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[Thread] Long before they said you were no more

Nov 19, 2008 21:09

Characters: OU!Shadow the Hedgehog, OPEN
Where: The park
When: Midnight
Summary: It's another late night for the hedgehog, as is now usual, but the snow brings memories of Maria.
Warnings: Brooding and emo. Also, depends on who shows up.

( Sad excuse for a sunrise )

[sonic:sega] shadow, [cowboy bebop] faye valentine, *open, [fruits basket] honda tohru

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bowyourheadslow November 20 2008, 07:32:56 UTC

Her words startled him; Shadow realized he hadn't been paying attention at all, if he hadn't even heard her footsteps crunching in the thin snow. The way it blanketed everything and silenced ambient noise, he really ought to have heard her.

"I could ask you the same," he replied, voice calm. "I'm usually out at this hour."

He lit a glow around his hand again, for her this time. Thankfully, there was no way she could have seen that tear fall from the distance she'd been at. He didn't cry. Ever.

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bowyourheadslow November 20 2008, 08:05:04 UTC

Shadow nodded at her explanation, and moved his hand-come-heater and light a little closer to her. It was oddly nice to talk to her - or, at least, listen; he didn't feel like doing much talking. But Tohru had always reminded him of Maria, with how kind and gentle she was, and although it hurt to be reminded of her now that she was gone, it was also nice in some way he didn't really understand. Comforting, perhaps. She couldn't fill that void - and clearly, didn't fully understand it, judging by how upset she was that he'd ignored her in order to look after Maria in the last days she was here in the compound. But he supposed he couldn't expect her to. Nobody really could ( ... )

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lady_bounty November 22 2008, 10:21:31 UTC

Faye couldn't sleep. She was still feeling unsettled after her conversation with the Piemaker. The mink incident had been a shock to the system, and she still felt uncomfortable at her apparent lapse of sanity in exposing her emotions to the man. But neither of those were preventing her from sleeping.

As much as she hated this prison, and would do anything to escape and go back to her own world, back to the Bebop, there were at least a couple good things this place had going for it, as far as Faye was concerned. One that she wouldn't admit to herself was just that Neocontra was different. It was a strange place full of strange people; it wasn't full of troubling memories. She kept herself busy looking for a way out, so the longer she was here, the less frequently she thought about....

Spike.

...And yet, he never really left her alone. The littlest thing, a few careless words from a stranger, the smell of gunpowder and cigarettes, would bring his face to mind... his mismatched brown eyes, so serious, Look at my eyes, Faye, ( ... )

bowyourheadslow November 22 2008, 10:39:53 UTC

This time, he was paying better attention. Having been caught off-guard by Tohru, of all people, had been a bit of a wake-up call, one could say. But he'd said nothing as she approached, as he was completely uninterested in talking with this unknown woman, and the chances that she wouldn't even see him and would instead just pass on by were fairly good. Until she'd come directly toward him, for some unknown reason.

Shadow turned to look at her just as she shouted, narrowing his eyes harshly at the unwanted noise.

"Watch where you're going," he growled lowly, not in the mood to mess around with idiots. Which, in his opinion, comprised some ninety-nine percent of the compound's population, if not more. If he didn't know who this one was by now, then she wasn't worth knowing at all.

lady_bounty November 22 2008, 10:51:00 UTC

"Holy crap, you scared the shit outta me!" she exclaimed, then glanced down to her fallen cigarette. "Shit!" she muttered, bending over to pick it up. It was soggy. "Awwwwww," she grumped, tossing it away with a noise of irritation.

bowyourheadslow November 22 2008, 11:11:31 UTC

"Try using your eyes next time." Because really, it wasn't that he had scared her, it was that she had startled herself by not watching where she was going. Hardly his fault.

"And when you're done being scared, I suggest you move along." Though phrased as a suggestion, the tone of his voice made his words sound vaguely threatening. He could make it into an actual threat, too, if she was persistent enough to warrant one. He wasn't feeling forgiving at the moment.

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