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Aelise keeps Harley in her room, and allows visits - mostly Corona, sometimes Tima - but doesn't let him run around being obnoxious to anyone. Chelsa avoids him. Corona is home, after all, and he's just as warm and isn't horrible to her. And now she can invite more friends in. There's that girl she rotated out to make room for Tima, still alive, in Wales - there's that pleasantly sparky boy she met on her trip to Egypt - Chelsa is able to content herself with the situation.

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pythbox

"That world was so fucked up," he mumbles.

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her_imperial_radiance

"It sounds very much so."

From:

pythbox

He is pretty thoroughly too big for Elsie's lap.

He stays there anyway.

"I think... I think I wanna see Zeus," he says softly. "I don't know. Can I just... see him?"

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her_imperial_radiance

"Yes."

She picks him up. He's awkwardly sized, but not hardly too heavy.

And she teleports to his room in the Québec house, which, except for a handful of perishables that would have rotted away if they hadn't been picked up, hasn't been touched for nearly a year.

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floofcoaster

Zeus is sleeping, arms wrapped around Harley's pillow, tucked under Harley's blankets.

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pythbox

He gives Elsie a hug and a kiss, and then he crawls into bed with Zeus and snuggles up to him.

"You're my best fluffy buddy," he murmurs, "and - I - "

He starts crying again.

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her_imperial_radiance

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pythbox

Harley doesn't say anything more for a while.

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her_imperial_radiance

Elspeth waits.

From:

floofcoaster

Zeus, oblivious, sleeps.

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pythbox

Eventually, he says,

"I... I want to sleep here. For a night. And then wake him up tomorrow."

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her_imperial_radiance

"All right," says Elspeth. "I'll tell everyone you're home again. Do you know how you disappeared?"

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pythbox

He shakes his head.

"I was just falling asleep, and thinking about a kind of teleportation from a book I read - and then - " He shrugs. "But when I tried to do the same thing on purpose, it didn't work."

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her_imperial_radiance

"That sounds - maybe a little like what Sue does," she murmurs. "If he were accessible - but he isn't." She sighs. "Thank you. I'm sure Mama will want to talk to you tomorrow."

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pythbox

"Okay," says Harley. He snuggles up to Zeus again.

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her_imperial_radiance

"Let me know if you need anything," Elspeth murmurs, and she runs her hand over Harley's hair, and she ports away.

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pythbox

Harley goes to sleep.

When he wakes up in the morning, he says, [You can wake him up now.]

Edited Date: 2013-06-20 01:30 am (UTC)

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her_imperial_radiance

[All right.]

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floofcoaster

Zeus stirs.

When he meets resistance in the form of Harley cuddled up to him, his eyes snap open, and he abandons the pillow in favor of its owner.

"Harley."

Edited Date: 2013-06-20 01:34 am (UTC)

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pythbox

Harley bursts into tears and hugs Zeus as hard as he can.

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floofcoaster

"Harley, Harley, my Harley - what happened - where did you go, are you all right, you disappeared right out of my arms - how long has it been -"

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pythbox

"It's been like a year," he says, "a month or something for me, I went to another world, I dunno how I did it, I tried again and couldn't, and then I guess I managed it but I ended up in Milliways - lots of awful shit happened but I'm fine now, I love you - I love you," and he dissolves into incoherent sobbing.