004 - [ video ] - pre-Merlin/Angel Sanctuary/Blood+ break out log

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[ at first, it's just the sound of murmuring, of fingers brushing through lush, thick hair. And then the covers shift and split and there's a sudden, close up view of Diva's face practically pressed against Saya's. ]

Wake up, sister dear. We have company.

[ She giggled, softly as she shifted again, her nightgown riding up her hip, bunching near her waist. But that's difficult to see as close as the phone is (practically) resting between their breasts. It's just sound and then Diva turns and sets the phone back on the headboard, a passing vision of Saya's rather limp form showing on the screen, the flash of white tying Saya's wrists loosely to the board. But for what reason would Diva care if any one man or woman saw it?

Saya was hers.

Diva was Saya's.

At last, they were exactly where they were supposed to be. And then the feed turns off as Diva presses close and kisses Saya softly on the mouth. It's a kiss of waking, nothing more.

Or is it? ]

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[Sleep well... Saya's chest aches as she recalls her dreams. A room with bars, blood coating the floor, cruel laughter in the air.]

[Diva's touch is like the kiss of a blade's edge, and she dares not move lest the threat turns real. She holds her breath, not risking an answer.]

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[ she pressed a little closer, blue eyes staring into Saya's ] Saya? [ don't make her pluck that answer from you ]

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[For the briefest flicker their eyes meet, then Saya turns her head and spits out her lungful of air in a staccato pant. Trembling with painful tension like a frightened animal.]

Why are you doing this? [There's more to that question than the obvious. Even in her anxiety, Saya's curious: in that past she can't remember, did she hurt you too, Diva?]

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[ she giggled then, another silent laugh that caught the light despite the darkness shadowing her face ]

Because we're sisters. Because I have everything I want... [ she tilted her head, breathing into Saya's ear ] right here.

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[Shivering at the breath on her skin, and at the implication of those soft words. Forced symbiosis with an unhinged "family", is this what her future held?]

What about what I want? [Setsuna and Charlie and Rain -- the life she chose.]

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[ Diva shrugged ]

And what do you want? [ the normal life? impossible. They were hardly normal. ]

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I want to go home!

[Squirming earns her mere millimeters of space between herself and Diva, not enough to breathe comfortably.]

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[ she laughed ] But you are home. You're with me.

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[The laugh only tugs Saya's fears that much closer to the surface, clawing at her, screams that she refuses to let loose. She has to fight, do what she can for Charlie and everyone else.]

I don't know you! [Her pleas haven't made a difference so far, but she's left without much else to offer.] I can't remember.

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[ Diva shoved Saya aside then, easing off the bed in a flash. ]

Am I really so forgettable?

[ after all they've been through, after all they've done? Despicable ]

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[The empty space beside her lets Saya breathe again, sucking in air greedily. Her mind is spinning, scents and colors and feelings she somehow knows, yet can't place.]

[Her memories aren't whole yet, but proximity to Diva is pulling them out, inch by painstaking inch.]

I want to remember! [Diva's presence unnerves her, but it would be worth the price if she could only remember. If she would only come back, just a little longer...]

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[ she paused, taking in the vehemence, the raw unending need before she turned, leaning in close on the bed. ]

And what, then, would you do to remember?

Should we break for Karl entering soon-ish?

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I... [Saya stares at Diva for a long moment. Willing, insisting, demanding that she remember something, anything. But all that comes is a strange, distant sadness. Sad for what, or why? The answer is as much a mystery as the rest of her past. But she knows it relates to Diva somehow, she can feel it.]

I don't want to hurt anyone. [Karl intimated that was the purpose of whatever they are. Chiropterans, the first word Saya has learned that she wishes she never heard.]

of course! Maybe next tag?

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[ There's a near melancholic look in her eye as she glances towards the hearth; her precious babies. ]

That isn't possible. [ for her, for Saya, for them. Someone will always be hurt. It's the one thing Diva knows as truth. ]

sure!

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[Saya looks away, hands hanging limply from her bonds. She knew that somehow, felt it from the very beginning, fear too deep to be explained away by Setsuna's smiles or Charlie's kindness.]

[She wishes she could have lived in ignorance a little longer.]

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[ ah, but a Saya in ignorance was just too...

sweet.

It was not a trait that became them well. Too much blood, too much ill-will. They were bitter, not saccharine. but, her thoughts are distracted. Karl is here and it looks as though he wants to play ♥ ]