Room 419 [Thursday Afternoon]

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Carmela's mind's been made up for weeks now about what she's going to do after graduation. The stack of thick envelopes from a handful of different universities lie unopened on her desk, and while most of her things had gone back with her brother following graduation weekend ("I'm a wizard, not a pack mule!" he'd protested initially), there was

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[hotceltogoth]

Ronan knocked on the door to Carmela's room, poking his head around the doorframe. "Dai," he said. "Heading home?"

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"Not... exactly?" Carmela says. "I mean, yes, for a few days. To get ready."

[hotceltogoth]

Ronan nodded. "Big plans for the summer, then?" he asked. "You hadn't mentioned anything, so I'd figured you were either staying here or heading home."

[grenfelzer]

"Well, I was *going* to mention it," Carmela says. "But things just kept coming up. Like prom, and our kid from the future showing up, and graduation, and did I mention our freaking kid showing up?"

[itsjustlanguage]

Hoshi was kicking herself over the good-byes she had missed while she was being impulsive with Xenos, so she made sure to stop by Carmela's room. "I'm sad that you have to go," she said.

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"I'll miss this place, and my friends here," Carmela admits. "But this is an opportunity I'd probably spend the rest of my life kicking myself for if I passed it up."

[itsjustlanguage]

"I understand," said Hoshi, thinking of her decisions to leave Xenos behind in Rhodes and return to Fandom. "I'm still going to miss you, though."

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"I'll write!" Carmela promises. "And call. And look for some interesting alien artifacts to send your way, if you'd like," she adds with a grin.