pc catchall for dick (heh) (unpredicktable)

[uncurtained]

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[uncurtained]

Look, it's not like... I mean, you don't have to apologize. I'm glad you had a good time.

[Which isn't quite the phrasing she was going for, but she doesn't necessarily sound upset, at least.]

[unpredicktable]

That's not what I was...

[ trying to apologize for, but he just. hides his face with one hand ]

Okay, let's agree neither of us has to apologize for anything.

[uncurtained]

[She nods.]

Okay. Agreed. [...] Completely unrelated, but can I ask you a favor?

[unpredicktable]

[ ??? ]

Sure. What is it?

[uncurtained]

I... need to get a few people to publicly confess a secret or a regret they've been holding onto.

[unpredicktable]

[ ... ]

What's the favor for?

[uncurtained]

Carlos told me we can fix Higekiri's... whole thing he's got going on because of the bite.

[unpredicktable]

[ oh. ]

... Seems like we had the same idea. [ he looks. wry ] You might want to wait a bit to try to convince people to do this. I turned mine in to Carlos, but it said it might take a few days to work.

[uncurtained]

—Oh, god, I'm glad I asked you. Imagine if I didn't know you had it handled and the people I asked before you just went for it...

[unpredicktable]

It would've made Monday a lot more fun.

[ dick is so sad at the missed trolling opportunity now ]

[uncurtained]

[She laughs, a surprised noise.]

You are the worst.

[unpredicktable]

I'm not wrong!

[ he does not deny being terrible, tho ]

[uncurtained]

Now I have to know, though. What task did you get?

[unpredicktable]

Nothing. Reward for my role this week was a coin I could exchange for a favor. Which... turned out to be good timing.

[ gestures at all of higekiri ]

[uncurtained]

Nice.

[She looks honestly relieved at that, smiling.]

I’m glad he’ll be okay. I was worried about him, you know? I’m sure I’m not the only one.

[unpredicktable]

Well, there was at least the two of us. [ dick's currently trying to not think about how he has a crush on higekiri right now. timing. ] But he worried pretty much everybody.

[uncurtained]

Too bad there isn’t a task to make sure it didn’t happen in the first place, right?

[unpredicktable]

A task to rewind time might be asking for too much.

[uncurtained]

Yeah, I know. It'd be nice, though, wouldn't it?

[unpredicktable]

Maybe. [ he tilts his head a bit ] Did I ever tell you I know a time traveler back home?

[uncurtained]

I think I definitely would have remembered that, which means I absolutely need to hear about them now.

[Story time!!]

[unpredicktable]

Impulse. Came back in time to change the future he came from, where humanity was enslaved by an alien race. Not that he told us any of that-- passed himself off as a "time tourist" who got stuck after his time machine broke down. He's the grandson of one of the big names in superhero business... which was of mild interest to the guy, seeing as he doesn't even have kids yet.

[ time travel is? wild? ]

[uncurtained]

[She gives a low whistle, nodding along.]

Sounds like it must have been... interesting to learn about, to say the least. Did you get it figured out? The whole alien thing, I mean.

[unpredicktable]

Yeah. We fully beat back the invasion... [ god. time. ] About two weeks before I got here. Earth's under galactic protection now. Impulse is there for good, though.

[ and because she knows this beck can probably do the math on dick saying his best friend died right before he got here and the invasion ending on her own ]

[uncurtained]

[She does, but she doesn't comment on it.]

Well, I'm glad. Alien invasions don't really sound like my idea of a good time.