♈ Aradia: Crash at your friends' place. [backdated]

[psych0p0mps]

Date & Time: waaaaaaaaaay back at the start of June ;u;
Location: Sollux and Feferi's hive, wherever that is
Characters: Aradia Megido, Sollux Captor
Summary: Tu casa es mi casa! >:3
Warnings: sollux

[It took her a little while to find it in such an unfamiliar setting - seriously, why would you put this many buildings so close together? - but Feferi's directions were good, and soon enough Aradia finds herself outside the place she described. Not really remarkable, but it matches.

It doesn't even occur to her to knock on the door, though. Why do that when you can fly up and peek through the windows like a creeper? When she finds one with a Sollux-shaped lump inside, she'll just go ahead and knock on the glass a few times, keeping the rain off her with a black umbrella she bought at the market. HEY DUDE YOU ALIVE IN THERE?]

Comments

[biwinning]

A lot of things are wrong.

[He sighs, rubbing his temples with his fingers.]

To start, you're here. I- I wanted you here, because you know a lot more about time travel than I do and I keep pretending I know what I'm talking about when these people ask me, but I'm just resaying the same things you do about... timey-wimey, whatever. But you're here now and I don't want you to be because it's so screwed up and wrong here and you'd probably be better off back in the Medium where we all should be. But I don't want to go back there- not when I know what happens, exactly the way it happens. I mean, fuck! I knew I had a crapshot at life and that I was going to go blind and die. I was ready for that. But there's just some things a guy can't deal with.

[He has 99 problems and this is only the first one.]

[psych0p0mps]

[Aradia listens quietly, although she can't say she fully understands what he's on about. She doesn't know that much about how this place operates, and it's a little confusing that he wouldn't want to go back - he's always seemed more or less content with being blind and half dead, or at least he seemed to think it was an improvement over his previous situation. So she kind of wonders what he's been told about his future, if he thinks it's going to be that bleak.

Granted, events are unlikely to go the same way if he goes back, since whatever timeline he returns to is by definition not the alpha. Otherwise, she'd have heard about all this already.

... But come to think of it, maybe that's what he's heard.]

What do you mean? [as for things a guy can't deal with, that is.]

[biwinning]

Things changed. For me. I was okay with it before, because I didn't have other choicesth. Here, I have friendsth, quadrantsth, the voicesth in my head are quieter, I have a job- I'm living a pretty normal life, outthide of a few thingsth. I mean... what ith my fate, after I die again? Dreambubblesth. Reliving the thame memoriesth over and over again, until the dreambubblesth thtop, and then who knows what.

I want to thtay here, and I know that meansth I'm beta, and I wanted you here, but now you're beta too. But I can't make mythelf care.

[psych0p0mps]

[Oh boy... that awkward moment when doomed timelines. It's been a long time since she's had to broach the subject with anybody, since everyone she knew was currently either alpha or dead. And for that matter, she can't be sure she's not alpha, just yet - but all it would take to disprove that is for someone to come from later on in the timeline. Even if she does go back, it's very possible that she's already doomed. And as for Sollux... well, he definitely is.

... Which really grinds her gears to think about, to be honest. It's not even just the two of them - all the Transports, however many there were, were being doomed left and right, all for the sake of a single iteration of Earth - and all because the Initiative apparently has no idea how time travel works.

But she's not going to die again, beta or no. That's a given.

Aradia lets out a deep breath with a long sigh, and rests a hand on Sollux's arm, trying to be reassuring.]

I'm not going to say I'm not worried about that. The timeline thing, I mean. But... if you don't want to go back, I don't see why you should have to. [and as long as they're in an alternate timeline anyway-] And the same if you don't want to die.

[biwinning]

Tho what, you're jutht thaying "if you don't want to die, you shouldn't do it"? I don't get a choice in the matter, and you know that. I'm either killed, or have to give up my life to save someone else. That's how being Doomed works.

[But it comes with a sigh as well, and the hand on his arm helps...]