[She looks to him, head bobbing back as if he'd called her a nasty name.]
Okay, you are going to have to explain so much more about that.
[HOW. but also she groans.]
Yes! I don't know how. Nobody did actually. Every time we went to a new planet, he was just there? Hanging around? Maybe he had his own ship...but anyway, it was very annoying. I tried to tell him Margaret had changed crews so he'd get lost but he wouldn't listen to me.
Or you wouldn't. Really? You? I'm sorry, I really can't put the two of you together at all.
[ yeah, admitting to being vlad SHOULD elicit that reaction ]
So he was around your game, but not actually in it? If anyone could afford his own ship, it would be Vlad. But he wouldn't just hit on any random woman. In fact, he'd only hit on one, and her name isn't Margaret.
Well, Margaret also had short red hair and looked good in a suit, just like that woman in the memory did...in fact, I think he did call her by another name?
Yeah. I try not to think about that part very much. It starts getting...infuriatingly weird.
Why is he interested in her? Because he had a crush on her in college, she married someone else, and he started spiraling in the way that only men with too much power and money can when they're told "no."
No. It's...there once was a Danny and a Vlad. But now that I exist, neither of them do. [ not strictly true, but for simplicity's sake ] In my timeline, there is no Vlad, no Danny, left to have any memories at all. It's just me. Both of them. And neither.
...of course, then I ended up in another timeline where I never came to pass and both Danny and Vlad still exist. They both know what I am.
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Wait, what?
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Who's "him" supposed to be?
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[She waggles her hands in the air in an impotent gesture.]
He was always hanging around wherever we went! And he was always hitting on Margaret!
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[ wait. ]
What do you mean, he was hanging around wherever you went?
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Okay, you are going to have to explain so much more about that.
[HOW. but also she groans.]
Yes! I don't know how. Nobody did actually. Every time we went to a new planet, he was just there? Hanging around? Maybe he had his own ship...but anyway, it was very annoying. I tried to tell him Margaret had changed crews so he'd get lost but he wouldn't listen to me.
Or you wouldn't. Really? You? I'm sorry, I really can't put the two of you together at all.
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So he was around your game, but not actually in it? If anyone could afford his own ship, it would be Vlad. But he wouldn't just hit on any random woman. In fact, he'd only hit on one, and her name isn't Margaret.
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It was really creepy.
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eventually he calms down tho ]
Oh, he thought she was Maddie? That's rich.
Yeah, Maddie was my mom. Also, Vlad was obsessed with her.
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But also remembers something that makes it more awkward and weird.]
Wait. Didn't you say that he was you?
Why...is he interested in your mom....
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Why is he interested in her? Because he had a crush on her in college, she married someone else, and he started spiraling in the way that only men with too much power and money can when they're told "no."
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...of course, then I ended up in another timeline where I never came to pass and both Danny and Vlad still exist. They both know what I am.
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[a beat.]
But for what it's worth? Thank the heavens you don't become him. He sucks. And I think you're pretty all right.
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[ snorts ] I may not become him, but I am partially him. There's always at least a little bit of Vlad's insanity in here.