Reincarnates 03: for NeededForger

[bamf_pointman]

The town they were settling in for the foreseeable future was nice enough and large enough that they weren't going to stand out too much and be able to blend in pretty easily. Which, for Arthur, was as good as anything else they could expect.

As they had anticipated, the further in the city they went, the more there was available to them. Including an electronics store and a department store where they were bound to find more than novelty glassware and paper plates and anything else they may need for their new abode.

They arrived back at the house later that afternoon after exploring their surroundings, ordering the few things they needed for their home security network and buying new dishware.

It felt domestic, not that it didn't that morning or other times they holed up together, but this felt even more so for reasons he hadn't yet considered.

Once they were inside and settled in, the call to the cable and phone company made, Arthur looked over at Eames. "Do you think it's too much to hope that it was a one time occurrence?" The flash.

After all, since they made a run from the building, they hadn't had another.

Yet.

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[neededforger]

There was a small smile at that, fleeting and thin, but honest at least, he meant it, "Well you aren't wrong there. We could be facing down the Four Horsemen and I'd probably still find a way to crack wise about it."

Because that was just how Eames processed things, sarcasm and a certain sort of gallows humor that he'd had ever since his time in the military, and likely even before then, though it hadn't been quite so dark before then.

[bamf_pointman]

"Now that we've experienced what we have, who's to say we won't end up facing them," he said with a small twist of his mouth. Though, to truly be honestly? He didn't suspect they'd come across any variation of the Four Horsemen. Still. Who the hell knew what twist this would make of their lives. How many of these visions would they share?

Arthur appreciated the humor though, dark or not. It made things feel less tense than they were and brought it back to an even keel. "Wonder how many of these we'll end up going through...these visions."

[neededforger]

"Somehow I get the feeling we'd already know if that were the case, but perhaps not. This is well out of my realm of expertise at this point."

He shook his head, "Honestly, I'd be more concerned that we're going to end up facing them than the possibility that we already have." A little shrug, "After all, historically, or at least legendarily, this sort of thing rarely goes well for the ones living through it. Though we can't have met that many times, given even a below-average life-span. There are only so many centuries between then and now."

[bamf_pointman]

Arthur nodded. "As much as I hate to say it and it comes to no surprise, this is well out of my wheelhouse as well," he agreed.

He tilted his head before he nodded in agreement. Eames was probably right. There were only so many times they could have met in previous lives to warrant seeing too many visions. They were very disorienting if you asked him. He only hoped, on some level, that they had one life where they died not being shot or executed in some way. Considering who they were in this life, it may be a long shot but one he was still half hoping for.

At least that one would be... easier to view.

"We will just have to wait and see." And who knew, perhaps they wouldn't get any more after that one. That could be possible as well, right?

[neededforger]

"Hope does spring ever-eternal." He replied, giving a little shrug. Honestly it was hope that they wouldn't have any more, but it was also a hope that if they did they wouldn't be as disturbing as the ones they'd had so far.

"We can also hope that it's just some bizarre hallucination, something brought on by repeated Somnacin usage." After all, natural dreams were the first thing to go, who was to say that they didn't come roaring back as shared waking nightmares? Though he doubted that, and it said a lot that he accepted the possibility of reincarnation over the more easily proven drug interaction.