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[skycutter]

Who: Hope (skycutter) and Shepard (renegadedriving)
What: Hope's accidentally let slip something about what he'd been doing before arriving in Tokyo and Shep wants answers.
When: April 5
Where: Near the Main Terminal

[Maybe it'd have been better if he just kept his big mouth shut. One thing snowballed into another... and he's in this mess. And now Light's staring at him with an insulted look.]

You're telling some random human about these things? [The 'without telling me first' is very heavily implied.

Hope frowns with an 'I'll deal with you later' look, but says nothing in case someone's coming around.]

Comments

[renegadedriving]

[It takes Shepard 15 minutes to convince Monodramon that this isn't an assassination attempt, and even then he only stays at home because she makes it an order. This little dragon is going to be the death of her.]

[She finds a spot of shade to stand in and wait.]

[skycutter]

[Well, Hope's not quite late-- cant be late if you've been around for a while and it's only your Digimon keeping you out of sight because she wants to make sure the coast is clear. He's just lucky he managed to convince her to stay a ways back while the humans talked.]

Commander.

[Nope, plain, simple greeting over here.]

[renegadedriving]

[She nods in greeting.]

Hope.

[She's very clearly looking him over more carefully than last time, because their previous conversation has made her suspicious that he might not be entirely okay.]

[skycutter]

Hi.

[Raises his hands above his head and turns around easily. By experience, he knows he should be wincing even just by raising his arms if he has any injuries to his torso. Something about muscles and anatomy things.]

See? Nothing. [Well except for the slightly scarred state of his knees and legs.]

[renegadedriving]

[Shepard actually laughs.]

You say that like this is an interrogation. I'm glad you're okay.

[skycutter]

You made it sound like it is. [So, so very sullen right now.]

[renegadedriving]

[Teenagers, man.]

We all just showed up here. You'll have to deal with the fact that I'm worried about what happened to people before and during that transfer.

[skycutter]

[She's not getting it. Hope's trying to show her that there's absolutely nothing wrong with him and that he's self-sufficient. Everyone back in his world got it. It's like he has to talk like an adult of her own standing just so they can see eye-to-eye, so to speak.]

Actually, no, I don't have to. What happened to me before I got here isn't any of your business, and I don't have to reveal anything I choose not to, especially things that are supposed to be really personal.

You're a commander and it's your job to watch out for the people under you, I get it and I know how it is [because he's been leader of the group a few times] and fine, I know I need some help in some things, but you'll know when I do because I don't hide it the way other people would if they were in my situation.

[TLDR get off my case.]

[renegadedriving]

[Shepard sighs heavily.]

Look. Do you know what you sounded like over the comm? Field medicine, soldiers and the woods don't go well together and if there's been an attack on a colony I have to know. It's my damn job.

I'm not trying to babysit you. If you do know what you're doing, then stop going on the defensive and tell me what you've got, because a lot of people here don't know what they're doing and they're going to need all the help they can get if things go bad.

[skycutter]

No, it's not your job.

[Turns to walk away.] Like I said, it's none of your business what happened to me, so don't take me for some... [ugh he's having some horrible mental images about that] for some child soldier you think you need to talk to, or even think you have a good idea of what happened to me and my friends. If you think I'm on the defensive, fine, you can think whatever you want. And honestly, I don't have anything to offer you right now because all my powers are gone, like everyone else's.

So we're done here.