(Written In Elegant, Old Fashioned Handwriting)

[a_sin_for_him]

Has anyone had one of these 'family visits' before? They're scheduled for tomorrow and I'd like some idea of what to expect.

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[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

Huh. I don't have a clue what they believe about me. Don't really care. It won't be my family.

[a_sin_for_him]

But it may be close. Be careful, they know quite a bit. These lives they tell us about often mirror our own.

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

How do they know it?

I know they can't be my family. I've seen too much to ever believe that.

[a_sin_for_him]

I don't know.

Are you so very certain, Edward?

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm certain. I killed Sloth who wore her face. I know my brother better than anything.

Besides, if I know now, they've got no leverage, right?

[a_sin_for_him]

I was rather asking if all you've seen, in all your life, is truly enough to convince you that those who wear familiar faces aren't who they appear to be. I've... learned much in my second chance here.

It's easy to think that. But I wonder who I'll see and what I'll feel when it happens.

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

But... but... I know that whoever they show me can't be them. I know that.

What kind of thing have you learned?

I'll just have to ignore it.

[a_sin_for_him]

If they can take us... perhaps I'm thinking too deeply into it.

That I have more than just fragments and shadows within me.

How can you possibly do that, if they call you?

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

If they can take us... what's to stop them taking our families and twisting them?

I'm glad you found something more.

If they call me? I... I have to convince myself that I can't trust what they say.

[a_sin_for_him]

I can't help but wonder.

Are you?

Tell yourself all you want, but if someone from your past stands before you... I've learned that the mind has no control over the heart.

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

It's worrying.

Very Glad.

Most of the people from my past are in here with me. I'm more inclined to trust them than any hallucination they can think up.

[a_sin_for_him]

Yes, it is.

Thank you. I do remember working with you. I do wonder why I've been given another chance, though.

Most of them, but not all. Your doctor didn't speak to you of a supposed family?

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

I remember too. I never got to thank you.

No, he spoke about some pokymon things that made no sense and then left.

[a_sin_for_him]

There's not much to thank me for, Edward. From what I understand, I wasn't much help.

Some what? He didn't tell you anything?

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

You helped. I'm sorry I wasn't good enough to help you.

Pokymons. I don't know either. He didn't tell me anything remotely coherent.

[a_sin_for_him]

Ah Edward, always a martyr. I doubt you have anything to apologize for.

My new doctor is useless, but my pervious one... he told me quite a bit. Including about my supposed husband and his brother.

[lost-metal.livejournal.com]

I have a lot to apologise for. To more people than I realised.

Husband and brother? They really go all out don't they.

[a_sin_for_him]

You don't need to apologize to me.

Disturbingly so. Though I don't remember being married.