Characters: EVERY CHARACTER in Manhattan!
Content: It's time to say goodbye...
Location: The DRT Room on board the Ultimatum.
Time of day: The remainder of time
Warnings: Expect some sadness, tears and hopeful promises...
Notes: This thread will be party-style. You are free to make your own subthreads, and know that you can tag into ANY SUBTHREAD
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Billy stood outside on the deck of the ship, leaning against the railings and looking out over the ocean. He hadn't been outside much in the past few days; staying cooped up in the safe zones was a lot more... well, safe than being anywhere else. Besides, he hated goodbyes, especially really emotional ones. It didn't matter if he was involved in them or just watching -- they were awkward either way. And the DRT room was simply filled with them.
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She'd wandered around looking for him and finally made her way to the deck, where she'd been standing barely an hour beforehand taking out battleships and fighter jets. Funny how things changed in such a short time. Of course, she stopped thinking about that when she saw the familiar figure just a bit further down.
"Horrible-san!" she called, running down the deck and throwing her arms around him with enough force to knock him down if he was off balance at all. "Oh, Horrible-san, I'm so glad you're alright! Are you going home soon? Did you get to do anything villainous before you do?"
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"Flonne!" he said, turning with a wide grin -- and then a hundred-something pounds of fallen angel promptly tackle-hugged him straight to the ground. His head smacked against the deck of the ship and the wind was knocked out of him and there might be bruises later but that didn't matter right now because dude, it was Flonne who he hadn't seen in forever and she was okay.
"Well, I guess you're doing pretty alright yourself," Billy croaked out, pulling himself up to a somewhat upright sitting position. "I helped ruin a giant corporation forever and I hijacked their technology for my own purposes, I think that counts as a pretty villainous act." When put it like that, it sounded ( ... )
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She scooted over and sat next to him, listening intently to his list of evil deeds. "Wow," she breathed, "you are a good villain!" She hadn't quite put together that the aforementioned technology was the DRT, but hey, that would come later. In the meantime, he'd asked her a question. "Oh, I was up here with Laharl-san and Etna-san blowing up ships and planes!" Because to Flonne, that was a completely normal answer. She pointed to a smoldering wreck of a battleship that was somehow still afloat. "That was one of mine," she said with just a bit of pride. She'd missed using her combat magic, and that had been a nice change ( ... )
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She refused to get emotional. People died around her all the time. They don't matter, people come and go. They are taken from you and if you fight hard enough you get them back sometimes. This lot was stubborn, they would do well to help. She would work to free herself of that school, then find the few people she wanted to see again. Find a world that she could be free on, no heroes chasing her down to prove themselves.
What a boring time right now was.
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I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend
J shook his head and managed a grin. Of all the songs to settle in his head right now, why that one? True, he'd never been too good with goodbyes...but still. That song. Right now. Timing was everything.
He kept that grin in place. Sure, he was glad to be going home, but up until the second he left he was going to need that placeholder.
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Of course, none of that came out. Instead he fell back on the question he'd been asking everyone. "You holdin' up alright?"
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He still hadn't made up his mind if he wanted to risk rejoining with Solara to find out.
"I have something for you. I figure if you ever start thinking all this was just some crazy dream." Bobby pulled out one of the jumpdrives and handed it to J, "It's the journal I've kept, not the one on the network...this was a bit more personal." He smiled slightly, "Hopefully the jumpdrive will work in your world, wherever you're going." Bobby hadn't really thought about it NOT being able to work somewhere. Hopefully it would.
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All right, so he might not actually have done any of those things, but hell, would you want to risk it?
"How you holding up, commander?" she asked as she approached, giving him the title purely as a joke.
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Placing a hand on her shoulder, he gave it a gentle squeeze, "I'm going to miss you."
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She rolled her shoulder back after the squeeze and grinned at him. "Wherever I go, it's not gonna be the same without you."
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How she missed Milo.
But even then, she felt the remorse of having to leave her friends. Giselle and Miwako... MacGyver. Even Roy, as much of a womanizer as he was.
And then there was Larsa. How she longed to show him her home. It was astounding she had grown to trust the youth so much. But even then she knew he had his own duties.
With a somber expression she began to seek out the young emperor one last time.
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