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~1st Glory~ Smile! You're on Candid Camera (Accidental Video-Audio)

[Varon's MP3 player is blaring through the network playing anything from HIM to Front Line Assembly. It must have gone through seven different songs before it stops. A hand reaches into the darkened space of his pocket and covers the screen.]

Eh? I don't remember this thing.

[Varon's eyes widened with curiosity and blinks a few times. He brings the device in close, his baby blue eye now taking over the screen.]

Looks expensive.

[Then a throaty chuckle.]

Hope no one misses it.

[Then a laugh.]

Wonder who's it is. They'll call for it soon, I bet. Better keep it on an' wait who calls.

[He sets it down on the table and puts his ear buds back in. Even if anyone did call, they'll leave a message that it's theirs, right?]

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You, too? And here I was thinking I was unusual for not having any place I need to return to soon.

And I don't think a more spectacular name would suit the Manor. As spectacular as this place might be in itself, it would be a mistake to announce it like something positive.

[If he was drinking something, he would have nearly choked on it from the sound of what Ryuutaro just said.]

Seriously!? The place is that bad?

[Then a shrug.]

Oh well, gotta make the most of it, I suppose.

It can be quite horrible at times. Most of the time, actually. The Author's sense of humor would best be descriped as twisted.

[And yet he could not help but accept his existence over here quite well. He had Hayato, he had places to see and he did not really want to think about leaving. It was an odd state of mind to be in]

Oh! Sounds like working for my old boss again.

[Flatly, resting his chin in his hand.]

Terrific.

Your old boss? Might I ask what he was like?

[Because maybe they had a lot more in common than it appeared to be]

[A shrug and a disinterested look, he'll answer the question since he's not much for holding anything back.]

You know, the typical megalomaniac that thinks that destroying-the-world-is-the-best-way-to-save-it type. This guy was from Atlantis and said that he was 10,000 years old. I gotta say, he didn't look half bad for a stiff. I gotta admit, he suckered me in to thinking that I was one of the chosen ones to help cleanse the world or some junk like that.

I was used, chewed up and spat out and I'm not going back.

[Ryuutaro blinks. That sounded just a lot like the Dark Nebula, he had been working for, exept a few things like the Atlantis thing.]

I know what you're talking about.

[The end of his career in the organization had been less then graceful after all. But he was not sure he really wanted to talk about it to a stranger. Only Hayato even knew so far. But it had just slipped out, because this aspect of them seemed really similiar]

[With the similarities aside, Varon only gave out what he felt was pertinent at this time to answer the question. Any more would peg him as something far worse than what he appears before Ryuutaro.]

That's good. At least I know I'm not just some misunderstood bloke without a future.

[Best to leave the rest for another time if he can help it.]

He took three of us in.

We were five. Well, the organization in itself was big, but those were the ones I had more contact with.

[He did not count Yuu and Tsubasa. They were... different in some ways. They weren't the ones he had seen getting thrown away, like he did with Tobio, Watarigani, Dan and Reiki. He'd seen them on the ground, helped carrying them away from the fight scene. They were far from being his friends, but that was a sight he would not ever be able to forget.

As for the stories... Well, Tobio and him had been together when it happened.]

But there's always a future. Fate does things for a reason. Moving on does not look easy, but there's always the hand of the future to guide everyone.

[It sounded empty to his own ears. Those words where what he always believed in, his life, his everything. But ever since the Manor, since Fate had let Hayato die, he had been questioning things over and over. At least he could say it rather conveniently now and without hurting too much]

I guess so. I never really banked much on it since I learned at an early age to live day by day.

[He leans back on the couch with his feet propped up on the arm, laying lengthwise on the furniture piece.]

Guess there's no turning back now. I'm here so that means something, right?

It has to.

You see, when you're like me, then that is what you learn first.

[Blink]

You mean, living day by day or not turning back?

No, that things have to mean something. Though I suppose you could word it with no turning back as well.
Living in the past is no use, the future is what is waiting for us.

I get that part. What I don't get is why you're so certain that I'll have a worthy future. You seein' something that I don't see yet?

[After all, he's heard stranger things.]

Not yet, but that could be the case in a little while.

I'm a fortune-teller, you see?

[He shrugs and chuckles.]

If you're gonna predict that I'm gonna get my ass handed to me, that's already happened.

I cannot tell you yet, whatever fate decides to show me.
I just humbly carry the message of it to this world, if people do want me to.

[Underlined with dramatic fan-gesturing, because he can]

When it happens, it happens. Looks like I gotta wait and see.

[Smirk. Yep, he's getting familiar with that fan gesture.]

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