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Alan Wake ([personal profile] crazyisinevitable) wrote in [community profile] synthneon 2024-04-25 05:14 am (UTC)

[ It tried to teach me. Did it work? I guess it did, kind of. I know I'm not much of a good listener or learner. But I must have learned something, because I can sense her. I can see her.

Alan smiles too when he sees the smile on the young woman's face. He stares, watching her, searching her face as if he's trying to figure something out. She looks like Jesse, both Jesses that Alan's seen, but there's something else about her. Something different. There's a knowledge in her eyes that the Jesse he knows doesn't have. She doesn't have it yet, but she will. In time, she will.

And then he feels her lips pressing against his and all thoughts seem to fly out of his mind. All he knows is her and the feel of her mouth on his, and then- then the moment ends. He hears the roar and he snaps to attention even though he immediately regrets it. The feeling is like having a bucket of cold water poured over him, and he shivers.

Barry shakes him, hands on his shoulders, and he freezes, eyes wide with fear. He didn't see what happened to Hartman, but he heard the roar and he felt a suffocating darkness and a terror he can't explain.

For a few seconds, even as Barry tries to get his attention, Alan's expression seems far away, as if he's not really there with them. He can't even put it into words, but it's like the darkness and the light are pulling at him, both wanting to claim him as theirs, and he's caught in the middle between them both.

Of course, Alan knows which of the two he wants to follow, and although the darkness doesn't like it and tries to pull him back, he reaches for the light. He reaches for Polaris. He reaches for Jesse's friend.

Will anyone be there reaching back? ]

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