Something?

Lochlan walks into the livingroom and sits by the corner. She wears her jacket zipped up and one ear is now folded

She nolonger has any make up on her face

Luna looks nervous about the 30 text messages for some reason, "Oh? Viper's so cool. I'm so glad Lochlan got us together.'

Spider quirks an eyebrow running a hand over their blanket again, it seems she likes the texture "that's a bit much though" 

Lochlan snickers, "You two still owe me."

Cole sighs, "It's pretty typical for Viper, and she was blabbering about certain people" Cole gives a glance to Luna

Spider chuckles "and you think she was worried about you?"

Luna blushes a deep scarlet and goes silent.

Cole snickers, "Well half of them were questioning where i was and the other half were gibberish lovey dovey texts"

lochlan smiles

Luna sinks further and further into herself, still just completely unsure how to cope with these feelings.

Hinata walks into the living room and sits on the couch next to Luna. "Yo peeps!"

Cole snickers quietly as he waves to Hinata, "Hello"

lochlan waves

"Something up Cole?" Hinata waves to Lochlan, Spider, and Cole, though curious about the sudden good moods.

"I can't deal with two of you so don't ask" Spider shoots Luna a good natured glare

Luna smiles back and giggles

Cole chuckles as he playfully rolls his eyes, "You act like i'm the worst person ever"

"Anyway, I went to see Viper last night. She helped me a lot with... you know, trying to process things. She told me to take a day off and it helped a lot." Luna mentions.

Cole smiles as he responds, "I'm glad that she could help you with that, a break from work is always a good thing"

"She got me to realize how... I guess I never took the moment to mourn our losses. I'm still struggling to comprehend everything." Luna sighs and leans into Hinata, who puts her hand onto her shoulder to rub it.

Cole nods solemnly, "I don't really have that much experience with grief but mourning is always a good thing"

"Aren't you like 200 years old? Wouldn't you be the most experienced in greif in particular?"

"Ain't Cole closer to 300?" Hinata asks

Cole slowly looks over at Lochlan, "I'm more experienced in giving people grief, than experiencing it myself"

Lochlan nods, 'Yeah but haven't you ever fallen in love yet? Lost a loved one? Would be interesting to know how to cope with that."

Luna leans in further into Hinata. Hinata shakes her head.

"..you don't" Spider speaks quietly sinking further into her chair

Cole's eyes flicker pink for a second then back to hazel as he speaks with a flat tone, "we're moving on from this topic"

Lochlan continues, "I need to know to get over..." Lochlan nods her head side to side, "You know."

Luna finally gets the courage to ask, "You... know? Which you know do you mean?"

Cole stares at Lochlan as he goes quiet

Lochlan looks nervously to the ground, "I mean... I may still need to break up with him... like officially."

Spider just shakes her head and gets up muttering something under her breath. Leaving the blanket behind she heads for the hallway.

Hinata just feels really uncomfortable during this conversation, so she stays completely silent. Luna isn't faring much better.

Cole sighs as he shakes his head, "Who?!"

Lochlan looks confused, "Mailman! You already know who!"

Luna looks over at Cole in confusion, "wait, Mailman???"

Cole groans and nods, "He mentioned it when I was at the cult" Cole looks over at lochlan, "Have you considered just not going back since he's a fuckin asshole"

Lochlan huffs, "I know but I feel like thats something you need to tell another person of youre breaking up. Especially considering I've ran away like this plenty of times before."

"You don't think he's gonna come looking for ya? We're not gonna let some dude mess with ya if he comes here." Luna nods.

"Damn right." Hinata nods intently.

Lochlan shakes her head, "I doubt it. He's probably just expecting me to return any day now."

Cole shrugs, "Then don't? He'll eventually get the picture"

Luna and Hinata both nod in agreement.

Lochaln looks worried and folds her arms.

Cole shrugs, "I see no issue with this plan"

Lochlan speaks a bit quietly, "Easy for you all to say. You haven't seen him when he's upset."

"Correction, I haven't seen him at all. And what the heck kinda name is Mailman anyway?" Luna responds.

Hinata chuckles, "Talk about loving your job so much that it's your entire identity." 

Cole rolls his eyes, "And he hasn't seen me protecting a place"

"It's just the name he goes by. And I know but he's still a bit scary." Lochlan nervously fidgets.

"Alright, well if he ever decides to show his face here somehow, then he'll have to go through us first." Luna grins.

"Besides, he'd need to find a way here. I would say that's nearly impossible, but Rowan does it no problem," Hinata groans.

Cole mentions as he puts his hands in his pockets, "Not to mention i'd know if he decides to show up in a vehicle, or fly over the house"

Lochlan's hands begin to shake slightly, "I just don't know how he's going to react when he figures it out."

"Besides, what does Mailman look like anyway?" Luna asks the obvious.

Hinata shrugs then turns to Lochlan noticing her nervousness, "And Lochlan, we don't either. I'd like to think he'd be reasonable? Right now we're making a bunch of assumptions and preparing for the worst, but just be hopeful that he'll understand. Maybe he'll be happy that you were able to escape the cult."

Cole nods along with Hinata, agreeing with what she's saying

"He is part of it. Always trying to convince me to stay and threatening me with all would happen if I acted out infront of him."

"What the hell?" It sounds terrible to Luna, but she's scrambling to figure out if Mailman was protecting her somehow, not that she has any evidence of such.

"What would happen if you escaped? Like no offense Lochlan, but that sounds like textbook manipulation to me."

Lochlan begins to vissably tremble more as she tries to collect her thoughts. She stands up and abruptly speaks up, "Goodnight! Sleep well- I'm uh. Goodnight." Lochlan briskly goes to leave the room

Luna sighs, "I don't blame her."

Cole shakes his head as he sighs

"Considering they haven't done anything yet, it's gotta be bunk. What do we do though? We don't even know what he looks like right?" Hinata looks over at Cole and Luna.

Luna shakes her head, "I mean just because he was one way last timeline doesn't mean he's like that this timeline. Everything's fucky anymore."

Cole shakes his head, "I know what he looked like and i registered it with the cameras in the area around the house so i'll get alerted if he pops up"

Hinata nods and gives him a thumbs up, "Right on Cole, you're the best."

Cole mentions casually, "By the way he's a human" 

"Huh. That doesn't really surprise me, though here I was hoping if he popped up this time around, he'd be like a cougar or something cool." Luna shrugs.

"Cougars are cool. Wait, hang on. Does this 'human' by chance wear all black? Like what y'all wear when you go to nonferal earth?"

Luna snaps her fingers, "ya know, that would explain why they would hide their identity. It's an assumption of course."

Cole nods, "I usually wear a gas mask, he wore a motorcycle helmet"

"Isn't that what Spider wears? She always goes in all black because... british and edgy, and she has that motorcycle helmet too."

Cole snickers quietly as he nods, "Yeah, if i had to guess"

Luna nods, "alright, well that's a little bit better. We at least have some kind of knowledge of who this Mailman is."

Cole nods, "It's good to know what the description of a prick is before they show up"

"Now we're just jinxing shit," Hinata giggles, "though if he does, he gets to answer to the four of us."

Cole chuckles, "That is true, also do you still want context as to why people were laughing earlier?"

Luna and Hinata both respond with "Please." at the same time.

Cole snickers as he pulls his phone out, "Hold on i gotta make sure i'm quoting this correctly" he taps then scrolls for a little bit then snickers as he quotes, "I just gave one of the girls from that cute couple the card that had my phone number and address on it, i'm so glad that i didn't melt into a puddle"

Luna raises an eyebrow, "wait does Viper not know my name? I thought she did."