Nineteenth Prophecy: Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend [Video]

[feel_nevermore]

[The feed switches on. Raven is sitting by the lake, staring at the water. The sun is setting behind the horizon. It's almost completely gone. Perfect date setting. Raven talks quietly as if someone was there with her.]

It's the first time you've ever stood me up, Harry. [A slight smirk.] ...And I can't even blame you for it.

[She picks up the PCD and looks just as impassible as always.]

For those who knew him, my boyfriend, Harry Potter is not here anymore.

And it seems that Spike has been sent back too. So if anyone else needs something to bleach their hair, just ask me. I'd hate to see the solution I prepared for him go to waste.

[And she cuts the feed. See Rei? She's learning. It doesn't hurt any less but at least she's getting better at hiding it.]


[Private video to Horst]
We could meet tonight at the bar? If you need to feed. Or whatever.

Comments

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Usagi. [Usagi knows how this feels. Raven remembers that day when Mamoru had left and what she told her.]

He was needed in his world, so... it's for the best.

[Video]

[buntails.livejournal.com]

[How many times can she keep saying it, and mean it? With Haruka gone, too...]

Mm. Will you be alright?

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

I will. [She has to.]

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

I'll do anything I can, if you need help. Or if you want company.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[And that's when she notices Usagi's look and tone. She would have realized sooner if her own pain wasn't kind of blurring her senses right now.] You look pretty down yourself. Is there something wrong?

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

No, it's good. Haruka-san was able to go home. I'm just, feeling a little selfish about it.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

All of our feelings are selfish to some extent. It's in their nature and there's nothing we can do about it.

I'm sorry about Haruka, Usagi.

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

[She almost says 'I'll see her again' when she realizes how selfish that would be in the face of Raven and Harry's different worlds.]

Mm. Thank you. And if you want to get together sometime, to have something to do, I think it'd be nice.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

I'd like that. [A small smirk.] You still how me a spar.

[A pause.] You know... I've kept that recording on that day at the lake. [When you sneaked upon them and outed them.] I think I owe you thanks after all.

[Video]

[buntails.livejournal.com]

We can do it soon. Just tell me when. I want to.

And I'm glad you have it to remember him by.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Maybe next week. If the next event is as harmless as the previous was. ...I wouldn't want to make it too easy for you. [Or too hard. Her feelings are suppressed right now but she knows she'd be rough if she sparred with Usagi today.]

I have a lot of things to remember him by. [But this is one of the sweetest... in retrospect.] We could watch it together one day. [Raven knows Usagi likes watching old recordings of Mamoru, so maybe she'd like that.]

[Video]

[buntails.livejournal.com]

I'd like that, if you want to.

I'm sorry about spying on you that time, though. I got carried away.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

I do.

[A slight smirk.] That you did. But I guess I did to... Throwing you into the lake like that. So we're even.

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

[She smiles instead of pouting.]

Guess that's true. Unless I get you in the lake sometime.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[A soft snort.] Now I'd like to see you try, Moon Sailor Usagi. [Deliberately copying Bubbles' way of calling her.]

[Video]

[buntails.livejournal.com]

[She smiles softly.] Come to think of it, I haven't seen Bubbles in awhile. Has she been doing well?

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

I haven't see her much either. Only a few times over the PCD. She seemed just like her usual self. [Happy, hyper, bouncy.]

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

Good. I worry about her with everything happening lately.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Little girls are tougher than most people give them credit for. And Bubbles is, well, Bubbles.

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

Bubbles is amazing. She's very strong. But it can't be easy.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder whether or not she realizes what's really going here. ...It's probably for the best if she doesn't.

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

I think it protects her.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

Hopefully it stays that way.

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[buntails.livejournal.com]

We'll all make sure it does. [Funny to think of; a year ago, the girls fought hard to protect Usagi's own innocence.

Well. That means even more, it's time for her to protect someone else's now.]

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[Raven nods.] You'll probably be better at that than me.

[Raven has long lost her innocence, or so she believes. Usagi was very innocent when Raven met her but she seems a lot more mature since she was brought back here for the second time.]