Echo / Dollhouse (post-s1) / End of the Universe)

[mm_adiva]

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[hoorayfor_me]

Echo may not remember Freya, but Freya remembers Echo. And Freya is looking at Echo from over her book.

"Are you okay?"

She can tell, of course, that the answer will be no, but Echo's thoughts are... weird.

[hoorayfor_me]

That's not right.

[doingeverything]

Yeah. Not so much.

"Family," she repeats. She doesn't seem to understand the word.

But maybe, on an instinctive level . . . More slowly, but more clearly, come more images: a young man with a square jaw, a light-haired Asian woman, a tall black man. The last is accompanied by a sense of -- trust, and protectiveness, and safety.

She shakes her head again. "I -- I don't know."

[hoorayfor_me]

Softly, "Do they have names?"

[doingeverything]

She blinks, and the images are gone.

"What?"

[hoorayfor_me]

...Well, that didn't work so well.

"I have a sister," she says, conversationally. "Her name is June. She's a lawyer."

[doingeverything]

Echo's pretty easily distracted.

Which is a good thing, in this case; it means she focuses on what Freya's saying rather than her own anxiety, and starts to relax.

"June is a nice name."

[hoorayfor_me]

She nods, slightly distracted. "We hadn't talked for a while, but we've been getting to know each other again."

[doingeverything]

"Why didn't you talk?"

[hoorayfor_me]

"Because I was... unavailable."

Read: labeled a catatonic schizophrenic and locked in an insane asylum.

[doingeverything]

"For talking?"

It's . . . entirely likely that Echo is misunderstanding how Freya is using the term talk, here.

[hoorayfor_me]

"Yeah."

[doingeverything]

"Oh."

(Bemused Doll is bemused.)