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The Perk, Friday Afternoon
So yeah Ulysses was back in Fandom after like, what? Five, six years? And he had no fucking clue how he'd ended up here, and none of the increasingly frantic and yell-y texts he was trying to send to Los Angeles were delivering at all.
(Yes, the only reason he was even out of the apartment was because he'd been trying to chase a signal that never showed up.)
And now he was at the Perk, having a giant cup of coffee and something far too sugary - because caffeine and sugar were clearly what he needed on top of all that excessice vaping he'd been doing all morning - and drumming his fingers anxiously against the edge of the table while he scrolled through his phone.
Or tried to, anyway.
Because, you see, none of his feeds were updating at all. And somehow that felt liek the freakiest thing of all.
[ooc: So open!]
(Yes, the only reason he was even out of the apartment was because he'd been trying to chase a signal that never showed up.)
And now he was at the Perk, having a giant cup of coffee and something far too sugary - because caffeine and sugar were clearly what he needed on top of all that excessice vaping he'd been doing all morning - and drumming his fingers anxiously against the edge of the table while he scrolled through his phone.
Or tried to, anyway.
Because, you see, none of his feeds were updating at all. And somehow that felt liek the freakiest thing of all.
[ooc: So open!]
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Maybe she'd try scrying on Uly again. She'd been trying regularly since she got back, but something was blocking her magical sight. It was weird, and she didn't like it.
Except she apparently didn't need to power her magic with the boost that was espresso because he was right there.
"WHAT THE FUCK, ULY. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO ANSWER YOUR TEXTS?"
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Wait, he knew that yelling.
He looked up.
"Illy?"
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Because, surprise! While Uly still largely looked like the same aggressively gaudy hipster he always had, his facial hair had finally filled in properly, while the rest of his face had lost some of its roundness, and --
Okay, he was still lean and kind of scrawny, but in a more toned, twenty-something kind of way.
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"...oh my Dark Gods you're old." Illyana, no. Mean. "What is it about this island that all my people are old? Is this why I couldn't scry on you? Were you fucking around with the Fountain of Old People?"
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"I haven't been fucking ar-- I've been gone for like, six years." Age had not taken away any of his tendency to gesture with his hands a whole lot, nope.
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"More or less." Since, well, her own timeline-hopping meant she was seventeen, not six.
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He'd totally seen a sad pout.
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"Where have you been?"
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"College." Yes, really. "And uh, Los Angeles, afterwards."
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"College? You went and graduated from college already?" Oh look, that look of horror was back on her face. "Olllllllllllllllllllllllllld."
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"It's not my fault!" he objected. Because clearly that was relevant here. "Shouldn't you at least, y'know, like congratulate me for graduating first or some shit like that?"
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She was, too.
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Illyana had never been much of a huggy person, and he really wasn't sure where they stood with that now that he was -- not old, but older.
Speaking of which, sorta:
"I've had a really fucking strange twenty four hours, Illy."
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"Sit down, and tell your favorite sorcerer all about it," she said, pulling out a chair for herself. "If it's magical, maybe I can help."
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"I don't know what it is," he said, rubbing at his face again. "I don't even know how or why I'm here. I was in LA last night, then I woke up here and -- it looks like I have an apartment? By myself? And --"
And, oh shit.
"Oh my God, how the fuck is Ford gonna get by without me?"