IC contact post/voice mail - ADSTRING

[falkeditupagain]

Hey, you've reached Hanna Cross, paranormal investigator extraordinaire!

Leave a message and I will totally get back to you as soon as humanly possible. Which will be soon. Ish. Awesome, thanks!

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[dicey]

You'll remember what I said, right? You'll come find me if you ever want to try to do it?

[falkeditupagain]

Yeah...just. I feel like I've failed you. Like, crash and burn.

[dicey]

Maybe. But I kind of failed you too by dragging you into this, right?

... Look, maybe it's dumb of me to feel like this, but I still want to spend the rest of my life with you. That hasn't changed at all! And I'm pretty sure I'd want to keep trying and trying as long as you did, too. Like, really trying, not just saying sorry every time and then going back to doing the same stuff.

I guess you have to figure out when that trying stops being worth it for you

[falkeditupagain]

[He makes a face at that, shaking his head.] Vriska, you're important to me. It'll never stop being worth it to try. Seriously.

I just...have to get my act together. And maybe it will be easier once you get a little older. Its just a hard roadblock for me. I know that. We both know that. Culture and all that.

[dicey]

Maybe it'll help to hear more about what my society was like. It's really unpleasant and I guess I figured you wouldn't really want to hear about it, but. Troll kids are a lot different from human kids.

If you want to jump the roadblock, really want to, I want to jump it with you. But if you don't really want to, I don't want to be the only one trying to make progress if you're just going to be fighting against it.

[falkeditupagain]

I know. I know that, its just. You look like a kid. And by age, you are one. And its just hard for me. [That and he was so young when he had to grow up and he didn't think it was fair either.]

I just...i'm against having to force a kid to grow up too early. And I guess that's my main issue here.

[dicey]

But it already happened, Hanna. You trusting me with the big stuff isn't going to change me in any way that fighting for my life since day one and killing thousands of other troll kids didn't already. It's like you think I'm in this bubble of innocence, but I'm not. You're a lot more innocent than I am, Hanna.

[falkeditupagain]

Vriska, I know. I get it, its just hard. I told you.

[dicey]

I just don't know if you want to keep trying for real or not.

[Vriska hesitates; she knows she's kind of repeating herself by saying that, and he's already said that he doesn't want to stop trying-- maybe that has to be enough for her for now, considering everything else that's going on]

Wait. Okay.

... Okay.

[she takes a deep breath, and takes her hand off the doorknob]

We're going to have to talk about this more-- a lot more-- later. This isn't fixed. You still did what you did, and like you said, you also still have a habit of telling Lea stuff and leaving me out. And like I said, I can't be your moirail if there's fake feelings behind it and you only tell me things out of duty or guilt, not because you really want to. But right now let's just focus on this Pitch shit. You feel awful and you don't know what to do, so let's figure that out. And you know he's going to come back pissed, so let's come up with a plan for that, too. There's a time limit on this one; we probably only have a week.

Do you want Lea to be here, too? Maybe he should be. It's hard for you to talk about things twice and it's not right for you to keep choosing him over me, okay, but it's not like choosing me over him would be any better for you. ... I don't think, anyway.

[she doesn't know all that much about what human relationships are supposed to be like, but she's gotten the sense they have a moirallegiance aspect to them, which means Lea probably shouldn't be left out]

Talk to us both at the same time; that way you only have to say it once.

[falkeditupagain]

Okay. Okay...

[This is a little better. This is something that needs to be focused on, even if their relationship status is important to. But that isn't something that ignoring for the moment could get them killed. He lifts his head, looking around and sighs, nodding before pushing himself up slowly.]

We need to figure out a game plan, make this house safe...I think I can get enough barriers up and keep them up to keep him out, but...I dunno. I don't want anything i've done to blow up in either of your faces, because it's happened before and it's not ever my intention...

If anything really truly happens, i'm the one who fucked up and I should pay for it.

[dicey]

You know neither one of us is going to agree to that.

[she pulls out her PCD and types in Axel's name, though she doesn't send anything yet]

What do you think? You want to get him over here now?

[falkeditupagain]

I honestly don't want to think about it today...as stupid as that as. I know we have to...but, man.

I just want to run away from it for a day. Let it be. [And he'll be putting his head in his hands and sighing. He's still sore from the fight, still bruised up and beaten and he doesn't want to think about it any more than he has to when it's still so fresh on him.]

[dicey]

Okay.

[Pitch wouldn't come back for at least a week, so getting behind by one day wouldn't hurt things, right? she turns off her PCD and slides it back into her pocket]

[slowly, Vriska leaves the door and walks over to Hanna, reaching out and putting a hand on his shoulder]

[falkeditupagain]

[When she does, he looks up, looking a lot more tired than he had minutes before.] How do people do this...?

I hate the guy, and I still feel fucking horrible.

[dicey]

Come here.

[she holds out an arm to wrap around him]