[Day: Friday, April 2nd. Time: 9:30 p.m.] [Weather: A cool, rainy night.] [You all arrive at Katie's house. Since it's Katie's place, she can describe it (although you've been there before). Saki is in Katie's room, bleeding on the bed. The rest of you are outside.] [Session Start!] * Satoshi knocks, having left the unconscious pair of Kaede and Taki in the car. (Or barely conscious, as the case may be.) * Haruko idles in the car after letting Satoshi out. She tries not to look to nervous. (* Katie shoots Satoshi in the head from the second story window! "Oops!") (* Satoshi dies. Well, that solves one problem.) * Katie moves some curtains aside and peeks out, getting a good look at Satoshi. Before too long, she's opening the door and getting a *better* look: at his eyes. * Taki is in the back of the car, bleeding from the hole in her leg...and whatever it is that waves of pure darkness do to ones back, and is very much knocked out. * Satoshi looks back at her. "Haruko's outside in the car. Taki and Kaede are in bad shape." * Katie doesn't look like she's in the best of shape, either. Her clothes are still dirty, she still smells bad, and her hair's in total disarray. But she nods, her grip on the doorknob a little too tight, and she slips into English, "" "" * Satoshi walks back to the car, presumably as the door opens. * Katie lets go and heads off to do just that. The garage door begins to open! ( No, it's cool. I bought this one, yeah...) (Riiiiiiight.) * Haruko waits til it's safely open and then pulls into the garage. * Satoshi opens the back door and gently lifts Taki out. "We're going to need to do something about the car soon." * Haruko nods. "After everyone is stable and we clean out the blood. Yeah. * Taki doesn't react to getting lifted out of the car. * Satoshi adjusts his grip on Taki and carries her into the house, assuming that Katie has opened the house door. * Haruko pats the dashboard. "Sorry, you didn't deserve this." She then heads in. Better Satoshi makes two trips than she hauls people along the ground. [Doors are unlocked! To recap, Katie's home is one story and fairly small. The front door more or less opens into the living room, with the garage opening in a hallway that leads to said living room and the kitchen on the opposite side.] (You just don't want to touch Kaede, admit it. ;P) * Satoshi sets Taki down in the kitchen. * Satoshi heads back out and gets Kaede, then carries him into the kitchen as well. ( I've ever tried to keep it hidden?) (I wanted to see her drag his unconscious body out. ;p) (EBIL!) * Haruko heads towards Katie's room. On the way there she calls out, projecting slightly but not yelling. "Be sure to close the garage door Katie, probably we can't take the car home for at least an hour." * Satoshi sits down near Taki and keeps watch over her and Kaede. He's not looking in the greatest of shape, but he's at least conscious. * Katie eyes Haruko as she walks off, but she closes the garage door. This is followed by her walking after the other girl to her own room. * Haruko notices Katie once she's farther in. "How's Saki? Have your first aid stuff out?" * Katie nods. "I took out the bullets and patched her up as well as I could. Cleaned her up a little." (Wow, good thing I dropped her here, or Haruko'd look pretty silly right now ^^;) She doesn't want you to call the ambulance, so please don't. * Haruko eye's widen slightly. "Good work." (It was a logical guess really. She had bullet wounds.) * Haruko nods. "If she's stable I wasn't planning on it. I think I'll start with her, you feel up to helping me stabalize everyone?" * Katie sighs. "Yeah. How bad are they?" * Kaede blinks groggily and looks around at the surroundings. * Haruko keeps headed back to Katie's wounds, and once there she heals the presumably resting Saki for a bit. * Satoshi looks over at Kaede. "We're at Katie's now." Taki collapsed when she showed up again, I think she ran out of energy. Kaede you saw go down. Satoshi and I, well, we're lucky Chariot didn't hit us another time." Tell me about it when you're done. ...Katie's? * Kaede still looks around, eyes half-focused. * Haruko 's robes are slightly stained and she isn't moving that fast, though no apparent major injuries. * Katie grabs her kit and heads off, making stops at the bathroom and kitchen. Yeah. You collapsed, we brought you to the car and Haruko drove here. Katie and Saki are here already. * Haruko keeps tending to Saki for now while Katie's off. Oh, Satoshi, I put the power supressor in Takeuchi-san's front left pocket, if you could get that or have him hand it to you. I.... Katie...Katie's okay? Haruko? Everyone? We all escaped. * Katie comes walking in, carrying the kit and a bowl of warm water. It's almost funny, considering she smells *awful*. "Yeah, we're all alive." (Where are Satoshi and Kaede? :P) (In the kitchen) (And Taki as well.) * Haruko , after calling out to Satoshi, works on Saki for a bit. * Satoshi blinks. "Huh?" he yells back to Haruko. "What was that?" * Katie winces. Just a little. She heads over to Kaede, has a seat next to him, and starts cleaning him off and patching him up. * Haruko calls back. "The headband Katie was wearing. It's in Kaede's front left pocket. It's a broken power surpressor so treat it with care." * Satoshi waits to get it since Katie is helping Kaede right now. * Kaede turns bleary-eyed towards Katie and blinks his eyes. He looks like a battered mess but what else is new? His eyes focus on Katie. "You...you smell awful." * Katie says, perfectly straight-faced, "That's what happens when you don't get taken out to go to the bathroom for a day or more." (Nice tact, Kaede. ;p) * Kaede turns his head back to the ceiling. "You were gone--" He coughs. "You were gone, that long?" * Satoshi leans back and closes his eyes. I checked the clock. It looks like it. (And now, Saki. Played by Kirby!) We just...just knew from this morning. Heiro-- (She eats everybody. How is this different? :P) * Kaede coughs again. "Heirophant said not to come. That Morikawa-san should.." He doesn't seem to have the energy to finish the sentence. * Katie studies him for a moment, and just keeps up the work. Her hands are shaking slightly. "It doesn't matter. You did what you did." * Kaede stares at the ceiling for a moment. "...yes." * Haruko keeps healing Saki in the other room. * Satoshi exhales. * Saki gradually opens her eyes, and turns her head slightly to look at Haruko. * Haruko looks down. "I'm sorry, we decided to scout it out, and I went in when we heard gunshots." Haruko looks down and then looks back to Saki. "I wasn't strong enough to keep him out this time." * Katie finishes washing the blood off of Kaede. "You might want to go to the living room. There's carpet there, at least." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 6. * Kaede just stares at Katie. "I could...if my legs told me that they could move without grinding against every nerve along them." Do you want me to help? * Katie stops at that. "Yeah." * Satoshi opens his eyes an looks over at Kaede and Katie. * Katie waves Satoshi over. * Kaede tries to nod. He only manages a quarter of it. * Satoshi slowly gets up and heads over to them. He bends down, picks up Kaede, and gently carries him to the living room, where he sets him down on the couch or a comfortable chair. Do you mind if I get the thing that Haruko was asking about? * Katie walks over to Taki and, thankfully, doesn't find anything up about her. She more or less carries her to the living room, too, settling her down and placing her on the couch. (Taki's small and light! Yay!) * Kaede grunts slightly as he gets moved. "N..no go ahead." Thanks. (Somewhere, Taki is very happy) * Satoshi reaches into Kaede's pocket and carefully pulls out the broken headband. He turns it in his hands a few times, looking it over, then sits on the floor next to Kaede's chair. (Then I stab her in the throat.) (She's too dead to be sad ;_;) (XD) * Katie looks down at her hands and notices they've stopped shaking. She lets out a small sigh, followed by, "" And she turns for the kitchen. "Anybody want food? I'm starved." * Satoshi was leaning back, relaxed, when he suddenly sits bolt upright. "Oh shit! What about the other people?" * Katie looks at Satoshi. "What other people?" The ones Haruko said were in the basement! * Katie blinks. * Satoshi starts to stand up, setting the headband on the floor as he does. "Gotta go back..." Um, if you mean whoever was throwing swords... He's probably okay. * Kaede groans and starts to pick himself up but falters. "Got to go back..." You're staying right there, Kaede Takeuchi. * Katie looks right at Satoshi. "What's going on?" Haruko said there were more people in the basement. * Haruko 's voice calls out from the other room, a bit weaker now. "I was guessing. If I was right the cops will find them." * Kaede stops, probably not fully intentionally, as his arms give out and he winces, looking over at Katie. * Katie rubs at her ear. * Satoshi takes a step forward, then halts. He sees Katie rubbing her ear, so he actually heads towards Katie's room. "Guessing? Guessing?!" Haruko, are there or aren't there? * Satoshi reaches the doorway to Katie's room and actually GLARES down at Haruko. It's fairly impressive, and now's the time to remember that he's got a good half-foot on her when she's standing, and a heck of a lot more pounds. * Taki sleeps through all of this. So, Kaede. Hungry? * Kaede just turns to look at Katie and laughs. "...how can you think of food at a time like...of course you can. You've been gone for a day. You must be starving..." (Tenjiro tastes like chicken!) * Kaede 's laugh comes out half choked though. (We are not Saki. Although we have a Saki.) Yup. And I won't throw it up now. * Katie tilts her head. "So?" * Kaede looks up at the ceiling idly. "If you bring me something, I'll try and eat it." * Katie turns and heads into the kitchen. For great snackage! * Katie returns, carrying a plate with a couple sandwiches made from whatever she had lying around. She has a seat on the floor near Kaede and hands one up to him. (...Maybe you should go take a shower first...you seem to have killed him with the sandwich ;_;) (Pfft. I'm HUNGRY, damn you.) (Food before hygiene) (*snerk*) (Well. Hygene enough to wash blood off my hands, okay?) (mmm...Bloodwich) (Eww.) ( :9) * Kaede looks at the sandwich in his hands. He then looks at Katie. He then focuses back on the sandwich and his hand moves towards his mouth very slow * Katie turns her attention to her own sandwich. And devouring it. Which she seems to do in record time. * Satoshi walks back into the living room and sits down again. He doesn't seem nearly as angry as he did a moment ago. Still a bit annoyed and somewhat resigned, but not angry. * Katie finishes off her sandwich and doesn't even look up. "Do you want me to make you one, Satoshi?" * Kaede turns blearily over to Satoshi without a word. Huh? Oh, sure. (Ooops. She didn't check his eyes. That's actually !Satoshi.) (I knew that. *stab*) * Satoshi looks over at Kaede. "She didn't know. She was just guessing, and I was getting it from her mind and didn't ask for confirmation." * Katie gets back to her feet and heads to the kitchen again. * Kaede sighs and stares up at the ceiling. "Typical." Yeah. I'll know better for next time. ...Either way, Katie's right. This isn't over. * Satoshi eyes the broken headband. "No. No, it's not." * Kaede closes his eyes and seems to be breathing easier now. "...But why Ryo..?" he almost whispers out speculatively. I don't know. I'd never seen him before now... heard of him, yeah, but this was my first meeting. * Katie comes walking back. "Revenge." She holds a sandwich out to Satoshi. And money. It's not a good way to earn us over to his-- * Kaede looks over at Katie. * Satoshi takes the sandwich. "Revenge?" For not joining him? * Katie nods. "I stuck a knife in him." Her eyes flash. "Only I never did." * Kaede opens his mouth for a second, then focuses on Katie. "...the other one.." * Satoshi blinks. "Oh..." Maybe. (Oh wait, he took it. Nix that part. ;P) (The sandwich? Yeah.) * Katie grabs the other sandwich she made and eats it, not bothering to sit down. She paces a little. * Satoshi , having nothing better to contribute, takes a bite of it. This isn't-- What about Kyon? Has anyone tried to compromise his alliances? * Taki sleeps and sleeps some more. What about Kyon? Whose alliances? If the other Katie could potentially, and I'll note she did attempt, to break trust in you, then wouldn't it follow that Souichirou would conceivably try the same...? He might. If he's stupid. * Kaede narrows his eyes at Katie. "What do you mean by that?" If Kyon were smart about leaving, he would have let all the people he works with know he's gone, and how long he'll be gone. * Katie keeps pacing. "And have some sort of system set up for when he gets back." * Satoshi eats the sandwich and nods. * Satoshi swallows. "He'd have the forethought to do that, yeah." I didn't mean now... He would, only I don't think he did. He was in a hurry and barely let us know. But yes, we should hope that's the case...what about before he left though? * Katie frowns and squishes her sandwich remains a little, before she blinks and looks down at it. Munch. * Kaede just stares at Katie. Expressions take effort so he still looks mostly bleary and blank. I don't know. But since we haven't been treated very differently by his allies, I don't think so. * Katie looks over. "Since they're our allies, too. And friends." She finishes off the crust. "I'm going to take a shower." (* Taki springs awake. "I'll come with you! I have something to tell you.") (*snickers madly) (Oh, *that's* brilliant.) * Kaede sighs and takes a deep breath, returning to his ceiling inspection. ( Hmmm... I need to get you all stuck in the same place. ) (I figure about three more minutes of game time and Haruko will be there. :P) * Katie heads into the kitchen, deposits her plate, then stops in her room to grab some clothes, and it's to the bathroom for her! (Taki isn't here right now, but if you'd like to leave a message she'll get back to you, if she hasn't been killed) (Hot spring. We can talk across a wall. :P) * Satoshi finishes his sandwich. (What is it with you and hot springs?) (* Jin shows up. You're all suddenly in Katie's shower.) (That's it. You all die.) (Duly noted. *dies*) (He just wants to beat the MC there... Argh! Bad fusion idea makes head hurt!) (* Haruko escapes down the drain!) (...dammit, now I want to *see* that.) (What it's a traditional Japanese recuperative thing. And easier to talk between rooms than a massage parlor. :P) (Taki dies, but manges to mouth most of "I love you" as she goes, RDM is hunted down and killed for cliche abuse) (Although no good could *ever* come of Rei, Chie and Haruko being in the same place. ;p) ( Seeing as how I have a test next week on Friday, it'd be the perfect time for something like that, too :P ) * Satoshi looks over at Kaede, who's currently engaged in staring at the ceiling. "So do you think Souichirou's messing with Kyon's alliances?" * Taki sleeps, and bleeds at the same time! She's talented like that. (Bleeds? From what?) (The hole in her leg?) * Kaede shakes his head. He actually can now. "No. I think it's possible that he could." (Oh, I forgot she had that. Um, we'll assume Katie patched it. ;P) (I took a pair of hits in that fight, and woo!) Possible, yeah. But likely? What other reason would there really be to take Kyon's appearance? Don't know. It's all part of some strange, complex revenge plot. And what better way to conduct revenge than to mess with possible friendships and partnerships he's made? Yeah, I see. Question is, is he out there doing it right now? As Katie said, not if he's smart.. So far, I think he's proven that he is pretty smart, if a bit prone to gloating. * Haruko slowly walks down the hallway. Agreed * Haruko takes a moment to glance over the headband but then proceeds to Kaede. "Where should I start?" * Satoshi looks briefly at Haruko when she comes in. Wherever you'd like. * Haruko nods and lays a hand on Kaede's chest. (Haruko/Kaede OTP!) (Theirloveissoexactoppositepersonalitytypes.) Alright, tonight I get you guys healed as best I can. Clean and return the car. Tomorrow we need to look up those girls, inform our allies about what we learned, and take a break, maybe get out of a town for a day." (Now there's a ship that's going to wind up sinking before it gets out of the dock.) (*high fives Kate*) (^_^_v) * Kaede just looks at Haruko. "...and what made you decide that?" * Haruko gestures at Kaede, Satoshi, Taki, and then herself. "Think we're going to be in a condition to do more than walk tomorrow?" Get out of town, though? What do you mean by that? Could do a massage parlor, although we're a little scarred at this point. Nearby hot spring would work, though I'll need to finish healing Saki. Oh, and on that note, now that I'm not kneeling over her, stay out of Katie's room, Saki isn't all that dressed. * Satoshi looks over at Kaede. "Does that make any sense to you?" * Satoshi looks back at Haruko. "What are you talking about?" ...I had no intention of moving. And...no, it doesn't. It's not...that easy, Haruko-san. I've got obligations. I can't just "get out of town." * Haruko looks oddly at Satoshi. "We're injured, we desperately need a break. And while Arcana stuff will follow us it may allow one day away." ...okay, you can go take a vacation if it'll make you feel better, but I'm not going anywhere. * Kaede looks at the ceiling and laughs. At first it sounds normal. Then it grows hysterical. * Haruko 's shoulders sag. She doesn't really react to Kaede's display. "Well, I'll see about Katie and Taki. Maybe an afternoon." Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Just...just go away for a while. Why didn't I think of that? * Haruko grits her teeth. "I've offered that you could spend more time at the shop and we could call you if we need you." She scowls. "We could even meet there after school if you'd prefer that." * Haruko keeps healing Kaede while she says this. Every so often she moves her hand to a new wound, there's a fair number to choose from. * Kaede just looks at Haruko. "Get upset with me all you'd like. I'm used to it. I may even deserve it." * Satoshi sighs. Here they go again... * Haruko lets out a breath. "I don't care. I won't make relaxation suggestions again for you, I'm sorry. If you don't like the shop idea that's fine, I won't press you." * Kaede takes a deep breath and looks at the ceiling. "It's a good idea actually..." * Haruko looks deeply shocked. (OMG OTP *squeal*) (Oh TEE PEE!) (OTP?) (One True Pairing. Fandom term.) (One True Pairing.) (One True Pairing!) (Ah) (* Haruko frowns and Katie finds she's showering in gritty hard water.) * Kaede keeps staring at the ceiling. "I don't know if I can do it...I'm far too...I need to be actively involved. But yes, it's a good idea...but.." (* Katie gets annoyed and Haruko has a hard time remaining stable.) (* Taki hits Haruko with an icecube) * Kaede closes his eyes. "We can't escape who we are. Taking a break won't work unless the forces that be decide that we can." * Haruko still looks fairly shocked but shakes her head. "That's not how I work. It may be how you two work though, in which case you're right to turn down the idea." So we each do what's best for us. And in my case, that is staying here. * Kaede nods. "This has gone on long enough...although.." He sighs. "Maybe Nanami will start talking to me again..." * Satoshi blinks. "She's not...?" * Haruko gets a faint look of surprise and disappoint. She doesn't say anything though. Not like she...well you don't need to be bothered with that.. I don't mind if you feel like telling me. I asked. * Haruko nods. She looks rather confused though. * Kaede looks at Haruko and regards her strangely. "...what?" * Haruko looks Kaede in the eyes for several seconds before shrugging. "Satoshi's right." (I am? Wow. I'll have to remember that. ;p) Well it's just...ever since this whole thing started... * Kaede sighs and closes his eyes. "I need to talk to Shiraishi." * Satoshi looks a little confused, but nods. * Katie exits the shower! But she doesn't go straight for the living room, instead of stopping in her own. * Haruko glances at Satoshi to see if he recognizes the name. She keeps her mouth shut, it's a terrific way to keep her foot out of it. (Smart move.) * Satoshi gives Haruko a "Yeah?" glance in return. (Haruko should know it. :P) (Eh, she's being flaky. ^^) (Okay!) (I'm not remebering it. :P) (Akemi.) (People guide is your friend) (Akemi Shiraishi. ;p) * Haruko then blinks and nods. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-4) and gets 6. * Haruko then frowns and looks rather ashamed. "If you two see Heirophant, we need to tell her I betrayed her identity while I was under Tenjirou's control. But go on, I just didn't want to risk forgetting." Arai-san. * Kaede sighs slightly. "Does it really matter?" I think she set us up. I'm not sure either way...but...we found out some important things... * Haruko nods, she then looks to Kaede. "Did you have more you wanted to say?" * Kaede closes his eyes. "How do you feel? After Tenjirou I mean..." * Haruko frowns. "About how you'd think." She then looks confused again and looks at his eyes, only to be thwarted by their lids. * Haruko 's tone is more angry than sarcastic. * Haruko adds after a few moments. "Thank you for asking." * Satoshi almost smiles at that addition. * Kaede nods. "I was just wondering...I think...somehow I can block, or at least try to block, Tenjirou's power..." You can? * Haruko tilts her head and more eagerly than she intends blurts out "How?" When Sumire was taken over...she hesitated for just a moment didn't she? When I spotted her, she hesitated... That's never happened before with Tenjirou. * Haruko shakes her head. "I was concentrating so hard on working out a plan for Remi that I missed it." I didn't see it either. I can't say...I can't say I know for certain how it works...but if I do have it, I'm going to need to develop it. Definitely. * Haruko nods. "Even if you aren't sure, tell us what you think. Or is it only something you can do?" * Kaede shakes his head. "I think it's just something I can do. If I knew distinctly how I did it, then it'd make more sense. Since it doesn't make sense, it has to be Arcana. * Satoshi stifles a laugh. "Sadly, that's sound reasoning." * Haruko nods and looks disappointed. "Well, I thought the break was because he was hurt, but if it was you, or even if you helped, thank you. You can't know what it was like, but you can guess." I wonder if I could do something, too... but I'm afraid I'd make things worse by going inside someone's mind. I was thinking about that Satoshi...not with Tenjirou. With Chariot. With Chariot? * Kaede turns his head to look at Satoshi now. He's focusing more now. Think about it. There's no way we can compete with him on a physical level. * Haruko cringes. "Hopefully we can use the headband so that won't be necessary." The only way we can compete...we have to use something mental. I don't know how far my powers go, though. I could yell in his head, sure. That might throw him off. But beyond that... * Kaede nods. "That headband...if we can get it working...it'd definitely help. Though I wouldn't like relying on it..." I'm not saying that...but if you scan hard enough, he might have a weakness inside... He's got to...otherwise. Ahh. Yeah, I can see that. * Katie comes walking out of her room and over, now freshly dressed and bathed and clean. "Good question. What did happen with the Chariot?" * Satoshi looks over at Katie. "He got away, I guess. I held him off with... Tenjirou... I don't know...all I know is that I gave him two good shots and he didn't even flinch....and then I went down." He paused in the midst of beating us. I think he might have heard the cops coming or something. Why would he be afraid of police? * Satoshi slowly gets a rather horrified look on his face. * Katie glances at Satoshi, gauging his expression. ...held him off...with Tenjirou...? * Haruko winces. "He may have avoided being seen so far." I meant that literally. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 9. I just sort of picked up Tenjirou... and swung him at the Chariot. (dr) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 4. All I was thinking about was getting out of there. And stopping them... Maybe. But what would stop him from just killing the- * Katie stops at Satoshi's statement and *looks* at him. Is Tenjirou dead? * Satoshi stares back at Katie. "I don't know." He seemed to sense something coming. Maybe police, maybe some other enemy, we got out of there to fast to know. Damn. If he's dealing the drugs though...Yurika-san made it sound like he could use a field though... * Katie breaks eye contact with Satoshi. "Then that just means the Chariot isn't really invincible." * Satoshi blinks. Then he starts laughing, with a definite edge of hysteria building. * Kaede sighs and shakes his head. "We need to see her again...there's so many obligations..." * Katie lets him laugh. She's been there. She pads over to the kitchen. * Haruko stands up and hugs Satoshi. * Kaede then looks at Satoshi oddly. Despite the fact that he did the same not long ago. * Taki sleeps there on the couch...it's nice and comfortable. * Satoshi is unexpectedly hugged. "God... I'm not sane anymore, either... what kind of person uses other *people* as weapons?" Tenjirou? Not literally but... * Haruko looks up at Satoshi, not breaking contact. "If you hadn't stopped him, we were dead. I couldn't protect Takeuchi-san on my own, we were in too wide open of a space, and I wouldn't have gotten to the car in time." * Katie comes back, what looks like a bottle of beer dangling between her fingers. She's holding a cup in her other hand. And she watches. * Kaede eyes Katie. * Satoshi looks at Haruko, then Kaede, then Katie. "Is it bad that I'm not sorry if he's dead? Is it bad if I'm actually *glad*, because then he'll leave us *alone* and he'll never rape someone's mind again?" * Haruko 's voice has absolute certainity. Not the comforting kind, the this is just the way things are kind. * Katie says, calmly, "If that's bad, then I've thought worse. And right now, I'm not sorry for any of it." If he isn't, we need to finish the job. The only reason we didn't is because of Chariot. He'll die. I don't want him touching anyone ever again. * Satoshi nods. He's stopped laughing and seems pretty calm, but his jaw's firmly clenched. He finally gives Haruko a brief, light hug in return. * Haruko looks up and then to Katie. "There isn't any prison, even if we fix the headband we're probably some time from it. We try every other way first, but we do run out of other ways eventually." * Haruko then let's go of Satoshi and goes back to finishing healing Kaede. Concentrating on legs, chest is done by now, well, at least what she can do for today. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 10. We're done. A prison won't hold him. Threats don't work. He likes what he is, and he can take it straight to his grave. I won't let him hurt anyone *ever* again. * Katie moves again, slipping back into her room. * Kaede closes his eyes. "I agree with Katie." * Haruko settles a little. "Alright. Give it a day, he'll be laying low and we aren't in any shape for it." * Kaede breathes easier again. "Thank you, Haruko." * Haruko looks at his eyes once more and gives an odd smile. "You're welcome." * Kaede has hazel eyes! Ha! (It's her third check. :P) * Haruko sighs. "We will fix this band, and we will get new options, but they won't be ready in time." She then smiles sadly. "At least if Fuyuko doesn't want to be a weapon, we can give her a way out." * Satoshi leans back and closes his eyes again. "We'll keep going. We have to." If we fix the band, it still doesn't change his personality. And his personality is the one that keeps trying to kidnap people. * Haruko nods. "If we can find a permanent way to remove people's powers, than society can deal with them. But you're right, I hesitated about killing him because I didn't want to be ruled by my emotions, but we can't let him keep doing this." She frowns. "I should have let him die back then, we'd have avoided this." * Haruko finishes with Kaede's legs and moves over to Satoshi. "Could you sit down? I'm sorta tired and you're tall." * Satoshi almost-smiles. "Sure." He sits down. * Haruko rests a hand on Satoshi's chest, near one of his more prominent wounds. * Kaede sits up himself, a blank expression still on his face, though this time it's not from the pain. "There's one more thing..." What's that? * Satoshi relaxes slightly as Haruko works on him. Now Chariot knows all of us are involved. (And he keeps pounding at my connection!) (Stupid Chariot.) (He wants Kaede dead!) (*laughs*) Well, what can we do to prepare? * Haruko nods. "Well, we're not alone on this, even if Saki drops us we do still have Matthais and a lot more information that we used to have." She laughs fairly grimly. "I suppose the two of us should get to work on that head band as soon as we don't need to worry about bleeding on it." * Kaede hefts his breath and leans back a little, arm across his knee as he looks off to the distance thoughtfully. "I'm not sure...but simply realizing that fact is important." * Kaede then looks over at Haruko, expressionlessly. "I guess so." I don't think I'm going to forget. Not now. * Haruko then gets an odd sort of smile. "To save time, I don't care to hear any comments about my technical ability. If you in turn wish to declare any subjects taboo while we work, I'll respect it." ...why would I comment on your techncial ability? * Haruko snickers. "Can't imagine. If you think of something taboo later, just say so. I'll consider it part of the deal." ...I wasn't aware we had to make any deal... * Haruko frowns. "You don't have to, it'll just make things go easier." * Haruko switches to examining Satoshi for a bit. * Satoshi closes his eyes and lets Haruko finish. Well...we'll see if they're necessary. It really would be best if we didn't find out the hard way. * Katie steps out of her room, walks over, and blows on an empty beer bottle, making one of those boathorn-like sounds. * Haruko switches to a different wound. She's managing to heal a lot of the internal bleeding and a few of the bigger scars, but there's definately still wounds there. * Katie lowers the bottle and clears her throat, ever so official-like. "Just so everyone knows." * Haruko glances oddly at Katie before looking back to Kaede. "Do as you wish, if it goes like this did, we'll be fine, if not, it'd definately be easier if we made that deal." My parents aren't going to be back for another two days. That means you can stay a while. And I'm going to need help getting blood out of... things. There's a car in the garage that needs to be gotten rid of, too. * Haruko nods. "I could probably handle that now, think everyone will be okay for a bit. I could use a little help with the cleaning, though my powers will make it easier. I can tell my parents I'm on healing duty once that's done." * Katie eyes Haruko a bit oddly, but she nods. * Haruko looks to Satoshi. "You'll be alright until I get back?" I should be, yeah. Thank you. * Haruko nods and stands up, she then slowly heads to the garage again. [Session End]