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[donotlick]

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[throwabookatit]

He literally turned your life around...huh.

...You know, Ash... It takes a lot to make him listen, anymore. He cares about us, but that's why he thinks he has to keep us in the dark. ...If...there were any way for you to talk to him, I think...if he were to listen to anyone, it'd be an officer in his profession.

[donotlick]

Yeah. He... he made me hope again.

[ Hank shrugs, almost rolling his eyes at himself. God, that sounds lame!! ]

Lots of his type, back at the precinct. I wouldn't mind talking some sense into 'im for you, if I could.

[throwabookatit]

[ Look, he may think it sounds lame, but Rebecca smiles lightly. ]

It'd be nice. Ash did the same thing for me- like...you with Connor, when I was a kid, so... I'd like to...give something back to him, like that. Something...selfless.

[donotlick]

[ Hank's just bad at Feelings. ]

That's good. The world needs more people like that.

[throwabookatit]

[ This is your problem, Dad, you need to accept that feelings happen. ]

That it does. ...If that's why you fell for Connor, him being one of them, I...definitely understand it. I suppose we have the same type, in that way.

[donotlick]

[ Hank chuckles. He's too tsun for feelings!! ]

That so, huh? Guess we oughta trade tricks. Though it kinda sounds like we're both pretty hopeless.

[ Still, it makes Hank smile to get this out... to actually have someone to talk to. ]

Least it's not as shitty when somebody else gets it.

[throwabookatit]

...It isn't, is it? It's much better than...well, the only other person I've talked to about this, prick that he is. Much better company.

[donotlick]

What, did you tell Hale about this, too?

[ Surely he's the biggest prick in this place... ]

[throwabookatit]

Ha, oh, no, not at all. It was someone from back home, someone I...only recently remembered. Whiny man-child of a person, even though...he did...have some things to say that made me think.

[donotlick]

Ahhh, gotcha.

[ Hank laughs. Somehow the image of her telling Hale was even funnier. ]

What'd he say?

[throwabookatit]

[ Well, Rebecca grimaces, looking away. ]

Besides not confusing...love with obsession [ she drinks ] some things that'd crossed my mind, a few times. Things about...how people change with time, and...the person I fell in love with may not be the one Ash is now. How...focusing all my attention on him, it'd only make me resentful, of whoever actually captured his affections.

[ She sighs, shakes her head. ]

When a man with the maturity of a six-year-old has to lecture you, about your love life, you've truly hit rock bottom.

[donotlick]

Woof. That must've hurt.

[ He reaches over, patting her on the shoulder. ]

Sometimes you need to hear shit like that. But it still fucking sucks to get called out on all the shit you're worrying about. This dude sounds like an asshole.

[throwabookatit]

He is, trust me. Didn't even ask to know his opinion, yet he parades around like the world's entitled to hear it.

[ She rolls her eyes, but shoots Hank a grateful look. ]

It was something I could've done without remembering. A- at least, not so abruptly.

[donotlick]

Ugh, one of those guys. Who think their opinion is so fucking important.

[ Hank knows the type. There's lots of guys like that at the precinct. Reed. ]

Yeah, these memories are pretty fucking weird, right? I feel like I'm gettin' them out of order, too. You'd think amnesia would make a little more goddamn sense.

[throwabookatit]

You're telling me... Last week's, it made...some kind of sense, you know? But I was missing something, this one, and...and it all just puts me right back there. Am I here, am I there? When did any of this even happen?

[donotlick]

Right, I can't tell what's supposed to be right, here.

I mean, I've remembered Connor dying to save me. And then him dragging my ass around. And then androids are apparently starting some kinda shit at home... None of it makes any goddamn sense without the stuff in between.

[throwabookatit]

I don't even remember meeting the prick I mentioned... Yours sound so much more spread out, through. Mine at least we're in the same week.

[ And then there's the matter of you know, the photo, but. That's neither here nor there. ]

[donotlick]

Oh, this happened in a few days, I'm pretty sure.

[ DBH literally happens in five days?? Hank has a Wild Week. ]

The stuff with the deviants had been brewing for a while. Pretty sure it came to a head after they started getting recognition on TV.

[throwabookatit]

...you really were coming from a busy life.

[donotlick]

Yeah, shit was seriously going down, it looks like.

[ He sighs. ]

Considering how we've all forgotten shit, I gotta wonder if it's all over by now and I just can't remember.

[throwabookatit]

Mm... Me too, honestly. Just what don't we know, about our own lives...

[donotlick]

Hey, at least we don't have to worry about this being some kinda creepy afterlife. Since Connor is here, and I'm pretty sure androids don't get one of those.

[ Wow, he wishes he was kidding. ]

[throwabookatit]

...I suppose that is a relief. I'd hate to learn it, that the rest of you were also...coming from those circumstances.

[donotlick]

Yeah, I'm really hoping that ain't the case. I know I was in a pretty bad place before -- worse than here, if you can believe it, but... I'd hate to find out that shit went south in the worst way.

Just another reason Connor being here makes shit easier, I guess.

[throwabookatit]

...Is it... Is it horrible, that I've wished Ashton were here, with me? I wouldn't want him in this, but I- ... I don't know. It'd be...comforting. Ever since we were children, I've always felt more...relaxed around him.