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[thanatophobias]

[Say hi, Cole. Guess what day it was yesterday.]

My mom's stuck back home. [She's the one who's stuck, in his perception. Not him. He likes it here, despite all these recent disasters.] She's the only family I have.

[First there was the death of his grandmother, then his father left. The rest of the family never gave much of a damn, and neither did he.

There's silence in his lack of an expression. If anything, it's only possible to tell that he's deep in some thought. Maybe he's already had more than enough chances to cry about his mother being far away, for having been unable to see her for almost six months now. He's growing up and the only thing keeping him from calling this place home is the fact that she's not here.

After the pause is over, he continues in the very same emotionless tone.]

Lucifer hasn't stopped. People are still dying because of him.

[He should know - they keep showing up at his doorstep.

The feed clicks off.]

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[waiting]

Having trouble sleeping? [ He's frowning, though. Debates about whether or not Lucifer is an angel aside, the fact that it's directly affecting someone he actually feels responsible for doesn't sit well. ]

I'm gonna be stuck at home for a while. [ Is what he says, instead. Getting bitten by a mechanical shark does that to you. ]

[thanatophobias]

[No answer to the first question. Cole's always had trouble sleeping - ghosts tend to pop up when it's dark and silent.]

Are you okay?

[waiting]

Yeah, just got a little scraped up. [ It's probably too much to hope for that Cole hasn't heard about the disaster the imPort seminar turned into, but hopefully, he won't bring it up. ]

Should be able to go back to work in a week or so. Til' then, I guess we'll be spending a lot of time together. Anything you wanna do?

[thanatophobias]

... I don't know.

[He doesn't really... have any activities that involve other people.]

What are you going to do?

[waiting]

[ 'Sit on the couch with a beer and watch a lot of TV' probably isn't a really encouraging answer. ]

Walk the dogs, I guess. Get the house cleaned up a bit. The weather's been pretty good lately -- seems kind of a shame to spend it inside.

Maybe I can clean up the pool so we can finally use it. You know how to swim, right?

[thanatophobias]

Yeah.

We could have a party.

[Kenzi never did have hers.]

[waiting]

[ -- a party's kind of a huge jump, given the topics of conversation cole originally brought up, but --]

Yeah, sure, why not? You wanna work on planning one out together?

[ he's not sure how effective a distraction from ghosts or missing mothers it might be, but worth a shot. ]

[thanatophobias]

[Don't expect to make sense of how his mind works, Bradbury.]

I don't really know how to plan a party.

[waiting]

It's not too hard. I can teach you, if you want.

[ Of course, he has slightly more experience planning parties for little girls rather than little boys, but Cole doesn't need to know that. ]

[thanatophobias]

Okay. Let's do that.

do you want to log this out? o/ i'm putting an open log up for him in a bit so i can put a starter

[waiting]

Alright. We'll figure something out when I get back.

sure thing!

[thanatophobias]

Do you want me to get anything?

[waiting]

Nah, I'm good. You take care of yourself, all right?

[ let me know if this works! ]

[thanatophobias]

Okay. I'll talk to you later.