a_sin_for_him | IC Contact

Oh, the one Krieg calls Flowers.

Of course that doesn't exclude you from being some sort of sexual thrill seeker.

I mean, not with people here who aren't Rose!

[He considers this.]

Unless Rose really wanted to have a threesome, I guess.

I can promise you, you've assured me that you have a very active sex life.

Why do humans feel compelled to discuss these sorts of things all the time? And why in the world were you sending a message like that in the first place?

Because Rose and I do that when one of us has to stay behind to watch the campsite while the other has to go to town? It keeps us from getting bored.

That's bizarre.

No offense meant, of course, it just seems odd.

Really? Rose and I think they're fun.

And we never got a chance to do it either, before coming here. I didn't have a cell phone when we were together back home and even if I had, they were really hard to text with.

That's nice for you?

I'm really not certain what to do with this information, I don't even know who you are. You don't even know who I am.

Oh right. Sorry. I'm Greg Universe. Rose is my wife. We got married a couple months ago. And, uh, you're right. I don't know who you are, just that you're not Rose.

Who are you?

I'm Lust. Or Miss Fitz, if you've caught my radio program.

The woman with the small army of Eeveelutions and all the Espurr.

I have! It's pretty good.

Didn't your Espurr just win something?

Thank you. My paramour and I write it.

They did, yes. They took the Goldenrod Gym at the basic level.

Give him my compliments too, then. Or her, I guess. I shouldn't assume.

But that's great! I don't do gyms myself, but Connie does. She's my son's best friend. He, um, went home a couple months ago, but Connie's still here.

Him.

I am sorry to hear that. It is a very particular sort of pain, to lose one's child.

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

But I tell myself he just went home like people say we do, he's not dead, and he's got the Gems--they're kind of like his unofficial aunts--to take care of him. And he's a big boy now, you know? Just turned sixteen. So he can do a lot of taking care of himself too.

But still, man. I'm glad I had Rose again here. I don't know what I would have done without her.

I wish he could have stayed longer. Or that we'd had more time in the same place together before he vanished. We never got the chance to be a family back home. We couldn't. I wanted more time as a family here.

Yes. If we have a home to return to, we are returned to that.

There's no good in getting hung up on could have beens. Be glad for the time you had, and that he has a loving and safe home to return to.
Not all can say as much.

We're only given the time we are.

That's true.

Do you think I'm a terrible dad because I still want to be here instead of back home with Steven? It not-- it's not that I don't WANT to be around him and the Gems. I do! I love him and I like them!

But it's been so long since Rose

[He accidentally hits send there and makes a face at his pokegear. It's a little while longer before he finally adds,]

We lost her. When Steven was born. I mean, she knew she couldn't

And she WANTED it to be him. She wanted so much for him to exist, even though she knew she'd never see him. And I supported her knowing that it was just really going to be me. None of the Gems knew what to do with a BABY. They didn't really start taking care of him until he was eight.

But man, I missed her for so long. There was never anyone else after her. Not really.

No. No time passes in your world while you're here, you miss nothing. It isn't as though any of them even know you're gone, when you're returned to your home it will be the very moment you left it. You have that blessing to hold onto.

It isn't as though you or he are dead and have lost your time together entirely.

[Oh, this is...very heavy. Lust has long wondered what it is about her that inspires people to open to her with hardly even knowing her. But it's hardly the first time it's happened, and it's highly unlikely to be the last.]

Then treasure this time that you have. It's all any of us can do.

I used to believe something similar, that once I lost the first man I'd loved there could never be another. And for a long time there wasn't.

But then I met Timothy.

One can never be certain what the future holds.

... thanks.

And, well, I'm sorry for imposing. Here I go sending you a sexy text by accident because I was trying to get Rose and instead of blocking me, you listen to me unload on you like this.

You're a good person, Miss Fitz.

I've been told I've a very good listening ear.

And it's alright. Your sorrows are ones I know myself.

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