[IC: Forward dated to Saturday 19 May]

[julienned]

[YEAH I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU GUYS ARE IN HERE. it's a comatose teenager hooked up to a bunch of machines.

it's really boring.] 

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[mind_over_metal]

I meant this.

*he reaches out to touch the bubble protecting him, even as it pulses with Julian's anger*

[julienned]

I don't like you. That doesn't mean I want to drive you crazy.

[mind_over_metal]

What exactly is it that you're protecting me from?

[julienned]

Every time a flatscan hurt me, at the moment that they did it.

[mind_over_metal]

All of that down here... How do you keep it from driving you mad?

[julienned]

Because I'm me. I'm more than that. I'm more than just the kid with no hands, who keeps having the universe take a dump on me. Because when I told it that I'd rather die than do what she wanted, I meant it. Because my friends are out there and I know what to do.

Does it matter?

[mind_over_metal]

Yes. It does.

[julienned]

To whom? Don't say "to me"; it's cliche and not even true.

[mind_over_metal]

To you. To your friends. To everything you consider important.

[julienned]

And that's why I won't let it drop. I'm not like that. You only know me as the problem child. I'm more than that.

[mind_over_metal]

*nods*

And what do you want- what is it that you want?

[julienned]

For when? Now? A year's time? Five? Ten?

[mind_over_metal]

Ten years.

[julienned]

Not be dead.

[mind_over_metal]

Five?

[julienned]

Be legally allowed to buy alcohol.

[mind_over_metal]

First legal drink?

[julienned]

I'll be twenty-one, won't I? Isn't that what happens? Twenty-six is too far away.

[mind_over_metal]

No, I meant- what do you want your first legal drink to be?

[julienned]

[shrugs]

I figured I'd find out if I got there. Five years is forever.

[mind_over_metal]

*agreeing*

It can be.

So: a year?

[julienned]

Know what's going on with Sofia and I.

[mind_over_metal]

*can't help a bit of that "...girls are tough, bro 8(" face. but it's fleeting and barely even a conscious thing.*

And right now?

[julienned]

To never get guidance counselling while I'm in a coma and can't leave.

[mind_over_metal]

If someone had wanted guidance counseling to happen, they should have sent someone else. So, done and done. Anything else?