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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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POSTED ON Dec 27, 2021 8:33:34 GMT
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fuck fortree.

navigating the city is hard enough. the outskirts, however? a whole different animal. though his trouble in finding her home is also aided by his drunken state of mind as well as the darkness of night. but eventually, he finds it.

his knocks are slow, sloppy.

"sage! it's matty."

matty, a nickname ruined by , slips out in a moment of vulnerability.
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POSTED ON Dec 27, 2021 12:55:01 GMT
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”hm?”

knocks roused her from sleep, and her heart skipped, before the familar matty caused her to sigh with deep frustration.

she pulled herself out of bed, shrugging on a hoodie before going to the door. when she opened it, her stare was cold.

”matias, what are you doing?”

a leafeon wound around her ankle, looking silently up at him.

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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 9:11:12 GMT
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matias is in the middle of chugging down a bottle of water when the door finally opens. through the plastic, he catches a glimpse of her stare. he swallows, then looks at her.

"hydrating. also, do you mind if i come in?"

he leans against the doorframe.

"i gotta use your bathroom."
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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 10:46:20 GMT
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she stared, canary pale eyes like needles through the plastic and into his. ”seriously? you're in the middle of the fucking woods.”

but, she eventually made way for him to stagger in.

”straight down and on the left.” past the main room, with the couch that looked to be where sage slept, and then delta’s bedroom.

she added sternly, arms crossed, ”be quiet.”

what was he doing here?

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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 10:50:36 GMT
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with a shrug, he steps into her home. as he brushes past her, he reaches out to annoyingly pull one of her hoodie's drawstrings, tightening it on one side.

"quiet. yes."

surprisingly, he makes his way to the bathroom just fine, not making much noise besides the slight stumble into the couch. a few moments later, he comes back out, hands still wet from washing them.

"sage?"
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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 11:33:42 GMT
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she swatted at him, ”stop it.”

as he disappeared around the corner, her hands went to tug at the cloth now bunched up around her neck uncomfortably.

not yet bothering to turn on the light, she went to sit back on the couch. her leafeon jumped up into her lap, and she pinched the bridge of her nose, still waking up. still annoyed.

”yes?”

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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 15:04:17 GMT
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drawn to her voice, he steps towards it only to steer away towards the kitchen; the fridge in particular. he pulls it open with a clink, peering in to find nothing but disappointment. apple juice works, he supposes.

by the time he walks back over to the couch, he's already sipping from the plastic straw, hand clasped around a cute little juice box. he plops down next to her, exhaling after.

"..."

another sip, then he offers her the juice box.

"i miss you."
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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 16:05:24 GMT
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her hand lowered from her face at the sound of the fridge opening. really?

and soon, he’d sat down beside her. her sigh was placating. she wanted him out, she told herself.

’i miss you.’

pushing the juice box away, she shook her head. ”i miss you too—but what you did is unforgivable.”

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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 16:28:32 GMT
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"...i know."

his hand lowers along with his gaze. the juice box now rests on his thigh, condensation starting to form.

"i thought by keeping you in the dark you'd be safe. free to live your life, free to raise del."

he sighs, willing the words out.

"i was wrong. it was selfish. i'm selfish."
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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 17:20:55 GMT
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”you’re not selfish.” not to sage, at least. if she’d ever said it, she hadn’t meant it. he was a soldier. however, he had turned his back on his friend; something which had, from the horse’s mouth, had something to do with the fateful outcome of things.

”i’m not mad about that anymore, matias. my knowing or not could never have given me the power to change what had already happened.”

her gaze settled somewhere in the shadows tiredly. after a long moment, her resolve hissed out of her throat in a strained sigh. 

”your self-righteousness gets ahead of you, you know. your decision not to reach out was to protect me. at least there were good intentions.” she leaned over her knees, lacing fingers. ”you also made the decision to allow him to be ostracized, for a lie. one you helped construct, even.”

she looked up over her curled shoulder at him through the dark. ”how was that anything but cruel?”

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POSTED ON Dec 28, 2021 17:56:53 GMT
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his head hangs heavy, thoughts mmuddled under the influence of alcohol and darkness. he sinks deeper into the couch, head finally tipping back on the headrest.

"it was cruel."

but deserved.

he bites his tongue, drowning it under apple juice.

"i...didn't recognize him anymore, sage. even before it all started."

with his gaze stuck to the ceiling, lost to the never-ending abyss, he swallows.

"i'm sorry for turning my back on him."
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POSTED ON Dec 29, 2021 2:22:55 GMT
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”you said he was violent… an extremist…”

her gaze tore away from the lines that she could see of his face.

”so what i don’t understand is, why push it? why allow others around you, people you don’t want to get hurt, to just… poke the ursaring?”

and he’d been the one with the truth.

sorry simply wasn’t good enough.

she shook her head, her voice growing steely again as it had been in the doorway.

”you need to find him.” matias was one of the strongest trainers in hoenn, now, supposedly. he was capable. plus, he had connections.

she would do her part from the outside, she’d decided.

”find him and bring him to justice. that is the only way you can make amends.”

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POSTED ON Dec 29, 2021 16:48:52 GMT
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matias had poked the ursaring a fair bit himself but he was no fool. he knew the consequences of his actions, knew what it would eventually drive to. the breaking point was far worse than he anticipated.

a fool.

"i was afraid — afraid they'd do to me what they did to him."

because the two aren't much different. he was just a step ahead.

he reaches the bottom of the juice box, sucking nothing but remnants of it as she spoke of justice.

"i'll find him."

a promise.

"he's not that hard to find. man's loud as fuck."

and a joke to ease the tension.
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POSTED ON Dec 30, 2021 5:26:10 GMT
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in that particular moment, she felt that she could offer him no mercy. ”then you were a coward.” and he had that to make amends for as well.

the grating sound of sucking on a near-empty juice box caused her to pause, and then shake her head, for not only was it obnoxious, but it was also loud in the otherwise permeating quiet of their small cabin.

his joke didn’t land well with her. there was no lightening the mood.

”apparently not that loud if he’s been hiding out in hoenn and no one knew about it.”

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POSTED ON Dec 30, 2021 16:45:13 GMT
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the mood remains as dark as the room. he pays it no mind, however, as he finally squishes the juice box, reducing its size by half before placing it down on the floor in front of him.

"i'll pick it up later. promise."

he'll likely forget about it.

leaning back into the couch, he sighs, then reaches out for her arm.

"i'm sorry again, sage."
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