moonstrualcycle | no running in the halls!

Haven't looked.

[ Holy shit she's not recoiling or anything. Has caught-up Lea been obnoxious enough to get her used to it since everything settled down? Thank you, future self, or something. She's a little curious about what kind of bizarre dream Isa's having, but dismisses it quickly. ]

Don't think it was that long. You slept?

[ As if I wasn't being a creep for half an hour. Pay no mind to how awake I sound. ]

[not used to it so much as this happened to be one of the times when her immediate reaction wasn't "holy shit there are feels in my heart, i have to be not near the things causing the feels". but yes, caught-up Lea has also helped with that.]

I feel slightly less wiped, so I must've.

[now she's shifting away from the arm, but only to do a good full-body stretch with another yawn, and not because omg stop touching me. and Lea often sounds awake, this is not unusual, or creepy.]

[ God. She's like a cat. They're both like cats, just in different ways. Regretfully, Isa's shifting does make her take the one arm back. She still has the other arm under one or both of them, so it's probably totally dead and unfeeling right now. Lea is not looking forward to when feeling comes back to it, either. ]

I was a little worried you might be gone when I woke up. You know, in case I was dreaming.

[just don't move it at all even slightly and you'll be fine. Isa gives her a sidelong look that's probably unreadable but might have a little skepticism.]

Does that happen around here? But... I understand the feeling. I don't know about you but the first couple of days I had my heart back, it was like watching someone else interact with people, it was so surreal.

[ She shakes her head, staring up at the ceiling. It's embarrassment making her avoid eye contact now. ]

The dreaming thing hasn't happened yet but— creepy sentient world and all that. This place will start fucking with you, it's just a matter of when. I didn't mention all the magic spells that hit people at random. Anyway, it was pretty surreal for me, buuut I didn't have time to think about it until I got here.

[ She shrugs. ]

Probably for the best.

You seemed to be doing pretty well the last time you saw me before I ended up here. Fended me of with a kid under your arm and everything.

[she doesn't mean that in any sort of mean-spirited way, either. it was impressive, and admirable. but magic spells, you say? she's imagining like, the kind used by a ton of the people she hangs out with now. Donald is fucking scary, let me tell you. shit hadn't kicked off by then but surely the goon squad was in the area when Donald nuked Terranort off the face of the planet for like five minutes, idk, i forget a lot of what happened there. Isa does too.]

Like I said, no time to think about what was going on. I just had to act.

[ Christ, it's true. Also hey, wait, she breaks her gaze from the ceiling to stare at Isa, a little deadpan: ]

Why'd you come at me when that happened? I mean, I know why, I came in and screwed up all that careful planning. But why you?

[now it's Isa avoiding eye contact.]

Because Xehanort willed it. I was little more than a shell at that point, to contain part of her essence, except that that really was watching someone else. I saw everything happening but couldn't even twitch on my own. Obviously it was to try and catch you off guard, enough so that you could be overpowered.

[ Yep. She thought that might happen, and it makes her roll completely onto her back and stretch her arms up above her head. Basically she's a noodle. ]

You wouldn't look at me either. Not really. I thought about it later, but I just couldn't figure out what was going through your head.

Nothing charitable, towards you or anyone else present. I didn't get any control over my body until sometime well after that.

[it was a lot of enraged mental screaming, actually. and while she was glad to see Sora get rescued, the fact that it was Lea was horrid because oh my god you idiot. Isa's appreciative of the noodle, however.]

[ Lea regrets asking, a little. She wants to know all of these things, but now that she does, and now that she can picture Isa (or Saix) suffering like that, it's... sickening. Enraging. It makes her hate Xehanort and her group even more. She stays in that position, arms up over her head, body stretched out, only she's not stretching really anymore, and all she's really doing is glaring at the ceiling and thinking of ways to set people on fire. ]

How'd you get it back?

[she can't even tell Lea about the even worse stuff, the subterfuge behind Xehanort's back to get Even in a position where she could do what she needed to, and being a shithead to Lea on the clock tower to make sure she was prepared for what was coming.]

She let me have it back once things were in motion. I could never just walk away, I'd be physically stopped if I tried, so I got used to working within what I'd been asked to do. It was a role to play, just like in the old Organization. The only time she completely controlled me again was when I had to fight you and Sora and Kai and she forced me into berserk and kept me there, for the most part.

[and bless Roxas for noticing, after she arrived, and helping put an end to things quickly. also enjoy those two claymore-wielding people in that fight when you get there, Lea.]

[ Jesus. That sounds horrific. It's worse than any of the shit they 'forced' her to do. Those were just assignments, and at worst it was penalty of death. Not taking away everything like that.

Living through this is going to be horrible as it is, and Lea's going to be so focused on getting her back. ]

Are you gonna move if I hug you?

[she huffs out a laugh and rubs at her scar, which probably only Lea has ever seen her do. it's a nervous habit that shows up when she's worried, or stewing over something.]

No, you dork.

[Isa shouldered a lot of the bullshit so Lea wouldn't have to, i think. it just also lead to the rift between them, and it's unfortunate that it turned into Isa being awful to everyone.]

Look, you got progressively less huggable over the years. We need to reverse that.

[ She has no problems bugging the shit out of her, basically. The scar-touching tugs at her heart a little, and Lea immediately moves over to force her into a hug. It'll be hard to get out of. ]

[oof. that's fine, she doesn't need to be anywhere, and hugs are nice, she's finding. she seems a bit at a loss as to where to settle her arms, and finally gets them wrapped loosely around Lea.]

It was a defense mechanism against all the bullshit going on at the time.

There's no point now in telling you that you should've talked to me, but... you...

[ h-huff. She's trying not to be emotional, thinking about all the horrible shit Isa went through. Nevermind, she's just going to wiggle into the hug for even more contact, wrapping her arms tighter around Isa and pulling her closer. ]

I should've talked to you, too.

Yes. There were a lot of things that should've happened.

[but you know what Timon says, you gotta put your behind in your past. they have all the time in the world now to sort things out properly and rebuild the friendship. if Lea cries on her that would probably lead to at least a cheek smooch.]

[ She is maybe crying a little, but she's trying not to be visible about it, and it's mostly that silent eye-leaking kind of cry. She feels so bad, and she hasn't had time to feel anything but missing Isa since it happened. This is intense regret, and sadness for what she had to go through.

Her voice is wibbly, but not too much. ]

I'm sorry.

[Lea will get a platonic kiss on top of her stupid hair, then.]

I know. I am too, and the fact that you never forgot about me helps immensely. Having a heart again helps a lot too.

[it's a shame neither of them had the chance to just like, punch Xemnas in the face, that would've been extremely gratifying, and cathartic.]

[ Time to find one here. Also stoooop. She's just gonna get more wibbly, this time out of surprise and happiness because omg Isa's really here and okay but went through a lot of horrible shit. Ugh. She wrenches an arm tighter around Isa, in fact, but it's so she can reach her own face with her long noodle arms and wipe at her eyes. ]

Yeah, well. Not forgetting you should've meant stopping you, too. Ugh. You can't tell anyone what a mess I am. They think I'm cool.

[imagine, just a regular-ass Xemnas who's been here for years, out getting groceries, and suddenly these two run up and hit him or her in the face. also gosh Lea's such a dweeb. Isa laughs a little, tightening her own hug, which is probably enough to make some ribs creak.]

They must not know you very well if they think you're cool.

[ Lea's just going to start frisbee-ing people in the face. They're all nort-related but no one puts that together. ]

Wow. Riku and Axel think I'm cool. Kai might not.

[ Riku does not think she is cool, ftr. ]

Don't tell me I did this back home.

[dryly:]

What, cry on people? Which time should I tell you about? And I doubt Riku thinks you're cool, of all people. I'll believe another you does, though.

Not the time I cried on you, which I'm going to choose to believe happened only once. Speaking of Axel,

[ She pulls back enough that she can look Isa in the eye, because she wants to witness the full realization hit. ]

Kai's married to him.

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