Misery loves company, so pull up a chair and have a drink.

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Monday Night, April 26th
The yard behind the Doctor's office

The logs I've built up for the fire finally succumb with a loud crackle.  the fall in on themselves, sending flames and embers up into the night sky.  Get a little lost in the dancing flames, the light and color, the way makes the golden coin... Tez's gold coin, glow as it flips between my fingers.  Genny came by with her Ma... more was dragged by her Ma to make sure she was truly better. 

And she was.  Back to the same, sweet kid she was before... and she didn't have to say anything.  The look on her face, and Tez's coin in her hand, that was my confirmation.  My friend.. my brother was truly gone.  I asked her if he did right by her, in the end.  Genny just sniffed and nodded her head.  Imagine that, Tez went out making something right. 

I thought I should go and raise a drink to his memory.  But I never know who I might run into at the Whitechapel, and Verdi's cheerfulness is not what I need.  So after I close up for the night I hang a sign on the door directing all emergencies to the Abbey.  Then I collect a shit load of wood, some kindling, a few bottles of vodka, and a couple of lawn chairs I found at the market.  Once the night fell, I started the fire and the drinking.  Seemed the best way to remember Tez.

Take a long pull from my bottle, and stop twirling the coin long enough to chuck some more wood onto the fire.  "Dammit Tez... "  I sigh, and shake my head.  "It's all going to hell..."  Laugh a little at that.  He would've laughed too, I think.  "... everything's so fucked up, and you're not here to tell me to get over it, or get me drunk enough to forget it for a few hours.  Miao dumped me and..."  Stop and realize what I'm doing.  Pinch the bridge of my nose and sigh.  "And I'm talking to no one.  Wunderbar." 

Take another swig.  I am not near drunk enough to talk to the dead yet.

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