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Let's set the scene here.

Bridge. Late night. Green full moon.

Six year old alone in the backseat of a car. Front seat? Two coffins.

Giant explosion. Car destroyed. Boy not destroyed. Coffins in car probably destroyed. 90% chance of coffin destruction.

Giant monster. Robot teenage girl fighting monster. Robot girl losing.

Robot girl stuffs giant monster into six year old. How? Fuck if I know.

Moon stops being green. Bridge is on fire. Car is on fire. Six year old is not on fire.

[Video flashes on. Matt's hanging around LCU's campus. It's pretty dead since it's only summer sessions and he's not by the library or anything. He'd come to pick something up, and... Well, the walk here had been eventful. He should drive more, as attested to the scrape on his cheek. He's a lucky kid.

That aside, he looks... not very amused.]

So if we're playing the crazy echoes game anymore, I think I'm winning. [He laughs a little, covering his face with his hand in sheer exhaustion.] Coffins in a car? You know what the craziest shit about this is?

I seriously think I just watched Minato's parents die. That's... that's some fucked up kind of thing to show a guy. And that... thing. That monster.

[And Matt completely freezes. And then he laughs. And it's not a good laugh--it's a kind of crazy, kind of broken laugh.]

No wonder he had to die. That thing inside of him... [And then his laughter just completely stops and he drops the phone he's recording on. That thing. That thing looks so similar to Thanatos. And Thanatos... Thanatos is Phillip. His friend. He curls himself up where he sits, resting his head on his knees and the video just shows the summer sky.]

Let's just pretend. This never happened.

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Well, no. But this is a pretty different type of 'not fine' than that is.

Just having a really bad day.

I think anyone would be feeling that way after remembering what you just said you did.

Didn't help getting attacked for existing.

So that's where that cut came from.

Did you punch the other person at least? Or would it have been too much trouble to bother?

Didn't want to hurt my fist. I used magic instead.

... Matt. What did you do to him?

They got back up. Eventually.

That didn't answer the question, Matt.

Gale force winds. I didn't have much of a choice about it, so don't scold me. After I summoned Titania they looked like they'd actually kill me and I am not ready for that.

Then why didn't you just not summon anything in the first place to avoid setting them off?

Because there were more of them than there was of me and last time I was in a situation like that I ended up in a Las Vegas hospital for three days, thanks.

[ Well. Great. Now she felt like a totally bitch. ]

They... they didn't know your name or anything like that, right?

Not that I know of. I wasn't paying much attention aside from "Get out the evoker I am not dealing with this shit again."

[ Great. Just great. She knows that she can't really blame him for how he acted, but... this was going to make life for a lot of people in Locke a lot harder, wasn't it? ]

... Please try to keep an eye on the news for the next week or so, and for everyone's sake try to stay out of a situation where you'll need to do that again.

Nobody saw but the guys trying to mug me...

... I sure hope you're right about that.

What, exactly, was I supposed to do!?

They were armed. The last time I faced a mob I almost died and they were defenseless. Was I supposed to let them hit me?!

No. No... in that situation, I can't really blame you. You really didn't have a choice.

That doesn't mean that you shouldn't still be keeping an eye on things just in case though.

It's enough shit getting attacked in the first place...

I know. I'm sorry I... acted like this. Things have been pretty nuts over here in Vegas too.

[ There was another damn murder, and they were still no closer to figuring out how to stop it. Or who was doing it. And all she was getting was stupid worthless echoes of stupid and worthless. ]

They're going to be nuts everywhere for a long time. Thanks, in part, to Russel. So I guess I've got no one else to blame but myself.

You can't blame yourself for him. Didn't him snapping like that catch everyone by surprise?

Yeah. But I was still the chaperon.

Edited 2014-07-24 05:29 (UTC)

... I still think you're blaming yourself too much for that. It's not like there were a ton of warning signs or anything.

And it's not like he didn't have control over what he was doing. He chose to do all of that stuff. Do you really think you could've stopped him or changed his mind?

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