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im not going to try! it sucks! thanks finn we'll be up at the surface by the time you get here

Seeing as I can teleport, I'll consider it a race. see you soon

[ And he's not sure where in Heropa to go so the beach it is! (There's a beach there, right??) ]

[HOW DOES HE ALWAYS FORGET FINN CAN TELEPORT!! he is stupid, that's why.

finn can probably see sharpedo before he sees archie. it's kind of hard to miss a bog-ass shark jetting around in the surf!

archie is around. he's laying on the sand in the beach looking a little... off. the kind of off where if this was a cartoon and not real life, he'd have spirals in his eyes and stars over his head.]

[ Finn walks over, bag of food and drinks cradled in one arm, until he's standing over Archie and blocking his sun. ]

You're alive, right?

Yea-p.

[he sits up with a groan.]

I swallowed some sea-weed. It tasted like... I don't know. So bad. [he lazily slaps at mightyena's ball on his pokéball belt, releasing the dog for finn to pat.]

[ Well, anything Finn was about to say is now totally forgotten. ] Hey, buddy! [ He's giving as many pats as a one armed man can.

Oh, right, Archie. ] Sea-weed? How-... Why was your mouth open?

I have to breathe somehow! [he groans in protestation. guess that seaweed is staying inside him. gross. hopefully he doesn't get food poisoning.

mightyena grunts and groans, rubbing up against finn.] Ugh, whatever. Go see to Sharpedo.

[ ... He has to breathe underwater? ]

Well, wait, hold on, you don't feel well. [ And Sharpedo doesn't seem to like him much either. Plus, his concern doesn't seem too heavy when he's still petting Mightyena. ]

I don't know if I can heal nausea, but you want to give it a shot?

[he sees how it is, finn. you wanna make out with his dog and not him!!]

Nah, I'm good. Ain't the first time this happened.

[ Isn't the first-... There are way too many things he can say, so- ]

... You want a drink to wash it down?

[ He sets down the drinks in the sand, keep a hold on the food as he looks out over the water. ] Sharpedo looks like he's having fun, at least.

[archie takes one, twisting the cap off with a grunt of thanks.]

Aye, he loves the water. Can't imagine why.

[just a little water-type humour for you.]

You can go join him if you want. Or not. No pressure.

You just want to get me all wet. [ Or distract him or something.

But Finn does plop the bag of food in Archie's lap (enjoy that delicious, non-sea-weed smell), and takes his shirt off. It's a beach, after all.

But instead of running in the water screaming, he kneels down by Archie. ] You sure you don't want to talk about it?

[ You made a text about ruining your life from the bottom of the ocean. He's concerned. ]

Yeah, you got me. [he says with a smirk, but there's not much of a bite to it. instead, he puts his hand over finn's and gives it a sqeeze.] I'm fine, really.

Sometimes just yelling into the void does it. I can't imagine this juicy-ass burger will hurt, either.

[ He's not totally convinced, obviously. But Finn hums, giving up, and turning to sit on the sand and watch Sharpedo do loops. But he keeps hold of that hand, squeezing it back. ]

Well, at least it's a nice day.

[it's good enough, archie thinks. it's nice enough to sit with finn on the beach.]

Yeah. Well, every day's been nice without the Atropos threat.

Well, yeah. [ He could be stuck two miles underground for a month and it'd be a better time than that.

Then he blinks. ] Has that been on your mind? Atropos and everything?

Yeah. I guess so.

[he huffs, resting his chin on his palm.]

You haven't?

[ Finn pauses and... shrugs. ] I have. Just try not to. A lot was lost back there.

[ He still can't fight like he used to, no matter how much training he does, even forgetting how to use weapons completely. But Poe... lost a lot more.

Honestly, he doesn't even know what happened to Archie in there. ]

They're gone now... at least.

[honestly, he got off lucky. he knows he did, which only makes him feel more guilty when he spirals like this. his problems have never been all that bad. he's just...

stupid.]

Thank fuck. I'm still wonderin' what that means for the Porter.

The Porter?

[ He knows, loosely, that the sisters were tied to the technology in some way. No idea how or what it means, but considering their power, he's not very surprised. ]

Well, I mean, they aren't here but they're not dead either. Whatever influence they have-... [ He shrugs. ]

Yeah. I don't know. I guess I just wanna know if we're stuck here forever now or if there's a choice or if nothing changed.

[he makes a face.]

I guess I don't like the idea of everyone goin' through what they went through and nothin' changing other than the world not ending. Which is a huge thing, don't get me wrong.

[ Going through all of that just to keep living is a pretty big reason to Finn. But he also knows where Archie's coming from. ]

I'm sure people have come and gone since then. I know there was that whole... thing when we left. Went somewhere else. [ Somewhere that wasn't home with a Poe that wasn't real and-... and Blue...

Finn buries his fingers in the sand, making holes and filling them in again. ] We'll all find out what will happen eventually. What we did wasn't for nothing, though. It can't be.

It wasn't for nothing. This reality is saved. That's a big something.

[shrugging, he leans back.]

Guess I'm just bein' selfish. Or maybe the next thing we gotta do is find all the shitty timelines and clean 'em up. I wouldn't mind that, actually.

It's not selfish to wonder.

[ None of what Archie is doing or saying is selfish, Finn thinks.

He lets out a sigh and looks back to the waves, leaving the sand alone again. ]

What if we change again? We'll have to find a way to prevent that.

Yeah... that's a big thing. I've had things in my head changin' me, ain't pleasant.

[he puffs out a breath, leaning on finn's shoulder.]

Guess that's the next step, huh?

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