[It's the same day the team protected the president and minister. As far as they can tell, they succeeded!] [After tackling and killing Kraad the Sniper, Rose passed out for a while. She does that sometimes. But now she's woken up and has made her way off of the roof.] [Minisession Start!] * Roseli is walking out of the building now. She's not looking super hot, but her arm's at least crudely bandaged up. Looks like she at least spent some time doing that. She looks around, trying to see if her ward is nearby. * Jamie is where she was left by the vans, and after she finished her search, her helecopters have been in a constant formation around Rose. ( There's probably all sorts of news reporters, too! ) * Roseli stumbles over to the vans, where Jamie is! Hooray, they so need to get out of there. * Jamie hurries over to where Rose is. "Are, are okay?" * Roseli nods. "I'm fine. Might want to get those choppers in the van. Don't want to attract attention from reporters." ( Maybe some dancing girls, too? Those are usually popular. ) * Jamie takes the smaller ones out of the formation and through the vans windows, she also wrings her hands. "Af... after you." * Roseli goes about getting in the van. "You okay?" she asks Jamie, concerned. * Jamie shakes her head and climbs in the van. She sits next to Rose and hugs herself. * Jamie 's large helecopters are, for the record, currently flanking the van. * Roseli reaches around Jamie's shoulders and gives her a kind-of-hug. "What's wrong?" * Jamie freezes solid, not even breathing for a full three seconds, then she hugs Rose and burries her face in Rose's side, sobbing. * Roseli blinks, but she instinctively gives Jamie a big hug and starts smoothing her hair. * Jamie blubers out. "You... you ordered me... and I missed... and you... you got ... and I couldn't... I couldn't even hurt HIM!" (Note that all ellipses are actualy sobs time spent crying and that Jamie has not, in fact degraded into Taki speak.) * Roseli shushes Jamie, still hugging her and smoothing her hair. "It's okay. We're okay, see? Both of us, and he's dead. It's okay." ( And he only shot her once. That's not half as bad as what's going to happen the next time. ) (Hey, don't tell Jamie that, or she will SPAZ THE FUCK OUT.) (>_>) * Jamie shakes her head and doesn't let go. * Roseli sighs and keeps with the hugging. * Jamie eventualy gets ahold of herself and quiets down, but shows no sign of letting go. "I'm sorry I let you get hurt." ( By this time, 3 months have passed ) (Nah, more like five-ten minutes) It happens. I get hurt a lot. * Roseli chuckles. "I know you did your best, so I forgive you." * Jamie looks up at Rose. "I... I'm I. Thank you." * Roseli smiles. "Okay. Feel better?" * Jamie nods. "I. When you got shot. I. It was like the inside of my head was on fire. I just wanted to kill him for hurting you. And I couldn't. And that made it hurt more." * Roseli nods understandingly. That happens sometimes, when you want to protect somebody. * Jamie nods and tries to reply, but she can't find the words. I... it's scary. Oh, I know. * Roseli gives Jamie another big hug. "But you can handle this. You're stronger than you think you are." * Jamie nods, because Rose said it. And wanting to protect someone isn't a bad thing, Jamie. * Jamie looks up at Rose. "But, I wasn't supposed to." Why not? She... all I needed to do was belive. ( "I gotta believe!" ) * Roseli nods. "So you didn't need to feel. And now that you don't..." * Jamie nods and hugs tighter. "I can't hear her anymore, I can't belive anymore, I can't not be anymore." Oh, Jamie... that's good. You might not realize it right now, but that's a good thing. * Jamie wails. "I don't know how to be!" That's okay, Jamie. (Oh there's a head exploder. Imagine what would happen if that was a real order.) ( She didn't order, far as I can tell ) (Heh, yeah. When it's an order, you can tell. ;P) You need to figure out who you are now. But it's okay to feel, all right? We all do. * Jamie calms herself down and nods. "O-okay." (Jamie isn't very good at conciously differentiating between suggestions and orders, but subconciously, yeah the conditioning kicks in hard to reinforce the actual orders.) (Also, I think it's safe to end hereish.) (Okay then. ^^) * Roseli smiles. "Okay." [End Now!]