[Day: Wednsday, March 31st. Time: 5:15 p.m.] [Weather: Pouring Rain.] [You are all in Yushiro's house, mostly in what's left of the kitchen. Fuyuko is there, most of her clothes burned off. Or cut off by the big metal blades that came out of her back. Incidently, both those and her sword disappeared when she collapsed. Taki has no shirt. Satoshi is bleeding. Haruko is wearing a weird-looking robe. And Kyon, Katie, Kaede and probably Yushiro are outside somewhere.] [Kyon isn't too far outside yet, so he's still in the chan.] [Session Start!] * Haruko is tending to Fuyuko as best she can after telling Taki to get Katie for healing help. * Satoshi kneels in the ruins of the kitchen, bleeding from his chest and both hands. The chloroformed rag, formerly Taki's shirt, is lying on the ground in front of him. He's barely able to keep his eyes open. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-2) and gets 0, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I'm down with that. You know me." * Haruko looks up at Satoshi for a moment. "Oh, no.. Satoshi, I need you to stay awake and come closer so I can tend to you before Katie gets here." Her voice is really wavering. * Satoshi nods. "Sure..." His voice is fairly weak. * Satoshi slowly stands up and staggers over towards where Haruko is. He kneels back down and closes his eyes again. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 9. * Satoshi opens his eyes and looks at Haruko. "Y'know... there's still a field..." * Haruko bites her lip. "We, uh, he throws kitchenware, they can take him." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 5. * Haruko then tends to Satoshi for a moment, grabbing a kitchen towel if one's available and using it to cover the wound and stuanch the bleeding. "Hold this close to the wounds Satoshi." She can't really keep the panic out of her voicec. [Suddenly, the house is no longer destroyed. It's fixed! The whole in the wall, the broken stuff, the burned stuff... Everything but your clothes.] * Satoshi takes it. "Thanks, Haruko. S'gonna be okay..." He blinks. "That'd be the field..." * Haruko chuckles nervously. "Uh, yeah, I guessed." She then goes back to Fuyuko, trying conventional and supernatural healing. "I'm so sorry all this happened to you Satoshi, but, I couldn't think of a better way. I didn't even manage to get anything when I questioned him." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 3. Wasn't cooperating in his head, either. Twisted mind. * Haruko manages to improvise with the available supplies and Fuyuko in a slightly better position with the worst of her burns tended to, she also makes sure the girl's still breathing. "A lot of that around, alright, I think I'm hetting a handle on this, but even with Katie I'll need an ambulance." I'd call, but my hands hurt. d2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d2) and gets 2. * Haruko bites her lip. "I'll.. no, we should od it from a house phone or with Kaede here to prevent a trace. With the field down they'll be here soon." How're we gonna explain this? * Haruko chuckles somewhat maniaclly. "Well, I don't think they'll accept lunatic, so let's say, gas leak. Yeah.. gas leak and a big explosion." ( What explosion? :P ) * Satoshi blinks. "What explosion?" Also... you're scaring me. * Haruko then looks around. "Kyon's fireball. Huh.. wait, no, that got all fixed. Well, we can say she's a really bad cook." Uh huh. * Haruko keeps tending to Fuyuko she's still quite obviously on the edge. * Haruko tries to figure out if Fuyuko's stabalized enough to go make a phone call. Can I do anything? * Haruko bites her lip. "Okay, hold the bandages here, I'll be quick." Where? * Haruko lifts a hand and brings one of Satoshi's over to hold the bandage. "There." She then gets up and runs to the nearest phone, calling in get an ambulance. * Satoshi holds Fuyuko's bandage with one hand, then, and the towel to his own wound with the other. [As Haruko goes for the phone, lightning strikes. The power goes out, the phone goes dead.] ...dammit! Haruko? You okay? * Haruko looks rattled. "Okay.." * Haruko then goes back to Fuyuko and gulps. "Looks like we're on our own, unless I use my cell." Mmm. The others okay? * Haruko's voice wavers again. "I have no idea. Why isn't Taki back yet?" Dunno. * Haruko then takes out her cell. "I can't risk it." She calls emergency services. * Haruko takes it out of her bag which she dragged in earlier, to be clear, it wasn't on her person. * Satoshi keeps holding bandages and makeshift bandages and hoping the bleeding stops. * Haruko speaks quickly into the phone. "There's a girl badly burned." She then gives the address. "I've taken steps to stabalize her, but she still needs help." * Haruko continues into the phone. "All over her body, from normal fire, no acid, some are third degree." She then rattles a more precise medical description as she gets a hold of herself. * Haruko gives the address again. * Haruko puts her phone down. "Now we just have to figure out how to get away." Get... oh. Hide? I dunno. There's blood and stuff. ( Lots of it Satoshi's! ) * Haruko then sends a quick text message to Kaede, Katie, Taki, and Kyon. Ambulance coming for Fuyuko. We'll need evac. (Yes. That's my somewhat incoherent point.) * Haruko nods and looks over the blood in the room. She opens a window and focuses, trying to convert the blood into as easily washable of a state as possible. On door, too. I think. Maybe. * Haruko nods, running a hand through her hair tugged down on it hard. "I'll get that." 'm sorry. * Haruko shakes her head. "You have nothing to be sorry for." Not doing much now. * Haruko then begins pulling in rainwater from the outside, she directs the torrents away from Fuyuko but covers any blood spots around the room, she tries to wipe up the dirty areas and send some of the slightly bloody water out the window, but mostly contents herself with contaminating the evidence. * Haruko breathing heavily as she works, "It was my plan. You shouldn't have to do anything now, you should be resting now, I should be healing you, I'm sorry." * Haruko leaves some big dirty puddles inside and then rushes to wipe any blood by the door. "I'll be right back." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 9. * Satoshi holds bandages and looks at Fuyuko. "'m sorry about you, too." Must be a horrible thing to bear... * Satoshi sighs, which turns into a cough. * Haruko runs back in a bit. "I think I got it." She then kneels down to take over from Satoshi, getting to the supernatural healing and making sure the bleeding is stil staunched and that the light clean clothes over the worst of the burns are still in place. * Satoshi relinquishes first aid work to Haruko. * Haruko verifies that the clothes are still there and cool and moist and checks that Fuyuko is still breathing and still has a heart beat. She babbles as she works. "I should have waited til he was alone. It would have gone much better, I was too impatient, after Arisu I was so afraid more people would be hurt." You didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't have anything better... * Satoshi sighs again. "Need to know more." * Haruko bites her lip and nods. "But we can't always find more, so we just have to do what we can." Thought Yushiro was insane. Was right about that. Fuyuko... * Haruko keeps tending to Fuyuko and tries calling Taki with her free hand. "Okay, if the ambulance comes hide and I'll come after as a puddle when they get to her. I'll use my powers to distract anyone that comes looking until the rest come." * Satoshi gives Haruko a look. "Hide where?" I don't know what's with Fuyuko. I'm not sure I want to know, but I think its his fault, whatever it is. * Haruko tries to think. "I don't know... How far can you walk?" * Satoshi grunts and slowly gets up. We'll find out. Get the others? * Haruko bites her lip. "We don't know where they are. I'll call Akemi, we find a hiding place, she comes to gets us and puts up a field. Maybe something heavy." * Haruko gives up on reaching Taki and tries Akemi's phone. * Satoshi leans against the nearest wall and tries not to bleed on it. * Haruko tosses Satoshi the thing of paper towels she used for wounds and cleaning. "Keep a surface between you and it." [Akemi does not answer!] Haruko? * Haruko tries Kaede's shop. "Yes?" Can you make it so I'm not bleeding so much? (*snerk*) (I find that hilarious for some reason. ^^;) (It is funny.) (In a sick way.) [Haruko gets an answering machine.] * Haruko cradles the phone in on her shoulder and rushes over to him. Akemi! I need you, it's Haruko. Call me back. ( >.> Makes note not to repeat that line to the regular #IFF crowd. ) * Haruko then starts tending to Satoshi as best she can, concentrating on stopping the bleeding, conventional and supernatural means again. "I'm sorry, I just.. Shingo died. I'm not doing good enough. Where are?... They aren't coming, it's just us, I've got to accept that." [Everyone else comes back inside.] 'm not helping much right now. I know. * Kaede comes in through the front door, leading a Katie who's got her coat on as well as his coat draped over her shoulders. He looks like a soggy mess, though his shirt isn't as drenched as it should be, making it seem like he hasn't had his coat off for long. He's forcing her to walk with his hands on her shoulders, looking at her. * Kaede also drips on the carpet. * Satoshi looks up at them. "You're back." * Haruko works on Satoshi's chest then his hands, she concentrates on making sure they're not bleeding first, worrying about his ability to hold things second. * Taki limps in a moment later, bleeding on the carpet. * Haruko breathes a breath of relief. "Okay, Taki, get everybody but me out of here, then come back for me. Okay?" She's hurt, Haruko. * Taki stares at Haruko for a moment, "Where?" * Haruko 's voice still has a definate note of panic, but she's settled slightly. ( Hearing checks, +12! ) Wait, can you teleport? Do you have the strength? I'm sorry. ::she keeps tending to Satoshi's wounds:: * Satoshi looks at Taki and tries to smile, though he's still in pain. "Didn't even see you show up before." 2d6+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+12) and gets 20. 2d6+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6+12) and gets 21. (+12?) * Katie is led, and she's not really looking at anything. She has bruises and scrapes all over her, and her hair's a tangled, wet, and gravelly mess. Her socks and shoes are soaked with blood, as is the bottom of her coat, most of her skirt, and both hands. One of said hands is loosely holding a knife, which is also covered in the sticky red stuff, and drips on the carpet. ( +12! ) (It's for Katie. :P) (that's what the man says) (exactly :P) 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6+4) and gets 13. 2d6+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+12) and gets 17. 2d6+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+12) and gets 18. ( Y'all hear nothinz ) (Katie fails to go insane by the beating of Fuyuko's heartbeat) Katie, can you, oh... okay, are you with it Katie? Can you help use your kit? (It's not Fuyuko's heart she has to listen to it's her brothers) * Satoshi finally gets a good look at Katie (apparently he was concentrating on Taki first, like a good almost-boyfriend). His mouth opens briefly, then he closes it. (Aw, and here I thought it had something to do with her still being shirtless :P) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 11. [Satoshi either doesn't notice Taki's topless, or acts like it >.>] (Whatever. ;p) (Kaede hasn't noticed ;P) ( Well Kaede's apparently gay >.> ) ( No, Taki just doesn't tourment him enough to be noticed. ) ( He's got women throwing themselves at him, and all he can think about is Ryan. o/~ ) * Katie blinks, maybe snapping out of it, and reaches into her satchel. She extracts a first aid kit and walks over to Haruko, knife still in the other hand. (Bah. Ryan, schmian. Hirokazu's his main squeeze. Geek lovin') ( Hmmm... *ponders having Hirokazu show up :P ) * Haruko stares at the knife for a moment and reaches out her hand. "You'll need both hands." * Kaede doesn't take back his coat just yet. He doesn't say anything. ( Hearing checks, +8! ) * Taki asks again a bit louder, "Where?" (And RDM realizes that he forgot to mention that Taki pushed her hair out of her face.) 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+8) and gets 10, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love you. Do you love me too? Y_ N_" 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6+8) and gets 14. (o/~) 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+8) and gets 16. 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+8) and gets 18. Satoshi's apartment. Everybody bleeding get in the bathroom, we don't want stains for if the police come. * Haruko tries to gently relieve Katie of the knife. (Is Kaede actually bleeding or just bruised from the wall?) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets 9. * Taki closes her eyes and nod. ( He went *through* the wall. He's bleeding :P ) (Actually, DR1) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets 2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love the smell of a crit in the morning." (^^) (We rule.) (>_>) * Kaede scowls. "You called the ambulance, didn't you?" * Katie starts and jerks away from Haruko. She looks around. * Haruko glares at Kaede for a moment. "Don't start. Fuyuko needs it." We have to leave. We have to leave. * Katie looks over at Taki. She's scared now. "We have to *go*. Where's Kyon?" * Taki opens her eyes and looks frightened, "No..." * Kaede sighs and rubs his fingers through his hair. "She's not the only one...Katie's right. We need to go." * Satoshi looks confused. "So... let's go?" * Haruko looks to Taki. "Okay, go Taki, come back for me acrossed the street two houses down, I'll raise a mist." No, everybody NOW. Where's Kyon! * Haruko shakes her head. "Grab my bag! I need to clean up our blood. I can go watery." ( Hearing checks, +4! ) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-4) and gets 5. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+4) and gets 12. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+4) and gets 10. Kyon has his bike, we have to go NOW! * Satoshi shudders. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6+4) and gets 13. * Haruko finishes her make shift work on Satoshi. She then bends down to check out Fuyuko, checking breathing and heartbeat first. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+4) and gets 8. * Kaede looks at Fuyuko and tsshes under his breath, mumbling. "If she finds out..." Get us out of here. Taki, do it. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+1) and gets 8. * Taki limps forward untill she can put one hand on Katies arm, holds the other out for another person, and waits untill everybody is close enough. * Haruko stays down with Fuyuko. "Go without me. Now!" * Satoshi shuffles over to Taki and just now seems to notice/remember that she has no shirt. He blushes slightly, but takes her hand. * Haruko begins to build up a large ball of dirty water just inside the window for house scrubbing one more time. (So, you going or not Kaede?) * Kaede sighs and walks over to Taki, taking one look at Haruko oddly. ( Hearing checks! ) (wait he's holding onto Katie, never mind, vegonow!) 2d6 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 6. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6-8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-8) and gets -5. * Haruko does look a little relieved as she inspects Fuyuko. "Okay, you stay that way." She keeps working on the ball of water. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 10. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 6. ( Everyone who made it can hear the sirens now. They can't be far, and they're speeding to get here pretty fast. ) I'll be back! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 6. Across the street two houses down! [Meanwhile, everyone winds up in Satoshi's apartment.] d4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d4) and gets 1. [A chicken lands on Kaede's head.] [There are several other chickens wandering around the apartment.] * Kaede sighs and slumps his shoulders. "Where's Jin..." * Taki 's knees veto her standing up and she starts to collaps. [You're not sure! Not there, apparently.] * Satoshi tries to catch Taki before she falls. * Katie doesn't seem amused. She appears, she takes a few steps, and she more or less collapses on the floor, dropping her knife as she does so. * Kaede slump-squishes over to Katie and puts his hands on her shoulders again. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 4. * Katie drops her kit, too, and curls into a ball as she brings her knees up and puts her face in her arms. Incidentally, this gets blood on Kaede's jacket. She doesn't seem to care. * Taki gets caught by Satoshi, it probibly wasn't that hard concidering that he was holding her hand and all, "gotta....gotta go get Haruko." * Kaede doesn't either. It'll just mean more explaining to Nanami. Wee. * Satoshi holds her steady. "Okay." He then blushes slightly. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 4. * Taki is held standing by Satoshi untill she's at least somewhat steady on her feet, "Th...thanks." 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-4) and gets 5. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+2) and gets 10. * Taki finaly notices three things: that she still doesn't have a shirt, Satoshi is holding her, and that Katie is on the ground. So she blushes deeply, "Satoshi I...Katie!" * Kaede speaks softly, holding her up. "It'll be okay, Katie...I promise..." * Satoshi tries to force down the blushing. "Get Haruko. Katie'll still be here." (Suddenly Yusuke walks out of the shower, wearing only a towel. "Heya!") * Katie whimpers. (I stab him.) ( Followed by Akemi, not wearing anything. "Hello!" ) Riright. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Taki vanishes from within Satoshi's arms. * Satoshi nearly falls over but manages to retain his balance. He slowly kneels and looks at Kaede. * Kaede blinks as he notices he's being looked at and turns to look at Satoshi. "Yes?" What happened? * Kaede shrugs and turns to look back at Katie. "I found Katie outside. What did you expect?" [Kaede's attempt at drama might have more impact if he didn't have a chicken on his head.] * Satoshi has learned to ignore the chickens by this point, more or less. I don't know. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 7. (dr.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 6. * Katie stays the way she is, then speaks in a half-whisper, carefully pronouncing each word. "I might have killed him." * Satoshi takes a sharp breath. Then he says, slowly, "He wanted to kill us." And he meant it. I know. * Kaede doesn't say anything but he doesn't seem bothered by her saying it. He's just holding Katie. * Satoshi closes his eyes again. "He was twisted. Wrong. I should feel..." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 4. [Taki and Haruko appear!] * Katie moves, lifting her head. She looks blankly at her bloody hand for a moment, then pushes her hair away from her neck, also getting blood smeared there. There's a pattern of bruises there: dark, heavy ones, finger-shaped, and ten of them. * Taki mumbles "Where did you want to go?" before she colapses. Don't tell yourself what you should feel, Watanabe-san. It never works. * Satoshi looks up. "A field?" * Satoshi looks at Kaede blankly. * Haruko tries to hold on to Taki well enough to lower her to the ground. "It's probably Taki." * Kaede doesn't react to that. He does, however check to see if the chicken is still on his head. * Satoshi looks over at Taki. "Could be." Then he sees Katie's bruises. "God." [It is. Cluck.] * Katie shrugs. * Kaede sighs. "That's it then. The chickens are definitely an Arcana power. WHY they'd be a power I don't know, but they are." Could be a weaker field. One that doesn't kick others out. I suppose. ( "Fate thinks it's funny." ) ( Fate thinks you should pay me.) I've given up on the chickens. I try to get rid of them and more show up. * Haruko waits until she lets Taki reach the grown and binds her hair back with a schrunchie. She then walks over to Katie to take the first aid kit. "Okay, I've bandaged Satoshi, Taki's next, whose after that?" I feel like I'm going more insane by the moment. * Katie lets her. It's on the floor, after all. "I'm okay." Join the rest of us, Satoshi. There's room in the pool for all. * Taki mumbles something so incohearent that not even Katie can make out what she ment and rolls into a ball. I think I will. * Katie giggles. * Haruko then goes back to Taki. She puts a hand on her shoulder. "I need you to stretch out again, lie down, keep your legs up." * Kaede looks at Katie and manages a half smile...it lasts a fraction of a second but it's there. ( Kaede's gone totally insane. ) * Taki manages to roll onto her back, "But won't Satoshi see us?" * Katie lets the giggle turn into a sigh and just... looks at all the blood. "What am I going to do with this? And somebody should get Taki a shirt." * Haruko grabs a couch cushion for to put under Taki's legs if she stretches out and starts prepping the first aid kit. Ought to get you guys to just leave spare clothes here. * Haruko looks at Taki oddly for just a moment and giggles with a slight manic edge, she gets it under control and gets to work though. "Once I've treated her." * Kaede sighs. "Toss her my coat for now." * Katie removes the wet and slightly bloody raincoat and does just that. * Satoshi slowly goes to his room and starts hunting through stuff for appropriate spare clothes. This seems to happen a lot. And I don't know what we'll do...we'll just...deal with it, I guess. * Taki gets a coat tossed on her, "Katie too? Whee." Hm? * Haruko keeps working on Taki's worst wounds and does more healing while she's at it. "I, could everyone listen to me for a moment." Her voice is pretty weak, she doesn't actually turn from working on Taki. * Kaede rolls his eyes and then turns to look at Haruko. * Katie looks over, too. She leans her cheek on her folded arms. * Taki grins at Katie for a moment and then looks at up at Haruko. * Satoshi comes out of his room with an armful of random clothes and sits down. * Haruko looks around. "This fight didn't come to us exactly, I choose it, I don't know everything that happened and I wish I had planned it better, but for what it's worth, thank you. If there's anything I can ever do for any of you..." Forget it. * Haruko swallows and goes back to Taki. * Katie picks up her knife and struggles to her feet, stepping around chickens and heading into Satoshi's kitchen. Jus...keep doing what you're doing. Don't worry about it, Haruko-san. And I saw what you tried Takeuchi-san. Thank you, but... * Katie turns on the warm water and starts washing blood off her knife, then her. * Satoshi turns so he can see what Katie's doing. * Haruko , once she feels she's dealt enough with some of Taki's wounds covers her midriff with the coat. * Katie doesn't slit her wrists! Satoshi is likely glad. * Kaede blinks and looks over at Haruko. "What are you talking about?" (Satoshi is very glad.) (Taki would be glad, but she's not here right now, would you like to leave a message?) You tried to jump in the way when Fuyuko attacked. ::she tilts her head, still looking down at Taki:: Why didn't you just try to push me? * Katie finishes with her hands, arms, neck, and face. She removes her socks and shoes and puts them in the sink, then washes her feet. (Which can be done, foot by foot!) (She's just not turning to look at him) Katie? What? Do you... want to use the shower? It'd be easier. * Katie turns to look at Satoshi for a moment. A long moment, then she nods. "Okay." * Kaede blinks at that. "I--um..." It's, ah, just not that simple. Towels in there, and I'll leave some clean clothes right inside. * Haruko finishes up working on Taki she then turns around to get to Kaede. "Okay, you're next." She gets to work on bandadging him. "It isn't?" * Taki tries to twist around to see Katie, but fails, and makes a slightly disapointed noise. * Haruko hasn't actually healed Taki completely yet by far, but she'll be okay until Haruko can get back to her. * Katie nods again. "Okay." She leaves her shoes and socks and, incidentally, the knife in the sink as she walks over to the bathroom. * Kaede doesn't know how to respond to that, so he doesn't just sitting down on the floor and leaning up against the wall, cocking his knee. * Satoshi dumps part of the pile of clothes on the bathroom floor, then lets Katie go in. Hopefully, there are no freaky albino guys in there this time. * Taki mumbles, and then pulls the coat up under her chin. * Katie shuts the door. And locks it! The horror! * Haruko keeps working, pushing Kaede's knee down slightly when she needs to for medical purposes. "I just think it's very sad." (Won't keep out Taki. :P) * Kaede looks at Haruko oddly. "Why?" * Satoshi sits again and looks over at the others. (If I were truly evil I'd have Katie get attacked while in the shower.) ( That'll teach you to leave your weapon outside! XP ) (Well, then there'll be a fun windstorm and a naked Katie running out soon after.) * Haruko checks over Kaede's back for more injuries, pushing him forward ever so slightly. "It's never simple, but I'm just sad you feel that way. No elaborate explaination." * Kaede sighs and turns away. "I've always lived my life that way, Haruko.." * Haruko nods and sighs. "And I'm not going to change that." She then looks over his head, taking a moment to turn his head back and bandage a few his collected cuts. * Kaede doesn't look at Haruko. He sighs. "Good.." He doesn't put too much emphasis into it. * Haruko nods and stands up breaking both healings for now. "That should do you for a moment. Okay, Katie's in the shower, Satoshi, you deserve real bandages." She walks over to him with her kit. (That's my kit, you kitsnatcher!) (*laughs*) (There isn't going to be much left of it by the time she's done patching us all up) ( What are you going to do? Stab me? Oh, right, it is your kit, never mind.) * Kaede just...sits there right now. Satoshi's going to have mildewy carpets. Eww. * Satoshi sighs. "Right." * Haruko replaces some of the bandages and just gives some of them a second helping, she also applies some antibiotic as she which she had for Taki and Kaede, but not the first time she dealt with Satoshi. "I'm sorry I waited so long before, I haven't really been able to keep it together." She looks down a little but not for long as she does still need to work on him. You're doing better now, right? * Katie emerges from the shower. She's clean and wearing a jersey and sweatpants, both looking too big on her (probably because they are) and carrying her rather bloody school uniform. Her hair's wrapped in a towel. "Think we can wash and dry this before I go home, Satoshi? I don't know how to explain blood to my parents." * Haruko nods, "It's easier now." She then giggles a little again. "I didn't even remember to tell you guys to take my bag. That sort of made my escape trickier." * Satoshi nods absently at Haruko and looks over at Katie. "I wouldn't, either? I guess we can wash it in the bathroom and hang it there to dry." * Satoshi puts a hand to his forehead. "Wait... I *have* a washing machine. In the kitchen. Still no dryer, though." * Haruko keeps working on Satoshi. "Okay Katie, you're next, find a good position where I can get to your injuries." Okay. One second, Haruko. * Katie goes to dump her uniform in the wash. That done, she heads back and has a seat on a dry patch of floor. * Haruko nods and finishes up with Satoshi again, not as much work to do on him. * Haruko then picks up her kit and walks over to Katie, she kneels down besides her. "Okay, tell me if I miss anything." Same procedure, bleeding first, use antibacterials, doing healing while she's at it. * Katie lets her. Hopefully she gets the bruises on her neck, too. * Haruko works for a bit. Putting a cold compress from the first aid kit by Katie's neck. "I'll try to protect you better next time." It's okay. You had to protect yourself first. * Haruko looks down somewhat. "It shouldn't have to be one or the other if I do it right." * Kaede sighs. Hey, it's a contribution to the conversation. * Katie shakes her head. I went after him. I wanted to make sure he didn't get away. I wanted answers. You can't always save everyone, Haruko. ( 'Cause sometimes... people r noobs. ) * Haruko nods. "I didn't want him to get away either, and I know I can't protect everyone. But I should be able to do better than this." We didn't get any answers...only more questions... * Kaede closes his eyes and drips. I know, but- * Haruko shakes her head. "No, we got enough. Yushiro's guilty, the rest doesn't really matter." * Katie closes her eyes. "He made it happen. He used it as a way to try to get away. Left his own sister, maybe to die." * Haruko nods. "He's a wretched person." * Kaede sighs. "Still...what's she going to do now...?" * Haruko staunches any remaining bleeding from Katie and leaves her with the cold compress and a bit of healing. "Going to make the rounds again, I'll be back." Such a terrible power she has... * Katie presses the compass to her neck and continues in that calm voice, "If he's dead? Maybe try to kill us." Because she'll be right. We- I- did kill him. And if she does? What then? When will it end, Katie Andrews? * Haruko goes over to just heal Taki for a bit, making sure all the bandages are holding. She doesn't really look at anyone. "We stop her, we get Mamiya to help, maybe she can live something of a life." Erase her memories so she can live happily. That's a fun idea. * Taki sleeps through it. No. * Kaede just glares at Katie at that. Without words. ( A wordless glare. ) I don't think I want to meet her. * Katie shakes her head. "We can't do something like that, Haruko. You don't want to kill her? That's like doing it." * Haruko just sorta nods and keeps healing Taki. Just have to deal with it. Explain... she won't listen. I'll take the blame, if I have to. * Haruko shakes her head. "That wouldn't be honest." * Haruko then sighs. "Senshiro was right I think, we're weapons. We can choose how we're used, but that's what we were designed for." No, it would be honest. * Kaede closes his eyes. "A gun doesn't have to be fired, nor does a knife need leave its sheath." * Katie doesn't wince at that, amazingly. She just adjusts her position so she can hold the compress more easily. * Haruko nods. "That was the part Senshiro was wrong about." * Satoshi appears to have dozed off as well. Whatever we were made for, I don't think it was to fight each other. I'm not sure, the fields make that quite easy, I can't comprehend why it would be done, but they aren't just for talking. * Katie shakes her head. "No point." Everything's back to the way it was afterwards...fighting makes no sense if there's no effect other than destroying the creations. * Katie unwraps her hair and starts actively toweling it with her free hand. Oh, no, it makes a lot of sense, it means we can destroy each other without inconveniencing the rest of the world. How many Arcana are crazy? How many hunt each other? How many can do fortune telling mostly to spy on each other? If we weren't made to fight each other somebody really screwed up. But there's no point. If you make a missile, say... * Katie pauses a moment, then continues, "If you make a missile, then other people make them, too. If you make a gun, other people make them, too. Weapons, sure, to protect yourself or take power." But it's been hinted that all the Arcana were made at the same time, probably by the same people. There's no reason to make... whatever we are just for entertainment that they likely can't watch. * Kaede rubs his forehead. "The only way to know, I mean for certain, is to find out what we were all doing. I mean back then." ( Katie thinks this stuff up so I don't have to ^^ ) (I'm handy like that.) (Taki has a theory, but she's not awake, and you wouldn't get it out of her anyway o/~) Maybe further back. Do you really think that World War 2 was the Arcana's first lifetime? * Haruko switches to Satoshi for a bit. "Then somewhere along the line the design go corrupted really badly. I mean even if we wanted to fufill our purpose we don't know how. I mean Winston's supposed to know that sort of thing and he couldn't or wouldn't help us." * Kaede shakes his head. I'm not saying it was a good job. Blacks, Reversed, ourselves. And... even if we did do whatever it is we're meant to, I don't know how it would stop all of this. ( You were designed for one purpose: To blow up the ocean! ) (Awesome!) * Haruko goes back to healing Katie for a while. "And even if we find out, it might not be good." * Katie lets out a long sigh. Her eyes close again. "Maybe not." * Haruko smiles slightly. "But at least if it's bad, we don't have to do it." She then grins slightly. "Or we could just really mess up our implementation." Wrenches. We'll need a lot of wrenches. I've got wrenches. Good. * Katie yawns a little, and she curls up some. "'Cause we're gonna need a lot of them." * Haruko keeps up the rounds, switching back to Taki. "Then we should be covered. Heck,,even Takeuchi-san has wrenches. I mean bicycle wrenches, but still something." She grins. * Kaede snorts. * Katie mmms faintly, still not opening her eyes. * Taki squirms and mutters something about mornings coming too early. [Session End!]