that nemesis trailer though

[boulders]

You've been really slacking on keeping up. Now all of a sudden you see a couple of trailers and come back?

Look, I'm... flattered? [ He barely gets out the word without letting out a dry laugh. ] I guess, that you remember me, but I don't like it. I don't like that she's gonna to be put through that again and that I'm not gonna to be there for her. It's... I just don't like it. Don't get any ideas of picking up anyone else either. That won't help anything.

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[torsion]

...how about we don't talk about this, yeah?

[ Look at how small she is. And not like she was in STARS, either. ]

[boulders]

And miss out on all the fun?

[ He's teasing her, but it's no joke that they really have a knack for downsizing. Chris is a walking example of drastic makeovers over literal years in the making. Plus, he'd bet money that Mini Jill could still take him in a fight. ]

[torsion]

Oh, that what it is? I can't say it was a good time, but you know how things were. I didn't expect it to get that bad -- and you saved my ass getting Barry to come pick me up, to boot.

[ Jill feels his changes were natural. It was time and effort, some of which was for her. She can't possibly dislike that. Herself, though... well, she'd never looked like that. Never that small or with a nose like that. Hair, though? Well, that's how it is some days.

...Carlos used to be so cute, though. ]

Prefer my fun to be a little more low-key with you, usually.

[boulders]

It's not always ideal. Don't think any of us did. The Arklay Mountains was supposed to be it. Never thought it'd be all over Raccoon and...

[ He stops feeling his emotions start to build up. The years may have passed but the feelings are still there – buried deep until something pokes at them to come out. He exhales sharply through his nose managing to keep those emotions just under the surface. ]

Shouldn't have left you and Claire.

[ Barry though. ] Had to do something. I would have kicked his ass if he didn't. [ The past is the past, but he seriously could have decked him at the time after the Mansion Incident. ]

That's the best kind of fun, isn't it.

[torsion]

Don't think either of us expected to be working against it still twenty years later -- not that there's anywhere else I'd want to be.

[ There was anger and vengeance, but what still hit her was the loss. And the possibilities of it. That they both were still here was more than she could ever ask for. The only thing she wanted, if she had to be pressed for it. ]

We had a plan and it was sound at the time. You couldn't have known Claire was going to decide now was the time to look for you or that she couldn't get in contact with myself or Barry either. We couldn't have known Raccoon would've went the way it did. Beside that, who was to say where you went would be any safer? It was all a roll of the dice.

[ But Jill is softer about all of it, fond despite how horrible it all had been to experience. Watching hope drain. She was quicker to forgive Barry, but only because she would've done the same in his predicament. ]

Well, we got that at least.