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May 26, 2009 07:16

Oh gracious, I turn a blind eye for just a sexond and the second post fills up! Darlings, sweetpeas, do please forgive my tardiness. I bring you now our third installment of the fantasticousity, and would indeed love to, ah, beg your pardon in being so late about it.

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: PERSONA 4 KINK MEME
PART THREE

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Carry Me Home anonymous August 29 2009, 03:24:49 UTC
1. carry me home

When Chie was in the academy, she had vague fantasies of using the skills she learned at the academy to find Yukiko. Go out into the city, maybe, and trace her credit cards, the way people do it in the movies. She hounded Dojima so often that he eventually pulled her aside and told her to stop being stupid, and that Yukiko couldn’t have gone far, anyway. How far could a teenaged girl with no money, no job, no future without the Inn go, anyway?

She went far. Or if at least not far, then she went in deep, deeper than Inaba could trace her, deeper than the police could find her. Chie laid in bed for hours, sometimes, wondering what Yukiko did to throw off her trail. Cash, definitely. A new name, a new haircut, a new face, a new wardrobe. Maybe she already began working. Maybe she was in college, expanding her worldview, bursting out of the cage ( ... )

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i. He Came to Meet Me (1) anonymous August 29 2009, 03:26:00 UTC
i. he came to meet me (1)

chiba
december 11, 2020

She’s in Chiba for a “continuing education” seminar, which really means that everyone drifts in and out of sleep, and just barely scrape by the mandatory test at the end of the class. The city’s always puts her on guard. It’s so big, so wide, with a million people pressing in from every direction. Like air pressure, she thinks as the train turns and knocks her into another person. Maybe it’s a sign that Japan’s a little too crowded, because the other person barely even pretends to notice.

She’s on her way to a blind date, courtesy of Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki’s made it his personal mission to find her a boyfriend or a girlfriend, with the zeal of the newly married. (Why can’t everyone be as happy as they are, Ryuzaki asks nobody in particular, but Chie answers the question herself, sourly, in the confines of her brain: Maybe it’s because they can’t. Maybe it’s because they have things like issues and jobs and a disturbing tendency for making out with women with long black hair and ( ... )

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i. He Came to Meet Me (1) [2/?] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:26:59 UTC
Chie thinks that seven (eight) years should have done something to Yukiko. Dull her teenaged beauty, bring on a sense of abrupt maturity, change the way she talks. There is maturity in there, all right, but also uncertainty mingled with unwavering determination. Yukiko is both striving to be invisible and unnoticed, which works, because it’s a city, and doesn’t, because she carries herself like she expects people to be watching her. They are watching her. Who wouldn’t? The years have been good to her, and will probably continue being good to her. The years have honed her beauty, made her more aware of it, and unembarrassed by it. Chie has a hard time believing that Yukiko would sign up for a blind date, and she’s straining a little to believe that this person in front of her would, too, but here they are ( ... )

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i. He Came to Meet Me (1) [3/4] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:28:06 UTC
Miyuki is talking about her hair, about how the hairdresser she goes to wanted a change and they were debating the merits of bleaching and cutting it shorter and then Chie remembers that she’s drunk, and that’s why she can’t go back to the hotel, because the other boys will be drinking their asses off, and if there’s one thing she doesn’t need to be doing, it’s blubbering about how she met her former best friend who can’t even pretend that she recognizes Chie ( ... )

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i. He Came to Meet Me (1) [4/4] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:29:09 UTC
You knew, she says. You knew you asshole-

What, Ryuzaki says. He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. Was she your type?

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Chie leaves Chiba without meeting Miyuki again. On the train ride back, she’s nervous and jittery and can’t stop thinking about everything she’s leaving behind. She has nothing in this city, she knows, just the memory of a person who may or may not be her old friend. The city is shrinking back into the distance, and the rice paddies are sprouting out of the ground like a statement: this is where you are, this is who you’ll be. She’s angry: angry that she got drunk, angry that she slept with Miyuki, angry that she never got any answers. It’s only later she realizes she never got an address, never got a phone number, never got the promise of another chance. She could ask Ryuzaki for the number, but doesn’t want to, and knows too well that she can’t.

I'd seen this whole day ( ... )

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ii. we'll meet along the way I know (1) [1/?] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:30:42 UTC
ii. we’ll meet along the way I know (1)

chiba
december 11, 2020
Chie gets drunk too often in the city, which is a bad thing, because now Ryuzaki knows everything about her sordid love life, and knows all about one of her exes and hangs it over her head until she agrees to let him play matchmaker. He’s just been married, and really, Chie’s pretty sure that she likes his wife a bit better than she likes him, but they’re both newly married and overenthusiastic about it ( ... )

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ii. we'll meet along the way I know (1) [2/?] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:31:41 UTC
You left me! You left everyone ( ... )

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ii. we'll meet along the way I know (1) [3/3] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:32:30 UTC
Chie grabs Miyuki and kisses her against the door. Miyuki is still taller than her, always has been, but she’s light, lighter than she’s ever been maybe, and Chie lifts Miyuki a good centimeter off the ground and holds her there.

You left me, Chie says, and it sounds smaller than she expects it to ( ... )

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iii. hotel fire (1) [1/2] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:33:59 UTC
iii. hotel fire (1)

chiba
december 10, 2020
Chie normally doesn’t make a habit out of following strangers home on the subway and having sex with them, but she has to admit that she’s always been kind of stupid when it comes to falling in love, and ending up in a strange woman’s apartment ( ... )

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iii. hotel fire (1) [2/2] anonymous August 29 2009, 03:36:04 UTC
I, says Amachi, a little tremor hidden beneath the silky smooth tone of her voice, wanted to see you again. Very ( ... )

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Home Again anonymous August 29 2009, 03:42:24 UTC
2. Home Again

inaba
april 21, 2021

Chie is the last person in Inaba to know Yukiko is back.

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i. he came to meet me (where a poison comes to settle)

What is there to say? Yukiko is back. Chie gets roped into the party. She can’t find the words to speak. There are things she wants to say, she knows: important things, important questions.

All she can manage is a memory of falling into a bed and staring, brokenly, at someone she used to know. Chie can’t bring herself to say anything to Yukiko. She can barely look at her in the eye. People are saying how they thought she saw Yukiko returning home sometimes, on summer nights: a woman wearing blue coming into the Inn with furtive, nervous look to her, or a woman speaking with the manager. Chie never saw this person. She can see Yukiko faintly in Miyuki, but she doesn’t remember this feeling of being betrayed, of being deeply and terribly wronged ( ... )

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Re: Home Again anonymous August 29 2009, 09:15:25 UTC
This story was really amazing. Each scenario was heart wrenching in its own way and by the end I had to really struggle not to weep. All the emotions, from bitter anger to bewildered sadness, were all brought out perfectly. My chest still aches from all the pent up emotions swirling inside me ( ... )

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OP anonymous August 29 2009, 17:31:40 UTC
I'm enjoying all these fills for this prompt so much it's probably illegal *nom*nom*deliciousfic* ^____^. I'm very fond of seeing multiple takes on the same prompt, it's just so interesting to see different minds interpret and work on the same thing and see what comes out, y'know ( ... )

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Re: OP anonymous August 29 2009, 20:03:29 UTC
writer!anon was picturing Yukiko wearing that same electric blue as Margaret, aha.

Also, anon also wants to know who you think I am. :>

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