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[handwritten] using the network for fun and academic profit

[Danny's number is hastily scrawled across some paper--even just from seeing it you can tell how thin and crappy it is. More importantly, though, it has the following printed on it.]

[To the side, the handwriting is messy and frantic.]

quick, somebody tell me the answer to this question I only have 2 minutes left for it and I have no idea what any of these mean!

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[HA HA]

Yeah, I got that one right.

[Priorities. Robyn has them.]

Okay, well promise me you wont tell me what the answer was. I just kind of guessed and left it up chance.

I figure if I just hope for the best it'll end up being the right answer, I don't want that hope to get crushed.

It doesn't matter anyway, Robyn. It's over. Neither of us can change it now.

Well yeah. It would be kind of silly to go back and ask to change the answer to a question after I've already handed the test in.

I can't imagine anything more awkward than trying to explain that to a teacher.

[yyyyup. Nothing more awkward than that. Running out of the exam trying not to hurl doesn't even compare.

It takes Danny a while to reply because he can't figure out what to say. There's no way he's going to tell her he remembered being a mass murderer in the middle of the SATs.]

Don't worry, I'm sure you did fine, Robyn.

Thanks, I'm sure you did too!

Do you want to go grab something to eat to celebrate finally having that done and over with?

[...She was giving her paper the stare down of a life time when Danny ran out of the room. Somehow she hadn't quite pieced together that he was the one who ran out.]

[oh wow that just makes him feel sick again]

No thanks. I'm not really in the mood for celebrating.

Really? I thought you'd be relieved to have that done and over with.

What's wrong?

Nothing, I just don't want to think about it any more.

Okay. I can help with that.

[There's a long pause before she writes.]

What do you want to think about?

[If he weren't in such a crappy mindset right now, he'd really appreciate what Robyn's trying to do here.

Too bad he's stewing in his misery too much to realize it.]

I don't really want to think about anything.

Edited 2014-10-16 05:57 (UTC)

[Robyn was definitely starting to realize that something was wrong here. She had spent the last month in misery, she knew what that was like.

She had to help, it was the least she could do.]

Oh.

Well let me do all the thinking then, you can just come along for the ride!

...What?

I'll find some fun stuff for us to do and you don't have to do any of the thinking.

Just come out and try to enjoy yourself.

...is there any way for me to possibly get out of this?

Nope!

I'll be around as soon as I can. Be ready, alright?

[Dammit. He really doesn't have a choice in this after all, does he? He might as well try to keep this from getting him in trouble, at least.]

Just make sure you get in through my bedroom window, my parents don't know I'm home from the test yet and I don't want them to find out.

[He lost he chance at a choice after he gave her an answer like that.]

Alright. That shouldn't be too much trouble! I'll there as I can.

[...And true to her word, about an hour later there's a few light taps at his window.

She's ducking under it to try and not bring any attention to herself, but it's questionable how well it's actually working.]

[When she taps on the window, Danny sighs heavily and slumps in his bed for a few moments before getting up sluggishly to open the window and let her climb in.]

[And climb in the window she does.

She's actually got something with her too. She'll hold up a box of cupcakes to him. They aren't baked like the ones he had got her before, they were store bought. But it's the thought that counts, right>]

So... I brought you a snack.

[He takes the box of cupcakes in his hands, knowing fully well that somehow, their situation has reversed from when Robyn was kidnapped.

He holds them in his hands and stares down at them, but makes no move to eat them.]

Thanks.

[She wasn't going to force him to eat them, but she figured it was the thought that counts.]

Now, I know you're not in the mood for thinking so I figured we could sneak out and go catch a movie or buy some comics. What ever you want!

[he heaves a sigh.]

I already told you, Robyn. I don't really want to do anything.

I know, I know.

...But we already we already decided that you can't possibly get out of this, so I figured I'd give you at least a couple options.

[Damn. He really isn't getting out of this, is he. He heaves a sigh of defeat and waves his hand vaguely.]

I don't know. Whatever.

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