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Event Log - Total Recall

Who: You and you and mostly me and you
What: Everyone's been Shifted in their own way
When: A hero doesn't care if this event last a whole ten days
Where: Everyone can blaze a hero's trail
Summary: It's that special time when the Malnosso collect all their recent experiments and apply them all at once to measure effectiveness. Although invaluable as research, it tends to leave the subjects looking just a bit mad.
Rating: Rated H for HEROIC

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I left to get away from rough times, rough places. People in pain that need healing, children hungry, elders cold because of this delegate ignoring things in favor of his own greed or that noble not caring. And they wanted me to talk. To be diplomatic. To explain that it would be in their best interests to stop being so full of Nerfshit and do what's right- Are you saying I leave the order for nothing? That. If I had stayed it'd be much the same?

[Because honestly, if more of the same is all she has to look forward to...she's going to need a drink. Many, many drinks.]

Bad enough that Ben didn't leave with me- but it gets worse? That's just. Delightful news, Red.

I'm from thirty years in your future. Why would I lie about what I lived through?

[It was simple, honest, and unaffected. He asked nothing of her, just her trust. Lies could be as dangerous as the truth at the best and worst of times--it was personal policy of his to never use them unless his options were limited or lives were on the line.

He heard her on the drinks. He was going to need them too.]

I don't know about everything though. You, for instance. Ben. All I know about him is what little Luke has told me, and the little I've seen of him here.

I'm not calling you a liar Red. I know you wouldn't- how do I know that? [And yet she does. She's certain of it.] But. You wouldn't. Not about this. And not to me.

[She props her elbows on her knees, unfamiliar clothing in an unfamiliar world. It should have been her first clue, really. Adele scrubs at her face and tries to think through this. Nodding along with what he's said until that very. Very last bit.

Ben. Ben was here? In this world?

Her head snaps up.]

Where is he?

...I don't speak to him, Goldie. At all. Last time we were 'awake,' all you did was complain that he wasn't letting you help him.

Don't waste your time again. It's not worth it to you.

[He just didn't want to see her upset like that again. Ever.]

...I suppose I don't ever talk to him again, after I leave. I don't have any reason to go back to the Order. And he wouldn't...know how to reach me. Or want to.

[Otherwise he'd welcome her assistance. He always had- she sees no reason for it to change unless they grew into such disparate strangers that nothing ever was as it had once been. As infuriating as the structure of the order could be Ben had made it bearable. And she'd lost that entirely, it seems.

This does not, at all, make her tear up. Not even a little.

More than a little, and she ducks her head to hide it.]

I can't answer that. [He gently wipes her tears away.] I can say this--don't worry about what you can't change, because you'll only hurt yourself more.

[If he couldn't have here here for whatever reason, he could deal with it. He's loved so many women in his lifetime, and so few of them ever returned the feelings. Even less were even safe to pursue because of the nature of his work--they could be used as pawns, or worse.

He didn't want to think about the worst.

The best course has always been to savor the few moments of bliss that he could steal, however and where ever they come. His dealings with Goldie had been bliss, and he didn't want this strange little theft to ever end.]

You really do spend too much time around Jedi.

[She mutters, blinking back the next surge of tears. Something she heard day in, day out, for years. With Ben and others next to her repeating it diligently. She'd only been gone a year, she shouldn't be this homesick. And if she was, she shouldn't miss the blasted temple. It wasn't home, had never been home.]

...I still. Want to see him. To apologize. I shouldn't have asked him to come with me.

[Insert foot into mouth--he knew that he shouldn't have mentioned anything about Ben to her. At all.]

...He probably heard it a million times and more when we were awake before, Goldie. You were just doing what you felt was right, there's nothing to apologize for!

[He chuckles a little as he pulls her close, wishing he knew of some way to make the situation better.]

...heh. Maybe I do spend too much around Jedi. Luke's order is different from the one you know, though. I couldn't say how, but they're different.

Tell me where to find him? Please?

[She pulls back enough to offer him her saddest, sweetest pleading eyes. All she wants is to make certain he's okay. That he didn't lose a limb or an eye or something foolish like that without her there to mend him afterward. She's allowed to worry- it hasn't been that long since she left to her mind. Certainly he was only a little further along that she was.]

...who is Luke? I do not know of any Jedi by that name.

I don't know. He wanders, and I don't pay attention to him.

[The pitiful gaze was only succeeding in breaking his heart, and that final question just drove the differences home. She was Goldie, but not his...

...and never his, it seemed.]

If you want to find Ben so much, go find him. I can't help you though.

I'm sorry.

[It's an immediate reaction to what she provoked. Heartbreak hurts, blast it, and. She doesn't know him well enough to want to wait it out. Normally, at least. She reaches out all the same, brushes her mind against his. Tentative, contrite. She didn't mean to, really.]

I'll. Go. I'm sorry.

Don't apologize for what you can't help.

[It was another rule of his, one that prevented worry and anxiety while he was on a job. Any decision could mean the difference between a won or lost battle, a life lived or lost.

...this was why it was dangerous to love in his line of work.]

...I'll come back. Once I make sure he's alright.

[She's not sure what prompts this but she says it all the same. Because when she's older they love each other and that's precious. For however long they have it, it's worth nurturing, worth protecting.

Isn't it?]

I promise.

[With the way this Shift is, he almost doens't believe her--but reminds himself that she wasn't a liar by nature either. This was important to her, even if all it would earn her was more heartache than she could stand.

It wasn't his battle. He was tired.

He nods solemnly in understanding.]

I'll hold you to that.

[Adele can't help but want to give him something before she leaves. Something more than a promise, something to make him less worn. Less tired. Something to ease the ache she kicked up without knowing or thinking.

To her mind she hasn't done this before at all, and certainly not with a woman, but. She reaches up, brushes her fingers along Red's cheek. Offers a gentle, sad smile.]

I always keep my promises Pateesa.

[Even if it's her first proper kiss, it's given with a comfortable familiarity she can't quite understand. A little clumsy, close lipped and chaste, the barest brush of her lips to Red's but. Sincere all the same.]

[The kiss is over before he realizes that its begun, but the lingering warmth remains in his heart even as she draws away. He wants to catch her, wants to hold her, but resists..

She needed to act on her own first.]

Good luck with your endeavors, Adele. May the Force be with you.

I won't be gone that long Red.

[She won't. Just long enough to see, to apologize- then she'll come back here. Because there was something more important than her displacement, than Red being a woman to consider. Questions that needed answers. She may not be able to help him, but she wants to try all the same.

Her hand slides through Red's hair once. Gives it a soft, fond ruffle, and then she's gone. Heading out the door to find Ben. And possibly Luke as well. Because if there are Jedi here, she should check in on them, if only from a distance.]

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