...Actually that sounds fairly close. [ Beat. ] But he wasn't lying.
[ At least Philip doesn't think so. Certainty has a better ring to it... and it's not like it matters. He's gone, probably for good. ]
His name was Pendergast and I met him just after I arrived, he was- he was one of the first people I even saw here.
[ One of the first people he saw after trekking through Greenland alone.
Philip picks at the hedge, trying to loosen one of its neatly trimmed branches. ]
He explained some of Wonderland to me, but at that time I just couldn't believe how calm he was about it- about everything, I mean. [ A pause. ] One day he came to see me and Clarence killed him.
[ No change in Philip's tone. Just an inevitable part of the story. "The sun rose. Somebody knocked on the door. Clarence killed people". ]
...That was last year, some sort of ritual sacrifice that was supposed to bring us home, I-- I blacked out at some point, I still don't remember how it all ended, only that I suddenly woke up back in my body and...
[The hedge makes a small cracking noise and Philip holds a branch in his hand. ]
Clarence told me that he- that Pendergast shot me. Just after he came back to life. We talked later, he said he'd figured out it wasn't me, but--
[ The branch drops and for a long moment Philip looks at Dean as if to ask, "Why am I telling you this?" ]
...Anyway, I just-- I met him in the centre of that maze last time I was here, I guess... I guess that's why I remembered.
[ And to tell Dean thank you for not killing me even when my body is being controlled by an alien douchebag virus, though that purpose is one that escapes Philip himself. ]
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Date: 2011-08-09 08:44 pm (UTC)...Actually that sounds fairly close. [ Beat. ] But he wasn't lying.
[ At least Philip doesn't think so. Certainty has a better ring to it... and it's not like it matters. He's gone, probably for good. ]
His name was Pendergast and I met him just after I arrived, he was- he was one of the first people I even saw here.
[ One of the first people he saw after trekking through Greenland alone.
Philip picks at the hedge, trying to loosen one of its neatly trimmed branches. ]
He explained some of Wonderland to me, but at that time I just couldn't believe how calm he was about it- about everything, I mean. [ A pause. ] One day he came to see me and Clarence killed him.
[ No change in Philip's tone. Just an inevitable part of the story. "The sun rose. Somebody knocked on the door. Clarence killed people". ]
...That was last year, some sort of ritual sacrifice that was supposed to bring us home, I-- I blacked out at some point, I still don't remember how it all ended, only that I suddenly woke up back in my body and...
[The hedge makes a small cracking noise and Philip holds a branch in his hand. ]
Clarence told me that he- that Pendergast shot me. Just after he came back to life. We talked later, he said he'd figured out it wasn't me, but--
[ The branch drops and for a long moment Philip looks at Dean as if to ask, "Why am I telling you this?" ]
...Anyway, I just-- I met him in the centre of that maze last time I was here, I guess... I guess that's why I remembered.
[ And to tell Dean thank you for not killing me even when my body is being controlled by an alien douchebag virus, though that purpose is one that escapes Philip himself. ]