[Day: Saturday, March 22nd. Time: 3:30 p.m.] [Weather: Cool, partially cloudy.] [You're at the hospital again!... There's really not much else to say, besides that. Remi looks like she's dozing off or something, so...] [Session Start!] * Haruko walks in with a small stack of magazines, all apparently related to aviation. "Hi Katie! Want some reading material?" * Katie is hugging a pillow. She looks like she's been crying, and she nearly screams when Haruko walks in. This is a great way to end the school day. * Haruko drops the magazine and starts to rush over to Katie, and then slows a bit and holds her hands out and empty. "It's okay, it's me, if you want you can look at my eyes, or I could come up with a dumb idea or tell you stuff that'd bore you about engines." * Katie waves for Haruko to stop. "Just- just stay right there." She looks her in the eyes. * Haruko stops and drops to a knee, letting Katie see her dark, but blue speckled eyes clearly. * Katie blinks, then relaxes just a little. "Okay." She looks at her lap. "Sorry." * Kaede stumbles forward slowly and looks carefully in the room. He's still favoring the leg a little, but not as much as he looks around, leaning on the doorframe for support. * Katie jerks her head up at the sound of Kaede's entering and looks directly at him. * Kaede just looks back, kinda focusing on her silently. * Haruko nods and gathers up the magazines. She puts them on a table near Katie and then walks up to her bedside. "Kaede, let her look at your eyes before coming closer." She then turns to Katie. "Want a hug or something? I normally wouldn't bother to ask, but with all you've been through..." (*Taki does not give Haruko a dirty look, she's not there yet to do so. :P) (It's okay Taki, Haruko wants a different hospital patient. :P) 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-6) and gets 2. * Katie blinks a couple times, then rubs at her eyes, hugging the pillow with her other arm. She doesn't respond to Haruko. (Oh, and all the PCs should have another full days worth of healing, unless they turned Haruko down.) * Haruko gingerly tries to give Katie a hug, she's a little unnaturally tenative in the motion, and doesn't try to hold on too tight, so it'd be easy to reject. * Satoshi walks into the room, presumably accompanied by Taki. He's carrying a small flat package in his hands. * Katie doesn't jerk away, so it's probably okay. She's busy looking at Satoshi, then Taki. * Satoshi gives a tentative smile and a shy wave. "Hi?" * Kaede frowns at Katie as he walks forward. He takes a small glance at Remi too though. * Taki is a few steps behind Satoshi, and also carrying a package, although hers is much narrower. She speaks quietly, "Hi Katie, sorry we're late." * Katie blinks, a few tears squeezing out. "Hi. It's okay." * Haruko hugs Katie a bit tighter then, and holds on for about half a minute. "It'll be alright, I'm going to get a fingerprint scanner, they won't get away with it again." I- I don't think that'll work. * Taki blinks at Haruko, "You can get that sort of thing? ...Wow..." * Haruko grins. "We can check it first. I've got her tape recorder. I can check if you've got the same prints." * Kaede peers at Remi as he speaks offhand to Haruko. "You're damned right they won't. I don't think--" He bites his lip. "Okay, no one goes anywhere without someone else with them." * Remi very suddenly sits up in bed. * Kaede walks over to Remi, without missing a beat. * Haruko lets go and steps back. * Taki looks over at Remi as she moves. * Katie shivers a little and looks over at Remi. ( Haruko finds that the fingerprints on the tape recorder match hers. Doh. ) * Remi grabs her bandaged hand and starts to cry. ( Well, presumably there'd be a couple that don't. :P) * Satoshi looks over at Remi and sighs briefly, then turns his attention back to Katie. * Kaede walks over to Remi and kneels by her bedside, putting his hands over her bandages, speaking softly. "It's okay, it's okay.." * Katie goes back to hugging her pillow and looking out the door, as though she's expecting someone else to come in. (Way to go, Satoshi. "Oh, she's just whining about her hand again." :P) * Taki shakes her head and then looks away from Remi. (What do you want me to do? Nothing I can really say, and Kaede's sort of got it covered.) * Haruko walks over to Remi, and gently checks whether she can be healed without interrupting the recovery process. "Retinal scanning would almost definately work, but that's more expensive." (I mean, is there some other way I'm supposed to react? ^^;) ( Even better :P "Kaede's got Remi covered, I'll handle Katie... Haruko, go cover Ryuji, eh?" ) (Speaking as a guy...Not realy.) (Brett's just being contrary. ;P) (*snerk* Thanks, RDM. ;p) ( Sure!) (No problem, now then can we hand these packages over before a reversed card comes in and gloats about kidnapping Chikako? :P) * Haruko sighs and looks down for a moment, and then steps away from Remi. * Taki gives Satoshi a gentle push twords Katie. ( Suddenly, random ninja attack! ) * Satoshi is gently pushed and walks over to Katie's bedside. "We brought something for you." He shows her the package. (Pointless robotic ninjas?) ( It's a hand! ) (No, that's for Remi. ;p) * Katie looks at the package for a long moment before she takes and opens it. * Taki follows Satoshi and waits a few steps behind him. * Haruko looks slightly sheepish and stands over in a far corner of the room and looks out the window. * Katie pulls a very nice, clean sketchpad out of the wrapping. She flips through it and manages a weak smile. "Thank you." You're welcome. Thank Taki, really; this was her idea. * Taki blushes a bit and then steps forward to offer Katie another package. * Katie sets the pad on her lap and looks up, questioningly, at Taki before taking the other package. "Thanks, Taki." Don.Don't worry about it. * Katie opens this one, too. Whoo! * Katie smiles at this one, too, rolling the pencils with one hand. "Yeah, thanks." * Taki gives Katie a weak grin, "It was the least we could do." * Katie nods a couple times. "Remi... hasn't been doing so good." * Haruko turns back to the group and sas softly. "I can heal her once the stitches are out." * Taki looks over at Remi and Kaede, "I wish...there was something I could do for them." * Remi looks quickly at Haruko. "How does your power work? How much can you heal?" * Katie keeps rolling the pencils in place. * Satoshi glances back at them. "Me too." Then he looks at Katie again. He watches her roll the pencils as he tries to think of something - anything, really - to say that doesn't sound hollow or thoughtless. * Haruko looks to Remi and wavers for a moment before continuing. "I, couldn't just give you a new hand, or fix old scars, or drugs or comas, but if there's anything broken about your hand, once the stitches are out, I should be able to help." * Remi looks down, obviously disheartened. "Oh." * Kaede sighs and looks down at the blanket. "There's nothing. Nothing I could do. It's just like before..." * Haruko closes her eyes and looks down for a moment, and then looks back up. "I'm on call if you need me, if you ever hurt yourself while you're rehabilitating, or push yourself too hard, I'll be there for you." * Katie winces, but amazingly, doesn't start crying again. "It's not your fault." It's unclear as to if she means that or not. * Taki rubs at her forehead and tries to think. Isn't it? Tenjirou only took her because he knew it was a way to get to me. He doesn't care about Remi. * Kaede looks quickly over at Katie. * Katie doesn't look at Kaede. She's busy glaring at the pencils. "It's not." There's more conviction behind her voice, now. "The fault goes to the people who did this." * Taki nods and speaks quitly but with a great deal of anger in her voice, "Tenjirou is at fault for a great many things..." Well, hopefully we won't have to deal with him again. Ever. But if he does bother us... this time, I don't think anyone's going to hold back. I wasn't holding back in the first place. * Haruko looks over to the group. "I've got Sumire's number, some time when we're all hear we can try to work out a peace." There's no peace as long as both of them are still with the Band. I've nothing against Sumire, but they've interfered with us for the last time. We've done *nothing* They'll get exactly what they brought upon themselves. * Taki shakes her head and silently wonders what Meimi ever saw in them. * Haruko continues in a firm voice. "I've already told the police that Tenjirou was behind my kidnapping, he betrayed Sumire as well, I think she'll assist us in *convincing* him he has no choice but prison." Let's just hope he gets all male guards, then. * Taki shivers. * Haruko continues in a soft voice. "We'll tell him if he escapes, we'll find him. We know his card, without the band to protect him..." * Kaede clenches a fist and looks at it. * Haruko doesn't seem capable of finishing the sentence. Things will get very very unpleasant. * Katie snaps the pencil case shut and sets it on the stand next to her with the sketchpad. She goes back to hugging her pillow. * Taki blinks at Katie, "I'm...sorry, it's just that he.... he..." I don't know what to do about Senshirou or Shingo. I don't think the rest are so bad, not good, but they've had no part in the past few days. * Taki looks down at her feet and then walks away from Katies bed. * Remi rolls over. * Satoshi starts to pace slightly. "Why does it seem like everyone *but* us seems to know what's going on?" * Kaede sighs and relaxes, slumping against Remi's bed, his head hanging. "Well, what *can* we figure out?" Should I call Sumire now? We could probably get ahold of Zein too. We might get some answers. * Satoshi looks over at Haruko. "Do we know what their position on Judgment is?" * Taki sits down heavily, "no...let's wait untill everybody is at least mostly healthy again." Do we know *what* Judgement is? I won't give them any details, we could tell them about the black cards and the other or other Sakis. They could probably verify that on their own. * Kaede looks slowly at Satoshi. * Katie shakes her head. "If you want to, Haruko." * Haruko glances between Kaede and Satoshi. "What do you think?" Aside from what the Hermit told us, and Katie's dream, and the things I saw at the Tower... not really. * Haruko gets out her phone and looks through her address while she awaits input. And I think we should hold off on contatcing Sumire until we've had a chance to solidify the information that we *do* have. * Haruko nods and looks at Kaede. * Kaede closes his eyes. "Why would Zein be against us though? If he knows we're not a threat..." He rubs his head. "I guess the real place to start is who started this war and why?" So how do we get in contact with the old man? * Katie starts crying again. "More than one. I think... Jin." Great. How do we contact Jin? And if one of you says "I'm not sure" I swear I'll go nuts. * Haruko nods. "I also have Souichirou's number. But I think we should hold that until we're strong again, we can call and Kaede can trace his location..." * Satoshi stops pacing and walks over to Katie's bed. "What about Jin?" He's never around when we do need him, only when we don't. Well... * Katie hugs her pillow tigher and talks into it, "C'n call Satoshi's place." When we do need him, but not necessarily want him. * Kaede rubs the side of his head. "It's so confusing...I hope he's really there. I mean...even if he is, if he doesn't know how he does it..." * Haruko glances around to see if anyone actually listened to her last comment. * Satoshi pulls out his cell phone and dials his home phone. * Kaede blinks and looks at Haruko. "Hmm?" * Taki takes two deep breaths, and then stands and walks to Katie, only to kneal down next to her bed, "I'm sorry I got angry just now." When Souichirou first showed up, I copied his number from his phone. When we're ready, we, you, might be able to trace him with that. * Katie shrugs. "'sokay." Still talking into the pillow. * Taki cloeses her eyes and speaks slightly louder, "No it isn't, the last thing you need is us fighting ourselves. And that's all I'm going to say about it." * Katie pulls her pillow from her face. "It's okay to get angry, Taki." She gives a shaky smile. "Or else I'm gonna be in trouble." * Satoshi hangs up. "No answer." * Taki gives Katie a grin back, but doesn't say anything. * Kaede hmms. "I might...but...I don't know if I can keep it up for long enough to be useful...remember I passed out the last time I tried to track..." Now is, of course, the time when he finally decides to listen to me saying he shouldn't answer my phone. Or he's just not there. * Taki then stands and turns to Satoshi, "Want to go look, just to make sure?" Yeah, sure. * Haruko nods and looks slightly sheepish while speaking in a sad tone. "Well, you'd just spent a half hour on my experiments... But we'll wait until you're strong." * Katie says, distractedly, "Jin doesn't have a phone, anyway." He's been answering mine. * Taki looks around to make sure that there's nobody who might be surprised by a disapearing act. * Haruko then sighs. "But, if you guys want to figure things out, maybe I should go check on Ryuji." She looks out the window again. "I.. can get in the way, and sitting around quietly isn't my strong suit." [There's nobody who might!] * Taki looks at Katie, "I'll be right back." * Satoshi walks over to join Taki. "Yeah, it should just take a second." Okay. * Taki nods and reaches for Satoshi's hand. * Kaede looks over at Haruko and rubs his forehead. "No. Stay. You'd be better off hearing it." 2d6-3 * Satoshi takes Taki's hand and, miracle of miracles, does not blush. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 0. * Haruko sighs and slips into a seated position by the window. She gets out a few paper and her water bottle. So, why wouldn't fingerprints work? If they can't get eye color right, I don't think they can master that. It- it's not that easy. Height, hair, everything was exactly the same. Not the eyes. I don't think it's just a good disguise job. The one who was... me... Skin! God. * Kaede looks over at Katie. "Skin?" * Haruko nods. "I'll test the tape recorder. We can test that box Souichirou gave you as well. Although... I'm not exactly sure how, they do it all the time on television though. I could probably find a book." Skin. What about it? * Katie looks at Kaede, and now she isn't angry or determined, but scared. "Skin. The skin was the same. Skin doesn't look the same. How do you get the skin right? Full-body makeup? But that kind of thing can be easy to notice up close, and..." * Kaede scowls to himself. "No. The worst part was he knew too much." That too! * Katie grimaces at the sound of her own voice and quiets a little. "That too." They've got magic. I don't think they could spy that well. * Kaede winces and rubs his temples. "How do they know so much about us? Why do they care? Who are they really after?" Is it all tied to Judgement? Is Judgement really that important? Or are we missing something? * Haruko then switches to a kneeling position and pours out the water in her bottle. She grimaces at it and it slowly takes the form of a scaled motorcycle. It isn't judgment. Souichirou cares most about Kyon, that other girl about Katie. They've also gone for the artifacts. * Haruko looks at her plans and makes a few changes with a pencil, she then focuses on the minature and it slightly adapts itself. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+4) and gets 7. Okay, Kyon I can understand. Kyon's been at this business for a while. It doesn't surprise me that he made some enemies... But the main question is...why Katie? * Katie starts crying again, looking at her lap. "But I didn't do anything." And then she sounds angry. "I didn't *do* anything!" * Kaede winces at that. "We know, Katie. We know." 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-4) and gets 3. * Haruko comments quietly. "Unless..." She then shakes her head. "I think Souichirou used Kyon's form to get to Reiji. You might have had a conveint form in part." Neither did I! * Remi rolls back over. "It's not fair!" (Remi: you were born with the card of SUCK, that's all :P) * Haruko makes another correction to her plans. * Kaede winces at Remi's comment and turns unusually silent. * Haruko glances at her minature and it changes. She then glares at it for several seconds and it changes again." Which means they've been working closely with the black cards. Maybe they went after Katie next, because Katie was the one Reiji went to for help. * Katie slams her fist on the bed. "Maybe. Right now, I don't really... care." She says that last word with a bit of wonderment. This is followed by her staring wide-eyed into nothing. "Shit." * Kaede opens his eyes and looks at Katie. "What?" I don't care. * Katie starts laughing, and she sounds a little hysterical. "When did I stop caring?" * Haruko starts to erase something, and then shakes her head and writes it in again. When you were screwed with. It happens when the world screws you over. * Remi rolls over again, mumbling almost grumpily. "I want my goddamn hand back." * Kaede pushes up his glasses and adds quietly. "I should know.." * Haruko contributes nothing to the discussion. * Katie keeps laughing, tearing up as she does so, and puts her head in her hands. She speaks in English to herself, but since none of you know the language, you can't understand her. * Haruko quickly writes out a note and holds it up to Kaede. [You probably can better help her. Want me to leave?] * Kaede blinks as he looks at the note. He looks unsure how to answer. * Haruko shrugs and stands up again, the minature collapsing in a puddle as she walks past it. She walks over to Katie and holds her hand, and says softly "You're strong, you'll get through this." * Katie sobs something like, "Can't let them break me," in response, but she doesn't look up to Haruko. * Kaede frowns and speaks very hesitantly. "K-Katie Andrews...?" * Kaede looks up very slowly as he does. * Haruko hugs Katie again. She doesn't say anything else. * Katie somehow manages to cry harder at that. * Kaede looks downward and doesn't go on for lack of response. * Haruko shoots Kaede a quick uncertain glance, but she doesn't let go of the hug, she then looks back at Katie. * Kaede doesn't want to move from where he's sitting on the floor. His head hanging and looking downward as his back slumps against Remi's bedside. * Katie goes for a while, then manages, "What... Kaede?" * Haruko keeps quiet. * Kaede looks up at that. "Hmm?" * Haruko briefly lets go of Katie to grab a tissue box with one of her hands, she puts it on the bed next to Katie and goes back to hugging her. As Kaede might take a while. * Katie forces her hands away from her face, white-knuckle clutching her sheets instead. She doesn't stop crying. You- you wanted to ask something. * Kaede keeps looking at Katie, and gets a lump in his throat, still trying to proceed. "N-no. Not ask something...I just wanted to say..." * Kaede takes a deep breath but still continues hesitantly. "It's--it's alright to feel scared." * Katie is silent for a moment, then giggles unsteadily. "Okay." * Kaede brings his knees up to his chin and curls up a little. "To be honest...I'm a little scared for all of us..." * Katie nods, and then she continues, "What's happening to us? Why- why?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 3. * Haruko keeps a hold of Katie for now. She doesn't seem to have any better ideas. * Kaede chuckles low but a little hysterically. "Isn't it obvious? We were born." * Remi whimpers at that. * Kaede sniffles and takes off his glasses to wipe his eyes. "We-we were born as Arcana. And because of that, we're doomed to be toyed with." * Haruko then says softly. "We're having to build our own society, because the council is dead, normal society doesn't know how to deal with us, and there's a lot of evil out there." 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6+1) and gets 10. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+2) and gets 9. * Katie speaks harshly. "The most evil out there is us! Us. Not the damn blacks. It's the ones that are human, but- are human." * Haruko nods. "That's why we need society, order, it just..." She looks down. "We can't rely on what our ancestors built, we've got to do it all again." What do you mean, Katie? * Haruko hushes up again. * Katie isn't crying anymore. She's staring straight ahead, wide-eyed. "Someone said... Lincoln! Lincoln said that if you want to test a man's character, give him power." She giggles. "I guess we find out what happens." She takes a breath, then continues more softly, "I guess we do." * Kaede glares at Katie. "What ARE you talking about?" * Haruko lets up a bit on the hug and puts a hand on one of Katie's white knuckled hands. "We've got to have a real purpose, we're too dangerous, too volatile to be an army, and to make us just to contain ourselves is nonsensical. We've got to be meant for something better, some use for the power." * Katie glares at Kaede and (no practically about it) screams, "What do you *think* I'm talking about! People starting little wars with each other, killing each other, robbing us of who we fucking are just because they want to play!" * Remi winces. * Katie goes into a coughing fit. "" she says, raspily. "Ow." * Kaede stands up slowly and walks over to Katie. * Haruko gently grips Katie's hand. She stays quiet for a moment. "I don't think that's what really scared you, but I don't think you'll need to be afraid. You're a good person Katie, the duplicate is the lying bitch. You'll pass the test of power." (Stays quiet, as Kaede is walking and then speaks, obviously. :P) * Katie tenses a little as he approaches, but doesn't look up. "I don't want a test," she whispers hoarsely, rubbing at her throat. * Kaede grips Katie's shoulders with his hands and pushes her back down to the bed, glaring at her and putting his face in close. "Will you get a fucking hold of yourself?!?" * Haruko grimaces as that but doesn't say anything. What do you think? That you're the only one affected by this? That you're the only one who cares? You think you're the only one who's gone through a mess of pain and lived to tell about it? I know, Katie Andrews. Being scared is one thing, but letting them win like this *isn't like you*!" * Katie 's eyes go wide, fear looking Kaede in the eyes. This is replaced quickly by anger as she tenses even more, and then... she deflates, falling back on the bed and breaking into sobs again. * Kaede lets go and heaves his breath, still looking at Katie. I--Katie, I... * Kaede breaks down into sobs too and just buries his head in his arms, folding them at the side of her bed. If we--if we start blaming ourselves now...if we start turning on each other. This is, this is exactly what they want. * Haruko leaves the tissues there, and silently goes to pour Katie a new glass of water, carefully putting a cup by her hand. * Katie barely seems to notice the cup's there, but she drinks before dropping it. "" She goes back to crying. * Kaede looks up slowly. "Katie, you're a hypocrit. Didn't you--didn't you just tell me earlier not to blame myself?" * Haruko holds up a hand and the water holds in the air before spilling on Katie. It puts itself back in the cup, which Haruko puts by Katie's hand again. * Katie doesn't focus on much of anything. "I didn't say I was," she half- whispers. * Haruko refills the cup, as she probably didn't catch all that much water. "Good, you shouldn't." * Kaede closes his eyes. "You don't have to say it for me to suspect it...can you honestly tell me that you aren't trying to look at how you could have prevented this?" Could've killed them. * Haruko hisses through clenched teeth. "Not now Remi." * Kaede looks over at Remi and stands up quickly...then hangs his head ashamed and starts walking for the door. No. * Katie keeps the distant look, but she isn't even crying anymore. "No, that wouldn't fix it." * Kaede stops at Katie's response and doesn't turn around. Cut off their hands. It wouldn't. Remi, it would... * Haruko glares at Remi. * Kaede half-whispers. "No. We won't be on the same level as them." * Katie swallows. "Turn him into something he's not. See? They're turning us into things... we're not. We shouldn't have to be." Easy for you to say. * Kaede sounds a little like he's trying to convince himself. Remi... * Haruko hugs Katie again. "I'm so glad you're back." I--I don't know how I can make you forgive me. But... I'm sorry. That doesn't give you back a hand, but I'm sorry. * Remi looks up suddenly. "Wait, I didn't..." * Kaede slumps out the door. * Remi looks down at her hand. "I didn't mean it... like that." * Katie blinks as Haruko hugs her. * Remi looks up again at the door, then rolls over. * Haruko babbles quietly. "Not just because you have the kit, or even that you know medicine, healings not the hard part. But you're willing to take a tough course.. but you still say things like that." * Katie giggles a little. "I dunno about that." She stops, then starts. "Kaede needs you. If- I don't know." * Haruko starts crying while giggling softly at the same time, she speaks softly at first and then whispers once Katie starts to speak. "But the healing was harder too, you'd think being a magical healer would enough, but I miss things.. and I'm not fast. But you're back!" * Katie nods distantly. "Yeah." * Haruko then settles down and doesn't say anything more. She keeps crying. I'm sorry. I'm not helping things. Not really. * Haruko squeeze's Katie for a moment and then lets up a bit. "Even you get a break some times." * Haruko lets go and stands up. "I thought you might like something to read. But, it's not like we have the same taste in stuff, or movies, or guys, or anything." She starts to cry again and turns away. "But I thought you might like these. Can you I get you anything else?" * Haruko walks over to her notes and puts them back in her bag, as the puddle on the floor refills her water bottle. It's okay. Can you give some to Remi, too? * Haruko nods and then puts half of the aviation magazine's by Remi's bed. "Is there anything else I can get you Remi?" * Remi looks like she's thinking for a minute, but shakes her head. * Haruko nods and wipes at her eyes for a moment. "If that changes for either of you.. call me." She then looks over to Katie. "Want me to stay with you, or should I pass on your greetings to Ryuji again?" Yeah. Make sure Kaede's okay, too? * Katie glances at Remi. "For both of us, I think." * Haruko looks down and says weakly. "I'll do my best." She then heads towards the door. [And Haruko leaves, leaving Katie alone with Remi.] [You can see how much they like each other.] * Katie sighs. She picks up one of the magazines and starts flipping through it. "Remi, if... I mean, I guess we weren't best friends or anything. I don't know if you liked me very much, but I'm sorry." [And then, without warning, Chikako entered the room!] * Katie yelps, just a little. She looks up at Chikako. * Chikako smiles. "Hi Katie! I brought you a paper! Isn't that cool?" * Katie stares at her for a second. "Cool?" And then she angles her head, getting a good look at her eyes. * Katie smiles hesitantly, and looks like she's about to burst into tears again. "Yeah, cool." * Chikako smiles kind of awkwardly, and puts the paper down at Katie's bedside. I miss you at school. It's so not cool to eat alone. Get better soon. * Katie picks it up, glancing at the front page. "Chikako... thanks. I'll try." I brought your homework, too. It'll pile up if it doen't get done, you know, and that wouldn't be cool. * Chikako puts that down, too. * Katie laughs a little. "Yeah. They're like that." They give too much homework anyhow. It's sooooo uncool. [Taki arrives again, with Jin and Satoshi.] * Katie yelps, this one louder. She looks wildly from Taki to Satoshi to Jin, making sure they're the real ones. * Chikako does that too! "Eeek!" * Taki waves at Katie and Chikako...and then blinks at the emptyness of the room, "Where'd everybody else go?" I though Haruko would have warned you that I was coming back. * Katie relaxes, slightly, and points at the door. Sorry about surprising both of you. * Taki blushes and hurries for the door and looks out side. [Taki sees Haruko and Kaede walking away.] * Katie blinks a couple more times, then looks at Chikako and smiles sheepishly. * Taki groans and hurries down the hall. (They're holding hands! Aww.) * Chikako smiles back. Awww. * Remi doesn't smile. So, um. How were things? I kind of found out about the Arcana stuff from the others, but... * Katie looks back at the paper, skimming some of it. [Nothing particularly interesting in the paper, although there's a "Get well soon, Katie!" editorial by an anonymous person.] * Katie tilts her head and gives it a read. Nobody's really sure what happened, so they're all kinda scared, but they don't show it, like they're pretending everything's okay, so it's not very cool. * Katie lets out a sigh. "Yeah. The whole thing's pretty uncool." * Katie blinks. "Chikako?" Huh? * Katie looks back up at her, earnestly. "Over the last week, I... it wasn't me. I was locked away. If the person who was pretending to be me said or did anything to you..." It's cool! I've already forgotten all about it! ( Literally @_@ ) * Chikako blinks as her wristwatch beeps. "Uhhh.... I kinda gotta go." But Chikako? Huh? * Katie looks thoughtful. "You don't forget things. Think about that." Oh, I didn't mean I REALLY forgot about it. * Taki pushes the door open, and sheepishly enters the room. Yeah? * Katie flicks her eyes to Taki's, once again checking. * Chikako nods. "I have a super cool memory!" * Taki looks up into Katie's eyes. She's still the real one. And I think maybe I can stick around a bit longer, just this once. Cool, huh? [Session End]