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( Sokka | Locked 100% )

... I need your help. And you can't tell anyone, okay?

( Aqua | Locked 100% )

Aqua... I know we haven't spoken that much, but I need to ask you a really, really big favor.

( Sanji | Locked 100% )

[ a long silence goes here. ] ... could I stay at your house tonight?

( Luke | Locked 100% )

I'd -- [ ... ] Can I see you?

[ Xion is out of the house today. Mostly because it's become almost impossible to stay there. She hasn't slept for more than a handful of hours since Vanitas attacked -- three days ago. She's so exhausted she can barely stay on her feet, but better awake and moving than a sitting target.

Who could sleep, knowing that at any minute someone stronger than you and your friends could break into your home and kill you whenever he wanted?

It's this question that drives her to address Luceti at large, once she's got herself settled on the railing of That One Bridge. Hey, it's like right next to her house and she wanted to sit on a bridge, so sue her. ]

( filtered AWAY from Vanitas and Saix | Locked 100% )

What would you do if you didn't feel safe in your own home anymore?

[ and this is to say nothing -- not a damn thing -- of how she feels about Roxas right now. He had no excuse -- what defense could you give? -- and Axel almost died -- for what? Why? Why had any of this happened? Does she blame Roxas, for extending the invitation, or Vanitas, for taking it? Even if she had something to say to him, she couldn't -- he hasn't been home in days.

It's a very numb Poppet that's sitting on that there railing, swinging her legs and staring at the water below. Please interrupt her thoughts -- for they are very grim ones. ]

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[ ... was all of that ... really just ... ]

[Well, if it's not healed properly, she's worried. But Ami puts her hand up quickly: She won't touch it without permission.]

[ ... just to make her smile? and laugh? and ... ]

[ ...

well.

then maybe he did win the real battle after all. ]

[ it's ... hard to know what to say to that. it helps little that she's visibly, obviously blushing, the gesture having, well, really touched her. and she hadn't even realized!

jeez, this feeling ... it's familiar, she knows it.

after a moment of just contemplating him in silence, Xion pulls her knees up to her chest, hugs them, and gives him one of the sweetest smiles she's ever given anybody. ]

... okay, I guess maybe you do win after all.

Each time, I kept on living because there were things I needed to do. I wasn't going to let him take that away from me, because doing so would mean that he had won, even if I was still alive. He wanted me to live in fear, to back down and cede my right to the throne.

... I refused to let him have that satisfaction.

He was refusing to go to the clinic, too, so ... we've just been trying to take care of him. [ the little bit of validation there is actually a relief, and she sighs. ]

I -- I know, it's just -- I really don't want anyone else to get hurt! I just ... want a way to stop it. Maybe it's stupid, to think that...

No, it's alright. I really appreciate what you've done already. What's your name?

... I need to apologize to him ... it was me who told him to go fight Vanitas. I wasn't thinking...

No. And, well... I guess you could keep killing him until the penalties became too much, but ... [ :/ ] People would still get hurt trying to do it. I just keep thinking there must be a way to hide... A friend of mine suggested some powerful magic. I want to try it.

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I think so... it's hidden from sight, so even if you know it's there, I don't think you can get in... at least, I'm pretty sure. But I know Hermione wouldn't have suggested that to me unless it would really work, so... I trust her.

[Ah crap, he just made it worse, didn't he? And he doesn't know what to doo.]

... I will. Thank you, Sokka. I'll owe you one.

Yeah, you will. But don't worry, I won't hold it against you.

I'm sorry, it's just--! That sounded kinda funny...

[ yawns again. it's like, now that she's started yawning, she just can't stop. she more or less knows the way -- she's been here so many times, after all -- and once they reach Sanji's room, she'll spring onto the bed with what little energy she has left. at least, into a sitting position, so she can take off her boots without getting her not!mom's bed all gross. ]

What will you do for the next few hours?

[ well. if you can't take courage from words like that ...

... what words can you take courage from? ]

Refused to let him have the satisfaction... you're right. I won't let him scare me. [ easier said than done, but. ] I ... I have to be strong. I will be strong.

... Vanitas ... he always wears this black mask over his head, and this black bodysuit. ... keep an eye out for him, okay? [ smiles a little at him, weakly. ] And kick his butt for me if you see him.

A way to hide the house with magic, so no one can find it... except for us, and one or two people we trust to keep it secret.

[... Well also he just really likes teasing and wrestling, but yes, that was the main reason for all of it.

But more importantly! HAHA, SHE ADMITTED IT. Luke grins and breaks his gaze away from the sky to look up at her from the ground.]

Ha!

Black mask and bodysuit...'kay. [He smiles slightly himself.] I will. I promise you that. [Though if Naoki actually runs into him, well. He won't hold back.]

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[... Only to be caught off-guard by that smile. He hardly ever gets ones like that...]

[... Oh jeez, there's that little feeling he never figured out. DEFENSE MECHANISM GO: TSUNDERE MODE.]

O-Of course I do. I knew I was going to win!

[ they're both blushing. at each other. this is one of the few times Xion really realizes it. jeez, they must look really silly right now...

smiling crookedly, she edges out a toe to nudge him. ]

Did you really?

[ O CRONA, DAT FACE. Xion sighs. ]

... hopefully he won't be too upset. He doesn't seem to get upset very easily, anyway...

I'm Rosalia. What about you?

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