Moving Day | Closed

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Who: Hunter, Eda, Raine, Peter
When: Mid-May
Where: ADI Apartment, Bonnie's Flophouse
Summary: Hunter's moving in with his parents to Bonnie's
Warnings: None


In the end, the decision to move to Bonnie's wasn't that hard. Eda had asked him to think about it, back when he first arrived, and he had, many times. But he had fallen into a routine. He was comfortable. He liked his roommate. He thought he was doing okay.

And then he met Raine in the graveyard and it quickly became apparent that he was not okay. More than that, he wanted what they and Eda were offering.


[ Closed to Peter ]

The first order of business was letting his roommate know. It would be rude to just up and leave without saying something. And Peter was a friend, one that he very much would like to keep.

So right around breakfast time, he hovers by the table, hands tapping on the back of a chair.

"Hey, Peter... Got a minute?"


[ Closed to Eda and Raine ]

Turns out, he doesn't actually own much. All his clothes fit into one box, padding the few knick-knacks he's picked up. The other two boxes contain nothing but books, and they are both too heavy and unweildy to haul up the stairs on his own, though he insisted on taking one of the book boxes.

He's halfway up the stairs before he remembers his manners and glances over his shoulder.

"Thanks for the help."

Comments

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"Whenever" is so open-ended and vague, but he likes it. It's a good feeling to be welcome, whenever.

He'd never thought of living in the castle as something special (and definitely didn't think of it that way now), but he also recognizes that his being raised within the castle walls was a unique experience. It's a shame any good memories he has of the place are now tainted.

"It was...lonely." He shrugs. "I spent most of my time training or studying or working. There was no one else my age, so...yeah."

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"If you were the only kid around, yeah, I can bet it was really lonely." Peter couldn't quite wrap his head around the idea of living in a castle, much less being the only one his own age there.

Sure, he didn't exactly have many friends, but, he still was more used to modern America's idea of growing up. Go to school, meet people go home, rinse and repeat.

"I'm glad you're getting a chance to know people now though. There aren't a ton of teenagers on ADI campus, but there could be more people our age at Bonnie's? Who knows." He means that, even if he's cramming hash browns into his face whilst saying it. "You can def text or call me whenever."

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Recruits coming right out of school would have only been a few years older than him. But that hardly mattered when he wasn't allowed to interact with them outside of work, and was technically their superior.

"Yeah, me too." He pauses, frowning a bit. "I...actually, I don't know if there are any. I didn't think to check who else lives there. That's probably important..."

He nods absently. Of course he will call or text, and probably often.

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"Honestly, I'm not even sure who does live there. People kind of... appear and disappear randomly." Peter wished he had a better bead for how that worked, but the ADI weren't interested in telling them a lot. Unless it was pertinent, they didn't need to know.

"It makes it hard to keep track of who you can reach out to. Makes me glad you, Leo, Rue and Donnie are still around." Sure, Donnie didn't really like Peter that much, but, he was still pretty cool.

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"Eda said I'd been here before and disappeared, but I don't remember it." If he did, maybe he would have a better idea why it happens. It almost feels like an imposter had been here, wearing his face. Only...the same happened to Raine, and he is sure both versions were the real thing.

He hasn't experienced completely losing someone, but he can imagine it feels awful. "I suppose there's no warning when it happens. That doesn't seem fair."

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That does slow Peter down a little, some surprise on his features before he bites his lip a little. "Wait, so that happened to you too-?" He sets his fork down for the moment, trying to not fidget with it too much. "Another me was here, but I don't remember anything about being here before, though people said it was me."

The fork ends up in his grasp again, prodding at the hash browns in an fidget he can't completely keep under wraps. He tried. "Yeah, its... never good. There are never any answers either, so, it leaves you just wondering." His own mind kept spinning on what could have happened to Tony, but it was easier to not hold onto that.

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Hunter nods. "Same happened to Raine. They don't remember either." He wonders if that happens to everyone who goes and returns. Will their memories of this place be erased when they eventually get back to their own worlds?

He pushes a portion of his eggs to the edge of his plate so Flapjack can pick at them, but seems to forget that he should also be eating. There's too much to think about.

"Apparently, past-me was still living in the castle when he...I? arrived here. But that was already months in my past when I got here. Did that happen to you?"

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"Its... so weird that even happened this many time to three different people." Peter answers, not too surprised to see Flapjack picking at the meal. It isn't uncommon for Flapjack to be present during meal times.

"Sort of. I was on a summer trip before this with my class." He pokes at his egg absently, "The other me came from earlier, I'm from towards the end of the trip."

Peter still isn't sure how to explain to Hunter he's sort of dead back home, but he's just sidestepping that for now. Being hit by a train feels like a lot to bring up.

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"There are probably more." He doesn't know who, but there must be others who have gone through the same thing.

Leaning on one hand and taps his fork lightly on the edge of his plate. "But the current Raine is from farther back than when they were first here, so it's not consistent. Or even linear."

Oh, hey. So's Flap. Definitely no reason to bring these things up.

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"Probably. Those people are likely gone now." Peter is very aware that no one seems to last particularly long in this place. Who knew what they had seen or really done here.

Sure, he could go check the network, but Peter wasn't sure how far back ADI archived anything about previous people who lived here.

Or how much they really cared.

"It's all random. Kind of- like this place, I guess."

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Is it really so hard to keep people here? The idea of just up and vanishing is disturbing, even if he really does want to get home. (But is that really where they go?)

"Yeah..." Hunter frowns. "Maybe...every so often, if we don't see each other for a while, we can send each other something small, like an emotional face." You know, the little yellow faces on the phone. "Just...reassurance that we're still around?"

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"Yeah, that would be a good system." Peter agrees, a little too used to some of Hunter's phrasing. "I'll try to text you anyway, just to talk. I mean, we're friends, so, we need to stay in touch anyway."

After living together this long, it was hard not to think of Hunter as his friend. Next to Leo, and Rue, Hunter had comfortable found a space in Peter's life.

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"Right. Friends." He flashes a smile at being called friends. He'd been thinking of them as friends for a while now, but he wasn't sure if it was okay to admit that out loud. He's glad Peter did it first.

"I'll try too. Um, it just might take a while." He is aware he's a notoriously slow typer, but he doesn't know what to do about it except keep practicing. If only the buttons weren't so tiny...