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[anexcitableboy]

Hey, it's Jimmy, and I can't come to the whatsit right now. Drop me a line and I'll catch you on the flip side.

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[backdated to like, October 6th, when Wrath remembers he has a PokeGear]

[garbagechild]

_{[The feed crackles a little, and the voice that follows the static is a bit croaky.]}

Jimmy?

Jimmy?

Uhm... if you're there, it's me, Wrath.

[anexcitableboy]

Holy shit, Wrath!

[Jimmy answers his gear immediately. He's been worried sick about Wrath, but his attempts to find the kid had done nothing.]

Are you okay? Where've you been? What happened?

[garbagechild]

M'okay.

... Well, I'm hungry, but... that's because I haven't had any breakfast yet.

Uhm...

A lot.

A lot happened.

Where are you?

Can I come see you?

[anexcitableboy]

I was real, real worried about you, little buddy.

Aw, shit. I'm on the road, I'm heading to Violet right now. Where are you?

[garbagechild]

M'sorry.

I didn't know anybody would worry.

_{[HE REALLY DIDN'T. As desperate as he'd been to get out and avoid incurring the wrath of Team Rocket, he hadn't really thought about what the people who enjoyed his company might have been thinking. That they'd be happy to see him if he got out, he supposes, but not that they'd have paid any real attention to his absence since he didn't really owe them anything.]}

And-- oh.

... M'still in Goldenrod.

Can I see you when you come back?

_{[8( HE REALLY WANTS A HUG BUT HE IS PATIENT, HE CAN WAIT.]}

[anexcitableboy]

Where've you been?!? We've been looking all over...

[And apparently he's been somewhere in Goldenrod, how is that even possible?]

Yeah, yeah of course. I...won't be back for a while, though. Uh...I don't wanna be in Goldenrod for Halloween, it's a long story. I just can't deal with big Halloween celebrations.

Shit.

[garbagechild]

I was... um... I had to talk about some stuff with my old team.

It took a long time.

_{[TWO MONTHS.]}

Mostly 'cuz I didn't really wanna talk at first...

Um.

What's a ween?

_{[He has... never heard of a 'ween', much less a hollow one!]}

[anexcitableboy]

Why weren't you answering your gear? And how come nobody knew where you were?

[This does not sound right to Jimmy.]

Oh, Halloween's a big holiday.

[garbagechild]

Um... I didn't... have it??

<sub>[Although most of this 'friends actually care about you and might ACTUALLY REACT POORLY when you are in trouble' stuff is a little over his head, Wrath knows from an existence devoted to secrets and lies that telling everybody the kind of... business that his old team had carried out to GET HIM AVAILABLE FOR TALKING TO might not be the best idea.]

[Still, he's awful at lying. He gets all squirmy.]</sub>

And oh.

I think I remember someone talking about holly-days once.

[anexcitableboy]

Why not?

Wrath, what's going on? Cause this all sounds real fishy, buddy. It's okay, I'm not mad at you or anything. I just wanna know what's going down.

[garbagechild]

<sub>[HE JUST KIND OF. WIGGLES UNHAPPILY IN HIS SEAT. 8( 8( 8((((]

[He doesn't want to lie... and even if Jimmy's not mad at him, he's still upset, and Wrath is actually starting to really not like it when people are upset.]</sub>

I... I... I just didn't have it. I didn't know where it was.

<sub>[It's not a lie! He really didn't! He has no idea where Envy and the others kept it while he was down there.]

[And then, just in case that didn't do the trick, he adds--]</sub>

I'm sorry!

_{[Because apologies are the magic solution for everything!]}

[anexcitableboy]

You don't gotta be sorry, Wrath, you didn't do anything.

Something ain't right, I can tell. Are you in any trouble? If you are, I can help.

[garbagechild]

Um... no.

_{[A beat.]}

... Surprisingly.