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74. [Text/Action for Club H] Backdated to Monday

_{[Oh, man. Oh man, oh man, oh man.]

[It had taken an entire year.]

[For a couple months past 365 days, Heather's life had been blessedly free of something she'd always known was possible but had never seriously considered would happen. Lulled into a false sense of security by her general good luck regarding which people from her own world showed up here, she supposed.]

[All decent folks. No cultists. No creepers.]

[... Until now.]

[It takes her a bit to decide exactly what she's going to do about it. She can't just sit there, after all. She has to tell some people. ... Not everybody. That would be stupid, and attract unwanted attention. Not to mention, he'd probably just find it funny. No, she'll just... tell a few.]

[Some people who already knew a little about... that place. She'd already GOTTEN a message from L, which meant that she wasn't the only person paying attention. But she's not so sure about the rest of her friends. So without any further ado...]}

[PRIVATE TEXT to: Kaito Kuroba, Rise Kujikawa, Envy, Liquid Snake, Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich, Dale Cooper, Ironhide, Ken Amada, and Miles Edgeworth]

Hey

If you've got a free moment, I gotta talk to you. It's important.

_{[... There. That'll do for starters...]

[Shutting the 'Gear, she sets it down on the bed for the moment. Now to take care of the OTHER thing.]}

Hey, Dad? Henry?

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_{[She's already typing some pleasantry like 'not much', but then she remembers... it's Rise she's talking to, and it's important.]}

Nothing good, unfortunately.


Someone else from home just arrived in Johto yesterday.

Someone from Silent Hill.

Good.

You haven't forgotten the place you saw in my head, right?

The hospital

You mentioned them.

_{[He considers this for a second, then throws a guess out there.]}

Glasses, brown hair, stubble ... slippery?

_{[Slippery is best adjective he can find to describe this first impression.]}

_{[Oh, great...]}

... ok.

Well.

The first thing I need you to understand is that if he says anything... ANYTHING... about me or my father


It is in all likelihood a LIE.

So don't listen to it. At ALL.

_{[... That's a VERY good adjective. She's surprised she hasn't used it already herself... slippery. What a perfect word for that weasel.]}

Ugh, so you've seen him...

_{[Henry's usual wall-eyed cat stare focuses and he straightens up.]}

Who is it?

_{[PLEASE BE EILEEN. PLEASE BE EILEEN.]

[Henry, what part of 'greasy guy with glasses' did you not understand?]}

[ Well, now. ]

I understand. He did not seem like a very honest person, anyway.

Anything else?

I talked to him.

_{[He doesn't like him - and it's probably pretty obvious.]}

[Apparently all of it.]

[Harry meanwhile sits on the bed, looking over at Heather while Lisa settles down on the pillow next to him.]

Nah, don't think that's likely.

What about it?

_{[A pause...]}

Yeah


Don't tell him you're friends with me.

_{[He's Vincent, so he'll likely find out somehow anyway, but for the moment... she's not interested in giving him any reason to specifically target the folks she's pals with.]}

This guy is a total bad egg

I'm not saying he's gonna go on a murderous axe rampage or anything

but I NEED you to be careful, ok?

Don't give him any reason or means to hurt you.

_{[She's overdramatising this a bit, and she's fully aware of it... Vincent's a sleaze, but he's not THAT dangerous... but all the same. She doesn't like to think of the guy who leered at her incessantly and let his eyes linger far longer than was appropriate on parts of her best left unmentioned, interacting with someone she cared about like a kid sibling. Even if all he'd probably do was try to mess with the little guy's head.]

[It's just... aughgh gawd.]}

_{[She can tell-- and that's something of a relief. Not that she'd ever expect a guy like Cooper to get along with a guy like Vincent...]}

... Did he say anything... you know...

_{[About Silent Hill?]}

Someone from home just arrived here in Johto.

Someone from that place.

_{[... Well, not SPECIFICALLY that place... but from that town, yes.]}

... it's probably nothing you need to worry about, really

but I thought I should tell you

since you sorta know where I come from now...

Is he going to try to hurt you, Heather?

[ Miles is sure he can take care of himself, and he and Ken will watch out for each other. But he's gotta ask Heather, too. ]

_{[Sorry, Henry... no Eileen for you.]

[Heather's expression probably tells him it's not good news before she even speaks.]}

His name is Vincent.

... And he's a member of the cult.

... One of its leaders, actually.

_{[... Or WAS, rather... she'll... she'll get into the part where he's DEAD in a moment...]}

_{[... That's the problem. She doesn't really know.]}

I'll be fine.

I've got plenty of people watching my back, and I'm more than capable of taking care of myself.

But you and Ken are kids.

Promise me right now that you won't let anything happen to each other.

_{[He shakes his head, though she obviously can't see it.]}

He hardly said anything.

... will you tell me more about him?

We take care of each other, and we have Pess with us. I promise, Heather.

_{[That tiny flicker of hope in Henry's eyes dies. 8c oh...DB OH. Oh shit.]}

What?

thanks for telling me. Who is it? so I'll know if I see them

[And, because this doesn't seem like a particularly welcomed arrival and Envy is completely willing to believe that someone from the same place as that terrible hospital is probably Bad News...]

...are you going to be alright?

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[There is no hope, there is only Silent Hill.]

I talked to him a while ago.

... Huh. That's unusual for him...

_{[She sighs, though. Might as well spill some fetails.]

[This is probably the first time she's been this open with him... but it's mostly out of necessity. She'll just... have to wait and see if her trust in him is warranted. It's a risk she just has to take.]}

His name is Vincent.

He leads a sect-- ... the main sect, I'm pretty sure... of the cult.

... Or led.

_{[She pauses for a second or two before adding--]}

He was dead for a whole year before I came to Johto.

Good. 

Stick with her.

And let me know if anything happens that makes you feel weird ok?

[ ... ]

He's hard not to feel uncomfortable around.

_{[Aw, shit... Heather's not sure she wants to know what ol' Father Dick said to her father, but... she'll have to ask. Later, though.]}

He was... involved with the stuff I had to do in town.

... I should mention that unlike a lot of his cronies, he didn't want to destroy the world.

But that doesn't make him a good guy. We can't trust him.

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