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[The video feed clicks on. An unsteady hand fumbles for the communicator desperately, its owner currently offscreen, but only manages to knock it further away. Harsh, labored breathing penetrates what would be an otherwise quiet night, and eventually, with a pained grunt, a second attempt for the device is successfully made
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And he had disappeared. She knew, knows that he is gone, but that voice, that face... ]
'Dachi...?
[ She inhales sharply, unaware that she's activated the communicator's video function, that, for a fraction of a second, her expression is betrayed to him and the audience. She doesn't know, doesn't realize; she's swinging her legs over the side of the bed and moving rapidly to stand because it's him. (And who else could it be?) She's sure it's him. She would know that face, that voice anywhere. They had lived together for almost two months, but the signs, the symptoms she reads scream volumes as to his physical and mental state.
That's when the realization strikes like lightning and her muscles spasm and she's up, on her feet, and she's moving without a thought as to the time of night. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who is on shift now. It doesn't matter that there are more qualified healers. It just, it doesn't matter. Not here, not now, and there is only now to consider for the state Adachi is in. Now is the time to act, to move.
She never was any good at saying letting go, at saying goodbye... ]
'Dachi, if you can hear me, hold tight! I'm coming!
[ A beat. Green hues are cast upon the image presented as the materia in the same hand gripping the communicator roars to life. ]
And don't you even think about dying on me!
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V-Val?
[Shivering, he slowly rolls onto his back, wincing in pain. Sitting up is impossible right now -- he's pathetically weak from his fight with the brats back up top.]
Heh, relax. I'm not...gonna die.
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[ Valeria sighs, exasperated. She's tearing the ground up from beneath her feet for the speed at which she is moving. 'Relax' is really the last thing to tell her when one is in such a state.
At least he remembers me. ]
Look, I'm almost there, so just...
[ Calm down or you'll be more of a hindrance than you will a help. Deep breath, deep breath. Don't betray so much concern. It's -- ]
How can you be so calm?
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Valeria has always been a useful tool.]
M-me? No, you've got it all wrong, Val. I'm more relieved than anything...[a hiss of breath and he winces]...I'm just relieved that it's you.
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