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[outlierdirector]

OCEANVIEW I

blinded by reflections.

Is there anybody out there?
Someone who can hear me and drink from the light
To see things from the same side
Is there anybody out there? CODE BY TESSISAMESS

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[crazyisinevitable]

[ Wake up, Alan. Alan, wake up. It's happening again. You have to stop it. He feels himself start to spiral out again as doubt and not knowing what the hell he's supposed to do claws at his mind. ]

It's happening again. Bright Falls, it's happening again. [ He hears a familiar echo of ringing inside his head: the ringing of a telephone. Calling the Director. Calling for a hero. Was he rebroadcasting?

...I need help.

It isn't the first time he's expressed the idea of needing someone to help him, but he doesn't remember if he's ever expressed it so directly, even in his own mind. She presses on his chest again and although it doesn't feel like a hard push the way a strong punch would, he gasps.

Alan, please... ]

I can't... [ What good is waking up going to do, when he can't do anything? ] What good is it if I write the things I see? It doesn't change anything. It never changes anything! [ He can't write themselves out of this, not when he barely knows what this entails.

Wake up! If he thought it would help, he'd punch himself in the side of the head in an effort to snap himself out of whatever this is. Jesse's voice sounds desperate, afraid, and he wants to help make her not afraid. It's his fault she's afraid; he wrote about her and put her in the crosshairs and hurt her somehow. Maybe not directly with his own hands, but he wrote it, so it might as well be. It's still a result of what he's written. He wants to help her, but how can he, when he's afraid too?

Alan. Wake. Up. He suddenly goes rigid, head snapping up from where it was threatening to fall and hang low. Eyes wide and more than a little wild, he stares at Jesse as though he's never seen her before. ]

[outlierdirector]

It's an active AWE. It's going to happen again and again as long as the threshold is open to that dimension!

[ She knows he may not understand the technical terms, but she hopes that he understands what she's saying. Bright Falls will happen again and again because that's the nature of it. But, they can stop it every time. He just needs to work with her! ]

It can change! You stopped it the last time it happened. You wrote the ending, didn't you?!

[ There is a pause and he suddenly snaps to attention. She thinks maybe she has finally gotten through to him after loop after loop. Maybe they finally did it this time. Except, it isn't really Alan Wake looking back at her then. It's not the double either. She's not sure who it is that is staring at her, but it's clear they have no idea who she is. ]

...Alan?

"You know, I thought I might be tired of this game by now. But, it's just so much fun!"

[ The voice sets a chill down her spine. In an instant, Jesse spins on the balls of her feet. Her hands point up with the Service Weapon materializing between them. She fires, and the Darkness ripples.

A familiar face with slicked back hair, trimmed beard, and slick suit steps out of the shadows. He brushes off the shoulder where the bullet would have hit. ]

"And, let me tell you why it's so fun, Miss Director. Because I get to find new and inventive ways EVERY time! Oh, MAN." Mr. Scratch slides his hands into his pocket and glances at Alan, clicking his teeth. "I'd uh, ring and tell him the good news, but you know the old saying. Lights are on and nobody is home! So, let's just cut to the chase and let the poor rat run in another circle."

DIRECTOR!

[ Jesse feels a familiar pressure against her back. She looks behind her, seeing Agent Steve Sevestapol behind her back-to-back. He nods, cycling the gun back in his hands. She glances to the side again.

Alan's gone.

Darkness swirls around them and somewhere in the distance she hears Agent Saga Anderson and Agent Alex Casey shouting for her. It's happening again. They're going to loop back. Its a different start this time, and Polaris doesn't even need to tell her. She just knows.

The FBI Agents finally join with the members of the FBC, making an odd square with their backs together. The laughter carries in the air and they all know this stand will be their last. ]