[action] JFLSADKJF don't apologize I'm being stupid slow with tags anyway fallfortheskySeptember 2 2011, 03:15:14 UTC
[Even now she's still shaking. Sitting on her bed and trying, trying so hard, to meditate or otherwise calm herself. Nothing is working. Nothing is stopping the churning in her stomach.
And then he knocks.
For nearly a full minute, she can't seem to get her voice to work.]
[action] let's be disgustingly slow together.fallfortheskySeptember 12 2011, 00:47:34 UTC
[Apologies that she can't quite manage to smile back just yet. She tries, but it's a pathetic twitch of her lips. There's a dull roar starting to echo in her ears and it takes all her concentration to catch what he says without trying to return smiles with much honesty.] You really are him, aren't you? You're- Alma...
[action] /failfive!killedyuuSeptember 12 2011, 04:24:17 UTC
[His false smile wavers at the twitch and comes crashing down at her words.
It's too hard to pretend. He's not Allen and he just. He just can't keep pretending.
Quietly.] I'm Alma. --You don't know me.
Huh. [He can't meet those eyes. Eyes that don't know him. This might even be... harder than seeing two Yus. At least with them, it was just so... ridiculous that his brain could mark the whole situation off as 'wtf'.
This. She doesn't look any different than his Lena. Maybe gaunter, hair longer, but she's still Lenalee. Just. Lenalee who never knew Alma.
It really brings that old human fear of would anything even be different if I hadn't been born...?]
Wait. What.
WHAT IS GOING ON? Alma feels like his chest is on fire, and his veins are burning hot with growing panic.]
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So he found his way up a floor to her room. Hesitating for a long moment before he knocks on the door.]
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And then he knocks.
For nearly a full minute, she can't seem to get her voice to work.]
...It's open.
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Uh. Hello.
[...] It's nice to meet you.
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It's too hard to pretend. He's not Allen and he just. He just can't keep pretending.
Quietly.] I'm Alma. --You don't know me.
Huh. [He can't meet those eyes. Eyes that don't know him. This might even be... harder than seeing two Yus. At least with them, it was just so... ridiculous that his brain could mark the whole situation off as 'wtf'.
This. She doesn't look any different than his Lena. Maybe gaunter, hair longer, but she's still Lenalee. Just. Lenalee who never knew Alma.
It really brings that old human fear of would anything even be different if I hadn't been born...?]
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