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[hostage]

[This post goes up very shortly after Jesse comes out of his catatonic state, on the evening of the 23rd. He's a little frenzied, a little wild-eyed and panicked, but he has to know he didn't imagine all of it. There has to be someone else who saw it, too.]

Did anybody - Did anybody else just get back? I mean, like... Were any of you guys ported out, too? To the future, or whatever it was. I can't be the only one. I mean, I saw some of you there. It was De Chima, right? We were just in De Chima? But our bodies got left behind here, I guess. I dunno. What was it? Was it a dream, or... Like, did we seriously just see the future? Because I think that's what it was. I think that was the future. I wasn't alone. I mean, I know I wasn't alone there.

...Right?

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[nohalfway]

[ She can understand why Jesse is still extremely out of it, but she's just glad he's back to full consciousness. Because what happened had, and still has her extremely worried. She can't really comprehend what he's talking about, given that she didn't experience it herself... But the way he's talking has her more worried than before. ]

[ Ellie is understandably fussing over Jesse, all over the dorm trying to get him water, food, anything to just keep him stable in case he actually has been on something. She can't be sure, not with the way he's talking and her not totally aware of what's happened. ]

Hey.

[ She catches him at the end of making the video, holding a glass of water in one hand and a plate with a sandwich in the other. She just threw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich together for him quick. ]

What're you doing? Come on, mess with that later.

[hostage]

[That's sweet of her, but he really doesn't have an appetite. He'll take the glass of water, though. He's parched, which is making his voice hoarse. After a long gulp, he sets it aside.]

This is important. I gotta tell people. If nobody else knows...

[nohalfway]

[ Ellie sits down next to him, a look of concern still on her face. She gets that strange things happen here but none of the things he's talking about makes any sense. ]

What happened? Why were you acting so weird?

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[textualhealing]

[That is one paranoid looking guy.]

The hell are you talking about?

[hostage]

You'd know if you were there.

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[whoneedsadream]

I was there too. [ Anatoly's sitting behind the counter at a pawn shop, obviously rattled. His voice is quiet and subdued, though there's still a little tenseness to it. ]

I thought we'd be stuck there forever.

[hostage]

[Thank god. Finally, someone who believes him. He was honestly starting to think he was having a psychotic break.]

Yeah! I mean... It's never happened before, being able to come back like this. I thought we'd be stuck there the way we're all stuck here.

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[whathawksdo]

[ No video, just a potentially familiar voice. ]

If that really was the future, I would much rather not be here for the upcoming ten years.

[hostage]

It's you.

[Ms. Totally Not a Figment of His Imagination.]

Thank you. For what you did.

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[tardily]

I didn't just— come back, but I did last night. But I wasn't in De Chima. It was Heropa or I'm ninety-nine percent positive it was Heropa. Didn't quite look like it but everything and one was saying it was.

[ Barry scrunches his face up a bit. ]

Did the year happen to be— I don't know, 2025, maybe?

[hostage]

[Heropa? So they got sent to the future and scattered?]

Yeah. Yeah, it was 2025. Was Heropa, um... Was it...

[How does he describe what he saw, really?]

You know. Was it a camp? The, uh... Nazi kind of camp.

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[rathercommon]

Yeah. I saw it.

[hostage]

Were you in De Chima or Heropa?

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[earnedmystripes]

It was Heropa for me, but apparently I wasn't gone either. I've got no idea what the hell's goin' on.

[hostage]

You're lucky.

[tucky]

What?

What the fuck are you talking about?

... It sounds like a dream to me.

[hostage]

I wish.

[andgoliath]

You saw the future?

Tell me about it.

[hostage]

Um, it was... It wasn't good.

You know how some people talk about, like, how the government's just using us? Like how we're just weapons and they don't really care about us?

Where I went, it was really like that. We didn't have any choice about using our powers. We didn't have a choice about anything.

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[abduxel]

Have you been sampling your product, Jesse?

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[hostage]

...What the hell?

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just happened to me

de chima
i was there

[hostage]

Are you OK?

[Just seems like the natural question to ask, first and foremost. That future could have gone bad for a lot of people. Whether it was real or not seems irrelevant.]

[resipiscent]

[Silence for a moment. Then, quietly:] Yeah. It wasn't -- good.

[hostage]

Yeah...

[He's glad he's not alone, but he's not happy other people had to suffer through it.]

You wanna talk about it?