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Bishop had a really good niece, it looked like. A guy who didn't know WHAT the hell was going on, who anyone was, or any sort of Nexus-useful info at all, it's a pretty good thing that Yumi stuck with him. Besides, she was saying that she'd take him to Shard! And what could be bad about that?
"So, um." Didn't quite catch the name. "About where do you think she'll be?"
Lame, yes, but you try chit-chat while in Terminal Confusion!
"So, um." Didn't quite catch the name. "About where do you think she'll be?"
Lame, yes, but you try chit-chat while in Terminal Confusion!
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Date: 2007-04-27 01:46 am (UTC)From:She punches in a code which teleports them to a spot in a sunny, if rundown section of a town. An alleyway, to be precise. She steps away, grabbing his hand and pulling along. "Come on, this way!"
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Date: 2007-04-27 01:55 am (UTC)From:And while he is clung to and feels that gut-wrenching sense of dislocation again, things start to come back a little.. But right now, alleyways are an old home and he's running along with her.
Waaait. What's with the palm trees?
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Date: 2007-04-27 02:09 am (UTC)From:Yumi pulls him toward a two-story building that looks like an apartment building. Which turns out to be an apartment building, actually. She leads him upstairs, knocking on the door.
Shard's actually just out of the shower, hair up in a towel on her head. She frowns at the knock, heading over to open the door. "Hello..." She trails off, smiling. "Yumi! Good to see you!" She hugs the girl, then looks past her and stops. Stares.
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Date: 2007-04-27 02:20 am (UTC)From:Okay, okay, people living in unbroken buildings, he can probably get used to that, this has some nagging familiarity to it.. Wait.
WHAT.
....
WHAT.
....
"Sh.. Shard!?"
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Date: 2007-04-27 02:30 am (UTC)From:Yumi wisely gets out of her Mom's alternate's way, then PINpoints out before she has to explain what's going on. She's already going to get the serious face from her Mom anyway.
Shard walks closer, staring at Bishop. She's definitely older. Taller than he would last remember. "Oh man. What happened to you?"
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Date: 2007-04-27 02:45 am (UTC)From:oldBIG! What the hell is up!?"He's bzuh, bzuh, wait a minute this is how he's seen her forever, wait WHAT? What is going on inside his mind? These hazyish images..
"Something about that disappearing girl.. And a cake.." Ow, he's getting a headache.
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Date: 2007-04-27 02:49 am (UTC)From:"Cake? Did you eat something in the Nexus, Bishop?" That would explain so much. "It's usually a bad idea."
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Date: 2007-04-27 02:59 am (UTC)From:"Yumi.. Yeah, that's sounding right.." Owowow, dammit what the hell is that!? "I think it was her birthday or something, her and that cake.. Good icing, I think."
Don't worry, Shard. A little bit of patience and someday Bishop, too, will make sense!
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Date: 2007-04-27 03:04 am (UTC)From:"It's Yumi's birthday?" Oh hell. Now doesn't she feel like a bad alternate mother? Shard sighs, rubbing her forehead. "Well, you look like you're about seventeen. And I'm pretty sure today is her seventeenth. Nexus must have a weird sense of humor."
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Date: 2007-04-27 03:46 am (UTC)From:Intercede forcefully.)
"I think I gave her something.." He hasn't copped to who Yumi is yet, just kinda massaging her temples right now.. But yeah, I think I'm seventeen. Is that her age?" He hasn't made the connection, primarily due to the fact that his BRAIN feels like it wants to throb out the back of his SKULL.
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Date: 2007-04-27 11:13 am (UTC)From:"If it's her birthday, then yeah. She's been seventeen for as long as I've known her." Again with rubbing her head. "Go ahead and sit down. Do you want something to drink?" She went and got a glass anyway, as well as a bottle of pain killers. The way he was massaging his temples was familiar.
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Date: 2007-04-28 03:47 am (UTC)From:And sometimes he falls off.)
"...Um. Shard..?" Yes, he's still not QUITE sure as to her identity. "If you've known her before, and it's her birthday NOW..." Surely the inference can write itself!
Still, he's getting offered a drink. "Uh, okay. Got any beer?"
Depending on your take on his urban dystopia-childhood, he's either testing her again or REALLY pushing his luck. AH! DAMMIT! Head just PULSING now...
"You died."
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Date: 2007-04-28 11:58 am (UTC)From:She sighed, rubbing the back of her head. "The whole thing with Yumi is really complicated. But no, I didn't know when her birthday was. I should have guessed it was coming up, though." Had she really been in the Nexus for nine months now? No, it was actually closer to ten, she thought.
He was getting water, though, whether he liked it or not. She'd just started pouring it, though, when he whispered that. The glass clattered into the sink as she turned, staring at Bishop for a moment before grabbing another glass and filling it. "Yeah," Shard said, walking over and offering him the dry glass and sitting down. "I did."
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Date: 2007-04-29 08:58 pm (UTC)From:He's just looking confused, upset, and (surprisingly for Bishop?) more than a little vulnerable, now. "How did you get better, then!? I don't know how I'm remembering things that I couldn't POSSIBLY know about, but you don't just wave off that kind of thing!" Water is ignored for the moment, as he's staring at Shard with this.. doubting and angry look on his face. "Just what's happening to me!?"
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Date: 2007-04-29 09:51 pm (UTC)From:She smiled quickly. "You got LOLed. Right now, your body and mind are those of when you were seventeen. But your brain still has the memories from before and it's trying to reconcile them with what you should remember now."
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Date: 2007-04-29 10:00 pm (UTC)From:Well, uh.
Okay, something that needs to be known. "Just how old WAS I? ..You know, before." Because this headache was KILLING him. How many years of info was it trying to squeeze into his skull?
Oh, and he still wanted to know how she went from 'dead' to 'NOT!' And he's hoping it's not a really disgusting way.
For her sake.
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Date: 2007-04-29 10:15 pm (UTC)From:It totally does, doesn't it?
"Late thirties. Your brain is working with about twenty years of extra memories."
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Date: 2007-04-29 10:26 pm (UTC)From:"Well, shit.." Nobody to wash his mouth out! And that was totally due to brain catching up, of COURSE.
"Okay, but where are we now? This doesn't look like any part of the world I know about.."
It's really too bad Shard's being forced to summarize backstory, isn't it? At least she doesn't have to wear cruddy Jedi robes and have a last name like 'Kenobi.' But what do you think
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Date: 2007-04-29 10:43 pm (UTC)From:"No, it doesn't. This is Hawai'i. Year is 2007. It's not our world, but one similar." She sighs, rubbing her forehead. "It's a long story, and one you'll probably remember pretty soon. The Nexus gives you access to a lot of different worlds. I've settled here for the moment."
Brandon says she needs to get pictures. There will be some soon, no doubt.
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Date: 2007-05-01 03:20 am (UTC)From:"..2007."
...
"..Okay, seriously Shard. Just what the hell has one of us been smoking!? Because this is just some crazy bullshit here!" He's kind of hit his threshold for 'crazy nonsense crap' for the moment. Give him a minute, let it sink in..
Also, older!Bishop's opinion of that can be best expressed thus:
B|
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Date: 2007-05-01 06:50 pm (UTC)From:"Look, just don't think about it quite so much at the moment. If your memories are trying to come back, it'll be easier if you aren't fighting them."
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Date: 2007-05-03 04:58 am (UTC)From:"Um. Okay, what can we do for distraction then?"
You could always play Trouble, Shard. It's got the Pop-A-Matic Bubble! :D
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Date: 2007-05-03 11:00 am (UTC)From:Shard hmms softly, looking around. "We could go for a walk. Take you down to the ocean." She didn't see his reaction the first time he ever saw the ocean. It would be interesting to see now.
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Date: 2007-05-04 03:54 am (UTC)From:And that's not even including Age of Apocalypse memories!
"..Oh, RIGHT! 2007! The ocean's still BLUE!" He's giddy as a stereotypical schoolboy, as opposed to the actual thuggish and bland schoolboys! "Let's go!"