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 Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:57 pm
He'd never ran so fast in his life.
His heart was still pumping as he got to his apartment, unlocked the door, ushered both Ume and himself inside, then locked it right back behind them.
As if he'd been afraid that she was still following them.
"Mein gott..." His heart was racing, and his mind was overwhelmed - he only knew two things - his name... was Naica, and he was a page of Cosmos.
Whatever that was supposed to mean.
Ume looked alright, at least. This was the important part, right ? "Are you alright ?" He asked her, worry and fear making his accent even thicker than it usually was.
They could really use a date that didn't go wrong.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:02 pm
“I can’t believe it…”She gasped half laughing. If one good thing had come from the fight; it was the fact she now knew that her paramour was a knight. He was in a strange way ‘like her.’
“Are you ok?” She asked panting, her own uniform had changed that battle, Eternal Sailor, wings, useless though they were now sprouted from her sash. No longer gloves but gauntlets and the power that had unlocked itself…well, it was unsettling to say the least. Brutal and bloody, begetting further blood.
“I had no idea that you… I mean you look, cute! Really cute…not really dangerous though but, but someone must know about knights!”
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:55 pm
"I had no idea either !" Breathe, Daniel, breathe. He sat down, catching his breath, and that was when Liddell came out to say hello, rubbing herself against's Daniel's ankles before winding around Ume's and sitting, meowed, waiting to be picked up.
Wouldn't you know, she was wearing black.
"It just.. I ran off, the crystal popped in front of me, I touched it and..." Well. Ume had seen for herself.
"What's a Naica anyway ? Or a page of Cosmos ?" So confused. "My feet hurts. Those heels sucks..."
Ume on the other hand... Well, had been breathtaking. She always was, no matter what.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:59 pm
She laughed. “Oh god, I don’t know… we’re all named after stars so it must be –something- I imagine?” She recalled his shoes too though; there was a small heel but nothing too very serious in her mind.
“Darling, Naica, those… are barely heels. Those my love are –flats.” She put her foot down and laughed again. “I have been jumping building tops in high heels and Victorian boots since before I ever met you, you’ll get used to it I think.” She meant well but she did find it funny. Admittedly it had taken a great deal of practice not to snap her ankle like a twig on the landing. She’d come close a few times even now, but at least her boots had fantastic ankle support.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:36 pm
Ume seemed rather.... well, happy about all this. Given that her boyfriend had just been proven to not be a creature of darkness, that probably was a good reason. For poor Daniel, however, this was all freak out party.
If a cat could have pouted, Liddell might as well have - coiling around Ume's ankles one more time before instead jumping and settling in Daniel's lap.
"I've never heard of anything called Naica... And really, that... outfit... is an accident waiting to happen." So much danglies. What the eff.
And in all honesty ? He wasn't sure he wanted to get used to it. This was scary, and foreign, and.... !!!
AAAgh. "At least we got away." The fact that she'd known that girl was... curious, but he knew better than to ask.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:58 pm
She gave him an enormous hug, what else was there to do. He was on their side, he was on their side and it was glorious. “I’m sorry you’re part of this” She said earnestly. “But I’m so glad you’re on our side. I’m so glad…she might have taken you and I don’t know what I would have done.”
She gazed up at him. “There is so much I can tell you about the Senshi, but I don’t even know where to start with knights, we should look up Naica, maybe it will tell us something! An Cosmos, I know a sailor cosmos, maybe she’ll know what’s going on, she’s sometimes hard to find but she’s just the sweetest person.”
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:32 pm
"...Take me ? She could have done that ?" Okay, that seemed scary as s**t. He didn't want to be in the same room as psycho-red-hair and the creepy as hell feeling she all but radiated from every pores, even less...
God.
"I think... she would have killed me if I hadn't gotten away." His voice wavered, accent thicker and more pronounced under the emotion. "She was looking at me like... like if I was just a toy to her."
"There is a Sailor Cosmos ?" Hm. "It might be a good idea to ask her, then..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:03 pm
“They, they took her.” She said carefully, and suddenly sad, “We used to be part of a team, She’s sailor Lyra and she used to be on our side.” She shook her head and gazed up at him with a deep sorrow in her eyes. “Something, after the last battle, the big one…well you weren’t there but there was a Phoenix Youma. They took her away that day and the next time I saw her she was like that.” She shook her head and squeezed him tight.
“I don’t know what they said but she just looked so scared, and then she walked away with them. It’s a terrible power that moves them, that changes everyone who’s tied to them. Cosmos says its possible to save them from that but it’s just so…” She shook her head looking anxious.
“I’m sorry, I know that’s a lot to take in on a… first day.”
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:03 pm
"That's..." The words died in his throat, broken and useless. Terrible didn't seem to come close enough to describe... this. What had been done to this Lyra... who had apparently once been a friend to Ume.
He closed his arms around her, not knowing what to say. These were... the kind of things that should stay in stories, and never happen in real life.
"It's okay." He said, and meant it. If it made her feel better to talk about all this, then he could deal with being so lost and confused. "They won't take me, Ume. I'll be fine."
He needed to believe that, if only for her.
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:07 am
“I hope so…” She murmured and squeezed him in turn. “I haven’t heard of any knights taken, but, you’re all so new who knows what might happen. I can’t even…” She shook her head and leaned into him. “I wish I knew why this was even happening sometimes. People keep dying, I mean they always do but somehow every new death makes me wonder if it was they or if it was really an accident. Sometimes I wonder if we don’t cause accidents too, if I thought we were terrorists and I saw fighting I might do something out of fear like…drive off the road or worse. I just don’t know sometimes.”
She shook her head and just held him close, the safety of a moment with someone she cared about.
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:15 pm
It was a lot to take in, all at once, but Daniel was doing his best to soak it all like a sponge, not moving his arms from around hers.
She needed this, right now. Even if that was the only thing he truly understood, well... That was the most important.
"But if you..." He paused. "we..." The word felt so alien, so strange on his tongue. Good lord, what he had somehow subconsciously done ? "don't fight... That would be worse, wouldn't it ? I mean... They have to be doing all this for a reason, right ?" He mused. "The antagonist always has a goal - no one does... things like this just for shits and giggles unless they're very off in the head, and I doubt all of them are..."
Yes, even when in shock, he used author metaphors.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:46 pm
“I don’t know…” She shook her head. “Whatever happened with Lyra, it’s like she’s someone else. What if that’s true for all of them? It’s like putting on a scary mask but the mask is like an infection.” She murmured.
“If they see the world through whatever light that mask WANTS them too then maybe there IS no end to the war.”
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:50 pm
The words were chilling indeed. "I don't know..."
Of course he didn't, and he let go, only briefly, to run an hand through the heavy curls of his hairs. Nervous habit - she would know that by now, through that particular tick had been showing up less and less in her presence as of late, unless an outside factor was worrying him.
This was probably as good as one as any, really.
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:35 am
“It’s alright, I never said…” She whispered and shook her head. “Sometimes I wonder if they took my ‘Sister’ too, but I’ll never know for sure and sometimes I think that’s what hurts the most. It’s just not fair, so many of us are so young but we’re out there expected to fight and, sometimes we’re just expected to die. How can something like that happen, it’s bad enough when people fight with guns but we have monsters and magic and… alien worlds.”
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:50 pm
He had to admit, it was all ******** up. All of it. Everything still felt so raw and surreal, completely and utterly.
He still wasn't sure what to even say to Ume, what words might comfort her... If such words even existed.
"...Well, that was certainly the most memorable birthday I ever had." A lame attempt to cheer her up, perhaps, and he gave her that shy, awkward smile. "I'll make sense of this." Hopefully.
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