“Lacey” by Lem

“Those eyes can be contorted to look like Jack. But she’s never been him. And those are her eyes almost exactly.” says God.

“You guys that looks like her.” says Alanis.

“It does.” says God. “A LOT. It’s uncanny.”

“Lem…thought he was gay, Jeffrey. He really did.” says Jesus. “It’s just that simple.”

“Why are we doing this?” says Jeffrey.

Jesus cries.

“Is Lem crying?” asks Chris Hayes.

“No!” says Lem. “But Jeffrey and Jesus are…both upset by something.”

Long silence.

“Does her husband know that she’s talking to the Illuminati?” says a man.

“No!” says Michael. “And yes.” He thinks. “I need Chris to understand something. She’s not a typical person.

I actually was her soulmate.”

“That’s possible.” says the CIA.

“ are you guys understand that and yet you don’t because you think really highly of yourselves in a way that’s kind of stupid. Jeffrey, you are an intellectual. You are a public intellectual, but I don’t think you’re any wealthier that her father-in-law I’m not even sure if your as wealthy as him. you’re not necessarily even as wealthy as some of the people in her family before the oil. And I’m not saying that to shame you I am saying that because you don’t seem to understand it’s not preposterous for her to take that so seriously.

You pride yourself, and understanding things that other people refuse to understand. You’ve got to try to understand!

I know you’re trying to be helpful and I respect that. You’ve got to try to understand she’s just as sweet just as lady like just as sexy as she says she is. Even more so. And it’s actually just like math to think that I could be with her. Just because it confuses her slightly and you read that does not mean that it’s fact.” says Michael.

“ she’s really capable of being that loose?” says Jeffrey.

“ Jeffrey what do you want?

Do you want me to say that I knew her in the 1800s or do you want me to say that I’m exceptional in a way that she doesn’t understand yet?” says Michael.

“ so she just responds to you?” says Jeffrey.

“ yes, we respond to each other instantly or we did.” says Michael.

He laughs.

“ so basically Michael U2 were close to some degree as cousins when she was lady Roslyn and you were the earl of West Moreland or there’s just something extraordinary but that’s that second one is what I don’t understand. She does very striking resemblance to that whole family, and that’s kind of strange that her Scottish accent is uncanny, I think. And I’m a Jew, so to some degree, so I’m not quite as opposed to the idea of reincarnation of some people. It to me it’s just an old religious idea that could be true and if I see evidence of it, I think well do you never know.

And obviously Lacey is now wondering if she should take it more seriously and actually I would suggest that she does.

There’s no way at all that she was ever Jack?” says Jeffrey.

“ none whatsoever they’re very different people.” says God.

“ Jeffrey I really was straight and there actually is an explanation for everything. I’m sorry I know that’s hard for some people to understand but if it actually is fact.” says Lem.

“ Lem’s as much as I think outside the box it’s just hard for me to except what you’re telling me even though it actually is plausible and I think it’s my it’s it’s me being humbled intellectually-“ he says

“ why do you think that there are more people like that though? There are there are so many people who made that mistake in the past, and there still are some not as many, but there still are some and they’re rare nowadays, but they weren’t as rare in the past, and I don’t quite understand why that’s so astounding.” says Lem. “ They posed for pictures with their boyfriends. They were probably more sexually involved with them that I might’ve even been molestation is a very psychologically traumatizing event and it’s hard to recover from it and edit it. Just it really screws you up in your head, Jeffrey, and it’s very hard to recover, and I didn’t until I was almost dead.”

“ but I know we were friends Lem.” says Bobby.

“ I know you don’t Bobby you don’t know that that’s your perception of things. Lacey thought she was loved by her mother and she wasn’t. Now, if you really thought about it, objectively, you’d be able to figure out the difference between real love, and what I was doing, but you’re not doing that because you don’t have that capability as a person your mother is terrible at it as well, and so are most women who you’ve taken advantage of and part of the reason you do that is because you suck shit at it yourself and it embarrasses you to yourself And so in order to recover from that narcissistically you savagely attack people who are more vulnerable than you, so you don’t feel like such a loser for taking people seriously who don’t really deserve it yourself.” says Lem.

“ he’s right he didn’t love you. I’m sorry.” says Bobby. “ bobby your narcissistic and if you weren’t you’d be able to discern the difference, but you struggle with that I’m sorry.”

“ we weren’t really his friend Bobby you’ve fooled yourself I’m sorry.” says David Kennedy.

“ so Lacey and her legal husband love me more than I’m ever did!?” says Bobby.

“ yeah, you could say that!” says her husband.

“ what are you experienced with? Lem’s was brutal. And I think maybe you were never supposed to find out until you were dead because it’s pretty harsh.” says Lacey to Bobby.

“Yeah!” says David.

“ so is it Joe’s fault?” he says in the afterlife.

“ yeah, it is a Joe was not supposed to lie to Lacey like he did. She was with F Scott Fitzgerald, and love was suffering, but he was coping with it, because he knew it wasn’t forever, and he knew that Scott would never take her forever if or, if he did that he deserved it. Him from God‘s perspective not just his own. And Scott wasn’t really going to do that but he didn’t say that to Lacey because he knew that he shouldn’t because she needed to believe that someone would be able to love her because he relates to her and so he let her believe that they might be together forever Because he wanted her to have hope that she could be loved. And God allowed it because it wasn’t really a lie it was more just letting her believe something that’s true, but that wasn’t the complete truth so and that’s not what Lem doing at all. so the truth is, she actually is better suited for Harold and Louis than Scott. But he knew those men both of them quite well obviously and they weren’t as easy they couldn’t communicate with her as easily. She’s slightly dead so she is able to talk to ghosts and she lives in Saint Paul and they’re all here. Harold is here sometime Scott’s often in Saint Paul And Louis is as well because that’s where they’re from so Scott approached her and then he just sort of found a way to sort of say hey you know I really find you attractive you know I we are we get along really well I could be in love with you I want, and that’s all true She’s very much his type and they’re very much people who could be in love with each other and even our but they’re not meant to be together. Scott doesn’t quite understand why you guys don’t think she’s more like Zelda, the jack. Zelda could be very offensive too, but she was too charming to be that offensive and she was so much bisexual. So at least he’s completely straight, and she actually is more Louis or Harold’s type and there’s nothing wrong with her you’ve misunderstood her.

So she was with Scott Bobby try to stick with me she was with Scott OK and everything was fine she was managing and I’m not trying to make her maid feel bad but this is just what happened she was managing things were OK and then she got it in her head that she was really irresponsible and stupid for taking Being with a ghost so seriously and it wasn’t that she preferred that it was just that it was happening to her and it was comforting and people were telling her that it was dumb basically because they’re dead. People still tell her that. And there isn’t a problem with that because that is true except for the fact that she may be needed she she wasn’t stupid and there is a serious problem in her life because her father really is Tom sincerely regardless he’s her dad and so she doesn’t think like people today if you guys have got to try to entertain that possibility because it’s so glaringly obvious she doesn’t think like people today and so her options are genuinely very limited. And that’s heartbreaking because that’s not at all who she was supposed to be she’s a very loving person she’s very maternal she’s very romantic towards men she’s straight hundred percent and she’s very submissive. She was very fertile. She’s in her 40s know but I mean none of that ever gotten used because she was born so late.

And it’s actually extremely tragic, but it is what it is.,

So Scott was addressing that and they were together and he was fixing the situation as best as he could and he did a very good job of it. I mean it was brilliant the way he handled her the way that he let them be in love because they actually are, and he’s sophisticated enough to understand that it meant some thing, but that it could die, and that was OK because it wasn’t meant to be forever Scott Scott Fitzgerald I mean he’s a genius and so he was handling it perfectly fine. And no, there really wasn’t a problem. There really wasn’t. It was completely fine. She was a little too mature for her age but she had been her whole life. People were confused by her, but I mean she actually is far more exotic, and sort of art deco then you think And her father was and is her father and he’s not attracted to her they’re not like that that’s perverted but she she would’ve fancied older men sometimes so did Margie obviously and it’s not perverted, and so Harold and Scott were people who she may have ended up with briefly.

But no, I mean yeah you have to realize she does actually think like the greatest generation so old for her is F Scott Fitzgerald. Her father was born in 1894. So F Scott Fitzgerald, Gerald was born in 1896.

F Scott Fitzgerald is actually younger than her father by two years. So does she think like F Scott just got Fitzgerald‘s daughter slightly. Slightly to the cooking, the recipes, the gardening is very similar to his daughter. But that’s the greatest generation they were like that she’s like that. But she’s not his daughter and he found her attractive so they were fine. You know she was fine. She was in Saint Paul and she was she was fine.

He was very comforting to her. He let her enjoy art deco stuff with him, because he was a very aesthetically, intelligent person so they would look at skyscrapers and St Paul together in analyzed architecture, and they were analyzed perfume together. They were really good friends, and he was a very good companion to her and her spirit Scott is a very intelligent man and they were having fun just you know I guess in a sense being together, but not not forever.

Louis tried to bring her back to that and it kind of started to work but then his wife got involved and it was a problem.

Zelda was jealous of Lacey but Zelda is also very smart and sensitive and I think she knew Lem’s existed. She knew how much Lem’s loved Lacey and I don’t know if Zelda felt maternal towards them or what it was but somehow Zelda just thought this is Dom it’ll be fine, she’s meant to be with Lem’s they’ll be they’ll be together Scott’s just being Scott, enjoying a beautiful young woman who is very into writing and perfume and they’ll be fine. He’s doing something out of it to sense the kindness of his heart and she’s a very deep person too and also Lacey is Harold soulmate. So I mean Zelda did find Harold attractive and they never did anything but Zelda understood that that Harold was good looking and rich and it’s kind of like well. I would go for that too. It’s not that big of a deal like it’s it’s it’s disturbing, but probably not the most disturbing thing Scott did. And so Harold I am was hot to her and she would’ve slept with him very easily but it never happened and I mean if if Lacey had been in Paris in the 1920s with Harold, I mean come on let’s be real there it’s kind of like a couple that you know who you see it a dinner party and you think I would never really want to do this because that’s weird but truth be told my husband finds his wife attractive and I find the husband attractive and then nothing ever happens because it really genuinely is weird but um it’s not like the traction doesn’t exist. 

So With Scott still getting even with Zelda possibly but I kind of doubt it, but I I wouldn’t rule it out .

Like I could’ve done this and I didn’t I was faithful to you and you weren’t faithful to me Zelda so you’ll have to suffer through this. We’re in purgatory deal with it.

So they were fine. Lacey and Scott were just fine. And yes, Loma suffering but it was manageable and I actually think eventually Scott may have sort of edge to Lacey towards them as the years went by. He’s sort of critically told Lacey that he would probably set her up with a English aristocrat. Literally she was taking a shower and they were just talking and it wasn’t necessarily even sexual they were just talking her and Scott Finis is back in like 2013 or 14 and Scott said you know there’s probably an English aristocrat that I would set you up with so speak. That was the idea there’s an English aristocrat who you should probably be with. No he literally told her that that he would put her with an old English aristocrat. That’s who she would end up with somehow or something. So if there’s reincarnation, he was talking about her husband, Lem. Lem was straight. I’m sorry that’s so hard for you to comprehend at all. so if there’s reincarnation, he had every intention of sort of nudging her and Lem’s’s direction slowly overtime. Or that was his cryptic way of telling her that It’s Lem because he’s a ghost .

But Joe flipped out, Bobby.

I’m sorry if that’s hard for you to handle about your family.

Joe completely flipped out.

Your father was terrified.

Yeah, he anticipated something really terrible happening and it did.

Joe does not necessarily exist right now.

He will come back, Lord willing, and Pat doesn’t exist either she chose to go with him, but he was way out of line.

Oh, you don’t know who I am yet, but I’m from St Paul and I watched this entire thing.

Yes Bobby, your dad got screwed over I’m sorry.

I, the truth is Bob your father would’ve been a better president than any of his brothers and Lacey knows that. But that’s not how they saw things in the family and so that’s not what happened.

Joe was incredibly intelligent and arguably the best looking of all of them. But he was tempestuous and irrational at times, and he was not capable when it came down to it of handling that much responsibility. Your father was a far more rational, responsible person than any of his brothers.

Joe was very in love with Lacey. She’s extremely attractive. She is better looking than most women, and she has a sort of Celtic beauty whether she’s reincarnated or not. So Joe was really an offer. He just thought she was the coolest thing ever sexually. And he was very possessive of her kind of like he could be possessive of certain things like his bike or certain things that he collected or fancied he, he could get very possessive of stuff that he really liked. And he liked those things, but he was genuinely possessive of them, and it wasn’t is dysfunctional as Jack, but he was very possessive. And so even though he knew he’d been neglectful of Lacey and that she was hurt and that she was really supposed to be with them anyway, he couldn’t handle her being with anyone but him who was dead. It was just too upsetting to him. Because he had it in his head that if she was going to be with anyone who is a ghost, he was going to be him. It was partially a way of one upping his father and sort of putting his father in his place like she was your soulmate but you screwed it up and now she can be mine and I’m not going to cause I’m better than you I’m better looking I’m smarter. I am more masculine. I’m just a better person and he wasn’t always good at thinking things through long-term so I was like well you know he never realize that it wouldn’t work because she was supposed to be with Lem’s and they couldn’t really make it show. They’re happy in the way that him, and someone else would be happy but he he just kind of kept dragging it off and thinking that it would just be fine and that he wasn’t really making a huge mistake because she found him really attractive because she really did and he thought she was really something to and he just thought it was really cool and you know really nifty and he just didn’t wanna let go of it. He just did not want to let go of it.

So no, it’s not as screwed up as Jack but it was still screwed up.

So she was how do I say this without being gross she was falling asleep at night in bed next to Scott. How about that? And I mean it was she thought it was forever possibly so it wasn’t really a disturbing thing and he was kind of weird about it partially because of the Tami temporary nature of the whole thing and yet Scott is romantic so I don’t know if he was 100% convinced that it was temporary But I think he thought it most likely was. And so it was fine but then Joe saw that it was actually very upset by it and so he started attacking them and by the time she was in Seattle, she was thinking about him again and writing stories about him he found a way to start talking to her, because he wanted to sort of edge his way back as her top person who was Dad who she would be with and he was very good about it you know he used 40s music have and hit you know his good looks and he just kind of kept saying what about me you know what about me Lacey and and she was unsure what was going on and then that was around the time we’re all hell broke loose and the illuminati started talking to her. Because Jack decided that he was going to really dig that the knife end and really brutalized her because I think he thought she wasn’t suffering enough. His brother was giving her so much attention, and Scott was giving her attention and it irritated him to see Lacey getting all that attention from the Perfume community From her family in Seattle to some degree from Scott Fitzgerald from one of those she didn’t know it’s from Luis lately. It just really pissed jack off because Jack likes to be the center of attention or he did and he couldn’t deal with anyone existing hardly at all, he was a very fragile person

And by fragile, I mean, fragile in an evil sad way, because he really couldn’t handle other people existing like other humans with feelings it just was really hard for him.

A lot of his show and charm was to control people.

So he decided to use the illuminati to attack her, and Joe tried to stop it, but it didn’t work.

So yes, and then there were other people in the perfume community to who found her attractive and what is it was a handsome man who was mostly gay to and yes, Jack found him attractive, and that pissed Jack off.

And that isn’t necessarily to say that homosexuality is even allowed in heaven, but it’s just true. The Jack was really pissed off by the fact that there was a German man who was mostly gay, who thought Lacey was attractive and was kind of into her. He couldn’t handle that.

So so mean, so there was also right around the time that Pat was dying and yeah, Pat passed her to blew the whole thing. For a second time.

She is not his twin flame. She’s not his soulmate, but she adores him and God allows them to be together because it’s consensual. They both don’t seem to care entirely that they’re not really made for each other and so God being God has allowed them to be together because they’re so determined to be together to some degree, and so it really wasn’t functional but he doesn’t control people so when she died, Joe totally fell apart psychologically yeah as a ghost, and he just wasn’t. He just wasn’t able to keep himself in any sort of cogent pattern of I thought. He couldn’t handle the whole thing, so he just kept telling him self that it wasn’t happening and that everything was fine and it really wasn’t and all hell broke loose.

He should have just told Lacey that Pat was you know the love of his life essentially, and that even though she wasn’t as good looking as Lacey and she wasn’t really his type completely that she was in away and that they just like to each other and so he was going to be with her and it wasn’t him it wasn’t something that he necessarily meant to be hurtful towards Lacey. He just really liked Pat just that much and he could’ve told her that but instead he chose to just totally mess the entire thing up.

Bobby is very prescient at times and it is very eerie. How much is wives all seem like Lacey. And he’s been told that before but he needs to take it more seriously for his own good.

So… essentially yeah Joe screwed everything up at P for your entire family because Jack was a idiot, but if Joe had just kept everything together, it might’ve still been fine. But the combination of him and Jack? everything fell apart.

Bobby, I think you were trying to marry someone like her because you take your family very seriously.” says a man from St. Paul.

“Chris…why are you all so obsessed with being better than her?” says Michael Rockefeller.