Twelfth

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

[Filtered away from people from his own world]

[After a few false starts, have some nervous pen tapping]

Okay. So people are from different time-lines here, yeah? I mean, just because you're from the same world doesn't mean that you're from the same time. Right? Right.

Here's a hypothetical question. Say some of the people from your world are from your future. Would you, hypothetically, ask them about what your future held? Even if you know there's a good chance it's going to be something pretty crappy? Especially if the first hypothetical thing you've learned is something world-shatteringly terrible?

So... Um, yeah. Would you? Ask them, I mean.

...Hypothetically.

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[encryptedlock]

...Well, I wanted to know, and the first thing anyone told me led to me having to seek professional help.

[sigma-hime.livejournal.com]

I would.

...hypothetically.

[This guy]

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

That's... kinda ironic. One of the future people in my world is a shrink. He could tell me and psycho-analyse me all at once.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Even if you could learn something pretty terrible?

[sigma-hime.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I left at a very...inappropriate time.

[This guy] (he knows you but not your handwriting ^^)

[encryptedlock]

I don't know if I'd ask again. I'm still--not really sure I can deal with it, and it's been a few months.

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[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

From someone who didn't ask but was told, you might be better off not knowing. Just some friendly advice.

[flack]

[considers this for a moment]

Well, in my case -- there's about three years from my point and his point. Which is a little insane, but it's a lot of time to make up, and I, personally, don't like losing it. I know that I'm not dead, and I know that I'm going to have to go home and live it anyway so --

Yeah. I guess if I was curious enough I'd ask. What it is might not be the easiest thing in the world to hear, but -- if you're going to have to live through it anyway at some point -- you might as well.

[York] (mun fails today, she apologises ><)

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

...Yeah. Things just seem really bleak and it seems I'm the only one out of the loop. A part of me wants to set up camp in Denial Land and stay there, but another part of me actually wants to know...just in case.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

What's the point? Especially if it's something crappy? ...You're not one of those self-torture types, are you?

[supes]

Ideally, I would say no, I wouldn't, but realistically, it's another story.

[knowagain.livejournal.com]

No. I don't think so.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

You could say that about me. My inappropriate was more personal than, you know, world-at-stake or anything.

[sigma-hime.livejournal.com]

Ah, same here.

[This person]

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I came across mine by accident. Kind of wish I hadn't dug deeper now.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I'm still alive, and I still have my job, I know that much. It's just everything else that's the question.

...I got a good few years between me and them, too.

[imperturbabilis.livejournal.com]

[written in small, mostly-neat sprawl since Sei's writing blind here]

That would depend on what kind of information it was about myself, and how important it was.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I like to avoid all forms of torture as often as possible.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

Smart man. I'd recommend avoiding this ridiculous asking about your future thing.

[flack]

I heard some things about people going home and then coming back again, and still remembering everything. But no one knows when those are going to happen. So -- I just figure it couldn't hurt. It's not like you're going to remember it when you leave anyway.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, isn't it? You think you're better off not knowing, then someone says something that starts you thinking.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't blame you.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

You've got a point. My life is in the people I choose to have around me. It's more them I'm worried about than me.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Good to know, I can never tell if folks are in the middle of saving the world or something. There's all sorts of folks here.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that happened to one of my guys before he...left for good.

I guess you've got a point.