.destination darkness

[.xander;;]

xander was a clever bastard.

you see, back when he had been in stonebridge for only a few months, the poor lad was going through a horrible withdrawal from music. he was a teenage boy. of course he loved music. he probably lived on it. he mentioned this terrible experience to julie in one of his letters. to his utter amazement, the next letter from his 'one true love' came with a small rectangular prism. surprisingly the crackpots at the institution allowed her to send him an ipod. this ipod was fully loaded with artists and songs he loved, which julie was fully aware of considering the multiple times she had stalked caleb's computer files.

now, some may ask, "how the fuck does listening to the same shit for five years make him happy?" well, it probably would make him happy anyway, but he was not listening to the same shit for five years. he was for about two years, then he made friends with stan and dan. every so often, maybe once every three or four months, he would 'accidentally' drop it into one of their pockets. they would proceed to 'accidentally' erase the music on it and fill it with new songs, then 'accidentally' drop it into his pocket. of course, music by fucking awesome bands like the rasmus, the offspring, opeth, and daft punk stayed. forever. xander had an uncanny love for death metal, electronic, and everything in between. yes, there is an in between. shut up.

so the reason mink made this post so long, and is continuing to make it long, is because it is 3:43 in the morning and she still cannot sleep. that and she was tired of waiting for tifferny to start a new topic and decided she would make a new one that started with an unnecessarily long intro just to annoy her. and mink is still not done.

so now you know why xander is a clever bastard. and no, his ipod has not broken in five years. he's magic that way.

xander entered dr. katze's office in a sober mood. it was monday today. on friday they had watched the matrix and xander was totally fucking psyched. he hadn't been able to calm down on saturday much to katze's disappointment. the poor man just wanted to torture xander with a shitload of questions. whatever, today was a great day for that! or was it? please see title ripped from "no fear," which xander had inevitably been listening to before arriving at therapy. the rasmus for the win.

well now mink is making typos every other word and believes she should stop there. also she is afraid she will accidentally press that one button [she still can't figure out which one it is] that directs her to another page and therefore erases her entire post. she does not want to have to write 500+ words again, thank you. so she will close this post with the fact that xander had now taken a seat at 'his' chair, dry erase board at hand.

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[lynx]

Lynx had a great night last night, dinner, a movie, and took himself home and read a few books. He browsed the internet, discovered something (or two) interesting, and went to bed. If he had known about clever Xander's iPod, he''d get him a new one and put it full with as many songs and movies as it could take just for the guy. Everyone needed music, Lynx himself listened to mostly classical, but the occasional rock song found its way into his usual listening. He didn't have an iPod, or any other kind of MP3 player, why possess one when your car had a radio? Or his laptop at work, a couple pacients needed some music to actually talk to him--so he obliged.

That's where the rock came in. Another pacient who is not named here, (not appearing in this post) would only talk to him in exchange for his playing of some rock song. He wouldn't admit he actually LIKED rock and heavy metal, no no. That would be bad. Most of the people here loved heavy metal, so he had to keep that a secret just in case one day they decide to put him in one of the padded rooms and call him insane.

Lynx was overly fearful. So Xander emptied the room, and Lynx sat there in a silk, slightly unbuttoned shirt, and he hadn't cut his hair for awhile, so it about reached his shoulders! Yay! He had it up in a ponytail thing, his bangs not dragged in. He smiled at Xander.

"Hello Xander how are you doing today?" Smile, all happy and sweet. Thankfully Xander was happy from watching the Matrix, so perhaps he'll be a little more willing... To talk, that is.

Plus, he didn't know what movie to get next, he'd have to ask. Smiling, he just shifted in his seat once again. Perhaps he was uncomfortable?

"Oh, I didn't get to ask the other day, but, how did you enjoy the movie, Xander?" He smiled. AGAIN. Yes, it was the attack of happy-happy-lynx-time-go! You never know but he's always happy and smiling but this time it was turned on super-happy-happy mode which ended up being the attack of happy-happy-lyng-time-go! He was in such a good mood, that anything Xander said to him that was mean just wouldn't work on him because actually, he's batman.

Kidding, he's not batman.

[.xander;;]

mink isn't feeling well today so please bear with her.

xander was still in a dangerously good mood. he immediately answered katze's first inquiry with, fine. well, he wasn't really any more "fine" than usual, but the nice mood he was in did not want to be murdered. being mean/pessimistic/sarcastic = murdering a good mood. this post is really not getting anywhere. then again none of my posts really ever do.

he was very strongly urged to say something like how do you think i enjoyed it? but, again, that was mean. he kind of wanted to go on a long rant about just how awesome it was, but he didn't want to look like a total dork. instead he just contained himself and wrote yes, with an aloof feel about him. bloody genius, isn't he?

[lynx]

Lynx still thought he was an utter geek, there was no changing that. He turned his head to the side and thought for a moment, very curious on what he should ask the male next.

He paused, trying to let the thoughts come in. Oh! Yeah! He had a question for the other male, didn't he?

"What do you want to see this week, hm?"

[.xander;;]

if mink may ask, what proof of xander's geekiness does lynx have? really now.

...the terminator?

okay. mink surrenders. xander's geekiness is totally obvious. what a nerd. why did xander have to be into sci fi? why couldn't he be into porno? at least then he wouldn't one day see his identical twin playing one of the major characters of his fandom. well, mink wishes he would, but dreaming never hurt anyone. okay i guess if you fell asleep and started dreaming while you were driving a car it would hurt you but that isn't the point. the point is xander is a total dork.

[lynx]

"Ah, alright." Has that DVD, so feels not-so-dumb for owning it! He chuckled a moment. "Then it will be the terminator this weekend. That sounds nice." He'd probably sleep through it, he did at least keep awake for the Matrix.

Besides, Xander was such a geek. It was so cute to see his happy expression!

[.xander;;]

whoa now! who said anything about a happy expression? xander has a poker face y'know.

and really? lynx owns a movie with a sex scene in it? mink is impressed. maybe there's hope for him yet!

the extent of xander's dorkiness was internally jumping up, high fiving himself, and dancing around. well, not really, but yeah. okay okay fine tiny cute little smile slipped onto his face. aw, xander was just like a puppy. if he had a tail right then it would totally be wagging. he even had puppy eyes. and those floppy little ears! too adorable for words.

see, lynx? xanny has a sweet, tender side, you just have to wait for it to come out! <3

[lynx]

It took everything in Lynx's power to not hug Xander and tell him he was the sweetest and cutest thing. He just kept on smiling and pressed a button so a hidden camera would get a picture of that smile. Yes, this was totally going on the wall!

Lynx stayed calm and sat there until it faded, so then he could be his normal mood-ruining self.

Since, otherwise, he'd be sad to be the one that made that smile go away! Poor Xander needed ALL the smiles he could make!

[.xander;;]

did lynx realize that if xander found out lynx had thought the words "poor" and "xander" in the same sentence, he would chew him out?

xander continued being in this goofily content state for a while until he glanced back at katze, who appeared to be waiting calmly for something. oh. duh. xander didn't get a movie if katze didn't get answers.

ugh, questions. xander hated questions. but seeing the governator in action was worth a couple of stupid questions. smile: fade! srsface: rebirth!

so, what kind of fun questions do you have for me today, katzi?

by this time, xander used "katzi" to make light fun of lynx rather than insult him. he wasn't to the point that it was an affectionate name, but who knew. maybe one day it would be.

[lynx]

Chuckles a little bit at the nickname, he kinda liked it. "Well... ...Actually, I want to know what your views on religion are. It's something we haven't touched yet, and probably a more comfortable subject than most of what we talk about."

Looking very nice, he reached over to his milkshake and drank some. Delicious chocolately goodness for the win.