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Library, Thursday

Evan was still feeling pretty reserved after the whole maze thing. It was one thing to be kidnapped in a world that kind of accepted the heroes-and-villains thing as a mainstay. But Fandom was supposed to be his safe place. Even when Umbridge took the island over, things hadn't been too bad for him, but being trapped without his powers in a maze that was actively trying to kill him - that had killed people he knew and cared about - that was enough to leave him reeling.

So he was doing more quiet reading at the desk today. Even the books seemed to sense his mood and were more or less behaving themselves, today. Except for the occasional opportunity they'd grabbed to act out the ending of the last of the Space Battles prequel novelizations, which had kind of scarred Evan for life last week.

"You guys are jerks, you know that?"

Heroes were supposed to stay heroes, weren't they? Not...

... Well.

He was going to just ignore the books and get back to reading.

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"At least maybe that means you're getting better at getting out of it faster?"

Trying to find bright side was kind of difficult, but Evan was going to give it a go.

"But... it's hard to come to terms with, having your whole life ahead of you and then suddenly it's been turned upside-down into something completely different, because out of nowhere you're not what you thought you were."

"Right, and most of the time I'm grateful," Victor nodded. "I wanted to be a hero, always, just didn't expect it to happen. But once in a while.."

He shrugged. "I do sometimes want, like, my mom and my friends. Worrying about the SATs and not about who's trying to take over the world this week. Simpler stuff."

"I miss baseball," Evan admitted, "in a field in Kansas that I've never really been to. The field I remember might not even exist. But I want it back. And training instead of being right in the middle of it. I always knew I was going to have to leave, but I was pulled away from home... out of that... place... way sooner than I was... well... supposed to be."

To be used as fodder against Archangel. Something he wasn't thinking about, mostly for the sake of his own sanity.

"I wasn't ready for this. For any of it. Not really. I just want to go home."

"That's not fair to you," Victor said, as the full weight of Evan's predicament hit him. "At least I got programmed to want most of this. You ... what you said. You want to go home."

"But I can't."

It wasn't even there. It never had been. His parents, too. He loved them both so much, and they had never existed at all. He had never really been loved by another real human being, in his entire life.

"Here's not bad... not usually, at least. But it's not the farm."

"Maybe after you graduate you'll get a farm," Victor said, not sure he believed it. "Just ... drop out of sight, buy some land somewhere. Have things quiet."

"That would be nice," Evan replied, though he didn't believe it. Not for an instant. "I think I'm going to have to take a lot of part-time jobs on the island before I can even pretend to be able to afford something like that, though."

But a kid could dream.

"My budget's more barrio than buy-a-farm, so I can't help you out there," Victor told him casually. He'd never had any money, so why should after graduation be any different?

"I guess it doesn't hurt to think big anyhow," Evan decided, with a wry smile. "A farm would be nice. Maybe I'll... take a job as a farmhand somewhere, and work my way up."

Because there were plenty of farmers ready to leap at the chance to hire a mutant kid fresh out of high school, sure.

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