[audio] you can't say that all my friends are not dead or in jail

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket came back from his trip back home awhile ago, promptly ignored any messages he may have received, trapped his room, and then just for good measure retreated into an empty room, so he could mull this over and work the problem out. This was worse than Yondu. This was something he under no circumstances wanted to sit down and be sympathized with about.

But he can't hide forever, so when he finally makes an appearance on the network (audio only), it's to pretend he didn't just fall off the grid and make some (seemingly) unrelated observation.]

Has anyone ever, like... Met people here, and then went back home, and met those same people again, only you didn't remember 'em until you got back here, and now you've got two sets of experiences with that person?

And if it sounds crazy and don't make any sense, then try having it happen to you. It's a real headtrip.

Comments

[beatupgrass]

Yeah, and it'd be depressing to be old and grey and confused as to why a bunch of people just turned to ash and vanished.

[mucked]

[ turned to ash. and vanished? the device picks up a quiet breath -- shallow and grieved.

peggy shouldn't ask -- oh, hell, she knows she shouldn't ask. but she does. ]

...Who?

[beatupgrass]

Aw shit. [He hadn't meant to say it like that. He makes a pained noise.]

Barnes. Groot. They're the only two I know. Cap's fine... I mean, as fine as he can be when you're in that situation.

[mucked]

It seems he always did have a way of surviving...

[ but she trails off. as much as she might feel for others, peg knows well enough to understand how deeply one particular loss must cut. groot. ]

I'm so sorry, Rocket. It's a particular kind of ache to be the one left behind after -- after something like that.

[ war is war, after all. ]

[beatupgrass]

Yeah, I'm a constant survivor. Seems like every time I go home, I come back here after watching someone I give a crap about die. And people wonder why I'm jaded by this place.

...ignore that rogue subscription.

[mucked]

To be entirely frank, I'm amazed you're not more jaded with home. That is, after all, the place where these things keep happening.

[ a little callous, maybe, but she's never seen any need to approach rocket while wearing kid gloves. ]

[beatupgrass]

Oh, I was already jaded by home. That happened awhile ago. It was getting better, but then the universe turned around and kicked me in the ass.