTC)

[Mary, luv, you just gotta accept that some things here are strange.]

I wouldn't object to being 39 forever in a literal way. Last time he was yelling at us to bring him crystals. April had fun with that one. He keeps it interesting.

[Doctor Dinosaur was, in April's words, her new favorite. Will's not bothered by that at all. Why would he be? Dinosaurs and humans aren't sexually compatible. He wins by virtue of being a mammal! Suck it, dino!]

[He breathes in through his nose, lets it out through his mouth. Even if he isn't angry yet he can feel himself getting on edge, and that won't help him any in this situation.]

I have gotten pretty far without people telling me how to do my job, so I think I'll manage. But thanks for the advice. [Superman might let insults slide, might put show his other cheek, be the better man, whatever you wish to call it. It's almost part of his job description to deal with things like that without causing much fuss.

Clark Kent doesn't, and so he draws the line at some things.]

Mr Graham, I'm not just talking about job vs home, about acting different with different kind of people. We all do that, some people can even be two different people depending on the moment of the day. [Ha

ha]

But this wasn't that. This was something else, something more, something off with the man that has ended with him needing psychiatric help. This was the man having huge lapses of memories, this was the man liking some things one moment and hating them the next second, this was the man taking up smoking overnight. And this is me trying to fill the connections to be a step closer to getting home.

[It's good to draw lines at things, particularly when people are being pains in the ass. Although Clark isn't, perhaps knowingly, trying to be as big a pain in the ass and he currently is, Will's about to draw a line of his own. With Clark, with Freddie Lounds if this ever gets back to her on Clark's end...he might be barking at a brick wall, if he went to her about it. Does he know? Does he not? Clark never stuck him as more malicious than the average, and what would the point be for being in on it? Space in Tattlecrime?

This is probably just a coincidence Clark didn't expect and wasn't warned for. Hopefully.

But, this time around, no matter how calm and steady, clear and focused his voice comes out, Will's heartbeat is rapid. It only gets worse the longer Clark talks about Holiday's conditions, particularly memories (a rate of knots in a bait shop? Of course). Fear will always find a way. And where there's a way and a Will Graham, fear is bound to get pretty cozy.]

You misinterpreted. [Will certainly doesn't seem too bothered by the idea of being misinterpreted, his tone isn't accusing. Him being misinterpreted happens often. He works to make it happen, to his general advantage. This isn't that, and he'll clear it up here and now.] That wasn't advice. That was well-wishes. [From someone who's not considered very well. No good Will here.] Let me try it again: good luck finding sources that aren't inherently biased in one way or another without me.

[Saying "no thanks good luck bye" is just so difficult.]

[He opens his mouth, then closes it. Twice. He takes a moment to reply, not because he doesn't know what to say but because he's actually confused for a second. Finally:]

Well, that was my bad then. I took it as a personal offense. If you didn't think you'd be able to help you could just have said so.

[Which sounds better than saying 'if you just don't feel like it'.]

[It's not that Will doesn't think he's able to help. Will is very capable of helping, if and when he puts his mind to it. And honestly, if he were called out on the fact of the matter that he's stepping out just because he doesn't feel like it, Clark would get a little boost in his book. Because it's true. Here, now, he's quite firmly in the boat opposite helping out. A lot. Passing on basic information is good and well, but when it gets into territory that's both personal and, as he sees it, potentially disastrous?

Nah. No reason to help out, no point in it. The horse he has in this race is one that doesn't take off, hangs back comfortably in the gates with the jockey petting it for its good work at standing around so uselessly while everyone else lose their shit running around the track. He'll stick to hanging out in a tacky bait shop and feigning ignorance and being an uninteresting stick in the mud if that means he gets to stay in a world where Abigail Hobbs is alive, he's alive, and Hannibal Lecter is nowhere to be found. He's more motivated to stay away from all that than he is to jump right in anything to do with the government.

Bye old world Baltimore, bye old world Wolf Trap, bye Felicia.]

I don't think I'll be able to help out in a way that anyone else can't. [Hi I'm Will Graham and I'm a lying liar who lies, how are you?] None of the powers I've been granted here would be helpful, either. [Well, okay. That's...mostly true. He scoffs, tries to inject some humor into this. End on as high a note as possible. Clark tolerate Freddie. Seems...kind to her, even. It wouldn't be good to risk doing anything to upset that when Freddie needs all the support she can get other than Baltimore, other than Will barking to others in private. No, be nice. Be nice, Graham.] Unless he's being held in a facility underwater, but that seems...unlikely.

[Totally unable to help at all, look at him accepting that. Look at him trying to make everyone else accept that. If he can just be boring and useless, maybe people will leave him alone??

Maybe???? People.]

Mr Graham... [For a second, he wants to ask if he can call him Will. With a few exceptions (Luthor, Bruce Wayne for a long while...) he likes calling people by their name. His father never liked to be called Mr Kent, and neither does he. But Will's heart sounds like it's in the weirdest roller coaster ride ever and Clark doesn't really get why someone asking for help would put him on edge but he doesn't want to make the man any more nervous.]

I have no doubt that if there was any way you thought you could help, either us or Holiday, you would. [The closest he'll get to telling him he's being a little shit about it, tbh. He knows something is up, he just doesn't know what and he isn't going to accuse someone without proof or force them to help. He'll get there without Will's help, that's fine. He just wonders if Freddie was expecting this conversation to go differently, maybe Clark ruined things by not being honest from the beginning.]

And honestly I didn't use powers to get my journalism done back at home, so I expect I'll have no use for the ones I've gotten here.

[Not a lie, not really. He never in his life used anything that he didn't get using good old journalism in his articles, and he isn't going to start now. Even when he'd eavesdropped Dr Holt's location he used Annie's help as an excuse to visit him. Once, when he was young, he'd gotten information about a certain corrupt information making illegal weapons- and thinking Clark Kent couldn't do a damn thing about it, he busted in as Superman. It gave them the perfect excuse to stall, hide the weapons, and they walked away from it with their hands clean. If Clark had written that article there would have been an investigation and eventually they would have gotten them.

From then on, Superman sticks to his job and Clark to his own.]

I'm sorry if I inconvenienced you. I was sticking to Freddie's list, really.

Edited (missing words what) 2015-01-04 18:48 (UTC)

[Will's no different, in that regard. He's not overly fond of Mister Graham. His students used it, of course they did. They were students, it was different. But when that ended up being used to insult, to drive in a point, to remind—no, he was comfortable with Will, just Will. No need for honorifics.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Is that Clark calling him a little shit as nicely as possible or a sincere idea, that everyone stuck in the situation wants to be out of it, to work towards meeting the same end goal of going "home" or attempting it? It's...endearing, even as it's laughable.]

No need to apologize. It's—slow day at work. [No inconvenience other than mental screaming a healthy adult can deal with on his own, no harm no foul.] Who else is on Freddie's list?

[Blurted, almost, that one. He doesn't expect a full rundown if the list is long, but if she put on the names of anyone else from Baltimore, well. Always good to know where he stands in the company of his own "pack," isn't it?]

[He takes a second to reply.

If he knew for sure Will was refusing to help, and not just honestly convinced there wasn't anything he could do, he'd tell him it was a private thing. Hiding information can go both ways and while it'd probably be innocuous Clark doesn't like being played with.

But thing is, he only has a slight suspicion about it. Because Freddie mentioned him, and because of the job he said he had back home... nothing solid. And he and Freddie have a story together, in some way, so maybe hiding this from him isn't an innocuous as it seems to him.

He bites down a sigh.] I'll send you the file by text.

[And so, he does.]

[He reads it, takes a second, wonders where in the hell he comes to play. He's been around a while, it's true, but not as long as the others. Kate Bishop and Loki are some sort of Wonder Twins duo when it comes to stockpiling information, even if it veers into conjecture. So where does—

—oh.

Son of a bitch. A thought not directed at Freddie, more at himself. Way to assume the worst (don't they all at this point?), just throw him overboard with the rest of the chum, he deserves it. God.]

She's still mad at Gideon. [Spoken quietly because he's more thinking aloud than anything else. It's not disbelief that prompts it. He's amused.] Doctor Frederick Chilton was in an administrative position at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane back where we all come from. Very accomplished. [Among other things that just aren't ever up for discussion nope no thank you goodbye nothing weird here in this universe where in the year of our Lord 2014 and beyond there are still hospitals for the criminally insane featuring dank basement cells and the cannibal mask and just it's based on books that started in the early 1980s give them a break.] He does that line of work here, too. [I don't I have chosen not to why does this keep cropping up please leave me alone.] He'd be better at putting together Captain Holiday's behaviors and how they might have changed than I would.

[Shoves off any and all glory to Chilton while simultaneously avoiding the hell out of him if he possibly can, maybe Clark won't mention Will's endorsement if he ends up talking to him??

Maybe people in this world who aren't from Baltimore don't have loose tongues about anything and everything????? MAYBE THERE IS A GOD SOMEWHERE?]

Who knew you were all such chums?

[ Going by Will and April's humor, and Freddie living there, Mary isn't as surprised as she could be. ]

Why crystals?

[Yeah, so buddy buddy with the dinosaur. Will, at least, has a healthy fear of him based solely on the fact that he is a Goddamn dinosaur. All the profile needed!]

Crystals for SCIENCE. He's very into science. And talking loudly.

SCIENCE.

We used crystals in all my classes for forensic science. I don't know why people are confused about his cry for them.

I was more confused about the talking lizard part. John made it pretty clear I shouldn't be.

[ John hdu. But Will had to confirm. ]

Eggs are frying up if you want any. New Year breakfast.

[He's okay confirming for John, nbd.

But.]

Chicken eggs?

Yeah, why?

[ You want quail eggs you better buy them yourself. ]

Because I wouldn't want to eat something more expensive without offering to repay you for it.

["I don't want to mooch that much off you, that's rude!!!"]

Give me about 15 minutes and I'll be over.

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