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[wonk]

part the first:
Who: Roxy, Thad, and Dr. Strider
Where: LSR clinic
When: Morning of the 13th
What: Getting her pink eyes checked

part the second:
Who: Roxy, Thad, DJ
Where: A generic street corner in the city somewhere
When: Around noon on the 13th
What: Introducing a dork to a dickprince

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[wonk]

[Roxy grins and hugs him, squeezing tightly.]

Great! Also, fuck you, my kidneys are gonna be fine and you suck.

[She lets go, and points a thumb back at the other boy.]

This is Thad, I met him a few years back. Play nice, alright?

[synchronous]

[ Oh, a hug. That's weird and awkward. He squeezes back briefly before pulling away, snickering a little. ]

Hey--

[ And then he gets a better look at Thad. Oh. Ohhh. He isn't so bad on the eyes after all. He kind of stares. ]

[goodboybestshot]

[He's staring at him, why is he staring at him? Those nerves are suddenly kind of worse and he looks around and hunches his shoulders, uncomfortable. Don't think about the memory, don't think about the memory or else he will get more.]

What? ...I-Is there something on my face?

[wonk]

[Roxy grins, and it is that specific grin grinned only by those who have just presented a skeptic of their claims with irrefutable evidence that they are right, and are now wallowing in just how much they will be able to lord it over the skeptic.

Yeah, she's just a little smug.]

Fuckin' told you.

[synchronous]

[ Stupid sexy Thaddeus.

DJ clears his throat and glances back down at his phone. ]

Anyway, glad to hear you're not dying.

[goodboybestshot]

Told him what?

[What is going on, he doesn't get it. Whatever it is, he's embarrassed and his ears are burning, screw you guys.]

[wonk]

Oh, nothing. Just that he'd see why you got those magazine spreads.

[Roxy is perhaps the only person in this situation who can say she has no regrets, and she revels in it.]

[synchronous]

[ Do they have to talk about that. Can't they talk instead about the weird mashed-potatoes network or Roxy's pink eyes or?? ]

Anyway.

[goodboybestshot]

[Thad is a fan of this idea. He will emphasize this in the way he buries his face in his hands and whines dramatically because Roxy brought up the damn magazine spread again.]

[He would really rather forget that whole debacle happened, okay? Okay.]

Anyway! Let's talk numbers or maybe coffee or anything really that has nothing to do with this entire subject!

[wonk]

[Roxy snickers, but decides to let it go. She's mostly gotten DJ back for the kidneys thing by this point.]

Alright, fine. So DJ, what'd you get with your mysterious network code?

[synchronous]

[ Coffee? He saw a Starbucks down the street. What if he started leading the way there. ]

It was this weird -- I don't know, memory of a thing that never happened. I was swimming in some underwater city.

[goodboybestshot]

[Now that the subject is clear of him he's a little less of a disaster and he falls in line beside them, hands in his pockets.]

Someone was talking not too long ago about these occurrences on the network. They called them echos and someone suggested they were visions of a past life.

[wonk]

[Roxy actually blinks at that one.]

Wait, like reincarnation?

I didn't think this was, like, religious or anything.

[synchronous]

That would imply there was some underwater city with modern styles of architecture some time in the past. I kind of doubt it.

[goodboybestshot]

[He shrugs.]

Admittedly it also doesn't much add up to what I've seen, but it's something to think about, at least.

[wonk]

Atlantis.

[Said completely seriously.]

No, but that is really weird. Thad, what'd you see?

[synchronous]

[ DJ just raises at eyebrow at Roxy. He's not saying a thinnnng. ]

[goodboybestshot]

I- He frowns a bit. Sigh, there was no avoiding having to talk about it now, he guessed.]

When I was thirteen, I got lost on a seedy part of town. Somehow that triggered a scene where I was being chased through a dense jungle by monsters.

[wonk]

Was it the same kind of monsters that they had videos of on the thing?

[Roxy's eyes have widened, and she's gone back to gesturing wildly. Her hands flail as she searches for the word.]

The thing, the thi - the network, that's what I mean, was it the same monsters?

Skipping DJ per his mun

[goodboybestshot]

[Thad shrugs.]

I'm not sure. I didn't get a good look in the vision, I just knew that I was being chased my monsters. It's possible.

Re: Skipping DJ per his mun

[wonk]

Man, I haven't seen anything yet...

[Roxy trails off, and then turns to DJ.]

So what brings your family out here?

[synchronous]

[ He hasn't either, but he gets the feeling living here isn't going to be exactly a walk in the park.

He tears his eyes away from the hunk of man-meat to answer Roxy. ]

Oh, uh. Mom got transferred. Job stuff.

[goodboybestshot]

That's awfully convenient, don't you think?

[What with this city, and how everything is going on now. It seems uncanny how people are drawn to this place, he wonders if it wasn't all on purpose.]

[ALSO WHY DO YOU KEEP STARING AT HIM. You are kind of freaking him out.]

[wonk]

[Roxy fights down another snicker at the pair. This is going beautifully. She isn't laughing quite yet, but she's having trouble keeping a smirk off her face as she tries to contribute.]

What, do we have a conspiracy going on? Whoever made his mom transfer got the school to accept my application?

[synchronous]

Hey, you're the one who's lived here all along. Maybe your dad's in on it.