Two Hundred Twenty Five

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[click, static]

I—I’m not sure what to do with that. “You seemed lonely”. 

You always do this, say just the right thing to keep me wanting to talk to you—

[click, static]

I know I seemed lonely. I was fucking lonely. I am fucking lonely. But if you’re observers of all of this shit—and there’s no way that we’re the only ones, I know that—then you have to be observing a lot of really lonely people. Why me? Why choose to talk to me? Why…(sigh)

[click, static]

[a beep]

Am I going crazy or did you just—

[click, static]

[four dots, two dots]

Say again. 

[four dots, two dots]

“Hi”. You’re saying fucking…hi. 

Well. Hi. 

[four dots, two dots]

Is this Birdie?

[one dot]

I guess you remember. I— I want to be happy to hear from you, to talk to you, I do, but I…

Okay, same as last time—one dit for yes, two for no, three dits if the answer is too complicated to explain and one dash for “I don’t know”—and I better not hear those last two very much. Alright?

[click, static; one dot]

Right then.

[click, static]

Did Junior kill Don?

[one dot]

Did he— did he mean to?

[one dash]

It was a struggle, wasn’t it? They got into some kind of altercation and…

[one dot]

Right. (deep breath) Right. 

[click, static]

Okay, uh, what else ask you…if you’ve been listening, am I right? Am I right in thinking that when I killed Billings, I branched us off into another future, and dragged Harry and Junior and Leann and— and Don and who the hell knows who else? Am I right about that?

[one dot]

Okay. I mean, not that I totally believe but…okay. 

You and Fox—you’re observers. Do you control the timelines?

[two dots]

Who does?

[one dash]

You don’t know? You don’t know who your own boss is?

[two dots]

Fuck. 

Is it God?

[two dots; one dash]

No, you don’t know. Okay. Helpful. 

Do you know Fox? Personally?

[one dot]

Are you friends?

[two dots]

Are you enemies?

[one dot; two dots]

A yes and a no. I’m guessing that means it’s a little more complicated than just friends and enemies. 

[one dot]

Yeah, okay. You both work for the same…entity though? You’re both bookkeepers for the universe or whatever you want to call it?

[one dot]

Are there others?

[one dot]

Where are they?

[click, static]

Okay, yeah, I guess that’s hard to answer yes or no. Are they observing different timelines?

[one dot]

How many timelines are there?

[one dot]

(scoff) Yes, there are many? What, is the number infinite?

[one dot]

Oh. How many are you looking over? Dozens?

[two dots]

Hundreds?

[one dot]

Shit, okay. And it’s the same for Fox?

[one dot]

And you don’t like each other…when you said you betrayed your job, did you betray Fox?

[two dots]

No. Did you betray your boss? Another…coworker?

[two dots]

Also no. 

Did you betray…the people you’re observing?

[one dot]

Because what—because you observed wrong?

[click, static]

Did you interfere? Did you try to fix it?

[one dot]

Yes. And it went wrong. People got hurt. 

[one dot]

Yeah, well, that’s the way it fucking goes, isn’t it?  

Is that why