51. Single track (2) -The future is the only thing which you think , that's why I'm here. You speak all the time, the future. You harping on things you'd do, you should do, and ultimately you deferred. And you know why you're the reporter? Because you love the idea of being a person in the making. You rejoice in seeing the road that lies ahead. The future, whore, you love him so much ...
I know why you cry and you know it too. Today there is no future. The only perspective you have left is the end of the day, and beyond that slab. I have come to talk about the real future.
-Have you finished? The real-
future moves, Xavier continues.
Roger has already said it before him. How many more? I do not agree in all cases. I will come to the end of the day, and there will be an after.
Xavier begins to explain that in the future he comes, I managed to prevent the catastrophe that occurs today, but that too I already knew.
I dry my tears and swallow my sadness for a time. The smoke dissipates gradually, revealing an empty battlefield, strewn with corpses, including that of a giant snake. Although I participated in my way, I feel like I get after the battle.
Xavier argues that we should restart, and go face Irving Rutherford home of Radio. Another thing I already knew.
I shake my body like a wet dog shake myself to get rid of the thick gelatinous mass which I am covered. Fatigue bothers me more than regret or fear. I would just lie down and sleep, and something I said if I do not do it soon, I'll never be in tune with my surroundings. Forget that even in a few hours is really Xavier. My companion
time traveler picks up a machine gun on the body of a fallen soldier, and suggested that I do the same. When I politely refused, he asked me sarcastically if I prefer swords. A new me sob back in the throat when I realize that it was he who taught me fencing. We
off again. I spend my time again on my way. I never stop and it bothers me that too. In a few hours I'll stop complaining. I cross
a long way whiny and self-centered, which is nearing its end. I tried to become an adult, but now at the point where I am, I'll just stay young. Drinking glasses out with friends and going to the movies. Living small jobs would be enough, hopefully without anything else, and without it pains me either. Losing my gallons and again a simple troufion in the army of losers.
Honestly, I wanted to be a better man, but I failed in my attempt to achieve it affect me anymore.
Come blow this guy's mouth, "I said.
We follow the Seine to the beautiful neighborhoods, who likewise have not been spared by the bombings. No sooner if the planes had the delicacy to preserve the Eiffel Tower. Sometimes when a shell fell a little too close to us, Xavier startled and wondered aloud when everything has been real ugly at this point. I finally meet him before I thought it started when people voted right at the last election, but now I understand that people have almost always voted right.
"There is no specific time, I said. That happens gradually. I even see why you came back today because it's not a day more crucial than another.
It hits the foot into an empty can, and send it to waltz in front of us so far that I lose sight of. I suddenly wanted to run after the catch, shouting "Come back!" As the idiot I am.
-A little pride, I advise Xavier, who has always read minds.
"It is not my forte.
Yet in saying this, I realize that I can more or less to put up with me these days. I figure it will last.
We approach the house of the Radio via the main entrance, ripped open by a rocket. The lobby is covered with a gray powder, made of burnt bricks. Cables pulled behind a desk attest to the flight computers.
"It's great, says Xavier, casting a glance at the site plan.
-On will separate. It boggles
against my proposal. He argues, tries to impose his views, but I remain adamant. Finally, he leaves his side, following a long corridor, telling me that I find later.
"I know.
I let myself slide down a wall to sit cross-legged. I rub my hands over my face, then rest a few seconds to fix the floor, eyes and empty head.
There will be no grand finale. Irving will find me, or I'll find, but there's no hurry. We each have two pawns, and everything I am doing here is taking care of my personal stories, which will not affect anything.
I'll get up and wander the halls. I pass the recording studio of one of my favorite shows, which has been miraculously spared from looting, and that is enough to make me happy. Suddenly, something clicked in my head is.
I put myself in search of studio France Info, knowing that Irving is there. I know because it's an idea that I had, although I would have given up. Larger world listens to the radio in normal times, but these days ...
Without realizing it, I start to run into the house of Radio, praying not to cross Xavier, and to finish quickly and go to bed. I traveled the large empty building, igniting the carpet sometimes when I run too fast.
I burn a lot of stuff, but I console myself by saying that if I do nothing, the other asshole will eventually burn the world. I
opens at France Info. I stopped at the door to catch my breath, giving me small slap on the face to wake me up. I feel the presence of my evil twin through the wall, stronger than ever. She calls me and taunting me, and if I was a little less fearful I will come right away to face my destiny.
But I carry a little longer. I open a window for fresh air, and smoke a cigarette imagination. I realize with amazement that my last attempt to stop the cigarette has been fruitful. Lulled by the cool wind that sucks the air with his evil from the recording studio, I wonder for the first time in years that I will do tomorrow.
The door opens, and Irving burst into the hallway. Instinctively, I form a small ball of fire between my fingers, I run over him. He leapt into the air and ducking my shot to go hang from the ceiling like a spider.
-fuck, but I could never get rid of you? wonder there.
"You take everything upside down, buddy.
I throw a second ball of fire, he still dodges dropping her heel to crush me on the forehead. I fell backwards, and it benefits me to be on the ground to beat me. I feel a slight crack in a rib, and cursed me for my evil twin broke a bone can not be plastered.
It lifts me at arm's length, and I am struggling few moments before it projects me against a wall, which breaks under the shock. I roll down, and coughing due to brick dust. This time I avoid taking inventory of my bones kisses.
I fly to meet him head first into his belly and he lets out a stifled cry, a sign that he can no longer breathe. I catch him by the neck and stick a knee in the nose. His hand grabs my face, pushing him and scratches that m'entaillent up blood, but I do not give up and give it another shot.
He finally found his breath and grabs my foot to project myself into the air, before I fall back violently to the ground. He repeated the process several times, using me like a sledgehammer to demolish an imaginary barrier.
I ride on the back, but he is stubborn and blocks my arms with his knees to immobilize me. He then proceeds to demolish my face with his fists, and I broke a tooth or two.
Panting, dripping with sweat, he finally released a revolver that weapon with a metallic sound strident. Dazed, his image seems distant, and I vaguely distinguished point a gun at my forehead. Without thinking, I spit a long stream of flame in the face, and he let me go going to roll over in a howl of pain.
You know the writer-warrior?
He does not answer me. We remain elongated few moments, exhausted. When he offered me a small break, I retorted that in any battle is a foregone conclusion for me, since it comes directly from my imagination.
A great sadness takes hold of me. I cast a glance at my evil twin, who has his hands on his face bloodied and burned. I see my own reflection.
-one listens to the radio anymore, "I said. Apart from the rich and DIY.
And the military, "he sobbed.
Suddenly everything becomes clear. A vague feeling of compassion takes hold of me, watching this other self that deals also deprived of his personal stories. In fact I have never taken the time to know him.
-Disappear.
Barely have I uttered those words Irving goes up in smoke. Even though I know it's passenger, I have clear ideas. I know for a while who I am and why I'm here. I know what I have to do.
I get up and into the studio, which Irving had already turned all devices. I'm going to the microphone, and hesitates a second, then regret having hesitated. "I'm
Irving Rutherford," I said calmly. The rebels have taken all the strongholds of the capital, as you can see. I ask the armed forces an immediate surrender, and I promise that no harm will be done. It's over. We won.
I cut the microphone and lie down on the floor, closing his eyes. I try hard not to fall asleep. My ideas again gradually to lose their clarity, and I gradually falls in this dark world that I know so well. I wonder if a moment what I accomplished today was supposed to.
a man's voice pulls me from my reverie. I open my eyes, and discovered that watching me with curiosity. When I asked him what he doing here, he says he adapts to the times. I try to ignore his remark funny and asks her name.
Xavier, he informs me.
Irving.
Note: Rewrite everything from the beginning
Soon: Irving won