Harry Mason (
haveyouseenalittlegirl) wrote2011-04-13 07:54 pm
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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.
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.
[Video]
[And he's going to press it. Okay.
Map.]
....I don't suppose I can mark on this though, can I?
[How will he mark all the locked doors?]
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[THIS IS LIKE THE TIME SHE WAS TRYING TO TEACH HIM ABOUT THE INTERNET. But in any case, don't worry Harry. In this world, all the locks are NOT broken.]
Most of this place is wilderness anyway so there's no, like... streets to navigate. Anyway, if you zoom out a little, you should see a few cities and towns marked.
See that big one labeled to the northwest, kinda next to the ocean? That's Goldenrod.
[It wasn't HELLISHLY far away from New Bark, but it was... pretty far. :(]
[Video]
...and he doesn't trust it.]
Right.
[He does so and....]
Might take me some time to get there.
[Like he's not coming to find you.]
[Video]
I'll meet you halfway. ... Or-- ... or borrow a Pokemon big enough to ride on and send it to get you. Or something.
That'll shave the time down by a good coupla weeks.
[Likewise, Heather's not about to leave him in the lurch and sit around waiting like Princess Peach or something.]
[Video]
....We'll figure something out.
When do you suggest I start walking?
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Okay. I've been around here for awhile so I'll walk you through it whether I'm there or not. First place you wanna get to is Cherrygrove. It's a little teeny town by the beach about four days west of you down Route 29.
... You'll need to spend a few nights camping. But it's-- ... not that bad. 'Specially now that the weather's warming up. [... Jeez, how long has Heather BEEN here?]
Once you get THERE, there's places to buy food and supplies and stuff.
[Video]
Four days, got it.
So berries till then.
[Or after that too...he's not even sure if he has any money.]
Heather...how long have you been here?
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Ber-- ... oh. Oh. Dad. Whatever you do, DON'T eat any of the big weird-colored berries. If you can find the normal, little ones that look like stuff from home, those are fine, but the big baseball-sized ones on the little bush-trees? Don't eat 'em. [They LOOKED tasty, but not only were they not, but half of them made your body want to kill itself and the other half sent you on trips worthy of Woodstock.]
And, uh--
[She pauses a little. She supposed she'd have had to break the news that it's been quite awhile since his death in her timeline to him eventually...]
... Almost a year.
[Video]
Alright.
.....a year?
[He blinks and then realizes the question he should be asking.]
Heather...how long has it been for you?
[Video]
... I finished high school about a month and a half before I was brought here.
.... M'turning nineteen this summer.
[Video]
[Harry falls silent at that. What do you say when you realize you've missed two years of your daughters life? What about the fact that he should be missing all of them, not just two?]
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... But I was doing okay.
Working. And... stuff.
[She's not sure she wants to mention that she hadn't tried to apply for colleges. After losing him, and... well, after Silent Hill, just finishing her last year of high school on her own had seemed a daunting and difficult enough task.]
... The apartment doesn't really feel like home anymore, though.
[Video]
[He sighs because he's not sure what to say...]
It doesn't.
I want you to have a good future Heather. Enjoy life. Even if I'm not with you at home, I want you to be happy.
[Video]
I--
... I was kinda-- [Well, okay, she hadn't been happy. She'd mostly been sitting there wondering what the hell there was for her to DO in the world that she had saved that night. It was funny-- a year before, the possibilities had seemed endless. Then-- blank. She had nothin'. It hadn't been permanent, she had confidence that she'd figure out what to do EVENTUALLY. But right there, before she'd come to Johto, she was very much smack dab in the middle of "I graduated high school. I'm living on my own. I can do whatever I want. .... NOW what?" state.]
... Would ... would you be mad if I... moved somewhere else?
That place is just... it's not the same anymore.
[No matter what she did, nothing would ever erase the memory of walking into the room and finding his body.]
... IF I ever wind up back there, anyway.
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[He understands all too well.]
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Thanks, Dad.
I think I just... needed to hear it from you.
[She'd stayed both because it was the last place they'd shared together, and because-- ... well, who the hell was gonna let a highschooler buy their own place? In any case...]
No one's come after me since... since everything went down that night. ... But finding another place probably won't hurt.
... Just in case.
[Video]
Well that's one good thing about being dragged back from the dead.
[He tries to keep his tone light, with a small smile.]
Is there anything else you need to hear from me?
[Video]
[In any case, she's all for lightening of the tone.]
Uh-- yeah, like, everything?
[The almost-smile turns to a real one.]
But I think we'll have time for that.
[Video]
I think we will.
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[... Except the police, and the nurses in the Center in Violet City. Harry did not need to know about Heather's reputation with the police and nurses of Violet City.]
And-- and my FRIENDS! You gotta meet them-- they're nothing like those creeps I used to hang out with back in high school.
[Harry would probably also be pleased to know that Heather had stuck to her guns and stayed away from the cigarettes even WITHOUT him around to scold her for it anymore.]
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[Heather. What did he say. Cops are our friends....except when they're charging daddy with murder.]
They aren't are they? Well that's good to hear.
[Did not approve of those friends at all. Also yay. You won't get any lectures from him then....]
[Video]
[She grins broadly.]
Betcha didn't think I could even make friends who weren't jerks anymore.
[... That's not to say that some of the friends she's made here AREN'T jerks, but still. As for the cigarettes, well, she'd be lying if she said she hadn't been tempted more than once. But she'd stayed away anyway.]
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You know I was starting to wonder.
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I... think you'll like a lot of the friends I've made in this place.
[Sure, one of them was an internationally-infamous jewel thief, and another was a big muscular crazy guy with daddy issues and a fatal allergy to wearing shirts, BUT HEY. At least Heather wasn't shoplifting anymore.]
They've been watching my back since day one here.
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[.....Heather.....]
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