Oct 01, 2010 09:13
[from here]It was a race. A fight against patience and a Song's call. Still, the sedation's dredges churned through him. Two close at hand had a potent effect--much like the night that they were left in that town, and the morning after. Rubedo had came then. Came for them like something out of place, and wasn't that so ironic afterwards--when
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Fortunately, by the time those in charge had decided her time in the window-lit room was over, the drugs running through Lightning's system had finally diminished in their effects' overall strength. Not so fortunately, the more their hold over her weakened, the more furious she became about it. Needless to say, the 'calm' that had taken her over since being overpowered and sedated in the hallway had come to a rather non-ceremonious end while she sat brooding and by herself.
Lightning now knew that even before she'd been forcefully subdued, here there was something else that had been very wrong with her. Many people-- most people, actually, may not have noticed when their physical abilities had taken a sudden, inexplicable blow. But unlike the majority of Cocoon's citizens, Lightning was trained to fight... and she soon realized that she had been far too slow in her attempt in getting away from those men in the hall. It wasn't even a matter of being defeated- that was ( ... )
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"Sis! You're..." alright, he almost blurted. But of course she was. Was there ever really any doubt when it came to Lightning's well being? Of everyone, she was the one he could trust to handle herself better than anyone else. But it was that same fact that made her presence here all that much more surprising ( ... )
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"Been better," she decided on, clipping the statement short, so that it lead into a heavy pause while she pressed her lips together and lowered her chin. What sort of question was she supposed to start with in a situation like this? She had absolutely no idea about the discrepancy between what they both remembered as being most recent, naturally- the last she knew, they and the four other Pulse l'Cie had just landed on the surface of the huge, utterly untamed ( ... )
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"Last night," she confirmed, her expression twisting as if the answer left a bitter taste in her mouth. Admitting a potential weakness wasn't something she found easy under any circumstance, and so the question she wanted to ask immediately afterward came only after another tense beat of irritation and a glance around to ensure nobody else seemed to be listening in on them ( ... )
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On the other hand, with that question and that look following the pause, he was now wondering if maybe she wasn't so much nervous as she was irritated about him having gotten caught. Not like there was much he could really do about it now. Still, he broke eye contact with her for a moment like maybe he was thinking over the answer ( ... )
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That wasn't what concerned her much. Even Cocoon had monsters, and really, both she and Snow at least had been dealing with them before the whole l'Cie scare had begun (if under different... 'organizations,' though that was a source of irritation for another time). The way random people were being rounded up and put in here, though ( ... )
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It wasn't as if Lightning spent much time staring at the stupid things- if nothing else, it could be said she tended to avoid it. However, she knew perfectly well the general level to which Snow's should have been at... it had been a definite concern of hers that all of them with active Brands were getting alarmingly close to the final stages Fang had described. But the one in front of her now didn't seem that much farther than one on someone who was totally new to being turned l'Cie... it didn't even have any red in it at allShe'd never heard of a Brand progressing backward. Ever. It wasn't supposed to be possible ( ... )
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"How did... what happen?" She couldn't be asking how the Brand itself happened, could she? Did they hit her head or something when they brought her in? What was the matter with her?
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Of course, once the moment of shock at seeing the stunted Brand had worn off, in set the concern about making a spectacle of themselves instead. She'd been trying to keep an eye on the people around them, but when she spotted the guard-woman who'd been accompanying her all day once more approaching, a mere second or two after she'd been pointing out Anima's signature on Snow's skin, she had to suppress a flash of reaction at potentially being caught.
She hissed under her breath, but didn't back off entirely in the interest of not seeming any more suspicious- no sudden ( ... )
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He was about to ask her again what she meant when he noticed her attention had shifted slightly. She managed to shoot him a quick look before he finally noticed what the problem was. One of the nurse-guards. She was making her way right over to them both. Snow clenched his fists as he watched her approach. Definitely not good. The patrol must've noticed the Brand he was waving around. They'd be after him then. Light, too, but only cause she'd touched him. It would really be him they'd want. And he was fine with that. He'd keep the attention aaall on him. If they wanted to press their luck trying to take ( ... )
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Lightning practically ground her teeth in disgust the moment she said that, trying to avoid the trap of asking herself too fervently why she'd learned to tolerate Snow at all. She was just upset... and for some reason, he'd chosen a reaction that brought back those irritated feelings especially strong in her. Sis?
Without a doubt though, the smoothness with which she agreed with that... ludicrous series of claims had nothing to do with being a good prisoner or... anything like that. In fact, a savvier person would have known from just that one word, delivered in that kind of tone, that trouble was brewing. Lightning might not have been aware of it, but the last time Snow at least would have seen her use that approach she'd gone and taken on an entire squadron of PSICOM soldiers. And won.
Yet despite how her body felt almost painfully taut with the desire to do something... somehow, she held back. Between her and Snow, there would have definitely been a better chance of fighting their way out, but now she was faced ( ... )
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In the end though, Lightning just went along with it and the guard wandered off none the wiser. Mission accomplished! But before he could feel too victorious about it, Light had to go and say that.
“Huh…?” The face he gave her very clearly read as, What did I do? Again, he didn’t actually say it. Come on, give him a break. Snow thought he'd handled that pretty damn well! Especially since that sort of thing wasn't really his style at all. He was all proud and stuff. And it worked so what was the ( ... )
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However, what might have been the answer (or at least, part of it) then finally came to her: if something had been done to her that made her slower and easier to contain, was there something else in play that made Snow act... especially idiotic? Maybe it had to do with the food, or more directly, was like the apathy-inducing drugs she'd been given when she'd attacked the guards. In any case ( ... )
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