AN: I'm currently exploring I thought was interesting in the show. They never really got into it and the show ended before the idea could be explored. They also didn't go into it during the movie, so I felt it could be a fun plot device. I'm pretty much just winging this, so we'll see where it goes, cause I don't even know.
Not that I really cared, but: "so… how have you been?"
Mason looked at me perplexed. I only glanced at him before returning my eyes back to the road. "Fine…?" Mason laughed slightly and nervously.
"I mean, I was just wondering considering it hasn't been that long since… well…"
"Oh, you're talking about that whole incident with Ray and the whole… oh, yeah! You know… Still broke. Still living in your cozy little house. He disappeared though," Mason added as an afterthought, looking curiously out the window. No, I never told anyone what I did to Ray's graveling. I didn't tell anyone that I touched him and took his soul and that he basically turned to ashes right there on my couch while Mason slept. I didn't tell anyone that I had killed a graveling. Could Ray really be considered a graveling though? Was he in the graveling ranks? Because he had been different. He hadn't followed the same rules as the other gravelings. Daisy said he showed up and killed someone who didn't have a post-it. They didn't have a date with death, but he had been the cause of the man who did have a date with death. It was all so confusing and I couldn't wrap my head around it.
And what did it mean if I was able to kill a graveling? Could I kill other gravelings? Could I somehow kill death? It was a frightening thought and every time I tried to do something about death, do something productive, it always ended poorly. It always came back to haunt me. Every failure I had was magnified tenfold because someone's soul was hurt in the process. If I could kill a graveling though… what would that mean? Could other grim reapers kill a graveling, too? Did we have this power all along? Was Rube aware of this? He probably was. That man knew everything… but he didn't know about Ray. Everyone kept that card close to the chest, and thanks to Roxie, we didn't have to worry about him again. We didn't even have to worry about his graveling. But I was the only one who knew why.
"George?"
"Wha-? Huh?" I shook my head and looked over at Mason who had a look of confusion mixed with concern on his face.
"Why do you ask?"
I laugh defensively. "What? I can't ask how my co-worker is doing since a very upsetting event?"
"Aw, Georgie! You think of me as a co-worker. Isn't that a sweet sentiment?"
"Yeah, don't look too much into it either." Mason chuckled. There was a long moment of silence before I finally asked, "did you mean what you said to me that one day when you came to see me at Happy Time?" He raised an eyebrow and shared a glance with me before I turned my eyes away again.
"What do you mean? What did I say?" He laughed. "I was so fucking out of it, Georgie… I probably said some weird things."
"Right… right," I added with a shake of my head. "It's… nevermind." I chuckled dismissively. I didn't even want to think about it. "You did say some weird things. You threw me off, too."
"One of my many charms," he added jokingly… except he really had no idea how true it was.