Forty-Second Entry

[hazelrink]

[Action // Accidental Video]

[The video itself sees us with Charlotte's back to the camera, wearing only shorts, and facing a mirror. The angle isn't good to see the reflection in the mirror in front of her (her body is obscuring it and the video focuses mostly on her long hair and head... but she's cupping both of her breasts in her hands,

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[Action]

[lukanightfever]

[Luka's just returning to the room after showering. Being an android doesn't mean she doesn't need to take baths and the like after all.

She can't help to be surprised on seeing Charlotte there looking through the closet.]

... Charle?

[It's not a "is that you?" moment but rather a "do you remember me and your own name?". Kidnappings can have so many effects that she can't be happy that she's back yet.]

[Action]

[hazelrink]

Luka-? [Tuuurn and... oh! Smile! Excited to see you, really. Charle claps his hands together and bounds on over to the girl]

Luka!

[Driving to pull her into a hug, that is. A welcome sight indeed]

[Action]

[lukanightfever]

[jakhdkasj So enthusiastic. Luka can't help to be a bit surprised, but... Well, she remembers her, that's clear and she seems fine, but... She hugs back after the initial seconds of keysmashing.]

Charle... Are you okay?

[Even if on sight everything seems fine, Luka is used to hide many things herself, she isn't sure if Charle would do the same but it doesn't hurt to ask.]

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[hazelrink]

[No, still hugging. Tightly. Because this is so welcome and ... okay it's weird with this new figure but]

Ye-yeah... I'm okay aside from- well, you can see.

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[lukanightfever]

[No, she can't see. Except that she can see that apparently Charle thinks that something is wrong and that for her it's obvious to see. That by itself means that she's not okay.]

Oh, that. It's okay, so long as you're not hurt, any other effects will pass soon. Your memory is fine as well, right? You remember me and Adell and where we are, right?

[Action]

[hazelrink]

[...And pulling back] Of course I remember both of you! It's... um, it might not be fine, exactly.

[Action]

[lukanightfever]

[Luka arches an eyebrow but that's all she does.]

At any rate, the most important fact is that you're back and remember us. Anything else can be dealt with later on, what do you need help with now?

[Action]

[hazelrink]

Um- [... ...]

Can you- do you have any of my- [...Wait no, what Adell said /assumes this thread is after that one] I've got something to tell you, Luka.

[Action]

[lukanightfever]

[Luka just blinks at that.]

Sure, what is it?

[Action]

[hazelrink]

Um... [...How shall he word this]

... I love you?

[Action]

[lukanightfever]

[Blink. If this was said by Adell she would have been out of the room already, or deflected it somehow. But it's Charlotte and experiments aside Luka doesn't think it's something she should worry about. Still there's the issue that as an android she's not supposed to feel love, though honestly since the last experiment she has been thinking about that. During it, the "love" she had with Usopp was somehow different from the one during February, something more comfortable and with what she could life.

The fact that it didn't interfere in any relationship that Usopp had as far as she knew helped a lot. But loving Charlotte wouldn't interfere, right? It would be like familiar love or something like that, like what she had for Miku and Rin. It takes her a few seconds on the outside, but Luka finally smiles.]

I think I love you too, Charle.

[Besides, Charle is her friend, that love doesn't really have to go deeper. The problem is Adell, because with he could be confused and she doesn't want that.]

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[hazelrink]

[...Oh man. Charles has wanted to hear that this whole time, and a smile creeps up on the lips before well- a step forward is taken and he feels the changes to his chest. No, Luka's misunderstanding. He needs to clarify so, inhale, exhale- and then trying to make this sound incidental]

[Action]

[hazelrink]

A-actually, I mean I remember things... wrong. Adell is my best friend and... this feels like the wrong body.

[Action]

[lukanightfever]

[Luka had assumed something was off in that manner given that Charle talked as if whatever effect she was suffering was obvious to the eye, so it doesn't surprise her too much. She frowns a bit as she describes Adell as just her best friend and when she says that her body feels like a wrong one.

Her body shifts uncomfortably at that. Being in a body that feels wrong all around, no matter how much it could look like her original body... She has no idea in which way Charle feels her body as wrong, even if for Luka it seems okay, her human body had seemed like that too to everyone else except her. She hesitates for a moment before she gives the other girl a hug.]

It's okay. Everything will be fine in a few days and it doesn't matter if you remember details in the wrong way, you still remember Master Adell and me and your time here, right? That's good enough, details are just details, let's just ignore them for now and look at the bigger picture.

Master Adell and me will take care of you and not leave you alone, so worry is pointless.

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[hazelrink]

Yeah... [He brushes a bang out of his eyes. Wow, hair being even longer than normal is weird, but it's not bad. Um. Okay, he laughs a bit and nods]

Yeah, I know it'll be alright.

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[lukanightfever]

I know it's scary, to feel that you're in the wrong body... Is there anything I can do to help?

[Back when she was in that state nothing could help her much but it's different now, Charle isn't being overwhelmed by a thousand of feelings and emotions. Back then even something like a mere touch was shocking for Luka.]