Haruhi.

[heroic_commoner]

The other Haruhi's gone.

No more being dragged around on weird errands for some club. No more getting my name confused with someone else's.

Huh.

I should be relieved about this, and I guess I am, but it's more weird than anything.

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[future_defender]

...Wait a second. Did you just say she's gone?

[heroic_commoner]

Well, her name's off the list, and it's not up at Memoria, either.

[future_defender]

*pauses for a moment while he searches for the other Haruhi's energy signature and comes up with nothing*

...You're right. She's gone. I...gah. Part of me feels relieved, and part of me is repulsed by that fact.

[heroic_commoner]

To be honest, it's the first time that someone I actually knew well has disappeared.

It's kind of scary.

[future_defender]

...Yeah, I know the feeling. I've already lost several people I knew well. Some were close friends.

[heroic_commoner]

Yeah...

...I'm not sure what I'd do if someone important to me disappeared. That's got to be hard.

[future_defender]

...I haven't had anyone extremely close to me disappearing, but I think I know the feeling. It's like a person dies. And I have had at least one person extremely close to me die.

[heroic_commoner]

In a memory, or since you came here?

[future_defender]

Before I came here, in my own world. It would have been...at least four years now. Probably longer.

[heroic_commoner]

I haven't remembered anything like that, exactly. I remembered someone being dead, but it was so long ago that I don't even remember what they looked like.

[future_defender]

Yeah, it doesn't seem as tough when you're really young. My father died before I could even talk, so I have no recollection of him. Doesn't stop me from wanting to know about him, though.

[heroic_commoner]

...it was my mother. I want to know more about her, too. Just because I didn't remember anything about where other than that she died doesn't mean I won't remember more about her later.

[future_defender]

...Really? Sounds like we're in similar situations, then. Though I have a feeling you're not trying to figure out why you're suddenly fighting alongside a bunch of people you were told to be dead, including the dead parent.

[heroic_commoner]

It's surprising how easy it is to find similarities with people, even when everyone seems so different on the surface.