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[EVENT] The Simulation Ends

WHERE: 6I Fountain Park & Elsewhere
WHEN: April 1
OPEN TO: ALL - Mingle
WARNINGS: N/A

In the snug circle of an old park, a fountain sits burbling beneath a broad, midday sky.

Once-neat paving stones have buckled and cracked from the slow nudge of wayward roots. Benches stand covered in lichen and rust. Three paths push into the underbrush like the spokes on a wheel, the encroaching forest creating lush tunnels through the dark.

But the fountain stands singular and pristine, brightly splashing in open rebellion of the deep, muffled sounds of a place long ago gone to seed. A vibration hums through the ground, there and quickly gone, and the water in the fountain trembles, lapping against the high walls of its cool, pale reservoir.

Far, far away, in a place that isn't really there, people begin to blink out of existance.

It is the first of April.

It is precisely ten o'clock in the morning.

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It hadn't been all that long since Mary had first found herself in the fountain. Though she should have known what to do, she still felt a moment of panic while she tried to orient herself and swam for the surface. Once she got to the edge of the fountain, she pulled herself out of it and she instantly noticed the change of the colour of scrubs she was wearing. She used to be in navy blue but now found herself in red. She also notices that her already long hair was even longer and because it’s wet, it was stuck to her face and shoulders. Looking herself over, she notices no visible injuries but she has a weird band on her wrist. She would figure that out later.

She looked around as she wrapped her arms around herself for warmth. She was looking for her brother, Danny or anyone else who could explain why she had taken another involuntary plunge into the fountain but after a quick glance around, she saw nobody familiar.

She started walking, ignoring the cold as best as she could. If her brother wasn’t at the fountain, he had to be around somewhere. She tried to quiet the worry that she had that her brother wasn’t in this place or wouldn’t arrive. Maybe he was sent home? She hoped if he wasn’t here, he was at least back in Hawaii. While she had been happy to to have him with her, she wanted him back home where he belonged.

Mary took to the streets and started looking around. She had no particular place in mind but she was keeping her eyes open for her brother or Danny as well as for answers as to what was going on.

The day had started off normally enough and if he hadn't of been in the house with Mary when she disappeared he likely wouldn't have even known anything had happened. One moment she was there and the next gone. It was a shock to Steve and one that he did not take easily.

It was pointless to search for Mary, he was there when she disappeared and knew she hadn't run off or get lost or injured, but that didn't mean he wasn't frantic and worried. This place, and all that it put them through.... Just because she was gone didn't mean she'd been returned home.

Then about ninety minutes later Danny disappeared in the same way Mary had. If this was a test, he wasn't impressed. Not knowing what else to do, he headed to the main village to see if anyone there knew what was going on. What he found was more people panicking and even more people missing.

When it was Steve's turn to disappear he was already on a mission to find Danny and Mary. He barely registered being in the fountain again. He was up and out and searching the within seconds of arriving. Searching the crowd, he didn't see either his sister or Danny, although there were many other faces he recognized. He approached Beverly, one of those familiar faces, and was thankfully reunited with Danny shortly after. Danny hadn't seen Mary though either and his worry escalated another notch.

Clearly she wasn't around the fountain or the Inn and as it sounded like she was one of the first to disappear, perhaps she'd gone home. With that in mind and hope in his heart, he took off at a run back to their house in the second village.

Mary was getting colder and colder as she walked around. her search for her brother or Danny wasn't proving to be fruitful and she was getting more and more uncomfortable. Her clothes were drying but they still clung to her and her hair was still very much wet. She needed to change her clothes and she needed to warm up. Once she could do that, she could resume her search for her brother.

She changed her course towards the second village where her house was. There was a soft glimmer of hope inside of her that her brother would be waiting there for her. She was worried. Even though she wanted Steve to be sent back home, she was worried about being stuck in this place by herself. She would be fine if she was. Mary was resourceful. She didn't have Steve's training but she could figure things out on her own. But she wanted to know that her brother was okay and she didn't want him to worry about her. If he had been sent home with his memories of this place, he'd drive himself nuts trying to find her to bring her home.

The change in her scrub colours worried her too as did the band that was around her wrist. She had to wonder what it all meant. She would figure it out later but she hoped it didn't mean anything bad.

As she neared the second village, she heard footsteps behind her. She tensed slightly, although it likely wouldn't have been noticeable to anyone else considering how tense she was as she shivered to keep warm. She didn't have anything to defend herself with if she needed to. She moved to the side a little before glancing over her shoulder to see a man running in her direction. From a distance, she couldn't recognize him but as the man got closer, her face lit up in recognition.

Well as much as it could, anyways. Her brother was sporting long hair and a beard. It was hard to tell if it was really Steve under all of that hair but she was pretty confident that it was. She stopped walking as he got closer. "Steve? Is that you? Are you okay?"

As Steve was getting closer to the second village, he could see a woman in red scrubs and blond hair walking ahead of him. The scrub colors were wrong to be Mary, but then again as he ran he noticed that his colors weren't right either so that was nothing to go by. The way the person ahead of him moved though, it could be his sister.

He was really hoping it was - not only because he wanted to find her, but this running was killing him. It was like his muscles weren't used to it.

A bit out of breath, he skids to a stop beside her. "Mary!" He has to suck in air and his thighs are burning. "Oh thank goodness!"

Then he's reaching out and pulling her into a tight hug.

Mary looked her brother over as he skidded to a halt beside her. She was looking for any sign of injury but he appeared to be in good health despite the fact that he was having a hard time catching his breath in front of her.

Mary allowed Steve to pull her into a tight hug and she wrapped her arms around her brother. She was relieved to see him here and she was glad that she wasn't alone. She may or may not also be enjoying his body heat too while they embraced in a hug.

"Are you okay Steve? What's going on? Is Danny here?" She pulled back slightly. "And why are you wearing pink?"

Sorry Steve. That was a detail that your little sister was not going to overlook.

Hanging on tight, Steve allowed himself to take comfort in the relief of finding Mary here and in one piece. Part of him still wished she was safe and sound back home, but he didn't think he'd be able to handle the worry if she just suddenly up and disappeared on him like that.

"Yeah. I'm fine. You?" When she pulls back, he does too and looks her over with a critical eye, as he nods in response to her question. "Danny's here. He arrived after you but before me. He's back at the well helping getting everything situated."

Frowning he looked down at himself. He had no idea what was going on or why he was in purple scrubs. "They're not pink, Mary. You're scrubs are a different color too..." He narrows his eyes at her, mostly teasing. "What did you do?"

She almost rolls her eyes when she sees Steve check her over with a critical eye but she can't blame him. He was over-protective and she had done the same to him. She was glad to see that he was okay. They were both okay.

"I'm fine. Little confused but fine." Mary was used to going with the flow but even this was getting to be a bit much. "Good. I'm glad he made it here too." She was happy that Danny was here. He was Steve's best friend and she knew it would drive her brother nuts that he wasn't here.

She laughed. "They're definitely pink Steve." She looked down at her scrubs which were also a different colour than the navy blue she usually sported. "Why do you think I did anything?! None of this is my fault!" She glared at him. "But I'm glad I'm wearing red and not pink like you."

It's been a stressful few hours, but now that he's located Danny and Mary, with both of them being relatively unharmed, at least not more than they were, the tension in him washes away and he grins at his sister in relief. "Yeah, I think we are all a little confused. This place looks exactly like where we were but..." He runs his hand over his unkept beard. It's more than a few months worth of growth. If he had to guess, he'd say the seven months he'd been here. "Not at the same time, I certainly didn't wake up this morning with this."

Pursing his lips and putting his hands on his hips he shakes it's head. "They are not pink. And there is nothing wrong with purple... But I wonder what happened to the green. To be honest I preferred those over..." He waves his hand in front of him indicating the purple scrubs. Then he chuckles at her, mostly out of relief but there's a tease in his voice now. "Because you are always doing something! It's a logical conclusion!" The chuckle turns into a glare. "Purple!"

"I wonder why we were brought here. And why we're in different colour scrubs." She glanced down at the band on her wrist and she held it up to show Steve. "Or what this is." Even though she was full of questions, she wasn't overly worried. She had been stuck in the old place for months and while weird things happened, it wasn't anything she couldn't handle. The main thing was that Steve was also here and he wasn't hurt.

She moved her now semi-dry hair out of her face. "My hair has never been this long. I kind of like it so I guess something good came out of whatever the hell is going on right now." She gave a small smile which grew into a grin when Steve emphasized that his scrubs are not pink. "I think you need to get your eyes checked Steve. That's pink." She was going to enjoy teasing her brother about this for days to come.

"Well for once, whatever just happened is not my doing." She looked at her brother. "I don't like that you're stuck here but I'm happy you are. I was going to our house. When I couldn't find you, I thought maybe you might still be at the house. Or already there. Maybe it's not even there anymore."

Steve shrugged. "Everyone was in scrubs back at the fountain... Danny's were the same color as before." But, Steve didn't know if everyone had a different color now. "I miss the green!"

When Mary held up her wrist, Steve frowned and leaned closer, then examined the one on his wrist. As much as it looked like a watch, he expected there was more to it than that. Especially when he couldn't remove it. "At least it's not around our necks."

"You're hair looks good long, but I won't be keeping this beard any longer than hI have to." Glaring at Mary he tried not to rise to the bait of her telling him that he was now wearing pink. Not that there was any problem with a guy wearing pink but it wasn't something he generally did. Besides, these weren't pink. They were clearly a purply color.

"I was there for a long time after you left. Then Danny left and it was another long wait before I turned up here too." Part of him wanted to get back to Danny and the others, but looking in the direction of the house, they were already more than half way there. And, it would be good intel to have. "Why don't we go check it out and then we can report back to the others?"

Reaching over to Mary, he wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close before starting to walk. "I'm happy I'm stuck here with you too, Mary. I wish we were all back home, but since we're not..." He leaned in and kissed her temple, giving her a squeeze at the same time.

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[EVENT] The Simulation Ends

Mary McGarrett | OTA | Group 3

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