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soggypastry[She doesn't think anything of it, at first. There's another three day hole in her memory and she assumes that he's just out of the city or dealing with something. It's happened before and she knows he'll call sooner or later. But when the call doesn't come, even after noon has come and gone, Lightning begins to worry. She tries to call his gear, but there's no answer other than what she's feared the most ever since people started to disappear on her. That cold, robotic tone telling her that he is gone and she wasn't even there when he disappeared.
That well known sentence that leaves no question he won't be answering her again, and he may not even remember her and everything they are. Still, she doesn't cry. Not even when Strike and Lucky pad into her room, Leon's bag in Strike's paws before she gives it to Lightning and goes to Sen, curling into his embrace as Lucky whines, putting her head on Lightning's lap as the woman digs into Leon's bag and comes out with his coat and a letter that she reads once, twice, three times over before it finally sinks in. Now she cries, one broken sounding sob that shouldn't come from a woman who is normally so strong, but when her world has just been rocked upside down...she's not sure what else to do.
Not sure what else she can do but slowly get out of bed and sit with her arms around Lucky, quietly ignoring the world around them for a long time. Those that come into her room will find her like that, Leon's jacket draped around her shoulders and Lucky's head in her lap. She's not likely to move anytime soon, either.]
Leon's gone. He said to tell you he was sorry.
[Private text to: Ventus]
Can you come by for a minute? I need your help with something.
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Date: 2012-05-30 01:31 am (UTC)You can come by, if you want.
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Date: 2012-05-30 02:13 am (UTC)[ On the other hand, barging in is exactly what she's doing not long after she sends that text. If this were Vanille, she'd have a better idea of how to comfort her. Instead, her normal methods probably won't work here. ]
If I try and hug ya, will I end up nursin' a bruise?
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Date: 2012-05-30 02:17 am (UTC)Not this time.
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Date: 2012-05-30 02:32 am (UTC)[ And that's the only warning before she's hugging Lightning. For right now Fang doesn't say anything, because what is there to say? "I'm sorry" does nothing. ]
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Date: 2012-05-30 02:46 am (UTC)Out of her element? Indeed.]
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Date: 2012-05-30 03:21 am (UTC)Damn. Now I don't even get to tease ya anymore.
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Date: 2012-05-30 03:23 am (UTC)You'll find something else to tease me about.
[It's said in a quiet voice, but they both know it's the truth. Lightning will get past this, and Fang will find another target, somehow. It's life and it has to go on.]
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Date: 2012-05-30 03:51 am (UTC)'Course. You'd fret otherwise, and I'm tryin' to avoid havin' you mope about for too long.
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Date: 2012-05-30 04:00 am (UTC)You're going to have to give me a little time to stop, you know.
[A day, a week...just a little time. He was her first, in more ways than one, and it's always hard to move on after that. Always.]
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Date: 2012-05-30 04:14 am (UTC)[ She knows it's not easy. ]
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Date: 2012-05-30 04:36 am (UTC)[If only things would be that easy.]
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Date: 2012-05-31 01:42 am (UTC)[ In other words, it had never even crossed Fang's mind that Lightning would hide from that responsibility. ]
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Date: 2012-05-31 04:18 am (UTC)I wasn't expecting it to happen so suddenly. I thought we'd have more time.
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Date: 2012-06-01 12:51 am (UTC)Difference was she'd had a choice in the matter. Fang's never had much patience for situations where she's all but powerless, so this is a little like the blind leading the blind. ]
Yeah, I know. But this time there just ain't anything to do about it.
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Date: 2012-06-01 03:42 am (UTC)I'll be alright. You don't have to worry.
[If she was worried to begin with; Fang knows Lightning, after all. She knows the Cocoon woman will get through this even if she has to build her walls back up again.]
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Date: 2012-06-02 01:39 am (UTC)Never would've. You worry enough for the two of us as it is.
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Date: 2012-06-02 04:48 am (UTC)[Other than dragging Vanille back into this world somehow, but that's beyond Lightning's abilities. She kind of wishes she could, though.]