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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: 2012-06-03 02:37 am (UTC)Let's send him a note from time to time, until the day he does. I'm sure our feelings'll reach him, no matter how far away he is.
[Naturally they must. Square kids gotta party, but first there will be many hugs and flowers for big sis]
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Date: 2012-06-03 04:45 am (UTC)I hope you're right. I'm not sure I can do this again.
[All the hugs and parties, because that was the first admission she's ever made that she's getting tired of being left behind by people she loves.]
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Date: 2012-06-04 03:32 am (UTC)I wouldn't want you to find out, either. Seeing somebody go once is more than enough for anybody.
[Aw Pinksis, it's a hard thing to endure. But there'll be hugs and partying, and all the little siblings]
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Date: 2012-06-04 04:40 am (UTC)Especially if they don't remember anything from this world when they come back. Remembering things others don't just makes it harder when it's been this long.
[Hugs and partying will make things better. Having her sibs around is just icing on the cake.]
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Date: 2012-06-05 02:28 am (UTC)I know what you mean. It was like that when Hope and I remembered Enma, but he had no idea who we were. Couldn't blame him for it, but I guess it was sort of a reminder.
[They just can't escape the cakes. But there will be all these things for Pinksis. And then more when she's healed]
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Date: 2012-06-05 06:26 am (UTC)And we have enough reminders already. Some of his team ended up with me.
[The healing, physically, is going to take a while longer. Emotionally...well. Huggable sibs make for the best emotional bandages ever.]
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Date: 2012-06-08 01:51 am (UTC)I know I've got more than a few from friends who've left, too. Doubt they like being forgotten any more than we do.
[Hugs'll always be available to Pinksis whenever he's in proximity ♥ And he's getting her a big ol' Teddiursa plush for hugging while he's away.
Pinksis is gonna have one full room]
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Date: 2012-06-08 05:38 am (UTC)I don't think anyone actually likes it, Ven. They have feelings, just like we do, so why should they be any different from us?
[She has an Arcanine for all the hugs she'll ever need, but she'll appreciate the gesture anyway...even if she thinks she's too big for teddy bears. Or rooms full of plushes, pokemon, and hugging sibs.]
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Date: 2012-06-08 07:42 pm (UTC)I know, it's just...I wish it wasn't so hard on everybody. Guess it can't be helped when you care about someone though.
[Never too big for all these things, Pinksis]
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Date: 2012-06-09 09:34 am (UTC)It's the same on any world. People could disappear from your life at any time, but is life really worth living without people in it?
[She'd gone over that topic with Leon before, and gotten no answer. Sure, it's not death to disappear from Johto, but people still get left behind. At least here they can come back someday.
And, really, she's definitely not too big for hugs, but she will continue to think she's too old and too big for it. Grown-ups don't need hugs or something silly like that.]
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Date: 2012-06-10 02:00 am (UTC)Without the people dear to my heart, I don't think I'd be me.
But I think it's sadder here. Where I'm from, parting's never forever. At least, it usually isn't. Not when we can travel between worlds.
Someday, I'm gonna find yours.
[And when he does, he's dragging Leon along. He can fall for Light all over again if need be.
Silly Lightning, love's for people of all sizes]
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Date: 2012-06-10 07:10 am (UTC)You should focus on finding this one first. If there's a way to travel between this world and others, that solves nearly all our problems.
[Hopefully they've got time for that, because by that time she'd be willing to give it another shot. Time is all they need, really. Time and love and hugs for all.]
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Date: 2012-06-11 03:17 am (UTC)I'll do my best to find it then. I'm sure it's got to be someplace out there. After all, there're a lot of stars.
[And all of these things are entirely doable. They'll make it happen, they're Square kids]
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Date: 2012-06-11 05:04 am (UTC)You'll be looking for a while, then. There must be thousands of worlds out there if every star is a different one.
[They're Square kids, alright, and Square kids live to make the impossible possible. They'll manage somehow.]
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Date: 2012-06-14 05:40 am (UTC)I don't mind, if I could help people see each other again.
[They do and they will, absolutely]