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50 ways to terrify your friends

Cassie Lang had done a lot of bad and stupid things in her life. This had to be perhaps the stupidest one of them all.

So it was creepy and fake and all kinda of not healthy but she didn't care about that. She just wanted to see her dad for just a few more moments. A few more moments that turned into hours until she'd fallen asleep on the sofa of her father's living room... in the Sensorium.

After waking, for those first few moments, everything felt right.

Then she remembered her father was dead.

And then she remembered that she was in the Sensorium and she'd been kidnapped by a living ship.

And really, who could blame her for wanting to get away from all that? Except for maybe everyone else on board.

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"Of course. Let me know if you need me."

Cassie didn't look up until she heard her "father" leave.

"This is embarrassing."

"We will sir!" Dani chirped happily, waving as he left.

She looked over at Cassie, looking sympathetic. "It's not. He's gone...for real, isn't he?"

Cassie let out a slow, long breath. "Yeah, he is."

"And you miss him a lot?" Dani asked.

Cassie stared at the carpet. "Yeah, I do."

Dani nodded and walked over to Cassie, stopping in front of her. "And your friends are worried that you come here to see him like this?" She guessed. That seemed the logical reason for why she didn't want them to know she was here.

"Yeah that's why I don't want them to find out."

"But they're right to be worried. This...isn't good for you," Dani said, gesturing around the hologram. "You can't cling onto his memory like this."

Cassie stood up and folded her arms. "Why not? He never should have died. Hell, I don't even have my mom now that I'm on this ship. What's so wrong with wanting to see my dad one last time?"

Dani paused for a moment. One last time? Well, that wasn't too bad. Except...

"If it's one last time, then how do you know your friends wouldn't want you to be here? Unless you've done it before?" Dani asked.

Don't distract her with your logic!

"Well I didn't exactly get much time with him before they interrupted me."

"You were asleep when I came in," Dani pointed out. Fear her logic. She knows about people being crazy with holograms. "If you were seeing him one last time, how long have you been in here to fall asleep with the hologram going?"

"I just lost track of the time."

Dani crossed her arms, frowning as she looked up at Cassie. "...you're not letting go, are you?" she asked. "You say it's last one time, but...can you really say honestly you won't be back here again?"

"So what?" Cassie grew several inches as she spoke.

Dani didn't look at all intimidated. After all, practically every other crew member was taller than her. "It's bad for you," she said flatly. "If you obsess over a person you can't have, a person whose gone, then you'll end up depressed and lonely as your obsession drives away those who do care about you."

Cassie shot up nearly a foot at that. She tried to control herself and shrink down but her body didn't want to obey. "If everyone else in my world can come back from death then why not my dad?"

"That's different. If he's back, he's back. If he's not, then you have to accept that fact. Trying to bring him back to you isn't going to do anyone any good and it'll just cause you more pain in the end, if not pain to the people who care about you that are still around," Dani said, taking a step back to keep looking at Cassie's face without having to tilt her head all the way back. The look of determination on her face made it obvious it wasn't from fear.

Cassie desperately wanted to not look at Dani, she was close enough to crying but she didn't want to let the other girl know it.

"Please leave." She managed to say without her voice breaking.

"No!" Dani said flatly. "If I give up, then you'll just justify or something in your mind that I'm wrong and this is fine and personally, I don't want your friends to have to be hurt because you're missing someone and not dealing with it properly. And I certainly don't want to see you become like the person I have seen with this behavior."

Jonas' (metaphorical) heart sank as the sound of two voices, one of them angry and belonging to Cassie, reached his ears. He really wished that he could be surprised. He hadn't wanted to keep an eye on Cassie at all times, he'd hoped that talking to him and Kate had at least made some impression. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to be the case.

He pushed the door to the Sensorium open and stepped into Scott Lang's living room.

"[Dani,]" he said by way of greeting. Then, softer, "[Cassie.]"

Ohhh #$(%.

Cassie's height dropped from over 6 feet to 3 inches in a matter of moments.

Dani looked over at Jonas in surprise. "Huh? Who are you?" She asked, looking out of the corner of her eye for Cassie before whipping her head forward. "Huh? Where did she...?" Then she happened to look down, staring at Cassie. "...oh. Goes both ways," She said.

"[My name is Jonas,]" he introduced himself absently, not taking his eyes off of Cassie. He'd made a point of making sure he knew who the other crew members were. There were a lot of them, but it was better than addressing people as "you, girl" or something.

Jonas stepped around Dani and walked over to where Cassie was, stooping down and offering her his hand to step onto, if she wanted.

Cassie stepped onto his hand. She really wanted to just shrink into nonexistence but that wasn't an option.

"Now I've never been more embarrassed in my life." She mumbled.

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