It isn't fucking real. It can't be, because he knows he was hallucinating wildly, what little rationality he still had to him dissipating in a steady, anoxic purge. He's only ever seen the things he knows shouldn't be there and this - this, right now, should not be here.
Jay's gone.
He's been gone.
If this is real, if this isn't all in his head - and there's no guarantee of that, really, considering Tim's track record with this sort of thing - then he needs to confirm it. He needs to confirm it, if not for his own sake than for the sake of his goddamn blood pressure, the dryness in his mouth, the way one hand drew up into a fist with the nails sunk into his palms.
He switches on the video, and his words are short, terse, and undeniably desperate - ]
video
It isn't fucking real. It can't be, because he knows he was hallucinating wildly, what little rationality he still had to him dissipating in a steady, anoxic purge. He's only ever seen the things he knows shouldn't be there and this - this, right now, should not be here.
Jay's gone.
He's been gone.
If this is real, if this isn't all in his head - and there's no guarantee of that, really, considering Tim's track record with this sort of thing - then he needs to confirm it. He needs to confirm it, if not for his own sake than for the sake of his goddamn blood pressure, the dryness in his mouth, the way one hand drew up into a fist with the nails sunk into his palms.
He switches on the video, and his words are short, terse, and undeniably desperate - ]
Where are you?