The Return of Time

[meat_mooks]

As the Clock was destroyed, all of the stolen time rushed back to it's original owners, causing them to rapidly age back to normal. But as the crew would soon notice, it seemed that the stolen time didn't always go back to exactly the right place...

[[ooc: Time to get back to normal guys! This is basically a case of very rapid ageing - they'll

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Location: The Bathhouse

[allnaturalseed]

Despite her shyness at her younger age, Cagalli had always has a knack for going wherever she wanted to. As a child she'd nearly gotten herself hurt quite a few times with improbable jaunts through government or even military facilities, her continued survival a testament to either luck or mad skills.

She'd managed to avoid any adults trying to keep an eye on her, and sneaked off to the bathhouse all on her own. Even at a young age, she had taken a liking to them, and she had memories from her time here as well. A lot of memories, I think like half her freaking threads here have been in the bathhouse. This is now a running joke. So she'd slipped into the mildest coed pool in a child's swimsuit...

Then she found herself... feeling very funny. She knew it was happening, but hadn't really been able to comprehend the sudden rush of intense pain as everything began stretching and growing improbably fast, all of her memories from before Stacy rushing in a whirlwind; all the people she'd lost, both close friends and the citizens of Orb.

[eradicating_war]

Speaking of running jokes...

And some time after she passed out (a few minutes or few hours, who knows?), water was splashed on her face.

"Wake up."

[allnaturalseed]

Probably closer to minutes - being unconscious for hours isn't healthy for the brain meats, it sure isn't.

Cagalli blinked and sputtered a little at the splashing looking around rapidly before quickly shutting her eyes as a headache overcomes her. "Agh! Ah... what... the clock?"

[eradicating_war]

"That isn't something you need to worry about." He peered down closer at her from the edge pf the bath.

"Are you harmed?"

...though this is the first time the running joke's been IC, hasn't it?

[allnaturalseed]

Slowly, she glanced up at Setsuna. The jerk who'd been shooting beams all over the hangar. Didn't seem to like her brother.

"I'm... ugh. I feel like hell." She looked back down at the water, feeling too exhausted to make much of a protest. "And I'm...

What oh, right. "W-wait. I'm naked!" She covered her chest with her hands, barely having the energy to yell at Setsuna, pointedly turning away from him. "Get me a towel."

Yep

[eradicating_war]

He didn't move, aside from raising an eyebrow at her.

"What happened?" That was less a question and more a demand.

I feel accomplished

[allnaturalseed]

"Just get me a towel first!" She wasn't giving him a hint of an explanation like this, and if he kept pushing it she'd give him a good punch on top of it.

They were gonna have to meet sometime. Might as well be while she's naked

[jesus_is_gundam]

Considering that he found her unconscious, naked, with what was left of her clothes torn, he already knew what happened to her (or so he figured). Her hesitation only set it in his mind.

So he did grab a towel and hand it to her, and gave her a slightly muted version of his typical soul piercing stare as he waited for her to start explaining.

It's appropriately Gundam

[allnaturalseed]

"Thank you," she said harshly as she stood, threw it around herself, and plopped back down in the water in one fluid motion that almost made her dizzy again.

Cagalli leaned back against the rocks, wondering why, exactly, he needed to hear all of this from her right now, the jerk. "I heard that clock thing a while ago, turned into a little kid, and I guess they just broke it or something now."

[jesus_is_gundam]

His response was simply a look of I'm not buying it.

[allnaturalseed]

She didn't catch the look at first, trying not to look at Setsuna at all, and glared when she did. "What, you think I just walked in here naked and passed out?"

[eradicating_war]

"No."

He thought something far, far worse happened, actually.

[allnaturalseed]

Cagalli sighed, a bit frustrated. "Well whatever you thought, you're wrong. I came in here as an... an eight year old or whatever, and got big and it hurt like hell and I'm still exhausted."

She huffed, sinking into the water more.

[eradicating_war]

He still didn't believe her, but he wasn't going to waste time arguing with her.

"Go see a doctor," was the last piece of advice he decided to give her, before taking his leave of her.

[allnaturalseed]

Did he really think she'd been... sure, that meant he actually gave a damn, which was better than nothing but...

"Yeah, yeah. I'll do that right away."