"Darkness... The light... I don't know... It's a numbers game... Got the even position again... Repeat until you get the signal..."
"I just can't keep doing this anymore! You say that you were a Spy twice, a Priest, a Medic, a rapper, a different man, a different woman, a mime, and an apathetic pervert and that's not even the half of it! When are you going to stop thinking that you were all of these things because you haven't! You've just been you this whole time... and, frankly, I can't see myself staying with you until our end days if you still feel this way about yourself..."
My wife, John, was in the middle of another rant about my insane theory of being more than one being again... Usually while coincidentally sitting down, I would tune out, start rubbing myself with my thumb, and then offer to not have sex tonight because John is stressing harder than that flaccid carrot who met my teeth last month... But, tonight felt different like I was forgetting something important... Then, it dawned on me that tomorrow's the first part of the special broadcasting of the Nightvale... Granted, my knowledge of the original broadcasting went as far as the paraphrased phrase "Yes, it's true", but the fact that these special broadcastings have the same traces of SK waves as the ones I felt before in another life, I wasn't in me to forget something like this...
"Are you even listening to me?" John slapped me with the back of a hand... "Usually I could tell by your lewd thumbs, but I can plainly see through your blandish expression that my last statement has blown your mind back to nothingness... Now, do I have to leave while you're like that or are you going to say your goodbyes?"
I got up from my expression with words that could drive a steak into a vampire's heart... "You should leave because I don't want you to die by anyone's hands, of sorts, and that includes mine..." John stared at me, water shyly trying to escape the eye sockets... "Remember when I told you about my theory of SK waves? Well, I think I know where they're coming from in our world... However, if my theory is true, if you get the message, then not only are you effected by these waves, but it could lead to irrational behavior, changes in judgement, personality shifts, dazed confusion, and/or, worse, genocidal tendencies ranging from the singularity to the revengeance... As much as I want you to help me figure this all out, I just can't drag you into this if it means loosing the one person I would risk my life in making sure you don't end up like me... And you know how I am..."
John's water broke more on my shoulder than anywhere else. "You are fucking idiot, you know that? How can you be sure that we won't see each other again in the future?"
"Because..." As a pulled John closer to my pending hug, I drew out John's pencil from the butt pocket and stabbed John up the back of the neck... "This is the end of our arc together... just as the numbers predicted...." I could feel the blood flow down my arm, its familiarity seeping through my memories like bleach... When it seemed like the river was slowly drying up, I felt the buzzing from my PM ringing in my ear...
"Do you wish to accept the position?" A familiar voice spoke nonchalantly... "Then, let the host know right away! You know you want to!"
