NOVA STORM'S BEST AND GREATEST INBOX

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Hey, hi, this is Nova Storm! You found me but you also really super didn't, haha! Do the thing so I can do the other thing back, okay?

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[Nova Storm immediately jerks to a halt in the middle of whatever she was doing, utterly frozen in place with wide, stunned optics for several seconds when the notification crosses her HUD. She scrabbles for her datapad and curses as she fumbles it and almost drops it in what would a VERY embarrassing way if she cared at all]

[Finally she gets a good grip on it and types as fast as she can]

thirdfloor left side where we race

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[there's no more reason to reply, so skywarp doesn't.

as usual, her arrival is heralded by flashing red lightning as she teleports down into the hall where she suspects nova will be, rather than racing up and down it.

skywarp has not planned this, as she didn't plan running away. not everything she's done recently has been so impulsive, but this was. everything was amplified because of what had been done to nova and she couldn't manage everything as well as her own pain of losing her and refusing to deal with it. skywarp hates that the deal she made has made it easier to manage all the emotions in their bond and her own fear that would feed off nova's.

there's more to it. but she doesn't think about any of it. just teleports and look for a yellow blur.]

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[Red arcs of lightning crack and paint the walls red, but Nova Storm isn't watching where Skywarp was, already turning to where she knows Skywarp will be. A lifetime of racing and playing and scrapping and fighting alongside her twin sister tells her exactly where to intercept Skywarp, and she does]

[Nova crashes gracelessly into her and grips Skywarp around the middle, keening out a sob of agonized relief into her side. She was back she was back she was back she was-]

Me...

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[she doesn't really know what she expected or how she was going to react or what to say. skywarp knows she failed her sister by becoming overwhelmed and running away-- it's her duty as the oldest to make sure she's safe instead of leaving her alone with whatever it is that's hurt her and expect that she defend herself.

skywarp slumps in nova's grip, not making a sound, as she's momentarily overwhelmed with shame and anger with herself for what she did. back in nova's company after so long (not really that long, considering their life spans, but too long), it's far too easy for her to push her own emotions aside and focus on her sister's. perhaps this is a large factor to why she came back, so she can stop thinking.

so she just grips nova hard, like the silent promise of not leaving again that she's certain could not be trusted, and buries her face in her neck.]

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[Nova Storm buries herself into that desperately tight hug right back. Here, alone with her twin, Nova finally drops every ounce of anger she's been using as the thinnest candy coating over terror and hurt and loneliness and starts to shake with wracking sobs, clutching at Warp with spasming hands]

[She'd thought Warp was dead she thought was dead she thought she was dead-]

[The only word she can gasp out between cries of anguish is simply,] Please- [Please stay please stay please stay, she'd be saying if she could, but they're all tangled up and come out as a wail, instead]

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Unlike Nova, Skywarp hasn't been covering anything. These days it just seems like all her feelings filter down into one universal truth: anger. She is still angry now, she knows it, and she's angry that she's angry and angry that Nova Storm is hurt and crying and that she did it to her and angry that they're stuck here because she thought it had been freedom at first but it's just worse and more aimless than Earth.

Skywarp still says nothing, because she doesn't know what to say yet, she just keeps holding onto Nova, even though at the back of her mind she thinks she should probably explain herself. Explain why she did this to her only family. She can't though, and she's angry about that. It's just pure, unrelenting, white hot fury that burned the one person she can't live without, who she sold her spark for so she wouldn't have to live without her.

Nothing has been resolved, nothing has changed, she has just done the unforgivable and made everything worse. Nova would be well within her right to leave her behind, too.