Week 5

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Week 5

[It's been five weeks (since you looked at me) and with the deaths of Shadow and Rukia, the group that was initially 20 strong has dwindled down to ten. Ten people in the span of a month and, even with the Overseers seeming increase in empathy for the remaining Champions, there is no end in sight for the Champion Excellence Program.

And again at 7 am on Sunday the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning. After the initial wake-up call there is no new floor announcement this week.

And again the Champions are awakened they have regained one new memory from the ones they've lost. Starting again on Sunday, as well, Jamie and Bolton will be back to their usual office hours in their usual locations.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 5, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[tasteslikesurvival]

Right. No one is.

[She's... She's got her own issues to work out but she's certain of one thing. That no one is going to suffer this week. She'll make sure of it.]

[cyan_maid]

[...That includes you too, Kurumi. Right?]

...I'm sorry. I...I've been all worked up about this, and yet...I'm sure there are worse secrets. [She attempts to smile.] This is silly of me.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Of course it does.]

And I'm sure there's worse ones than mine. Yours is more important than mine. Yet here I am, raking old coals.

[cyan_maid]

No - no, yours is devastating and unfair, and...and it's just as bad as mine.

[Jane could be targeted by the others for not acting, for not doing enough, for not setting right what was wrong when she could. Kurumi could get killed by someone who got too scared - especially if it had been in the beginning, when they barely knew each other. They both have big targets on their backs.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

Yeah, it's unfair but they already practically put a mark on me with this stupid Champion title. I can handle everyone else finding out.

[In the beginning there were far more threats to her. Margulis, Seth...] Seth's gone. He won't experiment on me. Margulis won't do it for the greater good. Togami will just be an asshole but I can handle that.

[cyan_maid]

Not everyone is smart enough to figure out what the word means - and I certainly wouldn't have guessed the context.

[You look like you need a hand on yours, now, slowly rubbing the back. We need to warm you up, Kurumi.] I will absolutely punch him in the face if he says a single thing about it.

[tasteslikesurvival]

But it's why I can handle it if the people here knew about it.

[She accepts it with a sigh. She was in a better position than Jane on that point.] I'd kick him in the groin. I'm not worried about the people here finding out. It's the Club back home. I lied to them and said the medicine was working.

[cyan_maid]

Oh...

[Jane tries not to bite her lip. That's...difficult. If people back home found out about what's going on here...well, Jane trusts her friends would at least hear her out, like Kurumi's done. But even if they do get upset, she can't do a thing about it until she's with everyone again. It's better not to think about it. But Kurumi doesn't have that luxury.]

...Is there nothing that can help, back home? Nothing that can...really make a difference?

[tasteslikesurvival]

No. ...I had ran away from them so they'd be spared it.

[There. She's a coward and now Jane knows it. The rest of the Club had went through hell with her and she threw that trust away like an old toy.] Sorry. I didn't want to make this about me.

[cyan_maid]

No...no, it's okay. I-It's not good for either of us to keep these things bottled up.

[Don't you pull this shit Kurumi, Jane knows where the bottled feelings road leads and it sucks.]

I don't think...anyone could blame you for being scared, or not wanting your friends to know...on top of so much else.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Haaah.

[Kurumi got up out of her chair, stretching.] You're right, Jane. You know what? Why don't we go to the garden?

[cyan_maid]

[...She has a feeling she hasn't convinced Kurumi of anything at all. Only Jake English is that easy to bolster. Jane gets up, pushing the chair in after her.]

Ah, sure...lead the way.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[What do you mean? You totally convinced her.] It's not too far, since it's on the roof and this is the third floor.

[Aaand here we are. A very lovely roof-top vegetable garden. Lots of tomato plants and really most things that could grow in this enviroment.]

Rii-san took great care of it.

[Totally not mentioning the cross, though.]

[cyan_maid]

[Lies, problems are never solved just like that. Not by alien juju magic, and not by words. But Jane can't press if Kurumi won't keep going. That would be cruel.]

...It's a lovely garden. She did a good job. [A pause.] Between this and the greenhouse, I...keep wondering if I should pick up my old botanical pursuits again. I used to have a garden when I was little.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Certainly leaving it be for the moment won't do any harm. Most certainly not.]

Yeah. She's a great gardener. [Too bad it all burned.] Y'know what? That's not a bad idea.

[cyan_maid]

Mm. It's not like...you know, a little robot comes in and plants more vegetables for us. At least, I don't think so.

[But after Friday she's going to dearly hope that's the case.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

Those robots seem to do everything. Still, probably wouldn't hurt to try.

[So will she. Except not because she'll be dead.]