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@beyonce

You've reached Dr. Stephen Strange. Leave a message and my secretary will get back to you.

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[This begs the question of normal in what sense, but by now Stephen has a few key answers inscribed on his arm. Anterograde amnesia. P.Q. alive dont call. How helpful of himself.

He doesn't remember talking to Vanitas since waking up from what seems like a year-long dream, so the answer is clearly 'no.']

New phone, who this?

@betterhalf; text

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[ S'up Strange. ]
Your favorite pain in the ass.

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How do you know someone else hasn't been promoted since we last talked?

[Banter's fine, but he needs to find out what this call is about before he forgets how it started.]

Something you wanted to talk about?

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Do you even remember when we last talked?

[ He can be number one for right now. ]

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Something else you want to talk about?

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[ Okay that's a no. ]

Star Wars and Billy.

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Well, one of those was unexpected. Do you even know what Star Wars is, Mickey?

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I used to travel with a jedi.
Don't know much else, but Billy and Planet Jr. likes it.

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...Here?

[Of course here. If anyone was going to meet a Jedi, it'd be in this multidimensional mashup. Anyway, there's a more important topic for Stephen to latch onto.]

You talk to Planet Junior recently?

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Here.

[ Strange probably would have liked him. ]

Not since Miller trapped us.
He seemed broken on the network.

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That's what I've been worried about....

[At least, it's what he's worried about now, seeing the note on his arm telling him not to call Peter. He imagine he probably worries about it pretty often.]

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You don't want me talking to him.

[ Just saying that now ]

Sounds like your world got pretty interesting.

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No. I don't.

[That much he can agree with immediately.]

You ever hear that saying about interesting times?

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No.

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May you live in interesting times. It's meant as a curse.

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[ Sounds like something his master would like actually ]

I heard pieces of it.
Gabriel is traveling with us.

[ So he heard some of that shouting and his friend trying to break it up.

He was actually internally laughing at Gabriel at the time :D he's good at being a friend. ]

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...What does Gabriel have to do with it?

[Was he telling Gabriel things about his world? What did he tell Gabriel?? Does Gabriel relay everything Stephen says to his awful friends?]

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[ Wow this retrograde amnesia is just fun ]

Planet Jr. had his panties in a twist.
Gabriel was mediating.

[ He doesn't get why Gabriel would waste his time on that. ]

A good portion of it was public.

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Of course it was.

[S I G H.]

So Peter remembers too, then.

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[ Good thing about whatever Stephen is going through, he won't remember that Vanitas immediately explained like a good critter ]

He reacted the way you would assume he would
Lots of yelling and arguing.
You should thank Gabriel later.
Make a note.

[ Whoops Gabriel bias is leaking ]

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[Hey Vanitas? This is still going to be in Stephen's inbox later, and he's the kind of nerd who will go back and read/listen to e v e r y t h i n g.]

Well, that's understandable.

[Peter had just been another pawn to him. He feels a little sick, thinking of it. Sicker knowing that it wouldn't have made any difference if they'd remembered each other, that he would do the same all over again.]

You could always just tell Gabriel I said thanks...if you want to admit we had a heart to heart about it.

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[ Wow Stephen. ]

Would have to have a heart first.

[ Half of one doesn't count. ]

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Uh huh. I know, you're terrible. The worst. That make you feel better?

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[ Wow.

He considers not responding, but that feels like giving Stephen a win. ]

You forgot selfish.

[ There's a moment but hey Stephen won't remember any of this. ]

I only have half a heart.

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...Are we speaking literally or metaphorically, because if it's the former I have questions.