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[miniworth]

[The feed turns on early on Monday morning, and hey - it's Miles. He hasn't been posting anything much the past couple of weeks, has he been? He... appears to be aware that the Gear is on, but he's not looking at it at the moment. Instead, there's Remus, his Plusle, wrapped snugly in the ends of his blue scarf, waving cheerfully at the camera.

 

And then you'd notice that he's... sitting somewhere rather high up. In fact, why does the city seem like it's so far away?

---Oh. Right. It's because he's sitting on the roof of the Goldenrod Hotel.]

[He stares out at the dawning city for a few seconds before, without turning to actually look at the camera, he addresses it.]

It's already been ten days since the New Year, but I was wondering... what year is it here, at least according to the Christian calendar?

[He then turns to finally look at the camera, and that's when you'd notice that he looks - as usual - tired and... perhaps sadder than usual? This weekend had been very tiring for him and his friends, after all. He was still sick, that fever was persistent... and he probably should be resting, but he had to get out at one point. Which was why he's here, seated on the edge of the rooftop, looking out at the city.

He gives the camera a small smile.]

What year was everyone born in, by the way? My birthday was in 1992, but I suppose there are a lot of people from different times here in Johto.

[And he blinks a couple times, yawns, and with a muttered "maybe I should sleep" he reaches over and turns off the video.]

I know I should have contacted you earlier, Phoenix, and I'm sorry, but... I'm all right. I'm with Merlin right now, and Ken.


...Perhaps you've heard from Ken already, but I promised I'd contact you when he woke up. He's fine now, Mr. Shinjiro.

Comments

[foolishwren]

I'm not saying you shouldn't try.

I'm just saying... stop blaming yourself.

It'll bog you down. Make it harder. And most of all, it'll distract from who's REALLY at fault.

_{[She hadn't allowed her own guilty conscience to stop her from going after Claudia.]}

[miniworth]

......It can't drag me any lower than it did before I came here.

I used to think I was the one who did it, shooting my father. Knowing that it wasn't... has helped me a lot.

[foolishwren]

Just because it can't drag you lower doesn't mean you should let it drag you down at all.

... Just... take my word for it, kid.

... It ... can mean the difference between life and death sometimes.

_{[And if anyone would know about life and death, it's her.]}

[miniworth]

... [He nods.]

I'll believe it.

[foolishwren]

<sub>[She nods, although she's trailed off into a thoughtful silence. Almost thought of telling Miles that if he could remember, he could send a phone call in the general direction of Maine if he ever needed help... if they were from the same world, anyway.]

[But then, she'd be... what, twelve? Fourteen?]

[So the thought died before she even spoke it.]</sub>

[miniworth]

[Miles is generally bad with mind reading, unless it was Phoenix. So when he turns and smiles at her, he has no clue what's going through Heather's mind.]

Where do you live, back in your world, Miss Heather? Maybe I can try to find you, just to.. um, be friends.

[foolishwren]

_{[To be fair, Phoenix was kind of an open book.]}

I live over on the east coast-- Maine.

_{[She smiles a little bit.]}

In m time, you'd be about ... sixteen.

In yours, I'm probably ... I dunno. Eleven? Twelve?

But hey, I could write my address down.

[miniworth]

...I'd like that. [Still grinning.]

It might be a while before I could visit, since I'm probably moving to Germany soon -- but I'll try.

[foolishwren]

Yeah. Me too.

_{[Edgeworth sure would make a better friend than the ones she was headed for once she started getting into that rebellious phase.]}

... I'm sure my dad'd think it'd be a good experience for me to have a pen-pal in a foreign country.

[miniworth]

Then I'll definitely write to you. I hope you don't get freaked out, though.

[foolishwren]

Me? Naaahhh.

When I was that age? I wasn't scared of anything.

[miniworth]

Not even possibly a strange person from Germany writing to you?



....and saying they might know you in the future?

[foolishwren]

Eh... at that age, I'd probably be all 'Cool, time travel!'

_{[That had been an innocent time.]}

[miniworth]

[....Miles wishes he had those days back ;-; ]

[He just smiles, and laughs a bit.]

Haha-- I suppose so, huh?

[foolishwren]

_{[Yeah... so did Heather, on occasion. But what was done, was done. The most she could do now was make up for lost time however she could.]}

Yeah...

Maybe you could get Phoenix and Larry in on it, too.

You guys'd make better friends than the ones I wound up with.

_{[It wasn't even that she hadn't had decent friends as a kid, either-- she still remembered them. But as so often happened with growing up, they'd grown apart and she'd gone for a bitchier, less responsible crowd. Wouldn't you know.]}

[miniworth]

........I will. I still have to send a reply to those letters Phoenix somehow sent me every other day, even after I moved away without a word.

[He looks a bit wistful.]

He'd be fascinated by the thought of a friend I made in her future, in Johto no less.

[foolishwren]

... What was he like, as a kid?

Was he still stuffy and anti-fun?

_{[Somehow she just can't imagine an itty-bitty Phoenix. Even if she met him during that weirdass weekend.]}

[miniworth]

I met him when the class accused him of stealing my lunch money, so my first memory of him is him crying his face off. ..... he cried a lot. But he wasn't anti-fun at all! He and Larry used to drag me around to play with them.

......and he looked a lot less sad, too. Especially when he was with his mother.

[foolishwren]

_{[... IS IT BAD THAT HEATHER CAN EASILY IMAGINE LITTLE!PHOENIX CRYING HIS FACE OFF? PROBABLY.]}

... Awh.

... Yeah... life kinda does that.

He needs to lighten up, though.

[miniworth]

[/doop tagging on comatose accounts]
[also IT IS. PROBABLY NOT A GOOD OR A BAD THING.]

[At Heather's words, Miles gives a shrug.]

I think he does a lot better job of staying light-hearted than I did, frankly.

[foolishwren]

... That, I can agree with. Older-you was stuffy and frowny.

_{[With a smirk, she reaches over to ruffle his hair again.]}

If you go back and remember everything that happened here, try to grow up into somebody who smiles every so often, okay?

[miniworth]

I'll try not to end up like that.

But - what was he like, other than that?

[foolishwren]

'Fraid I only talked to him a couple times... Didn't get to know him that well at all.

[miniworth]

Oh.

[A swing of his leg, then another.]

Then that's fine. Maybe it's for the best I don't know.