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[thechoiceisyours]

[Chris smiles and gives a small wave at the camera when the feed starts, then turns his hand to show Hope's blessing on the back of it.]

So uh, who else got one? And are they all from Hope, or...?

[This is so cool you guys he wants to see who else got what. And for something else slightly less important by still cool--]

Oh, also, my iPhone was up and working for a bit thanks to Pell, and I managed to get some music off it. I'll share on the condition no one makes fun of my taste.

[The last comment is a joke--he's really not going to be too hurt by jabs about his choice in music--but the offer is serious, and attached is a download of the music he's copied off so far. It's kind of a slow process, so there's still more on the phone that he can transfer later.]

Comments

[bekommen]

Yeah, well. Fuck Canada.

[Choo choo; Nick's on board that train for life.]

I dunno what else there is to say. I started talking to that Ushahin guy a while back, and he was sayin' a lot of stuff that sounded like shit she used to say, and I just. Started remembering everything again, y'know?

[thechoiceisyours]

Yeah. I know how that is.

[There have been a lot of things brought to the surface for him recently as well, and he thinks it's the same for pretty much everyone at his house.]

[bekommen]

[There's also the fact that Nick didn't really deal with her feelings about the breakup - Kennedy leaving her segued right into Andy's rejection, then she left Chicago and ended up in Vancouver. She barely had time to adjust to learning she was a Nightbane before she ended up here in Hadriel. Bottling up emotions only works for so long.]

When I was a kid, I used to wish I had a tape deck for a brain. Then I could just switch out the tapes whenever I didn't wanna think about something.

[thechoiceisyours]

[He's right there with her on that; he's only just beginning to try to deal with the events of the night on the mountain instead of ignoring them, let alone everything else that's happened since then.]

That'd be pretty convenient, yeah. Though maybe not tapes, since you have to like... Rewind those. And it's kind of tough to pick specific tracks.

[It's said with a small grin.]

[bekommen]

Don't tell me I gotta school you on the fine art of making a mixtape, now.

[thechoiceisyours]

You still totally can't pick a track. Fastforwarding to song four sucks.

[bekommen]

That's the whole point of making a mix, duh. You pick songs that go together so you don't have to fast-forward.

[thechoiceisyours]

There's always at least one song on a playlist that you start out really liking but then end up skipping every time.

[He knows this for a fact, Nick. An unarguable fact.]

[bekommen]

Then it sounds to me like you gotta up your mix-making game a bit, 'cause I can't say that's a problem I've ever had.

[So there. Facts schmacts.]

[thechoiceisyours]

I don't believe that like, at all. And my world has cannibal monster spirits flying around in it.

[So if he doesn't believe something, it's unbelievable. And never getting sick of a song on a playlist or mixtape or whatever she wants to call it is completely unbelievable.]

[bekommen]

What, good music is harder to believe in than monsters? Shit, if I had a tape deck here, I'd make you a mixtape and prove it.