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Her Halloween costume was subtle, just a shift in clothing really. Her mother's costume, from an unfortunate time known as the Dark Phoenix arc...

She hasn't even noticed.

So, venturing inside from the lake, stray flames still licking in her hair, Rachel sits carefully at the Bar and is giving a black folder and her usual cup of broth. Full of numbers apparently...

Yes, she's completely and utterly lost, maybe the numbers make sense sideways or something...

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Somewhere across the room, there is choking, and coughing, and maybe sputtering.

And staring.

Yep.

But, remembering what day this is, a slender mental probe slides her way... tentatively poking to see if this is who it looks like and the Bar has just acquired a new Doom.

There is little doom, there is shielding though. Heavy and absolute, flame licked and brilliant because leaking a Bright Shiner's energy over Bar would be bad...

She does look up though, emerald eyes burning in curiousity.

::You know, there aer better ways to say hello:: she teased.

Relief washes over him and he smiles and makes his way across the room.

::Bar is up to her suaual tricks.::

He acquires a mirror as he goes. He hands it to Rachel when he arrives at her side.

::I just wanted to be sure...last time I met her, on Earth 736, it didnt go well.::

Love and warmth and acceptance lap from him around her.

Rachel barely glanced at the mirror, what point was there really? She did glance down at her arms and chuckle "She fixed my outfit..." she noted, for what she'd been wearing before her entrance had been cut in three places.

It was a darker, black laced red though. She noted that. Not too different from standard fair ::I don't look like her::

Then she grinned and ruffled his hair "First day officially back in and I'm drowning in numbers::

[Sorries, been running and out]

He grinned at her and poked gently in response to the hair ruffling. He raised an eyebrow.

"Drowning in numbers? What do they measure?"

Numbers usually meant lives to Nathan, well, mostly when he was Cable.

(No Worries. I have been out a few times myself. Wheeeeee!)

"I don't know?" she offered, sliding the folder towards him slightly. It seemed to be rows upon rows of bank account numbers and acess codes.

Which was a good reason Rachel had no idea what they were.

He blinks at them.

"No notes anywhere on what it is supposed to be for?"

He eyes Bar.

"What is she up to this time..."

Then he grins.

"It is good to see you, Rachel. Very good."

"She's not up to anything. I brought this back with me" she noted quietly, flipping pages. So many pages...

"And people keep saying that..." she mused, poking him again. "Good news is I'm not leaving again"

"Where did you get it?"

Then he grins.

"That is because you are loved, little sister."

He raises an eyebrow.

"At all?"

Worry colored his mood now.

"I...won it. The right to it anyway" she semi-explained. She hadn't been back long enough for all the recent events to settle truly in her mind.

"And...no. I want to stay, I've finished with what is needed beyond...so unless others here need my help....I'm home"

He nods.

"Good, because I have missed you."

A flicker of that passes across his face, then he smiles.

"Can I get you anything? Animal Crackers?"

He pulled one out of the air.

Rachel obligingly took the cracker, then set it to floating in her mug of broth. Mmmm, crackers and nutrient broth.

"I think I'm getting my own room by the way...It's time."

He blinks and looks at her.

"I would say about time and past, but... I have rather enjoyed having you around."

When you were here...

His shields tighten slightly and he nods.

"Going to have a roomwarming?"

"I've just seen so many things..." she sighed quietly. She just needed...

It didn't matter. Her shields were tighter than all but one person she knew of.

"No. I don't think so. It'll be...mine. Quiet, peaceful, untainted...? by other psyches..."

He nods.

"I hope it gives you what you need, Rachel."

He smiles faintly, then pokes her again.

"It is good to have you home again..."

His grin is wide, and the relief undiluted.

"It might, it just might..." the sound was far below a whisper, and sadder than it should be.

"Has life benn treating you well? How's your lady friend?"

He quirked an eyebrow at her. A quiet tendril of thought reached out to touch her.

::Someday, if you are ever willing or ready, I will be there, to help if I can::

Then he went on aloud.

"Things are chaotic back oin Earth, but, things are as well as can be with me. And Alice is wonderful."

His eyes almost glow with that sentiment as well.

::It's in my hands...:: and she knows how to be whole. She was shown...she simply cannot have it happen here. ::I'll be alright::

"Glad to hear it, though somehow I manage not be suprised about earth" she sighed, rubbing her forehead "It screams, doesn't it?"

He nods, smile twisting a bit.

"Yeah. Enough to make Providence even no so restful. I would invite you back to visit, but there arent enough dampeners in the world."

He shivers.

"These are the days that I am glad Strufe isnt around. He would input the Lucife option faster than I could think. And I am not sure anyone could stop him either."

His mind plays out that scenario; his twisted relection setting into motion the device which would rob humanity of it's individuality.

"Anyway... things here have been more quiet of late. Which is nice."

"Everything can be stopped or prevented, Nate. You know that almost as well as I. You would find a way." it was what they were.

What they did.

"Rest."

He nods.

"Yeah."

"Rest is nice, sometimes. Rest and friends."

He nods.

"This place is good at both."

"That's why it's home" she noted softly.

Then she chuckled, standing and tapping the Bar. "I think I have things to do dear..."

He nods then smiles and gives her a bow.

"I will see you later."

Then he is moving away himself, a brush of his mind sending her one more burst of love and warmth, before he vanishes into the crowd.

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