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[Familiar white dress. Familiar annoying scroll. Familiar garden full of flowers, familiar vine creeping up on her, begging for her input.

Fine.

She's unsure whether she's proud or not, to realize that it comes as second nature to her.]You know, I thought I dreamed this place up. I really, really believed that. I guess that's just something you

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[ ...her breath catches in her throat when she sees the face on the screen. It's been months, and she still had that place in her heart set aside no matter how pointless it was, then she'd JUST been MAYBe getting over it, and now, Santana. ]

You... you missed a lot. Monsters, mistletoe, plenty of bullshit.

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Larry. You're still here. It's...good to see you.

[Was it? The Santana of a year ago would have taken it just fine. No feelings, no problem, right? But now that she was better at admitting these kinds of things...it was a disaster, actually.]

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Yeah, I've been stuck here straight through. It's good to see you too...

[ And she's... near where they all show up too...

Larry's totally unsure as to whether or not she should run over there, especially if Santana's been gone for a while. ]

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Well, it looks like you haven't gotten mauled recently. That's good.

[Santana's not sure either. She won't say anything about it, idle conversation works instead.]

How long was I gone?

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Yeah, yeah. I've been taking care of myself.

[ It takes a moment to remember; it's easy to lose track of time without the flow of city life to keep her in line, and that hasn't changed in over a year here. ]

About five months, on our end.

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Wow. It's been a year. Back in Lima.

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A whole year... wow. Have things been... uh... going alright back home?

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Last week I got outed in a political ad.

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...oh.

[ She doesn't know WHAT to say about that. It doesn't help that just the thought makes her want to find a time machine and head over to Lima some time. ]

Shit... are you alright?

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I also lost Sectionals and had to rejoin the New Directions so I could sing my senior year, and my abuela never wants to see me again. It's crap. And still better than here.

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Ha! Yeah... I guess that's not too hard, huh? Do you want me to come find you?

[ Oooor maybe she's just making an excuse to herself to go find her. ]

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I know my way.

[Yes, she knows that isn't a yes or a no.]

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[ Can't even tell if that's a rejection or not. ]

Those cats are pretty good about helping people around anyways.

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I remember.

...you can come if you really want to.

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I'll be right over.

[ Excuse or not, she heads straight over, trying to keep her heart from leaping out of her throat.

When she spots Santana, she waves almost shyly as she walks over. ]

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[She's still curled up on the ground, so she doesn't see Larry until she's close.]

Hey.