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J,GOB [July 9, Afternoon]

Hurley had a whole plan. He'd gotten out of Santa Rosa about two weeks ago, and discovered that the weird relative time thing meant he could still make Hoshi's birthday. He booked a portal, all ready for a surprise visit.

Of course, when he got here and called her and got no answer, that kinda sucked. When he checked the recent radion podcasts, well... that explained why there was no answer. Just his luck, really.

So Hurley sat in J,GOB, idly munching on a bear claw. He put out a few other ~~handwavy~~ calls to his friends, letting him know he was around today. That'd be cool. Just... not as cool as seeing Hoshi for the first time in months.

[ooc: Open post! If you think Hurley would have called you, he did.]

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"Hey, Hurley!" Hannibal said, wandering in sometime after getting that call. "Welcome back! How's it going, man? Hanging in there?"

"Doin' pretty good, dude," Hurley said with a smile. "I think I hit the lemonade stage, you know? Like, when life gives you lemons and stuff."

"When life gives me lemons, I throw 'em at people," he said, reaching a hand out for a shake. "You look good. All in one piece. Feel all right?"

"I'll try to do that next time," Hurley said, shaking Hannibal's hand. "I feel good. Or at least, like, a lot better. And being back here, if just for a day... it's pretty awesome. How've you been?"

"Not bad not bad," Hannibal said, flopping down across from Hurley. "Working at the bar, working on my tan, that kinda thing. Still have no idea what I'm doing when I gotta leave."

"Man, I wish I had it that easy," Hurley said, grinning. "I'm back at Mr. Cluck's on Monday. Plus I've got this weird thing where time back home is going way faster than it is here. It totally sucks."

"How much faster?" Hannibal asked. "I don't see any grey hairs so it can't be that bad yet."

"It's only, like, a few months now," Hurley said. "But if it keeps up like this, I'm gonna be thirty by the time Hoshi's done with college or something."

"Maybe it'll slow down?" Hannibal said, shrugging. "I know nothing about time skips like that. And hey, older man, younger girl. That's the dream."

"Yeah, but living ten years only seeing my girlfriend every couple months or something?" Hurley said. "That's, like, a nightmare. With evil clowns."

"Yeah, that's the bad part," he agreed with a nod. "Could she come visit you?"

"I should just get her to move to my universe," Hurley joked. "But I don't think she'd go for that. like, at all."

"Why not?" Hannibal wondered. "Just not her sort of thing?"

"It's a lot different than the future, I'm guessing," Hurley said. "Plus she's got that whole school in the Amazon thing that's totally cool going on."

"You guys gonna keep up the long distance stuff?" Hannibal asked curiously. "That going okay?"

"I... dunno," Hurley said. "I was gonna maybe talk about that today, but she's a bird."

That so sucked.

"She's a..." Hannibal raised an eyebrow. "Well, that's really inconvenient, isn't it? Wow, that's some bad luck."

"Heh, yeah," Hurley said. "I mean, I couldn't have worse luck if I tried."

Oh, what little he knew.

"But hey, I still get to see other people today, so that's cool."

Raven was pleased to receive Hurley's call and hurried down to J,GOB -- after making a stop to pick up tweetiebird!Hoshi. Even if she was trapped in bird form, she would want to see Hurley, she had decided. But just in case Hoshi decided to become girl-shaped while they were there, Raven had worn her cloak despite the heat.

"Hurley, it is good to see you," she said, gently setting Hoshi down on a table before moving to hug him.

"Nice to see you too," Hurley said, hugging her happily. "Is that... that's not her, is it?"

"Yes," Raven said sadly, letting Hoshi hop into her hand so she could hold her up to Hurley once she was done hugging him. "I am certain she is upset that she cannot speak to you, but she is still happy you are here." Reading bird emotions was a little more difficult than humans.

"Next time I'll try to check the podcasts before I book a portal," Hurley said, a little melancholy. But he smiled, all the same. "Thanks for bringing her out with you, Raven. How've you been?"

"The past few days have been difficult," Raven admitted, her expression saddening. "But I am doing my best to work past it, with the help of my friends."

"That's the way to do it," Hurley said. "Sorry to hear stuff has sucked, though. Anything I can do? Err, I'm only in town today, though."

"Just visiting with you is a good distraction," Raven said, smiling again. "It helps me not to dwell. But how have you been? Are you well?"

"I'm doing a lot better," Hurley said. "And I'm out of Santa Rosa, now. It was nice, a big help, but... don't really ever want to go back, you know?"

Raven nodded as Hoshi hopped up to her shoulder and cheeped at Hurley. "I am glad it was helpful to you, at least," she said. "Is there anything I can do to help you as well?"

Hurley chuckled. "I'm okay. Probably could've used your help right after the accident, but... I'm cool now. So, like... I probably shouldn't ask what happened if you don't want to dwell, right?"

He was doing his best to keep his attention on Raven, even if he kept getting distracted by giving little sad, lovelorn looks at the bird.

Hoshi flapped her wee wings and fluttered over to Hurley's shoulder. Cheep, cheep.¹

"It is all right to ask," Raven said gently. "But before I explain, I must tell you one thing that I do not think you know. I am half-demon, on my father's side."

After Trigon had made an appearance in Fandom, she'd given up trying to keep her heritage a secret, but she still didn't go around announcing it.

¹ "Stupid Fandom."

"It's okay," Hurley said, giving her a smile of 'I have no idea what actually to say'. "My dad kinda sucks, too."

That was such a Hurley thing to say, Raven couldn't help but give him a sad smile. "My father wishes to conquer this world, and we made an attempt to stop him this week. It did not go as planned, and while we were ultimately successful, for now at least, it was not without cost. My mother has been lost."

"Like, probably on a desert island somewhere lost, or..." He trailed off, not really wanting to say what the other option seemed to be.

"I'm really sorry, Raven."

"I know," Raven said quietly. "It has been a difficult few days. But I do not wish to depress you. What has brought you to Fandom today? Just to visit?"

"Well, it is Hoshi's birthday," Hurley said. "And I was gonna, like, surprise her and stuff. Now that I'm out of Santa Rosa. But that didn't work out so good."

Ino was tired and moody but none of that showed as she wandered in, sometime after getting Hurley's call--no need to rush, right, he was on the island and she just... wasn't in the mood to hurry.

She didn't have to be.

Ino offered him a smile. "Hey, you."

"Hey, told you I'd be back," Hurley said, giving her a smile. He kinda expected that wouldn't go over too well, but he had to say it.

Her eyebrows arched.

That was how he wanted to play it? Fine then.

"You're late," she said severely. Well, tried to. It was good to see him back. So she wasn't glaring too hard.

"You're telling me," Hurley said. "It's already September back home. time is getting really weird on me."

"Just time?" she asked, eyebrows raising further. "Though that's pretty weird. Ain't time normally pretty stable with it's differences?"

Hurley shrugged. "I kinda didn't even notice, until I started getting e-mails. Things were kinda intense. But not, like... invasion intense. Just kinda sucked."

"I got some of that," she said, nodding. "That it wasn't great. Wanna talk?"

Because talking about his issues beat talking about hers.

"I kinda," Hurley wasn't sure how to talk about this. "I mean, like, part of the whole thing in Santa Rosa was making sure I don't blame myself for what happened. But, uhhh. There was this party. And I went out on this deck and it broke and two people died."

And even if he'd learned to stop blaming himself, it still sucked to talk about.

She let her breath out in a sigh and didn't tell him it wasn't his fault.

"All right," Ino said. "I can see that sucking. Seriously sucking. But you're--alright, a bit? Not--hurt or nothing?"

Not just physically, no.

"Yeah, I mean, I was a little bruised but I was okay," Hurley said. "I'm... I'm better know. Never knew how much I... I mean, I'm not crazy. But I wasn't exactly well for a bit, there. But Dr. Brooks helped me through a lot of it."

He gave a little smile. "And now I'm back to being out and normal and stuff."

She gave him an equally small smile.

"Normal is relative here," she pointed out. "But I'm glad you're feeling better."

Hurley nodded. "So how much have I missed? Anything cool?"

Her lips tightened before she forced a realistic looking smile.

"Zack and I went official."

That, at least, was good news.

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