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[waitedinwinhill]

Characters: Laguna and Raine
Progress: In Progress
Summary: Arguing about Raine's phone call from Rinoa
Location: Dali
Date: October 1804
Warnings: Bickering?

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[prez_leg_cramp]

Laguna had heard, pretty much, the tail end of the conversation but had simply stayed silent until it was over. Now that it was, he was hard pressed to say anything. In the end, all he could say and do was walk up behind her and simply murmur, "That wasn't fair and you know it."

Because it wasn't. Raine wasn't listening to anyone, let alone Rinoa. She wouldn't hear that Rinoa really had been controlled. Raine didn't know Rinoa well enough, sure, but that didn't mean that Rinoa couldn't be different from other Sorceresses. And Laguna knew, first hand, what it was like dealing with an evil Sorceress. He had nightmares, still, of what happened recently but it simply wasn't in him to lay all the blame into Rinoa. No one had any idea that Ultimecia had arrived to Gaia and thus couldn't have known what was going on until it was too late.

It simply wasn't fair to make Rinoa feel worse than she already did.

[waitedinwinhill]

Maybe it wasn't fair and maybe it was. Being called out on it when Raine hadn't quite made up her own mind only irritated her further. Like she wanted to talk to that girl. "And what she did to you? To Ellone? To Squall? That was fair?" she snapped back. She left herself out of those victims even though she felt just as much in that number as they.

For a moment she pressed her lips together, then walked away. Pacing the floors was her way of dealing with anger or frustration or stress. Pacing and ranting. "She lied. She kept it secret she was one of those... those Sorceresses." Raine nearly spat the word out. It was distasteful enough in concept, much less speaking it. "And look what came out of it. She's no better than that witch in Esthar that had Ellone kidnapped. No. She's worse. Because she lied to us about what she was. And she thinks saying 'I'm sorry' will just make everything better." The longer the ranted, the more animated her frustrated arm flails became.

[prez_leg_cramp]

"Raine, she never lied," Laguna replied, walking up to her but staying wisely away from those flails. "We already knew she was a sorceress. She became one because she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She's had to deal with knowing what she was for quite a while now. She really was controlled, Raine. I don't... I don't blame her. I blame Ultimecia. She is the one behind these entire thing, including Rinoa receiving the sorceress powers."

He sighed, running a hand down his face, moving it to his neck and rubbing it. "Look, I don't like this any better than you do but... just listen to me. All of us are from a time later than you, things have changed."

[waitedinwinhill]

Wrong thing to say, Laguna. Almost everything else went past Raine's attention as one thing, and one thing alone, grabbed hold and wouldn't turn loose.

"You knew? You knew what she was and you didn't tell me? All of you?!" Shock and hurt and fury all collected on Raine's face at one time. How could they? How could they hide something like that? How could they encourage one of those kinds of women to be around? It was like they'd all forgotten what was done to them.

Maybe they were just so far removed from it in time they'd forgotten. But Raine hadn't. She couldn't. She'd just experienced it. She'd suffered the loneliness and the fear of having her family ripped apart. Then to have another Sorceress come crashing in and they were just going to wave it away?