no_fastolfe | 18 - Future history

[Necessarily generous friends filter: if you've had one non-hostile conversation with her, you're on it.]

I have graduated. [She still sounds kind of surprised about this, a little lost.]

In three days I will be leaving to visit some of my friends who have left the barge, and to return to my household on Aurora to implement what I have learned. In the meantime, I would like to see you again. Many of you have been important to me.

[It's stiff and formal, since she still doesn't know exactly how and what to say, how to convey how important her friends have been.]

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From:

nolongerhollow

You'll be going then. Going home.

... but I will see you again. As I promised. [He's shoring himself up somewhat, especially after his conversation with Castiel, but sounds determined.]

Please come visit me in the garden?

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no_fastolfe

Of course. I'm on my way.

[She arrives there at a brisk walk, with nose filters, without gloves. It may be the last time she sees most of these people and the risk of skin-to-skin contact is tolerable, considering her regimen of immunosupplements.]

From:

nolongerhollow

[Dracula is in his gardening clothes, a deep blue dress shirt rolled to his elbows and black jeans tucked into his usual boots. His hair is loose and still a bit mussed, and his fingers are dirty.]

[He shifts around, holding in his hand a small pot in which is a low-growing plant with clusters of pink flowers.]

From:

no_fastolfe

[She smiles, to see him looking so disheveled, a strangely casual side of him.]

Vladislaus.

[It is the first time she has not addressed him by a title. Though the formality is a sign of her respect for him, this is a sign of friendship.]

From:

nolongerhollow

Vasilia. [A brief soft smile, and then he somewhat awkwardly motions with the little pot.]

These are...Alpine pinks. I cultivate a little patch of them. They bloom very early in spring. The original flower was given me by a close friend, and so I give a portion of its descendants to you.

From:

no_fastolfe

Lovely. [She accepts them carefully] I'll make a place for them in my estate.

This-- I had no idea it would be so soon. As much as I've wished to leave this place.

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nolongerhollow - Date: 2012-03-06 04:03 am (UTC) - Expand

From:

cannibalmind

Ah, excellent. Please accept my congratulations on your accomplishment.

From:

no_fastolfe

It was not worth the harm you experienced, sir. I wish it had not come this way.

From:

cannibalmind

Doctor, you have my forgiveness, and my admiration for pulling such an accomplishment from the jaws of so horrid an experience. As for me, I have if nothing else a firm goal now. I will graduate and become a psychotherapist here. It is sometimes only in extremis that we truly find our best selves, and it seems we both have.

From:

no_fastolfe

I believe that you could do a great deal of good here. You have already. In making peace with the T-X unit you did more than I could bring myself to. You kept me, then, from some very rash actions.

From:

cannibalmind

Yes...that. It is...

My experience with her has made me think a great deal about racial aggression, genocide and zero-sum wars. That in turn has me thinking about many related things.

From:

no_fastolfe

The barge certainly provides awkward new context for old ideas.

From:

shortsightedlove

Graduated? [Hmm. It's not really that surprising, he supposes; she didn't seem like the type to stay here all too long.]

[See her, though? It is quite apparent that the girls seems to see him as a friend far more than he sees her as one (also unsurprisingly, considering that he never sees people like that when they aren't Omega ~~except for the Doctor and Narvin and Atia and maybe Rose a little bit~~) but.... Hmm. A bit of companionship surely wouldn't be remiss. He is, after all, quite the social creature, even if he has taken to isolation recently.]

When shall I come?

From:

no_fastolfe

[An acquaintance more than a friend, really, but she has so few of those that she isn't going to quibble.]

I can come to you if convenient, or we could meet at the deck. However, I know that you are one less likely to be affected by my absence than others on the filter; if you lack the inclination, a simple goodbye over the Network can suffice.

[She's not unaware of her own lack of significance to him, as much as she has in times past enjoyed his company.]

From:

shortsightedlove

[He pauses, taken aback by her awareness regarding their relationship. Still...]

I see no issue with a meeting on the deck if you wish for one; your company has been enjoyable.

[For a human especially. And the people he has pleasant conversations with are so few and have quite the tendency to leave.]

{{OOC: I managed to catch a cold ten days after I had the last one so I might be pretty slow. If you'd rather assume their meeting, I have no problem with that.}}

From:

no_fastolfe

I would say I preferred to say goodbye. You were one of my first acquaintances here, and that has not been unimportant to me.

[I'm good with slow-time]