[ChicletPrime]

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Chapter 7

• "If someone must rewrite him, then that person was me and me alone."  well, fuck. you go, girlfriend! get your man and don't take no backtalk.
  
• she hides everything that could trigger his memories. double wow. woot? this is.. unexpected honestly, but i am *living* for it. she really, really took a page from his book and imprinted on it like the world's most studious duckling.
  
• "Over the course of three days, it's as if we've returned to our childhood, to the small garden of that shelter... and the world beyond these walls didn't mean anything to us." 
  
• yeah, go on, girlfriend. he wants to know if you're a Hunter, what is he? 
  
• "You're the sidekick of a Deepspace Hunter."   excellent reply. that dodges everything and is even on the same continent as the truth. 
  
• uh oh. reality intrudes. your assignment is over in three days and the Association wants to know your return schedule. are you going to take Caleb with you? will you even be allowed? how has nobody else even noticed he's missing.
  
• hah! ponder, and ye shall recieve. "He's been MIA for three whole days. I wonder how long it'll take for the storm to reach us..." 
  
• uh oh? pain throbs and our mind goes foggy.
  
• ooooh, let me guess! chip? is it the chip? are we feeling too much feeling for our poor empty gege? 
  
• okay, this was a WILD exchange. 
  "Maybe... this planet will explode tomorrow and it'll be the end of the world."
  Caleb: "That's nothing to be afraid of. The world we live in is already mid-explosion. So even if it comes to an end, we can always move on to the next one." 
  
• and the pain in our wrist intensifies but our nerves start to twitch with a strange, excited tremor.
  
• oh. such a soft thing to say. "Does that mean we can finally do all the things we used to want to do but couldn't before?"  yeah. yeah, Caleb. anything you wanted then, we can do now that we're finally grown up. 
  
• muahahah! "Couldn't do? Or you mean the things we wouldn't dare to do?"
  
• Caleb: "What if I dare? Will you do the same?"
  
• /popcorn
  
• /swivels back to the girlfriend
  
• /slurps soda out of anxiety
  
• "My fingers slightly tremble in his grip. I have a sense that something is about to happen."
  
• eeeeeeeeee
  
• [ Prove it ]  [ Kiss me ]
  
• OH MAN. whoever this person is that did this walkthrough, they picked Prove It.  goddamn it. 
  
• and something seems changed in this moment. his necklace sways and catches the light.
  
• eeeeeeee
  
• "A kiss touches my earlobe and his teeth lightly graze my skin. A shiver rushes through me like a subtle poison that spreads to my fingertips."
  
• /happily clutches plushie to my bosom.  Caleb, the snake in the garden, offering the apple of all knowledge.
  
• ooops, we are getting foggy headed again
  
• aircraft rush by overhead, heading to the control tower. exclusive to the Fleet at Caleb's command. every deployment is inevitably linked to its colonel.
  
• hmm. yeah. so who's sending out the ships if not Caleb. 
  
• Caleb, are you lying to me again? somehow? Heath is dead.. oh, nice. maybe its the black silhouette person that started the fight over Heath's dead body. 
  
• "Clouds stretch endlessly outside the train. But I know Caleb will find a way out eventually."  ooh, metaphor. is this tied to the train sequence in the wedding card? 
  
• I stand up and he asks where I'm going. I tell him we're leaving, to use his Evol - anywhere is fine. and i think - it doesn't matter because tomorrow is the end of the world. 
  
• he pulls me back into the train car. holy shit, did i actually just try to walk off of the gravity train, into the clouds? GIRLFRIEND.
  
• his eyes sweep over my inner arm and his grip tightens around my wrist. "Where did this come from? The chip?" I see his lips moving but I can't hear him - everything is drowned out by a piercing buzz.
  
• "They're here, Caleb. They're coming." 
  
• My body feels lighter and the sweltering heat vanishes into darkness. Pain surges in waves and only a faint straw-like glimmer of light remains, floating on the surface.
  
• i am.. having a whiteout myself. 
  

Chapter 8

• yup! medical bay, as the pain burns me from the inside out. rewired with cold, ruthless precision as if by a scalpel.
  
• something gently pressed to my lips but i bite, tasting metal
  
• when i wake up, i've been restrained to the medical bed.
  
• ... hello, Colonel Xia.  "You need to control your emotions for now." 
  
• yeah, when did you get your memories back, Caleb? at the amusement park, our day caught out of time, snatched forward from our long ago past? or before that, even?  only Caleb's having none of our questions, preferring his.
  
• Caleb removes his gloves and gently rubs my swollen lips with his thumb.  "Don't hurt yourself." ooooh, we're having surgery, are we? to... take the chip out because Caleb won't permit us to have it? 
  
• and we ask, even as our vision blurs, if this is what he's been fighting all this time.
  
• "If telling you the truth means watching you willingly get caught up in this mess... then I would've never shown up in your life again." 
  
• Did you even have that choice, Caleb? 
  
• "I don't understand... they changed you, treat you like a pawn and make you do those awful things. But you belong with me. You're the person I cherish the most.. how could they do this to you!?"
  
• i am never going to side eye any fanfic ever again, this is so overwrought i am in awe. 
  
• you do belong with him girlfriend and he absolutely belongs to you. let's go eat Ever alive, down to the marrow in it's bones.
  
• i slip the restraints and stagger to the med bay door. "No one can take you away from me. I'll bring you to a place where no one can find us." 
  
• they are reflecting mirrors par excellence.
  
• wanna open another Tunnel to a different place to hide? 
  
• darn. no world ending resonance moment. instead i dizzily fall to the floor by the door and Caleb hauls us up by our wrist and drags us back to the medical bed.
  
• (i need these myth cards in my life, i can't handle seeing somebody else as the girlfriend in these cutscenes)
  
• in further news, it's so easy to overlook how large Caleb is until you see him IN a cutscene. hello, colonel gege! what big teeth you have. 
  
• "I want to peel open your heart to see what secrets are hidden within."  don't hold back, sweetheart, tell me how you really feel. 
  
• "What are you accusing me of?"  "You killed my Caleb." 
  
• ouch.
  
• "The Caleb in this uniform... I don't like it."   various clothing gets flung off as she literally tries to peel him open.
  
• i... i am in love with this story. 12/10, no notes.
  
• i am dying because this isn't my story and i can't take a SINGLE PICTURE. THE LOOK ON HIS FACE THIS ENTIRE TIME.
  
• "You're like a sinner who's confessing."  "Then can you carry a little of this sin too? Don't leave me in this loneliness any longer."
  
• OHMYGODSATURNTHISISKILLINGME. ah. ahem. small eek. wow. 
  
• and we collapse again, falling off and away from our frantic attack on him.
  
• Caleb: "It'll be like when we were kids. When you wake up, there won't be a trace of pain or any memory of it left behind." 
  
• 13/10, so many notes
  
• "Behind the glass wall, Liam watches the girl as she lies on the device. The neural scan projection shows a red area spreading from the chip. It indicates that less than 10% of her body is affected by the corrosion."  he says that forcefully dissolving the chip will erase all memories formed after its insertion, and that it could cause 'irreversible' damage to how her brain remembers things, that it could even cause full memory loss. 
  
• Liam notes to himself that he hasn't checked his own modification progress recently as he hasn't lost control of his emotions for a long time. Most of his memories with his wife were erased in the initial struggle. He can't say which is more agonizing - forgetting someone or being forgotten by them.
  

i need two cigarettes and a shot of whiskey.