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[he shrugs when blue looks over to him as he's plonking his ass down.]

You don't have to. Just if you feel you do. [he had... assumed they had, given the duplicate mess he sees before him.] No, I'll be alright.

[is that true? probably. maybe if he stays busy he won't have to think about it too much. he'll just have a cry tonight with mightyena and get it out his system and it'll be fine.]

I gotta sort some stuff out, anyway. She wasn't here for long, but I don't like the idea of leaving her workplace high and dry without letting them know where their manager went, see if she had any roomies, maybe grab anything she left in case she comes back. Maybe see if I can talk to people that'll be expecting her to drop by with Hypno so they know, poor bastards.

Mmm... I dunno. I'll see how I feel in the morning. [Blue sighs, then glances towards Red. Maybe it'd be better for them to go to work, hug it out with their respective animals, rather than mope around at home, but....]

[He nods along- he'll leave all that management stuff to Archie. He didn't really understand how things like that- willed property and such- worked, anyway.]

She didn't have any animals, right? We could always take 'em at work, if they did...

Yeah. Let me know if you need anythin' in the meantime.

[now or later on? he's not sure. he shakes his head.]

Not that I know of. [she was sensible.] If she had any hidden away, I'll let you know.

[sighe.]

Do you want to... talk about it, or anything?

[Blue grunts... then nods...]

[Then...]

[He just sort of depressingly frowns at Archie, and flicks his gaze down to the floor again.]

[And shrugs.] Iunno... Like what?

[Like how one of the only familiar, securing facets of home is gone again? No, he doesn't really have much to say.]

Whatever you want.

[he thinks for a moment.]

I mean, you can just talk about how fucked up it is. I think times like these warrant some complaining.

What's the use? [Blue sighs out, ragged, frustrated.] It's not gonna bring her back!

[He thinks he feels Red flinch beside him, and he pauses himself, cringing internally, and deflates again.]

...May, and Matt, and Maxie... now Sabrina.... Why even bring any of us here? What's the point!?

[His fists ball up, curling into himself despite the solid warmth beside him.] And ...Yusuke... Yusuke's gone too... [He sniffs, unable to hold back the tears.] When I went to call....

[at the mention of the hoenns, archie's eyebrows draw together an absolutely minuscule amount, which is about as close to showing any of his own emotion on the subject as he gets.]

It would be nice to know if there was a reason behind it all, [he agrees, nodding his head.] though I'm not so sure it would make it any better. At least with the ones from our world, we know exactly what they've gone back to and where they'll be. That's something, I guess. For the tiny amount it's worth.

[though... not with maxie, really. they'd talked at length about the universal difference, and archie really doesn't want to think about that right now.]

It's cosmic cruelty, at any rate. [he doesn't even bother to hide his wince at yusuke. he knows him and blue were good friends, even if he never spoke to the guy himself.] Sorry. I had no idea... it feels almost like a joke when multiple people you care about are ported out at the same time. Like you're being targeted specifically, even though that's likely not the case. It's bullshit.

[stop SUPPRESSING YOUR EMOTIONS!!! ARCHIE!!!]

[Blue remains sullen and quiet through all of Archie's..... mental gymnastics, whatever it is he's doing to rationalize the Portouts, the pain. It didn't matter. They were gone.... and there was no knowing if they'd ever come back, but no one else had, had they?]

[He wonders, if he was to leave, would everyone just get over it? The way they've just gotten over everyone else. Who else has left..... he goes through all the names in his mind, people he'd forgotten to this moment, people he'd never forgotten, even those not from his world. Hearth. Pucci. Sabriel. Cisco. Sasuke. Andrew. Now Yusuke.....]

[Blue sighs out. Maybe there was just no point in making friends, here. Everyone would just leave. Like always.]

..........Yeah.

[He clams up, and it doesn't seem like that's going to change much anytime soon. His head hurts. He needs a drink.]

[he feels a tiny bit better about it, especially knowing so many people who have lost loved ones to certain death or suffering. it doesn't make their own port outs back to a peaceful world hurt any less, but archie personally figures it could be worse. he looks over to make sure the food isn't burning or anything, then leans on the arm of the chair.

it's too easy to talk about how shit and pointless everything is here, but he's not really in the mood to enable bad habits like that. in blue and red or himself.]

You ever thought about checking out that memorial centre Jaime set up? It's good, thoughtful. Worth a visit if you feel like puttin' something up for either of them.

Memorial Center...?

[Blue glances up, questioning in his eyes. He'd never heard of the place... At least, he thinks he didn't. But maybe... Maybe that'd be nice...]

Like. A gravesite?

No-- there's no headstones or anything. [though he supposes for some port outs it was a grave. the thought makes him feel sick.] It's just-- a place you can leave something of theirs where it'll be left there instead of moved when we're ported out and someone else is living here.

[he wonders if he should leave some of the stuff he has from people left behind but-- rejects the idea immediately. maybe some of maxwell's art, but he needs to get rid of what they left so he can continue pretending he's moved on. from the strange alternate version of maxie who cared to understand how he felt instead of just waving him off as a complete moron, especially.]

You scan your tattoo so you can get in and have as much time as you need alone. With each other or otherwise. [he shrugs.] Jaime's one of the ones that's been here for ages and he's a good guy. It's clear how he set it up that he's using his own experience with all this in the best way he can.

A place to leave something of theirs... [Blue frowns. Does he have anything from Yusuke or Sabrina that he could leave? Only the paintings he'd commissioned, and it doesn't feel right to bring any of them there, considering how personalized they had been. Maybe something from Fanport. He wonders if he could think of anything else that he could leave in honor of his friends...]

I'll check it out sometime, I guess. What city?

Here. Heropa. Likely the only place it could be done. [he says with an unmistakable note of bitterness, getting up to flip the food.] Anyway, it's something to consider.

[he shakes his head, leaning against the counter.]

I'm sorry. For everything you've lost this week.

[figures they'd still be stuck with him.]

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