xiii | voice; forward dated to saturday evening

[invoking]

[ PRIVATE to NICK FURY and BOBBI MORSE ]

Hector Peck might be a dead end. I don't think he's involved at all with Vulcanus or that New Vesuvius city. He's just an editor for a newspaper here and keeps himself busy with that. Nothing out of the ordinary with his schedule or work.

[ /end private ]


[ When Gil speaks up, he sounds as if he's slightly congested. ]

I believe Raven has been ported out. If she had any previous or future engagements to attend to I'm sorry, but I don't think she'll be showing up. I haven't heard from or seen her around the house since before some of us were ported to New Vesuvius.

I'm not sure what to do yet about her belongings. It seems too soon to pack them away somewhere so they aren't lying around the place, doesn't it? A bit rude, too... [ He sighs. It's hard to finish cleaning the place when he's caught in a tiny dilemma like this!! ]

It's always going to be impossible to predict how long before people return. [ A beat. ] If they do.

[ Followed by another pause, as if he may add something to that thought. ]

Ah, never mind.

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[invoking]

[ "Just love"... Hank is a much braver man than Gil will ever be. ]

I... wouldn't know, to be perfectly honest.

[professorlionface]

[He did that one purpose, few people are really that brave, Hank included.]

Never gave it a shot before? I guess we have a tendency to romanticize romance more, as silly as that phrase sounds, when our experience is more limited. The truth, when you get right down to it, is all of us are looking for something.

All of us are lonely to some degree.

[invoking]

[ He mulls over it for a moment. ]

Do you really believe that?

[ He is lonely, especially here. The horrible feeling is lessened at home, but there are times where physically, he's right beside Oz, but he feels miles apart from his master. ]

[professorlionface]

I think some of us have better ways of coping with, or even dispelling it, [And some, like Hank himself, are better at acting like it isn't there.] but without them they'd be in the same boat.

Some of them don't feel it because they don't feel alone. That's why we enter relationships, even under circumstances like these, they're looking for that same feeling.

[invoking]

When you put it that way, it sounds like people are selfish in the end.