The Enemy of My Enemy is a Friend
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ziggyplayedguitarIt had been a few days since the encounter with Lotor and the witch. Aletayria and Ziggy were still mostly laid up from wounds and exhaustion. It left Tom livid and he insisted the entire family be in one place. Ziggy's townhouse was the larger dwelling, so that is where the family and all eighteen of their cats have been residing for the past few days. There were arrangements to be made and knowledge to be shared and they all waited.
Tom could barely leave Aletayria's side. Her prior pregnancies had been so difficult that the human stressed now. The witch dared to attack her like this and the human would not have it. He was hovering around where she rested on the couch with a mind firmly fixed on a thousand different ways he could end the witch's life for this offense. He paced and would have been chain smoking if the Antheans weren't in the vicinity.
Ziggy lay on the opposite end of the L-shaped couch from his mother. He was worse off than she was, broken ribs and utterly exhausted the rockstar could barely stay awake for any length of time. This was the kind of exhaustion even the cocaine and caffeine couldn't interrupt. However, it was nearly time for people to show up so he made the effort to remain conscious for a time. Hiroki was somewhere in the townhouse. Ziggy could feel his presence and imagined he was making meal number 20 in his incessant protest that Ziggy needed to eat more.
Tommy though was unscathed and sitting in a soft chair halfway between the living room and the front door. Several of the cats sat in the chair with him purring contently though, like their master, they also watched the door with indifferent interest. Tommy was going to be the gatekeeper and make sure nothing unwanted entered the house. Everyone stepping through the door was going to get scanned for the darkness and the witch. If they wanted to refuse they could deal with the surly, old Anthean that didn't care what they said. He would be unswayed.
This is how the family waited; anxious, exhausted, and despite their inherent pacifism... pissed off.
[Feel free to handwave Tommy scanning your character. However, if they would refuse write it in and Tommy will have some words for them. Tommyiamjustvisiting, Aletayria sordiddetails, Tom hellomajortom, and Ziggy ziggyplayedguitar are all present. If your character is approaching any of them specifically feel free to write that into a tag.]
Tom could barely leave Aletayria's side. Her prior pregnancies had been so difficult that the human stressed now. The witch dared to attack her like this and the human would not have it. He was hovering around where she rested on the couch with a mind firmly fixed on a thousand different ways he could end the witch's life for this offense. He paced and would have been chain smoking if the Antheans weren't in the vicinity.
Ziggy lay on the opposite end of the L-shaped couch from his mother. He was worse off than she was, broken ribs and utterly exhausted the rockstar could barely stay awake for any length of time. This was the kind of exhaustion even the cocaine and caffeine couldn't interrupt. However, it was nearly time for people to show up so he made the effort to remain conscious for a time. Hiroki was somewhere in the townhouse. Ziggy could feel his presence and imagined he was making meal number 20 in his incessant protest that Ziggy needed to eat more.
Tommy though was unscathed and sitting in a soft chair halfway between the living room and the front door. Several of the cats sat in the chair with him purring contently though, like their master, they also watched the door with indifferent interest. Tommy was going to be the gatekeeper and make sure nothing unwanted entered the house. Everyone stepping through the door was going to get scanned for the darkness and the witch. If they wanted to refuse they could deal with the surly, old Anthean that didn't care what they said. He would be unswayed.
This is how the family waited; anxious, exhausted, and despite their inherent pacifism... pissed off.
[Feel free to handwave Tommy scanning your character. However, if they would refuse write it in and Tommy will have some words for them. Tommy
iamjustvisiting, Aletayria sordiddetails, Tom hellomajortom, and Ziggy ziggyplayedguitar are all present. If your character is approaching any of them specifically feel free to write that into a tag.]
Re: no wonder
Date: 2020-09-02 08:13 pm (UTC)Her hand gently touches his forearm. "You were bribed. I think many would make the same kind of choice you did."
"We are safe." She holds a hand out to him. "Give me your hand."
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Date: 2020-09-05 08:41 pm (UTC)He almost groans at that. "Yes, she's threatened to possess Ziggy."
He winces. He didn't want to say that, but it's probably no longer a secret, anyway.
"You know. I can't let that happen. I won't. Whatever it takes."
Not ever letting Honerva inside Ziggy. Though right now, he's painfully aware that he'd probably be powerless to stop it. Even so, he'd give his all trying.
There's always a chance.
The fact that Hiroki still existed and was here now proved that way of thinking well enough for him.
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Date: 2020-09-05 08:46 pm (UTC)"I'm glad you're safe."
Hiroki gives her his hand. Right hand. Having the right arm, flesh and not prosthetic at that, still amazes him, by the way. Which might be a bit of a delayed reaction, but at the time, it wasn't what mattered.
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Date: 2020-09-05 09:07 pm (UTC)Aletayria glances at Ziggy. "She might find him harder to possess than she's prepared for."
Though, as a mother the idea of possession worries her too but she puts on a brave and hopeful presence in her emotions. "I am glad you are safe. I'm not sure he'd survive losing you again."
That was a worry to but she pushes it aside. She gently takes his hand and presses his hand to her abdomen, right above where her pouch opens. "Listen."
If Hiroki listens closely with his mind and emotions he'll be able to feel the very beginings of a mind and emotions. "I think the family is going to grow by two people this year."
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Date: 2020-09-06 12:23 am (UTC)He nods solemnly. That's true. They'll protect each other.
"I'll always stand by Ziggy. As long as I exist. I'll do whatever I can. And share everything with Ziggy."
He listens.
Wow. It's amazing, simply amazing, to witness a new life. A new person forming.
He glows. So glad and delighted to be here, to be witnessing this.
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Date: 2020-09-06 12:34 am (UTC)"I," he says, still glowing - it feels warm, and Aletayria can also surely feel that the clone's healing his own spirit right now, which, well, no wonder, as it needs some healing, very much so.
Hiroki Shirogane bows deeply.
"I wish, er, I mean, Ma'am, I wish to ask you for Ziggy's hand in marriage. Uhm. For, for your blessing."
Whew.
He's nervous, as this means the world to him, and he's suddenly afraid that he's done that wrong, somehow, or that Mother will think now's not the time.
More than anything, though, she'll feel his love for Ziggy, moreso now palpably in that glow of his, too. And for the family and friends.
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Date: 2020-09-06 02:22 am (UTC)"I think it's a girl but it's too early to be certain." She tells Hiroki. She removes her hand from his but doesn't mind if the hand lingers.
The spike in nervousness doesn't go unnoticed. She gives him time and seriously considers his request.
"And what does his father say about this request?" She asks because the Anthean knows her husband is a traditionalist for a lot of human things. "For my blessing, I will give it if you learn our culture, traditions and begin to learn to read our language before the ceremony that will bind you."
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Date: 2020-09-06 09:23 am (UTC)"We can travel the Universes. Ziggy's become one of my pilots," Hiroki replies, softly, with a warm smile.
"I bet she'll be as beautiful as her Mother."
"Major? Oh, I, uh, I'd meant to ask him, but I've gotten distracted, telling him about my life instead," the clone says, feeling a bit silly. Getting flustered.
"He's a good man, the Major is. He reminds me of some senior officers of mi--Shiro's."
Ah-
"I'll ask him, soon, I swear. Will ask'im."
So flustered!
"I'll learn," Shirogane says, as solemnly as he can while still so embarassed and wildly euphoric. His glow pulsates a little. And Aletayria might accidentally see scraps of his memories, from first life and from second life as he calls it, transmitted through the shimmer. She might even right now feel Hiroki's connection to IGF-Atlas.
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Date: 2020-09-06 10:56 am (UTC)The Anthean feels like crying for the pain her son bears about the man he loves but she doesn't. Instead she focuses on the baby. "I suspect her to inherit her father's unruliness like her sibling did, too."
"If his father agrees and you learn what I've ask then you may make our families one with my child." Her voice takes on a diplomatic formality because this is tradition and well beyond the friendship forming between them. This will change the dynamic in thier lives, not that this change hasn't already started.
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Date: 2020-09-06 11:58 am (UTC)"I dream of that, too. Doing things together like that. So much. But I died, and I'm coming to accept that, too. Denial won't do anyone any good."
He can't help but sigh, too.
"I shall never forgive Honerva, either. I know I was never meant to live, but I didn't know that. I wanted to live--"
He was never meant to live. For him, it's a matter of fact. It's the truth.
Hiroki shakes his head.
Unruliness? Possibly. Hiroki giggles at that, honestly. "That'll be a sight! I can't wait to see that."
"I shall learn."
He's solemn now. And bursting with happiness inside. Of course still shimmering.
"I'm honoured, Ma'am."
Shirogane bows again. Honoured, yes. And so quiznaking grateful. He can barely believe this is really happening. He's going to wake up in a tick, isn't he?
"I'll try to make Ziggy happy."
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Date: 2020-09-06 12:32 pm (UTC)"Unfortunately, his unhappiness spreads far beyond the witch." She can't even imagine what the two are suffering though she can feel many of the emotions.
Spur of the moment, she hugs Hiroki while whispering to him. "If you didn't already make my child happy I would not have given you permission."
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Date: 2020-09-06 02:00 pm (UTC)"Mhm. I'll be with Ziggy. Until the end."
Hiroki hugs her back gently. Tears are falling down his face now, he can't help it. So many overwhelming emotions. So many.
As well as the fact that the young man loves Aletayria like a mother.
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Date: 2020-09-06 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-07 07:42 pm (UTC)"Really?"