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 Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:00 pm
Nami hung back by the door, afraid to complicate things, trying to puzzle out Reeve's answer. The resentment was still behind the name but she didn't ask. Instead she sank down until she was sitting against the doorframe, knees drawn to her chest.
It seemed like an eternity ago that she'd been before the mirror, realizing that it was real, she was having a baby because her stomach wasn't quite as flat as it used to be. Something so mundane but exciting. Terrifying but somehow re-assuring.
God, I let that thing touch me... How long had I been blind to it?
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:02 pm
"Clow," Reeve says in a friendly tone, to let Clow know he's joking, "If you don't stop that talk, I'll go to work on your jaw. Ev'ryone I know goes through what you're thinkin'- I hate t'say it but it's part of being a warrior."
He then takes Clow's hand and carefully folds it into a fist on the bedside.
" Feel no remorse for what you do, or what you have done. I know you- if there was another way, you'd have done it. Clow, you're a fighter from a long line of 'em, as am I, and Neko, and Seph and most ev'ryone 'ere at the Academy. We're all a different breed. What you 'ave to remember is, no matter how hard and rough and gorey it all may seem, innocent people, men, women and children, can sleep soundly in their beds because we stand vigilant and ready to do violence on their behalf. As I said, I know you. You were protecting Nami, and if not, you were protecting yourself. And from what I gather, ridding the world of an evil while you were at it. Feel no shame, my brother."
Reeve gives a private shiver. His speech, however sincere, seemed to echo of one-too-many letters that had to be written home to mothers and fathers once upon a time.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:10 pm
Clow tried to smile some and then nodded letting it get bigger for a small moment, and then he looked to the door.
"Thanks Reeve...Where's...Nami? Is she okay?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:18 pm
" Just a little shook up, I think. She's just outside."
He gestures vaguely toward the door as he starts wrapping bandages where they need be.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:28 pm
Nami heard her name mentioned and tilted her head towards the room but made no move to get up. The exhaustion was tugging at her and she felt as though her body were lead despite her mind shouting at her to go in and assure Clow, tell him he wasn't a monster, wasn't whatever horrible thoughts were in his head.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:30 pm
Clow nodded to him and then looked up at the ceiling.
"Will you tell her I'll be okay? And that it's a promise..."
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:34 pm
Reeve leans over to look out the door, directly at Nami as he speaks.
"She knows, mate."
Finished working for now, he takes a step back to survey Clow.
"Well, that's about all I can do for now. Take pain medicines as needed, but no more, and I can't stress this enough. Stay off your feet, got it?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:37 pm
Clow wanted to get up and about, but Reeve was right. In Clow's state...it was a bad idea, even if he could move.
"Aye, Aye Doc..."
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:48 pm
Nami allowed a soft smile to turn her features at the familiarity of the two, their easy report. It seemed to bring a sense of normalcy to everything else.
She peered longingly at Clow's bed, wanting to set up a cot beside it, wanting to summon Byakugan just so she could read his chakra, every tenketsu and know it was him, once again relish the familiarity. His chakra had always been like a beacon, so much stronger than their peers.
But she was too tired, wasn't sure if she could do anything at all so instead stayed where she was.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:52 pm
"She's welcome to come in when she's ready to Reeve...ut she probably already knows that."
Smiling slightly, he nodded and Clow's chakra level flickered to what it normally was, and then dropped again.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:53 pm
" Miss Nami," Reeve says impudently to lighten the mood, " If you promise to behave I'll let you sleep in here tonight."
~It might do to have everyone in a centralized location tonight~ he thinks, looking with unease in the direction of Neko's office.
Awaiting her response, Reeve goes across the aisle to check the tempuratures of Motoko and Yuki, resting his hand on Yuki's forhead only slightly longer.
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:19 pm
A loud 'BANG' echoed throughout the Dojo, followed by a string of unintelligible curses and swears. Seconds later, the bookcase lifted and Seph shuffled out, pressing the palm of his hand to his forehead, still mumbling a few choice words about the bookcase lifting mechanism and whatnot. The bookcase shuts behind him, and he heads into the kitchen. "I know I have one in here somewhere.. I KNOW it.."
What are you looking for, Meek?
None of your-... Ah, something important. Very important.
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:20 pm
By way of the narrator killing time, Reeve leans against the wall, looking from patient to patient to the door. Watching the clock tick painfully by, he sinks back into another time.
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:35 pm
Yuki's eyes flicked open as she stared weakly at the ceiling for a moment. Was it... pink? She cocked her head to the side a bit, staring at it, then the walls before sitting up. She saw that woman from last night in a bed near her, Reeve sitting on the floor, watching a clock, and a couple on the other end of the room. Was that that creepy kid that jumped out of no where? What was his name... Clow?
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:37 pm
Reeve snaps back to reality as Yuki wakes, tearing his gaze away from the clock.
"Hello, Yuki."
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