FACES
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Honir walked silently to his room in the building of the Vengeance. 'Duat was entirely right to bring her here. She belongs here with us.'
Sighing, Honir took off his robe and looked in the mirror. There . . . there was the face belonging to the identity he had discarded long ago. The face . . .
'The only bad thing about this is not being able to see anybody's face. All of these people remind me of somebody . . . just who? I cannot remember . . . I am not allowed . . . but who are they?'
Suddenly, the answer came to him . . . could Ran really be . . . Hermione?
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Shinigami jumped. "Talk about what?"
"Just talk."
Shinigami sat down on Hermione's/Ran's run-down and surprisingly comfortable couch. "Alright."
"Look, it's painfully obvious that you haven't gotten rid of your problems yet. Can't I help?"
"Shut up," Shinigami muttered.
"What?"
"I SAID SHUT UP!"
Ran/Hermione bit her lip and said under her breath, "Very obvious indeed."
"You don't know me. You can't help me!"
"But I can know you . . . if you let me."
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Shinigami felt his eyes grow wide. No one had ever said that . . . or anything like that. "Don't say that!"
Ran was confused. Shinigami could see it . . . or rather, he could sense it.
"Look," he tried to explain. "I --- I just don't trust anybody."
'They why are you so tempted?' the voice in the back of his head said softly, slyly. He pushed it away.
"I don't want to know anybody! I don't want anybody to know me."
'Ah, but you want her to know you, do you not?'
"I --- I just can't, alright?"
Ran gazed at him for a second, then stood and walked over to sit beside him. "I know your pain. And you know mine. Can you not allow us to help each other?"
'I can but I'm too stubborn to agree with it no matter how interesting I think it would be,' the voice said sarcastically.
Shinigami finally yelled in his mind for the voice to shut up. It did. But what it said still rung in his mind . . . too stubborn? Or too scared?
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Honir stared at the mirror in his room at his face, not seeing it. Only seeing the Hermione he once knew, only thinking of the Ran he knew now.
'It is her . . . but she had to have been betrayed to make her . . . like us. Like this!'
His mind grew more and more angry every moment he thought of her.
'I am going on the mission with her. I have to make the person who did this to her pay. For her. For revenge.
'For the person she once was.'
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LAHAK
Serenity
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Honir walked silently to his room in the building of the Vengeance. 'Duat was entirely right to bring her here. She belongs here with us.'
Sighing, Honir took off his robe and looked in the mirror. There . . . there was the face belonging to the identity he had discarded long ago. The face . . .
'The only bad thing about this is not being able to see anybody's face. All of these people remind me of somebody . . . just who? I cannot remember . . . I am not allowed . . . but who are they?'
Suddenly, the answer came to him . . . could Ran really be . . . Hermione?
-----
Shinigami jumped. "Talk about what?"
"Just talk."
Shinigami sat down on Hermione's/Ran's run-down and surprisingly comfortable couch. "Alright."
"Look, it's painfully obvious that you haven't gotten rid of your problems yet. Can't I help?"
"Shut up," Shinigami muttered.
"What?"
"I SAID SHUT UP!"
Ran/Hermione bit her lip and said under her breath, "Very obvious indeed."
"You don't know me. You can't help me!"
"But I can know you . . . if you let me."
-----
Shinigami felt his eyes grow wide. No one had ever said that . . . or anything like that. "Don't say that!"
Ran was confused. Shinigami could see it . . . or rather, he could sense it.
"Look," he tried to explain. "I --- I just don't trust anybody."
'They why are you so tempted?' the voice in the back of his head said softly, slyly. He pushed it away.
"I don't want to know anybody! I don't want anybody to know me."
'Ah, but you want her to know you, do you not?'
"I --- I just can't, alright?"
Ran gazed at him for a second, then stood and walked over to sit beside him. "I know your pain. And you know mine. Can you not allow us to help each other?"
'I can but I'm too stubborn to agree with it no matter how interesting I think it would be,' the voice said sarcastically.
Shinigami finally yelled in his mind for the voice to shut up. It did. But what it said still rung in his mind . . . too stubborn? Or too scared?
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Honir stared at the mirror in his room at his face, not seeing it. Only seeing the Hermione he once knew, only thinking of the Ran he knew now.
'It is her . . . but she had to have been betrayed to make her . . . like us. Like this!'
His mind grew more and more angry every moment he thought of her.
'I am going on the mission with her. I have to make the person who did this to her pay. For her. For revenge.
'For the person she once was.'
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LAHAK
Serenity