Okay!, letz do this! Yeah!
Ah... *_* imagining something... I've got it.
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"So remind me again. what exactly are we getting?" Lloyd sighed and put a hand on a nearby chair for support.
"…" Seeming to be pondering over his discomfort for a moment, examining his state of being, Raine cleared her throat and started speaking again, "These here, so take this list." she said, taking a piece of paper which was a copy of the objects from her original. "These all seem vital towards his recovery, and may help us figure out how to defend against Lance more efficiently."
"…" Lloyd took the list and scanned over it, "…What?!" he looked up at the professor in disbelief, "Y-y-you mean to say that we're going to have to go all the way to Tethe'alla just to--"
"Well, that is where I had found the documentation originally. That may have something to do with it."
Mouth hanging open, Lloyd was bent over forward looking as though he had lost his soul.
"And…."
"That means…" Genis continued for him.
"That we're going to have to walk all the way to Asgard where that guy's working on our reihards." Sheena groaned, "Sheesh… give us a break, Raine…"
"Leave it to me…" Lloyd sighed.
"It's better if you rest here tonight though. To save up your strength."
"Great!" Lloyd suddenly grinned, "I'll see you tomorrow then, professor." With a wave he dismissed himself and everyone in the group followed him with the exception of Genis.
"Raine, is it okay if I go with Lloyd?"
"I suppose."
"Cool!" he laughed and followed the rest of the group.
"Raine, I shall continue to stand guard here." Presea gave a stoically confident nod to her.
"Very well, do as you wish." Raine agreed, she yawned from behind her hand before crossing her arms. "I think that I'll turn in now, though." She said, and with that, turned from Presea and started walking towards her bedroom. "There's an extra bed here, so feel free to…"
"O-oh… I see." Presea gave a small smile, "Thank you, Raine."
"It's fine. And if you end up going outside for any reason, make sure that the doors are locked before you sleep, okay?"
"Yes."
"Alright, Good night, Presea."
"…Night'."
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Creak...
Hearing the door open, Yuan opened his resting eyes and stood up in bed.
"I'm surprised you haven't tried to do laps or something already. You're not one to obey, Yuan." Raine gave him a teasing smile that irritated the hell out of him.
"I'm a 4,000-year-old cruxis angel who's been fighting battles all his life, do you think that I'm stupid?"
"Hmm..." Raine sighed, stretching her arms far above her head as she approached the other bed on the other side of the room. "Well." she paused, "Maybe considering your leader."
"..." Yuan also paused, managing his temper, "...I suppose you're right. I'm a leader of the Renegades but Mithos manipulated us all nevertheless."
"I'm glad that it's over." Raine sighed, sitting on her bed and stripping herself of her outer orange labcoat by pulling the edges of it away from her chest and pulling it downward, she slung it over the back of a nearby chair at a research-covered but somehow very organized desk.
"Hn."
"...." Her eyes narrowed, not particularly surprised by his sudden silence but more-so by his cerulean eyes on her.
They were sitting in silence for but a moment before Yuan just turned from her and lay back down under the blankets. "It's too hot in here." he muttered, trying to veil a red streak that was pushing to reveal itself.
Blinking at him for a moment, Raine stepped down from her bed and went to the window, she pushed the window open and took in a breath of the open sky's cool midnight air.
"Is this better?" Raine glanced back at him.
"Hn." Yuan turned from her again.
Heh... Raine thought with a mental sigh, "Good, then." She walked to the candle at her desk and leaned forward, blowing it out with a quick huff.
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The Lloyd Crew
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"Sleeeee-e-e-epoveeerr!" Jumping forward, Zelos spread his arms and attempted diving face-first into Sheena's chest. "OW!" he recoiled, having had someone step on his foot with force, then a head collision with the person.
"You idiot..." Genis sighed and shook his head, Sheena laughed a little at Lloyd who was holding his head and groaning.
"You guys! I brought a plate of milk for everyone before be--ah-oops!" Colette slipped forward.
"Ah!" Lloyd seen it coming, jumping to his feet but slipping the moment he put pressure on his right leg.
"Got it." Sheena grabbed the plate from the girl as she landed on Lloyd.
"Oops..." Colette giggled and stuck her tongue out. "Sorry!" she pushed herself upwards but while still sitting just below Lloyd's abdomen.
"You guys are hopeless." She shook her head and sat down on the floor, re-forming the circle they were just in.
"Yay, milk!" Zelos reached forward and--
(Pause as Author contemplates if Zelos should have to pick last.)
--took one glass with his right hand, everyone did the same. Lloyd chugged it while everyone else took slower gulps.
"Say, what do you suppose the professor's doing right now?" Colette pondered thoughtfully.
"Uh... sleeping?" Lloyd suggested.
"I doubt it." Zelos put on a serious face. "You knowwhat adults like to do with each other when they're alone in the same room overnight, Lloyd. You do too, Sheena."
"Huh?" Colette, Genis and Lloyd all said simultaneously.
"What?!" Zelos nearly choked on his beverage. "Whoa, Lloyd, you seriously can't mean to say that you don't...."
Genis's Thoughts:
"So." Yuan was breathing heavier, "You sure you want to do this?"
"Y...yes." with the slight hesitation, shifting under his gaze, Raine nodded.
"I see" Yuan sighed, closing his eyes for a moment in thought, then opening them and saying, "there's no going back... Are you ready?"
"..." Nodding and swallowing, Raine took a breath and braced herself for what was to come. She closed her eyes and held her breath.
"Get ready! Go!"
Raine's pencil was writing rapidly at a piece of paper as he spoke.
"First through seventy ninth leaders of Mizuho in alphabetical order!"
"Done!"
"The date of birth and time and date of death of the forty second chosen of mana!"
"Got it!"
End Genis's thoughts
Genis squinted his eyes at the ground, .... they would be quizzing eachother? he thought. He was giving a very baffled stare at the ground as he let his mind wander.
Colette's Imagination
"More Tea, Miss Sage?" Yuan stepped from the double doors that weren't there before, he was dressed in a black vest except for the white sleeves, collar and red tie. His black slacks finished into a butler outfit. He stood before the platinum blond woman who was dressed in a fancy white Victorian dress, she wore white gloves with lace and an umbrella of the same color that she would twirl occasionally.
"Oh!" Raine's eyes lit up. "I.... I see you brought your...."
"Ah-oh!" Yuan gasped in realization, blushing and looking down at the large, flat oval tray he held in his hand at shoulder level. "You don't have to... I mean, i-if you don't--"
"N-no!" Raine breathed, jumping from her chair and running to him, "I will! I... I'll eat them all!" she took the bag of cookies from the edge of the tray and opened them.
End Colette's Imagination
"NO!" Colette gasped aloud and put a hand over her mouth, then thinking, No, professor, you'll get fat eating all of them by yourself!! Ask him to share with you or something! No! she sniffed sadly at the thought of Raine not following her unheard advice.
Zelos gave her a look of utter amazement, "Y...you don't mean that you.... Ack!!! No! What man who wasn't me has tainted you, my angel?!" Zelos jumped forward and grabbed Colette's shoulders.
Lloyd's Imagination
Snooooooore Yuan rolled over and flopped an arm forward onto Raine's stomach.
"Raine move over yer hoggin the pilloooow." Yuan groaned into the back of her head.
"No my blankets," Raine nuzzled her face further into the bed and hummed a quiet moan, "I think spaghetti sounds good on that jello..."
"I like your.... mmgh--frogs" Yuan started snoring again.
End Lloyd's Imagination
-Silence-
".... heh." Lloyd did his famous L to the bridge of the nose and the forehead hand motion and smirked. "I think that it's completely natural, I don't see what you guys are so--"
"Not the cookies, NO!" Colette cried.
"Raine! No, you can't stay up all night being quizzed! you have a lot to do tomorrow!!" he cringed, possibilities of his sister's imaginary recklessness rushed through his mind all at once.
"Zelos." Sheena forced a smile, "Don't ruin this one's innocence." patting his back she gave a firm one for him to shut up.
"Raine!" Genis and Colette ran through the front door and sprinted towards the sage household in the near-dark.
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-knock-
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Suspicious, Raine cautiously took her staff and approached the door slowly.
"Who is it?" Raine called through a crack in the door.
"Raine, go to sleep!" Genis seemed panicked. "You shouldn't be doing that with Yuan this late!"
"Professor! You can't use umbrellas indoors!" Colette desperately explained.
The woman took a moment to register what they were talking about, she opened the door and looked at them.
"I give up, where is this coming from?"
"Zelos said that we knew what adults did with each other when they're alone in the same room at night!" Colette blurted.
Raine's eyes widened for but a split moment, she put a fist to her mouth and coughed.
"I-I ah..." she almost struggled to find her voice, "Then him and I need to have a chat. But for now, you two should head back. Yuan and I are not doing anything in particular but sleeping in separate beds at the moment, so there's nothing to worry about." Raine laughed nervously, inching back away from the flustered kids and slowly closing the door. "A-an umbrella?" a bead of sweat rolled down the back of her neck as she blushed to herself, falling back against the closed door behind her and running fingers through her hair.
"That was close." Colette grinned at Genis as they walked back.
"Yeah, we really helped Raine by warning her."
"Yeah!"
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"How are you feeling?" The image above him was actually a slight blur at first, he stared and said nothing at first, sitting up in bed and looking at Raine.
"Seraphs don't sleep, how do you think I feel?"
"Uncomfortable, awkward, surprised... confused."
Yuan didn't reply, he got up from bed and stretched. "Hm.... this does feel good." he noted quietly. And then looked at Raine again who seemed to be staring at him with an enticed look.
"So..." she furrowed her eyebrows and sat on the bed promptly beside him. "After being inflicted by the man's attack, it made it easier for you to fall asleep?"
"I suppose, I'll admit I felt a little prone to it, like a human would be, or a person without a cruxis crystal."
"..." her lips parted into a ghost of a smile that was hardly there, then closed again as she thought. "Aptiblockosis..." she ranted off as she got down from the bed and started towards the door.
"I... have something I could--"
"Th-that's okay, Professor." Presea had opened the door and had stepped in with a tray of food. "I have prepared an efficient breakfast before the both of you and I." she said, as relieved that they both nodded just as much as Raine was, and as Yuan would have been if he had known the truth.
Raine sighed and laced her fingers, incredibly relieved she didn't have to cook for him.
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Sorry guys, gotta end it. Review if you want. Technically I can't force you.... ^_^'' So uh, yeah. I hafeta sleep now, g-night.
