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71. [Action/Video] Backdated to Sunday afternoon.

Jun 27, 2011 23:00

[You know when you wake up and you feel like there's a leaden weight sitting on your chest, stopping you from moving? Most of the time when that happens, it's because of sleep paralysis. Somewhat less of the time, it's a close encounter of the third kind. ... This time, however, it's a very large Furret curled up neatly in the middle of Heather's ( Read more... )

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[Video] show_my_cannons June 28 2011, 03:17:01 UTC

Hey.

You made it.

[Video] foolishwren June 28 2011, 05:33:49 UTC

[A bleary (but not half-hearted) grin.]

Sure did. Just took my time, s'all.

[Video] show_my_cannons June 28 2011, 05:39:12 UTC

Need to work on your timing. Even the Autobot with the bad hip got back before you.

[Video] foolishwren June 28 2011, 07:48:04 UTC

Psh, never heard the phrase 'Slow and steady wins the race' before? [Not even a week of nonstop nightmares can quite put a damper on Heather's humor, as her tone indicates.]

[But his remark about getting back first makes her squint thoughtfully. ... Hadn't she seen...?]

... Y'know, I think you were in a dream of mine...

[Video] show_my_cannons June 28 2011, 07:57:14 UTC

Yeah. That is a lie.

[Because seriously, Ironhide is the slowest Autobot ever. He has never won a race.]

[He frowns.]

... Yeah. Yeah, you too. Blowing up buildings in an amusement park.

[Video] foolishwren June 28 2011, 08:07:42 UTC

... Yeah, it is, but. Y'know. Still. [She can't help that the nightmares she'd had to wade through all week long were slow as molasses!]

[Still, the grin she'd been wearing fades into a more thoughtful look when he confirms what she'd already been suspecting, based on what she could remember...]

... So you were there.

[It wasn't that Heather never dreamed of the people she knew here... she'd had more than a few dreams, both good and bad, involving the many faces she'd become acquainted with since arriving in Johto. ... But the vividness, and uniqueness of these dreams... some of them even involving people she'd never talked to... yeah. That wasn't normal. There was more to it than just restless dreams of her own...]

[Video] show_my_cannons June 28 2011, 08:33:57 UTC

Uh huh.

[He still looks skeptical. Until she speaks again. Then Ironhide only nods -- somberly.]

Others have noticed it too. Seeing people in their... memories. Dreams. Whatever it is we call them. Saw a few in mine.

[All those... lovely memories.]

[Video] foolishwren June 28 2011, 21:52:43 UTC

I ... guess it must've had to do with losing our souls... [She winces for a second, rubbing her temples. Now that she thinks of it... she remembers seeing him somewhere else, too... somewhere other than her own rusty old dreams. Somewhere sad.]

... I guess on any other occasion I'd have been pretty freaked at people getting to look into my head, but... judging from the other things I saw out there, I'm not the only one who has real bad dreams.

[Another pause... then a half-grin.]

But for the record... that turned into a GOOD dream when YOU showed up.

[Video] show_my_cannons June 29 2011, 01:22:26 UTC

[He has to stop himself from putting a hand to his chest when she says that. It's sort of instinctive, at this point.]

So I have heard.

[He's quiet a moment again, just listening, with his head canted to one side. A gesture that looks more robotic than anything.]

No. You are not. There are... few good memory files in this old processor anymore.

... except for when I get to blow a few things up.

[Video] foolishwren June 29 2011, 05:41:18 UTC

... Yeah, I sorta figured as much...

[It hadn't quite occurred to her before, but... Ironhide didn't seem like the happiest guy. And he'd said things to that effect, in that dream world...]

[She pauses a moment, because... yeah, discussing how you'd seen a person in your dreams? A LITTLE AWKWARD.]

... Those cannons were awesome.

[Video] show_my_cannons June 29 2011, 11:26:17 UTC

Smart kid.

[If he notices the pause, he doesn't remark on it. He probably figures it's just one of those things. But that quickly doesn't matter, because he's grinning.]

Hah! Yeah. I know. Designed them myself.

[Video] foolishwren June 29 2011, 18:26:49 UTC

Dude, if I thought I could get away with building guns in this world without having a police officer teleport into the room and haul me off in cuffs, I'd ask you to show me how you did it.

[Video] show_my_cannons June 29 2011, 20:38:09 UTC

If there were any decent components around here, I could do it in my recharge...

[Hold up.]

Officers do what?

[Video] foolishwren June 29 2011, 21:58:22 UTC

... What? ... OH. Teleport? ... Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration, but there are Pokemon around here that can do that...

[The Abra she'd watched Otacon flail all over the place in the process of capturing came to mind...]

[Video] show_my_cannons June 30 2011, 00:10:21 UTC

Yeah, and so can the enemy back home. The law enforcement... they really do it too?

[Video] foolishwren June 30 2011, 05:35:39 UTC

... Well, I was basically joking, but... I guess feasibly yeah, they could.

... Shit, I didn't mean that seriously but now I'm creeped.

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