ProfNigma Stories #10: It’s All Been Done #1
Date: 11/27/2015,
Categories:
Celebrities,
Author: FrankSinner
... gratification? A chance to get with the chicks from the shows you watched? You sound completely sane and healthy." "Beside the point, and-" "What else is there to say here?" Freddie asked, beginning to get antagonistic. "I've already agreed to this change so that everyone is ok, and now the choice is up to me. You have no part of this, if I'm actually free, that is." "No... You’re right." The faceless stranger reached for his laptop, closing it most of the way before offering a glance to the defiant character he had built himself. "I'm writing around you. You make all the difference here. You want to know if Jade loves you? She does. So does Tori, who loves Jade just as much. I know what you're thinking too. If you left what would come of all of them. They'd be happy together. Not at first, just the two of them. But they could be alright eventually, and they have each other." "Not really my thought, but I appreciate that, I guess," Freddie said, slipping his hands in his pockets. "I'm just not sure where I'm supposed to go from here." "You could accept the gift I'm offering you. Knowledge to avoid some real bad juju. Everything else- every touch, taste, feeling in this world is yours and is as real as you want it to be. Just promise me you won't do the exact same thing all over again, and we'll end up right back here. Or back on that island is more likely. This is your one chance to make a real ...
... difference." "So, one last question, and then I'm done, and-" "Sure thing..." Mr Ill said, standing to face Freddie, "You definitely need your rest. You have an early morning gym appointment with Tori if memory serves." "Right..." Freddie, remember what happened there, and how it changed the way he felt about her and what made him run from her in the first place. "If you are the writer here, why not just scratch everything you've written since this yourself and start all over. Why make me a part of it?" "Oh that's easy," he said, straightening his tie. "If I had done that it would have been cheap storytelling. Just as bad as if I just had you wake up from a dream after the island murders, which by the way, you should probably do something about. Readers would be annoyed that it was all for nothing. Cheap writing. By making this more of a meta situation, with a character being the one to set the clock back, I believe I will be viewed as brilliant and inventive in my approach to making this all right." "Of course," Freddie said rolling his eyes. "You're 100% sane. How could I have doubted you?" "Don't be snide," Mr Ill said, seemingly furrowing his non-existent brow. "I can't control you personally any longer, but I could certainly drop a safe on you." "Wouldn't cartoon physics be shoddy storytelling?" Freddie mocked with a grin. "Perhaps... but there are a lot more taco trucks in LA than ...