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

[forevalone]

ikari.shinji@cdc.org
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[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.