Ninth PSI

[a_gentle_boy]

[He awoke in a bed.  That was strange.  He had gone to sleep on a chair, having successfully made it around the neighborhood to visit anyone who was ailing.  The Netherlands hadn't yet returned when he'd snuck back into the house, pretending as if he had never left in the first place. What was even stranger was that he was apparently in his pajamas and . . . looking out the window . . . There was no haze.  There was no rubble.  There were no hazmat men.  There were no corpses.

 . . .

He slowly walks downstairs as if in a trance and sees the familiar sight of his kitchen.  Tears immediately coming to his eyes, the boy rushes to the telephone.]

Hello?!  Is this Mayfield?  Am I . . . Am I back?!   Did we win?  Did . . . Did we all make it?  Is everyone.  Is everyone OK?  Mr. Netherlands?  Mr. Netherlands, did we beat them?

Is this real . . . ?  If this is really Mayfield, someone please answer me.  There were so many things we found in Westport.  And last night -- Last night, that voice.  Richard Grey's last message.  You all heard it too, right?

EDIT:
Kay's right.
We all found clues over there that everyone should see.  I have a copy of the note that Kay and I found in the library and the one that Miss Alice and I found in the car.  If anyone wants to come see them, that's fine.  We should all get together sometime soon.

Comments

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. I got stuck in a house. I couldn't take the haze anymore...

[She sounds more than a little annoyed with herself for that.]

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Just as long as you weren't hurt or anything. Ah. To be honest, it was a bit much for me, too.

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to be stronger than that, though.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

I'm a homunculus. I exist to fight in defense of the nation, or innocent citizens as needed. How can I do that if I can't even handle some smoke?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

I'm, um. Going to say it's probably because you had your abilities taken away. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself . . .

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

I've got them all back now. There's no excuse.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Oh. Then if you never had an 'immunity to poison smoke' ability in the first place, you couldn't have been expected to do much more, right? . . .

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

It is the duty of a homunculus to defend citizens at all cost. Our own well being is secondary.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

But you couldn't have protected anyone at all if you ran into the gas and died . . .

((Does this sound familiar Shiraasan.))

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

It's better than shamelessly doing nothing. And I could have lasted for a little while.

((Seriously man ten billion people can tell her the same thing and she never really gets it. I'm pretty sure both her not!moms, including her canon not!mom have told her multiple times each))

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Maybe you should stay close to me the next time something like this happens. You can protect people and I can, um. Heal you so you can protect them.

[snackaholictank.livejournal.com]

...

...That might actually work.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

S-Sure! And then you don't have to worry about not being able to protect people.

[Something about that is a little redundant, but oh well.]