Rain:508: Tickets

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Synopsis

Fara talks to Rain about her relationship with Colin, and meets Vincent for the first time in years.

Author Notes

Anyway, today's update was not initially planned to be a two pager (although now that I look at it like this, they DO go well together). I just like to extend some of the love you show me right back. 

Getting to the pages themselves, the story of Colin is finally exposited long after the fact. What I thought was a subtly clever way to relay a plot point, ended up being entirely  too subtle and most readers didn't catch what I was going for (don't apologize; it's my fault, not yours). I've explained everything Fara says out of canon in the past, but not everyone reads the supplemental stuff, and there are a fair few people out there whom I think still believed Fara and Colin were together all this time. As such, I felt if I was going to keep addressing this, I might as well drop an explanation into the story by having Rain lampshade the whole thing. 

And then Fara states how okay she is with being single as she walks into the waiting room to find an old flame just hanging out. Well, this could get interesting.

With that all said, how about the questions this page sparks. Like, four tickets, huh? Who will Rain ask to join her? And then there's Fara. Any hope for her and Colin, maybe? Or is a monkey wrench thrown into that idea on account of Vincent? And while we're on that, how is this first meeting in fifteen years for them going to go!?

Transcript

What was that about?
I bet you forgot about this but a few months ago, I was telling you about the creator of Kaminari touring conventions across the country -
And that we'd get to go if I kept my grades up. Which I did. And then you didn't follow up on.
I remember.
Well, I'm following up now.
He says there's such a con going on near here over Winter Break next week. And he's giving me four weekend passes there. If you want, I'll gladly take you and two of your friends or something.
...... ...... ......
I love you, Aunt Fara.
Who was Colin again, though? I remember the name, but I feel like I was never clear about who he was.
He's an ex. I hid him from you because I didn't want to complicate your life any more than it was. But he wanted to meet you on Christmas while you were putting up the boy facade for Aiken. I felt like I had to explain the siutation to him for things to work out. When I did, he was not okay with you. And very simply, I was not okay with anyone else not being okay with you.
Douchebaggery aside, he works in the anime industry as a translator, so he offered tickets for us a while before then, but then we broke up. It seems like convenient timing that this thing is next week, but he's probably been holding onto these tickets for months despite his feelings... which is actually pretty sweet of him, I think.
Do you miss him? I mean, I don't want to get in the way of your happiness.
Your happiness IS my happiness, Rain. That's how I roll.
Besides, like I've been telling my coworkers, I've been single for so long, it's not even a big deal anymore.
...Oh my god.

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