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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 12:50 pm (UTC)[...Not that memories are always part of that particular package. Still no chance of Foe Yay, at least.]
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Date: 2012-05-30 01:35 pm (UTC)[Being that the first time ended up with her punching him twice and a whole lot of yelling and pressing on raw nerves. It's not something she'd like to have to do all over again, no matter how much she loves him.]
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Date: 2012-05-30 05:13 pm (UTC)[Though he could understand why she would not want to do it again.]
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Date: 2012-05-31 02:51 am (UTC)[And violence never solves anything, either.]
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Date: 2012-06-01 01:03 am (UTC)[Because the possibility that he might not fall for her again does exist, even if that would be a shame.]
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Date: 2012-06-01 03:07 am (UTC)[It's the truth; Leon is the most stubborn man this side of Pulse and they know it. Look how long it took to get their relationship going this time around?]
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Date: 2012-06-01 12:58 pm (UTC)[He's not the only stubborn person there, after all.]
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Date: 2012-06-02 07:52 am (UTC)[Because when stubborn meets stubborn it's a head on collision on a one way street. Never ends well.]
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Date: 2012-06-02 03:32 pm (UTC)[Don't give up, get your man! But that would be a very undignified thing to say.]
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Date: 2012-06-03 04:44 am (UTC)[Very undignified. But she'll try anyway! She makes the impossible possible! ...even if she has to break his nose to do it.]
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Date: 2012-06-03 01:46 pm (UTC)[...Waste of a perfectly fine nose.]
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Date: 2012-06-04 05:25 am (UTC)[And there it is; for all her strength, Lightning is not good at living through emotional loss. If Leon comes back and leaves again...well. It won't be pretty, and the waste of his fine nose would be the least of their issues.]
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Date: 2012-06-04 10:17 pm (UTC)[What's the point of befriending even their fellow warriors of Cosmos, even? They all already know the wound is coming, no matter who gets it.]
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Date: 2012-06-05 02:50 am (UTC)[It's a different kind of wound. Yes, she loves her friends and it will hurt to lose them, but it's not the same. Those wounds eventually scab over. This? Will be a weeping wound for quite some time.]
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Date: 2012-06-06 12:07 am (UTC)[It's small things like this that remind him that he's comparatively very lucky.]
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Date: 2012-06-06 03:40 am (UTC)[He has Rosa and Kain and everyone else waiting for him at home. Lightning...she has her family there, sure, but Leon? That was the issue with falling for someone from another world.]
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Date: 2012-06-06 09:42 pm (UTC)[Because abandoning your whole world would be a very difficult choice, even for love.]
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Date: 2012-06-07 08:05 am (UTC)[It's one of the hardest choices she'd know. On the one hand, Leon and a fresh start. On the other, comforting familiarity and her family. She can't abandon them but the idea of living without him is still hard to wrap her head around. With time, it'll get easier, but right now...if the option came she may just make the leap. Maybe.]
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Date: 2012-06-08 01:38 am (UTC)[Or so he says, but if it came down to it he's already made up his mind.]