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[queenofseers]

Oh, and he's a fucking lawyer! As if this couldn't get any shittier! Fuck.

I mean, how does he think he's going to bring Niko back into it? Does the gang exist here? His dad isn't here, is he?

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[h2no]

right? fuck my life, cass. just fuck it.

i don't know. i don't know what he's planning or what he wants. i think he might want to manipulate niko.

[h2no]

[a little while later:] it scares me

[queenofseers]

Me too. Fuck.

Look, this is better than it was when I met Niko. He's got you, so he's not just running around being ridiculous and thinking he's better than everyone. Not as much, at least. Maybe just...make it clear he can talk to you about things, somehow?

[h2no]

assuming he hasn't just switched to survival mode

[queenofseers]

[ Archie...he's usually more optimistic than this, even when he's down. ]

Nothing's going to happen unless you try. You know that.

[h2no]

[he is really not aware of how badly he's slipped.]

i know
but that's all i've been doing
for over a year
and now this fucker is here
and it was all for nothing

[queenofseers]

Okay, Archie, come the fuck on. It is not for nothing.

Do you need me to come over? Actually, don't answer that, maybe I just will.

[ She can't stand seeing him this despondent. To the point that it's getting her out of the house. ]

[h2no]

[ALL ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU

jk he's just really depressed.]

if you want
i'm in
i wouldn't say no to company

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[queenofseers]

Then I'll be over.

[ She says, getting up, getting out the door, going to the Porter to Nonah, and... ]

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[queenofseers]

[ Having an important realization about twenty minutes after her last text: ]

Archie how the fuck do I get to this place

[ Look. She's tired. And she thought it was more obvious than this. ]

[h2no]

[mood, cass. it takes him a moment to reply, but he does so with a yahoogle map link to the place.]

don't share that
apparently this location isn't meant to be widely known

[queenofseers]

Ah, it really is a secret compound. Alright.

[ Cut to about half hour later, when she knocks on the door...hoping it's Archie's. Perhaps she's waking up Poe!! Who knows!! ]

[h2no]

[fortuantely, it's archie that opens the door.]

It's not a compound! [he says a little indignantly, gesturing cass inside. good thing she missed his tantrum a couple months ago; the unit is probably shockingly clean for two stinky guys that live in it.]

I put coffee on. I have an IV bag around here somewhere if you wanna be hardcore about it.

[queenofseers]

Wh- I- is that an option? Why do you have an IV bag?

[ She starts with questions, clearly. But she lets herself in, somewhat quiet, knowing Niko is maybe around and asleep. She glances around, taking it in.

And then of course she raises her eyebrow and looks Archie over. ]

So. Do you need to vent? It sure seems like it.

[h2no]

Hyperbole, I don't actually have one.

[ah, cass. archie loves you but maybe one day you'll pick up on the sarcasm. he seems to be relatively matching her volume-- seems she's right about niko being present but asleep or otherwise indisposed.

he'd look worse, but his facepaint hides the worst of it, as usual. not unlike cassandra's, when she was urdr.]

There's not much to say that I haven't already said, honestly. We can just sit in silence if it works out that way.

[queenofseers]

That...makes more sense.

[ She'd been making reasons in her head. Something to do with his old healing power? But...no reason at all makes more sense.

As for his proposal, though, she shakes her head. ]

I didn't come here for us to just sit here, unless that's really what you want. I can tell you're way more off than you're telling me, Archie.

[h2no]

[he grimaces, taking a long drink from his own mug:] I don't know how to talk about these things. I wouldn't have half the problems I do if I was capable of even slightly looking after myself.

...I guess I wasted your time askin' you to come here.

[queenofseers]

[ Ugh, and now he's acting like he can't be helped. She rolls her eyes, though she sort of tries to suppress the motion. ]

No, you didn't. Come on, we should sit down.

[ She goes ahead and walks to whatever the nearest place to sit down is. ]

Do you really think you can't take care of yourself? Why?

[h2no]

[there is a couch with a coffee table, an arm chair that currently has a mightena in it. archie joins her a few minutes later, bringing over a cup of coffee. he finished his own. gulped that shit down anxiously.]

Not... physically. Ugh. It sounds so bad when you say it! [probably because it is a bad thing to say, dummy.] I don't know. There's too much going on all the time. I can't process it. I don't know how people manage to limit it.

[queenofseers]

Oh, you're telling me. Honestly, I don't think I'm actually keeping track of everything anymore. I mean- who the fuck are the new imPorts now? I thought I had a grip on this shit once.

[ Perhaps dying has made her a little insular. She flops a bit comfortably at the couch and reaches over to pat Mightyena, who she luckily finds much less unnerving than the rest of Archie's Pokemon, because it's...just a dog. ]

I think that part's just normal. Do you feel responsible for it? Because you're in Aegis?

[h2no]

[mightyena is clearly happy to receive the attention, tail thumping off the chair as it licks at cass's hand and whines a little, happily.]

Believe it or not, joining Aegis made absolutely no difference to any of that. Gettin' leadership dumped into my lap and having to deal with holdin' it all together through a revolvin' door of Port outs didn't help, but frankly it's no different from any other experience I've had here. People portin' out, other people fallin' apart because us imPorts are a co-dependant lot. I just had more paperwork this time.

[queenofseers]

[ Wow...a good dog...Cass is not an animal person, but feels she must scritch the dog again. It whined! It wants more scritches!

Of course, then she crosses her legs and leans back in the chair, eyebrow raised. ]

This really isn't helping your argument against taking a break from Aegis, you know. It sounds like it's just making shit worse, even if it's the same shit.

[h2no]

I want to take a break from here. Ideally, I'd just go live at the bottom of the ocean for a couple days, but I can't do that.

[he shrugs.]

I don't know. I miss things being predictable. --I mean... I guess things are kind of predictably awful, but I can't keep a routine because something always comes up. How sad is it sometimes I like to go visit Martin just because I know where he'll be and what he'll be doing?

[queenofseers]

That's not sad. If I didn't have Martin in my house...

[ Wow, that makes her feel sentimental. She had to be convinced to move in with Rex and Martin, and now she can't imagine being nearly as coherent as she is, with the things she's been through, without that rock. ]

I'd probably use it as an excuse to act a lot more like a fucking mess, that's for sure. [ She pauses to think for a moment. ] Nobody would fault you if you went on an actual vacation. Go to the ocean or something. That is a thing you can do.