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89. [Video/Action for travel group]

_{[A short while after the singing wild Pokemon and egg presents had died down, a rather unfortunate discovery was made upon dialing a number she'd been meaning to dial ever since Claudia Wolf and Kaito Kuroba had disappeared from Johto.]

[Already on the road, the weather's mild enough (even with the wind picking up) that Heather decided that was pretty much a good time to pocket her Valentine's Day present and just head off for a walk. Because lord knows, she needs one.]

[It's not the first time Johto has given everyone the gift of a precious little egg, but it is the first time that Heather's found herself resenting it.]

[The video feed pops on, focused in on a tiny, pale yellow little egg hardly bigger than a chicken's, nestled in the palm of Heather's hand as dry grass goes past underfoot.]}

It would be so easy to just... crush it.

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[Never a monster.]

Want to talk about it?

_{[Talk? ... Yeah, she wants to, but... man, what is there to SAY?]

[My best friends are gone? It's like Claudia took them WITH her? Now I have to confront the very real possibility that I might not get to keep YOU forever, either?]}

... Dad, if I disappeared tomorrow...

Would you be okay?

Would I be okay?

No of course not. I'd look for you and....if you were really gone.

[He trails off. It's something that's crossed his mind before of course. Harry is always thinking ahead.]

No....sweetie. I wouldn't be okay if you were gone. You're my daughter, nothing would be okay if you were gone.

But ...someone would have to get your pokemon sorted out. Look after Henry. Keep an eye on your friends....

I wouldn't be okay, but as long as I'm here. I'd do what I could.

_{[She crosses the dry February grass to stand in front of him, her brows creased upwards.]}

... All right, not okay, but... you'd... you'd keep going, right?

You wouldn't let it... you wouldn't let it stop you.

_{[There's something a little desperate in her tone. She needs to hear that he would.]}

No...of course not.

[He's not a fan of that tone.]

I'd keep going. That's what you would want.

[He takes a breath and then enters the topic they'd been avoiding for so long.]

....And that's what I'd want from you if I vanish.

_{[Yeah... they could only ignore the elephant in the room for so long, huh.]

[It goes without saying that Heather looks pretty upset as he brings it up, but she knows as well as he does that it needed to be addressed eventually.]}

... Dad, I... I don't wanna lose you again.

...I know. I don't want to lose you again either.

But we don't have any control over things like that here.

_{[No. No, they don't... that's what makes her so scared.]

[Her fists clench again-- though not hard enough to crush the egg that's still in her palm).]}

... But I-- ...

... I'm sick of not having control!

So am I.

But we can't change that fact. We can only change how we react when things happen.

Cheryl. If there's even the slightest choice in the matter, I promise you I'm not going to leave you. But if I do vanish, I want you to continue going on.

_{[She bows her head, eyes clenched shut.]}

... I will.

I just...

... I don't wanna lose you again.

[He walks over and puts his hand on her shoulder.]

I know.

_{[Screw this hand-on-the-shoulder business, she's just going to throw her arms around him and squeeze tight. Kaito's gone. Claudia's gone. Now Rise is gone too. Who the hell knows how many other people are gonna go before this is over? If it's ever over at all?]

[Cooper? Ironhide? Ken and Miles? Sora? Otacon and Liquid?]

[Henry?]

[You?]

[What if they wake up in the morning and there's two instead of three? What if all that's left of one of them is an empty sleeping bag and some confused and frightened Pokemon?]

[She lets out a hoarse SOB.]}

[Harry wraps his arms around her. Returning the hug just as much.]

I feel like I just got you back.

_{[She knows that doesn't matter, that by rights she never was supposed to get him back in the first place, but...]}

I know.

[He knows this feeling all to well.]

And now it's like... every second I look away is a second you could go.

Or Henry.

You can't focus on that though.

How can I NOT focus on it?!

Look at the other side of it. Every second we're here is one more then we should have had.

_{[Well... yes, that's true...]}

... But I want more.

_{[It sounds so simple and stupid and selfish, but... she can't help it.]}

I know....

But but you have to focus on the moments we have together, rather then the ones we might not have.

I-- we already lost so much, Dad!

You didn't get to come to my high school graduation.

You won't get to see me go to college, or yell at me for totaling your car, or ... or I don't know!

[He sighs and just hugs her tighter.]

_{[And she hugs back, almost like she's worried that if she loosens up, he'll just... fade into nothing right there in her arms.]}

[Hugs forever.]

I love you sweetie.

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