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[A video feed turns on and shows a tired looking middle aged man with brown hair. It's taken him awhile but apparently you can use this thing for messages? It meant ...well talking to people and right now he'd rather just close his eyes and try to figure out why he was breathing. But well, you can't put everything off.

He sighs and trying to ignore the strange creature jumping up and down on his bag behind him, speaks up]

Well so far this has been the better of the two towns I’ve woken up in. Things don’t seem to be trying to kill me as much as they did in Silent Hill anyway. Less fog and snow too....

I don’t suppose anyone would know a way for me to get home would they? My daughters still out there and I need to find her before... Well , I need to find her. Or find out what happened to her even if I can’t go back.

[He sighs, knowing he’ll regret it if he doesn’t ask.]

Also, was anyone dead before they woke up here? Because I’m really sure I was.

...Quite sure actually.

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_{[... Dad...]}

... I ...

_{[She doesn't look surprised. That alone is probably enough to tell Harry that she knows exactly what he's talking about. And she should, after all... she was the one to find the body. Just as Claudia intended her to.]}

... I'm sorry I didn't get home sooner.

I'm so sorry.

I should've...

[It does...and if she saw him there.]

...Heather. What happened?

_{[There's a brief and uncomfortable pause.]

[Heather's always known that it's possible to feel both incredible happiness and incredible pain at the same time. But it's been... awhile since she felt it like this.]

[She's still reeling from the surreality of it all, to boot... Here she was. Talking to her father. Something that could never happen again back home-- and something that she'd lacked the courage to do half a year before. Her heart's still pounding, just as hard was it was the second her brain registered his voice.]

[When she finally does speak, her voice is small.]}

... A lot.

.....They found you.

[Of course.]

_{[The happiness of the occasion, for the moment, is pushed back in favor of the memory of what happened. Heather swallows audibly, and her tone takes on something akin to a growl.]}

They found both of us.

_{[... And the fact that she knows who 'they' are means... she knows everything. Everything he wrote in that notebook. Everything about Alessa. Everything about what happened on that horrible night she was born.]}

... But it's over.

[He...realizes that. He knew she'd read it eventually. He was hoping she'd never have to. The shame he'd felt, all of that...

He covers his face with his hand. But then looks up when she says that.]

It's over.

_{[She knows-- but it's okay. Maybe at one point she wouldn't have understood, but... she does. ... And right now, it suddenly strikes her that more than anything else, she needs to show that she does.]

[The camera shakes for a moment as she uses one hand to rummage off-screen for something-- then it steadies and something small and bright is dangling in front of the screen. ... It's the locket, the one he gave her so long ago.]

[The tiny latch is undone, leaving the bottom hinge to hang upon like a gaping jaw. ... And the inside is empty.]}

It's over.

[He see's it. And he smiles in pure relief.]

It worked.

_{[The smile in turn causes her to relax, letting out a sigh of relief of her own.]}

Yeah. It worked.

_{[... She'd had to EAT IT rather than just get it thrown at her head, and the result had been bar none the worst thing she had ever experienced in that life, but it had worked.]}

... Thank you.

For... for knowing I would need that.

I hoped you never would. But I couldn't take that chance.

[It's clear that while he had hoped she never would. He know she probably would. And he's still smiling. This is pretty much the best thing he's heard yet.]

Heather. I don't know what happened. But I want you to know. I'm so proud of you.

_{[Despite everything, a chuckle actually works its way out of her throat.]}

You always were good at planning ahead...

_{[There's no doubt about it... she'd have been dead if it weren't for that necklace. And possibly the world would have perished with her-- but whether or not she died to kill the thing inside her before it could rear its ugly head or died giving birth to it, she'd have been dead. Even if he hadn't been the one to land the killing blow on God like he had the first time all those years ago, he'd still saved her again.]

[But it's his next words that really make her chest tighten.]}

...

_{[She laughs again, but there's a slight choke in it as she raises one hand to rub at her eyes. She's... yeah, she might be tearing up. ... No, she's definitely tearing up.]}

Dad, I... you got no idea how much it-- ... how much I've been-- hoping I could hear you say that.

[His expression is warm smile. He doesn't know what exactly happened. What Heather had done, faced or met. But he knew she'd survived and she'd ended it. The relief and happiness and just pride of his daughter's actions...]

I love you so much Heather.

_{[She'll tell him-- not right now, because... she'd rather not have this moment right here tarnished too much by the memories of what happened on that awful night if she can avoid it. But she will tell him-- because if there's anyone in the entire universe who'll understand what she went through, it's her dad.]

[Still grinning (although it's half-a-grimace, because boy are her eyes stinging now), Heather sniffs wheezily.]}

Love you too, Dad...

_{[Her one comfort in that long last year of high school? Was that even though there had been so much left unsaid between them, at the very least, her last words to him during that phonecall before everything went to hell had been 'I love you'.]}

I've... I've missed you so much.

[He can see the tears in her eyes and he wishes more then ever he was wherever she was so he could hug her. Instead he settles for keeping a reassuring smile on his face.]

Well for whatever reason. I'm here now.

_{[Believe me, she wishes the exact same thing.]}

Yeah, you're-- god, if I wake up and this turns out to be some kinda dream I'm gonna kill something--

_{[She cuts herself off there with one last swipe across her eyes before looking back up, grinning crookedly despite the fact that her eyes are getting pretty leaky there.]}

S-so. Have you uh-- have y'gotten the usual flood of people telling you 'Yes, you're in a different world, no, you can't go home, and yes that weird animal you got is supposed to be there' yet?

_{[She didn't catch sight of the Togepi in the message (she was too busy FLIPPING OUT), but if he's in Johto, he has to have a starter, right?]}

[He has to smile at that.]

Yes. Quite a few people were telling me you were here as well.

[Not that this made seeing her for himself any less startling.]

And yes...the weird animal....

[He leans off camera to pick up the Togepi and bring it into view.]

I still don't have a name yet. But I was thinking Lisa. I figured you'd rather that then Heather.

[Yes he was thinking about naming it Heather.]

Wh-- aw, really? Get outta town! _{[... Actually, no, don't get out of town Harry, Heather would be really sad if you disappeared again.]} Uh... they said good stuff, I hope?

_{[Because... because she hasn't entirely recovered from her old delinquent ways and she is not pals with the local police force here.]}

... Oh! Oh, hey! It's ... one of those things! _{[Derp, she never actually got the name.]} A friend of mine has one, it's really c--

... You were seriously considering naming it Heather?

They did.

[He chuckles.]

Apparently it's called a Togepi.

I was thinking about it.

[Look at the cute little guy. Jumping up and down and making some noises. Totally a Heather...]

_{[It's funny, how easy it was to slip back into talking this way. Like he hadn't even died-- like everything was normal. Was that normal? The first time he had appeared in Johto, she'd been so terrified that it would go badly that she'd stopped herself from talking entirely. Maybe that had been an even stupider worry than she'd thought.]

[But hell. She's not complaining. If this is a dream, it's a good one and she doesn't want to wake up for awhile. Maybe she'll be lucky and Cujo will hold off on his daily OMG GET UP GET UP GET UP TIME FOR WALKING GOOD MORNING I GOTTA PEE OMG I'M A DOG routine.]}

Seriously, Dad? For real?

That is so not a 'me' Pokemon.

_{[Her voice still has that tell-tale croop to it, but her tone is more relaxed. More like the way she used to sound, back when he was alive.]}

[His seems to be relaxing more into tease-your-daughter mode.]

I don't know Heather. It's cute and adorable. That's 'you', right?

_{[Old habits die hard, it seems. Not even all the horror of Silent Hill can get rid of the time-honored tradition of Trolldad.]

[Heather's grin grows, even as she gives the standard indignant, squawky response to the teasing.]}

Dad! NO. Just-- no.

I punch puppies. With my face.

If you're gonna name a Pokemon after me, at least make it a cool one.

[Nothing can destroy a fathers love...or his ability to troll his daughter.]

You don't think this little guy is cool?

_{[And in turn, nothing can destroy a teenager's determination to argue.]}

Nothing that looks like it belongs in some kid's Easter basket surrounded by chocolate bunnies and that fake grass is allowed to be cool.

Cute, yes.

Cool, no.

You're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

....

Maybe if it was fluffy.

[Yes he went there.]

_{[Good, he's finally seeing the ligh-- .... Oh no he di-in't.]

[Heather takes a moment to look comically outraged.]}

.... That's it. I'm running away and joining the circus.

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