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[loved2many]

Characters: Aoi Tohsaka - OPEN.
Setting: Room 1-07 / Dormitory Floors.
Format: Brackets preferred, but I can match either way.
Summary: Unfamiliar scenery.
Warnings: None, probably.

Room 1-07
[when the paralysis wears off she almost lurches out of bed, utterly confused and alarmed. This isn't her house. This isn't her family's house. Kidnapping-?

Residents of room 1-07 will be met with the loud thunk of Aoi falling off the bedside and scrabbling upright, evidently panicked; help a poor lady out?]

Dormitory Corridors
[having recovered somewhat from the initial... shock... Aoi is mostly wandering; venturing through the dormitory floors, warily avoiding the network terminals and generally trying to stay out of everyone's way whilst she fully comes to terms with all this...]

Comments

dormitory corridors

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer leaves his network terminal in time to see the beautiful woman walk by him.]

Hey, little lady. Haven't seen someone like you around this place before.

[loved2many]

[not exactly expecting to be noticed - especially by someone manning the odd televisions - Aoi blinks in surprise when addressed so suddenly. And... flirtatiously.]

I'm... sorry? I only just arrived.

[puppy_lancer]

Ah, you're new? Has anyone explained this place to you yet, then?

[loved2many]

['your world has been destroyed'

she flinches slightly; it's an unpleasant reminder]

...Some.

[puppy_lancer]

...Ah.

[He nods.]

Is there anywhere you really wanna go? Questions you still wanna ask? I can help with those.

[loved2many]

When you arrived, did you receive a letter?

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, I got it. Didn't read it until later, though.

[loved2many]

...How true is it?

[puppy_lancer]

I...

[He closes his eyes and sighs.]

As far as I can tell, it seems true.

[loved2many]

...[flinch.]

[the answer she'd been afraid of.]

[taken away from her family just when they were all supposed to be safe, or as safe as they could be and...

...and now this.

It creeps up on her slowly, as she unconsciously back up on against the wall.]

H-How sure are you?

[puppy_lancer]

Very. I've seen the images of my world, and I've heard from people who went back to that wasteland.

[loved2many]

[...

Then her family is dead.

She slumps, not really seeing the corridor any more]

[puppy_lancer]

[He reaches out to support her.]

Just because your world is gone doesn't mean its people are gone too.

[loved2many]

[a glimpse of hope; she latches onto it]

Then- other's might be here?!

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, they might. Know any names? Maybe I've seen them.

[loved2many]

[then she'll be straight to the point-]

Have you met a Tohsaka Rin, Tohsaka Tokiomi or a Sakura Matou?

[puppy_lancer]

[Tohsaka...? Where had he heard of that before?]

I've heard of Rin and Sakura. But Sakura is gone and Rin is a Matou.

[loved2many]

[...that bizarre response just leaves her confused]

...No.

That can't be right...

[puppy_lancer]

What can't be? Rin being a Matou?

[loved2many]

...Yes.

[don't tell her she's lost both her daughters to that damn family...]

[puppy_lancer]

She and Sakura are from different universes. Apparently, in one world, Rin was sent over, and in another, Sakura was. Sakura's Uncle is here. He's still from her world. I don't think there's anyone actually from Rin's world.

[loved2many]

[there's a quiet moment of stillness... before Aoi lets out the breath she was holding.

She hadn't lost both... but neither, it seemed, could she keep them.

What can she even say? She's all caught up in this War, this Tower, and now the loss of her children threatens her once again... she just falls silent, lost in her thoughts, a small, automatic nod her only contribution to the conversation.]

[puppy_lancer]

...So, uh...how do you know those girls?

[loved2many]

[she blinks; in any other situation, she'd answer properly and politely, but right now...

Right now it feels the most obvious thing in the world.]

I'm their mother.

[puppy_lancer]

[His mouth drops open.]

NO FUCKING WAY!!!