003 | believe me |

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

[ Wherever you are in your dreams tonight, you'll notice a particularly odd looking blue box with a man standing outside of it. His hands are in his pockets as he leans against it, grinning, looking at the landscape of the dream, which is fashioned to your liking. A city, hills, perhaps even just an open field or even a ship at sea. Tonight, the dream is shaped to your liking! ]


(( ooc: If we've talked things for the event this month, feel free to throw it in the subject! otherwise, no-event Eleven post. :D ))

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[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

[ He follows after her, leaning over the computers and trying not to touch them. IT IS VERY HARD. ]

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Well, look at them. They're all shiny and computery. And inviting.]

Even my hand-held computer can't match this one.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

That's because it's hand-held!

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Partially, yes; but it's still a very impressive model, which means calling this one more powerful means this one is pretty amazing.]

I don't come here often now.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

You have better things to do?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Not that. Just... things to do somewhere else. There's no longer a Mercury Kingdom for this castle to protect.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Therefore making it an unimportant relic.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Her eyes narrow. She doesn't appreciate her castle being belittled.]

This place still has power of its own. And, it's mine.

[That's all it needs to be important to her: She'd never give up a power always meant to be hers by right, or a place that's hers alone where she can go when she wants to run away have that time to herself.]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Then why do you let it fall into ruin?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[The simple words are a slap in the face, but of course she deflects the blame to her favorite scapegoat:]

The Mercury Kingdom was destroyed by the Moon Princess. Like everything else.

And humans from Earth couldn't come here that easily. I didn't even know about it myself, until I learned about the rest of our past in the nexus.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

That's no excuse.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Really, Doctor? Really? Insulting her in her own home, while expecting her to have taken care of things she didn't even know about?]

I hate being treated so high-handedly!

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

[ She knows about it now. ]

You are who you are.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

I am the Princess Mercury. Because of that, this place is whole again, once I learned about its existence. Just like Earth is being renewed.

I'm putting right the things she destroyed. So I don't need lectures from you, who don't even care about that destruction.

[It's fine to destroy the entire world, but the ones who've been left with the burden of fixing it are the wrong ones? It sifts that hatred of Usagi deeper into her all over again: Usagi, who will always be excused no matter what she does and how it hurts others; Ami, who will never be accepted no matter her efforts. ]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Don't think you know what I do and don't care about.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Then saying things like that, what are you trying to do?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

I am trying to remind you of who and what you are.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

I know who I am. I'm the soldier and princess born under the protection of planet Mercury and reborn in the Dark Kingdom to fight.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

To fight for their Kingdom. Not yours.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[It's the truth, of course: she'd been reborn to fight for Kunzite, reborn to open his path to vengeance, reborn to defend the planet that he always belonged to while she was only born here a short nineteen years ago. She'd been reborn to make his version of the war in the past her own.

In a very real way, just fighting isn't any different from just studying. In a very real way, these battles are no different from the princess who only wanted her as a soldier.

With one very large change.]

I like it like this, a chance to let loose.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

For how long?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

And if I say 'until our enemies have disappeared'?

[She knows all too well that this means 'infinitely'. The wars will always continue - even the princess who battled with Galaxia knew that much, was forced to choose between letting that state of affairs continue or ending the future of the galaxy itself. Which was truly worse?]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Then you will find new enemies to fill the gap.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Her chin lifts, and she answers stubbornly, quickly.]

I'm already prepared for that.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Therefore your fight will never end and this place will no longer mean anything.