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Characters: Romeo
Setting: Everywhere, starting in the cafeteria, going to every floor in turn, making a brief trip into room 1-03 and finishing in 1-02. Just let me know where you are finding him.
Format: Starting in prose, but will change if you want
Summary: After not being able to find Molly all day Romeo asked on the network. He is now searching the whole tower looking for her.
Warnings: Lots of sadness

No. Molly was not gone. Romeo was not going to believe it, because it just couldn't be so. She must just be hiding somewhere. Maybe she was sad and wanted to be alone. Though that wasn't really like Molly, maybe she had decided to go into the maze and got lost.

Or maybe the bad people had got her once and for all...

No... He had to keep his spirits up, she had to be somewhere. He began in the cafeteria, checking everywhere including the oven and the freezers. "MOLLY?" He called. He stopped people when he saw them asking if they'd seen her.

"She's bigger than me and wears cool hats and is a superhero!" He told them if they didn't know her by name. He checked all the floors, even the really scary ones. He swam about in the aquarium to see if she was in the water, and ran around the forest, remembering to look upwards in case she was hiding from the animals.

"MOLLY!"

He didn't find her. He ran through the dormitory halls poking his head into rooms and asking if people had seen her.

But he was starting to expect the answer no. It was impossible to keep his spirits up, tears kept welling in his eyes as he tore desperately through the last coridoors before pushing open the door to room 1-03 slowly with shaking hands. He ran over to Molly's bed, it was neater than it should be. He opened her trunk and stared for a few moments at the emptiness inside before a sob escaped his lips and he fled.

He had suspected it from the moment Ienzo had told him that her name wasn't on the list anymore. But now the truth came crashing down on him. Molly, his best friend in the tower, as best a friend as Alfredo had been was gone, gone and the bad people had taken her and were probably doing horrible horrible things to her.

He stumbled into his own room and crashed onto his bed sobbing, not even bothering to keep it quiet. Molly was gone and it was like all the light had been sucked out of the world.

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Ψiioniic beat him to it, wiping the tears away with gentle claws. "I don't know why they keep doing bad thingth," he admitted. "Some people enjoy theeing others in pain. It'th bad, evil, but they do it anyway. I'm thorry you and your friend had to get caught in it."

Romeo leant further towards Psiionic, he wasn't a child and so he shouldn't have to be held, but it had been a long time since someone had let him cry on them. It was strange because Psiionic wasn't his mum, and he was an adult and adults wern't meant to be nice to kids.

"I wish I could beat them all, but I am too small and don't know any magic and Molly is a superhero and they still managed to get her!"

"You might be small and not have magic, but you have friends who are big and who do," Ψiioniic reminded him softly, stroking his hair again. "Like me. If you find her and you need help, just call on me and I promithe I'll be there. And I'll bring SS, he'll be happy to help, too. I know you've got other friendth who will pitch in. That'th your power, Romeo - you make people like you and want to help you. You're a bit like SS that way. So if it wathn't for you and your determination to help her, there wouldn't be so many people looking for her or willing to rush to her rethcue. That means you're doing a lot for her, even if it doethn't feel like it right now."

Romeo looked up at Psiioniic with wide eyes, he was so used to being the one who helped all his friends he sometimes forgot that he could ask them for help as well. He managed a smile and nodded. "If I find everyone who I know and we work together we will be able to bring her back. And everyone else that they took as well!"

Now that was better. Ψiioniic much preferred Romeo's smile to his tears, and it looked like the boy was getting his spirit back. "Maybe. And at leatht we can support each other while we do it. I'm here for you any time you need to talk or whatever, okay?"

He wasn't as convinced as Romeo that simply trying hard would be enough to bring the girl back, let alone everyone who'd disappeared. There were too many strange things going on in this place, not least of which was the multiple versions of so many people running around. But that realization could come in its own time; he didn't want to crush Romeo again by pointing it out.

Romeo nodded, "Everything will be okay if we work together and help each other." It always was, even when things got really scary. He reached out to hug Psiioniic again, "Thank you Psiioniic!" He smiled at the troll.

"You're a really good friend." Even if he was an adult, it didn't really matter since the bad people hurt adults as well. And here you needed as many friends as you possibly could find!

"You're welcome, Romeo," Ψiioniic said, hugging him back gently. When he pulled back he stood up as well. Romeo seemed better now, and it would be inappropriate for him to continue the feelings jam beyond what was needed. He knew Signless would forgive him for this much, but there were limits.

Romeo smiled again as he stood up. He felt much better now, just like Psiioniic had said he would. He would need to make a plan and get his friends to help him but he would save Molly! Molly and everyone else! The bad people couldn't win if they all worked together.

His usual spirits restored he jumped to his feet as well, not one to sit still for long, he had work to do!

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