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sith_happened

Emo Beach [midday]

Jul 08, 2007 11:04

The dekittification could have gone worse.

You know.

Somehow.

And Anakin was going to sit here on the beach until he thought about how.

[For Rikku. SP for great justice.]

my life sucks so much worse than yours, anakitty is not amused, rikku, hamlet, woe, life sucks beyond the telling of it, rory, sometimes i'm a moron

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the_merriest July 8 2007, 22:07:44 UTC

The room had been empty when she got back, and she wasn't going to admit how relieved she was about that. So she should have sat down and figured out who to contact and waited for Hermione to get back. That lasted all of thirty seconds before she'd taken off again.

Rikku hadn't even realized she was headed for the beach until she got there. The beach was good. She could sit and listen to the spray and nuzzle her Judekitty and ... you know. Completely avoid all of the stuff she needed to do.

Great.

She wiped her eyes again and tried to figure out how to start telling people, completely oblivious to the fact that there was someone else on the beach.

sith_happened July 8 2007, 22:53:59 UTC

Anakin was pretty self-absorbed, but that much pain coming from another person pulled him away from his own thoughts.

He flipped his hood back away from his face. "Rikku?" he called quietly. "What happened?"

the_merriest July 8 2007, 23:03:07 UTC

Rikku jumped a little at hearing his voice. "Oh! S-s-sorry, I didn't ... I didn't r-realize you ... I'll ... I'm sorry."

She should leave, she was bothering him, she ... oh. He'd been at Hamlet's birthday party (no thinking about that no thinking about that no thinking about that) so they were friends and ... oh.

She took a deep breath and tried very, very hard to pull herself together. "Professor Skywalker? I n-n-need to talk to you."

sith_happened July 8 2007, 23:07:20 UTC

Anakin had a very, very bad feeling about this.

He stood up from the rock he'd been sitting on, walked over to Rikku and reached for her hands. "What happened?" he repeated.

the_merriest July 8 2007, 23:17:10 UTC

Rikku took another deep breath, because she needed to tell him and it wasn't fair to cry over him and why was her Judekitty trying to jump down? She let him down carefully and he twined around her ankles. Okay. Not going anywhere. That was good.

She looked up and ... Professor Skywalker was being so ... dammit, Rikku, stop it.

She reached out to take his hands, swallowing past another sob. "It's H-Ha- ..." She squeezed her eyes shut fiercely and forced the words out. "Hamlet."

Why did it sound so loud?

sith_happened July 8 2007, 23:23:36 UTC

And Anakin knew -- and it hit him like a punch to the stomach.

His hands tightened almost painfully around hers. "How?" he asked.

Because if that bastard of an uncle of Hamlet's was still alive, there weren't enough dimensions between him and Anakin to save him. Not by a lot.

the_merriest July 8 2007, 23:29:02 UTC

"P-poison," she managed, almost choking on it. "I c-could have made him armor, I didn't even think, I'm so ... this is ..."

Her shoulders were shaking and she couldn't stop herself from letting out a sob, stupid, stupid, stupid ...

sith_happened July 8 2007, 23:32:40 UTC

Anakin pulled her close and held on tightly, rubbing small circles against her back and murmuring useless nothings.

They both knew it wouldn't be all right, but it had to be said anyway.

the_merriest July 8 2007, 23:38:36 UTC

Rikku wrapped her arms around him and stopped fighting the stupid tears that were coming anyway so she might as well just ... oh, Hamlet. "I'm s-sorry," she hiccuped. "I'm so, so, sorry."

sith_happened July 8 2007, 23:45:40 UTC

"What are you sorry for?" Anakin asked softly, still holding on. "There's no shame in tears."

Not that he was crying. He was a little too numb for that yet.

the_merriest July 8 2007, 23:50:34 UTC

"They don't help anything," she said softly. "All I've done for two days is cry and I sh-should have been ... telling people and ... and I d-didn't go. He wouldn't let me and I should've ... yelled or ..."

She pulled away abruptly, wiping at her eyes. "Sorry, sorry, I ... I'm not being f-fair to you, I ..."

sith_happened July 8 2007, 23:55:52 UTC

"You can't change someone else's destiny," Anakin told her quietly, pulling back to look into her eyes. "Being there might have made it worse. Put the blame where it belongs--on the person who poisoned Hamlet."

His eyes flashed. "Are they still alive?"

the_merriest July 9 2007, 00:03:33 UTC

Rikku shook her head quickly. "His uncle," she said darkly. "The one that ... all the rest of it. Horatio said ... poisoned foils, and that Hamlet g-got his revenge, and he ... he was K-king of Denmark when he ..." Died.

sith_happened July 9 2007, 00:08:09 UTC

That probably should have made Anakin feel a little better, that Hamlet had gotten his revenge.

It didn't. He just wanted his friend back.

"Horatio?" he asked instead.

the_merriest July 9 2007, 00:10:10 UTC

Rikku swallowed, nodding. "A f-friend of his. He called on F-Friday, saying he had a message, and I should meet him at a coffeeshop. I ... I th-thought it was gonna be 'hey, Hamlet's sorry he didn't call yet.'"

sith_happened July 9 2007, 00:19:14 UTC

"I'm so sorry," Anakin said quietly, giving her hand another squeeze. "You've dealt with this kind of thing entirely too often."

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