[Day: Thursday, April 21st. Time: 5:00 p.m.] [Weather: More rainy and chilly than it was earlier.] ( Kyon, I need advice from the dream version of you.) [Katie dropped Taki off and she's been sleeping outside her front door for about ten minutes.] [Just kidding. Taki's been inside doing something or other. Then Satoshi showed up!] [Session Start] * Satoshi knocks on the door to the apartment. d3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (d3) and gets a natural 1 for a result of 1. * Taki doesn't leap to her feet to answer it! In fact she continues to sleep the evening away on the couch. * Satoshi waits a moment, then knocks again, harder. * Taki blearily opens the door a few moments after a soft thud comes from within the apartment. "Mhm?" Hey. Can I come in? * Taki opens it all the way, and then stifles a yawn. "Sure... I'll get you something to drink." She steps back and glances twords the kitchen side of the room. ( Huzzah. ) Actually, I brought something with me. * Satoshi holds up a thermos. * Taki smiles weakly at him. "Thanks, I... " Her eyes unfocus for a bit and then she looks up at him again. "Uhm..." * Taki shakes her head and clears the doorway so Satoshi can come in. * Satoshi walks in. He's got a paper bag in his other hand. "Mind if I use one of your teacups, and maybe a plate or two?" * Taki shakes her head. "They.. I'm so... the..." She swallows and tries again. "The cups are in the cabinet... next to the sink... and the plates are one over." * Taki walks to the couch and sits down heavily. * Satoshi heads to the kitchen and sets the bag and thermos on the counter. "There's a really nice American-style deli not too far from here. Good sandwiches. Great pickles. I thought it'd be nice to get something for you while I was there." (Sort of a last meal and all.) * Satoshi reaches into the cabinet, pulls out two plates, then proceeds to remove sandwiches from the bag, unwraps them, and deposits them on the plates. Complete with a pickle spear on the side for each one. Eat in living room, or kitchen, or what? Thanks... I'll ... maybe I'll send Dad there... make sure I don't dream giving him dinner. * Taki pats the low table in front of couch. * Satoshi carries the plates in, puts one in front of Taki and one next to that, then goes back into the kitchen and pours a cup of tea for Taki and a glass of water for himself. He repeats the process of carrying foodstuffs, then sits down on the couch. "Dig in. It's grilled fish, like you said you liked." * Taki gives Satoshi a genuine smile, says the famous Japanese phrase her player can't remember how to spell or pronounce and takes a bit. (bite) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-3) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 0. (Go Haruko!) * Satoshi picks up his pickle spear and takes a bite. (She could take a bit too.) (Or a byte, but they're hard to chew) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 4. * Taki puts the sandwich down. "Satoshi... I..." She looks down at her hands for a moment and then up at him. "I've... got a strange sortofquestionforyou." * Satoshi looks like he was about to say something himself, then blinks. "Oh?" * Taki swallows. "How... How do you apologise to somebody when... Thisissostupid... When you think you've slept through their getting kidnapped, because you did something ... stupid the day before... only now you think maybe you dreamed the whole thing up, butyoudon'tknow?" (did that get cut off?) (No.) (Okay then!) * Satoshi looks flummoxed. "Uh. What?" ( So y'all know, I gotta get up early tomorrow, so I'm gonna end when Satoshi leaves. ) (Okay, but this may take a while) (Flummoxed is such a lovely word.) (So we pick it up next session if we need to. I think this is really the only thing that absolutely must get done before I'm gone.) (And explaining why I'm going in the session two weeks from now.) (Which I believe is the training with Winston idea.) * Taki sighs and shrinks in on herself. "...I ... nothing makes sense... but I'm glad you're okay." Wait, wait... you thought I was kidnapped? * Taki nods slightly. "I... think I dreamed it, but I... I can't ... I'm just so tired I can't tell when I'm awake anymore." Session Time: Fri Oct 27 00:00:00 2006 I haven't been kidnapped lately. Or ever. Here, have some tea. It'll help you feel better. Thanks, Satoshi. * Taki picks up a teacup and tries to take a long slow sip, but stops immediately to pull her hair out of her mouth. * Taki puts the cup back down and picks up a napkin to brush some of the out of her bangs. "Bleh." * Taki finishes by pushing her hair back behind her ear and picking up the cup for round 2. She drinks! (Congratulations, you've consumed the extra-caffeinated tea. ^_~) (I think hyper-depressed Taki would be far worse than lethargic Taki.) Feel better? A ... bit, thank you. Good. * Satoshi takes a bite of his sandwich, chews, swallows, and puts it back on the plate. "So... I guess you're wondering why I came here?" ( Hot lovin'? ) ( Or maybe pancakes ) (Crepes?) (*dies laughing*) * Taki blinks at Satoshi then shakes her head. "I ... no... I was too busy trying... trying to apologize for... for ... yeah." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%AApe ) I, um, wanted to talk to you. About us. I... We... about? Yeah. * Taki hurriedly takes another, longer sip of tea. (You'll need it.) (I don't doubt that I will.) We haven't really had much time to do anything lately. Or ever, really. * Taki lowers the cup and nods. "Things keep happening... Yesterday.... yesterday, I can't even remember who I saw, I'm sorry... that I ran without you." Honestly, I was confused... but... I dunno. I think... if things were really important, we'd *find* time, you know? * Satoshi sighs. * Taki rubs her face. "I... we .... have right now... until Dad comes home." That's not really what I'm trying to get at. Wha... what are? I mean... we're not really dating each other, are we? We're kinda saying that we are, but we don't really do much. Partly because of the whole Arcana mess, and partly because you're tired so much, but... I haven't really made much of an effort. And I could have. (Gasp! Satoshi admits that he's a lump! The world must be ending!) (Well, it's about to come crashing down on Taki anyway.) (Yep.) * Taki gives Satoshi a classic deer in the headlights look of shock. "No! No. No... you've done ... I mean, I'm the one who... That's... we... Tomorrow! Tomorrow, we're going out... toseeamovie... and if somebody gets kidnapped... we'll savethemfirst, and take them to later show together." (Tasty denial.) ( No, your plans for tomorrow are a visit to dumpsville. Population: you.) * Satoshi shakes his head slowly. "I'm sorry." (If Satoshi could say that, we wouldn't be here right now) * Taki shakes her head. "Do.. don't say that. I'm the one who... who didn't do anything, but I can. I will. Please. I can.... I want to be better than this. I... I want... This isn't..." She stops to swallow. (Your only choice is to sleep with him, Taki.) ( I'm pregnant! We never did more than kiss. I didn't really think this through.) (They didn't even kiss. ;p) (They still haven't kissed?!) (He's right. :/) (Gah) (They may have awkwardly held hands once!) (It was not a good relationship.) (Actually, strike the "good" from that sentence.) (They've often awkwardly held hands. They’ve also had their !relationship for about a month and half.) (And known each other for two) You deserve better than just the idea of going out, without the actual doing of stuff. I... I deser...ve? Yeah. It's not fair to you. * Taki blinks at Satoshi in incomprehension. "I.... you're.... really not giving yourself enough credit." Then she bursts out giggling. (Well, it's not fair to me, either, but I'm trying to let you down as gently as I can.) ( Maybe in the epilogue, they can get back together again. Though that'll probably be a long way away ) (Actually they just broke up there too.) (Hrm... how about HELL NO.) (At least this Satoshi told her to her face.) ( ah. ) (Yeah... if I had their relationship, I'd have been out of it about a month back.) (Instead of fleeing the country? Or at least fleeing to another team?) (Fleeing the country wouldn't work, and she was retiring from Hockey, but that's a different game.) Well, it's not like I'm really good at this sort of thing. And I liked the idea of, hey, there's a girl who's kinda interested in me! But... I didn't really think through the actual having a relationship thing. (...why do I picture Satoshi going, "Relationships are hard! Let's go shopping!") 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-1) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 7. * Taki 's giggles die down and she rubs at her eyes. "I'm sorry... I ... I shouldn't have laughed... but... but if I deserve better than you... I'm not going to find it. And... and I ...we ... both made mistakes, we... we can still fix them." ( Name one male who isn't a total jerk that I could go out with instead of you, and I'll let you dump me.) Don't say that. You'll find someone. Someone who'll work with you, who can give you the attention you deserve, and you give them the attention they deserve. But... that someone isn't me. (Note how I'm not using gender-specific pronouns. ;p) (Ha!) (Taki needs a cat!) (Mimi!) (And I should probably get going soon.) (Haruko will soon have her vehicle. She'll take Taki cruising for guys/chicks.) (*snerks*) (Gicks!) Tha... that perfect person... doesn't exist. Not outside my dreams. I... know we arn't perfect. I... am very, very not perfect ... and... and I could accept your not wanting ... not wanting ... me, because of it, but... your not being enough for me? It's ludicrous. (That's just because you dream of Katie.) ( What about Ryuji? :O ) ( ;_;) Yeah, but... I don't know. Call it a gut feeling or something, but... I just feel like we don't have much of a future. That things would keep dragging on the same way. We'd try for a while, but eventually fall back to not much at all. And I don't want to do that to you. Or me. ( It's not you. It's me. I just can't get myself to stand you.) * Taki stands up. "I ... I don't care about the future any more! Tomorrow we could all die, or that bastard Tenjirou could... could ... Eugh.. I could kill him! It doesn't matter! The wheel can do whatever it wants then!"