SMASH THAT WALL

[indigo_events]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: May 25 - 27
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
Rating: BUT PLEASE MARK YOUR THREAD CONTENT ACCORDINGLY
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C; and now the big one bc I'm impatient

[soundmind]

[...Back.

This is Johto.

Not just Johto, Ecruteak. Not just Ecruteak, the library that was built after...what was it? Maka's wracking her brain trying to remember but finds the memories are coming back too slowly for her liking. A very large, rather fat shiny Zangoose is at her side placidly staring around him as if he was waiting for his trainer to do something.

We built this together.

Who's we? Maka's certainly not a carpenter, so what does "built it" mean as well?

Coincidentally, a soul pings at her senses causing her to turn back suddenly--who's that? It's just a guy about her age with a regular Zangoose, just--]

[The name comes out of her mouth before her mind catches up.]

Ken!

[Him, and I. We. Together. A boy whom she shared a whole lot of grief and pain with, found one day that she actually loved him. It came back like a flash leaving her unsure of whether she should run and throw herself at Kaneki or stay where she is.

'Oh, she figured it out,' the Pokemon, Tikki, seems to think as he looks in the same direction. 'Hi, big sis. Hi dad.']

Oops time to die

[samsa]

[Kaneki hadn't wanted to leave the bookstore, but the world had other plans, flinging him to a new area. A familiar area, one that had become more like a home to him than Goldenrod in its own right. He almost doesn't linger, wondering just how long he'd be able to stand the mish-mash of bittersweet memories before he needed a change of scenery.

But when Kaneki hears someone call for him, he's absolutely certain that he imagined it. There's no way, even with how crazy things got on weekends like this...he doesn't want to believe that it could be her even for a second, the looming dread of disappointment too great to bear.

It isn't until Rikki suddenly bites down on his ear that he snaps out of it and hisses with pain and turns because she's never done that before-

Oh. So that's why.]

...Maka.

[Rikki huffs, glaring at Maka. For all that she didn't like you...she knows how much he cares, so. He deserves this.]

[soundmind]

[Fuck it. This isn't real, this is some dream, some hallucination, might as well run up and embrace the figment like it's going to disappear again. Like it doesn't have a murderous mongoose acting like a shawl.

One day you were GONE. Where did you GO. Couldn't be home.

Home is here. Home is here.]

[Maka should say something, a clever comment, a huffy jab for keeping her waiting. But she can't muster it, there's only hot tears and trying to catch her breath. It feels like she's been waiting to do this again for so long even though just a moment ago she was in her own world about to go out on some assignment. Peace might have been won but it still needed to be maintained, that was her duty as a Meister.

No, this is her duty. Being a Meister doesn't compare to this.]

I missed you. [It comes out as a gasp. There was a strange feeling of emptiness when she reappeared in this world, couldn't figure out what was missing. Here it is.]

[samsa]

[Yeah. He's...he's there, too. All he can do, really, is catch Maka when she collides with him, her arms around him with enough strength to remind him that even if he disappears again tomorrow, this is really happening.

Who knows if he'll remember.

A different version of him might have hesitated, but he doesn't know. He wraps his arms around Maka and holds her tight, hoping that maybe that will convince her that he doesn't plan on leaving just yet.]

...I missed you too. So much.

[He replies, a muffled whisper that's barely audible against her shoulder. He doesn't even feel it when Rikki quietly dismounts from his shoulder to stand by his feet, a gesture not often seen out of the Pokemon. She seems oddly subdued, willing to step aside for the time being to let them reconnect.]

[soundmind]

[Things Maka Albarn swore to herself she'd never do: Cry over a boy.

Things Maka Albarn is doing contrary to that: Crying over a boy.

But...it doesn't count if it was for a different reason than she thought it would be, right?

Yeah. Doesn't count. Come on, Maka, straighten yourself up. Breathe. Breathing is the most important part. Do it for him.]

Well...at least we're in agreement there. Too bad we're also being gigantic messes in public.

[Awww, isn't it cute! Tikki chirps, unheard by anyone but other Pokemon. They're still leaking though is that okay?]

[samsa]

[Rikki looks over at Tikki with tired eyes.

Just let them get it out. They will be fine.

Kaneki, for his part, can't help but laugh a little nervously as he moves to wipe at his eyes with the heel of his hand.]

H-hey, well...it's for a good reason, if anyone asks...

[Don't mind him if he just holds onto you for a little longer.]