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[Voice] no_use_running March 6 2011, 01:27:02 UTC
Robert? Is everything alright?

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Re: [Voice] no_use_running March 6 2011, 05:46:33 UTC
I see. So you found the explanation insufficient.

[She has gone over this with him, patiently, thoroughly. It will not change by repetition. She will still be a soldier, she will still stand by her beliefs, no matter how distasteful some person from a world that doesn't even know war may find them.]

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Re: [Voice] semper_cogitans March 6 2011, 05:57:56 UTC
... No, not insufficient. Just... ... [Impossible to comprehend? Even Robert isn't sure, honestly.]

... But... ... Even if I cannot understand, I... I still wish to be your friend, Doctor Mizuno. I only hope that this difference between us is not an impediment in that regard.

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Re: [Voice] no_use_running March 6 2011, 06:03:10 UTC
That depends on you.

[She is the one who always waits. She is the one who will always still be there. She may not have the forgiveness and love of Usagi, but she can be patient.]

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Re: [Voice] semper_cogitans March 7 2011, 07:25:10 UTC
I don't wish for it to be an impediment. And... and maybe I will learn in time.

Your... your friendship is... much more important to me than this is.

[That was hard to say, and that might have shown in how small Robert's voice was, but it needed to be said.]

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Re: [Voice] no_use_running March 7 2011, 07:31:43 UTC
That won't change who I am or what I've done in my world. If you understand that already, it's fine.

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[Voice] semper_cogitans March 7 2011, 07:35:22 UTC
I did not expect it to change anything; the only thing that changes is my willingness to accept it.

... Even... even if you can fight, you... You have been a wonderful person to me. Kind, and understanding, and gentle...

[It clashes with everything Robert's ever known, everything Robert's ever been taught, everything Robert's ever thought or felt about human society...

But those parts of Ami... somehow managed to coexist.]

... I... don't think that has changed. I hope that has not changed.

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Re: [Voice] no_use_running March 7 2011, 07:38:54 UTC
I haven't changed at all since you've known me.

[And it's true, in a way it wouldn't be if she said it to many other people. She was not quite the same the last time she was in Luceti. But what Robert has seen is the adult Ami.]

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Re: [Voice] semper_cogitans March 7 2011, 07:43:09 UTC
Then... if that is the case, I... I hope our friendship has not changed either.

[Robert suddenly has the small but unmistakable urge to go to Ami and hug her. To really hug her and show that he did care about her.

It... He made himself think about it. About hugging someone he knew had hurt people. Possibly even killed people.

But he'd kissed Donatello. Wasn't that similar?

Robert wondered if, perhaps, he had learned something - a small something - about humans. Maybe not Terran humans... but humans.]

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Re: [Voice] no_use_running March 7 2011, 07:56:27 UTC
[Ami has never reacted well to physical displays of feeling. But the sentiments are appreciated.]

It hasn't changed.

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[Voice] semper_cogitans March 8 2011, 06:18:19 UTC
[Robert is very happy to hear this. He is happy in a way that is almost bodily so - something that encompasses him. The very real, very painful possibility of Ami severing contact with him - of Ami going the way Benjamin had gone - no longer seemed to be something that would happen.

In the same vein, though, this was also a frightening reality, because Robert knew it meant that some part of him had come to depend on Ami's presence. And... perhaps one day she would not be so forgiving.]

... That makes me very glad, Doctor Mizuno. It is most reassuring to hear.

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