PC: Valerie

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weekend 0, saturday

[westedge]

[ soooo the gym! this is not his usual scene, like, at all, but in the interest of checking everywhere two or three times a day, jonas is unfortunately back here again. he has zero plans of using any of the equipment or even really sticking around, but he does see someone he recognizes and decides he may as well approach.

at a safe distance. ]

If I say hi, are you going to hit me with an invisible limb again? [ dryly, but a joke. ]

[huntressinred]

[ she sighs. it sounds disappointed--but it's really just aimed at herself. ]

No. Not unless I lose track of it. But at least then it won't be on purpose.

w0 saturday

[westedge]

[ at some point post-trial. ]

hey
i get if you're like
you'd rather not because everything was totally insane today but
wanted to check in and make sure you were doing ok

[huntressinred]

[ help i immediately opened this thread in a new tab and then FORGOT ABOUT IT ]

What?
I'm
I mean
I guess I'm as okay as I can be after a whole day of staring at blood and corpses

w1 friday

[westedge]

considering we're about to spend another day staring at a corpse inside a mcd's
wanted to check in and make sure you were good
or enough at any rate

[huntressinred]

Don't have much of a choice but to be good, do I?
What about you, huh?

w2 friday

[westedge]

[ the announcement went live and it meant jonas gave up his searching elsewhere and wanders back toward the warehouses. there's a lot on his mind given who's been erased this week, so his hands are in his pockets and there's a cigarette in his mouth and he's not entirely paying attention.

but he does look up once he sees the shadow of a person and he nods in acknowledgement. ]

Valerie. Everything good? [ easy. light. just checking. ]

[huntressinred]

[ she's just barely left her own warehouse for the day, not looking so chipper herself. ]

...it's Friday, Jonas.

w2, saturday

[westedge]

[ outside is a blessing. and eventually jonas realizes he has to go home, so he wanders his way back to the warehouses with the dying dredges of a cigarette and shoulders hunched a little.

but he nods his head at valerie as he passes. ]

You know, we really have to stop meeting like this. [ it's a dry, dry joke, but it's all he's got. ]

[huntressinred]

[ she is absolutely full of bad vibes, but they dull a little bit when he says his dumb joke. Just as dryly: ]

We live here.

w3, friday

[huntressinred]

[ Valerie just kind of plops herself down in the grass at the park, not really sure what else to do. When she spots Jonas though she looks him over ]

Are...you okay?

[westedge]

[ he is in a tree but he's still visible from the ground, and it means a.) she can probably see his bloody shoulder and b.) that he's kind of vibrating out of his skin in that exceedingly calm so you don't snap way. ]

Fridays, you know? You'd think they'd stop being surprising after a while. [ but because he's himself: ] Are you? Were you out there investigating?

w3 saturday

[westedge]

[ meanwhile, after the trial, jonas is going to be wandering through the park with his hands jammed in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth. usual state of affairs. but he's also, like, pretty pissed off.

so he sees valerie and just eyes to see what she's doing. ]

How in the fuck did we screw up?

[huntressinred]

I don't know. I didn't vote Hot Mess.

w4 monday

[westedge]

[ honest to god, he's just staring at these pegasi like they're demonic creatures. or, at least, like he's trying to understand what is happening here. ]

Why is it every week we keep getting newer and weirder animals...? [ hi val. speaking of animals, there is probably a pig looming around somewhere, but it'll get to them Shortly. ]

[huntressinred]

Please, these aren't so bad.

Yet, anyway.

w4, saturday

[westedge]

[ honestly? he's probably back at mcdonald's and leaving with the largest, shittiest cup of coffee and a lit cigarette in the other hand by the time he's walking and runs into valerie. ]

I'm trying to decide which is worse, having two cases and fucking up entirely, or having four, solving one, and it's a person who really doesn't deserve this.

[huntressinred]

[ it's jonas, jonas is the one with a giant coffee and doing fat bong rips ]

Definitely the first one. At least someone who actually did it would...know to expect what comes next.

w5 monday

[westedge]

[ looks at the shitpost

anyway! salt mines! we are here, because jonas likes to wander and he finds val at the entrance. it means he grins a little more than usual, tilting his head to gesture for her to follow. ]

What do you think? Up for exploring?

[huntressinred]

[ she raises an eyebrow at his go-getter attitude, not that it deters her ]

Sure, why not. I've never seen a salt mine before.

w5, thursday

[huntressinred]

[ well. she is beelining towards Jonas, but once she catches sight of him, she kind of just stops. awkwardly. and stands there for a while, trying to figure out what exactly she wants to do or say. ]

So...you remember us again yet?

[ she tries to sound nonchalant but it it is. not working. ]

[westedge]

[ he's outside in the park, amazingly. on a bench. vibin. here's your meta.

he. still doesn't quite look normal? it's like halfway between his normal teen appearance and a man in his mid-20s, maybe someone 21-22 age range. some of the scars on his face have reopened, but appear to have been attended to and are slightly more fresh than they were. he's in the green seeds coat so it's hard to see anything else that might have occurred, but there's fresh blood on the back at least. so something happened there. ]

...it comes and goes. It's not really like we didn't remember. More like everything was a memory that was way far behind us. [ ... ] Are you okay? Are you healed up?

w7 monday

[westedge]

[ concentrating on his pin...he is going to wait to see if he can call valerie back? ]

[huntressinred]

[ well she can't tell if he wants to talk to her unless he actually says so. but she is watching him for a good few moments while he's concentrating, amused. ]

Takes that much effort to focus, huh.

w7, saturday

[westedge]

[ wherever they are...he just gives valerie a nod. this is probably after the party or during it, he didn't stick around long. ]

Wanna grab some coffee? The diner's blend is pretty good. [ decompression hours. ]

[huntressinred]

Oh. Uh, sure.

[ she's been drinking but like she's a teen, what does she care about mixing caffeine and alcohol ]