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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[parodeity]

Maybe. [ one of those flicker-fast smiles, before he says: ] I didn't intend to leave you behind, back then.

[windeity]

Back when? [Is he feigning ignorance or does he really not know? The world may never know.]

[parodeity]

John, c'mon. I know you're not actually a dumbass. [ his fingers still. ] - I don't remember it, and I know why, and I know that I didn't mean to leave you alone. I just...thought you should know. I intended the opposite.

[windeity]

[...]

I know. Sometimes shit happens to people and they leave. I know that. And I know you and I know Jade and I know Rose. Or at least I think I do. If we had a choice, none of that would have happened. We were playing along with the game so that we could stick together and get to the new universe after the reckoning. Something else happened.

Maybe...we shouldn't remember for a while? It doesn't matter. Things are different here.

[parodeity]

It matters if you're dreamin' about it. [ quietly. ] And I already remember it. I just...

[ ... ]

I wanted you to know. That I was - that I am sorry for failing you in that particular way.

[windeity]

You didn't fail me. [He doesn't know the extent of how or anything, but there's a short, tentative smile.] You told me you have memories of us at 21. So the four of us came back together again, didn't we?

[parodeity]

[ sure. except dave knows that's the pivot point; the doomed timeline he remembers, and what happened after... ]

I'm the Knight of Time. [ it's as much an answer as anything. ] ...And I don't think there's been a single universe where I really wanted to exist in a world without the three of you.

[windeity]

[There's a slow nod and he sort of just...moves to rest his forehead against Dave's instead.]

Yeah. It'd be a pretty shitty universe that way. I think...I just never knew what I was missing without you guys.

[parodeity]

[ how do they keep ending up doing the forehead thing. why don't i have an icon for something they keep doing all the time. i hate this. dave...taps his fingers again, once. ]

I think I told you this already. But there's only one...there's only two, actually, reasons I'd leave you. One's if it would hurt you less than me stayin'. The other's if I died. That's it.

[ so. ]

...So, I don't know? You won't have to wait at windows for me, at least.

[windeity]

[Find art and make it so. He doesn't mind the tapping thing and he's just kind of standing there and leaning into him as he lets that sink in.]

...yeah. [He gets the implication that somehow what he saw was the result of everyone dying and that's a little horrifying.] I mean, you have been doing okay so far with the not hurting me or not pissing me off thing. So just stay alive and I guess we're set.

[Play it off. Walk it off.] ...is it weird that I would still wait for you anyway if that's what it took? I think I am just...stuck. Knowing that the past life is mine and I do not remember it yet but still having just enough to know I don't want to go backwards.

[parodeity]

[ all i know offhand is this one and it's a commission i think. I FORGET WHO DREW IT. IT'S ON MY TUMBLR SOMEWHERE. ]

I don't know if it's weird, or if "weird" even matters with our universe. I just want you to know you won't have to. Even...if I forgot. You wouldn't.

[windeity]

[Four hours later I'm still mad at this thread...]

It would be the same for me. We were friends before I remembered who you were. Or, at least, I wanted to be. I think we were still on probation.

[He's probably not moving for a bit.] ...you're the first person I have ever seen in this kind of dream. Usually I just spend hours waiting. I think I'm lost on what to do next.

[parodeity]

[ you started this thread!!!!!! ]

So, [ so... ] Wake up, Egbert. And go drag me inside, like you want to. I'll help you sort out your math. You'll lose track of what I'm sayin' like three sentences in. I'll throw a pillow at you to see if that helps. I don't know - I guess what we do next is just...keep moving?

[windeity]

Bluh...what if I do not want to do my math? It's late and it can probably wait. Keep moving is a good idea though. [But he gives Dave a contemplative look.] You make it sound like you do not actually want to come in though...?

[parodeity]

I will when I wake up, but I don't know how long that'll take. If I was tired enough not to remember passin' out, I might just drift.

[windeity]

So drift back to me. [Uh. He shakes his head.] I'll come up to the roof and wait until you wake up then. It can't be that hard to get up there.

[parodeity]

[ wow, gay ]

It's not. The door's not locked, I left it open enough so I could get back in later.

[windeity]

[Hey who's still holding onto who here???]

...I'll wake up and come find you. Do you want me to wake you up if you're still asleep up there?

[parodeity]

[ hey who did the forehead thing and hasn't broken away!! ]<

... [ good question. he opens his mouth to respond and then hesitates. if he knows john is going to wake him, he won't attack, will he?

but what if he forgets between dreaming and waking? ]

Just toss somethin' at me.

[windeity]

[They're both stupid is basically what I'm taking away from this.

He notices the hesitance but doesn't quite know what to do with it, so he looks at Dave for a moment trying to decide what to ask.]

...sure. Okay. [Weird? But okay.] I will figure something out. [...] Are you ready?

[parodeity]

[ look at least it's only a dave/john problem and no one else since annabeth and percy are benched currently. ]

Ready when you are, bro. Wake up.

[windeity]

[Why do I keep playing the dumb dark-haired hero...]

See you on the other side, Dave. [He doesn't pull away from Dave, keeping his forehead there but he closes his eyes and slowly starts to fade out and away to end the dream.]

[parodeity]

[ bc you have a type ]

See you, John. [ well. dave won't let go either, even though he will sigh and watch the dream fade out. ]

[windeity]

[The dream fades and he wakes up at his desk, facedown on his books and blinking in confusion as he sits up.

...weird dream, maybe. But either way he'll just get up and stretch, grabbing a sweater to head outside in his pajamas up to the roof to retrieve his idiot best friend.]

[parodeity]

[ wow this SASS.

his idiot best friend is probably still dozing on the roof, arms crossed over is shades and off out of sight, in a too-big sweatshirt. that or he's just not planning on moving. it is a mystery. ]