glacial_queen: (Forlorn)
[personal profile] glacial_queen
Even in Kaeleer, Karla made sure to keep a Fandom-based calendar handy, so she could keep track of things like friends' birthdays and things like that. A few days ago, she'd noted another anniversary was coming up, but not one as fun or exciting as a birthday.

Thursday, May 10th, was the day that Triela had died, last year. Funny how it felt like both more and less than that long. Funny how much it still hurt, an ache in her heart she doubted would ever go away.

After seeing that, Karla had made a few handwavy calls to people, friends of hers and Triela's that she thought might want to join her sojourn back to Italy. Unsurprisingly, several people had already made separate plans to do just that, but didn't mind combining those plans with hers. Karla couldn't speak for everyone, of course, but she was sure that very few people wanted to go back and remember their friend alone.

For once, Portalocity was willing to work with her, and she was able to set up several portals to meet in Rome for Thursday afternoon and a return set for late Thursday evening. Hopefully that would give everyone time to...do whatever they needed to do today.

[For any friends of Triela's who want to meet up. If you think you'd've gotten a phone call, you absolutely did. Give a sec for OCD. NFB, NFI]

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-12 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"Who?" He thought he knew who she meant, but...

Triela was dead.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 02:24 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (o rly?)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
So?

"Triela, of course."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 04:05 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (suggestive)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
Yeah, she totally did, thanks.

But, "So don't expect a response?" Momoko rolled her eyes at him. "She's not erased from existence, you know. She's just not alive anymore. She can totally still hear you. See you..."

"Worry about you. Do you think she'd be happy seeing you this way?"

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"Dead is dead," Hilshire pointed out without heat. "It's too late for her to have an opinion."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 04:13 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (Momoko is not pleased)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
Momoko finally gave in and punched him in the arm.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
Hilshire winced, but that was all the reaction she got out of him. He'd probably deserved that, after all.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 04:44 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (Momoko is glaring at you)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
"I don't like you already, you know. Disrespecting my friend is totally not helping."

Arms folded, Momoko glared at him hard enough that he probably felt it. "If you think she's gone, if she's nowhere and doesn't exist anymore, then stop acting like you're giving up! If you believe like that, then there's totally nothing to give up."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-13 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"I'm not giving up." Liar. "There's just..."

Okay. So he didn't really have a good explanation that didn't sound like giving up.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
Well, Hilshire didn't actually have anything to say. Hence the trailing off.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 03:34 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (grrr)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
That's fine. Momoko would just punch him in the arm again.

"You're acting like this because deep down you hope she'll somehow know. But you don't want to admit it even now."

She growled under her breath as she turned away. "I still totally don't see what Triela saw in you."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"I don't either." Honestly didn't.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 03:50 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (what?)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
"Well there was totally something! Triela didn't like everyone, let alone have feelings for them. I don't know what it's like here, but in my world we pay respect to dead loved ones."

Momoko took a deep breath and turned to look at him. "And I'm not talking about how you look. Everything Triela did was to make you look good. What are you doing for returns? The least you could do is talk to her."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"What's the point?" Hilshire asked. "It won't change anything." He didn't really come from a background where you did much with the dead after the funeral.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 04:04 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (facepalm)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
Momoko facepalmed, mostly out of sheer exasperation. How had Triela dealt with this guy?

"It won't change the past, but it can change the future. For one thing, you'll feel better totally just because you're talking to her again. For another, you'll be paying back a little of the debt you owe."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 04:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"I don't think talking's going to make me feel better. And the debt I owe?" He shook his head. That one wasn't ever getting paid back.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-14 04:15 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (holding head)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
"Well, that's funny, because I totally know it will."


And as for the debt... "Every minute you continue shaming her, Hilshire," -no mister, he didn't deserve that right now- "the weight of that debt gets heavier."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
Hilshire shook his head. "It can't." It was as heavy as it was even possible to get. He knew that.

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 01:34 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (ehhh yeah)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
"It already has. Look at yourself. Or can't you?"

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"I know what I look like," Hilshire answered.

Then he shot Momoko a challenging look. "What, precisely, did you want me to do?"

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 02:56 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (Momoko is not pleased)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
"I totally have a list of things."

Some of which would be impossible without a time machine. "But right now, I want you to go over there and stand in front of Triela's Grave and say hello. Then apologize for how you look and tell her you miss her."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"It won't mean anything," Hilshire objected. "You don't get to apologize when you've done what I have."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 03:27 am (UTC)
heromaniac: (talk2hand)
From: [personal profile] heromaniac
"You owe her a debt. You admitted that. You say you can't pay it back. I'm totally telling you that you can." Momoko took a breath. He wasn't going to get it. He wasn't ever going to get it.

"The one person she loved despite everything and you won't even greet her."

Re: Gather by the Grave

Date: 2012-05-16 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sie-bruder.livejournal.com
"You don't have any idea how big it is," Hilshire pointed out. Some things, well, they weren't forgivable.

Re: Gather by the Grave

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