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A blur of half-elf anxiety and double-checking lists with suitcases in case anything was missing. Clothes, spare money, miniature lab for alchemy tricks and traps. The thing he checked the most was the little dragon he'd made for Kitty's grandfather(mother? He couldn't really tell sometimes) and making sure it wasn't going to wake up before it was supposed to. It's container had plenty of energy to keep the dragon in hibernation for the whole trip if need be.
Nope. Picked that name up from looking up fae.
I'll be sure to ask Cait Sidhe to keep an on her." Michael laughs, watching Saffire puff up and flap at the cub. "Saffire, don't eat the animals."
Michael stays next to Kitty as best he can and gives her silent reassurance as he held on to her hand. He wasn't going to complain about his hand. This pain was nothing to what she had to have felt at Repp's hand.
"Well that was easier than I thought." Michael thinks as they walk. "Well I guess he's just going to keep on getting to smart. Next thing you know we'll be spelling backwards."
"Hey, Kitty, do you mind if we stop by the old vet office? I thought of a way to.. um.. make a t-o-y for S-a-f-f-i-r-e that is a bit more durable and need to get some of the old ones." Michael explains as they walk back into the school.
"Honestly? No, not really. But it's kind of a miracle they're still open at all with how wrecked the rest of the town is. Was. The construction seemed to be coming along quite fast. There were more buildings when we left than when we got there anyways. But the company more than made up for the food," she said, smiling as she squeezed his hand. "And there will be plenty of yummy seafood to eat when we visit my family. Nishioki is a port city after all." Saffire meeped contentedly from his perch on Kitty's shoulder at the mention of more seafood. "I can't wait." He says honestly. "Despite the fact I'll likely get poisoned at some point, I'm actually looking forward o seeing where you grew up."
Michael soon led Kitty back towards the school, an overstuffed Saffire in his hands as they go. "So was the food as good this time as last time we went there?"
Kitty laughed. "Well, that certainly explains a lot. Okaa-san always said that you can be really certain that someone likes you when they have trouble putting coherent thoughts together in your presence...actually that sounds rather odd, come to think of it. It would make life very complicated. Think of all the conversations you could never have..," "Or verbally stumble through!" He laughs. Saffire finally manages to eat the last of his super chewy treat and cheeps angrily at Michael for the trick. "Sorry, buddy, you get loud sometimes."
"Well, you've never had any trouble talking to me, so I guess it wasn't that important of a lesson," she said, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. "You just need the right conversation partner." "Or just to not think about it." He replies as they walk into the city and head for the seafood restaurant. "I find that easy when I'm with you. Not thinking, I mean. No, wait, that sounds bad. Uh..."
Kitty laughed. "That sounds about right. Part of shinobi training includes learning the art of flirtation and seduction. Nee-chan excelled at that class. I always found a reason to be elsewhere. It was so embarrassing. And I don't think either of us would be comfortable learning flirtation from Nee-chan. This can only end in tears." "Yeah, I can only guess. I think my dad tried to teach me how to talk to girl once, but the Mom started laughing in the next room and he left quickly."
Michael laughs a little and gives Sapphire a little treat he'd made just for times like this(extra chewy even for metal cutting teeth) before taking Kitty by the hand and heading for the school's exit. "I can see the flirtation teaching conversation now. You and I, sitting there five minutes in, red faced and quiet as we awkwardly eat lunch!"
"Only because you didn't know how," she replied with an impish grin. "She was certainly flirting with you. Not that I blame her. You are pretty cute. But I'm not planning on sharing you." "I still don't know how, but with you I think coherent, non-alchemically garbled sentences are good enough. Though if you want to teach me..."
"There's always the restaurant I went to before meeting you. They gave him his own bowl of live fish, remember?""Sounds perfect, as long as you promise not to flirt with the waitress," she teased. "Oh come on, I never flirted with her!"
"There's always the restaurant I went to before meeting you. They gave him his own bowl of live fish, remember?"
"Right now I think the best idea we could have is going out to eat and having a relaxing day." He says after peeling the tiny dragon off his face.
"Uh-oh. One of your surprises," she said with a reluctant smile. "Now I am worried. And you shouldn't worry about visiting my family. The hazing is strictly for show at this point. They'll definitely be impressed that you got revenge on the guy who killed me. It's a very shinobi sort of thing to do. They'll like that." "Hey, it's not my surprise. I just happen to be agreeing to help." The half-elf chuckles. "They haven't impressed me though, so we're still hazing your family, right?"
"I might have an idea. Honestly it worries me a lot more than teaching you alchemy or visiting your family. I can't tell you though. It wouldn't be fair to the others."
"Me, put you on a pedestal?" He asks, laughing just a little. "You'd put me in traction. You'll get your confidence back ten or even a hundred fold. If you can come back from everyone you've ever known forgetting you even exist, you can come back from this."
"This isn't about who saves who more often or who's a better fighter, Michael! This is about you seeing me as an equal and treating me that way. When you make unilateral decisions about what is best for me without consulting me, then you are treating me like a...a pet, or a child. Not the way you treat a partner. I wanted to pay back the murderer. I did. But I am not so selfish that I could not have understood that I would have been a liability to the team. But instead of trusting me to make a good decision, you made it for me. I never even had the chance to help, and I could have. Even not being there, I could have helped. But I never had the chance. And if I keep on not having chances because you are so worried about protecting me, then I will be less than I am supposed to be," she said, stopping to hastily blow her nose. "You are nothing more or less than the best thing that has ever happened to me. That includes somehow hiding Cait Sidhe for weeks from my mother. You know me, Kitty, I can't hide things! But if there is one thing I can't hide, Kitty, it's how much I love you. You are my red smile, my loving flower. I couldn't like you wilt. Not over Repp. He deserved so much less than causing you any more pain..."
Soooo glad I wouldn't have to take the Nanami course. It would be awkward and the Kitty course is much more suited to my taste. ...no, I'm okay with how that sounds. >.>
Must've been that dust.
A little attention/kindness to the ones that need it can do wonders. Pretty sure I got the better part of the relationship though. I mean, come on, smart and pretty and the common sense to keep me from growing extra arms? Jackpot.
"Michael," she began, reaching out and taking his hand. "What that killer did....What Repp did to me," she corrected herself, still struggling with her sense of betrayal. "That wasn't your fault. It wasn't anyone's fault except Repp's. If you try to protect me all the time from everything out of some misplaced sense of guilt, then you don't leave me the freedom I need to be myself. Michael, I love you too much to leave you even then, but...if you do that I will literally fade away into nothing. And this time even you won't be able to see me," she said, tears now streaming down her face. "I would never do that!" He says instantly, looking both panicked that she was crying and worried because he knew it was his fault. "Kitty, whether I am protecting you or not I am not stopping you from doing what you want to do! I mean, l-let's be serious, I'm really just a speed bump for the other side in a fight. Ch-Chances are you'll be saving me more often than not..."
"You're wrong, Kitty. I can try. I have to try. Because the one time I don't will be the one time I always regret it. That doesn't mean I don't trust you though. If you told me you had to slip a poisoned dagger between my ribs I'd mark the best place for you to do it. I simply don't trust myself."
"No, you didn't! You deserved to never die like that in the first place! To never be in a position to be killed! I couldn't protect you from him, Kitty. None of us could. I can handle you being angry at me, furious with me, even.. even breaking up with me but I could not handle you dying again."
"I didn't want to see what would happen when you learned it was Rep. I didn't want you to see what I was going to do." He didn't balk at her reaction. He deserved this. "What we all did."
Michael spent the walk back to the school in silence as he thought of how to explain all this. There was going to be a lot of crying and probably some hitting too, but he couldn't keep this from Kitty. He grabbed his clothes from the locker and then went to the gym to shower before going looking for Kitty. Quietly he took her back to her room and handed Saffire to her. "I have news about the murderer, Kitty. He's dead now. I went with Ace and Keme and Keme's sister and... we killed him. He can't hurt anyone else now."
"Well, that I can help with," he said, using prestidigitation to clean Michael's clothes. "But the rips you're going to have to figure out how to deal with yourself." "That I can handle. I got into the habit of keeping spare clothes in my locker. My years at Avalon were not kind until recently. Well, before all this, anyway. It was nice until this."
"We'll see about that." He chuckles briefly as he stands up and looks at his bloodied clothes. "I'm going to need to get cleaned up before I see her again."
"I guess... Wish me luck. I have to go to meet her family with my family tagging along. I'm probably going to die in some way at least once."
"It's not that she's that good. Not entirely. I just can't seem to lie to anyone old enough to form coherent sentences."
Michael's eyes turn brown again and he sighs, putting away the sword and drinking another vial down to make the claw and fangs go away. "You think that's bad? I had to be careful how I said what I was going to do so she didn't know I was lying or something..."
"No. No!" Michael yells, running towards the corpse and slamming a hyperdermic into its chest. He watches as the injection sight slowly smokes, then just burns, with no reaction from Rep. "Gods damn him!"Keme gently pulls Michael away from the corpse. "It's better this way, Michael. I know it doesn't feel like it, but at least we didn't do anything that would make Kitty unhappy or worried to hear about. And you know what she's like. She would hear about it. I wanted him to suffer too, but at least now he won't hurt anyone else." "The one time I make things to hurt just one, specific person and... aaaahhhh! He was supposed to feel his blood turning into phosphorus mere fractions of an ounce at a time as it ignited!""
"No. No!" Michael yells, running towards the corpse and slamming a hyperdermic into its chest. He watches as the injection sight slowly smokes, then just burns, with no reaction from Rep. "Gods damn him!"
"Feeling weak, Rep? Helpless?" Michael sneers as he darts forward and slashes at the worried gnome. Maliciously, he began using the flat of the blade. He wanted the gnome to live a little longer. Feel the pain he more than deserved...
Dude, if Michael fails that save, you have to explain this to Kitty. I wouldn't be feeling relieved just yet. ;P If I died I would have to explain it to Kitty. I'm not going through that. Good thing I'm not that dweeb the mermaids teases, eh? Keeping the other me alive. (:{
"She's the only reason you're going to die instead of suffer all the wonderful things I want to do for revenge!" The half-elf shrugs off the attack like its nothing as he snarls in pain before becoming deathly calm again as he attacks in a flurry and steel, fang, and claw! "She is saving you, wretch, and that will haunt you to Hell!"
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I am so getting scolded when Kitty finds out about this.
Michael watched this all calmly and took a deep breath. His entire body shivered and then Michael took a little mental slumber while the other Michael took a drink from a vial and grinned as he grew fangs and a monstrous claw for a left hand. He drew a section of what looked like a short pole from a pouch after that and turned the handle. A blade slid out and, after a brief hissing noise, erupted in flame. Without a word he ran forward to attack.
::Good enough for me. Let's get on with it though.::
::Then lead the way. I have a lovely chemical in inject into this arrogant, deceitful, craven bastard for what he did to Kitty! What he tried to blame me for!:: Michael's mental reply seemed to echo for the tiniest of notable moments. His blue eyes seemed full of cold, calculating fury and one hand seemed to be unconsciously checking the contents of his pack. ::I hope we find him before this stuff's shelf-life expires. Then it would only kill him...::
"And I mean it about being careful," she added, as he was leaving. "This is where I'd ask when I have ever not been careful, but I found that list you made." He calls back as he leaves and gets some things from the lab before going to meet p with Ace. He knocked just once, firmly.
"I'd say you worry too much, but that never got my mother to stop either." Michael replies. "After this it's straight to the family visit, okay? No more delays."
"Uh, no, I'm fine," she said, looking up from where she'd been teaching Saffire a new trick. "Michael, are you sure you're alright?" she asked, her voice full of concern. "Oh, I'm fine. Just got some news about an errand I've been waiting for. Don't worry, my rose, I'll be fine. After all, it's not like I'm going for some crazy new experiment or anything, right? I promise I won't be dealing with any new and volatile chemicals, diseases, toxins, etc, and you know what a terrible liar I am." He replies sweetly.
Don't mind me. Just dealing with completely normal half-elf urges....
Ace casts a Sending to Michael ::"I've learned that the identity of the killer is Repparyn. Keme and I are going to go on the offensive now. Care to join us?":: Kitty can see, as soon as he's precession the information, that something changed about Michael. She'd seen it once before back during the concert where he'd first be injected by the calm emotions potion by Cethru. What could be the trigger now though? ::I'll be there as soon as I can. Don't you dare go without me!:: "Kitty," he says much more calmly than his reply to Ace had been "I'm going to go out for a bit. Do you need anything? I shouldn't be long."
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