[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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[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?

[julienned]

What do you want?

[mind_over_metal]

Well, at some point, I'd like for you to wake up from this coma. It seems like it could actually be a possibility this time, since I haven't been tossed out on my arse. Of course, it's not something that should be rushed, either. You need time to heal. But that does happen to be work that I can help with, if you'll let me.

[julienned]

Don't blame me for that. Up until ...

What day is it?

[mind_over_metal]

I'm just stating what happened and what's changed. It's now Saturday, the nineteenth.

[julienned]

Right. Three days ago I barely knew my name.

[mind_over_metal]

Do you know where you are right now?

[julienned]

Yeah.

[a silence]

Most of the time.

[mind_over_metal]

*nods*

You asked about Miss Frost when I first got in here.

[julienned]

She was our teacher when we were at school the first time.

I was her favourite. We all knew it. That's why it was so frustrating when everything went so wrong.