dinohouse | More bedninjaing

From:

[Sitting up and watching you check around]

It's not by choice, I can assure you.

[And then upon a little further thought]

Maybe it's actually a punishment. [Like in school when they call your parents to pick you up because your being insufferable.]

From:

yellowlion

[okay, can't see anything, I'll plonk myself back down on the bed next to you]

[...under the covers again, though I'm sitting, and obviously I'm not going to do anything with you like *that*, but it's cold]

[blinks]

It's punishment to end up in bed with me?

From:

blueondeck

[You are embarrassing me]

Like when parents are called to handle a bratty child.

From:

yellowlion

[dads do that]

[sudden laugh]

Ah. I see. What've you been doing, Joe?

From:

blueondeck

Not much. Unintentionally befriending the worse possible person I could. "Befriending" is a strong word, maybe more "tolerating more than I should be".

From:

yellowlion

[frowns]

What do you mean? Aren't you still fighting Zangyack?

From:

blueondeck

Kind of, with a small forced break between it. We nearly have all of the powers, but ...

[Kind of looking away now. This is hard to admit]

The man known as Basco, I've talked to him a lot lately.

From:

yellowlion

...

Really.

He went after friends of mine.

From:

blueondeck

[I can't even be surprised]

He did? Who ... why?

[Still not exactly surprised, more aggravated that he's still a douchebag.]

From:

yellowlion

For their grand powers. Maskman. A couple others.

[shakes head, to bring self back]

So I can see why you're having difficulties. Tell me what's happening?

From:

blueondeck

With what's been happening now, We've somehow ended up with Basco's memories only being before he betrayed Marvelous. At first I was watching for safety purposes.

From:

yellowlion

Oh. Oh, that's big.

You're trying to reach him?

From:

blueondeck

Marvelous would rather he was dead. Point blank. I don't blame him.

From:

yellowlion

I can understand that perspective.

You don't agree?

From:

blueondeck

In his memories, he hasn't betrayed Marvelous yet. He gets more annoyed at Marvelous' hate of him than anything else.

From:

yellowlion

[exhales]

Maybe you can save him.

From:

blueondeck

... Do you really think something like that is possible?

From:

yellowlion

[lifts a shoulder, lets it drop]

Time theory says no. Basco has to do what he's done to my friends. To other teams. To you.

[pause, because I am quite, quite sure he's hurt you at various times]

But it sounds like where you are tosses time theory out the window. And if there's any chance...

From:

blueondeck

In that place you can receive memories of what happens in your future. A way of moving forward or something. Eventually he'll become that person. It wont matter what I do.

[sighs slowly] He will become that person, and I will hate him again.

From:

yellowlion

[hand on your shoulder, worried about you]

Sounds like you have a bizarre variation of our problem.

And Joe. What you do always matters.

From:

blueondeck

[Looks at your hand and then down again]

I knew you'd say that. [half smiling]

From:

yellowlion

[grins, squeezes, lets go]

Well, it's true. Your actions always matter.

Joe... if he's hurt you, you shouldn't trust him, obviously. If he did it in the past or the future. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

From:

blueondeck

I don't trust him. I know that he can't be trusted no matter what. I don't know how to try, or what to do for a person like him.

[pulling a knee to his chest and resting an arm on it]

From:

yellowlion

[nods, accepting that this is not exactly easy for you, not something I can solve with a few pat words]

I don't know if this is useful at all.

Towards the end, with us, Kemp seemed to change back. He wanted our help. He wanted us to save him from Bias.

We all knew it might be a trick, but we went to help him, and he betrayed us. I won't say it was fun, but that -- that didn't take away from what we did, if that makes sense. It was still the right thing to do, and I'm still glad we did.