The Pub
Alex Drake slumped against the car, frustrated. She was stewing about why Gene Hunt never looked into the book before, and wanted to deny that something did happen to this person. The only explaination she came up with was that this person was a relative of Gene's who had mental disorders, and he wnated to keep it hush. With Gene's attitude, one could tell what his idea would be of people like that. Thankfully, Alex shoved the book back in place before he got back. the journal entry smacked of stalker behavior. What did that have; an obsession over Tyler, Hunt, or both? Ray could tell her, but for some unfathomable reason, he was vehement about not talking about 73 in any way, even if it was about Sam. The only time Ray mentioned Sam was about when his body vanished into nothing, and even that spooked him. And what did 'popping out of it back home' mean?
"What's bothering you?" Gene asked. Alex glanced over to Gene.
"nothing, just thinking about all the stuff I have to do today." As if ito clarify, she added, "Girl stuff."
She smirked as Gene turned his focus back of the road, pulling a face. "never mind then."
Alex went back to wondering about the diary that was kept. The handwriting was bad, the spelling was far worse. She had to force herself to slow down to decipher at least half of the words and words that were skipped and left out. "What was the Pub like in Manchester, back in 73?" She asked, thinking back on the second entry she was reading. This Mystery person went into their local pub and started socialising with them.
"The old pub, that Railway Arms that got tore down last year to be rebuilt?" Gene asked, 'Why do you want to learn about a place like that?"
"It seemed ok, from what I heard about it. lots of socialising."
Gene was taken back, "Who do you know that's been talking about that? You were too young to have been allowed in."
Oops. Alex needed to watch her step! "here and there, on the street. So, what was it really like?"
"Great people. Nelson was ok too, for a bartender. Beer Hour was awesome back then, everyone was chummy then."
Alex nodded, taken all this in. "i guess you get flakes in there once in awhile, it's bound to happen."
Gene slightly hesistated, 'Well there was this one bird that came in one day, from America." Alex's hoped raised, "Said all this stuff about Telly in America, how their special effects were way cooler and something about a buffy and slaying vampires." he snorted, shaking his head as he drove, "American Telly"
Alex relaxed as she realized that the book was written by a woman. One who seemed delusion back then at that, no wonder gene was disturbed by finding the book shipped to him. Nothing else seemed out of place in the thing but there was that mention again of "Popping out of it" at the end of tne entry. What did she mean, popping out of her mental state? And more chillingly, how the heck did a person from 73 know about the Buffy: the Vampire Slayer franchise?