It’s been a few days since you’ve all settled in the INTERPOL base. Odette has been working restlessly in that time, trying to figure out every single intricacy of her plan.
it’s simple:
dream returns to town hall with odette in tow, since he was captured to track her down in the first place. once they make it into town hall, odette will release two bots. these bots will run around and find all of the exits, entrances, and any other useful bits of information.
once all the information is secured, george will use the original blueprint found in the bot, match it with the information the bots have, and will work alongside everyone to map out a plan to get in and get Schlatt’s computer into his hands. From there, jupiter, george, and fundy will figure out how to get into the computer with the help of sam. during this time, kristin and niki will work on recharging magic and healing while techno trains.
and while the plan is seemingly fool proof, it leads to one question: what is happening with the soul-merging?
which is where odette finds herself pacing.
tubbo is getting worse and tommy and ranboo refuse to leave his side. she can’t blame them at all, she wished someone had done that for her. not that anyone even knew she had soul-merged. dream works around the clock to feed tubbo different medications, and to teach ranboo and tommy how to take care of him. odette works on a cure of chicken noodle soup and warm towels for him for the moments he’s awake, and she works on transforming the saved vials into medication to literally heal his soul.
she once read a book called chicken noodle soup for the soul, she never expected to take it literally.
she’s standing in the kitchen when jupiter approaches her. they’d been spending all of their time practicing coding— and asking sam for advice on the whole joann/odette situation. it had been revealed that joann’s bot was leaking a mind control gas that allowed everyone to fall for schlatt’s trick after george had done a “robo-autopsy” and everyone had felt sick after learning the truth.
jupiter felt sick everytime she thought of it, even though she knew most— if not all of her real memories of odette were actually her.
“hi.” she whispers and odette jumps from where she stands by Tubbo’s bed, turning as she pushes her glasses up and onto her head. his heart monitor beeps a constant tune, and his eyes lay closed, asleep and peaceful.
“hi, jupiter.” odette smiles softly, “that’s what you wanna be called now, right?”
“mhm.” jupiter pauses. everything they had planned to say falling out of their mind.
odette sighs, clasping her hands infront of her, “look… I’m sorry about all this. i should’ve been more careful, or tried to reach out to you all sooner.”
“I feel like you shouldn’t be apologizing for all of this. you… you probably went through a lot.” jupiter sighs, “i wish i had noticed that you were different.”
“schlatt’s only getting more powerful. it’s not your fault you didn’t notice. No one did.” odette steps closer, gently holding out a hand to cup jupiters face, “i’m so sorry, jupiter.”
“don’t be, ode.” jupiter whispers, stepping closer to grab odette’s hand that rests on her cheek, “we’re gonna move forward together.”
“together…” odette breaks into a grin for the first time in a few days.
“i missed you. the real you.” jupiter looks up, smiling soft.
“me too.” odettes voice barely comes out, but she closes her eyes and bumps their heads together.
