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[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

[written; a little hard-pressed]

What happened? Is it over?

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[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

Hey Johnny. Yeah, don't worry. It's all over.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

[pause; writing almost back to normal now]

Did you get hurt or anything while that demon was still stomping around?

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

No, I stayed the hell out of the way this time.

]pen-tapping as he remembers that Ryoki didn't realize he'd been dead until afterward]

You were fighting. Do you remember what happened?

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

I don't. [pause] I kind of... lost it.

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

You "lost it"?

Well that might explain a few things. You were killed, you know. It's been two weeks.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

After some point, the battle was all a red blur to me. It happens during really long fights — moreso when I use my powers.

Are you serious? I thought I was just knocked out. For a couple days, at most.

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

That's a terribly reckless thing to let happen...

Yeah. Duo Maxwell found you out in the city, and we carried you back. You - well, you weren't pretty, that's for sure.

But I'm glad you came back.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

[dry laugh that sounds very forced] It was. I'm sorry.

[muttered] My God... Do I even want to know?

Glad to be back. I'd still rather be in New York, but [ffff gone, he doesn't want to sound ungrateful]

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

[a small, extremely forced laugh to counter the memory] Maybe not. I've seen my share of corpses, and even I got queasy.

...And I hate to be the bearer of further bad news, but your agency was kind of - leveled. I don't know if that was before or after your fight.

1/2

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

That bad? Oh man...

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

[...Wait. What?]

What?!

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

Ah. After the fight, then.

I tried to clear away some of the rubble, and your assistant might have managed to salvage something in the rest of it, but, yeah, it's ... it's gone.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

[Have some verbal keysmashing while he kind of freaks out over all his hard work being destroyed. ): If he wasn't so disturbed about going berserk and dying, said freak out would be much, much worse.]

[recorded while pulling at his hair] Gone. Gone! This can't be happening—

—have to start over! Even if some files were saved—

...Cordelia. Is Cordelia okay?

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

[lets him keysmash in silence; he still feels bad, even though he momentarily has a lot invested in Johnny's setback D8]

Yeah, yeah she's fine, don't worry. You should probably talk to her as soon as possible.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness. I'll do it the first chance I get.

[sdjklhgds calming down ;_; but silently mourning over his agency]

It just had to mow down my agency... Well, at least I'm still breathing. I'm thankful for that. But something feels

[marxmanship.livejournal.com]

I know. And just to rub it in, the castle and the forest even went back to normal all by themselves, but not the city. Some of us have been helping rebuild, but it'll take a while longer yet.

...But I guess it's not the building itself that was important anyway.

[despite all the bad, he's still smiley] Me too. It finally feels like it's over now that everyone's coming back.

[q-ueenly.livejournal.com]

Completely over. Thank God you're back.

[avidawaker.livejournal.com]

What a relief. You're okay too, Cordelia?

[pause] Please tell me Colin wasn't serious about the agency.

[q-ueenly.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[short nervous laugh] I salvaged the coffeemaker?