[Special 008: Voice/Action]
[Voice/Ami]
This may seem sort of a strange question suddenly, but please tell me about your families.
[Ami's having one of those days where the distance between herself and her family and friends seems too vast and too real. Later, to focus her mind, she'll train in the battle dome, partners and visitors welcome.]
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This may seem sort of a strange question suddenly, but please tell me about your families.
[Ami's having one of those days where the distance between herself and her family and friends seems too vast and too real. Later, to focus her mind, she'll train in the battle dome, partners and visitors welcome.]
( cut for action at battle dome )
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[He needs to say something before it's impossible to say. Needs to say something but can't let it be heard elsewhere... So many seconds of silence pass in which he composes the best filter he can, and then he tries to force himself to speak again.]
S-Speaking of which. I... I wanted to... apologize, to you, Doctor Mizuno.
... Ami. [He doesn't know if it's okay to call her by her actual name, but... suddenly the formality doesn't seem right; it's too distant.]
I... After speaking with Leonardo, I... came to the conclusion that I must have... said something disagreeable to you, and... I... I'm sorry. I... I didn't mean to... to cause whatever trouble I might have caused, and...
[He trails off, ashamed of himself. He's so terrible at this and it all sounds wrong and stupid even now.]
I-I, I understand if you're still upset. I... I just wanted to try to make amends. However that is possible. [If it's possible.
I'm nowhere near as good a friend for you as Mike is, Ami.]
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And at the least I owe you an apology for... being bothersome.
With my... inability to read social cues, I often cause problems...
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... I will try not to.
I... I just don't want to be a poor friend for you. And I know that I am not like him - [And Robert cuts himself off, ashamed. He's being petty, isn't he?]
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When you say 'like him'... who do you mean?
[And for that matter, what do you mean?]
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Mike. He... He makes you smile. He seems to make you happy.
Truly happy.
I cannot do that.
[I'm a failure as your friend.]
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I'm grateful to all of my acquaintances and friends. [She's not good at putting this into words.] They each make me happy.
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It's been so long since I truly had friends and I thought I could maybe become a good friend for you, or something, but Mike is so much better... and... a-and what would you need with me when he makes you happy, and I...
[He doesn't know if he makes Ami happy.]
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I apologize for my unprofessionalism.
I shouldn't be so... petty.
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If you have bad feelings towards Mike, the one to apologize to for that is him.
[She's not getting it exactly. And it helps, or rather doesn't, that her focus of resentment had been Usagi's friend Naru at first.]
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I...
I'm just a failure...
[And he covers his face with an expression of distress causing his brows to knit behind his fingers.]
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[He exhales slowly, trying to push down the urge to cry because it won't help right now; he needs to be coherent.]
... You're certain that there isn't anything I can do? [So he's just going to have to live with the shame of his own incompetence...]
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[He shakes and covers his face a bit, trying to breathe.]
... And... a-and then someone who dislikes me himself becomes your friend so quickly, and does it better... And, and I don't know what to do.
[He is helpless when faced with this. Jealousy, such a foreign feeling, paralyzes him with indecision.]
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I don't want to be alone again, here... [... or at all?...] B-But, but... [This reminds him so much of why he fears relationships to begin with.]
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And you're not alone. [He has many people. He has Don, of course. Other friends, too. People giving him chances.]
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