foolishwren | 100. [Video/Action for Saffron City]

_{[Wow.]

[That Vulpix on the screen sure looks pissed.]

[The ironic presence of the happy leftover Christmas lights behind it doesn't help.]

[A heavy sigh sounds from off-camera.]}

Man.

Leave it to her to get one last dig in just when I thought it was over.

_{[But Heather apparently isn't gonna elaborate on who 'her' is... though anyone who witnessed Heather's fiery freakout over the summer and knew what it was about might have a decent guess.]

[The camera just shifts as she gets up-- it lingers briefly on what looks like a box filled with crumpled wrapping paper-- in the middle of it sit two large eggs.]}

Hopefully the other living presents we got this year'll be friendlier.

_{[She turns the camera around at last and sort of regards it for a moment, chewing absent-mindedly on her lip. She's got a big wooly winter hat on, so either she just got in or she's about to go out. Probably the latter.]}

... Screw this year, man. Bring on the new one.

_{[HAPPY NEW YEAR ERRYBODY.]}

[ooc: ANYONE IN SAFFRON CITY IS FREE TO RUN INTO HEATHER, or assume she randomly stopped by wherever they are.]

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...It's been a pretty miserable year, hasn't it?

_{[She almost doesn't even wanna talk to Otacon. Not because of anything HE'S done, of course, but because the last time she did, it was during that... less-than-pleasant exchange with Liquid.]

[... But she misses Hal, and so she does reply. Though she keeps it to voice rather than video, and chuckles darkly.]}

Yeah.

It really has.

I guess the only place to go from rock bottom is up, right? I mean, it probably can't get much worse hopefully.

I dunno.

It's like a pattern.

I'll think that it can't get worse, and then it'll be better for a bit and I'll get complacent, and then I wake up and everything's gone and jumped into a rocket-propelled handbag into Hell.

_{[Including her self-control.]}

...Or that could happen too. I know I've been there more times than I can count. But I guess...y'know, sometimes all anybody can do is try to stay positive.

_{[Yeah... it's true... but it's a truth that Heather doesn't particularly want to face. Because it, in and of itself, is depressing.]

[So she just sort of heaves a sigh.]}

...

Yeah, it's harder than it sounds.

It's what I always do.

But I'm starting to hate doing it.

I know what you mean. I got tired of it years ago.

Yeah.

Happy new year.

Same to you.

With any luck this one'll be a little less of a train wreck.

Yeah. Or something.

... How are you holding up?

I've been a lot worse, at least.

We both have.

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