010 - Voice

[epiccombo]

Hey. It's Puck.

[He sounds quiet, and not at all his usual loud and out there self.]

What's going on with everyone? Some really messed up shit went down.

[He pauses.]

Comments

[private video forever]

[usskickass]

Yeah. Stayed locked up the whole time. Didn't know if...

[She didn't know if she was the dangerous one. But she probably shouldn't say that.]

What about you, Puckerman?

[epiccombo]

Locked up?

[That's a little extreme.]

I, uh.

[There's no easy way to say this.]

A couple of kids with swords got me.

[usskickass]

Right.

[She glances away, heart clenching slightly. She doesn't want to imagine it, but she does have to acknowledge it.]

I'm sorry, Puckerman. If I trusted myself, I would've been there.

[epiccombo]

Shit, Coach, don't do that.

You didn't see them. They wouldn't have stopped.

[Somewhere, way down deep, Puck is feeling a little bad now.]

[usskickass]

You know how strong I am, Puckerman. Between the two of us, we could've at least tied 'em up or something.

[She sighs. Yeah, hiding away was probably the stupid route.]

[epiccombo]

Yeah, I guess. But Coach...

[God, he's feeling like a wuss now. They couldn't have been more than thirteen or fourteen.

He doesn't even know what to say now.]

They were creepy as hell. I'm gonna be seeing red eyes all over the place now.

[usskickass]

[Red eyes. She can't be sure if he's being literal there, but she'll log that away just in case.]

Well, if they weren't in their right minds, we can't exactly blame 'em.

[epiccombo]

Yeah, I guess. Still sucks, though.

[He knows the mansion was screwing around, but still... he's not gonna be able to look at Dave or Terezi the same way.]

[usskickass]

I don't blame you if you wanna avoid everybody for a while. Just don't...don't hold grudges if you can help it, okay?

[She thought about this a lot during her lockdown. She's come to a conclusion about everything.]

Whatever happens, we're all in this together. Won't do us any good to start fighting amongst ourselves, you know?

[epiccombo]

Avoid everyone? Why would I do that?

[He responds defensively, to cover up the fact that he's thinking about hiding out in his room for awhile.]

I don't hate anyone. The mansion's a piece of crap that gets off on messing with people. It wasn't their fault and I'm not gonna go fight someone just 'cause...

[He doesn't finish that sentence.]

Yeah. Way too much effort.

[usskickass]

[Shrug.] Just sayin' it's an option and nobody would blame you.

I'm glad you're being rational about this, Puckerman. Not everybody would be that strong.

[epiccombo]

Yeah, well. It's too much like running away, you know?

[He shrugs.]

Speaking of running away... Someone should check up on Lopez. Don't ask me what her deal is, if she got killed or what, but it sounds pretty bad.

[usskickass]

Alright. I'll try and talk to her. You're okay for now?

[epiccombo]

Yeah, I guess.

Thanks, Coach.

[usskickass]

You got it, Puckerman.