If I can't see the sun, maybe I should go

[1st_zack]

Zack had tried to forget things. He'd been so emotional when he hadn't been himself that he was over compensating and keeping it all inside. He didn't want to put the burden of his guilt on his friends, his family, anymore than he had already. Ironically, making him even more like Cloud. Or was it that Cloud was more like him in that way

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[followmycords]

Kristine was feeling despondent. So far, while the island was a pleasant enough place to live, the people left something to be desired, especially when they went around switching personalities every five minutes. Yes, she was still a little bitter about that. All right, more than a little. It hadn't been fair to her, and she hadn't even been able to drown her sorrows - or at least thoroughly smother them - in any cottage cheese.

The scenery was still pretty, she reflected as she walked barefoot along the beach, shoes in hand and red jacket in the other. Shimmering seas, sand stretching away to the edge of nowhere, warm sun, guy waving around a giant sword, it was all very picturesque.

It took Kristine approximately thirty seconds to realize there was something wrong with that picture, and she went over it again in her head as she stopped. Sun. Sea. Sand. Guy with giant sword - a-ha.

"Good grief," she muttered as she turned and caught sight of him again. How could he lift that thing? It wasn't polite to stare, Kristine knew, but in

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Kris thought about it for a moment or two.

"No," she answered eventually. "Not really." Lister and Rimmer didn't count, because - no matter how hard he tried - Lister wasn't her Lister, and - no matter how hard he also tried - Rimmer had about as much moral fibre and appeal as an earthworm. It was unfortunate, but there it was.

There had been a few moments, in the air ducts, where Kristine had almost felt like she was bonding with her new crew, but she had been snatched away before things could get any worse.

[1st_zack]

"Huh?" he asked. "What's that mean?" As far as he knew, there were pretty much two answers to the question: yes or no.

"Ooooh," he said, drawing out the syllable as realization sunk in. "People you knew are here, but they aren't the same?"

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"Something like that," Kristine nodded, not too keen on explaining her circumstances with the Starbug crew. Besides, Zack didn't seem too bright.

He'd get along with Lister, she thought.

[1st_zack]

"I had the same thing. Sort of," he amended. His situation hadn't exactly been that dire. At least they'd recognized him. It could have been worse. They could have been the versions of themselves that lived in Roxas' world. He didn't know if they would have recognized him at all.

"You get used to it. Or avoid them." Like Cloud had for a while.