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markofthebrave September 24 2010, 05:53:41 UTC
Do you mean when they get back home... or when they come back here?

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gomugomunopwn September 24 2010, 06:05:56 UTC
When they go back home...

...

it's important that I don't forget a few things.

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[ Private ] markofthebrave September 24 2010, 06:54:24 UTC
Oh. [/brb, crafting an excellent filter now.]

I think it depends, Luffy. Zuko said that he remembered things when he went home... but that he didn't know they were real. They were like dreams.

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[ Private ] gomugomunopwn September 24 2010, 07:23:38 UTC
[Oh, thank you Katara! Luffy sucks at filtering as you can see!]

NO! It can't be like a dream! I have to remember it for real or-- something bad might happen!

[Just... give him a minute to calm down. After all, Katara's not the one to blame for all this.]

... The last time I was taken to go back home, Nami had just arrived not too long ago and I had been here for almost a year. Well, now more of my friends are showing up and I've almost been here for two years. The same thing is going to happen, Katara!

When I went home before, we all got separated... But this time might be even worse than that!

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[ Private ] 1/2 markofthebrave September 25 2010, 05:17:37 UTC
[Okay, well. Katara put up the filter because she doesn't like talking about her friend's private business on an open network, especially Zuko. She wasn't expecting anything like - this.

There's a moment's pause as she takes that in.

She really wishes they were in person right now so she could give him a hug.]

...I don't know what to tell you, Luffy. I don't know how things work here, or why some people come back remembering that they'd been here before and why some people forget. I don't know if there's any trick to remembering things when they we get home.

I wish I did.

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[ Private ] markofthebrave September 25 2010, 05:22:03 UTC
It's not fair... that you would know something here, and not be able to do anything about it when you get home.

[And she is temporarily distracted from what she was going to stay next by deep worry and concern.]

...is it... really bad?

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[ Private ] gomugomunopwn September 25 2010, 05:54:18 UTC
...

Back home, my brother Ace is being put up for execution. The last thing I remember is being on the way to save him and I was sure I was going to but--... Now I don't know what's going to happen.

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[ Private ] 1/2 markofthebrave September 25 2010, 21:13:24 UTC
Oh, no, Luffy--

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[ Private ] markofthebrave September 25 2010, 21:15:31 UTC
[Damnit, why is this conversation not in person? She hates feeling so useless.]

...if you could remember going back home, do you know for sure that there would be something you'd be able to change?

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[ Private ] gomugomunopwn September 26 2010, 00:56:19 UTC
I don't know-- but... it'd be a lot better than going in blind!

I won't sit back and do nothing when I know something bad might happen!

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[ Private ] markofthebrave September 26 2010, 01:13:56 UTC
Luffy... [A deep breath.] I know it's hard. If it was Sokka...

But you can't let it - if you don't know what there is that you can change, and if you don't know what's going to happen... then it hasn't happened yet.

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[ Private ] gomugomunopwn September 26 2010, 05:02:19 UTC
And if I can help it, I'll never let it happen.

[He's gonna be very stubborn about this.]

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[ Private ] markofthebrave September 26 2010, 05:09:37 UTC
Good. But until you get home... you have to focus on what you can do, Luffy. If you can find a way to remember something from here at home, that's great if you think it will help. But don't - don't let thoughts of what could happen tear you down.

I know you'll do everything that you can to save your brother. And you have to believe that that will be enough.

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[ Private ] gomugomunopwn September 26 2010, 17:41:09 UTC
...you're right, Katara.

Things are just so... different here than they were back home.

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[ Private ] markofthebrave September 26 2010, 18:19:56 UTC
I know they are.

[She's not sure if this is the right thing to say or not, but...]

But... they're not as different for me as they are for you. For a long time, all I could do was wait and hope. After my dad left to go to war... I thought about him every day. I missed him and we needed him so much - and we couldn't do anything to help him. He was off with all the other men fighting the war and we were at home... I couldn't really even bend then. All I could do was wait, and do what I could to take care of everyone.

Luceti is a lot like that for me. Just... waiting and doing what I can, even though the waiting is worse because I'm strong now, and I feel like I should be able to do something. But I know, that if I just wait long enough and I don't give up... eventually there will come a time when I can make that strength count for something. We're going to get through this, Luffy. We're all going to get home. And when we do... I know that we'll both do all that we can to make sure that our futures are good ones.

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[ Private ] 1/2 gomugomunopwn September 27 2010, 01:19:25 UTC
[Wow, he... never knew Katara. He feels a little selfish now. All this time he had been getting anxious and angry at being in Luceti because he couldn't do anything, when Katara had already been in a situation like that back in her home world. He's been mostly on his own with his "brothers" since he was little and now that he was a pirate he had even less restrictions than before.]

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