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[calicoway]

Luke's in the common room, smoking and thinking about five years that exist hundreds of years in the future. The people he met there. The people here, who he missed so much throughout those five years and how it feels like he's finally home

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[shockwillrock]

Here Luke, have a bored Electric Elemental.

Jasper's been contemplating taking advantage of the lift being fixed, but weighing possible fun against possible gruesome danger, he decided that it just wasn't worth it.

So he's sitting upside down in a chair, watching Luke smoke with interest.

"Where are you, mate?" He finally asks, noting how distant he seems. "Because it's not here, that's for sure."

He's genuinely interested, which is new for him. Either being around people has started to make him a bit less ornery or he's bored enough to want to have a decent conversation.

[calicoway]

Luke looks away from his cigarette and flashes Jasper a smile.

"Yeah. Sorry. Head's stuck about a hundred years or so in the future."

He tilts his head to the side looking up at the ceiling for a second before his gaze falls back to the now. "Y'know when all the shit was goin' around here? Explosions 'n such." The 'such' means torture, cause he won't say it out loud so easily. "Sort of got thrown in some sort of time vortex. Like the Rift 'cept didn't take me to another time and 'nother universe, just... the future of this one, yeah?"

[shockwillrock]

Jasper tilts his head to the side which is not all that easy to do when you're sitting upside down.

"You're kiddin' me, right?" No, that's not exactly something to joke about, so he goes on with the intention of making that first question seem completely rhetorical. "Well, what's the future like? Can't get any more bleak than this one, can it?"

Oh yes, Jasper. Yes, it can, you poor, naive little boy.

[calicoway]

"Nah, not sure that'd make much of a joke if I was." Luke smirks, placing the cigarette back in his mouth and trying to think of the best way to sum it all up.

He bites his lower lip.

"Well. I spent five years there and 'm afraid it's hard to sum up. 'specially for me not much with the... words 'n all, but well, for one thing humans were extinct. Not supernatural humans as they're called now, but the regular humans. Just supernaturals were left. Never ran into any angels or demons so not sure about them."

[shockwillrock]

Jasper does something that might look like a vaguely somersault off the chair and rights himself again, moving to sit on the floor and regard Luke with a rather perplexed expression on his face. "Sounds pretty grim to me."

And he won't let on that it kinda bothers him. He'll be dead in a hundred years, but that doesn't change the fact that, even if he's cynical by nature, he expected better of the world in that amount of time.

"Five years," he repeats, shaking his head so that his thick hair falls into his eyes and he has to brush it away again. "How'd you get back to exactly this time and place again then?"

[calicoway]

"No idea. Not really knowledgeable on Rifts and the like. No one there was either and it's not like anyone knows much here or all the Wanderers would've been home by now."

Luke stares up at the ceiling, and then turns his gaze to Jasper, again. "Thought I'd have to pick up the pieces over five years, but I guess time works differently somehow when you go through. Five years was like five days or somethin'."

[shockwillrock]

"That's just bloody weird, mate," Jasper shakes his head. He thought it was hard just getting his head around what's going on in this one time period with its wars, and Rifts, and a variety of crazy things.

"So... If they didn't know anything about it, that means the Rift was still functional? No one in this time period figured out how to reverse it?"

He asks because he's got a lot of friends here who came through that thing and try as he might to pretend he doesn't care, he does.

[calicoway]

"Dunno. I think... and look this is just a potential future. 's what V said, anyway. Things can still change. Might not end up like that still. Gotta believe that." Luke offers him what he hopes is a reassuring smile, although, he figures an expression that V would have. Or Brando might be more reassuring than his smiles.

"Maybe someone figured out how to reverse the Rift and people forgot, again, and it all came back. Most of the world was destroyed by war, disease... there were rumors, stories. It was so far into the future, nobody knew the real truth, yeah?"

[shockwillrock]

"Yeah," Jasper nods slowly. "Never been big on faith, me, but... Well, I'd like to think that's not a future we're heading towards."

He'd also like to think that demons won't kill him when he steps outside, but wanting to think that doesn't make it any less likely to happen.

Still. Faith. It doesn't hurt... Except when it gets shattered, but he's hoping he won't live long enough for that if it really does come to pass.

[calicoway]

"Me neither. But five years in the future'll teach you it can do some good. Faith that is. It's sort of all they exist on up there."

Faith in prophecy. In seers visions. In him... before he had even arrived, but God that's all such a long story he's not sure he could get into it if he tried.

"'m Luke, by the way." He tosses his cigarette into the fire and smiles.

[shockwillrock]

"Guess that'd do it," Jasper shrugs.

He grins in that cocky way he's got going on. "Jasper. Nice to meet you. Granted, better circumstances have presented themselves, but, hey, at least it's all over."

For now.

[calicoway]

Luke's smiles spreads into the grin at the sight of Jaspers.

"Yeah, well, I've met some of the best people under not so great circumstances. I think I can handle it." He turns so that he's sitting upside down on his chair now and touching the floor with his fingers.

"Oh! They don't speak English in the future, either. Not out in the open anyway. Dead language, which... means then that if you utter a word of it, you get killed."

[shockwillrock]

Jasper tilts his head to the side again rather like a intrigued puppy, blinking. "Seriously? What the bloody hell do they speak?"

Oh yeah. He is very much hoping that he never has to experience any of this future- even if he actually lives to be a hundred.

[calicoway]

Luke smirks at him.

"Russian. A bit of French and Chinese. Mostly Russian though."

And then he pauses and laughs with an amused little grin. "Yeah, I know what you're thinking. I'm not sure how it all happened, either. Thankfully, the lower supernaturals. Ones who aren't in control, basically slaves, working the resources out for the big guys? They had a resistance goin' on. Underground thing. They spoke English there. And other languages. They had a real thing with remembering the languages since no one could remember anything else. Most of the stories got lost."

[shockwillrock]

Jasper leans against the chair he was once sitting on and just shakes his head. "Sounds like something out of a Sci-fi novel to me, mate, but I guess that's pretty much our entire life now... Something like what I used to watch on TV when I was a kid."

Don't flatter yourself, Jasper. You're still a kid.

[calicoway]

Luke raises his eyebrows at that, which makes him look even more silly with his curly hair touching the floor beneath him and his eyes dark with amusement.

"Yeah, guess so." He tilts his head to the side. "How old are you anyway? You're usin' a phrase old people use."