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[And today, Violet City! Violet City on a damn fine morning, no less. But more importantly, an Eevee. A very playful one by the looks of it, as she's sort of darting around when Coop's trying to film her.]

I found this girl today. I'm fairly certain she belonged to Dee - call it a hunch. Dee's gone, but knowing her she'll probably show up around these parts again sooner rather than later.

[He sounds quite cheerful, saying this. Like most others he knows that he knows her, so her being gone doesn't trouble him all that much. Besides, it's a beautiful day, and he'll happily focus on that and the other little things:]

I'm back in Violet. [Audibly breathes the whole thing in as he films the area - a bit on the town outskirts, near the trees.] Man, I missed this town. Am quite looking forward to the hike back to Azalea, but that might be a while. I've been thinking I should try the gym now that I'm here so wish me luck on that one. Which reminds me -

[Camera pans and behold, a Wooper, looking like the most timid thing on ~~Earth~~ Johto.]

I believe this one needs more attention and care than I am able to give her at present. I don't feel it's fair to keep her in the computer for longer periods of time, so if anyone would like to take her in, I'd appreciate it. Bear in mind that she doesn't like fighting.

[...she's not claimed and she's a Wooper and who wants a Wooper anyway, but if anyone WOULD want her it'll be discussed ICly and stuff (and on a bit of a first-come first-serve basis). If no one wants her he's probably going to set her free which would be a-okay. :Db]

[Action for anyone in Violet! Feel free to run into him anywhere. /o/]

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_{[She squints at him briefly-- something about that phrase was very, very eerie... Fire itself was something Heather had never quite been able to escape, either. From the ritual that burned down half of Alessa's neighborhood, to that fiery nothing place where she died alongside the god she'd been carrying for so long, to Heather's own struggle in Silent Hill seventeen years after that. Hell, she couldn't even escape it in Johto, it seemed, what with the fact that she'd been given a fire-breathing dog upon entry.]

[But she doesn't ask about it. Not just yet-- even though her curiosity is piqued like hell. There was definitely something odd about Cooper and she wanted to find out about it... later.]}

Bob? Not really.

Hung out with a guy named Bob for awhile in high school who made out with a pillow while high once and many laughs were had. But unless by 'significant' you mean 'had a dumbass friend once', then no.

_{[...sounds like some guy. There's a reason Coop never touched grounds with that sort of crowd. He'd tried light drugs, naturally - they weren't his thing. But that's irrelevant right now.]

[It's probably a good thing that she doesn't know about BOB. It would indicate that she's either not a target (yet, if he's being pessimistic) or he doesn't exist in her space of reality. He hadn't really thought about it until now - there hadn't been a reason - but Heather is the kind of girl he'd go for. There's a definite resemblance to Teresa Banks in her - a bit of Laura too, sure. Something sets a little in his face as he absorbs this.]}

No, not exactly.

_{[There's no point in asking her about his appearance. He made sure they knew his name, didn't he?]

[Instead, he goes back to the original topic.]}

Looks like you got out of it okay.

_{[Yeah, Heather hadn't exactly been in a good crowd in high school. But in the end, they'd just been a bunch of stupid kids trying to shock their parents. Half of that old group of jerks had probably either wound up in jail for something or shaped up like she (sort of) had and gone about their lives. She didn't know, because she'd stopped all that crap once she'd realized how stupid it was... too late to make much of a difference, though.... less than a year later, her life had gotten ripped to shreds by an entirely DIFFERENT 'bad crowd'.]

[As for Cooper's BOB... god help any other supernatural entity that tried to slither into Heather's life at this point, because she's had it up to here with these motherfucking monsters in her motherfucking life eldritch abominations and she's got the blood on her hands to prove it. But then, to be fair, BOB was a very different sort of beast than the ones she was used to killing.]}

For awhile, yeah.

But nothin' lasts forever.

_{[Even with Dahlia and Kaufmann gone, and the alliance between the cult and the hospital presumably destroyed with them, the cult had lived on...]}

_{[A bunch of stupid kids to a crazy cult any day, huh?]

[And -- yeah. BOB isn't even physical, not in this world. You can keep killing his vessels off but you can't make him go away permanently - not in any way people know. If he's set on you you're ... in it for a hard time, likely. You can only hope you're not the one, but there's no way to know until he contacts you. And then what can you do, really?]}

What happened after that?

_{[Well, physical or not, Heather DID find a way to kill a god. If nothing else, it's at least guaranteed that she'd put up a damn good fight before going down.]

[Her tone is sarcastically light.]}

Well, my father was murdered, I was dragged into another delusional scheme to bring on the Apocalypse, I got a one-way ticket to the most literal form of Hell I can imagine without actually being greeted by a red dude with a pitchfork, and then I had to kill God to save the world.

You know. All in a day's work.

_{[He figured something had happened to Harry - that much had been obvious from his stating it, but with what Heather had implied about Silent Hill, he'd also drawn that ... yeah, it probably hadn't been a peaceful death.]

[Murdered, then. His frown only goes deeper the longer she talks until it transforms into a bit of a 'huh' expression at that last part.]}

[He doesn't doubt her - he can tell she's telling the truth, but also that she probably doesn't want to linger on this stuff for too long. He breathes out slowly, leans back, pretty incredulous and not trying to hide it.]

You've been pretty busy.

_{[Not peaceful in the slightest... violence of the murder aside, he'd died being told what was going to happen to his daughter in the following hours... what she was going to be used for.]

[As for the conversation at hand, Coop had stayed with her so far-- he was allowed to be a little weirded out without her holding it against him.]}

As a friggin' bee.

_{[Not so much weirded out as it being just a bit too much to grasp all at once, especially when she puts it like that. He's pretty sure he's not meant to ask for details, and he's not going to, at least not right now.]

[But you can definitely say that he's got a few answers. It's more than he'd expected and - again - he's sure there is a lot more to uncover, but he's got enough of an explanation to what he'd sensed about her; that she's been involved with a lot more than she lets on.]

[And while he can really only paint a very big, very messy picture of what's gone on with her, he still doesn't like the way it looks - and he's quiet for a second before he adresses it.]}

I'm very sorry you had to go through all that. _{[It's not a lot to offer, but it is sincere.]}

_{[Silent Hill just sort of... did that to you. And he's pretty much got it right-- she'd thrown him a pretty big bone here, with the expectation that it would be enough for the time being, which was good for both of their sakes. She's pretty sure he doesn't need to hear "Oh yeah, and I also threw up a baby. With my mouth." tacked on to the end of that.]}

Not exactly a huge fan of the whole thing, myself.

Anyway.

_{[She arches a brow at him, folding her arms.]}

NOW do you see why I don't generally tell this stuff to people like you?

_{[... That little dig at his profession really wasn't necessary, Heather. :(]}

_{[Yeah, no. That whole God-thing was probably a good place to stop.]

[And at that, he tilts his head back a little, but not because he's trying to look down on her - it's more like creating a little distance.]}

Because they won't believe you?

That, and they'd think I was a raving lunatic.

... Hell, I'm not entirely sure you don't.

_{[But Heather - he does believe you. As would his boss, most likely. He indicates this with a hint of a smile and a shake of his head. Because again, while it is a lot to process and a whole lot bigger than what he's ever had on his plate before, he's been around crazy things too.]

[He firmly believes in evil as a separate entity - one that is capable of even worse things than humans themselves, something twisted and strange that can take people apart, and something that we don't understand. With that attitude, you come to accept a lot of things.]

[And really, if you take dreams and visions seriously and listen to advice from a log, you're not really in any fair position to judge, are you?]}

I don't.

_{[... No. No, you're really not.]

[She looks back up at him again, a bit of that defensiveness slowly fading from her expression.]}

... I guess I didn't just make a huge mistake by running my mouth off, then...

I appreciate that you did.

_{[Put simply.]}

Was it anything like what you thought I was gonna say?

If anyone actually expects something like that I'd be pretty worried for them.

_{[She actually manages a bit of a laugh there.]}

Touche!

Y'took it pretty well, though.

Well, that wasn't all of it.

_{[Or you know, the rest might make his brain explode. Says it without wanting to know more though - just playing along, sort of thing.]}

_{[She understands. Don't worry, Coop, your brain is safe for the moment. On the bright side, Heather looks a lot more relaxed than she was at the beginning of this conversation.]}

Not even close.

_{[And that alone kinda... says a lot. But she's not gonna go into anything else right now.]}

Edited 2011-05-20 12:33 (UTC)

_{[That is a good thing. Brains are generally quite useful.]

[But yeah, he can tell, and it has a similar effect on him. Rapport, and all - not to mention that something has been established here, which eases their previously rocky ground at least some.]}

I thought so.

_{[-- And oh right - obligations. Getting the new Eevee to the Center, most of all, and trying to find someone who might be interested in a Wooper. And checking out the gym. (Totally dreading it a little.) He looks Heather over once more, though, before smiling a little in a sort of unspoken "well-" - you know the kind.]

[He's got quite a few things to think about now, in any case.]}

I guess I'll talk to you later.

_{[Rapport is right! Not to mention, now that he knows... some things... she'll have incentive to be a little less jerky in their conversations. Everybody wins!]}

... Yeah. I guess so.

... Hey. Thanks for believing me.

_{[Well, what can he say to that? He's no ordinary FBI. Working for Cole meant strange cases, and again, this is the strangest thing yet -- but he does have a habit of believing things. And he's pretty good at spotting liars. Heather isn't one of them.]

[In the end, he settles the whole thing simply:]}

Thanks for telling me.

_{[annnd after another moment, ends the feed.]}

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