Harmonia's in her room building a Lego set, when Drew knocks on the door.
"Come in!" she calls. Drew steps into the room, offering out 999. "Thanks," she gets up and takes him.
"No problem. What Lego set do you have there?" Drew asks.
"Hogwarts,, Spider got it for me. Wanna join?"
"Sure, I'll help out," Drew sits down on the floor. Harmonia smiles and joins him, putting 999 in her lap.
"I always wanted this set when I was younger but my family could never afford it. How did Spider manage to find it?" he asks, trying to find the next few peices.
"The Walmart, probably," Harmonia shrugs, "Wanna know something stupid?"
"I swear there's something not right about that WalMart. And sure."
"Probably not," she laughs a little, "So when I was a little kid I made up a whole fantasy about how my dad was some secret superhero that had to leave in order to protect me and defeat this big bad villain. That he would come back once the big bad was defeated. I even gave him a name! Uhhh what was it..." she pauses as she tries to remember, "Jean-man! Cause in the picture I had of him, he wears this ugly ass denim jacket and jeans, right. Anyways, his nemisis was the evil Doctor Horn who hated happiness and wanted to take over the world." she laughs a little but it trails off, "Sorry I just uh... thought of that for some reason."
"You don't talk about your parents much, do you?"
"Not really... sorry- didn't mean to start venting-" Harmonia laughs nervously, avoiding eye contact.
"It's fine, I don't talk about my family either. Its been ten years for me, apparently, but I still can't do it."
"Yeah..." Harmonia sighs in relief, "Do you.. do you think this world would be considered a waste world now?"
"I guess technically it would be, but at least it has a good chance of recovering if we can stop Abaddon. Not like my world."
"I see..." she feels the desire for knowledge poking at her, but supresses it, not wanting to ask about his past since he didnt seem to want to talk about it, "Do you have a favorite color?"
"Bright lime green," Drew said, smiling, "I always wanted a Kawasaki Ninja in that color. It's a kind of motorcycle in case you weren't familiar."
"I wasn't, thank you," Harmonia says then swears when she realizes she accidentally stuck a thin lego where it shouldnt go. She tries to pry it off with her nail but seems to have trouble, "Little bitch-' she whispers, attempting to bite it off like a lunatic.
"Here, let me see if I can get it," he holds his hand out.
"Sorry for putting it in my mouth-" she wipes it off on her shirt before handing it to him. He takes it and says,
"I swear you're just like..." and stops suddenly, with tears starting to well up in his eyes.
"Im sorry I didnt mean to bring up anything-" Harmonia pauses.
"No, its just..." He clears his throat and wipes his eyes. "I had a daughter. She'd be just shy of fourteen now if things had gone differently. This just reminds me of doing stuff with her, that's all." He laughs. "I haven't thought of that in years now."
"Yeah.. I know.. I know it's not the same but.. I used to imagine playing Legos with my dad.. and.. I know sorry doesn't do anything, but... I'm sure you were an amazing dad to her..."
"I tried to be. And I'm sure wherever your dad is he thinks about you every day and wishes he was here in my place."
"Thanks but..." Harmonia smiles, "I dont think he does... hell, he never even met me. My sister... sorry I shouldnt get into my bagagge-"
"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, hell this is the most I've talked to any one person about my life before I became a multiverse wandering helper. Unless you count my journal," He adds, like its a joke.
"Thats understandable... I don't mind talking if you dont mind listening.."
"As long as you're comfortable talking about it, I don't mind."
"So uh... I have an older sister. Kind of. She died when my mom was pregnant with me... Losing her... it destroyed whatever semblence of family my parents had. My dad... Brian. Brian left, and my mom moved in with my grandma. She only stayed around 'til I was old enough to be off of breast milk then she left too. She visited over the years but uh... she never looked me in the eyes. Not really anyways. When she looked at me she didnt see me. She saw my sister. So my grandma was all I had. Guess thats my sob story."
"Yikes, I'm sorry that that's what you went through." He continues building the castle. "My wife and daughter died during the Swine Flu epidemic of 2012. I was in charge of a project that scanned the multiverse for a world that cured it, but I modified the project to be able to pull specific people through to my world. I bet you can guess where I went with that power. But what I didn't expect was that they would bring through their own diseases with them, which mutated with ours and created a super bug that killed nearly 6.5 billion people in my world and the same in theirs." He stops, clenching his fists. "And the dopplegangers of my wife and daughter just got sick from our diseases and died anyway, so it was all for nothing." His hands start bleeding because of how hard he is clenching his fists as he trails off looking at the wall, tears filling his eyes again. Finally, softly, he says "I lost them twice." Harmonia watches him, tearing up a little. She opens her arms to Drew, offering a hug. Harmonia knows that nothing she can say would fix it, but she hopes that she can offer the tiniest bit of comfort. Drew accepts the hug, shaking while holding back sobs. She hugs him tightly, trying her best to be there for Drew. Drew pulls away, wiping his eyes. "I'm sorry for trauma dumping like that."
“No its okay,, I don't mind. Plus, I was too. I'm here if you ever need anything. You don't always have to be strong, y'know?” Harmonia smiles reassuringly.
"Trust me, if I really was as strong as I pretend to be, I wouldn't be here today." Drew says, trying to make a joke.
“Still… Yknow what I mean. Do you wanna continue legos? I understand if not.” Harmonia laughs a little.
"Yeah, that would be nice," Drew says. Harm smiles, then starts to go back to Legos, before noticing Drew's bloody hands.
“Oh shoot, want me to go grab some bandages?” she asks.
Drew looks down at his hands. "Oh. Yeah, that's probably a good idea. I have some bandages in my bag." He reaches into the bag and pulls out a roll of bandages.
"Need help?" she offers to bandage his hands.
"Yeah, its hard to bandage your own hands." He laughs again.
"Boy do I know it," she takes the bandages and starts wrapping his hands. Shes a bit slower, still learning.
"Thanks," Drew says as she finishes, clenching his fists a few times. "Its not bad considering you're not a doctor."
"Thanks... Started trying to learn when.." she takes off the glove on her right hand, showing her branding, "Been doing everything to hide it. Last thing I want is someone thinking I'm with him. And I don't like thinking about Abaddon anyways."
"Would you like a pair of gloves to cover that up? I have some in my bag."
"Nah I'm good. Got my trusty fingerless gloves!" she puts it back on. They look like gloves from a ziplining or high ropes course place, so the palms are padded. Terminal rapidly knocks on the door. Harmonia perks up and gets up, going to the door and opening it.
"What's up?" she asks. Terminal has a worried expression as he pushes past Harmonia and heads to the closet. "Um- November? whats wrong?" she seems nervous and follows, trying to see what he's doing. Terminal begins searching the floor of her closet without opening any boxes.
"Just, uhhh, looking for a thing," he says.
"Oh um- can I help?" she tilts her head.
"Er uhhhh, if you see something like a dark red circle.." he trails off as he keeps searching
"Alright," Harmonia looks as well.
"Fuck, it's not here either.." Terminal leaves the room. Harmonia goes back to Legos with Drew, yawning as she builds.
Drew stands up and stretches. "I should get going, but this was a lot of fun. Thank you for inviting me."
"Of course,,, we should do this again sometime. Oh and also-" she hands him 999, though somewhat reluctantly.
"Hold on," Drew says, taking 999 back. He whispers to him, and a part splits off. He offers the second, smaller Squishy to her. "Here, I want you to have this."
"Thank you,, I shouldn't hold him for long period of time though, right?" she takes him, smiling.
"Yeah, and Never EVER feed him soda under any circumstances." Drew laughs at the memory. "He goes absolutely batty. Remind me to send you the video sometime."
"Alright! I'll have to get him a bed, like a catbed or something." She laughs and pokes 999, "Thank you.."
"No problem. Now I should get home before I pass out in your hallway again." He stretches again. "Also, could you not tell anyone about the stuff I said? I'm still not ready to share that with everyone."
"I wont. Don't worry," she offers him a reassuring smile and does a motion like shes zipping her lips and throwing away the key, "My lips are sealed."
"Anyway, have a good night, kid." Drew says, and disappears.