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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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I think the only one of us who could stand a chance is Aqua. She's a Keyblade Master. If anyone's skilled enough, it's her.

[He brushes one hand through his hair.]

Besides, maybe she knows how to deal with him.

... there's Ven, too ... [ guiltyfeelings about sending the poor boy after Vanitas. ]

Still, I ... even if they can handle him, what if they get hurt doing it? They couldn't keep fighting him off forever... and even if he died, he'd just come back. We need something else.

Well, we don't have many options. It's not like we can trap him anywhere, so we'll have to make sure he doesn't find us.

And if he does, we'll just have to make sure we're strong enough. If we took him on as a group, maybe it'd be enough to slow him down.

... how, is the only question... I hope I can find something.

[ frowns again, though for a different reason this time. ] ... slow him down ... not even stop him.

Either way, it's worth a shot.

[He groans, looking over the edge of the bridge.]

There's no way to stop anyone here, so it's all we can do. I wish there was some other way, but the only other option's to kill him again and again until the penalties get the best of him.

[And he's not sure he could do something like that, especially since Vanitas...

Heh.]

Edited 2011-01-09 02:01 (UTC)

[ ... mixed feelings. she glances at him, unable to tell if he's serious or not ... then shakes her head. ]

From the way he acts... that'd just annoy him, anyway.

Yeah. Besides, I wasn't serious about killing him.

[He shrugs.]

Whatever happens, I'll do my best to make sure you and Kairi don't get hurt.

[ ... she just looks at him, something almost like a smile on her face. gently: ]

... just make sure you don't get hurt, too.

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