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phone call from a payphone - 1:28 am 4/26/10

[hulkkeysmash]

[ ring ring ring ]

[youmakemesmall]

[She doesn't recognize the number also it's one in the morning, who else but her is awake?]

Hello?

[hulkkeysmash]

I'm sorry if I woke you.

[youmakemesmall]

... Bruce?

You know I was awake.

Are you okay?

message from a payphone - 5/22/10

[hulkkeysmash]

[ there's several seconds of dead air and silence before Bruce starts speaking. He sounds calm, eerily collected. ]

Hi, Jan. [ another pause ] I'd hoped that I'd get to catch you, but maybe leaving a message is for the best. I have some things I---I need to get out, if anything is to happen to me. I realize that the likelihood of me coming back here if I die is high, but---I---I don't think that I will die.

I would hate myself if I did and didn't say anything to you, though.

I am probably going to do a very bad thing here. I don't have many options, so I can only hope that you'll forgive me. I don't know what I would do with myself if you didn't. You're---...

[ that calmness and self-assurance slips a little. Bruce sounds strained, suddenly exhausted ]

You mean the world to me, Jan. You are my friend. You are my first real friend. In no small way, I am doing what I am doing for your benefit. Before you, no one cared if I lived or died. In your way, you do care. I wish that I were---better, were---smarter, I don't know. I wish

Phone call from...Cho's Game Boy

[seventhsmartest]

[riiiing]

[youmakemesmall]

... hello?

[seventhsmartest]

Hey. Did you got the ominous "I'm leaving to do something dangerous and I don't know when I'll be back" message too or am I the lucky one?

[youmakemesmall]

You, too?

Jesus.