❦ the third rose

[queenofscarlet]

ACTION: 1648 ALBRIGHT LANE

[When Rachel awakes from her dream, she doesn't know whether she wants to laugh at her own stupidity or get Nago to slap her in the face. To think she actually believed in such a thing... really, she was losing her touch. Now, she could only wait to see what sort of consequence would await her for making her choice.

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[kinships]

[As soon as he had seen the broadcast he felt his stomach lurch uncomfortably... there were people on that list he was starting to care for, as strange as that was.

Yet he heard her moving around upstairs, so... perhaps it wasn't true? Padding up the stairs cautiously, he poked his head through her doorway and froze. What was there, was not Rachel.]

--Ah.

[queenofscarlet]

[SCREAMS WHO IS IT THIS TIME oh wait Cain... Maybe he would believe her unlike crazy Abel. c_c]

Good morning, Cain.

[kinships]

[His expression falls slightly, and he remains a safe distance away in the doorway.]

It's true, then.

[queenofscarlet]

What is true?

[kinships]

You... sacrificed yourself for the good of the town.

[He's surprised, Rachel hadn't seemed the type.]

[queenofscarlet]

[... well, it's true that she did in her dream, but seeing as how she's right here.

WELP.]

However, I am sitting right before you. That would make it impossible for me to have sacrificed myself, wouldn't it?

[kinships]

There's no point pretending, it's evident that you're not her.

[Though perhaps the replacement was programmed to believe it was...]

[queenofscarlet]

[She sighs. This was probably inevitable, but it doesn't stop her from rubbing her temple with her hand.]

Unfortunately, I am quite real no matter what you believe, but I suppose my words are simply falling on deaf ears.

[kinships]

You might believe you are real.

[There's something slightly pitying in his eyes. After all, don't all the drones think they are real?]

[queenofscarlet]

[EYEROLL.GIF he's not comparing her to one of those mindless drones, is he?]

Don't pity me for goodness' sake. If that is what you believe, then I suppose that's all very well and good, but do please do your "fake sister" the favor of not giving her such a pathetic look.

[kinships]

[Well... IT CERTAINLY TALKS LIKE HER. But it's definitely not, he can tell that from the feeling of wrongness in the room.]

I don't pity you, I'm sorry you felt you had to do this and there was no other course.

[queenofscarlet]

You needn't bother feeling sorry as I do not feel that I "have to do this"; I am only doing as I please, just as always.

[kinships]

Yet 'what you pleased', was to save us all through your own sacrifice.

[queenofscarlet]

Ah, yes, that is what they're telling you on the television, isn't it. They are grossly misunderstanding the situation. [Only half-true, but hey she has an image to uphold. Quite frankly she saw it less like a "sacrifice" and more of her just doing her duty in the dream.]

[kinships]

Then why don't you tell me the truth of the situation?

[Even if he won't believe a word you say.]

[queenofscarlet]

Unfortunately, that would be rather pointless seeing as how you won't believe a single thing I say.