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[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Jack comes down the stairs from a shower after a run. The run has taken away almost all of the nervous energy he'd woken up with, the energy that had kept him awake for much of the night. Now he's a bit more relaxed, if not in the greatest of moods.

He asks the bar for a cup of coffee, while he decides what he wants for dinner. It appears, along with a book. The Bourne Identity. He stares at it for a moment. He can't remember the book too well, but he remembers the movie. Or more particularly, certain aspects of the character in the movie.

"Very funny, Bar."

He takes the book and coffee and heads for a table.

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[nita_callahan]

"Just. . ." She shakes her head. "I don't know. You know how if you haven't seen anyone for a long time, you remember them a little different than how they really are?"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He gives her a look that just screams, "well, duh?"

"Nita, I know a number of people in the bar who have been dead for a couple years for me. Yeah, I do."

[nita_callahan]

She laughs a little. "Okay, point." A shrug. "He hasn't changed, and I have -- but he makes me feel like I haven't." Shaking her head, she adds, "Or something like that."

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"It makes sense, as he's treating you like he would treat the 'you' he knew at that time. And yeah, I know how that feels."

He's had a lot of practice with it over the last few days, talking to Ramon, who still sees the heroin-addicted wreck he'd been at the time. Sometimes he'd had to remind himself that he wasn't that person anymore. Not, of course, that he'd ever say any of that to Nita.

[nita_callahan]

"So, yeah, that's awkward." She blows out a breath and tilts her head. "How're you doing?"