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Day 39: Music Room

Feb 26, 2009 12:44

Lunch had been fruitful. Celes had chosen not to eat, but that was fine enough for her; she’d eaten plenty at breakfast and it was not very good manners to eat while discussing war (for Celes, it’d always given her a bit of a stomachache), or plotting. Especially if one was in mixed company. Her nurse escorted her to the Music room, citing that her ( Read more... )

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heliokleptic February 26 2009, 19:36:44 UTC

Luke never really knew where he they were going when everyone moved, but just followed the direction of the crowd. This time it looked like some sort of lounge, with dark blue carpeting and red furniture in the middle. He noticed some weird devices along one wall, and boxes on another, but wasn't feeling very interested in inspecting them right now. He was tired, and now that the stressful conversation with Master Van was done, still hungry as well.

Walking over to one of the couches, Luke flopped down on it fast first, and scratched both hands over the back of his head, shaking up his hair in frustration. He could feel himself getting... what was the worse... used to? Numb. Maybe. Numb to the situation. There was too much. Too much to remember, too much to try to understand, too much that was completely different. The fact that this wasn't even his planet kept periodically, shifting up to the surface of his mind, and then just floated there as he was unsure what to do with it, how to even feel about it. Maybe if they could get out ( ... )

razing_phoenix February 27 2009, 01:53:34 UTC

Lunch had turned out to be uneventful for Guy, since after that stranger had run off, no one else had dropped by to interrupt his meal. Not that he would have minded, of course, but he did have to admit that it was nice to get some quiet time after running into Asch first thing in the morning ( ... )

heliokleptic February 27 2009, 04:18:49 UTC

The room began to crowd even more, and Luke restlessly rolled over. He was taking up an entire couch, and even if he was tired, felt a bit guilty at that. Actually, someone would probably come over to yell at him any minute now. He stubbornly rolled over and draped an arm over his head in defense, but the thought had chased away the sleepy feeling, and he knew he wouldn't get to just pass out and hope for reality to wash itself away to something to made sense.

He was alive. Van was alive. Ion was alive. All this planet Earth. In the crazy jail where they were someone's entertainment or experiment or something. It felt oddly reminiscent of the daze he had wandered around in immediately following Akzeriuth. The dull feeling he'd had when watching Asch travel around with his friends. He was a murderer. A replica. Nameless. Betrayed. And it all came down at once until it just didn't even seem real any more ( ... )

razing_phoenix February 27 2009, 09:31:27 UTC

Guy was glad that there were a good amount of these disc players, seeing how quite a few people were already listening to music by the time he got there. Unlike the "Game Boys," though, there were enough of these to go around. Usually all he did with the CD players was look at them, though he couldn't get to the batteries during the day without a nurse giving him a disapproving stare ( ... )

heliokleptic February 27 2009, 09:49:25 UTC

"Heh, it's good to see you too." Luke smiled as well. More easily. It hadn't been 'long' since he had seen the other, but it was acutely aware that the chance might have never come again. This place was a pain, but he wasn't going to complain about the company.

Luke's eyes traveled down to the machine Guy had been studying just a moment ago, and he couldn't resist commenting. Mostly because he couldn't believe Guy was still finding a way to bury his nose in fon tech in a situation like this. "Uh, sorry if I'm interrupting."

razing_phoenix February 27 2009, 10:50:36 UTC

It was just like Luke to think that technology might be more important to Guy than his best friend (and he was going to ignore the fact that assuming that was almost valid). "Not at all," he quickly said, actually going so far as to go put the CD player back where he'd found it so that he could give Luke his full attention.

"I can't believe you're really back. I'm guessing you ran into Anise already?" he asked as he turned back to face Luke again. He didn't want to take his eyes off of the younger man longer than he had to; even though it was silly, it felt like his friend might disappear if he let him out of his sight for too long. Could he really be blamed for being paranoid after what happened, though?

"When did you wake up here?" he went on to ask. He felt kind of bad for giving Luke a barrage of questions, but it was necessary. He would have much preferred to just goof off while kicking back on one of the couches, but it wasn't that simple. It hadn't been that simple for a long time now.

heliokleptic February 27 2009, 13:29:09 UTC

Guy put the little fon machine away and Luke laughed a little. He'd only been joking, but... didn't stop him. Even if Guy didn't mean to, he could still get distracted looking at something like that during a conversation. And that was annoying.

"I ran into Anise," Luke nodded, recalling the note he'd watched Anise write to Guy. So he'd seen it after all. It might be a good idea to use that after all. "But if I'm 'back' I don't remember it that way." Luke raised a hand and scratched at the back of his head, feeling uncertain about this. "I guess I have amnesia after all...? That's what Anise says, anyway. That they did something to my memory. But I only just 'arrived' today."

razing_phoenix February 28 2009, 02:13:49 UTC

Guy had already expected that Luke wouldn't remember anything, so there was no shock there. That was how it always seemed to work, and Asch had been the same this morning. While it was frustrating since there was no way to catch his friend up on everything he'd done when he'd been here before, Guy wasn't going to let that sour the fact that Luke was here again.

"Yeah, whenever people disappear from here, when they come back all of their memories of when they'd been here before are gone," he explained. He wasn't sure if Anise had put Luke through this already, but he didn't mind repeating it to make sure. Though now Guy really had to wonder. Asch had been taken from the same point in time, but would that apply to Luke too? Beforehand, he had been a good deal behind the rest of them.

"In that case, though..." He paused and gave his friend a close stare. "What's the last thing you remember before coming here?"

heliokleptic February 28 2009, 03:31:11 UTC

Luke blinked, at first thinking Guy might be on to his death. And then abruptly remembered Anise had said the 'last' time he'd been here, he'd forgotten everything after the Tower of Rem. "Man, this is going to get confusing. Uh, I remember everything now. I mean, defeating Master Van and..." There wasn't really much after that. "...Everything."

Glancing around, Luke looked for the last person he'd talked to. "Sorry, it's probably a pain to have to tell me everything again. But at least I know that much. And... something else. I just talked to Master Van."

razing_phoenix February 28 2009, 04:47:12 UTC

Well, that was different. Having Luke further along in time would make things less confusing, but Guy was still a year ahead of his friend. He had waited all that time for Luke to come back, but it looked like the younger man didn't have much of an idea of what had happened to him back then. Either that, or he was keeping it to himself, and Guy wasn't going to press him about it right now.

"Don't worry about it, I don't mind. You should know that," he said with a smile. Guy was just glad that Luke was here to get things explained to him. Having to go through it again wasn't that big of a deal.

He was in the middle of trying to figure out how to break it to Luke that he had been experimented on before, but that was when Luke mentioned Van. Guy froze in place for a moment, giving the redhead a bewildered stare as he tried to force his words to make sense.

"Wait, you mean -- you talked to him before coming here, or... you..." He trailed off, not sure he could acknowledge the possibility that Van was here. It wasn't that he hadn't ( ... )

heliokleptic February 28 2009, 05:00:36 UTC

"Uh... Sorry." Luke was sure Anise hadn't known about Van's pretense, and was guessing it was the same for Guy, but he hadn't really thought about how Guy would handle it. He... he knew he'd never been able to change how he felt about Van, however much the man hated him. Luke wouldn't forgive Van, a part of him would always respect the other as 'Master'.

But with Guy it was different. Van had been a friend and a servant, but unlike Luke, he'd never seemed to have trouble regarding Van as an enemy, too.

And Van was dangerous.

"Sorry," he repeated. "Yeah, he's here. I talked to him during lunch. Uh... he's forgotten things too. I think he only remembers as far as when we fought him at the Absorption Gate, for some reason."

razing_phoenix February 28 2009, 05:34:06 UTC

Guy was so busy processing the fact that Van had somehow showed up here that he barely registered what his friend had to say about the man's memories. He knew that at some point he was going to have to talk with Van, and that thought got his heart racing more than he would have expected. When they had been facing off against the man before, their interaction had been limited, and Guy had usually only seen Van when he was alongside the rest of the group. Talking to him one-on-one was a whole other story ( ... )

heliokleptic February 28 2009, 05:51:15 UTC

While Guy seemed to figure out what to think about Van being here, Luke watched him carefully, mouth half tilted into a worried frown. He was glad he had at least thought to wait to talk to the others before forming any alliances. Maybe, even if they didn't have to be enemies, the others wouldn't be willing to be anything else either. Van had hurt all of them a lot.

He was just getting ready to apologize again when Guy seemed to shake it off, and Luke nodded at the fact that Van and Sync would work together. Luke hadn't even told Van that Sync was here pretty much for that reason. He cared about Van, he wanted to see him change, but he wasn't ever going to be stupid enough again to make the mistake of trusting him.

And he was engrossed enough in that line of thought that he almost missed the name of Asch slipping in there. ...And then he almost didn't register what that meant.

It was a slow realization that he played back in his head a few times. What side Asch is on, not was. Anise had been sure Asch wasn't there anymore. She had ( ... )

razing_phoenix February 28 2009, 06:20:41 UTC

It looked like they both had ended up surprising each other. Guy sent his friend an apologetic look when he realized that Luke hadn't known, and then gave a grim nod. He realized that was someone else who was back from the dead as far as Luke was concerned, and there were obviously even bigger implications. Original and replica - there was a connection and a tension there that Guy had only been witness to. He could never completely understand how it worked ( ... )

heliokleptic February 28 2009, 07:05:29 UTC

Asch was here. Luke just... breathed on that idea for a minute. He had thought it was possible, then known it was possible thanks to Anise. He only just now realized he had been avoiding contemplating it. Asch being gone hurt enough. Thinking about having missed him, about Asch possibly being dead again...But if Asch was here, now, and alive. It meant... he was back. And Luke felt... not 'whole'. He wasn't broken without Asch, he wasn't empty. But at the same time Asch was something irreplaceable to him and knowing that he was back felt like... relief. Relief on almost the same level as realizing he himself was alive. Luke didn't even have to consider it as he made a mental promise to himself; he'd never lose Asch again. If the other hated him, he could handle that. But he wasn't going to let him die in this place ( ... )

razing_phoenix February 28 2009, 08:55:04 UTC

That was Luke through and through. In a way, Guy felt like he had to be wary of Asch on his friend's behalf. Maybe Luke didn't mind if his original verbally abused him, but Guy certainly did. He wasn't going to stand for that sort of thing. At least there was a good chance Asch would be too busy with Landel's itself to zero in on Luke too much. Plus, with Van being here ( ... )

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