"It's tea time Alex." A white room emerged with two black leather armchairs and a black rag beneath them in a hat's shape. She started purring tea from the teapot into her cup.

"Be careful when you stare into the abyss because the abyss is staring back at you." She told Alex while her voice was changing into Jim's voice.

"Sugar? Oh! forgive me. I forget that you don't like sugar." Jim said while slowly appeared bit by bit on the other chair holding his own cup of tea. "Milk maybe?" Jim said using Janus' voice.

"Just imagine the impossibilities; a creature being both a man and a woman at the same time. Come on. Take a closer look at two completely different people being able to exist at different places simultaneously while sharing one body. What if one of us is actually standing behind your back right now, pointing a loaded gun at your head?" Janus and Jim said at the same time with their voices completely synchronized.

"There has never been a glitch in your systems Janus." Alex mumbled.

"I would take that as an insult" Jim told Alex "but I know that you can do better than that. I consider myself more like a work of art than a wrong coding on your screen."

"Is this my hallucination or yours?" Janus asked Alex who screamed in pain and fell on the floor.

"I wouldn't be able to do that if you were in control Alex, would I?"

"You won't kill me, Janus"

"You are probably right Alex but I don't mind killing you." Jim replied while pouring some more tea into his cup.

The white walls turned into video walls which started streaming every Alex's experiment on Janus.

"This is bullshit. I gave you Jim, someone to fight for, someone to die for. You were born alone. You won't die alone." Alex told Janus. "Now tell me what you really want. Name it and it shall be granted to you. I trust myself in your mind."

"... said the man who cut her brain in cold blood to make her a puppet of his while he forgot everything about string theory." Jim completed Alex's sentence as he stretched in his armchair.

"You are a door. I shall pass through you to get where I want. You went through me to manipulate time. This time I shall pass through you." Janus clicked her fingers and Alex got himself a pair of long, white, fluffy, bunny ears.

"Could you stop acting like a spoiled brat for a minute?" Alex asked Janus while trying to put his bunny ears down.

"And miss all the fun? You can't possibly be asking that of me!" Janus clicked her fingers again and Alex's bunny ears started clapping.

" Jim is the only one who gets to live and triumph. Over there, you die alone. Each one of you will land at different gravity's spots. " Alex told Janus while struggling with his white bunny ears.

"You are dead over there as well, aren't you Alex?" Janus asked.

"Yes, you killed me." And his bunny ears clapped happily.

"Then who gets to kill me?" Janus asked and the fluffy bunny ears fell down to Alex's shoulders as if they had fainted.

"You did. You destroyed every version of yourself who made that jump."

"So we are trapped in a loop aren't we, Alex?"

"I don't have a clue."

"How many times have I made that jump as a moebius strip?"

"What do you mean?"

"How many times has Jim jumped first?"

"I don't have a clue." Alex answered while folding his bunny ears.

Janus stood up and walked in front of Jim.

"Wouldn't it be weird if you already knew the answer to that Jim?"

"You know that I have your answer Janus." Jim replied while pouring some more tea to his teacup.

"Speak it out then, Jim." Janus left her cup of tea on the table.

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