"Let's compare scars, I'll tell you who's, is worse"
~Swing Life Away by Rise Against.
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"I think she's gonna wake up!" I heard the perky voice of Yuuki, laced only with a tinge of tainted worry.
More voices I couldn't understand. I was drifting on a puffy cloud, in and out of my concentration. I flickered my eyes open to meet a bright, bright, unbearable light.
"Turn the lights off…"I tried to say, covering my eyes with a wrist. But my words came out in a mess of jumbled syllables, and I doubted anyone could understand any of it.
"Midori…can you hear me?" Yuuki chirped, and I felt something brush against my wrist.
"No." I managed to get out clearly. Sarcasm. Had to love it.
"Why can't you-" I was almost amused, until she caught my sarcasm, "Midori-chan! This is no time to use that sharp tongue of yours!"
"Now's a good a time as any…" I said, pulling my wrist away, and squinting my eyes in the bright light. Hah. Beat that.
Yuuki didn't have anything to say to that. I smirked.
"Midori, please." Chairman Cross said from somewhere…he sounded far away. "Grow up a little, will you?"
"I will when you do."
I heard someone chuckle once, from nearby. My eyes were still adjusting to the sharp contrast of light. I thought- I wasn't sure- but it sounded like Zero.
"Midori, that's extremely inappropriate behavior-"
"Oh come on, 'daddy.' Midori has been through a lot. Maybe we shouldn't be starting arguments after she almost died," Yuuki said sternly.
Cross sighed. "Of course not."
I tried not to smirk. I could finally see again, and looked around the room slowly.
Almost.
I had ALMOST died.
Well…I supposed that almost was never good enough.
I'd just have to try again.