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CALLING: ROXAS
[ Quiet again. He doesn't know if it's head so much as his heart... ]
Okay. [ And because he is in fact a nice kid, ] Sorry for the trouble.
[ Quiet again. He doesn't know if it's head so much as his heart... ]
Okay. [ And because he is in fact a nice kid, ] Sorry for the trouble.
CALLING: Vakarian, Garrus
Don't tell me that. Show me that. By not getting the both of us killed.
Don't tell me that. Show me that. By not getting the both of us killed.
CALLING: D'ARTAGNAN
Roxas, meet me in the training rooms. We need to talk.
Roxas, meet me in the training rooms. We need to talk.
CALLING: ROXAS
Okay.
[ He figures... that's all he's supposed to say and just goes to the training rooms. He stares at the floor the entire way there. ]
Okay.
[ He figures... that's all he's supposed to say and just goes to the training rooms. He stares at the floor the entire way there. ]
[ D'Artagnan will be waiting for him. He's found a free room, and there's various weapons laid out - all sword-based, but blunted, for training. He doesn't look stern or angry, but he does look serious.
Taking in Roxas' expression, he holds the door to the room open. ]
Come in. We need to talk.
Or, actually, you talk. Tell me what happened.
[ He figures he doesn't need to say what he means. ]
Taking in Roxas' expression, he holds the door to the room open. ]
Come in. We need to talk.
Or, actually, you talk. Tell me what happened.
[ He figures he doesn't need to say what he means. ]
[ The fury he had felt when he had heard Ansem's voice is long time. The bewildering tears and feeling of helplessness have left him downtrodden and muted. Not the eager boy who had told D'artagnan how much he wanted his heart to grow stronger. ]
The last time I tried to hit him... I was trapped inside a computer He trapped me there, and when he showed up he was just a projection and I couldn't hit him. So when I realized he was really here all I wanted to do was punch him in the face.
[ He doesn't sound particularly pleased with himself though. ]
The last time I tried to hit him... I was trapped inside a computer He trapped me there, and when he showed up he was just a projection and I couldn't hit him. So when I realized he was really here all I wanted to do was punch him in the face.
[ He doesn't sound particularly pleased with himself though. ]
[ D'Artagnan shuts the door behind him. He doesn't want to make this worse, doesn't want to upset someone who's clearly already upset. Because that won't help anyone.
But he well knows that the rage won't either, if it comes back at the wrong time. ]
What did he do in the first place, to make you want to hit him?
But he well knows that the rage won't either, if it comes back at the wrong time. ]
What did he do in the first place, to make you want to hit him?
[ His mouth thins. Garrus had asked him if he had been provoked, and he hadn't been. Ansem hadn't even noticed him until Roxas had turned to confront him. ]
I hate him.
I hate him.
[ D'Artagnan folds his arms, tucking his hands in against his chest. His face stays clear. ]
Why?
Why?
He kidnapped me, he erased my memories... He hurt my friends.
[ There's something about the memories especially which stings at him. He had gotten them back eventually, but not before he had destroyed his relationship with Axel. The last of his friends still living. ]
He did it to make sure I wouldn't exist anymore. Because someone else was more important.
[ The feeling of helplessness is cloying. His frustration and betrayal trying to sink him. ]
[ There's something about the memories especially which stings at him. He had gotten them back eventually, but not before he had destroyed his relationship with Axel. The last of his friends still living. ]
He did it to make sure I wouldn't exist anymore. Because someone else was more important.
[ The feeling of helplessness is cloying. His frustration and betrayal trying to sink him. ]
[ She actually takes a step back again when he asks her why. The question knocks her completely off balance. Not just because it's not what she expected to hear, but because of the emotion behind it. The harshness. It's like ... he's scared.
The outcome he tells her is very strange to hear, like someone else is listening to it and she's just taking it in from afar. It doesn't sound like her life, it doesn't sound real, and yet ... and yet, she knows instantly in her heart that it's the truth. ]
Roxas...
[ Don't cry, says a piece of her memories that don't belong to her.
But she can't watch his tears and not react, even if she hasn't the least idea of what to do. So instead she acts on instinct, closing the distance between them and taking both of his hands in her own. She presses them together and curls her fingers around them, bringing them up right to the level of her heart. ]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry ... that I had to leave you like that. Even though it hasn't happened for me yet ... I know it had to be that way. There wasn't any other choice. If I didn't decide to go ... something awful would have happened to you. [ She tries a smile, little and sad though it is. ] You're my best friend. I'd do anything for you. And besides ... Sora needed me, too. So, please ... don't cry.
The outcome he tells her is very strange to hear, like someone else is listening to it and she's just taking it in from afar. It doesn't sound like her life, it doesn't sound real, and yet ... and yet, she knows instantly in her heart that it's the truth. ]
Roxas...
[ Don't cry, says a piece of her memories that don't belong to her.
But she can't watch his tears and not react, even if she hasn't the least idea of what to do. So instead she acts on instinct, closing the distance between them and taking both of his hands in her own. She presses them together and curls her fingers around them, bringing them up right to the level of her heart. ]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry ... that I had to leave you like that. Even though it hasn't happened for me yet ... I know it had to be that way. There wasn't any other choice. If I didn't decide to go ... something awful would have happened to you. [ She tries a smile, little and sad though it is. ] You're my best friend. I'd do anything for you. And besides ... Sora needed me, too. So, please ... don't cry.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
Hi. I hope you're doing okay.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I think I'm gonna be guarding some people investigating the deaths.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I'm supposed to keep busy and not get in any more trouble.
Hi. I hope you're doing okay.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I think I'm gonna be guarding some people investigating the deaths.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I'm supposed to keep busy and not get in any more trouble.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I punched one of the new blues in the face.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I don't really want to talk about it anymore...
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
Garrus apologized to Ghost for me, so it's kind of okay as long as I don't do anything else.
I punched one of the new blues in the face.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I don't really want to talk about it anymore...
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
Garrus apologized to Ghost for me, so it's kind of okay as long as I don't do anything else.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
Yes.
[ He's bee lectured so much lately ;~; ]
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I won't do it again.
Yes.
[ He's bee lectured so much lately ;~; ]
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I won't do it again.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
Yeah... that's where it happened.
Yeah... that's where it happened.
[ YES THAT WAS IN FACT HIS PLAN. ]
roxas@cdc.org
It will be fine...
roxas@cdc.org
It will be fine...
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
I don't know. We got assigned to the same room.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
It... really sucks.
I don't know. We got assigned to the same room.
FROM: roxas@cdc.org
It... really sucks.
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