019 - audio

[tapestodiane]

I imagine quite a number of you are taking the gym challenge, but I'm curious as to what reason. Boredom? Some kind of obligation? That it just might lead to a way home?

I'm not sure. Either way I recently earned my second badge and expect to head back to Goldenrod in the near future. [A small pause here and his voice takes on a wistful little note.] Am quite excited to return to Ilex Forest. I believe it will be a beautiful sight and an invigorating hike.

[Click! Both badges are obviously mod-approved. And action for anyone in Azalea - if you find him, he's hanging from a tree by his knees, kid-style, browsing his pokégear while doing so and ... looking quite comfortable. Any gear-replies will be done in this fashion, too. Have fun with that!]

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[Video] AND I'M NOT EVEN MAKING IT UP.

[tapestodiane]

Seriously.

_{[It is a funny story and he's going to offer it as such, but he still looks almost surprised at her laughing - he doesn't normally get people to laugh - but in the end, that's not at all a bad reaction, and he can only grin with her.]}

[Video] SO BEAUTIFUL

[foolishwren]

_{[Admittedly, it's not too hard to make Heather laugh-- but seriously it is a funny story.]}

That is KINDA amazing, I will not lie.

[Video]

[tapestodiane]

_{[His grin can only grow at that.]}

I was sure it would go on some kind of record. Actually mentioned it in a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, but he wrote me back congratulating me on my "esprit de corps". Now that was amazing.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

You wrote to the head of the FBI about your sex-ed. eavesdropping escapades?

_{[COOPER YOU ARE JUST FULL OF SURPRISES.]}

[Video]

[tapestodiane]

_{[WASN'T HE THE MOST AMAZING KID? But yeah, that brings a sort of chuckle. When she puts it like that ...]}

I wrote to him expressing my wish to become an Agent and some worry that my behaviour would be considered inappropriate, making me unable to apply. Keep in mind I was thirteen at the time. That was the biggest thing I had to worry about right then.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[HE REALLY WAS. Of course, had Heather been a girl at his school she might have thought differently, but as an anecdote from someone she'd thought was totally some stiff-upper-lip hardass with a badge? COMEDIC GOLD.]}

Wow.

That is EPIC.

[Video]

[tapestodiane]

That might be an overstatement, but I'm glad I could amuse you.

_{[And hang on - hopping down from the branch, straightening up and stretching for a moment, looking just about perfectly content with life and everything in it.]}

Anyway, time for that coffee, don't you think?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Sounds like a plan.

... Man, don't you get a headrush when you do that, though?

[Video]

[tapestodiane]

Sometimes.

_{[And look how much that bothers him!]}

I'll talk to you later.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[...COOPER, YOU ARE ONE STRANGE FELLA.]}

'Bye.

[Video]

[tapestodiane]

_{[ONLY THE STRANGEST FOR YOU, HEATHER.]}