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 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:11 pm
There was a moment where Rep wanted to lie and say that they were friends and live a tiny bit in the denial. His conscience vetoed it, it just wasn't the kind of thing he did, in spite of everything else. Honesty was sometimes the only thing he had to go by.
"I don't think you like me much." he said. "I like you though, I always thought you were really ******** amazing honestly. None of my friends are as cool as you."
But to the real matter at hand he shook his head "Don't try too hard to remember things though, they'll come back when they are meant to. If you want though, I'll try and help you find where you are going, where you want to be if you let me come with you. You don't have a weapon but I do. I just want to do s**t safely, so you don't get hurt."
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:05 pm
"I don't feel very cool," he reflected, picking up his pace a little to catch back up to Rep, before leaning against the wall again, "I don't feel anything much, really, but I think it would be nice if we were friends, that way I'm not just someone else's problem." Each word was spaced further and further apart as he began to drift off to sleep again. "Yeah, I think I'd like that a lot."
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:19 pm
"Well you are." Rep said with absolute certainty. It didn't matter that Cael was young again, to Rep he was still the same person with the same potential.
"We can be friends." He said with a genuine grin. "Thats fine with me"
"And are you still tired?" He eondered how long Allan had kept him awake. "Offer still stands for that couch, its fancy and I promise no anime"
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:43 pm
There was a bit of a pause where he had actually also drifted off, only to be woken up the blanket suddenly falling to the floor.
"Anywhere is fine," he barely managed to pick up the blanket, clutching it in one hand like a lifeline, "they were playing the same thing all night and he kept on yelling about friendship every five minutes and it was awful." There was no doubt who he was talking about.
At some point he had latched on to Rep's arm with his free one, not even consciously aware at this point he was using it as a lifeline to stay walking. "Anywhere quiet." An even longer pause and it sounded like he was actually sleep-walking as he suddenly asked, "But why baby carrots?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:58 am
"Because Ace tries hard, he just doesn't always come to the same answers as everyone else." he shook his head. "He likes to eat healthy, never had any siblings or anything and probably just assumed that was what people like. He was a bit panicky. I think he thought you'd be younger or just had no idea what guys your age eat, you know, in spite of once being that age, no even that long ago. I ******** promise you don't need to eat them if you don't want to."
He led the way back to the room, supporting Carl carefully as they went. "Allan tries hard too but sometimes his trying hard is ..maybe too energetic for people who are a bit more introverted and s**t. It's quiet in the dorm."
He walked on in silence for a short time before adding thoughtfully. "What do you like to eat?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:09 pm
He was asleep the second he found the sofa, though the blanket remained draped off the side of his arm still, answers about food entirely forgotten.
And then two minutes later suddenly woke up and just stared right at nothingness, whispering something so quiet it sounded like he was still dreaming. "Where- where's the sword?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:22 pm
Rep threw the blanket over him and sat down exhaustedly on another chair, watching him.
He almost summoned his weapon in surprise when he woke up. Watching the other hunter with long slow concern he answered him quietly, not expecting him to hear him.
"Wish I knew." he said, again rubbing the back of his hand where the symbol had been absently. "We'd be a lot safer if I did. Maybe she has it."
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:47 pm
He tried to rub his eyes, and then took off his glasses and tried again, having never actually taken them off even for the two minute nap. "No, she says you still have it." He was still tired enough not to comprehend what he was saying exactly. "You just need to ask."
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:35 pm
Rep stared at the other man in wide eyed surprise for his comment, the implications of it all somehow a ray of hope in the grimness of the situation he'd found himself in. The fact that Cael could still hear Circe, however faintly also gave him no small degree of hope that she hadn't been destroyed by the clash.
"Then maybe we can still help you." he said.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:51 pm
It seemed like he had dozed off again, giving Rep plenty of time to think about the implications of swords and what anything else meant.
It would be hours later before he woke up again, and he would just be staring at the window wordlessly, not saying much at all. When he was alerted enough of Rep's presence, he stood up, slowly, as if waiting for other visual cues. "I need to go back."
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:00 pm
Rep patiently hung out, keeping an eye on Carl while he slept, eventually dozing off for a little bit in his chair only to dream again of blue kingdom, fitfully moving in and out of fractured images before he sharply woke, finally heading off to get a shower to try and wake himself up, hoping he was still there when he got back.
He was actually surprised to find he was and almost visibly sagged in relief.
"I'll help you as best I can." he said. "But there's a whole world out there, where do we even begin?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 9:49 pm
He shrugged helplessly and then settled for just leaning against the couch, curling his knees up into a small ball. "I don't know, it's quiet now." Maybe he meant her, maybe he meant something else, it was was exceedingly vague. "It's better this way, I don't want to cause any trouble."
It seemed like he was just content to wallow in whatever self-teenaged misery until he began to glance around nervously again. "Um also, do you have a spare toothbrush? If it isn't too much trouble."
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:42 am
"Always cause trouble." Rep said with a big toothy grin. "The world is ******** full of a lot of really boring people who will want you to stop, sit down and be ******** quiet. You don't cause me trouble while I'm able to help you, my job right now, the thing I'm paid for is pretty much helping you, and its something I'd do without pay too. Before all this memory s**t happened you were important to me and still ******** are." he nodded.
"And sure I do, I keep spares of ******** everything because sometimes the portals go down here and you are s**t out of luck. I normally sell them at some crazy markup price, but I'll go get you one for free." And he helpfully headed off into the bathroom to go get a toothbrush and some toothpaste
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:20 pm
"Okay," he replied dubiously, "but I hope it wasn't too much trouble." (It usually was). He followed Rep to the bathroom and then just waited outside at the doorway like someone's trained pet. From Rep's vantage point, he could just see Carl trying to peek into the mirror and then hastily stop looking when he thought Rep had noticed.
"Hang on," he suddenly said, "I forgot my glasses." That would probably help with the whole mirror thing, and he made the strangest detour around the center of Rep's room, where there was nothing there, hugging the walls, before finally retrieving them, and then repeating the process. He looked behind his shoulder about two more times nervously before taking the toothbrush. "Why is it so quiet here?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 5:23 pm
For Rep it hadn't been much trouble at all, it was trouble when he had to do things for people he didn't value or like, but fortunately most Death missions, no matter how utterly terrifying or dangerous did not fall under that category. He vanished into the bathroom and was rummaging around in one of the cabinets, setting aside all manner of boxes and spare things when he noticed Carl looking into the mirror. He said nothing of it, assuming he'd just noticed his lack of glasses and kept going, fishing out a toothbrush and some toothpaste, both still in their boxes and as he turned to go and hand it to Carl, he noted the strange route he took, turning his attention warily to the middle of the room.
It was like that feeling you got when a pet could see or hear something you couldn't. "Did you see something?" he asked, suddenly feeling the hair stand up on the back of his neck. "It shouldn't be quieter here than it usually is. The TV is just off and s**t." He wasn't sure it was tv noise the other guy meant.
"Here's the toothbrush though."
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