The One With No Good-Byes [Video]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[The boys are standing in front of a Barge-normal door. You know what that means kids...]

Our warden flew the coop.

[Scrad announces flatly. Charlie sarcastically adds:]

Big surprise.

[Actually, it is. They liked Drake; thought he was an okay guy. Trusted him, kinda. Almost. This hurts.

Don't expect them to admit that, though.]

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[sharpsuitfluffytail]

...You mean that's a thing that happens around here? Just random disappearances?

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[twoheadsofcabbage]

Yup.

[Scrad confirms.]

Can't count on anybody but yourself.

[Charlie suggests.]

But what else is new?

[Scrad concludes, rhetorically.]

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[sharpsuitfluffytail]

[Oh, right, two-headed people. That's another Thing around here. Switches on video as well because, well, why the fuck not.]

Very true. At least some things never change?

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[twoheadsofcabbage]

[Just the one thing: them.]

Yeah, it's always comforting to get screwed.

[Charlie snarks.]

[most_feared]

He's gone altogether? [There's something a little distracted and distant there.]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Sure looks like it.

[Scrad mutters. He's aiming for who cares. He's getting there, but you may be able to tell that he's aiming.]

[most_feared]

[He can tell he's aiming. But Kay is in the crowd that does care, and is a little emotionally stunted.]

Oh.

[That same sort of weird distracted, uneasy tone. He's feeling some fail!father now, so that's probably the most he's going to say. This is the worst he's felt since he tried to start socializing again.]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

'Oh.'

[Charlie repeats, stretching out the word disrespectfully.]

That's really helpful.

[Scrad says.]

[most_feared]

[He almost says he's not trying to be helpful but... he's really not up to opening up emotionally to Charlie or Scrad. He really needs to get started working on Crane now.]

[ichoosefight]

Did he say goodbye?

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Whaddayou think, Blondie?

[Charlie answers.]

[ichoosefight]

Then I don't think he meant to go. I know it doesn't really help, but sometimes that happens.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Pfft. Whatever. We don't care.

[Scrad insists.]

Always knew he would.

[Charlie adds.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Ah.

[Narvin is also emotionally stunted. But at least Drake graduated so Narvin can be fairly confident that when the Barge punted him off at least he's alive back in his world. Still, Drake was his first successfully graduated inmate and now he's gone.]

You had reason to think he would leave?

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Obviously.

[Scrad says. Charlie hooks a thumb at themself.]

Yo.

[They are a great reason to leave. Totally hopeless. Get out while you still can, everyone.]

[timesbureaucrat]

You do realize his best friend was Arthas, don't you? Someone like you was hardly going to scare him away.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Who said anything about scaring him.

[Scrad says. They push people away through sucking.]

[buywithme]

A lot of the time, when people leave here, they don't have any control over it, as far as we know?

Sometimes they vanish, and come back with memories missing, and sometimes they begin to remember you again, and sometimes they don't.

[COMFORT, THY NAME IS PREFECT.]

The point is, normally, I think when someone leaves without saying goodbye, that means they didn't plan on leaving.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Or they just didn't plan on telling anybody.

[Charlie suggests, pessimistically.]

[buywithme]

Drake is very emotional though, and chatty, and kind of clingy to be honest, Comrade. I think if he knew he was leaving he would have wanted his departure to be dramatic and full of lengthy acknowledgments that he would be missed.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Yeah, well: we won't.

[Scrad insists.

Untrue.]

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[darknessb4me]

What?

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[darknessb4me]

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[darknessb4me]

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[darknessb4me]

You're sure?

[It's pretty much a rhetorical question.]