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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: Heads up

Hi Topaz,

I hope you are having a good time in India and that you find what you are looking for.

I emailed you because I wished to give you a heads up about some new people at the mansion. Apperently Ms. Sefton picked up two new students... a girl named Clea Lake and a boy named Stephen Strange...

I seem to remember you mentioning the last one a few times and I can only say that the Frankenberrycat has a very strange sense of humor.

Hope

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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: RE: Heads up

Strange. Really. Amanda teaching Strange. That's brilliant.

One more reason to never go back there, I guess.

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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: RE: Heads up

Whoa? Never coming back?

I mean, this cannot be any stranger then encountering any other of the people again... or can it?

Hope

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From: Topaz
To: Abbott, Hope
Subject: RE: Heads up

I just don't want to go back, Hope. This isn't just a trip. I never planned on going back.

Just don't tell anyone else yet, alright? Not quite sure how to tell Amanda.

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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: Heads up

I will not tell anyone. Though I would not wait too long with telling Ms. Sefton.

I am just really wondering why. Even with all that has happened, it is still home. At least it is for me.

Where will you go?

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From: Topaz
To: Abbott, Hope
Subject: RE: Heads up

I'm working on it. Telling Amanda something she doesn't want to hear is complicated at the best of times. Telling Amanda something she wants to hear on top of "Guess what you're now teaching your teacher" isn't a conversation I'm looking forward to.

It's not home for me anymore. Everyone has a place now. You have your job Keller, Amanda has her new students, everyone has their teams. I don't have those things.

I'll probably go back to England once I'm done in India. Shouldn't be much longer. And no offense to India but I'm glad I didn't grow up here. Too bloody hot.

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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: Re: Heads up

True, though I think waiting is not going to soften the blow. I do not know Ms. Sefton well, but from what you have told me I suspect you might end up with a visit in person?

I have something of a place, yes, but it is not like it was. But I managed to find a spot for myself. Why would you not able to do the same. I am sure you still have your spot with Ms. Sefton.

And what do you hope to find in England then?

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From: Topaz
To: Abbott, Hope
Subject: RE: Heads up

Nothing's going to make it better. The waiting is more for my benefit.

I'm happier out of the mansion for three months than I was for the seven I was there. And yeah, I'm sure I still have my spot with Amanda, and I care about her, but let's be real here, she has bigger things to worry about than her mental case student. I'm tired of being a burden to her.

I don't know. Maybe I'll look for my dad. I don't even know if he's still alive.

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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: Re: Heads up

I very much doubt it she will see it that way and that she will want you to at least visit.

Maybe you can go to England after that?

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From: Topaz
To: Abbott, Hope
Subject: RE: Heads up

Yeah well, maybe we can meet on neutral grounds or something. She's rather fond of England I'm sure she wouldn't mind dropping in to visit.

If he's anywhere it'll be England. Or that's what I'm hoping for anyways. I just want to know if he's alive, I don't want to see him or anything.

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From: Abbott, Hope
To: Topaz
Subject: Re: Heads up

That might work as well, yes.

I do hope you will return some day, but I can understand why you wish to stay away as well...