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[TODAY EVERYONE IS TREATED TO A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO OF MATT WITH incredibly blue hair. He is relaxing at his desk and is completely serious looking.]

I am now a member of the cool hair club. If you wish to join, I will help with the dye. The drugstore down the street sells hair dye in blue, pink, purple, orange and green.

[He looks like he's going to say something else. Decides against it. Leans forward as if he's going to turn off the video.

Pauses. Leans back a little again. Looks kind of uncomfortable.]

Advice on not becoming a human sacrifice. Go. [And then he turns off the video feed.]

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Doesn't that mean you don't get a choice?

I can probably talk him out of it. [He scoots a little closer to see if Phillip would like to come out.] It doesn't look really comfortable in there.

That's because you're too big to fit. [see it's his plan to keep all the grownups out. only he is small enough!!]

[Matt frowns.] Do you not want to see me?

[...that's a harder question than it should be. After a bit of time thinking about this, Phillip will shift out of the closet a little, still safely within the door frame but more easily seen. And he looks miserable..]

[Oh no. Matt said something terrible, didn't he? He wonders if it's any attachment to the echo he had about the boy who turned into Thanatos.]

You know, when you first gave me an echo, I was really freaked out about all of it. But the more I thought about it, the easier it felt, because I wasn't alone. And you're not alone. And when Ken started remembering stuff, he wasn't alone either. [He rests his head on the wall with a long sigh.]

Knowing all this stuff on my own would've really sucked. Probably couldn't've put a gun to my head without you around, unloaded or not.

So even if you don't want to talk about it... I'm not going anywhere. [He freaked out both of his tiny friends. He wonders, then, if it's a comfort to remind Phillip that this isn't those memories. And what happened in them never has to happen again.]

[The fact that that wasn't the first Echo he'd gotten today didn't help... He didn't know why Pharos was so upset about the girl not remembering the things he did, but... he did understand the idea of not getting why death was a problem without friends. Which Pharos only seemed to have one of. And that was really depressing.

So... it's nice to have a reminder that he had more than that. Phillip finally leaves the closet, wrapping his arms around Matt and trying very hard not to cry too much.]

[Poor kid. This whole thing was too much of a burden on his shoulders at Matt wonders if he hadn't come along and sped things up how much longer it would've been before Phillip remembered whatever he did.

He lets Phillip hold onto him and pats his back in the way he assumes an older brother might, because he's never had one. And he tries very hard to be comforting.]

It doesn't have to be like it was.

I know. [that's one of his only comforts to this whole thing.] A-and I won't. I promise. [he won't be whatever it was that needed to be sealed away.]

[He has no idea what he won't but okay.] I'll hold you to it.

[That's what he doesn't want to talk about. He'll just sit there for a few minutes, still holding onto Matt and slowly calming down. But he's still pretty unhappy.]

[So long as he's calming down, Matt's happy. But an increasing feeling of dread is spreading through his chest and his frown is just deepening. What did Phillip even remember?]

[You could ask, if you want, but Phillip's probably not going to be super willing to talk about it. He's not even sure which part of the Echo bothers him the most. Eventually he settles down, though still clearly upset and not letting go of the older boy.]

Sometimes it's easier when you tell someone else, you know. [Now he's just saying it because he's curious and it makes him feel like a bad friend but if Phillip knows more about this stuff Matt kind of feels like he needs to know.]

[Phillip doesn't want to... but...] Are you sure?

I think I can take it. Maybe I can help.

...And you won't hate me, 'cause we're not those other people, right? [this is definitely a good way to start this conversation.]

Swear to god I won't hate you. [Well it was never going to be good to start with and Matt knew it so.]

[Phillip goes quiet again, hugging Matt a little tighter to make sure he won't hate him.]

I-I remember seeing you... well, actually the girl, I guess. But she was h-hanging on a door like a lock, and... [oh this is the part he really doesn't want to say.] I think I was behind the door. I-I was the thing she was sealing inside...

[All the pieces are starting to click together. All of them except for who the girl who took his place was.

And who the older looking kid who shared Phillip's powers were. Maybe they were all one in the same.]

... Guess I don't have to worry about unleashing anything, then. You're already here. [It's a bad joke, but he holds onto Phillip to let him know he's not upset.] I guess we're drawn to each other, huh? [That might've sounded a little creepier than he intended.]

[Not the best joke, no, but Phillip can't really be too much more upset than he is. And... oddly enough, that comment doesn't come off as creepy at all, then. After all, he did feel pulled towards Matt when they met.]

I guess.

We must've known each other pretty well, then. They were probably stuck there a while. [He had a feeling, anyway, that his decision was kind of permanent.] We might just be a fresh start.

I hope so. [But now he's got a mantra going in his head, reminding him that he's not bound by fate like his stupid past self thought. Everything will be ok. He has the choice to not be that.]

[Matt ruffles his hair a little. It'll be totally fine.]

I think we're doing a pretty good job. I mean aside from you winding up in my room at midnight all the time.

[that gets the very slightest bit of a smile.] Yeah... we'll be ok.

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