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[quarkylass]

well my faciliberry is gone but i am glad i found a computer!
even if it is a very basic one
i am sure that this could possibly be another experiment by miss val
it even makes sense!!!
considering i was asleep and we had had seven days of memory sharing.....
uuuugh no i dont want to think about that

could someone please tell me if this is the facility?
maybe even facility 3??
even though that note was kind of discouraging.......
really weird too :/
i am going to continue to hope that it is not true and that everyone is here!
jack, davesprite, dave?????
oh and terezi and sollux and feferi too! (and eridan i guess....)
i am calling a team meeting back at the house!
if i can find the house........
..........
.....
okay well i guess just respond, please?

for anyone else, hi! my name is jade harley and it is very nice to meet you :)
i have a feeling that this place is full of people i havent met yet
even space powers are being kind of funny!
could someone explain whats going on?

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[quarkylass]

No, he didn't. He was you. [ She's staring rather intently at her hands -- should she tell him? Tell him what the price of her selfishness was, why she carries around all these injuries in the first place? How horribly self-centered she can be, how she can't save anyone and even dog whistles can down her? It's something Jade doesn't like admitting, but it's there all the same, creeping in the back of her mind. ]

That would be nice. This place is so huge.

[ She looks up in shock. Happy? Wasn't she already happy? She was alive, her friends were safe (mostly), and she hadn't died. Wasn't that what happiness was, living? There's a moment of terror where she realizes that she doesn't remember what happy used to feel like before the Facility, and it's obvious in her eyes. ] I am happy. I am!

[ But she sounds smaller, a little more confused than before. ]

[knightime]

He was me and I was him. As soon as we divert from the same path, we're different people. He did different things and so did I. [He's not him. He probably wouldn't want to be other him. He's fine being himself...he thinks.] That's just how timelines work. We're not really the same person. Maybe he did things, but you really can't say I did those same things, because that's give me credit I don't actually deserve.

I'll give you the grand tour.

[He looks at her, his face unmoving. He's returned to the poker face, using his shades as a wall more than he had used too. It was just easy to hide behind them. He doesn't think anyone else has really seen them except for a select few.] Jade, the last time I spoke to you was when we were gathering frogs. That was a good five or six months ago for me. [It's strange. Knowing he had not spoken to her for so long. Honestly...has he really been speaking to anyone now that he thinks about it?]

Are you sure you're happy?

[quarkylass]

[ She looks back at him with sad eyes; she can't hide her own feelings. She's never really been able to hide things from her friends before, and she still can't. The timeline thing confuses her too much to really address it, so she just nods to that. ]

The last time I spoke to you was two days ago. We had breakfast together in the kitchen, and then Jack showed up and tried to steal all of our bacon. You let me feed my pancake to Crowen.

[ The question catches her off guard. She stares at him for a moment more before finally, she closes her eyes, bites her lip between her two front teeth, and shakes her head slowly. ]

No.

[knightime]

[He doesn't ask who Crowen is or why she's apparently friends with Jack. He wasn't whom she spoken too either. Sometimes he really hated this all. It was confusing at best and utterly unendurable most of the other times.]

It's been awhile for me.

That doesn't mean you can't. Giving up here and being miserable is what they want anyways. Can't be letting a few jackasses take us down.

[quarkylass]

[ She shakes her head, and smiles a bit. ]

I won't. Just because I'm not happy doesn't mean I'm giving up! I promised John that I wouldn't, and I'm not going to go back on that promise.

You can't either, okay? You have to promise me you'll try being happy, too.

[knightime]

[John used to be here. He knows she means a different John, but he kind of misses their friends. Now that he thinks about it, he hasn't really seen his friends much. Maybe that's a good thing.]

I'm not unhappy. Ticked off and unhappy are two entirely different things. [But he didn't promise he was going to try and be happy. Why make a promise he might break?]

[quarkylass]

[ She catches that. ]

You didn't promise.

[knightime]

[He doesn't say anything for a minute or two.]

I don't want to make a promise I might break. It'd be shitty of me to make it and then not keep it. I can try, but I can't promise anything because I don't really know what's going to happen next.

[Not having control of the timelines is kind of unsettling. Especially because he doesn't have much else in terms of powers here.] I'm not going to give up though.

[quarkylass]

Me neither. I never give up. Even when people...when they died. We just can't give up, or they win.

[ There's another long silence before she nods. ] If you want to ask me anything, I don't mind. But I want to know things about you, too. You're my best friend. I want to know what happened to you.

[ So that the next time, she can stop it from happening at all. ]

[knightime]

[He's not even sure there's a win or lose in this situation. They didn't really know why Dax, Riki, and Jason were doing this.]

Maybe later. I think we should get you acclimated here first before we go and reveal are deepest, darkest secrets like little girls at a slumber party.

[He's not ready to talk about it.]

[quarkylass]

[ She won't deny that she's a little bit hurt by that; she make a face for the briefest of moments before it's gone, replaced by a small smile and a nod. ]

I'll be fine. You don't have to worry about me!

[knightime]

[He caught that look and it makes him feel bad. But he can't even bring himself to confide in Bro and he didn't have Rose to talk too. It would make it easier. He's sure he might be able to tell her someday, but not now.]

Have you eaten yet?

[quarkylass]

[ She shakes her head. ] I went down there, but I got distracted meeting another Jade. Why?

[knightime]

Eat the oatmeal before anything else. It'll save you a lot of trouble in the longrun. [Unless you want to throw up whatever you eat.] Oh, you must have ran into Jade Strider. For some reason, Striders are the favorites of this place. [Which is kind of weird and suspicious.]

[quarkylass]

Alright. I've never had oatmeal before, actually... [ She shrugs. ] Is it good?

I wish I could be a Strider.

[knightime]

It's okay, I guess. I don't know. I mostly just ate cereal for breakfast, so oatmeal kind of sucks next to Lucky Charms. [He loves his Lucky Charms, okok.]

Naw, you're totally awesome as a Harley.

[quarkylass]

What are Lucky Charms? [ This is a legitimate question. ]

You really...think so?

[knightime]

Holy shit, you've never had Lucky Charms before. Your life is meaningless. We need to somehow get you Lucky Charms. [Except this tower sucks. Bluh.]

I already met Jade Strider. I think you're totally cool as Jade Harley. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise cause I'd fuck their shit up anyways.

[quarkylass]

Are they one of those really sugary cereals that make your teeth hurt?

Okay, if you say so!

[knightime]

Fuck yes. I mean, I don't really care for the healthy oat bits, but Lucky Charms supplies you sugary marshmallow bits of fucking amazing.

[quarkylass]

I bet the oat bits are the best part, too!