[ Private ]gomugomunopwnSeptember 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!
[ Private ] 1/2markofthebraveSeptember 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.
[ Private ]gomugomunopwnSeptember 25 2010, 05:54:18 UTC
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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.
[ Private ]markofthebraveSeptember 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.
[ Private ]markofthebraveSeptember 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.
[ Private ]markofthebraveSeptember 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.
[ Private ] 1/2gomugomunopwnSeptember 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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it's important that I don't forget a few things.
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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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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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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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[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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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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...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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I won't sit back and do nothing when I know something bad might happen!
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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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[He's gonna be very stubborn about this.]
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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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Things are just so... different here than they were back home.
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[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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