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What really happens when you graduate? You just go back home and everybody acts like you never died and that's that? End of story?

[private to Howie]

Serious question. You fix me, you put me all back together again and somebody somewhere deems me fit and good and ready to blow this dump. And then what? Am I just supposed to, I dunno... be a waitress?

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I don't know. Good question, though. That's up to you, really, as far as I'm aware. If you want to be a waitress, then sure, but you're probably capable of more than that.

You could use your powers to help people. You could... just be a good, useful member of society. It depends what you want. You could stay here and be a warden, but part of me thinks you wouldn't, even then.

I don't want to be a waitress. I don't want to be a warden, either. ~~I just want to be normal~~ I don't know what I want.

I never said you had to be. I said it was your choice. If you don't know what you want, that's understandable, but I can't tell you, either, you've got to decide for yourself.

I don't think, incidentally, you're obliged to go back to your world if you don't want.

Where else would I go?

Again, unfortunately, I really don't know. ~~you could always take Hea~~

I imagine, it's entirely up to you. You've earnt the right to choose at that point, I'd say.

What if I don't have anywhere to go or anybody I want to get back to?

Then you can make a new life for yourself. It's what everyone did when they came here.

I guess I need to figure out what I wanna be when I grow up.

I guess you do, yes, in a sense.

Did you ever... I guess, possibly not, but did you ever want to be something when you were a kid?

I don't think I did. By the time I was old enough to think about it, I pretty much knew I was gonna work for the Company.

Edited 2010-01-20 04:20 (UTC)

I guessed as much.

Did you know then what the Company did? Out of curiosity, nothing more.

Kind of, I guess. I probably didn't understand it, not really.

Understandably so, I suppose.

I had a question for you, actually. Not because I'm being overly nosy or anything. I'm not about to stop you from talking to anyone, but... who do you talk to here? Peter and Adam, obviously. I've noticed that. It's just a thought I was having.

People. No one in particular. Mostly Peter and Adam. Why?

It just struck me that it was mostly Peter and Adam. Which there's nothing wrong with, I just wondered if there was anyone else that I'd over looked, that's all.

There's not. What does it matter who I talk to?

It doesn't matter. I can't make you talk, or not talk to people, and I have no objection to either of them.

I just wondered if a friend who... doesn't have a history with you, or powers, might be a good thing.

I don't need friends.

Of course not. Which is why there's those two. It's always good to have friends, don't write it off.

Peter's not just a friend, he's my boyfriend. And Adam's... Adam.

I know that. I... I don't know, I was just thinking your life can't revolve around them entirely. It's up to you, it was just a passing thought of mine.

My life doesn't revolve around them!

Okay. It doesn't, fair enough. But just... think about it.

I guess... I miss having a job.

Do you?

Then go down to the kitchen. They're short of people and it's just making sandwiches. For the minute.

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