[She could say it again: This is different. It isn't the answer she'd expect at all. She'd have expected some nonsense speech about how it was always important, when every fact would contradict that.
She hadn't expected the admission. The surprised look that crosses her face is entirely unguarded, and thus sincere.
She doesn't want to listen to Usagi again. She knows where it leads: Usagi, happy and loved by everyone no matter what horrors she commits or what sickening realities she learns, while Ami has only darkness and blood on her hands she only wishes she could shrug off that easily and still know how to smile.
Except right now is a far cry from that bright enthusiasm. Except she knows it only takes another twist for Usagi to run and play and be happy, happiness Mercury hasn't been allowed since setting foot in the Dark Kingdom.
She knows, she knows all of it in her mind and he's so right when he calls her hatred shallow if a moment and a few empty words can make her want to answer differently. Her lowered eyes snap open.]
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She hadn't expected the admission. The surprised look that crosses her face is entirely unguarded, and thus sincere.
She doesn't want to listen to Usagi again. She knows where it leads: Usagi, happy and loved by everyone no matter what horrors she commits or what sickening realities she learns, while Ami has only darkness and blood on her hands she only wishes she could shrug off that easily and still know how to smile.
Except right now is a far cry from that bright enthusiasm. Except she knows it only takes another twist for Usagi to run and play and be happy, happiness Mercury hasn't been allowed since setting foot in the Dark Kingdom.
She knows, she knows all of it in her mind and he's so right when he calls her hatred shallow if a moment and a few empty words can make her want to answer differently. Her lowered eyes snap open.]
Sometimes 'late' is 'too late'.