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[windeity]

JOHN EGBERT

"We came, we saw, we kicked its ass."

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[windeity]

They had good taste. [Give him a second to lick a stray drip of ice cream from his hand.] Do I seriously have to wait until next summer for this again?

[parodeity]

I can try to pull more strings? But, like, officially the shop opens in...late spring I think?

[windeity]

I am pretty sure I will be here. I haven't decided about summer yet either.

[parodeity]

Oh? Where would you go?

[ he barely ever thinks about leaving, as in he just doesn’t. dave remembers being surprised that dirk didn’t think about it more often... ]

[windeity]

Back to Seattle maybe? [He considers that...but just like that, his thoughts shift not long after.] But on the other hand, that sounds like a pain in the ass to move home for a few months and then move back here. So maybe I would just find an apartment and stay here.

[parodeity]

[ ...there's some relief because while he said nothing there was sort of a visceral don't go in his gut and he thinks maybe he needs to learn to separate three years from the months of summer. ]

Well, find a place with me. My plans fell through. [ he'd vaguely assumed he'd just kick it with yuri again. ]

[windeity]

[A startled laugh.] You sure you'll want to live with me by then? Maybe I will drive you crazy by May, who knows? [But it's Dave. So.] ...I wouldn't be opposed to it but let's see what happens to this place in the next couple of months.

[parodeity]

You're you, so I'm pretty sure, yeah. You ready to jet to the next location, man?

[windeity]

For now. [But he's wiping stray crumbs off of his jeans and he's up on his feet again.] Ready when you are. I have to admit, I am a little curious where exactly you plan on taking us next.

[parodeity]

I operate on a strict no spoilers policy. ...Also this part is gonna be kinda dumb, but I don't think you'll care.

[ INTO THE CAR THEY GO!! ]

[windeity]

Dumb is usually synonymous for awesome or hilarious for me. [TO THE CAR.] I think I am still just a little surprised by all of this.

[parodeity]

If you say you didn't expect my hometown to be this fun, I'm like obligated by the laws of this land to end you.

[windeity]

No, that's not what I meant. [And he won't explain apparently since he seems to just be staring out the window wondering where they're going. Where are we going, Dave?]

[parodeity]

[ THE HIGH SCHOOL which he will park in the parking lot of, and hop out of the car again. ]

Okay, technically I could break in the normal lockpicking way, but there is a way that is simultaneously easier and more stupid to get inside.

[windeity]

[And he'll follow, briefly wondering if he'll ever get his keys back...]

Are we climbing a fence? Because I have not done that for...months.

[parodeity]

Oh, nah, this requires nothing but absolute trust in me.

[ and he holds out his left hand to john, raising one eyebrow. ]

[windeity]

[...hm. Okay well. He'll just take Dave's hand and still tilt his head curiously.]

This suddenly went from "it is probably dumb but funny" to "this is weirdly ominous" really fast.]

[parodeity]

Don't worry. I don't think it'll make you remember anything bad, or I wouldn't do it.

[ and as soon as his fingers close around john's he flips the mental switch that allows him to yank john into the past with him. moving red gears, a ticking clock -

and friday, when school is in session. with a brief grin he tugs at john's hand again to lead him through the school gates and the doors, as though he belongs, and selects an empty classroom in which to pull the same trick in reverse.

which

convolutedly will get them INSIDE the school when it is locked down. overnight, since he flings them into the future long enough that he's sure no one will be around. so. welcome to saturday evening?

there were easier ways to do this, and yet. ]

[windeity]

[?!

Timetravel is weird and it's almost over before he can even begin to process that this is a thing happening. He's bewildered enough that he holds onto Dave's hand and follows his lead, about to question what the fuck's up before they go in a different direction again?

So when they're in the school locked in in the evening John stares for a moment, head spinning just a bit while he figures out what the hell just happened.]

...I did not know I signed up for a free timetraveling trip.

[parodeity]

It's not like I charge. I just normally don't offer, 'cause most people can't handle the rules.

[ but he will tug on john's hand to lead him out of the classroom? apparently we are going on a mystery tour through the high school. ]

I am pretty sure half the people I tried to explain shit to still have a weird understanding that is entirely wrong? Although some people also still think I teleport, despite being told otherwise.

[windeity]

I am not going to ask the rules of it and just assume I know them or will know them soon enough. [He won't ask where they're going again since this is a mystery but he looks around the halls of the high school to get a sense of things.]

If people blink it would seem a little like teleportation. Can you blame them for not entirely getting it?

[parodeity]

I don't think you ever paid attention to the rules. But the rules are mostly "for god's sake don't change shit" and I don't trust most people not to if I'm not monitoring them.

[ they are heading to the pool area, ftr, where dave has set things up through...other timeloops...

this is getting stupid ]

- and nah, but I also have had to prove it's not teleportation by flashstepping with people, and it seems easier to just take me at my word. Like, why would I lie about what it was?

[windeity]

[Not being someone who attended Recollé High he has zero idea but he has a hunch. He's just not saying anything to give off the air of mystery and such.]

I do not think it's so much about if you'd lie but about if people can really understand what it is when you describe it. Most of these people have probably never thought about superpowers in their life. Not in a way that applies to real life.

[parodeity]

Wasted childhoods, clearly.

[ yeah it's the pool as they go through the doors to it? which. dave gets the lights without much concern, secure in the knowledge that no one will be around this way in the timeline he's laid out.

it is, you know, the pool.

...but he set up beach chairs and a beach umbrella, and decided that totally makes this the beach. ]

[windeity]

...[He gets what he's seeing and he just. Stares for a second before he starts laughing out of sheer delight.]

Holy shit, dude. [He's elated as he enters the pool area, careful not to slip or anything while he goes up to the beach chairs and umbrella to check out the set-up.] I almost cannot believe you went through this whole set-up.