❖ 017 // [Voice]

[crisisrain]

[There's an old fart standing on the roof of house #12. How he got up there, or rather, when he got up there is a complete mystery he respawned there. In his hands he flips through the pages of the journal, looking for anything remotely interesting that he may have missed. After a while he speaks up.]

It's kinda windy today, don't ya think?

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[knightofratatosk]

She really likes naming cocktails after people... she named one after Doctor McCoy, too. I remember her mentioning it over the journals a while back.

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[crisisrain]

Haha, so that's the full title of it. She just said she named one after a certain Doctor! Shame yer not old enough ta try the great Raven cocktail!

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[knightofratatosk]

[...]

Hey, whatever happened to that bottle of wine you said you were going to give me for my birthday?

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[crisisrain]

That's a birthday present! That doesn't count.

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[knightofratatosk]

But you never gave it to me.

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[crisisrain]

Uh... when's yer birthday?

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[knightofratatosk]

It's my fault for forgetting to tell you when it was. It was March 12th, but... a lot of things happened around that time, so I didn't really celebrate it at all.

[Namely, his last housemate being sent home.]

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[crisisrain]

I wasn't even doin' anything on March 12th... aww Emil ya could've told me! I haven't got any wine here at the moment, so I'll have ta pick you up somethin' special.

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[knightofratatosk]

It's okay, I wasn't in the mood to celebrate anyway. It was right after... after they sent Horatio home.

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[crisisrain]

Even so... ya could've just drowned yer worries away with a good drink. [Which reminds him to take a sip of the tea himself.] Oh! Did ya find anyone to move in with you and keep ya company?

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[knightofratatosk]

Huh? No, it's okay... I think I'd rather live by myself right now. I don't want to come back home to an empty house again.

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[crisisrain]

What makes ya think they'll leave before you do?

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[knightofratatosk]

Because everyone else I've lived with has.

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[crisisrain]

I might not live with ya kid, but I've got no intention of leavin'. Even if I did by some force other than my own, I'd just be dragged back here again.

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[knightofratatosk]

... thank you. But I... I don't want to risk it happening again.

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[crisisrain]

I'd think it the other way round. Taking the risk gives ya the chance to have happiness for a while, even though each moment here is fleetin', if we don't take those risks to begin with then I wouldn't be talkin' to ya right now would I?

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[knightofratatosk]

I am happy here, with you and Doctor McCoy and Yuri and everyone else. I mean, I don't like the experiments or the kidnappings at all, but I've met so many amazing people here. That never would've happened if I'd stayed back in my world.

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[crisisrain]

Luceti does the one thing home doesn't do, it brings people together from all walks of life and forces us onto each other. Heh, probably some deep meanin' to it all somewhere.

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[knightofratatosk]

I guess whoever brought us here in the first place didn't realize that there was a plus side to all of this.

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[crisisrain]

Hah! Who knows why we're here at all? Ya'd think livin' under a dome in such a close knit community would stop ya bein' lonely. Sometimes it just does the exact opposite.

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[knightofratatosk]

What do you mean?

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[crisisrain]

Yer not here alone are ya? You've got people from your own world?

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[knightofratatosk]

[He nods.]

A lot of them have been sent home, but there are still some people from my world here.

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[crisisrain]

Yet ya still feel lonely. Weird isn't it? But that's my point.

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[knightofratatosk]

Well, that's... most of them didn't know me back in our world. Only Colette, Zelos and Regal did.