001 - A Bad Day For Everyone

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki Kirihara appears on the plane looking very, very pissed. Her Sig P230 is unholstered and leveled at…

…no one.]

Tch.

[She lowers the weapon, very slightly, taking in her surroundings. Or rather, the lack thereof.]

Contractor!

[She turns in a slow circle, tension wrapped around her like a creaking spring.]

Contractor! Show yourself. You’re being stupid. Using your power on a member of the NPA will get you killed. It isn’t worth the laugh.

[A pause. She’s starting to get angry again.]

Show yourself!

[She looks up, down, around at the stars, and a pained expression crosses her face. Barely audible, she mutters,]

You people… know how to be cruel.

Comments

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Dark thought.] Or the influence of the Twins.

[didorothy]

No. Lapis and Lazuli don't have anything to do with it. What happened to me, that's something else. A distinct case.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Dry look.] Have you noticed that the lives of everyone here are profoundly weird?

[didorothy]

Have you noticed that most of them think their odd lives are normal? Fumie doesn't think her glasses are weird. The Doctor doesn't find time travel strange. My coma and your Gate... We're in the minority here with having our version of 'normal' suddenly changed. Pretty much all the others accept their odd words as normal. Or do you think Lapis and Lazuli are behind the Gates in your world?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head.] Point taken.

Do you find it reassuring, then? That everything here is so odd? It must make your situation seem a little less... [She can't quite find the word.] Impossible isn't right. Unsalvageable?

[Looks down] At this point I can't imagine the Gate disappearing--not malfunctioning, but disappearing. I... frankly, don't know what I'd do if that were to happen. I don't know how the world could be afterwards.

[didorothy]

Aside from the usefulness of being able to go to professional time travellers for advice on meddling... I don't know. People here've given me perspectives I couldn't get before.

Do you think it would be a better world?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Nods thoughtfully.]

I'm not sure. [Loooooong pause.] I don't know how the Gate's disappearance would effect some of those I count among my friends. I don't really want to find out.

[didorothy]

Li mentioned the Gate moving in his world...

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She shivers.] I don't know that I would be able to tell if it did. I can only hope that it won't.

[didorothy]

Li said that he was the only one who could tell, of all the people who should've been able to.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Really? [Long, brooding silence.] That must have been frightening for him. He didn't react well, I take it.

[didorothy]

I didn't see his... initial response to it. But he didn't seem happy when it came up.