The mind-reading seems to be connected to Jensen's eyes; whoever he looks at, he can sort of hear their thoughts. If 'hear' is the word -- it's not exactly sound, but it's really not sight or smell or touch or taste or, whatever, the sixth sense -- except, hey, the sixth sense is exactly what it is --
Anyway, it's closer to hearing than anything else, and for a while Jensen enjoys people-watching and tuning into Random Stranger Radio, but that shit gets old fast. Learning how accurate spammers are about what people really want -- it just makes him sad.
And so does his team. Pooch is all Jolene, the baby, Jolene holding the baby, Pooch and Jolene making another baby. Clay's internal monologue is, like, a Batman movie's worth of gloom and guilt; Jensen had had no idea that there was even more of that bullshit than Clay was saying out loud.
Two and a half seconds in Aisha's brain is going to give him nightmares forever.
If he'd had this dubious gift a little sooner, he could have saved them some trouble with Roque.
He saves Cougar for last because, because, for reasons that are not pathetic in the least. But finally curiosity gets the best of him and he looks over at where Cougar is watching the world out from under the brim of that hat.
Oh. It's like icewater on a hot day, like when your fucking idiot neighbor turns the headbanger music off so you can sleep. A few words, a long stretch of nothing, a few more words ... he's just as quiet on the inside as he is on the outside.
And in the privacy of his own mind, he thinks of Jensen as Jake.
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Date: 9/18/12 03:18 am (UTC)Anyway, it's closer to hearing than anything else, and for a while Jensen enjoys people-watching and tuning into Random Stranger Radio, but that shit gets old fast. Learning how accurate spammers are about what people really want -- it just makes him sad.
And so does his team. Pooch is all Jolene, the baby, Jolene holding the baby, Pooch and Jolene making another baby. Clay's internal monologue is, like, a Batman movie's worth of gloom and guilt; Jensen had had no idea that there was even more of that bullshit than Clay was saying out loud.
Two and a half seconds in Aisha's brain is going to give him nightmares forever.
If he'd had this dubious gift a little sooner, he could have saved them some trouble with Roque.
He saves Cougar for last because, because, for reasons that are not pathetic in the least. But finally curiosity gets the best of him and he looks over at where Cougar is watching the world out from under the brim of that hat.
Oh. It's like icewater on a hot day, like when your fucking idiot neighbor turns the headbanger music off so you can sleep. A few words, a long stretch of nothing, a few more words ... he's just as quiet on the inside as he is on the outside.
And in the privacy of his own mind, he thinks of Jensen as Jake.