041: Hey, It's Just an Ordinary Day

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[Hei appears on the Plane in a nice armchair, a coffee table and a widescreen TV. There's various plates of half-eaten food on the table that Hei is slowly working through, as well as a stack of papers with handwritten notes on them. Some of them look to be notes about cars again, but there's also some scribbles with a few Tokyo districts written down, as well as what look like details about them.]

[For now, though, Hei seems to be preoccupied with what's on the TV. Namely, I Love the 70's. 1974, to be exact--and even more specifically, the segment on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Deadpool got Hei to watch I Love the 80's, and Hei decided to follow up :|]

Killing someone with a chainsaw wouldn't be very efficient, though...

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[Quiet for a moment.]

... Zeronos isn't a card game.

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[Long pause. Then he reaches for the remote and turns off the television. He's quiet for awhile.]

I made most of that up on the spot.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Still not quite looking at Hei.] I wondered... whether you just took a game and renamed it, or...

Um... I guess.. I wanted to say 'thank you', for that, though.

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If I'm going to lie, I like to do it thoroughly.

[Shifts a little.] Thank you? Why?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Because... you went along with it, even knowing how it's supposed to be.

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[Long pause.] You seemed happy. [Feels that this explains everything.]

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Maybe so, but it— ... You didn't have to.

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It's fine. You...even if it was a lie, you were happy. So...

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Nostalgic, but pained smile.] I was... So, thank you.

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[Ghost of a smile.] ...You're welcome.

[A beat, then,] I suppose this means you're going to be avoiding me again.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

... I should be.

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Are you sure about that?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

I don't know. ... I was.

I think... I'd be alright with it, if only because I would be able to let go and.. disappear, as it were, if the cards affected you. But... [Shakes his head a little.]

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If you disappear, you'd better expect a fair few of us to go after you.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

But that's exactly why I can't... I can't just stick around.

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You can't avoid this place forever.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Maybe not... but the people here... That's a bit easier, at least.

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You can try.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[He nods, but doesn't say anything.]

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[After a moment,] Do you want to watch this with me?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Just... blinks at him in surprise for a moment.] ... Eh?

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Well, it's kind of boring watching something by yourself, right?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's true, but... [Glances behind himself, as if he might actually have somewhere to go, even though he really doesn't. He just doesn't think it's a good idea.]

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Really, I don't mind. This is pretty interesting. I hadn't heard of, well, any of this.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Gets... a little closer, and looks at the screen for the first time.] ... Ehhh?