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[markofthebrave]

[Backdated to yesterday, after her conversation with Suki, Katara has a brother to kill. Confront. Comfort? Whatever.

She looks high. She looks low. She looks... lower. Someone is coming down the stairs to your mancave, Sokka.]

[Meanwhile, this morning, Suki is feeling... less depressed and Sokka is still away from the house and everything feels wrong. Katara's a few steps short of miserable, because this is not the way things are supposed to go. She attends school, finishes some afternoon errands, and just... stares at the journal system for a while. A lot of people still seem to be very happy, and she does not want to bring them down, and she doesn't want to expose Suki or Sokka to anything but...

But.]

...is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that some people are acting... not like themselves?

((ooc: Katara's first post chronologically goes to savethelastchip. Tag as you will!))

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[Voice]

[markofthebrave]

[No, I'm not. I want you to stop being stupid and let me try to help you.

'Of course! I'm always all right.']

...well, I'm concerned about you. [Emotional honesty ftw.] But I'm sure everything else is going to work out all right.

[It has to - she won't let there be any other option.]

[Voice]

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

...I know. It's...just what happens to [Most...all] people who do my job for too long. Unless there's a definite solution, this is just how it has to be. The other option is to risk me infecting more people and pulling them down with me.

And it will. Everything else work out, I mean.

[Private]

[markofthebrave]

[A moment of filter-crafting out of respect for his privacy.]

Or you could let me try to help you. How is there any other way of knowing if the solution is 'definite?'

[Private]

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

We don't. And if it doesn't work, you're out of what you had, and I...

[Might end up even worse off.]

Katara, this isn't something we can risk being wrong on. If I bite...even scratch one person in my condition, it passes on to them, too. If I die, I come back as a full vampire. And there are people who might need what you have...and that it will work on without hoping that's what it'll do.