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are you okay!? I felt an earthquake.

tell me you're okay.

im okay. you're okay, right?

i'm okay.

i mean.

i'm actually really bummed out right now but i'll be okay.

what happened? did something break?

nothing important. just random crap I've made that fell off my desk...

i lost blaine again. he got sent home. it really blows.

but you're still here so it's impossible to be sad. I'm so glad you're here. you're definitely not hurt?

blaine went home again? i'm sorry sam
i know he was your best friend
it s okay to be sad. id be sad too if you went home or anyone that i met here was just gone.

im ok though. the new place stood up well and only a few cups fell over. maybe a box in my closet.

do you want me to come over?

only if it's safe. I don't think I'll be much company right now but you always put a smile on my face.

i promise ill be careful. i would rather stay with you if something else happens anyway. im also a fan of your smiling face. :)

are you? that must be why I give you hickies as autographs :)

I still wanna check out your new place sometime.

do you want to come here instead? i can stay and wait here if you want.

umm maybe? is isaac home?

lemme check.

[Erica shouts: ISAAAC!!

No answer.]

He's out. he does his bike messenger thing and with the earthquake i'm sure he's waiting somewhere or avoiding obstacles

cool. then I'll come over.

where is it again?

sigyn. here ill send you the directions.

[She opens up the map and sends over the directions to him.]

there. if you get lost i can meet you somewhere too.

i should be okay. leaving now, see you soon.

[ About twenty minutes later Sam makes it to Sigyn, a district he doesn't venture into often, but he manages to find the place with Erica's directions and waits after knocking. Luckily there isn't another earthquake on his way over, but he does notice the damage it's caused to the city. He wants to see Erica first before he looks for anyone who might need help. ]

[Erica replies that she'll see him soon and then goes to clean up a bit and brush her teeth. Her hair is in a loose braid when she answers the door, wearing jeans and a loose sweatshirt. She smiles when she sees Sam, gesturing for him to come in.]

It's still sort of being unpacked or moved into. Whichever is the right phrase. [She takes his hand when she shuts the door and leads him into the front room.] I will give you the fastest tour. This is the front room. Couch, stolen from Hel, and the small table I found. [She drags him over to the other way.]

Kitchen. Table. Door through there goes to the screened back porch area. We'll probably put plants out there. [Back to the front room and down the hall.] Bathroom is here and there's another one off my bedroom. [Because she didn't want Isaac to have to share with her again.]

Then guest room - which might be Derek, but it's still in discussions. Then Isaac's room and then this room... [She pulls Sam into the room and shuts the door behind her.]

Is my room. [It's small, but not as small as the room in Hel and there's a small shelf that she already put up with all the little white paper drawn to real toys that Sam has given her. Plus, the shoes she wore to the dance, since she figures she'll never actually have a reason to wear them again. She has her bed and her dresser and the walls are painted a deep teal color. It's the same color as the corset she got from the city a while ago, actually.]

We can run through it again if you missed something.

[ Sam's grateful when Erica takes his hand and immediately distracts him from being depressed about Blaine's absence by showing him around.

It's nice. It feels like a proper home compared to the free housing they get - not that there's anything wrong with the welcome halls. Since Sam lived out of a motel room once, he's definitely not complaining. But he's happy for Erica being in much more homely surroundings to wake up to.

He smiles when he notices the shelf of his toys he made her once they're in her bedroom. ]

Are you gonna test me by making me draw out a floor plan? Because then I might need you to run through it with me again... [ But let's face it, Erica's room is the only room he needs to familiarize himself with, since he'll probably be hiding out in here from Derek and Isaac if she ever invites him over again. ]

Nope. No drawing is required on this one. Just you. [She smiles and moves over toward him, sliding her hand back into his.] I had wanted to ask you over before, but I didn't have much to give a tour for. It would've been here are some walls and some more walls.

[She start to lead him over to the bed so they can sit down.] Now it's some walls and a few pieces of furniture. One of the ladies at the library said she has a chair to give me. I'm not sure what kind of chair... but it's fine. [She sits down and waits for Sam to sit too.]

It's really great, Erica... [ Sam joins her on her bed, trying to be cheerful, but he feels like he's faking it and what he likes the most about being with Erica is not having to pretend to be something he's not with her. ]

Sorry... [ He's obviously distracted about something and it's not actually about Blaine anymore. ] I realized something today and now I can't stop worrying about it. [ He almost doesn't want to tell her in case she worries too. ]

[When he says he's worried about something, she moves to curl in closer to him, trying to be comforting.]

We can talk about whatever it is, Sam. Anything at all. I'm here and I have no plans today at all.

I worked out that I've been here as long as I was in Asgard the first time... before I got sent home. And I was gone a while. [ He realized when someone asked him how long he'd been here. What if there was a pattern to being sent home? ]

I'm worried it might happen again. And I don't wanna go home and forget you.

[Erica isn't sure if there's any closer that she can get to Sam, but she wants to be as close as possible to him. She wraps her arms around him and buries her head against his shoulder, pressing her mouth near his neck as she kisses him softly. Words murmur to his skin quietly as she tries to reassure him.]

Even if you go home and forget -- I won't forget you and if you came back I would just make you fall in love with me all over again. Mustaches and petting zoos...

[She pulls back and meets his eyes.] You're here now, though. It could not happen and you could just stay with me.

[ Sam wants to be just as close to her as she wants to be to him right now, so he pulls her onto his lap, his arms secure around her waist. ]

I think if I forgot and came back, I'd see you and think "I'm totally gonna fall in love with that girl" and it would happen again without you having to do anything but be yourself. [ He meets her gaze. ] I wanna be with you always.

[She believes him, too, mostly because of how they met and just the flow of their conversation that day. She knows that he'd find her, no matter the place. More than knowing it, she almost feels it. Something she can't really explain, but just that she belongs with Sam.

Leaning in closer to him, she rests her forehead to his as her fingers move to brush along his jaw, trying to surround him with herself.]

I wouldn't want it any other way. [Erica moves to kiss him softly, but once she has her lips to his, she lets the kiss linger, pushing in closer and allowing the kiss to deepen.]

[ As much as it sounds like a romantic (albeit tragic) love story, forgetting and then falling in love all over again, Sam would rather it didn't happen. He wants things to stay the way they are.

If he says anything else he'll probably end up repeating himself. Luckily Erica ends up leaning in which results in Sam being engrossed in kissing her for the moment, his hand tracing the length of her spine. ]

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