[ That's ... alarming to hear, but she and Lydia have only ever been acquaintances, it's unsurprising she dropped off the face of the planet while Verity was getting on with her life. Each time she goes to reply, another text pops up, until she leaves her phone for ten minutes just to make sure he's through.
She believes this isn't an April Fool, safe to say. Anything could have been, but not about Lydia. ]
Ported out? People can come back.
[ Although having been absent since the middle of March isn't promising, it's said more for his benefit than anything. She doesn't want to ask, yet his phrasing begs it. That, and Verity knows all too well about the sort of people roaming around in these cities after helping with Petrov. ]
[ after a certain amount of time people just didn't come back, and while he wasn't one to sit around pining, he also wasn't one who generally went with the loss of friendship. mostly because he didn't have friends. ]
Sometimes people come back, sometimes they don't.
For now, she's not.
[ putting it simply is for his own sake. he's trying to reign in what he can. ]
[ The fervent passion with which Lydia spoke of him leaves something very amiss in the tone of the texts, like the same buoyancy has been swapped out for dead weight. Fuss and bother won't do him any good, so she thinks of the driven girl she met instead (and by specific extension, him). ]
She didn't seem the type who would want to come back to see her things lost, if she does. If you need some help collecting any of her stuff for sake-keeping, I have two buff arms.
[ That he wouldn't need, technically, but it's the gesture that counts if he wants company and something productive to do. ]
[ there were a few things that he knew. one of those things is that somehow, eventually, everyone would leave here. being Ported out was inevitable, even for someone like him, or for any members of the Young Avengers. at the time that he had told himself that, he found it comforting. he may wake up and be surrounded in different people, and then he could start again.
no where along the way did he expect this. ]
You're possibly maybe suggesting a little B&E? Maybe possibly?
[ Oh, Loki. Verity smiles lopsidedly, snorting a little. ]
Extremely minute degrees, maybe possibly. You DID date her, I'm sure she'd be okay with you looking after her stuff. It would be weird leaving it to gather dust.
[ funny, the first thing he had done when Hank Pym had been Ported out had been get his hands on his things. but that had been for a reason, those things had been useful rather than sentimental. on a level this just seems a bit like wishful thinking. if she did return, would she remember him? (would it be better if she didn't?) ]
I'm certain I could find room for 37 different shades of lipstick. ;)
How am I supposed to just take 1? There's casual, semi casual, elegant, evening, formal, formal evening, 10-5, late night, Fri clubbing, Sat clubbing & sexy museum outing.
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She believes this isn't an April Fool, safe to say. Anything could have been, but not about Lydia. ]
Ported out? People can come back.
[ Although having been absent since the middle of March isn't promising, it's said more for his benefit than anything. She doesn't want to ask, yet his phrasing begs it. That, and Verity knows all too well about the sort of people roaming around in these cities after helping with Petrov. ]
Different kind of missing?
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[ after a certain amount of time people just didn't come back, and while he wasn't one to sit around pining, he also wasn't one who generally went with the loss of friendship. mostly because he didn't have friends. ]
Sometimes people come back, sometimes they don't.
For now, she's not.
[ putting it simply is for his own sake. he's trying to reign in what he can. ]
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She didn't seem the type who would want to come back to see her things lost, if she does.
If you need some help collecting any of her stuff for sake-keeping, I have two buff arms.
[ That he wouldn't need, technically, but it's the gesture that counts if he wants company and something productive to do. ]
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no where along the way did he expect this. ]
You're possibly maybe suggesting a little B&E? Maybe possibly?
[ well that perks him up. ]
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Extremely minute degrees, maybe possibly.
You DID date her, I'm sure she'd be okay with you looking after her stuff.
It would be weird leaving it to gather dust.
[ She knows you too well, trashbaby. ]
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I'm certain I could find room for 37 different shades of lipstick. ;)
[ it's just a little B&E.
it'll be fun. ]
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[ Or whatever Lydia found sentimental. ]
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[ he made up that last one. probably. ]
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She looked pretty in all of them.
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I'll bring a backpack.
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37 shades it is.