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

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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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Valtiel.

A creepy name for a creepy guy.

_{[There's a pause as she debates what to bring up next.]}

For the record... if you talk to him in the future, keep your guard up. He likes screwing with peoples' heads.

... And if he tells you anything about me or my dad...

It is a lie

Yeah.

... gotcha. If it helps, I don't think he can talk to anyone without making them suspicious. He has this natural creepy aura around him.

You're telling me.

Pretty sure the only people who aren't creeped by him are his congregation. Everyone else is SANE.

[there's a pause before he finally responds]

How dangerous is he? Physically?

Thankfully? Not at all.

I could take him in a fight with both hands behind my back.

_{[... Although, admittedly, she says this without taking into account that he now has possession of what will one day be a fully-fledged, fire-breathing demon dog the size of a lion...]}

It's the other stuff I'm worried about...

Like I said, he fucks with peoples' heads... uses whatever he can to get an edge.

Even his 'help' is usually worthless.

A manipulator, huh... and not the good kind.

Who are you warning about him? Should we be telling the rest of Johto, too?

I'm...

No.

I don't think so.

I mean.

He's gonna be sleazy at people. No doubt.

I just

_{[... Is it bad that... more than anything else, she was sort of worried he'd tell them things about her? Things she didn't want anybody knowing? She could think of a hundred things he could slip about her just to make her squirm, and quite a few of them weren't even lies.]}

I wanted to warn people close to me.

_{[... People whose opinions she cared about.]}

So that they don't listen. If he says stuff about what happened back home.

[he would be nodding in understanding if she could see him right now]

... I understand.

Don't let him get to you, all right?

Don't worry, I won't.

_{[... Except that he was REALLY GOOD at getting to people... but that's beside the point.]

[There's a brief pause, before she types again--]}

Just for an example...


Vincent was the one who sent me to Leonard to take that thing he was guarding.



without telling me what was probably gonna happen.

... keh. He really is a creep. Johto's pretty big, right? Maybe you won't have to deal with him.

I dunno...

someone has to keep an eye on him

You can count on me for that.

_{[Despite the whole situation... she can't help but smile.]}

Man, what CAN'T I count on you for?

[grinning on his end]

Trips to the sushi stand?

_{[... OKAY, THAT MADE HER LAUGH.]}

Touche!

But just about everything else.

... heh. I try.

Thanks.

It's nice to know that this time around, I have people who are REALLY on my side.

_{[... Vincent himself had been one of her only 'allies' back in Silent Hill... which said a lot about everything, really.]}

Heh. 'S always nice, isn't it? And I bet I'm not the only one.

You're not.

I can't lie-- I'm pretty much the luckiest person in the world right now.

_{[... We'll see if she's still saying that once her other 'old friend' shows up...]}

[... aaaaaw Heather. Her sincerity makes him pause (and maybe flush a little bit)]

Heh. You're being pretty sappy right now, too.

_{[S-she doesn't wanna take ANYTHING for granted anymore. She's long since learned that lesson. ... Not that his observation doesn't make HER flush a little bit, too. Oops, she just let her heart bleed all over that text, didn't she...]}

... yeah, I kind of am, aren't I.



OH WELL

NO REGRETS

quick let's put on some celine dion music for full effect

Oi oi, don't be embarrassed. 'S okay.

It's kinda cute.

_[...]

cute


-really.-

Really.

_{[... Kaito why do you do this--]}

c'mon... 


I was being serious!

_{[... And she knows from that last conversation that he's probably being serious too, but-- c-c'mon!]}

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