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[She startles a laugh out of him, one that's a little choked and a little choked up.]

Yeah. God, yeah.

[He presses his hand over his eyes and smiles a pained, rueful smile.]

As long as this is the kind of world where little kids need saving, how can I be anything else?

You'll be a nightmarish force to be reckoned with.

That better be a promise. I'm gonna hold you to it. [He lifts his drink to Ardyn.] Untold destructive power or bust.

If I promise you black magic and ancestral weaponry, you can damn well expect to get it.

Basically. And that place, it's not really subject to place the way bodies are. It's not defined by place or time.

[He rubs his chin, fairly sure he's botching this whole explanation. He read Sheldrake's book in the time he was hunting for Akane, but it's not like he understood seventy-five percent of it.]

I don't know if that makes any sense, really. But I can tell you that the Junpei you're talking to--the amalgamation of thoughts and experience that make up who I am--is at least partially from a different timeline than this body. ...I think.

[Ardyn took a drink and handed it back to him, taking a breath and letting it out slowly. Everything was still a painful tangled mess in his head, regrets mixed with confusion and tied up with hundreds of thousands of memories.]

[...But he was here and alive right now. That was a start, and from there he'd just have to learn to accept that acceptance itself might well have been his undeserved fate.]

I love you too. I love this disaster of a family more than you could ever know, and I want nothing more than to keep us in one piece--myself included.

You're really good at a lot of things, but keeping yourself together ain't one of 'em. [Punctuated by a deliberately slurpy sip of chocolate.] That's why you've got the rest of us assholes.

And all of you do an astounding job of it. I just wish it wasn't necessary quite so often.

Meh, it's not like I've been full of sunshine and rainbows this whole time. You know how upset I was about the motive.

I know. And that is what I'm here for in turn.

...Sure wish it didn't have to come to that. Guess we're all just gonna be fucked up over shit for forever, huh.

Hmm, I feel like if I was a responsible girlfriend I should probably say something about how much you're planning to drink. But I think if any night calls for it, it's tonight.

[ And well. He's not a little kid who needs babysitting. And it's not like he hasn't been restrained enough lately considering the absolute shitshow these last few weeks have been. If he doesn't unwind soon, decompress somehow then she's a little worried that he'll run himself ragged.

So she just smiles, puts her arms around him and heaves a long, long sigh. ]

Just try not to empty the entire Armiger, okay? Between you and Dad I know you could get there but leave a little in case of emergencies.

You forgot 'together', my dearest. We may be disasters for the rest of our lives, but we'll never be alone in that.

[He makes an acknowledging noise and then proceeds to distract himself with another swig of chocolate in a way that leaves a hot chocolatey-mallowy moustache on his 'stache. Because making silly faces at your boyfriend doesn't involve acknowledging that things might never get better!]

...I return to my original point: you are completely ridiculous.

[The sound is just a little startling. Jane flinches, thinking she's said the wrong thing, but...she can't be sure. Hesitantly, she reaches over, placing a warm hand on Junpei's shoulder.]

...Well...it's not like you've got to do it alone, anymore. Right? Not anymore.

[Kip walks into the room with an extremely large soda, slurping at the straw and chatting with Jamie.]

I'm not saying we'd be a thing, I'm just saying you look like you could really stand to get off, you know-

[He stops, looks at the screen, which is currently showing Blaze Dudely during a "Previously On" segment.]

Oh. Huh. He looks different.

Why are you like this-

[He's been so good about avoiding anything about this season. He's supported his friends when he could but somehow he's done well enough avoiding any news about this season up until right now...when the horny Irken is hitting on him.

All at once Jamie goes very still and very quiet.]

[Kip sips at his soda disaffectedly, his big red eyes narrowing slightly.]

...I can't put my finger on it. Hey- Jimmyjams, what do you think it is?

[And that's when he looks up at Jamie.]

Uh... Jamie?

[Jamie doesn't respond, only making a muted noise of terror from the back of his throat. He's focused completely on the screen, watching the recap with growing silent horror.

No. No no no no.]

[Xander hadn't been focusing on the tv either- sitting a ways away in case someone, specificly Jane, needed to be escorted away.

... he didn't expect Jamie. He's up in a flash. In hindsight, maybe too MUCH of a flash, and at Jamie's side, lightly touching his back]

Jamie...!

[If this were any other panic attack Jamie would leap out of his skin then collapse somewhere until his screaming bird brain calmed down enough for him to process things.

But this isn't a normal panic attack. Jame draws in a sudden, sharp breath when Xander moves. He feels a hand on his back and wants to scream but he can't get his brain and mouth to coordinate. So he does the only thing his erratic brain can think to do.

He balls his hand into a fist, whips around and delivers a solid, frantic punch to Xander's face.]

Xander-san!

[Yurika jumps to her feet, knocking over a box of chocolate-covered something-or-others, and rushes to the two.]

Jamie-san? Jamie-san, we're right here!

[Xander is a sturdy man, but he can't simply eat a suckerpunch that easily. He reels and trips over his own feet, ass hitting the ground hard.

Still, he has the sense of mind to raise a hand at anyone still in the room- especially the season 3 folks that might not know his and Jamie's history and might start retaliating against what looked like a dirty swing]

[He's still shaking and doesn't look all there at the moment so staying away might be in your best interest, Yurika.]

Viewing Party 2 - R3: THE RE-CRY-ENING

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