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[singlesoledjest.livejournal.com]

Look!

Mercutio!

Sprawling!

Again!

Yay.

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[not-a-redshirt.livejournal.com]

"I visited that universe where I'm fictional. It was crazy." He grins.

He wants to tell Mercutio all about hanging around Los Angeles, going back to Vancouver, stopping off in Montreal...but he avoids details; he doesn't want to be talking about going back almost-home when Mercutio has no way of getting back to even an alternate universe's Verona. So he holds his tongue.

"It was weird," he says reflectively, "being a civilian again, even if it was just for the vacation. I didn't really take vacations when I was alive."

[singlesoledjest.livejournal.com]

"You look well."

He gestures to the couch.

"Talk."

He's grinning.

[not-a-redshirt.livejournal.com]

"Um, well." He curls up next to Mercutio. He's very well indeed. "Had to come up with a fake name, of course, since--I mean, there were posters for 24 all over the subway. Really weird. I went back to Canada for a little bit. It wasn't exactly the same, not quite like it is in my own world, but...it was Canada. Spent a little while in Los Angeles, too. Apparently CTU doesn't exist there either..."

He could talk for hours.

[singlesoledjest.livejournal.com]

"But it was home?"

He shifts closer.

[not-a-redshirt.livejournal.com]

He wraps an arm around Mercutio and cuddles up.

"Close to it."

[singlesoledjest.livejournal.com]

"I am very glad for you."

He is, sincerely so.

[not-a-redshirt.livejournal.com]

He kisses Mercutio's temple.

"I wonder," he says thoughtfully, "if something similar could happen with you. Like--if one of the characters from 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' came here, if they could take you for a visit."

[singlesoledjest.livejournal.com]

"I think it would pain me, not relieve me. To be so close, but not."

He shrugs.

"Verona's heart is her Veronans."