itscurtains | don't stop believing

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[It's a pleasant afternoon in the garden. Maybe not emotionally, but physically - isn't it nice when you get to have class outside?

As your voices rise, singing defiance in unison out for the Wizard, there's no immediate response; at least, nothing that clearly is a response. But there's something. Amidst the sound of your song, it may be hard to hear at first; Janis will likely be the first to notice, but eventually everyone is able to hear. It sounds as though other voices are rising along with yours.

There's something on the air - no music, or at least no instrumentals, just a disembodied sort of lyrical chant. You don't recognize any of the voices. They aren't singing the same song as you all are. Maybe they can't; they sound long long ago, and far far away now. Still - despite everything - the trees around you move lightly in a sudden soft breeze. It feels as though you have invoked something, old and entirely beyond your knowledge.

But first. Haven't you forgotten something?

It's Wednesday.

Welcome to this week's school club!]

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[Farrah lifts her head from Peregrine.] You'll bring them back.

And everyone gets to go back home. [Except for her. And Connor. And anyone else who doesn't have a home to go back to--

It's a raw deal. But part of it does feel hopeful, even if she's scared right now. It means she'd get to see them, one last time.]

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[ Peregrine holds onto her tighter. ]

Don't even start to think it. I'm not leaving here without you. Without any of you.

No one gets to fucking drop Farrah again.

No one. Farrah is family. We all are. We figure this out by saving one another.

Per, it's not fucking up to you!

If he can really bring them back, I think-- I think he should. And then we can all talk about it.

Dad [Oh. That's going to be confusing. Okay, Just this once--] Benj, Connor and I should decide.

[ Peregrine's jaw sets tight. ]

No. It's up to all of us, understand? We'd be the ones to have to live with it. And I don't care if he says— you don't forget loss. Ever. It doesn't just go away.

If it's really up to all of us, then they should get a say too! So he should just bring them back now. He already knows we're not gonna just leave them behind.

We are not saying they do not have a say. Only that it does not come down strictly to just you three.

Bring them back. We have much to discuss.

Oh my God Maya, don't be so defensive, I'm arguing with him, not you for once! On... the them part. We'll talk about the other part later.

...Okay. Yeah, okay. [ She looks at Will. ] You hear her? If we're gonna talk about this, they need a say too.

[Spongebob nods with all his sisters.]

What they said! You can’t give us an offer and not let half of us have a say in it!

People do, though. Every time.

[time loops!]

Maybe that's because you—

[ No. No, she's not- he still has some power. She stops herself. ]

...You're a pathetic, broken man, who doesn't know anything but loss. How would you know if other people around you were feeling it? When it hurts that bad... You forget other people are hurting too.

Have you never seen Groundhog Day? That's the entire premise.

[Finally I can just openly reference the fact that obviously Will knew he was stuck in a Groundhog Day situation!]

...Yes? So learn from it, dipshit! Stop getting more and more bitter!

I learned how to fix it. I'm trying to save everyone - there's no happy ending left for me, but there could be for other people! If things don't all fall apart!

THE ENDING YOU WANT ISN'T A HAPPY ENDING!

[He cries in frustration.]

I don’t care if I’d be happier if I forgot. I don’t care if I’d go through my life not knowing I was hurt by you.

I don’t wanna forget my family. I can’t forget them.

You learned one way. And shut up, you told a 15-year-old girl she has to die, you're not saving everyone, you're making yourself the hero and ignoring anyone else who might wanna help! You're so involved in your own pain you forgot the rest of us are people too!

Okay what do woodchucks have to do with anything.

I'll— it's a movie about an asshole who wakes up the same day every day for like...I don't know, a long time. I'll show you when we can forcibly remove this guy's head from his ass.

...Did a woodchuck curse him, is that a spoiler?

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[He's diverted from his instinct to protect, again, by Farrah's voice saying his name.]

Farrah...

I'm not going to let you make that choice. You deserve to live - you will live. He'll get you over my dead body.

Uh, yeah, that's part of it--- [his dead body.]

[Re-dead, not original timeline dead.]

[Spongebob looks at Farrah with tearful eyes.]

I won’t let him. I don’t care if we suffer or are in pain if The Wizard doesn’t revert everything back to normal.

I don’t wanna live in a universe where you aren’t my little sister.