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[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Characters: Kanaya and YOU
Setting: 4th floor (lounge) , 7th floor (pool)
Format: Starting in action tags, will match you
Summary: Kanaya sews, Kanaya swims
Warnings: None, will update if need be

4th Floor

[Kanaya had carried her sewing machine to the 4th floor to get some work done and to get her mind off of things. It's been a while since she let herself just sit and sew, take her mind off of things.]

[She threads her needle and readies her black fabric, the familiar action was calming and even though she had no particular plan in mind, she began]

[Until the needle snapped]

How unfortunate. It seems there is no relaxing here.


7th Floor

[It wasn't outside but it would do. The forest the floor below had set of an instinctual mental warning, a forest in a building was wrong and asking for troubles. While the pool wasn't much better, it seemed a tad safer.]

[Not that she was worried about her life. If she were to die, she died but prolonging her life may prove advantageous for others in the future]

[For now she took off her flats, placing them neatly by her side, pulled up her skirt a bit, and dipped her feet into the water.]

[In retrospect, she should have brought a book]

Comments

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

What does the future entail? At least, your future? Perhaps I was apart of it, a future Kanaya then. If you are ahead of me in the time line then it is likely that the time line pauses when we are taken.

We exist in different, coinciding time lines.

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

Are you... quite sure you want to know?

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[she stares intently at Rose]

You succumbed to the darkness.

[that wasn't a question]

Did you survive?

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

No.
[Not many words were necessary.]

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[a bit angrily] Rose! You sh- [should have listened to me]

[softer] Rose...

We both should be dead. Perhaps this tower is not all bad.

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

Dave is dead, as well. Jack took care of us both. [She takes a deep breath inwards.] That is not quite true, Kanaya.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Pardon? What have I said that is incorrect?

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

Your death was not permanent.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

You are not implying that I survived, you are implying something happened to me. What happened?

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

Something you had only dreamed of beforehand.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[She stares at her, wordlessly urging her to continue]

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

Remember when you questioned me earlier on whether or not I believed in vampires?


You made me believe.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[give her a moment to process that]

[wait for it]

[wait for it]

You are not one to lie to me, and while I am not as skilled at sensing your human sarcasm, I sense none emanating from your words.

You're being truthful?

[give it a while to sink in, maybe she'll fangirl over it a bit]

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

I am being completely sincere. You reanimate as a vampire.

Not only that, but if my sources are correct, you also disposed of Eridan before he could further harm others.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[She became a rainbow drinker and disposed of Eridan?]

[Score!]

How exactly did that occur? I do not recall coming into contact with anything particularly supernatural.

At least I did some good. [hellooo bitterness]

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

I am not sure. Your best bet would to be to ask someone from further in your timeline, if there is such a troll here.

[Pause.] Do you recall how Dave and I argued over our suicide mission?

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

I will ask the others.

[she thinks] I do not. Does it coincide with my turning?

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

I was refering to our argument during our attempts at blasting the wall. [wry smile.] I have a request.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Forgive me, I did not realize we switched back to this present time line. What is your request?

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

You see, as we have discussed, I am quite dead. My only remaining life is my dreamself. I am the one who is going on the mission to destroy the green sun, despite Daves adamant objections.

On my way, I will be going through the dream bubbles, and see those trolls that are both alive and dead. I was wondering if perhaps... you could take the time for a nap so that I may perhaps see you? Before I go?

I would... appreciate it.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[quietly] Rose... I would rather you not go. I don't want you to die.

[back to her normal tone] But what I have learned from speaking to you is that you will not listen to my suggestions, so when the time comes, I will nap and see you in the dream bubble, for the last time.

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

I was already on my way there before I was taken to the Tower. It is a situation that I most certainly can not turn back on, now.

...Thank you, Kanaya. [She leans forward a little, bumping their foreheads together gently.] It is not that I don't wish to listen to your suggestions, I just... There are things that must be done. This is one of them.

...I told you that I did not have many friends beyond the internet, did I not?

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

But you aren't there anymore! Perhaps when you get back it'll be a previous time. Promise that if you have the option to not take the mission, you will take it.

[she leans against Rose] You do what you must, I respect and admire that trait.

Yes, you did?

[salamancer.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the thought Kanaya, but I doubt it will happen as such. [She's going to gently rub Kanayas cheek with her thumb.]

The more accurate statement is that beyond the internet, I had no friends. You see, Kanaya... John, Dave, and Jade... they are my best friends, and the family I did not have with my own Mother. My moirails, as it were. I do not want them to be harmed, and I want to give them the chance to live on and succeed in life. That is why I am willing to sacrifice myself as such. If myself being gone will allow them to live on, then that is something I am willing to do. That is why I did not want Dave to take the mission-- it is my mission.

And now... I have found others in which I want to save aswell. Like you, Kanaya. Like your friends.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Timelines can be faulty, it is always a possibility. [she closes her eyes and leans into Rose's hand]

You do not need to see people face to face in order to be friends. But if they are your moirails, would they not be happier with you alive with them? Dave's fighting against your decision is proof enough of that.

[she opens her eyes and looks, really looks, at Rose] Don't go on with the mission.