Second Drink

[wastheexample]

[Haymitch has finally decided that maybe, maybe, Peeta isn't crazy and they really are living in a magical castle with people from other worlds. Maybe. Of course, that doesn't mean he's not on his guard. Even if this is what people say, it doesn't mean Snow or any of his Capitol stooges couldn't show up and ruin everything. Given what Finnick told him about the future...well. Better to be safe than sorry.

And Haymitch was prepared to keep those kids safe rather than sorry at any cost.

And so, he's sitting in the Lux, occasionally glancing at the drink of whiskey he can't have until someone hands it to him, flicking through his journal pages. Eventually, he deigns to talk]

Okay. So let's say I'm more willing to buy this magical castle idea. I want to know more about it. What makes it tick. Some of you have been here for years, apparently, you must have learned something in all that time.

I'm sitting in the Lux, if you'd like to play sharetime. We can have a drink, learn a thing or two. It'll be fun.

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[foolreversed]

Sheesh, I was just being polite...

[but he gets over it pretty fast after mumbling that. After all, he had come down for as reason]

So uh... I brought my notes like I said I would!

[wastheexample]

[What is politeness? Not for Haymitch :|

He does, however, looks at least marginally interested now]

Good. Let's see what we've got here.

[foolreversed]

[Adachi sits down and starts leafing through his old journal, looking for the spots he marked with his own notes. Of course since they were private, they look blank to others.]

Is there anything specific you want to know to start with?

[wastheexample]

Not really, I'm just looking for anything right now.

[foolreversed]

Well let's see...

[he'll be ordering some sake for himself to drink before talking about the actual notes.]

For starters, we have people who have been here for about... 4 to 5 years. That's the longest time so far. Although apparently there are people who don't live in the castle anymore who have been here for even longer.

[he notices that his note for the first gens just says FUCKING ASSHOLES WRECKED MY BED]

...They're a bunch of jerks though.

[wastheexample]

[That is the best note, Adachi]

...So where do they live if they don't live in the castle anymore?

[foolreversed]

Apparently out in the Dead Zone. [he flips to the page Lois wrote about it that Sakura directed him to during his first month here, then slides it over for reading. It won't be invisible like his private notes are after all.] It's some place where powers don't work or some other bs.

[wastheexample]

[Haymitch takes it to read it over]

Thanks, this is a big help. And here's me thinking everyone has sat on their asses and done nothing.

[foolreversed]

[takes a sip of his driOHGODSAKE YOU'RE AS STRONG AS HE REMEMBERS UGH]

Yeah, it's not so much that everyone sits on their asses, a lot of people do a lot of research in fact. There's even been expeditions into ruins and things like that.

The problem is when you've been here for so long... I think a lot of them just kind of get tired or burnt out. Or they give up.

I gave up trying to explore the whole castle about a month or two in for instance. But then again, I wasn't exactly at peak health either at the time so I had that to worry about. Plus, I actually like it here, so I don't care as much as other people do.

[wastheexample]

[Don't be a pussy with your drink boy, he will take it off you :|]

It's easy to become complacent when you start to honestly believe there's no other alternative. I get that.

[Haymitch scoffs] Yeah, I heard some people actually prefer this craphole to their real worlds.

[foolreversed]

Probably because their world's an even bigger craphole? At least that's how I feel about mine.

You have everything provided to you in this place and it's never boring. It's just the uh.... random crap and the whole emotional manipulation that pretty much blows, I guess.

[wastheexample]

This is better than Panem so far. But I still don't trust it.

I'm not a big fan of manipulation of any kind. [Unless he's the one doing the manipulating]

[foolreversed]

Panem...? Is that where you're from?

[wastheexample]

Yeah. More specifically District 12 in Panem.

[foolreversed]

Guess our worlds really are different then, because I've never heard of that place.

You'd be surprised how many people are just from slight variations of the planet Earth around here.

[wastheexample]

As far as I can tell, I'm from the future of Earth.

[foolreversed]

The... "future" of Earth?

[wastheexample]

You heard me.

[foolreversed]

Well, I guess I've heard weirder things.

[wastheexample]

Yeah? Like what?

[foolreversed]

Well...

[leans in a little with a DRAMATIC HUSHED VOICE LIKE IT'S SOME BIG SECRET. He even has his hand up and everything.]

Have you met any of the aliens yet?

[wastheexample]

...

[And now you're a crazy person]

Oh....kay. I think we've had enough of a chat now.

[foolreversed]

Hey! I'm being serious here! Some of the people who live here are from other planets!

[wastheexample]

Kid, you have to stop smoking whatever it is your smoking. It's bad for you.

[foolreversed]

Hey now, my track record's squeaky clean. I haven't even so much as smoked a cigarette in my entire life!

[he tried once. He choked on the smoke.]

You'll see! One day you'll catch sight of one of those grey skinned, horned aliens for yourself!