Katara (
markofthebrave) wrote2011-04-27 05:03 pm
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Entry tags:
- au! not fun,
- chickening out of written,
- filters make the world go round,
- fix what you can,
- life is so simple here,
- love - it seemed like only yesterday,
- message in a bottle,
- messing with a little girl's dream,
- nightmares and daydreams,
- out and about,
- practice practice practice,
- run into her anywhere
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[Even Katara can only deny the effects of the dreams so long. It wasn't so bad at first when they were just vivid and of a different Luceti... but this other world, with these strange people she feels connected to, and the strange consistency of them, as if they were actually telling a story...
...and she knows the dreams have been effecting her dad too. And that it hasn't been good. So... she's going to take today to do maybe what she should have done from the start.]
[Filtered to Sokka]
Hey, I need to talk to you. What time can I come by?
[Filtered to Zuko]
...can we meet later?
[Filtered to Chouji]
I know this is weird, but have you been dreaming that we--
[Filtered to Shikamaru]
Did we ever--
[Filtered to Masaomi]
Don't take this the wrong way, but I had a dream about us, and we were fighting. You broke my rib, but it wasn't a bad thing and I can't stop thinking about--
[Filtered to Nami]
...have you been having dreams that we were friends, once?
[Filtered to Ginko]
Ginko... have you ever heard of parasites that... live in the dark and steal sight from people's eyes, and can be drawn out by moonlight?
[Filtered to San]
I dreamed you had come into my house for food, that you drew a knife and nearly attacked Sokka, and I had to knock you down.
[Filtered to Sanji]
Sanji, did we ever...
[Filtered to Jet]
I - you - there was a dam that -
[Katara abruptly shoves away from her journal, scribbling through her filters madly. Checking with Sokka and Zuko would be enough. She didn't want to go and get people upset or excited about something that may or may not be true. She hesitates for a long moment at the doorway to her father's room, contemplating knocking and asking him-
What have you been dreaming about, Dad? They haven't stopped. Do you think they mean something?
-but eventually she just writes a note that she's going to spend some time practicing, picks up her yari, and heads into the forest. She's almost hoping to see one of the beasties everyone's been talking about. She could do with a good fight against something she can actually touch.]
...and she knows the dreams have been effecting her dad too. And that it hasn't been good. So... she's going to take today to do maybe what she should have done from the start.]
[Filtered to Sokka]
Hey, I need to talk to you. What time can I come by?
[Filtered to Zuko]
...can we meet later?
I know this is weird, but have you been dreaming that we--
[Filtered to Shikamaru]
Did we ever--
[Filtered to Masaomi]
Don't take this the wrong way, but I had a dream about us, and we were fighting. You broke my rib, but it wasn't a bad thing and I can't stop thinking about--
[Filtered to Nami]
...have you been having dreams that we were friends, once?
[Filtered to Ginko]
Ginko... have you ever heard of parasites that... live in the dark and steal sight from people's eyes, and can be drawn out by moonlight?
[Filtered to San]
I dreamed you had come into my house for food, that you drew a knife and nearly attacked Sokka, and I had to knock you down.
[Filtered to Sanji]
Sanji, did we ever...
[Filtered to Jet]
I - you - there was a dam that -
[Katara abruptly shoves away from her journal, scribbling through her filters madly. Checking with Sokka and Zuko would be enough. She didn't want to go and get people upset or excited about something that may or may not be true. She hesitates for a long moment at the doorway to her father's room, contemplating knocking and asking him-
What have you been dreaming about, Dad? They haven't stopped. Do you think they mean something?
-but eventually she just writes a note that she's going to spend some time practicing, picks up her yari, and heads into the forest. She's almost hoping to see one of the beasties everyone's been talking about. She could do with a good fight against something she can actually touch.]
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[What else could they be?]
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[He gives a frustrated snort.] Maybe it's like... like when people go into the woods sometimes. You've heard about some of them coming back and acting kinda weird for a while, right? Like they have different memories.
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Or maybe we're-] It'll stop soon, if it is.
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They're bothering you too, aren't they.
[An unspoken: You can tell me.]
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I killed somebody in one of mine.
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[That's - a strange thing for him to dream. They've fought before. But. Killed?]
That sounds like a nightmare to me. [Pause.] Do you want to tell me about it?
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[Different, but too often the same, and he'd wake up to the sound of his heart pounding in his ears.
Shikamaru's jaw tightens, but eventually he works the words out again.] It's troublesome to explain. It's a long story, but I'm missing a lot of parts to it.
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Some of them, anyways. [The ones I don't like.]
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[He thinks about leaving it at that - dreams are weird, what else is new. Let's just get back and ignore this, right? They should be getting closer to the village now.
Instead, he finds himself veering off to the left instead, keeping towards the very edge of the paths leading into town instead of walking into it.]
Tch. It's still stupid though.
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...but since he wants to talk about it, she'll do her best to give him the opportunity. It's rare - it's so rare - that Shikamaru gets rattled enough to want to talk about things, she almost wants to skip the talking and go straight to the reassuring.]
What is?
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That they don't go in order. If they were gonna do it like that, I should've just got the end instead of going back to the middle. [What he presumes was the middle, at least. Maybe it was actually the beginning?] I get the feeling that the end was supposed to be satisfying, but it's not knowing what happened before it.
Like killing him wasn't good enough.
[Which is scary. Shikamaru can barely be motivated to hold a grudge, most days. Hating a person that much, or even attacking them with the intent to kill... it's not something he thought he'd be capable of, ninja or not.]
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Just hearing that from was a little disorienting. Shikamaru just... wasn't like that.
...then again, in her dreams, she'd been fighting with a passion she didn't recognize. Fighting to protect someone whose name she didn't even know. Fighting like it meant.. everything.]
Did you recognize him? The man that you killed.
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I'd remember if I'd seen him anywhere in the village before. His appearance is... distinctive. White hair slicked back and red eyes. Foul-mouthed son-of-a-bitch too.
[He stops walking finally; continues.]
His skin changes color, too, when he tastes someone's blood. It turns black.
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That... sounds really creepy. [Pause a moment, run through what he just said.] But... you remember the things he said?
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[More so the recent ones.]
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He's thinking about it again now, which is something he's been hoping to avoid since last night. It's so stupid how it makes him feel; how fast it works him up and tears him apart as if it were real. Over people he's never even met. Pace, pace. Well there was Chouji, but he was the only one. In that one. He doesn't think he knew anyone else.
Definitely not the blonde girl. Definitely not the man with the beard, blood pouring into the dirt. No one to cry over, no one to kill over. Just a bad dream.
He feels sick to his stomach.]
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Katara walks up to him and doesn't try to step over to see his face. But she gently places a hand on his shoulder.]
And I thought my dreams were bad.
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It's fine. It's not like it was anyone important. I'll get over it.
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