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[ueteribus]

Where would you go?

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somewhere without too many people. campin maybe

[ueteribus]

Are you certain that being alone right now is what you desire, though? Might that not only make things worse?

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i was goin to take marco with me

and i'll be able to keep an eye on rsdos though honestly it'd probably be best if i didn't

[ueteribus]

I never would have pictured Marco as the type to enjoy the outdoors in all honesty.

Is there something that you expect to see that you'll dislike?

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well i figure if the idea's to relax then it's best to keep a low profile

and people are goin to be talkin about what happened for a while and i don't want reminders.

[ueteribus]

I suppose that's fair.

May I ask, if it's not too an imposition: this time, did you make it out of your ordeal alive?

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yes

i'm not sure if it was better thta way

[ueteribus]

My son did not. It was







I wish he hadn't had to go through that. And so soon after his arrival. That's all.

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oh lord

i wondered but i was so out of sorts after i couldn't go lookin for him i'm sorry

i should have

[ueteribus]

No, you shouldn't. You had more than enough of your own to handle.

I appreciate your concern and considerations greatly, Fiddleford. But he is not your family, as he is mine. This wasn't your responsibility.

I should have been looking out for him. But it's so hard to know what to do with him now. Now that he's grown. I thought giving him room to make his own life would be better. Instead he was taken and I failed to notice it at first, I couldn't find him, and I didn't even find out until far too late that that gooey monstrosity rolling down the streets had anything to do with all of you. So instead of trying to rescue any of you or do anything useful, I stayed away. Until after it had already gone into the lake. I showed up to comb through the wreckage but I never found him. By then Draco had drowned.

At least the Fourth brought him back in safety. A good thing I had earned a promotion so swift beforehand.

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thank god

he won't have scars at least. that somethin

[He can't imagine the Fourth would have left them. Usually he's kind enough to fix his followers up when they die -- or at least that's been Fiddleford's experience. Certainly there's no horrible marks around his middle where Madoka bit through it (or there weren't when he still had the snake tail she bit through).]

you're tryin. nobody can fault you for that even if it's not workin out

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It didn't used to be this hard. Never before. I'm not sure if it's because he's older or things being how they are here or even if somehow in the time that's passed something might have gone wrong with me.

I don't understand why I keep having so much of a problem. I don't like not knowing what to do and now it seems that's all I ever feel.

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it could just be that he's grown up and that'll mean growin apart just a little. when a kid's young they want to hide behind their father's leg but then they hit a point where all they want's to be as far away from you as possible

at least that's what i hear. i never got that far with tate. but once i hit about sixteen all i wanted was to get off the damn farm and it didn't mean i cared for my folks any less

[ueteribus]

I haven't gotten that far either. Not really. You need time for that, I was supposed to have these three years to watch him grow and gradually wean myself off having him in my household under my authority and adjust to his being a man.

There's been no passage of time, no series of moments of my watching him change and step out and who knows maybe even challenging me directly. I've been given nothing to prepare me for this. Nothing. I wasn't ready, I'm not ready.

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[Honestly he's not mentally prepared to deal with Lucius Malfoy having a breakdown right now. He's barely mentally prepared to drag himself out of bed and make it up a single flight of stairs to brush his teeth, as of late. It's just that a Good Friend wouldn't do anything less, and Fiddleford prides himself on being a Good Friend.

It's just that he has no advice he can really give. He doesn't know how to fix this problem. His general approach is going to have to do.]

try and find the good in this. you didnt think you were goin to get to see him grow up at all and sure this is happenin different than you pictured but it's a gift all the same right

[ueteribus]

It doesn't feel like a



Never mind. Forget that I even brought this up with you, I wasn't planning on talking about this, I honestly only wanted to know you were all right. I don't know what's wrong with me lately.

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you're worried about your boy of course youre goin to want to talk about it. i don't mind none. thats what friends are for

but no. no i'm not alright but i'm alive and i'll keep goin. i've done it before. i'll be fine.

[ueteribus]

Thank you for listening in any case. And your feedback. I don't know that it would help me any, but there is likely nothing that would help me right now if I'm being honest.

I'm glad that you're here, and well if not perfectly fine just yet. Perhaps my biggest fear is that I'll never get out of this place but everyone I've grown close to will leave.

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you won't have to worry about that with me. unless she kicks me out i don't plan on ever goin back.

[ueteribus]

You really don't want to go home?

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there isn't a future for me there. you know that

[ueteribus]

I know we've spoken of this before. I've forgotten, I suppose. But I do recall your reasons.

I miss my own home so dearly. My world and my magic, my home and my wife. It's difficult for me to remember there are those that are planning to stay on in this place. Or are even happier here than they were where they came from.

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i'm not happier here really. it was bad there like it's bad here. but here i have a chance at a future where i do someone some good. knowin how things end up back in gravity falls there's no point livin it out. it's just thirty years of bein a laughingstock livin in a shack in the damn dump before the world explodes.

[Of course he only really knows about this from what he's pieced together from Wendy and Ford. He's filled in the blanks and, naturally, his own guilt and horror has filled them in the worst possible way.]

you don't know your future. there's still a chance it might be a good one. of course you want to go back.

[ueteribus]

[There's a pause before he responds here, for two reasons. One is that Fiddleford reminds him, he actually does have a way of finding out his own future. At least some of it. He still has yet to question Draco thoroughly, or at all really. Lucius of course assumes all will be well...why wouldn't it be? Still. It would be nice to know.

The second reason he takes some time, is because he's considering something...]

Perhaps if, when, we find our way to escape this place, it would be possible for anyone here to go to any of the worlds of their choosing. Why not, considering, so long as we are making holes in reality? I fail to see why there should be any limits to end destination to an individual.

If that day comes and such a thing occurs, Fiddleford, you would be more than welcome to accompany me to mine.