* Katie keeps her eyes on the door. Everyone else left! [Taki hasn't!] (I are the still here!) * Taki lets go of Katies hand, but doesn't stand up, "I..." * Katie turns her head, looking to Taki once her hand's dropped. * Taki sighs and shakes her head, "I...don't know where to begin...I think...this is my fault..." What? * Taki looks at Katies face, "About....about a month ago...Do you remember the snowball fight? Kyon was up on the roof...and we teleported behind him and plastered him..." * Katie looks past Taki, and her brow furrows a little. "Maybe?" * Taki nods, "The night before it I had a lot of nightmares...but the first one...The first one actualy happened..." I... you.... The one who isn't you called me on the phone...and I went to go meet her at the Tower. * Katie was about to fall asleep again, but that wakes her right up. "The Tower?" The Tower...Tokyo Tower reversed. And when I got there we talked. Not me? Not you. Very much not you...But I didn't know that then... * Katie jerks her hand away from Taki a little, but keeps her attention on her. She said...that yo...she loved Satoshi... * Taki lets Katie take her hand back without resistance. * Katie looks past Taki again and licks her lips. "Don't remember." You wern't there. Oh. * Taki looks at Katie, "...do you want something to drink?" * Katie looks confused for a moment, then comprehension dawns and she grips her sheets with the hand away from Taki. "Not coming. Not here?" She's not going to come in here. Promise? On my life. * Katie doesn't release the grip. "Okay." * Taki looks away from Katie to see if there's a pitcher of water. [There is!] * Taki walks over to it and pours out a cupfull. She continues to talk, but even softer than before, "...And that's my problem...I can't love Satoshi as much as somebody else could..." * Katie blinks, and her grip relaxes. "What?" * Taki walks back to Katie and holds out the cup. Her voice is still soft, but a little firmer, "She wanted me to back off away from Satoshi...If anybody else had asked...I would have refused instantly...but...I told myself as long as the two of you were happy..." ...You and Satoshi...were happy... * Taki looks down at the cup. But... not happy? * Katie notices the cup, too, and reaches over with both hands. It takes some effort, but she does. * Taki holds it out for Katie, and if needed holds it steady for her to drink. * Katie takes it from Taki and draws it to her mouth. Most of the water spills on the way, but there's some left that she ends up drinking. * Taki looks around for a towel or a napkin, "I...couldn't do it...I tried...But everytime I tried to push him away...it hurt...And thinking that you were angry at me hurt...And I didn't know what to do." * Katie lets her hands drop, and her eyes start to close. "Okay." * Taki takes the cup from Katie and tries to mop her up, "So I tried not to see...That I was hurting Satoshi...that you were acting differently...Because then it didn't hurt as much...But because of that I didn't see that there was another you...I knew...for an entire month I knew...but I didn't belive...and because of that..." * Katie opens her eyes again. She looks wildly at Taki. "You knew?" * Taki speaks in her normal volume,"Would you drive apart friends? Would you ever give up art? Would you ever sit and watch people tear themselves apart and not care? That isn't you. And yet I belived it was even more than I belived it couldn't be you." * Katie listens, maybe. But at the same time, she repeats: "You knew. You knew. She's not me. Can't be." She is not you. She is not Katie Andrews. (assuming I've remembered the right brackets for English) (You have!) (Yay me and my char who only speaks the language once ever fourty sessions) * Katie smiles, a little. "" * Katie lets her eyes close. "" * Taki waits for Katie to fall asleep -or at least give a good impression of doing so- before continuing, "You are Katie...the one who has half my heart."