006 ✞ [video]✞ Encrypted from Damian times a million

[unetrustworthy]

(A million, of course, meaning the highest she currently knew how to code, which was a solid 60%. Thus, he theoretically could still hack it, should he choose to do so)


[It had been more than a week, and Midii was still at a complete loss. So much so, she was finally desperate enough to go to the Network for help. Something that, under most any other circumstance, she would never do. Which spoke volumes about the situation as a whole. And how she felt about it.]

[After more than a full ten seconds of silence wondering how to phrase her problem, before she gave up and just blurted out the first question that came to mind:]

How do you get someone to admit he's being a jerk?

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[jondrette]

[Sweetie, Eponine is the last person to ask for advice on this sort of thing. She's a certified stalker. And tried to get Marius killed. Don't ask.

Too late.]

Boys are fickle. That is why they are boys. Tell me! When did things change? What happened?

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[unetrustworthy]

[That's alright. So is was Midii. And she did get Nanashii's family killed, sooo...]

It was on my birthday.

He...stopped using my name. Midii.

[It sounds like something so small and insignificant and it sort of is...but not to her. When she came from, Names meant something. They were your entire identity. Who you were. What you meant to someone. That was why nameless war orphans were never given one. They had no identity or anyone who cared about them enough.]

I don't know why he changed, but he did. And he doesn't understand why I don't like him calling me Une, and he wouldn't stop even after I asked him to.

[Her last name. A formality bestowed upon those who were little more than strangers to one another. As if speaking to someone you considered little more than a stranger.]

[jondrette]

Who is the boy? I'll have a word with him.

[She's not afraid of anything, not even Robins.

She understands the importance of names, of course. Thénardier was her given last name and she was very much one of them, but Jondrette was the name they had assumed upon moving to Paris. But above all, she was Éponine. So that someone that Midii trusted would change such a thing?]

He is a terrible boy.

[unetrustworthy]

His name's Damian.

[You know what? Let him have to deal with Eponine. It would serve him right.]

[jondrette]

[Eponine will destroy him.]

His name sounds familiar. But I do not recall him. I shall have to find this boy.

[unetrustworthy]

[Best Big Sister. <3]

He lives in Fire. I've been to his quarters before. He was teaching me English.

[jondrette]

[Damn straight she is.]

I shall do my best to find him. I'm quite good at finding people.

How cruel, someone who was teaching you. You are better off without him, P'tite.

[unetrustworthy]

But I don't want to be without him.

I want things to go back the way they were.

[jondrette]

Oh.

Oh...

P'tite. [Her look softens considerably.] I will find him for you. I shall make him apologize.

[unetrustworthy]

[There was something...strange in those 'oh's. Midii looks up, curious.]

What?

and check the main comm because big sisters.

[jondrette]

This is Damian Wayne, is he not?

I spoke with him before. [She isn't going to explain more.]

...omg Eponine

[unetrustworthy]

Yes. That's him.

What did you talk about?

She regrets nothing.

[jondrette]

Gavroche.

I shouldn't be laughing, but I can't help it.

[unetrustworthy]

[A faint smile appears at the mentioning of the boy. She did miss him. He was nice.]

I hope it was a pleasant conversation.

Do laugh! Oh man I'm just glad I could get Ep some pure Epiny shenanigans like that

[jondrette]

It... came at a strange time. I do not recall much of it.

[She'd been far too drunk]

happy to oblige, then~

[unetrustworthy]

Oh.

So you wouldn't know what he called you when you spoke, would you?

[jondrette]

He did not know my name until the end of the conversation.

[unetrustworthy]

What about Gavroche?

[Since that was the reason, she assumed, he spoke to Eponine in the first place.]

[jondrette]

Oh.

Forgive me.

Not much, no. I recall they knew each other. That was it.

[unetrustworthy]

No, it's alright, Eponine.

I was just curious.

[It seemed silly to compare her experience with others, but if there was a clue in there somewhere...or a hint that he was acting differently towards other people as well...it might help convince her that she really hadn't done anything wrong. Because she still couldn't think of what she might have.]

[jondrette]

Very well.

[She is happy to let it go.]

I shall find out what the matter is, p'tite.

[unetrustworthy]

Alright.

Thank you.

[jondrette]

It is nothing.