NIMONA 💀

[resumed]

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[sharkgirl]

[HELP ME THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME REACTION WILL HAD

she kind of just like - laughs, but it's... maybe a little uncomfortable.]

Don't - you don't have to. Don't just do it now because you feel bad.

[resumed]

[ okay but it's not because he feels bad? he loves her. it feels weird to think about saying goodbye, especially when she'd probably fit in. and like...the camp will be empty, but in the summer there will be other friends, and kayla and austin will obviously--





--he sits up fastly suddenly and just looms over her. ]

Wait, we talked about this Thursday. [ hey. hey!!!!! ]

[sharkgirl]

[HELPSDLJKFS

she is JUMPSCARED by this, she goes bwah!! and flails a little.]

What -- what? No, we didn't?!

[resumed]

Yeah, we did. [ he's frowning bigly now. ] I'm. Look, my entire brain is really, um, kind of soupy right now for a lot of reasons but we definitely talked about this because you said I'd regret letting you come back and I said that was impossible because I needed backup from Will's siblings, and we talked about stuff we were gonna do.

[ HE REMEMBERS!!!! ]

[sharkgirl]

[okay, this is the point where her expression goes out of focus, like she can't. quite grasp what he is saying to her.]

What? No? None of that... none of that happened. [she seems to... really believe this.] I don't remember any of that happening.

[resumed]

[ oh i'm so sorry but her expression going out of focus immediately makes him tense up after today. but he tries to relax, focusing on her and taking a breath. okay. sure. one more kick in the dick on this fine sunday. nice. ]

...what do you remember about Thursday?

[sharkgirl]

... I mean, everything? I thought? Rita and Datz and Jolyne came out of the hospital, we all went to the beach, we... talked...

[a pause.] By the fire, we were by the fire, but we didn't talk about...

[resumed]

Yeah, all of that happened...[ he's staring at her. ] Do you remember what we talked about by the fire at all?

[sharkgirl]

[she frowns. her tone is a little belligerent.]

No. But it doesn't matter, I know we didn't talk about me going back with you. Nobody has talked to me about going back with them.

[that seems incorrect, maybe, but she seems like she believes it?]

[resumed]

I'm gonna kill whoever put that idea in your head, dude. [ bold words for a dumbass who tried to crawl into an electrified lake earlier, but he's annoyed. ] You were always invited to come home with us. We've talked about this a few times. And even if I hadn't brought it up for some reason before, why wouldn't I still say it's true?

You...wanted to go be a pirate with Ace, and you weren't sure about coming the first time I asked, so when we talked Thursday it...I thought you had decided.

[sharkgirl]

[she looks absolutely baffled by this.]

A few times? Since when? [apparently she cannot remember a single one of those times.] What...

[her eyes go a bit unfocused again.] You and Will and Temenos...

[:aaaaa:]

[resumed]

[ he just grabs her by both shoulders even though again, that is freaking him out. ]

Hey. Nimona. Focus.

[sharkgirl]

I'm trying. [she says, sharply.]

I don't remember. [...] Temenos said he wouldn't lie about this sort of thing either. I - I don't think either of you would, but I can't...

[a beat.] It didn't happen.

[resumed]

[ he is thisclose to headbutting her. ]

It happened. You might not remember right now, but it happened. If I said it and Will said it and Temenos said it, why would it not be real?

[sharkgirl]

[her eyes go unfocused again - like she just cannot hear the logic that would make her believe this. she can't grasp it, it's just slippery.

he should headbutt her anyway though]

[resumed]

[ he does not headbutt her.


he does flick her in the forehead though. hellloooooooo. ]

[sharkgirl]

[she blinks a few times.]

... What - why'd you flick me? Stop.

[resumed]

You're being dumb. [ simply. ] What's actually happening right now, you keep...getting weird about one certain thing and I can't figure out why.

[sharkgirl]

Am not. [instinctively!!!

she pauses, though.] ... I don't know? You keep saying stuff and I can't really... it's like I don't hear it.

[resumed]

Are too. [ also instinctively? you're both stupid, how about that. but he scrunches his eyebrows together as he tries to puzzle it out. ]

It's like...just about what's happening when we leave here. [ hold on. let's do a test. ] What do you think is going to happen when we get out of this place? For you.

[sharkgirl]

[a pause.]

I don't know, I assumed I was going to go back to where I came with Saya. [...] I didn't want to just, like, invite myself to go somewhere. I'm sick of being in places where I'm not wanted.

[resumed]

[ ................................

he's like. not sure how to process that right now. so it takes him a few minutes of staring at her tiredly. ]

And you just forgot I'd said you could come with us. And it sounds like Temenos offered you the same, too.

[sharkgirl]

I know you offered right now. Temenos offered when I talked to him last night, and so did Will, just - before that, nobody did.

[poor nico's soup brain]

[resumed]

[ the thing he's not telling her is that this is hurting his feelings and he's just going to decide she's either cursed or she's really trying to let him off easy which is also fine. so he sighs at that. ]

...okay. Well...offer's there if you want it. It'll be there at the end of the week, too.

[sharkgirl]

[NOOOOO NICO

there's a pause, and then:]

... I do want to. I just didn't know that you wanted me to. [she sounds kind of embarrassed.]