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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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[textualhealing]

[Well done, Jesse. You caught Jeff having done zero research.] Even if they didn't, they don't seem against using us.

[hostage]

They definitely wouldn'ta shown me what I just saw on purpose if they were hoping to keep using us.

[textualhealing]

Then maybe it wasn't them. Maybe it was someone who wanted us against the Government. I dunno. Either way I'll be coasting the neutral zone for now.

[hostage]

Good luck with that.

[textualhealing]

It might be a power.

[hostage]

It might be. But it's different from other times I had people inside my head.

[textualhealing]

So it's not the first time something like this has happened?

[hostage]

The other times were more like dreams. Or... Nightmares, I guess. I dunno how to describe it. Like, the edges got fuzzy. You get outta the illusion and you see what all was wrong with it, how it didn't make sense.

This time wasn't like that.

[textualhealing]

Vivid. Right. And there's others sharing it. [He knows this feel. Sort of.]

How did you know it was the future though?

[hostage]

Somebody told me it was 2025. And one of the guards said something like that, too.

[textualhealing]

Guards? You got guards? Like, good guards or bad guards?

[hostage]

The prison guard kinda guards.

[textualhealing]

The imPorts are in prison kinda prison guards?

[hostage]

Yeah.

[textualhealing]

You sure AU slash future you isn't just behind bars and the rest of us are free? I really wouldn't survive prison.

[hostage]

[A reasonable thing to ask. Jesse might have jumped to the same conclusion, except...]

My tattoo didn't say "criminal". It just said "imPort".

[textualhealing]

Just imPort? We're not even registered. Wow.

[hostage]

Exactly. I don't think there was much point in registering anymore. Something tells me we were registered whether we liked it or not. And then some.

[textualhealing]

If this is gonna be an us and them kinda scenario, it kinda seems like they're on the losing side. The losing side of no super powers.