Memory 001: Starting over again.

[forgotten_titan]

Good morning 625 Topper Street! Usually, the house would be filled with the chatter of the drone!kids and the drone!wife as they start the day all fresh and chirpy. However, this time there's something, or rather someone, who's acting out of the "ordinary" for drones. Rather, when the drone!mum pops up to shake her "daughter" awake, all she gets is

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625 Topper Street

[bye_to_yer_head]

*It's 7 a.m. It's 7 a.m. and Sniper is currently in the kitchen grabbing a beer. No this is not unusual in any way. He was actually hoping he could time this so that he'd be in the kitchen while the drone!mom was waking up the kids and then out again before she came back down. But then he turns around and stares.

That's... that's not either of his drone kids.*

Th' hell are you doing?

*First impressions are key afterall, at least he hasn't gone for his knife.*

[forgotten_titan]

(She nearly stumbles when she gets caught out, but she quickly pins herself to the wall and glares at him as fiercely as she can. She can't let herself appear intimidated by the kidnappers!)

Let me go. I don't know why you abducted me, but I'm pretty sure my dad has called the police and reported this. Just...let me go, and I won't tell anyone.

(Her voice betrays her bravado though, as it shakes right near the end.)

[bye_to_yer_head]

*That deer in headlights look she has almost makes him smile.*

Abducted? Why th' hell would I kidnap you? Anyway, yer in my house, mate.

*He opens his beer and leans against the counter, regarding her coldly as he starts drinking.*

[forgotten_titan]

Wait, you didn't kidnap me? Then...then why am I here?

[bye_to_yer_head]

Cos th' town stuck you here. Jus' loike everyone else.

Or do you mean why are you in my house? Maybe yer after stealing things. Yer welcome to it if you want.

[forgotten_titan]

What do you mean? When I woke up, I was in the bed upstairs. What do you mean that the town stuck me here?

[bye_to_yer_head]

That's what this troppo town does t' people. You wake up here an' you can't leave. The town I mean, not th' house.

Think this mean's I'm probably short a drone kid then. An' just when I was gonna teach 'em to shoot each other too.

[forgotten_titan]

(She's finding it difficult to follow the man's accent. She KNOWS it's Australian, but still, there are a few words that she doesn't get.)

Tr-troppo? Drone? And what do you mean "shoot each other"!?

(Her voice is getting higher and higher. Exactly WHAT has she gotten herself into!?)

[bye_to_yer_head]

What part 'f 'shoot each other' wasn't easy t' follow fer ya?

*He gestures with his beer at the drone boy who's come in to eat some cereal.*

Was gonna give that one a pistol an' the girl a revolver an' see who lasted longest. But I'm not sure they'd actually go through with it.

*He shrugs and chugs down some more of his drink.*

Guess I won't be findin' out.

[forgotten_titan]

(She's just going to stare at you. And take a few steps back.)

Are you...are you going to shoot me?

[bye_to_yer_head]

Why would I shoot you? Yer not some fake drone. This kid, he ain't a real person.

*Without warning Sniper reaches out and pulls the boy off the chair and tosses him across the room. The drone doesn't react, simply sitting back down and eating his cereal.*

Normally keep th' lot 'f the creepy buggers locked up in th' basement. But I let 'em out yesterday.

*The expression on his face makes it clear he now thinks that was a mistake.*

[forgotten_titan]

(She nearly screams when he throws the kid. She doesn't know which is freakier; the fact that he did it so calmly, or the fact that the boy just goes back to his seat and keeps eating his cereal.)

What happened to him?

(Her voice comes out in a whisper. She's stuck in a house with crazy people. She's going to die.)

[bye_to_yer_head]

No idea. The town's fulla these fake people though.

I'm Sniper by the way.

*Best to get that out there before the not!wife comes around and starts calling him Mason.*

[forgotten_titan]

Sniper?

(Her eyes grow wide with FEAR. Her back's pressed against the wall so hard that she wishes that she could just go through it.)

Are you...are you a killer?

[bye_to_yer_head]

*He eyes her. Suddenly unsure if she's a Spy. No one should be this scared of a name. It would be just like that coward to pretend to be a young girl....*

Some people 'ave put it that way. I loike t' think of myself as an Assassin.

You can relax. I ain't gonna hurt you.

[forgotten_titan]

(Oh seriously Sniper? A Spy? And it's not like she's afraid of your name, but of what it means.)

O, OK.

(She doesn't trust the man yet. But for now, she's going to have to take him at face value.)

Are you stuck here too then?