Two-Parter Post!

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EITHER

Inty is in her and Gabriel's bedroom, brushing her hair (it's a novelty! It used to brush itself!). If you're doing something interesting somewhere in the rest of the Cooper house, she might just swing by and poke her nose in. She does that.

OR

Dream post, take three! Come here for dream sequence threads!

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Blush!

"Mine already does," she confides with a grin. "And the other-- he's never met me; he won't love me like concrete people do, nor I him."

Shrug.

"It'll all work out, I think."

And that's some very human optimism for you.

[alwaysroomforhope]

"Things usually do," Steph says, but her tone isn't as firm as it always have been, and there's an explosion in the distance again, silently, and the people from the gas station are screaming. "In the end. I hope."

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Inty stubbornly fails to listen to the screaming.

Sometimes, she's found, when she ignores things, they sulk so much they go away.

Possibly this will work here.

"Quite a bit of the time," she confirms.

[alwaysroomforhope]

"Stuff's really bad," Steph says sadly, sitting down on a bench in the town square of Gotham, looking at the superheated rubble.

"...but it's getting better already, right? We're here, and you found Gabe, and I have my friends, and we're making it better.

"It'll be okay in the end."

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"Everything's okay in the end," says Inty absently; she takes a longer view of ends than most people.

[alwaysroomforhope]

"We'll make it be," Steph says, assured.

"...before we go."

They were only a year in Eden; Sokka says only a little more than that at the apartments. Steph's half convinced they'll never be anywhere for longer than that.

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"The transfers admit of no prediction," says Inty, shrugging.

"But there are none in Kansas, in nor out. Someone made it that way."

[alwaysroomforhope]

"I can't stay in Kansas. I'm..."

Dream-Steph turns to Inty, and looks embarrassed.

"...gonna find out what happened to my daughter. I'm gonna."

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Inty blinks.

"Noble goals," she says softly.

That's almost her way of apologizing for not knowing the answer already.

[alwaysroomforhope]

"Not really." Steph sighs, kicking her feet; the chair is far too big for her, for both of them, Steph's just a little kid.

"...I just hafta know. I hope she's not here. I hope 's not my world. It's horrible."

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Inty hugs her, and--

--lets herself become aware of the answer to that question, if it is available. She wants to be able to reassure Steph, if she can.

[alwaysroomforhope]

Let us say the answer is not available -- perhaps it is that this world and Steph's are so very alike that it's hard to tell? -- but either way, Steph is comforted and reassured by the hug, by physical contact.

"Yeah. I'll come back to Kansas to see you, anyway. I'd miss you otherwise."

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Since becoming human Inty's learned to accept that sometimes things just don't show up until later, if at all.

"I miss you, too."