driftfleet | ...And also these.

[ Calibration Rooms ]
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ROOMS BY CHARACTER

N - Q

Nami

Nux

One

Phèdre nó Delaunay
de Montrève

R - U

R. Daneel Olivaw

Rapunzel

Remy LeBeau

Riku

Robin Redbreast

Rogue

Santanico Pandemonium

Shawn Hunter

Stefan (Alesci) Salvatore

Steve "Orion" Rogers

Steven Quartz Universe

Souji Seta

Stiles Stilinski

Syeira

Tadashi Hamada

Tekhetsio

V - Z

Wrath

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Uh-huh. This past May, anyhow - summer break was about to start when Atroma grabbed me.

[He's a bit concerned that he doesn't sound like a proper 90's kid, but then again, what does he know about "sounding" like one? As for the glove department, there're quite a few CDs inside. Kurt's choices are:

A) A soundtrack about a cute blue hedgehog (this theme'll play
B) A Counting Crows album
C) A smudged album, titled "For Shawn," (which will play a ridiculously familiar theme)
D) Collective Soul album (cw: hospitalization, severe injuries)
E) A Green Day album
F) Nada Surf Album (queued up to "Popular")

Which one does Kurt end up picking?]

Whoa! Way to go, man! I didn't realize you were older than me...

[He looks over the CDs, and he decides to play something that Shawn will like. So he chooses to take out the one labeled, "For Shawn".]

Seriously? I thought we were like, the same age.

[Some days, Shawn's never going to get the multiverse. As Kurt takes out that particular album, a warm, fuzzy feeling emits from the CD. The road ahead (and the car) fades into a restaurant, with a slightly younger Shawn talking to this drop-dead gorgeous girl in one of the booths.

"So... if you want to be my boyfriend, I think you should tell Cory you can't see him anymore." She looks at him expectantly, as if her word is everything.

"But we've been friends our whole lives," Shawn's saying, the confusion more than clear in his voice as he tries to picture this. (He can't.) "How'm I supposed to say, 'Cory, you're out of my life?'"

Then Jennifer kisses him all over again, pulling him down onto the leather booth and--and he's fifteen, dangit. Of course he's going to listen to her, and her sweet kisses, and not the big red warning signs in his brain. Which is why, when the restaurant fades, it's replaced by a back room with a phone booth, and Shawn clutching onto that black phone for dear life as he listens to Cory's voice.

"You know what, this is ridiculous. How can you let some girl tell you you can't see your best friend? It's just wrong, do you hear me? Wrong." Shawn's oddly silent, prompting Cory to ask, "Shawn...? Are you there?"

"Yeah, just... listening to the sound of your voice, and, thinking about the old days."

"I've gotta see you."

"No! No, we know that's impossible."

"Because of... HER? You're gonna let her stand in the way of what we had?"

Cory's FLIPPING MAD, and Shawn can't blame him; he would've been the same, had Topanga decided that Cory couldn't see his best friend.

"Shawn, if you won't see me, then I'll come over there and see you."

"NO! Don't come here!"

"I will not be ignored!"

So Shawn relents, "just this once," for a final meeting, at the library at 8 AM, before Cory steps aside forever. As that promise is uttered, a lump forms in Shawn's throat. A better man would've put his foot down, Shawn knows. A better man would've insisted that his friends stay beside him, no matter who he chooses to date - and yet, he doesn't know if he can do that.

Their secret rendezvous doesn't go well (with Jennifer interceding and getting Cory's present) - Shawn should've seen that coming, he really should have - and neither does him sneaking off to dinner with Cory and Topanga.

So when Topanga asks him to meet her at Chubbies, he doesn't expect to see Cory there. Nor does he expect Jennifer to storm in, and give a final ultimatum - it's Cory, or it's her (sealed with a kiss).

It's funny, in hindsight, how laughable of an ultimatum that is, because Shawn will always know his answer. Girls will come and go, but a best friend is forever. It might've taken him a little longer (man, Jennifer was one gorgeous babe), but he knows his answer now.

"Look, Cory's my friend, okay? And so is Topanga. If you can't be friends with my friends, I'm not so sure I wanna be friends with you."

Jennifer "Consider yourself dumped, Shawn." Shawn looks at her, up and down, and for the first time, her words have no power over him. So she raises her voice and leans in, "Did you hear me? I said you were dumped."

"Doesn't bother me this time, Jennifer, because I realize - I'm gaining more than I'm losing." Shawn slings his arm around his friends and grins at them. Never, ever will he make that kind of dumb mistake again.

As the memory fades, the road ahead and the car comes back into focus - and so does the track listing for this particular CD. It's in Cory's handwriting, the 'awesome mix tape,' that he and Shawn made out of boredom one day. Shawn's grinning at it as he peers over at Kurt, though he doesn't say a single word.]

I thought so, too! But, I'm still in high school...

[Then he pauses as he takes in all of those memories. That's quite some drama bomb... Nothing like that ever happened to Kurt, but he could imagine it. What if he had to choose between Scott or a girl?

After the memory ends, he looks towards Shawn, impressed.]

Whoa. You and your friend... you're really close. That was a really cool move of you, dude.

[Shawn's smile grows sheepish - he'd duck if he could, but that would mean taking his eyes off the road.]

Thanks, but it was the right thing to do. I guess it's like.... hot girls like Jennifer will always be around, but guys like Cory? They're way more important than whoever I end up dating down the road.

[Even if he had to learn that lesson the hard way, Shawn's certain he'd never make that mistake again.]

...And also these.

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