016. Video/Action for those in Violet Pokemon Center who are awake

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Of course Heather would leave her packing until a few minutes before she was going to leave]

[The gear's camera is turned on by accident as it's bumped around by her hurried shoving-of-random-crap into her bag, and the viewer is treated to a sideways view of the Pokemon Center. It's daybreak-- the lobby is quiet and just now starting to be lit by the windows rather than the fluorescent ceiling lights. Looks like after spending a week or so off by herself in the woods or something for reasons unknown, she came back to get ooooone last night's sleep in the comfort of a building before she set off again.]

[Finally, she lifts the tightpacked bag over her shoulder and adjusts her collar before picking up the 'Gear. Noting the camera's on, she offers the screen a tired grin and a little salute.]</sub>

Headin' back in the direction of Cherrygrove. I'll be back in a week or so, I guess. Unless there's another Beedrill swarm're somethin'. That'd suck.

If anyone needs me... gimme a call.

... Or I guess you could just clutch at your hair and start screaming until I come back. That works too.

_{[And with that, she's off out the automatic door and into the increasingly-warm morning air. Heather was never much for backtracking, but this was a special case.]}

Comments

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

Backtracking? Not many people seem to do that around here.

[voice]

[foolishwren]

Wouldn't do it normally, but a friend of mine needs help getting up here without getting his ass run over by purple rats, and hey, s'not like I have anything better to do up here.

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[Your vernacular is not one that Shelly approves of, but hey, he's keeping quiet about it.] Oh, I see.

[foolishwren]

_{[HEATHER MASON: OFFENDING OLDER GENTLEMEN SINCE SHE LEARNED HOW TO CUSS.]}

Yeah. In any case, I don't like all this stuff I've been hearing about people disappearing, so I kinda wanna make sure it doesn't happen to my friends. _{[Especially not James. She'd only known him a few weeks but she didn't want the other I-Survived-Hell club-member to go poof.]}

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[Hmm, he's heard worse. People say the darnedest things when they're dying, you know...]

Ah, I see. And you're not afraid of disappearing yourself?

[foolishwren]

_{[She'd believe it. Heard some pretty whacked-out things from dying people, herself.]}

Hm?

_{[And... to be totally honest, the possibility hadn't occurred to her. But now that it had, she... still wasn't too concerned.]}

If anything tries to make me disappear, they'd better be ready to fight.

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[He's amused. Talking to a teenager, he presumed.]

Oh, really? How confident of you.

[foolishwren]

_{[YOU ARE CORRECT SIR.]}

I've earned my confidence. There's not much this world could throw at me that I can't handle.

_{[Which was... an INCREDIBLY arrogant statement, but then, Heather was a little hotheaded. She would probably be proven wrong someday here, and boy would her face be red.]}

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

... Is that so?

[Mmhmm, he thought the same thing at one point, mmyes. Then he got his face sliced in half.]

[foolishwren]

Yep.

_{[Heather... had already been through hell and emerged from it alive. Inwardly she has a lot more reservations than she shows, but... well. You know how it is. She'll probably wind up being knocked down a few pegs eventually. Even if nothing here could compare to Silent Hill, the Pokemon world did have its dangers...]}

You don't sound too convinced though. Don't blame ya, but I have my reasons for being confident.

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[Shelly hasn't quite been through Hell itself, but he does work in a rather dangerous business. And while he does believe he too is probably prepared for just about anything, one important lesson that he's learned is that you can never let yourself be too confident.}

Oh, no. What reason would I have to doubt the words of a complete stranger?

[foolishwren]

_{[That's a lesson that Heather never quite got pounded into her head, herself. With age comes wisdom! ... Aaand she's still pretty young.]}

Touche.

I like you, what's your name?

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[Sigh, funny how he keeps hearing that from people who don't really know who he is.]

John Doe. And you are...?

[foolishwren]

_{[Buh? Are people actually named that? .... Ohhh. It's prooobably a polite way of saying 'I totally don't want to hand out my real name'. Okay, cool, she can deal with that.]}

Heather Mason.

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[W-WHAT IT'S A TOTALLY LEGITIMATE NAME.]

A pleasure to meet you, Ms. Mason.

[foolishwren]

_{[AHUH. SURE.]}

Likewise. So, been here long?

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

Not really. It has been perhaps... three weeks since I first arrived?

[foolishwren]

Interesting.

I've been here more than a month now...

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

A month is not really a long time, is it?

[foolishwren]

It feels longer than it actually is.

I kinda wonder how much longer before someone figures out how to go back, or we all at least learn more about what happened...

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

Personally, I am in no hurry. I needed a vacation, anyhow.

[foolishwren]

I'm not really in a hurry either. I'm just eager to figure out what happened on principal.

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course. I feel the same way.

[foolishwren]

I figure most people do, in the end.