"Good lord, man." said Scott. "Would a shower kill you?"
Nick cries a little. Or maybe it's face acne drippings. "Scott, I can't believe you'd say that. After a decade of just me and you against the world you'd be so cruel..."
"Me and you...me and you? I don't even know why we're talking and now you're hallucinating we're life partners or something?"
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Scott and Nick had been living together for the past decade.
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Nick had been affected by the Staircase Room and gone a bit cuckoo-bannana-nutcakes.
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This wasn't Nick but an incredible simulation.
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Two weeks of no showers has created a biological anamoly that carries Nick away.
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This is an alternate universe Nick, who had married Scott ten years ago.
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Both of them are hallucinating due to a natural gas leak in the Romance section.
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Time runs differently in the Library and for Scott, the ten years was just starting.
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