o7 panic attacks | Audio

[gunhearted]

[Nice is home. She's in bed asleep, and wrapped up in bandages and Jacuzzi is... sitting in their living room, kind of just waiting for her to wake up. He doesn't need the sleep (he'll eventually pass out in the wee hours of the morning, but for now) he'd rather wait to see if she needs anything. Help or medicine or--

He can't sleep right now anyway. Out of the hospital, his mind is buzzing. He finally has a break to himself when he's not waiting for nurses or doctors to go through, where he's not putting on his best face for Nice. He's not the one hurt, after all. But the anxiety is creeping in again.]

I-I don't get it, guys. We knew it was gonna happen. We knew it could've happened and we couldn't stop it, anyway. Me and Nice--

Everything's going weird with us. Every time something happens and we get an echo, we--we keep being more and more like the guys we remember. And every time we remember something, we can't stop it from happening. We can't stop anything... I can't stop anything.

I don't get it. I don't get why we're getting these--I don't get why she had to get hurt! W-what's the point of this anyway, why are we gettin' these if they're just there to hurt people?! Nice and I aren't getting any crazy powers, we can't fight aliens, we're just--

We're just normal!

So why is it happening to us?!

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[anequal]

Shit luck, I think. To be honest that's all I can say.

What's up with your friend?

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[gunhearted]

She got hurt in an accident. Just like how she was hurt in the memories we got.

[anequal]

... Oh.

Is she okay?

[gunhearted]

I-I think she's gonna be but--but she got hurt pretty bad.

[anequal]

Jesus.

And you guys got her treated, right? How did she even...?

[gunhearted]

Somethin' she got back blew up. [He doesn't want to go into too much detail...]

She was at the hospital, but she's home now...

[anequal]

... Blew up.

Does she have more?

[gunhearted]

A-a lot more... [He sniffles.]

[anequal]

... She a terrorist or something?

[gunhearted]

Why would you think something like that?! She's not!

[Though. She did have a lot of bombs in her last life and he. Does remember quite a bit of train hijacking even if it wasn't them doing it...]

[anequal]

I know a guy who got involved in blowing stuff up and the government treated him like a terrorist for a while. He was stuck in hiding.

I guess I was referring more to your friend's past self though.

[gunhearted]

Y-you shouldn't blow stuff up, it's really dangerous!!

And... and we weren't... great people, back then...

[anequal]

Well I know that! I'm just saying, I know a guy who got stuck in that situation so I wondered if your friend--

... Does she still have the bombs?

[gunhearted]

W-we're talking about getting rid of them. I-it's just not easy! You can't just throw something like that away!

[anequal]

... Well.

Do you know what your past guys did with those bombs?

[gunhearted]

I don't think I wanna know... [He's not aware how he came into that 10k...]

[anequal]

... I hope you never find out, dude. But hey if you need anything just give the network a ring, or I'm willing to help too.

[gunhearted]

I keep needin' everybody's help all the time...

[He's kind of wondering if his parents were right about how useless he is....]

[anequal]

Yeah? So? There's nothing wrong with that.

My girlfriend makes me reach for stuff for her all the time.