105. FOURTH WALL POST [Action for Saffron City, anywhere in Saffron City! Video's okay too]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[You know what?]

[Heather's not even sure why she TRIES anymore.]





[So done. So done.]</sub>


Here we go again.


... Yes, Cooj, I still love you.

Just not right now.

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[quickattackjack]

<sub>[At that, Jack falls silent and looks out across the street. Somewhere in the distance something that was probably a dinosaur trumpeted, only to be silenced by what sounded like lasers.]

[What a strange world.]</sub>

Who stays dead forever, anyhow?

[foolishwren]

_{[... After a pause...]}

... In my world?

Everyone but me.

[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack didn't have a heart to sink. How lonely...]}

That's not where you are now. Who knows? Perhaps one day there will be an exception. Or another world even better than this one.

[foolishwren]

I don't need a better world.

I've died a thousand times to STOP the freaks who want that.

... I just wanna live my life without losing everybody.

[quickattackjack]

<sub>[The skeleton folds his hands in his lap. He can't stop people from going away. Nobody could. Death was just something that happened--he'd know. The longer he'd been in Johto the clearer the memories of his own death had become--and he'd only died once. He couldn't imagine what Heather's had been like.]

[He has to admit he doesn't know much about the girl and doesn't pretend to.]</sub>


You will lose some--I'll guarantee that. But you won't lose everybody. I don't think so.

[foolishwren]

_{[She puffs out a hapless sigh, clasping her hands between her knees and just looking morosely off at the dimming park.]}

It doesn't feel that way...

[quickattackjack]

<sub>[At this, Jack shrugs wearily. He couldn't tell her to feel different. It wasn't his place. And who was he to say he wouldn't just...disappear when the sun came back up? Perhaps having all the precious memories he's made here in Johto suddenly ripped from him was worse than death.]

[It wouldn't do to dwell on that though. He wasn't 'dead' yet.]</sub>