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[Action, January 3rd]
[Voice, March 8th]
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[... something isn't right. He looks up at her, concerned and worried.]

... it's Virgil, mom. Are you okay?

Edited 2013-08-12 16:51 (UTC)

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"... it was just a normal day. I went to school, you went to work. You were just fine, then."

And not now. What would she be like after this?

[Virgil. Searching her memory gives her nothing. Nothing but What if you woke up one day and found out it was all a lie which, while true and always kind of ruffling under the goings-on in Luceti, was not helpful. At all.]

Maybe I'm not. [Admitting it felt right, too.] This is really weird.

"Okay. So nothing happened. I guess I do remember feeling a little different last night though." Only in the context of the Luceti she knew. Sheena leaned against the kitchen counter and shut her eyes in thought. "Does this kind of thing happen to people a lot?"

If she could ask enough questions and learn enough from someone who, weird reasons or not, thought they had mutual trust, maybe she could figure it out.

"... uh, not really. I mean... I've heard stories. But." He looked away, suddenly uncomfortable. "You're not like that. It's just a bad day, mom. You'll be fine tomorrow."

[Eyebrow.]

You're not making any sense. What's wrong?

[Sheena frowns, hands on her hips, and surveys the kitchen. Definitely not hers. Since when was 18's kitchen hers? Or the tea shop's, for that matter?]

I kinda...don't know what's going on here. Everything'll probably sort itself out, but this beginning stuff is really throwing me off.

Not like what? Something bad enough to make him turn the other way.

"It must be- really awful for you. To be talking to somebody who's totally different than the person they should be." It was so rare for her to be on the knowledgeable side of an experiment. "I'm really sorry."

"It's not your fault. It's... it's the rich people, right? They must be doing something to the water. If we take you to a doctor, they'll be able to help you in no time."

If we can afford a doctor.

It's morning. Breakfast time. The start of the usual day?

Thanks, I got that far. [She didn't mean to be testy.] Sorry, I'm just trying to get my bearings here. This is still Luceti, right?

Sheena pulled a face. "I don't really like doctors, and I'm not sure they're gonna have the answer for what's going on here. And if they were doing something to the water, wouldn't you be someone else, too?"

Where else would we be?

No, because I usually stick with soda. [He always knew it would pay off some day.]

[She can't help snorting. So she had a wise guy kid, huh?]

You know what I mean.

Sometimes, you never know. [She's about to say something else, when she catches sight of a framed picture on a countertop: herself and a man and this kid, here, at some younger age. All of her words condense into a half-choke instead. Yeah, it's an experiment, but she didn't expect to see fabricated bits of her past.]

Not... really. Have you been drinking?

[She wasn't normally a drinker, but... he didn't know what to make of this.]

He couldn't laugh with her, though. Not as he considered the implications of it all. "You're just having a bad day, that's all."

"Yeah. That's gotta be it. And I guess it's a day I missed work. Any idea where I'm supposed to go tomorrow?" Sheena hoped he would at least eat the dinner. "I found out I'm on strike from the factory."

No! I don't do that stuff. [Most of the time. Definitely not to the point that she forgets things.]

"Al's Diner. You've been waitressing there." Though if she missed the day, he wondered if she'd still have the job.

What's wrong, mom? You're freaking me out.

If you really wanna know, I'm kinda freaking myself out too. Something's going on here, and I'm gonna figure out what it is.

"Al's Diner. Got it. So tomorrow I'll go to work and maybe that'll help my memories and stuff kick back in." At least she had all that tea shop experience to help her cover for herself. Half of that was waitressing. She didn't actually believe that, about memories she didn't own, but she wanted to make him feel better.

Like what? Aside from you, everything has been normal today.

He nodded. Virgil wasn't exactly confident in this plan, but it was something. It was normalcy, at least.

"Yeah. Hopefully."

I don't know what. But I don't know you, either, or this house. [That was probably the wrong thing to say, and Sheena winces.] Sorry. I'm...your mom?

"Did I really screw us up? By not...doing something today?"

Look, son. She wanted to try to fit into the world just for his sake. Maybe for a day or two, until she could sort out the problem.

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