soul_campaign | 01 { feb 13: mid-morning } { video+text }

[The video starts with the camera shaking around. Through the shakiness, one can make out Hughes' knees and feet and possibly the floor.]

Here we go!

[The feed suddenly jerks up and the floor can be seen clearly, but the video starts moving around again soon after. The communicator is being waved.]

Record this! Record this!

[A hand takes the device, and it stops shaking excessively. Bakura replies.]

Okay!

[The communicator gets turned around and positioned properly. One can see Hughes is bandaged up and sitting in a wheelchair. Behind him is Amaterasu who is standing on her hind legs with her front paws set against the handles of the wheelchair. Bakura talks to the two of them.]

Everybody wave!

[Amaterasu grins and raises a paw to motion a wave. Her tail is wagging hard. Hughes grins and waves too.]

Look at what Ammy can do!

[Hughes jabs his thumb in her direction. Bakura speaks up and positions the camera so it's easier to see Amaterasu.]

Pretty impressive, ne?

[Amaterasu barks a couple times and pushes the wheelchair forward. Hughes starts laughing really excitedly and jokes between his laughter.]

Don't mind us! Just out for a stroll!

[Bakura laughs from behind the communicator and follows after as they move along. After a few more seconds, Hughes turns and waves his arm at Bakura for the communicator. He chuckles as he speaks.]

Okay, okay, that's enough of that. I think we all can see how talented Ammy here is now.

[He grins at Amaterasu. The camera shakes a little before the video feed is cut off. There is a text note beneath the video.]

Whoops.
Sorry! I was so distracted after that I forgot to post it up on the network yesterday. Thanks so much for helping me out, Bakura and Ammy!

[It seems the video was recorded some time in the afternoon the day before.]

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It's... it's good to see you too.

[What happened? Well, that answers one question on Roy's end now, doesn't it?

...This could get awkward.]

Lost it before I came here.

Hehe. You sound so enthused. You really need to smile more, Roy. You'll get wrinkles, and no one will find you attractive anymore.

[He raises a brow.] Before you came here? Huh. you'll have to explain that one. Last I knew, you were on the phone and...

[He trails off because it's probably not appropriate to discuss it in public. Instead, he grins boisterously.]

Anyway, it's really good to see you! You should come by sometime! Er... Well, I'd go look for you, but I can't really walk right now, hahaha!

[Man, it really IS you. This is an Experience.]

I'm busy with something else right now. You've been briefed on the situation down here, I take it.

Well, actually, I have no idea what's going on. Sorry. I only know the general gist of what's going on in this world with...the war and stuff, but that's about it. I came two days ago, but I was completely out for a day, so it feels like I only got here yesterday. Other than that, I've pretty much just been stuck here...

...Roy, it's really boring over here. I have nothing to do at all! It sucks! Anyhow, what's going on over there? Wait, how long have you been here anyway?

[You'll have to excuse him; listening to you talk and actually seeing you on the other side of the screen is just...

Oh right, you asked a question.]

Handling things at my office. [Paperwork's trying to eat him, but it's mostly just him not feeling ready enough to see you in person yet.] It's been a little over eight months for me.

So you have an office here, huh? Working as always, I see. Well, that explains why you're being no fun at all right now. Eight months! Woah! That's almost as long as a pregnancy!

[He pauses awkwardly, thinking about the time gap.]

How do you suppose it picks when people get pulled here? I mean, eight months ago...for me, that was a long time ago, haha. But today, I only just talked to Fullmetal in the hospital. If you disappeared eight months ago, I would have noticed.

I've got some working theories on that. It's still not enough to explain the time gaps, though.

[Pausing now. How to say this.]

Hughes... [His lips purse. This is bound to get ugly somehow.] what was the last thing that you were doing, before you wound up here?

[He knows the answer to this already, but ride with him here.]

Right.

[He tilts his head a little in confusion at the gravity behind Roy's words.]

Hm? I was... I was at Central still—doing some work. I...got attacked and someone shot me when I was trying to call you. Why?

[Yeah, he got that phone call, all right.

Suddenly, he can't look at the screen anymore.]

[You might also need to strain to hear him a little, in the next moment.]

You're dead in my version of our world, and in Edward's. [Yes. His version, Fullmetal's version. There are a lot of things that you need to know.] You were killed in action.

[And he hadn't been able to stop it. Neither had his other self, apparently.]

[He stays silent as the words sink in. He had considered the possibility—after all, he had been alone, and if he had not arrived and been assisted immediately, he probably would have...

If it were not for the fact that he was a realist, he would deny the accusation.

He smiles grimly.]

I had a feeling...

[He does not know what to make of what Roy means by versions of worlds, but the facts remained consistent. Shit, what that must have done to Roy... Given the time difference, Roy probably came from a time way after when he had come from. And with the way Roy is acting, he knows just how bad it was. He feels absolutely terrible.]

Roy. I... It was stupid. I was being stupid. I wasn't being careful, and...well...shit, there's no good way to say it, is there...

[He sighs and smiles weakly.]

I'm sorry that I put you through that, Roy. You...don't deserve that. Not from me. I tell you to be careful all the time, but I...
Roy... I'm so sorry.

...Don't.

[The response comes after a long pause from his end as well. Don't apologize, don't say that, don't... well, everything.

Another pause, then a shaky sigh.]

I need to go.

Roy..

[He sighs but relents. Even though what he had just learned himself was pretty severe, Hughes at least knew how to manage his emotions. Roy on the other hand...

He does not expect a response. Knowing Roy, he'll probably go hide somewhere and try to ignore him so that he does not have to face his sadness. That last thing Roy really needs is to be alone though. Idiot.

Since he could not actually go looking for Roy, Hughes would just have to take drastic measures. And do what he usually did.]

[There's a bit of a flinch when he hears Hughes address him again, but when there's no follow-up...

Yep. Definitely going. He cuts the feed without a word.]

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