The doctor says all I need is pills and rest

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[In this room we have a mostly abandoned bar. Not abandoned only in that Even is sitting at it, mostly ignoring his drink while the sugar caramelises in favour of scribbling on a scrap of paper in this incredibly cheerful atmosphere with it's ever so happy blue lighting and peppy uplifting music.

In all honesty, he shouldn't be drinking, not when he worked so hard to get sober. But every since the attempt to skip Christmas and new years he's rather completely stopped caring. Much like he stopped caring about taking his medicine and stopped caring about a lot of other things.]

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[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

[Have a vaguely disapproving look from over here.]

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[Disprove all you want, this scribbling is clearly very important. Or else he's just being particularly stroppy and ignoring you even though he knows you're there.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

[pointedly clears his throat]

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

g'away
[To some extent it may be fortunate that he is just cranky and bitter right now as opposed to thoroughly intoxicated and unreasonable AND cranky and bitter, but small mercies like that are hardly immediately obvious.

Though he is stopping what he was doing to prevent his absinthe being ruined. Poring water over the sugar cube to put out the flame, dissolve the rest of the sugar and turn the drink a sort of milky colour.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

I see no need to.

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[/getting right to work on the not being intoxicated problem.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

I would have thought you knew better then to turn to such things.

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

Implying one, a state to care and two, knowing better has ever really affected anything more than the method once the decision is made.

[Well knowing better has worked, his state of mind is just rejecting that it ever has on the basis of some self destructive rhetoric or another.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

Would you rather we find more effective methods?

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

What's the point? T'salways just temporary.

[With a frown because his absinthe is gone he's juuuuuust casually reaching behind that counter...]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

[In the blink of an eye, there's a spear quivering in the counter.]

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[/whines like a dog.]
I don't want to be sober.

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

I'm not a man much given to care.

[He can do it, yes. But old habits are hard to break.]

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[He's returning to the scribbling, which to a small extent may also partially be intended to disguise the motion of going for a hip flask instead, but his focus is mostly on the scribbling.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

[and that in turn means that he'll just return to watching.]

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[Seeing as the paper is now full, He's pushing that aside to continue much the same on the sheet under it. The first mostly covered with little pictures of Ienzo at various ages mixed in with randomised equations with no consistent subject. The equations all barely legible at best, at worst looking little more like wobbly lines, where as the pictures look more like they were being copied from a photo in a rather boring dull, sort of way.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

[He's a good deal less interested in what Even's drawing then he is simply keeping an eye on the proceedings. So after a moment he calls his spear back to his hand, with the intention of making sure it's still properly sharp.]

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[The pencil will slow down a bit as he starts to develop a proper buzz, but soon he'll just shove all of it aside.]

What's the point?

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

Of what?

1/2

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

Anything really?
I think... pretending wellness in the hope wellness will become the norm is what I really mean but it feels more like everything.

2/2

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

God... I used to love the noises I heard in my head. Never should've left my room... my room, out there, I almost remember it. It's gone now... along with everything else. [...kind of. just. rambling now.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

Worlds change. People change. Is it truly so surprising to find it happening here?

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

Nothing changed though.

[danceoftears.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all?

[justalittlesick.livejournal.com]

[Head shake. He's carefully ignoring facts in favour of being a melancholy tosser, though not entirely intentionally.]

[crackyourcheeks.livejournal.com]

[He'll get a snort of disbelief in return. That statement is very much doubted.]