4/27/10, forgot to add, this is for AuroraExecution, because of "Choose" and is explained in the title. And if anyone else out there wants to run with this idea, please do so; I'd love to see how others interpret the story premise – R. macDhai
Reboot: Because I Hate No-Win Scenarios – a Weiss Kreuz story
Story Premise: Itou Ryou doesn't wake up one morning, Kudoh Yohji does. And remembers everything.
Part 1: Thoughts
Returning from the dead to find someone else had moved into your body was just creepy.
Having a second life, truly being another person, kind of liberating.
Having the other person in your head with all their baggage, back to the creepy part.
But it gives you a chance to look at who you were, what you fucked up, what you're going to fuck up by being alive again. It took awhile to sort out, redefine, redevelop, and restart being, integrating, rebooting a mind and body that hadn't been kind to itself.
Some things take two pieces to restart.
Aya was out shopping, giving him time enough to confirm what his research had already told him. The red head was still single, still in a certain line of work, and, from the photos, still as heart-wrenchingly beautiful.
"How could I ever have forgotten you?"