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[tibetanmethod]

Cooper has a map of Twin Peaks and the surrounding environs sitting on the table in front of him. Maps are a good thing to study.

Unfortunate, isn't it, that the map is not always the territory.

There is an absence of coffee.





Who am I trying to kid. Of course there's a cup of coffee. A damn fine one.

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[no-more-chianti.livejournal.com]

Clarice is in a damn fine mood, as it happens.

A friend's return will do that.

"Hey there, Cooper," she says with a smile as she passes, plate of food in one hand.

"... You okay?"

She hasn't seen him since their last conversation.

[tibetanmethod]

"Clarice," he says, looking up, smiling. "Can't complain." Beat. "Headed somewhere in particular, or can you stop a while?"

[no-more-chianti.livejournal.com]

"Nope," she says, sitting down and setting her plate in front of her. A smile. "My schedule is pretty flexible."

[tibetanmethod]

So's Cooper's, officially.

But that's not something he's very likely to bring up.

"Things have been going well, I hope?"

[no-more-chianti.livejournal.com]

"Better than usual, actually."

She twirls some pasta onto her fork.

"Do you know Alanna at all?"

[tibetanmethod]

"No -- can't say I do." He shakes his head.

[no-more-chianti.livejournal.com]

"Well-- she's a friend. She just got back."

Clarice pushes the pasta around her plate a little bit, not exactly wanting to eat when Cooper isn't.

It'd be rude.

"Are you hungry at all?"

[tibetanmethod]

Cooper is aware that lots of people don't like to be watched while they're eating. Besides -- always room for pie.

"This is something that should be remedied," he says, cheerfully. "If you'll excuse me...?"





Clarice can probably overhear him giving very specific instructions to Bar.

" -- two eggs, over hard, don't tell me, I know it's hard on the arteries, but old habits die hard, just about as hard as I want those eggs... bacon, super-crispy, almost burned: cremate it -- "

[no-more-chianti.livejournal.com]

Clarice does hear, and she smiles to herself a little.

It's the kind of breakfast she likes every now and then.

... Which Cooper, being Cooper, has apparently decided to order for dinner.

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

A boy in a simple mask and casual clothes is peering over his shoulder.

"Good stuff?"

[tibetanmethod]

Cooper turns around.

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

Hellspawn gives him a smile.

[tibetanmethod]

"What?"

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

Confused.

"What?"

[tibetanmethod]

"What's good stuff?"

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

"The map?"

Damn. No humorous back and forth.

[tibetanmethod]

"It is?"

Maps...Cooper's kind of ambivalent about maps. They're tools. Things to be studied and taken into account.

[etananesoe.livejournal.com]

is where a death happened, marked by a small and growing drop of red.

is another one, growing elsewhere.

So is .

Dip, rip, dri, drp.

[tibetanmethod]

The Pearl Lakes are to the northeast of town, stretching across the Canadian border into British Columbia. The river that makes them feeds into Black Lake.

There are mountains.

Where there's landscape, there's history, though people may not be around to remember it. So many births and deaths and rebirths.





Cooper's map isn't topographical; he runs a finger along the ridge of mountains that containes Blue Pine Mountain -- one of the two peaks that gives the town its name.

[etananesoe.livejournal.com]

These are recent deaths. Very recent deaths.

Some haven't even happened yet.

The blood is dripping from the ceiling.

[tibetanmethod]

And down onto the map.

The sheriff's station.






Cooper reaches out to touch it; stops himself.

Looks up.

[etananesoe.livejournal.com]

The little bird bleeds down, looking at Dale through Leo's eyes.

[tibetanmethod]

Cooper doesn't like birds.

His eyes narrow, and he gets up and moves to another table, taking map and coffee with him.

[etananesoe.livejournal.com]

Another drip of blood.

.

Right into the coffee.

[tibetanmethod]

Cooper stares in the cup. Watches the surface ripple.

Says, clearly, "That was uncalled for."

"I know you're there."




...unless there's really a dead bird or two in the rafters. But Cooper is out of the business of doubting himself these days.