great! Here's a good one I've found. [And she sends directions to a new and relatively cheap café just two blocks down from the shop.] I'm already here in fact so do you want anything??
[And sure enough, he does eventually turn up. It feels like a monumental task, considering that their dad is the one he killed. Even if it wasn’t really him, it still hurts.]
[Luke is somewhat despondent, but as he approaches Belle, he’ll raise up a hand.]
Luke! [She's already got them a table, with Luke's iced caramel macchiato in a glass with a little swirly straw stuck in it, a touch of whimsy that Belle really hopes lifts his spirits.] Come on, take a seat.
[How do you broach a topic like that? Hey, you killed a guy who looked like our dad but it's fine, he was an asshole anyway is...not the sort of thing she'd like to start the conversation off with. She swirls her straw around in her own drink absently, then says:]
I do want to talk about the game, but...if you really can't talk about it for whatever reason, I can show you pictures of Inky's cat tower.
[She takes a sip of her coffee, silent for a long while.]
Well. In a technical sense, yeah. But he was only really Zelos's dad, in that he spent time with him. [And not this Zelos's dad, in another technical sense.] Wise and I were just the loose ends he couldn't tidy away.
[She lets out a breath.]
The hunter wasn't our dad, not really. But even if he was...I'd be shocked, sure. But I'd be more worried about you than sad for him.
It is. And...yeah, you grew up loved anyway, despite him just leaving you and Asch. But he still hurt you in the leaving.
[A breath.]
I'm still worrying. It's my store the whole mess started in, I feel a little responsible. [She drums her fingertips on the table, a little absently.] The velociraptors were a magic construct too, but the harm they did was real. The hunter tried to kill you, and he certainly harmed you. I get to worry.
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Date: 2025-08-12 06:07 am (UTC)[So she gets a text back, short and sweet.]
coffee sounds dope
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Date: 2025-08-12 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-14 08:00 pm (UTC)[And sure enough, he does eventually turn up. It feels like a monumental task, considering that their dad is the one he killed. Even if it wasn’t really him, it still hurts.]
[Luke is somewhat despondent, but as he approaches Belle, he’ll raise up a hand.]
Hey.
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Date: 2025-08-15 05:52 am (UTC)[How do you broach a topic like that? Hey, you killed a guy who looked like our dad but it's fine, he was an asshole anyway is...not the sort of thing she'd like to start the conversation off with. She swirls her straw around in her own drink absently, then says:]
I do want to talk about the game, but...if you really can't talk about it for whatever reason, I can show you pictures of Inky's cat tower.
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Date: 2025-08-31 02:18 am (UTC)Sure, I guess, but what's there to talk about?
The game's over and we're here.
[what trauma]
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Date: 2025-08-31 02:29 am (UTC)Just because the hunter was a weird magic construct or whatever, [she says, gently,] it doesn't mean the shock of fighting him isn't real.
[Nor the shock of killing him.]
You know, I don't think any less of you.
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Date: 2025-08-31 02:46 am (UTC)[He just says it. He just says it!]
But, he was our dad, wasn't he?
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Date: 2025-08-31 02:54 am (UTC)Well. In a technical sense, yeah. But he was only really Zelos's dad, in that he spent time with him. [And not this Zelos's dad, in another technical sense.] Wise and I were just the loose ends he couldn't tidy away.
[She lets out a breath.]
The hunter wasn't our dad, not really. But even if he was...I'd be shocked, sure. But I'd be more worried about you than sad for him.
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Date: 2025-08-31 03:01 am (UTC)["Tidy away."]
I dunno, I never really felt "unwanted" as a kid, but finding out your bio dad abandoned you still feels pretty rough.
[But even then--]
You guys don't need to worry about me, though.
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Date: 2025-08-31 03:34 am (UTC)[A breath.]
I'm still worrying. It's my store the whole mess started in, I feel a little responsible. [She drums her fingertips on the table, a little absently.] The velociraptors were a magic construct too, but the harm they did was real. The hunter tried to kill you, and he certainly harmed you. I get to worry.