I need to know, should I be scared? For John, I mean?
He's in a bad way. But John believes he has every situation under control, and he makes you believe. That's his magic. And his curse.
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[Takes keys from Chas] I've got this one, mate. I put you guys through the ringer on this one. I suppose if I was to offer my thanks, you wouldn't believe me, either.
Probably not.
Not for a second.
Well, if you're sticking around for the ride, you better buckle up. What we turned up in Mexico is just the start. We're poking a stick at an evil, the likes of which the world hasn't seen in centuries. [Points keys at them in false-pride about to walk up stairs with Chas taking keys from John and walks past him up stairs ]
Why do you want to help me? Why do you believe me?
I survive on instinct. Mine tells me that you're all right. It doesn't hurt that you're easy on the eyes as well.
Wish I could say the same.
Oh, thanks.
Chas has risked much more for me. Failing my best friend, that would ruin me. But failing you, that ruins us both.
Zed, meet Felix Faust, lifetime apprentice and second fiddle to the greatest black magicians of his generation
FFFelix Faust
Second fiddle indeed, Constantine. The mages played the melody but I wrote the concerto. They built their legends on my shoulders.
I've heard it said that ninth-tenths of reality is perception, and in my trade, it's eleven-tenths.
All those people wasting away by your hand as life passes them by. That is not the legacy you want, Felix.
FFaust
And what would you know of legacy? A boastful, smutty, infantile boy. You create magic by accident and insolence, while the truly devoted sweat and toil without reward. You never knew my magic, Constantine. You will know my pain.
Well, you know me. I'm well-versed in the art of pretending to be a gentleman.
RSRitchie Simpson
Your towering respect for the law is just astounding as always, John. Oh, I see you managed to steal from a cop as well.
Well, it's a campus cop, mate, big difference.
If those kids actually made it into another realm, then they've opened gates that won't be easy to close. In current conditions, anyone can be pulled in through that gate. Not just the four that took part in the ritual.
RRitchie
Yeah well it's worse than that John. Shaw had a theory, if you're killed in another dimension your body here suffers the same form of death.
Looks like Alice has already slipped through the looking glass.
RRitchie
You see what we are, John? To other people, we are what you call cancer. And we're just spreading our disease.
Oh, I forgot--angels, they can't read sarcasm.
I can read it: I just don't have patience for it.
Stay here, they're likely to experiment on you in the name of science.
Oh, like you did?
That was in the name of magic. Put your pants on.
I want to tell you something about me that nobody knows. I wake up every morning, and for the first five minutes of the day, I imagine that everyone I care about is dead. I lie there, and... I meditate on that. So that when it inevitably happens, then, uh... it lessens the blow.
Then what do you do?
I spark a ciggy and fry an egg.
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