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037. Voice, to Sora

_{[Heather's not quite to Goldenrod yet, but she and Kaito have been making fast progress. One thing she wnated to do before she got there, though, was talk to the person who was apparently the subject of all that commotion...]

[The transmission remains unlocked, solely because she'd been informed that his 'Gear was busted and she wants to make sure he-- or at least someone he's with, gets the message in the first place.]}

Sora?

You don't have to answer this or anything, but I just thought I'd ... call.

... You okay?

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[he's able to answer this with Riku's 'gear for the time being, as it's a public post. his poor 'gear's all but shot, and he doesn't know how to fix it. what is Sora and computers.]

Heather? I'm... I'm okay.

[he sounds about as sure as a rational person would be sure about winning the lottery.]

_{[As soon as she's got him on the line, she locks the feed to Riku's 'Gear only. It's not something she normally does-- but then, it's been sort of foolish of her to have been leaving all her conversations open. She'd just assumed that no one would care enough to try to listen to any of them apart from the one she was having them with. Which had probably been true, but better safe than sorry now.]

[In any case, she sounds a little relieved to hear his voice-- there's no sign of that playful tone she's usually got when she talks to him this time.]}

Yeah, s'me.

Good.

_{[He might not sound sure of it, but the fact that he's saying it at all means he's okay enough that nothing terrible has happened-- YET.]}

I just... um.

... I saw that guy's transmission.

_{[She didn't need to explain who she was talking about, and didn't really want to. 'Yo I saw that dude with your face earlier.']}

He told me to ask you what he was. ... I pretty much told him to go jump off a bridge, but... I wanted to make sure you were okay, too.

[that really gets him going, that she saw it and Vanitas told her to ask Sora about it. he knows Heather isn't actually asking him, but really, it's a question that'll be keeping him up at night for days. he'd more or less almost drowned in darkness back home, but somehow... seeing himself in that guy brought him way too close to the darkness and evil for comfort. like it was somehow him in some roundabout way that nearly killed all those people in New Bark Town. it made Sora feel ill.]

I-- I don't know why. I didn't-- I thought-- I just...

[okay, Sora, slow down. let's try finishing an entire sentence without going a mile a minute in twenty different directions.]

... I'm sorry, Heather. That you had to see that.

_{[Heather's not a motherly person. She never has been. In fact, she's pretty sure it's impossible for her TO be, after everything she's been through along those lines-- so what she's feeling right now ain't maternal. ... Maybe 'sisterly' was a good word for it.]

[But no matter what you called it, seeing the normally ever-cheerful Sora stammer miserably like this was yanking on some heartstrings that Heather doesn't normally remember are even there.]}

... Sor-- ... Sora. Don't apologize. It's not your fault, okay?

That guy doesn't scare me. I was just worried about you.

_{[... Well, okay, it's true that Vanitas hadn't scared her... but the sight of a face she knew, warped like that (even if it was mostly just in color and... well, expression...) was an unsettling one. It rang familiar bells.]}

[he needs to hear that. Sora's thankful to hear it, even if it's hard to gauge in his initial silence. when he does speak again, though, he sounds a lot clearer. more sure in himself, or at least what he's about to say.]

Don't worry. I'm gonna do my best.

[at what, though, he doesn't elaborate. though, judging by the lack of noise in the background related to civilization, he's not in Violet right now.]

Heather? Can you promise me something?

_{[She had a feeling he would-- and she'd put the emphasis on 'you' for a reason. Because if ... this happened to be anything like a certain something she'd experienced... then it was very, very important to remember that no matter what face that person had, they weren't the same as Sora.]}

I know you will.

... And that depends, man.

_{[She says so straight-up because... she's not actually too great at keeping promises.]}

What is it?

Promise me you'll be careful?

[he doesn't know what exactly was said between her and Vanitas except for her telling him to go jump off a bridge-- and those are fighting words, aren't they? Sora's well aware of how hardcore Heather is, but the idea of her getting hurt quite frankly terrifies him.]

I'm probably headed that way, or at least close by. I still want to go to dinner.

[... never mind the fact that he's technically just abandoned his job post, whoops.]

_{[Her expression softens a little-- as does her voice.]}

... I'll be careful. _{[Then, a little grin.]} I didn't get this far by running blindly into burning buildings, after all. _{[... Eeeeven if she sometimes came close.]}

All right. Lemme know when you get close, okay?

... And you be careful too.

_{[Vanitas aside, there was still a kidnapper on the loose... not to mention the rigors of the wilderness. ... But Heather's pretty sure Sora can take care of himself. Like so many others she's met here-- Rise, Minnie... she has a feeling Sora is a lot tougher than he looks.]}

[that gets a laugh out of him. a small one, but it's genuine. why are you so hardcore, Heather?]

I will. Lemme know if you find any taffy.

[Riku will keep Sora in check, if worse comes to worst, but as long as he's able to get himself a good night's sleep, he'll feel much better by morning.]

_{[Hearing that lifts a weight off of Heather's chest. A laugh is a laugh. It doesn't mean that everything's okay-- but it's a good sign all the same. Heather puts a lot of stock in laughter. She grins back, encouragingly.]}

Roger. I'll report back with my findings.

_{[And then she gives a mock salute.]

[Joking in the face of darkness can make it easier to handle-- Heather is a firm believer in this.]}

You're a great friend, Heather. Thank you.

[for more than just the taffy, he means.]

_{[This isn't the same kind of compliment she can respond to by bragging about dinosaurs and meteor dances, so she actually flusters just a little, rubbing the back of her neck.]}

Heh... well... it's what any friend'd do. _{[That's not true and she knows it, but she's still getting used to the whole concept of having friends again at ALL, so she's hesitant to take that compliment graciously. Still, she smiles at the screen and it's genuine.]}

I'm not the only one who has your back. We're all behind you, okay?

_{[She might not come from a world where friendship defeats all, but only an idiot would not recognize the advantage in having a veritable army of people who care about you there to provide support. What does that Vanitas guy have? The people he beat up back in New Bark Town? No. Nobody!]}

I'm... as long as I have you guys, then there's absolutely nothing I can't do. I don't need a Keyblade, or even the ability to fight. I just need my friends in my heart, and I'll never lose.

[that is extremely cheesy and Disney, but that's Sora for you. he relies on friends to survive more than he relies on good food.]

_{[It WAS extremely Disney, and... Heather would be lying if she said she totally bought it. She was just a little too bitter, too jaded, and too used to having to face things on her own to ever really understand the 'I can do anything with my friends' mindset (or so she thought so far, anyway), but it warms her heart to hear anyway. Sora pulls it off, somehow. She'd find it annoying in other circumstances, but right now she's just ... happy for him. That he can think that way.]}

That's a pretty good outlook.

... Whatever you do, don't lose it, all right?

I won't lose it. I promise.

Good. I'll hold ya to that.

Now take care, okay?

[Have Roxas jumping in here, since he sees this. Sora's not supposed to be like this. Separate conversation from Heather if that's okay]

He's not you, Sora, and you aren't him. You looking the same doesn't mean anything! Look at me and Ven. We're two different people even though we're identical. He's just a jerk.

_{[~*~Separate conversation thread, either before or after Roxas gets a chance to talk to Sora on his own~*~, because Heather sort of wants to know what's going on. She knows it's none of her rightful business-- at least not the nitty gritty-- but ... well, so help her, she's worried.]}

Roxas?

What do you know about this?

Edited 2010-10-24 19:48 (UTC)

Yeah, it's me.

I don't know a whole lot though. Just that it has to do with Sora and Ven and Vanitas. I'm pretty sure I'm part of it somehow as well, but it's hard to explain.

_{[... Now that she thinks about it, Roxas does look a little like Sora. It hadn't occurred to her before-- she'd just sort of assumed the spiky hairstyle was popular where they came from.]

[But it... makes sense, somehow. After all... Heather is not exactly unfamiliar with the concept of people-- of souls-- splitting.]}

... I see...

Who's Ven? Another one of you guys...?

_{[She'd met Sora, Roxas, Kairi, Namine, and just recently Terra... but otherwise, she's been astoundingly oblivious to the number of kids from that neck of the woods running around.]}

Yeah. He's the guy who looks just like me, if you ever meet him. He's organizing the festival with Sora.

_{[... Now that she thinks about it... she had seen a guy who looked like Roxas bopping around in transmissions before-- she'd probably even assumed it HAD been Roxas once or twice.]}

Oh...

Huh.

... Man, are there a lot of weird unrelated twins where you come from or do they just make you all from molds?

[Ven being mistake for him is something Roxas can handle. It's the other way around that it gets annoying. And molds, definitely. Nomura loves reusing character models.]

Not quite. I don't really know how it works completely. I mean, I know my story, sort of, but...[trailing off, uncomfortable subject]

_{[She can TELL it's uncomfortable. ... And she doesn't know Roxas well enough to be able to judge whether it's okay to press or not. It can be a hard call sometimes but in the end, Heather knows when to butt out.]}

It's okay, you don't have to explain it.

It's probably none of my business anyway. _{[But it looked like things where those Destiny Island kids came from was a little more complicated than she'd previously thought. Just went to show...]}

I don't think anyone really knows what's going on really. All the information's scattered.

Maybe, once we figure it out, we'll let people know. But for now...

I'm--

[Roxas is right. Ven and Roxas, Kairi and Xion... him and Vanitas. all identical or nearly, and yet all very different people. he'll feel even better if he could figure out why they look alike; with a reason he'd have an easier time separating himself from that thing in Goldenrod. maybe he'd feel a little less rattled. he hopes he at least sounds that way when he finally speaks again.]

You're-- you're right, Roxas.

[Roxas nods on the other end. He's still not entirely sure where he fits into all this, but he knows that he's connected in some way. At least Sora's starting to get it.]

You just need to remember that. You're separate people.

[pause]

It's weird to see someone who looks just like you for the first time, isn't it?

I think weird is an understatement.

[he says that in an empathetic tone, which actually brings him to another thought.]

Roxas? Can we... talk? We don't have to talk about it right now, but maybe sometime soon?

[Roxas, admittedly, sort of laughs at that, in agreement than anything else. Weird was the best word he could come up with. There's a long pause between that and answering Sora's question]

Yeah. I think...I think we should. I'm coming back to Violet for the festival, so, how about right before then? That way we won't have to worry about it during the festival. But we should talk, face to face.

Okay. Me and Riku were headed to Union Cave, so we'll bump into each other soon.

Probably, yeah. I'm travelling with Ven and the others, so we'll probably run into each other.

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