deadly_legacy | ✜004 [voice]

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✜004 [voice]

[Private to Allen Walker, but sadly very hackable due to fail skills]

...Allen? If you aren't busy can I talk to you about something?

[end private]

Lavi, Yuuki, are you all right after yesterday?

Lelouch, it's safe to go back in the kitchen. [Little smile. She might have been overly protective yesterday after all her friends started getting hurt.]

I hope everyone else is well.

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[He smiles, sadly, fingers gripping at the tea cup.]

Me too. I wonder...how they would live if they weren't controlled by the Earl. I wonder if I could play cards with Tyki. And maybe even play games with Road...innocent ones. It's hard to fight them. They're humans.

...You know, Road told me other things about you too.

Huh? More bad things?

Well, she did say she likes you...and that she wants to kill you...

But she said something about your father. ...That you brought him back?

That's not surprising. She did stab my eye that one ti-...

Ma..na..

She...she told you about Mana...?

[Feels bad] She didn't say much. I just... I thought you should know that she'd told me something like that. And then she suggested I should ask about your scar.

But you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, Allen. I'm sure they are private things.

It's...I suppose since you've already been told...

[He's not mentally willing to say these things...but he does anyway.]

Mana. He adopted me from the streets when I was a kid. He was a real father to me...he died when I was still young. And when the Earl came, he said he could bring Mana back...and...I just wanted my dad back, you know? I was stupid. I agreed to the contract, but it only brought Mana back as an akuma, a killing machine...and it needed a body. It...Mana tried to kill me...he scratched my eye and cursed it, and that's the scar I have...I...I just reacted. My arm invocated because there was Innocence in it. And it destroyed Mana. I didn't mean...I tried to stop...I-it..It happened fast.

He was already dead...but in a way I killed him.

[And he looks down into lukewarm tea, biting his tongue because he can't even look at Euphie now. He said he, he had to say it, she already knew . Even so. She knows more than he was ever willing to have her know...Dammit Noah...]

[Eyes open wide in sympathy more than surprise.] Allen... [She reaches out and takes his hand. Hers is colder than it should be, but she doesn't worry about that.] It's not your fault.

I'm sure Mana wouldn't want to hurt you. You saved him from doing that.

[His arms tense, and he tries to pull his hands back very slowly and slightly. He doesn't want to hurt her feelings, just...He doesn't have gloves on...]

I'm fine, Miss Euphie, but thank you. I'm sorry, but could we not talk about Mana? That is...very personal to me. I don't want to talk about that day. I prefer my memories of him be of the good father that he was...not an akuma.

[Nods] I keep bringing up painful memories for you. I'm sorry. [She withdraws her hand since it is making him tense rather than comforting him.]

I feel like I should tell you secrets about myself.

It's okay. You knew parts...you might as well have heard the entire stories. [He just hopes you don't judge him for it.]

That's unnecessary. You don't owe me anything.

[Isn't judging you. Actually just feels closer to you.]

Maybe not...

[Thoughtful pause as she tries to work up the courage to say this to someone who doesn't already know or isn't going through the same thing. And in person too. Just when she thinks she'll just change the topic and move on, she forces the words out.]

I died.

...Died.

[He frowns.]

I said you didn't have to share anything. I...don't care to know. Alive or not, you're here.

...

[She looks down at her tea, not sure how she feels about that reaction.]

I wouldn't worry about it. Please don't feel you have to tell me these things.

[He doesn't want to know because he doesn't want to acknowledge what Euphie knows about him.]

It's getting late, Miss Euphie. Why don't we talk later?

Edited 2010-01-11 09:33 (UTC)

[Just a little...confused and, yes, hurt here. Is he offended that she told him or that she hadn't told him sooner or just that she was? Or maybe it was all her questions. She didn't mean to push him. She just wanted to warn him that Tyki was saying those things really. ...And she let her curiosity get the better of her too.

Finally, she nods and stands up.] Thank you for the tea, Allen.

[He still likes you Euphie. ;;;; It'll take time. He stands after her and opens the door for her.]

Will you be okay going home? Do you want me to walk you back?

[Would rather be ... well, if not alone, she needs a break from you at least. She just needs to sort out what just happened. But polite exchanges she can do. She can't really be fake, but she can go through the motions. She's a princess after all.] I'm sure I'll be fine. It's not that far.

Please tell Lavi I'm sorry I missed him. [Or don't if you want to pretend this just never happened...]

If you need anything, call. And I'll tell him you said hello.

[He smiles. Fake, of course. This is sad, and awkward, and he's sort of angry. Yeah. Angry, because he feels driven into a corner. He's going to talk to Road and Tyki. Oh, you bet he will.]

Please have a goodnight, Miss Euphi-oh. Um. If you don't mind. Please don't tell anyone what you've heard. If it's possible, just don't think about it at all.

Goodnight. Take care.

[She doesn't try to smile back, but she does her best not to frown either. When he asks her not to tell, she finds herself thinking about him and not herself again.] I promise, Allen. [That much she could do. After all she'd kept Lelouch's secret from Suzaku and Cornelia.]

Goodnight. Sleep well. [And off she goes.]

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