[The feed opens in a decidedly innocent fashion. It's jauntily wobbling back and forth as its holder walks, and the screen is filled by a big blue :D face, backed by an even bluer sky. ... And the occasional waving green tips from the sand dunes he's passing. Yes, Butch the Quagsire is on the beach, waddling happily down to the shore with Heather's
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...What's wrong?
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[Every so often Otacon found himself wondering what would happen if Vamp showed himself in Johto somehow. None of the possible outcomes were exactly all that great.]
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[Then pauses... lapsing into silence for a moment or two.]
[... And when she speaks again, it's possibly with the oddest request she's ever given to Otacon. At least, considering what she'd just told him.]
Hal, I...
... I want you to promise not... not to let Liquid hurt her.
... Even if she hurts me.
Can... can you do that?
[... Heather, what the hell?]
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[If it came to that, Otacon didn't know if even he could stop Liquid at that point.]
I don't know why you'd ask something like that, but...if that's what you want, then I'll try. You know Liquid's hard to stop from doing stupid things, even for me.
[But if anyone hurt Heather, Otacon could make no real promises about what he would do.]
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Please.
[Heather has never seriously begged Otacon for anything in all the time she's known him. Jokingly? Yes. But this? This is new.]
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... I love you, okay?
I love you a lot.
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I...I know, Heather.
Don't worry, okay? Everything's going to be fine.
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Yeah. I know.
[... That doesn't stop her from feeling sick to her stomach, though.]
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... Are you guys still in Ecruteak?
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Yeah, we are. I don't think either of us have even challenged the gym leader yet.
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Touche...
Well, if you guys are still there when we get there, I wanna take you both out to dinner. Like we did way back in Violent last summer.
... 'Cept I think I'll have to pass on the booze this time.
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...On both counts, really.
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... Not to mention, I might get an earful from YOUR dad, too.
He lectured me about cigarettes earlier.
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[He had to get the lecture gene from somewhere, Heather.]
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