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And his gear flickers on. Hello Route. Harry isn't quite pleased looking today. In fact he looks rather tired and serious. Possibly something to do with Heather's last post? ......yes actually.]

For those who know her, Heather Mason has been grounded for the foreseeable future.

That's all.

[Private Text to Claudia]

Stay away from my daughter.

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[Harry is sitting outside the inn watching a spinning hoothoot. A Pichu and a Darumaka stand next to him. After a moment he shakes his head.]

I'm sorry guys, I don't know what you're trying to show me. I know she spins..

[Hazel just keeps pointing as the hoot hoot stops eventually, walks off and then comes back with....a pen?]

.....is that my pen? Where did you find this?

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[But she's not tired mamma. Also she saw the future, it doesn't involve her sleeping! :|]

Really.

You ignored me, were yelling at your friends, stole another of your friends pokemon and were running off to try and punch your problems away.

Would you like to tell me what part of that wasn't childish?

_{[>8I Well you can sleep or not sleep but you're still going in the bag, young lady!]

[Heather grits her teeth. She's not going to yell, she's not going to scream. They're outside and there's other people around and she'd rather not make a spectacle. So she speaks through those teeth in a low voice.]}

You know there was more to it than that.

[:I Fine. /Is pushed into bag.]

Yes, I do know.

And I understand why you felt you needed to do this. But you can't just run off like that....

[If someone had shown up threaten her, he might have done something similar.]

You scared me Cheryl.

I know. And I'm sorry.

But I'm a grown woman and I got by on my own for two years after losing everything. And that... history _{[For lack of a better term for what existed between herself and his murderer...]} goes back to before I ever even knew you.

I'm not a little kid in high school who needs to be taught lessons about staying out too late anymore.

No...no you're not.

Which is why I'm hoping you learned something from this yourself.

_{[The response 'I learned that I should cover my tracks better' is on the tip of her tongue, but she holds it back. For one thing, it's NOT really what she learned, and for another, it probably wouldn't gear a response she was interested in hearing.]

[Instead...]}

Yeah, well, that's my business.

You don't need to police it by telling EVERYBODY.

I didn't do it to police you.

The only ones who would care are the people who know you. They'd find out anyway, and considering the circumstances I'm sure they'd want to know you were alright.

[If you're grounded, you're not in the hospital at least.]

I would've told them that myself.

_{[You know, eventually...]}

You still can.

I'm sure they want to hear from you.

_[Sourly.]

Well, they don't need to now that you've told them I'm sitting in the corner with a dunce cap.

I didn't say that.

You might s'well have.

I said you were grounded, that's all.

For someone who's almost twenty, that's basically the same thing.

[He sighs and shakes his head.]

If that's what you want to believe then fine. I was just trying to make sure people knew you were alright without outright saying something to make people ask questions neither of us wanted to answer.

_{[Folding her arms, she huffs and looks away.]}

You could've thought of a better way to do that.

You're right, I probably could have. But that's what I did at the moment.

I know you're mad at me, but I just want to tell you, I'm here if you want to talk about what happened with her. It doesn't have to be now, it can be whenever. Days or weeks from now, I don't care.

I'll be here okay?

_{[The impulse is to wordlessly stomp off like she so often did in the old days, back before she knew the truth behind his suffocating protectiveness and thought they were just a stuffy father and rapidly-maturing daughter who butted heads like bighorn sheep.]

[But she's not going to. At least not without first looking over her shoulder and telling him:]}

I know.

_{[And then she'll leave.]

[Because fuck it, no matter how upset with him (and herself, and the situation in general) she is right now, she still has him back after having lost him forever. And she's grateful for that no matter what he does.]}

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