Test drive meme - July & August

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Comments

[livlaughlove]

Sure I did. Last time I saw you 'n him together, though... [Something tells him that the less he says for now, the better. It may be best to find out what Vash knows first.] ... well, it wasn't on a sand steamer.

[oleaeuropaea]

Sounds like both of our last group meetings didn't go so great.

[He leans forward on the bench, pulling his knees up to his chest.]

Honestly, it's one of the last things I remember. The thing was racing toward Hopeland. I promised Wolfwood I'd keep the orphanage and the passengers safe.

I don't know if I managed it.

[livlaughlove]

[Truth be told, this is making Livio's brain hurt a little bit.]

Guess things mighta gone a lil differently fer us... maybe like some sorta butterfly effect? That a real thing?

Although -- y'all protected Hopeland, far as I'm concerned. Maybe not from a runaway steamer, but all the same.

[oleaeuropaea]

Could be something like that.

[Vash isn't sure how the butterfly effect could create such drastic differences between the Livio he met and this one but... maybe that's not for him to know.]

You were still in the Eye back then. We were trying to free you and it... didn't go so well. [He gives Livio a once over now.] Guessing by the fact that you're not trying to haul me off that it took eventually?

[livlaughlove]

Huh...

[The similarities are there, at least. Though from what Vash has said, there's a chance he might have died?

... That would probably be for the better, actually.]

Well... Yeah. Nick... got through t'me eventually.

[oleaeuropaea]

I'm glad...

Where we were from, I really pushed him to get through to you. And when he did... [He hugs those knees just a little tighter.]

I'm glad it ends up okay somehow. And I'm sure he is too!

[livlaughlove]

[Maybe it is easier to think of it as being from somewhere else. Just... eerily similar somewhere elses.

Rubbing one of Teddiursa's ears between his fingers, Livio wonders if keeping quiet is more cruel than he thought at first. It isn't the same as being told he died... after all, they both cared about Wolfwood. In some messed up way, doesn't Vash deserve to know?]

Actually... Y'know, I'm glad things went different for ya. Where I came from... ah. He's the one who didn't make it.

[oleaeuropaea]

What?

[That's all Vash can think to ask at first. His mind, once racing with the possibilities of this strange future that Livio describes, now goes deadly quiet. For a long moment, he feels nothing. There is no desperation — not yet at least. Just a simple, flicker of hope that he's misheard.]

[livlaughlove]

[Ah. Yeah. That's what he was afraid of.

What more does he even say? He removes his hand from his Pokemon, balling both fists in the sand, not risking harming anything.]

Nico protected every one'a those kids. Miss Melanie, too. An' he saved me.

[oleaeuropaea]

[In many ways, Vash is unsure why this news hits him so hard. Wolfwood was a good man, to be sure, and had even been something of a friend to him. But they hadn’t known each other that long. In that time, they’d frequently butted heads. Hell, he couldn’t even be sure that the Undertaker even liked him.

And yet, it was as he’d only just said. Wolfwood was a good man. Vash had seen that in his eyes from the moment they’d met. It didn’t matter, where he’d come from, who he was working for, or what his end goal was. You didn’t give everything to save a friend, a city, an orphanage, if you didn’t have a good soul.

And now the world felt a little duller, knowing that in some way, he was gone.]

I’m sorry, Livio. I can’t imagine what this must be like for you.

[livlaughlove]

Ah... Ya don't gotta worry about me, really. Hell, he'd be pissed t'see me mopin'. I'm just glad it ain't like this fer you.

[He shakes the sand off a hand to rub at his head again, and gives a short laugh when -- surprise, he missed some, and now it's all in his hair and on his shirt.]

Heh... guess some things never change, though.

[oleaeuropaea]

[The distraction is nice, because Vash has no idea what to say about that. There's knot in his stomach that won't go away, doubts for the future that gnaw at him endlessly.]

Some things but... [He nods to the bay.]

I don't think I'll get used to that.

[livlaughlove]

[Time to suppress again! Livio's real good at that. His eyes follow Vash's gesture and he focuses on the gentle waves to dull the throb in his temple.]

Yeah... Almost makes ya forget what things were like on No Man's Land. Can hardly believe what we've been missin' the whole time, 'n how it's just taken fer granted here. [His tone isn't accusatory at all, just awestruck.]

[oleaeuropaea]

[At that, Vash can only make a face.]

The people of No Man's Land deserved better than what they ended up getting. The home they wanted, all those years ago.

[It's been awhile since he's been able to say that out loud. But he's pretty sure Livio understands where he's coming from. Otherwise this conversation is about to be real awkward.]