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[runboyrun]

H-hey, has anyone-

[Stiles has to swallow a few times before he can keep talking. His voice is thick, rough, and although he's not crying any more, there are still tear-tracks down his cheeks, red where he's been scrubbing at them.]

Has anyone else been... hallucinating dead people? They're hallucinations, right? They've gotta be...

Ellen? I tried the salt. She didn't- it didn't work.

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[runboyrun]

[He chokes out a congested little laugh. He gets that reference.]

Dead people, like in my room, just... there.

[hung_garian]

Didja move into the morgue? Cause that might go some way towards explaining it.

[runboyrun]

Oh, really? Do dead people in your local morgue get up and start talking to you?

[hung_garian]

You'd be surprised how often.

[runboyrun]

Well, in my town, they usually stay dead. Except for Peter.]

They're not like... zombies. Because aych, gross.

[hung_garian]

Yeah, man, that'd be weird. Not like seeing dead folks just hanging out in your room. That's perfectly fine.

[runboyrun]

No, it's not fine. It is like the other end of the pitch from fine. If it was here, fine would be back in Beacon Hills right now.

But at least they're not rotting on the carpet. And trying to chew my brains out. Glass half-full.

[hung_garian]

Glass more than half full, I'd say. If they're not stinking out the place or trying to kill you they're already better company than half the folks here.

[runboyrun]

Yeah, I just... wish they'd stop.

[hung_garian]

[He shrugs.]

Wish in one hand, crap in the other, see which gets full first.

[Because sympathy is totally a thing that he can do.]

[runboyrun]

...You're kind of a jackass...

[But Stiles can get behind that.]

[hung_garian]

I'll alert the presses - it'll be front page news.

[runboyrun]

...Heh.

[He shakes his head, the corner of his lip twitching into a little half-smile despite himself.]

So, ghosts. Sort of. Or possible group hallucinations. All kinds of fun to be had here.

[hung_garian]

Oh, sure. I'm just disappointed at the caliber of these so-called ghosts. Why isn't anyone hallucinating Marilyn Monroe or Charles II? At least they knew how to have fun.

[runboyrun]

Yeah, and if the point of it was to have fun...

[hung_garian]

Well, maybe not for us to have fun.

[runboyrun]

...

[His mouth clicks closed. Opens again.]

That's a good point.

[hung_garian]

Yeah, well. I didn't almost get my GED for nothing.

[runboyrun]

D'you ever just miss the cape? Or did you get random ghost visitations there, as well?

[hung_garian]

In my line of work you get random ghost visitations more or less everywhere.