[Most of the time, that whole cliche where people awake from a nightmare by BOLTING upright in their beds, eyes wide, sweat-soaked, and gasping like a fish? Totally false. Real life is rarely that dramatic, and accordingly, neither is Heather's normal reaction to bad dreams. She has them so often that they're rarely worth the energy to make such a
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Is everything okay over there?
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Yeah, uh... just. Weird night.
Are YOU okay?
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I don't know where I am. Everybody else here is asleep.
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You don't-- uh. Stay calm or... or something. Um. What does it look like where you are?
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[ow ow ow oh god note to self do not raise voice even if it's to get someone's attention. there's the sound of someone muffled speaking and Sora wheezing and then it suddenly goes completely silent for a minute-- he's clamped his hand over the 'gear's speaker.]
[about 20 seconds later:]
It's Goldenrod. I'm in Goldenrod... somehow.
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What the hell...
Are you okay, kiddo?
Edgeworth said he showed up here too...
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I don't know. I don't know anybody here except for Bell and I'm alone and people are poking me and--
[wheeeeeze.]
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[Heather's brows rise when he starts to freak, and she holds up her hands, panicking a little, herself. She's not entirely sure SHE'S calm enough-- or THERE enough-- to calm him down.]
Whoa-- easy! It's okay! It's okay. D'you.... augh, do you want me to come get you?
[If she could make it there without falling off of something and DYING, anyway...]
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You really don't mind? ... Yeah... Yeah, could you come please?
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[More like twenty. She's totally off-kilter but she's not just gonna go running off into the night in her boxers.]
[The screen blips off, but Heather does show up, slightly more clothed than before, at the Pokemon Center door awhile later. She looks... well, like hell.]
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[in any case, he won't be hard to find. he's the one toward the back still in the Totodile jammies and bandages and arguing-- feebly, but still arguing-- with a nurse. "you are not poking me again, lady. get away please!"]
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Hey-- Sora.
[The nurses give her a dirty look when she suddenly pops up in their midst but w/e.]
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[Sora's going down in pokécenter history as one of their Worst Patients Ever at this rate-- he bats a nurse's arm away and tries to sit up. climb out of bed. fall out of bed. whichever comes first.]
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[Heather waves a hand.]
Whoa, take it easy! Don't hurt yourself!
[She doesn't blame him, though-- she HATES getting poked and prodded at by nurses, herself.]
... Jesus, what HAPPENED to you?
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I don't-- [-- he stops and tries to take a deep breath. it doesn't really work.]
Don't know. Keep telling me I fell off a building.
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Holy shit. [Yeah, Heather cusses in front of kids, whatofit.]
I-- is anything broken?
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