INBOX - NHD-C12-KRI-248 - IKARI, SHINJI

[forevalone]

ikari.shinji@cdc.org
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[crouton]

[It may or may not sound like he's covering his mouth halfway, because he is. His face is firmly in his palm. When did he become team dad on this expedition?]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

You meet any new recruits besides me yet?

[forevalone]

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

I have, yes.

_{[These are...sort of random questions but they seem harmless enough.]}

[crouton]

[Dodging the real issue as usual.]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

Those little envelopes they gave us had names in them. Your's was in mine.

[forevalone]

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

Oh. _{[He doesn't exactly recall envelopes but okay. It must be an assignment of some sort then?]} What did it say?

[crouton]

[ok he's just--]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

You got a girl problem, kid?

[forevalone]

[_{[He's got 99 problems and girls are more than one, but not for the same reason John seems to think.]}

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

Um...I don't understand what girls have to do with anything...

[crouton]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

Well. [Scratching his stubble, because this is terrible. Direct approach then--] You been on a date before at all?

[forevalone]

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

No.

[crouton]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

Hoo-boy. Alright kid, you pick the place or rover, I ain't doin' this over the cosmic collect call center.

[forevalone]

_{[What is even happening right now???]}

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

I'm sorry but...I don't understand...

[crouton]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

Look kid, one of the big bosses thinks you need a date, and I'm the jerk they want to give the talk. Why? No idea.

Brand new adventure for both of us, very exciting, highly educational, so let's just get it over with before someone comes to check on you.

Or me.

[forevalone]

_{[He needs more than a date. He needs therapy. He's quiet for a moment as he lets John's words sink in. This...had to be some sort of joke, didn't it? Did the instructors or those higher up think this was funny? The silence stretches on a little longer before he speaks up again, voice quiet and eerily resigned. He'd agreed to weirder, didn't he?]}

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

...May I come to your rover then?

[crouton]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

Works fine for me, Rover 19.

[forevalone]

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

Should I come now?

[crouton]

CALLING: CRICHTON, JOHN

Sooner's better than later, Piglet.

[Before he changes his mind, or someone gets the wrong idea.]

[forevalone]

CALLING: IKARI, SHINJI

I'll be there in ten minutes, then.

DAY 45, shortly after Warriorhead's post

[equivalences]

FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
TO: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Can you get this, Shinji?

[ Just checking if you're still around --

And not a corpse. ]

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Ah, Ed-san? Yes I can?

_{[Not dead! Still alive.]}

[equivalences]

FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org

Okay, that's good.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Is something wrong?

[equivalences]

FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org

There may be something going on. You should be more careful around camp.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shini@cdc.org

Ah, okay. I'll be extra careful.

_{[Paranoia x 10 now.]}

[equivalences]

[ NO SHINJI HE DIDN'T MEAN TO ]

FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org

Were you at the paintball game?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

No. I was too scared to go.

[equivalences]

FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org

Everyone got waaay too serious, so maybe you dodged a bullet with that. [ pun not intended. ]