Room 504, Monday Morning Before Third Period

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Ino, getting back from Tyler-sensei’s office, and quite content with the glitter she’d gotten in her hair (it had been on her hands, and therefore... well, had migrated to her hair quite easily and maybe on purpose).

Leaving the door open, she flopped down on her bed and set about writing a letter to her dad that detailed just what she’d gotten up to this weekend, and how Liir had the worst taste ever in boys.

Seriously. Ugh.

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He made a face at her. "Why?" he asked petulantly, but there was just enough lightness to his tone to suggest that it was nothing more than an attempt to start up the usual banter.

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"Because I said so," she informed him. "And I have candy I might be persuaded to share."

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"Chad brought me candy," he said, but he pushed away from the door to go take a seat on the ground beside her bed.

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"Fine then," she said with a sniff. "If you don't want any, then I won't share."

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"That'd be selfish," he pointed out and he leaned his back against the side of her bed.

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"I offered," she reminded him. "And you said you'd already got some."

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"Fine," he relented, apparently not too bothered to insist. "So where did you go?"

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"Thought you didn't care," she observed lightly.

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He shot her a look over her shoulder. "Just asking."

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Ino met his look with one right back. He was the one that was coming in here and saying she'd been avoiding him.

"Went to Liir's world," she said eventually. "To try and see if there's a way to stop his dad from dying in a different timeline."

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That wasn't the answer he'd been expecting, though, he didn't know which one he'd been expecting. "Did you?"

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"Don't know," she said, tugging at her hair absently. "Found out more information 'bout the circumstances it happened in, but..."

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That was his job.

"Nothing specific?"

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Then he'd best get off the floor so he could do it!

Another shrug. "Nothing really, I mean, not that I saw." Ino sighed. "Want to know my personal theory anyway?"

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He was trying not to look all eager and pathetic!

He glanced at the closet and nodded. "Sure."

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So she was going to wriggle around so she could tug his hair gently. "My personal theory is that it's all pointless," Ino said.

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"Hrm," he tilted his head into the touch, far enough to look back at her. "Why do you say that?"

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"'Cause, see, different timelines, right? Like you and Chad?" Ino said, wrinkling her nose thoughtfully. "So, what happened in Liir's timeline doesn't have to happen in his dad's timeline--'cause his dad is currently here at Fandom, and so the timeline is already changing and being different from what Liir lived through."

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He frowned, not sure if he was getting all of that and he thought the brain breaking wouldn't happen until he actually got into Sam Carter's classroom. "But Chad and I are still going through the same experiences. There is enough common ground, wouldn't you want to make sure?"

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"Make sure, that's fine," she said, resting her head in her arms. "But, from what Liir's told me, his dad would've died the night he got here--only the door he opening, rather than into his apartment, sent him here."

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"Huh," he considered it for a moment. "So I'm guessing it wasn't an accident?"

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"Murder," she nodded. "And, obviously, I'm not saying that if he went back it's not entirely possible that he'd be murdered again, just in a different way--but I'd guess that the way he originally died is rather invalid by now, considering everything."

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"Maybe, but it sounds like knowing what happened can be important," he shrugged.

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"We know that," she pointed out. "But, you know, time passing generally means that the people who were going to kill him the night he got here aren't likely to still be waiting there whenever he goes back."

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"A hollow might," he said idly, not sure why he was saying it. "Sometimes they go back to the same places."