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[Fic] A Liar's Smile

2008-07-16T21:10:09Z

TITLE: A Liar's Smile
AUTHOR: hobbit_hunter
RAITING: PG
CHARACTERS: C.C., Zero, Rolo, Duo, Maki, Kyo and Marianne
WARNINGS: C.C. Death, RP Foreshadow
SETTING: OotBK's base after Duo's return
SUMMARY: They never notice her. They never pay attention to her. They never give her a second glance. That is why they miss who she is.

She rested her head against the cool cement. Her hands lay idly by her sides as she looked out over the city. Next to her lay the glass door that separated her from the merriment inside. Her head tilted, her golden eyes looking inside the room. The center, the core, the heart of the Black Knights all sat around one table laughing and joking. Even Nunnally was there. Her eyes slid over to Zero who stood not making a sound.

"Don't be silly, I don't belong there." She spoke as if to herself. Her eyes trailed back up to the sky above her. "..Aa, I remember that day. The day the three of us sat together and planned for what was to come." She paused.

"'It will be for Nunnally's sake'? Don't be like that, you know what the Black Knights are really for... Marianne."

She laughed bitterly, shutting her eyes tightly with a pained smile. "Of course I'm fine - I'm always fine. You know that as well as anyone else.... aa, just as 'fine' as you and the Butterfly Witch. Noticed? Them? No. They never notice. They're not supposed to notice. But you always did, you always do. It's rather annoying sometimes."

She raised her hand just a little. Her fingers twitched involuntary as her arm and hand gave a spasm. It traveled up her arm and through the muscles in her neck, causing her to wince and bite her lip. It settled down to a continual twitching just as her legs had done.

"Just another test." She said to the air around her. "Just another death. That's nothing new to me, Marianne, you shouldn't be so concerned all the time." She paused and felt a sharp tug inside her chest. "Ha... look at what your boys are doing to me... making me feel all sorts of useless things again. You're cruel, you know... aa of course you know. That's why you did what you did."

Her eyes closed as she forced her mind to go back in time, to the times she remembered. A small smile appeared on her lips as her mind drifted to the times she spent with the two women years ago. Planning for the future, sharing their pain, remembering what it was like to feel alive. Distantly she could feel the water lining her eyelashes from the emotions that welled up inside... but she wasn't sure if they were from happiness or from pain.

The feeling of her limbs and her body came back to her almost instantly. Her back arched and her eyes snapped open before they could focus, her mouth opening for a sound of pain but nothing came out. She gave a few painful breaths and coughs before forcing herself to sit up. Her bangs covered her eyes as she looked to the side.

"Why didn't you tell us?!" Rolo jabbed at her instantly.

She tilted her head back to look at the ceiling. So she was inside now... that meant someone had noticed. "Would you have been able to do anything to stop it?"

"..A-a... n-no..."

"That's why." She said flatly. She elegantly swung her legs over the side of the couch and stood up as if nothing had happened.

"Still." Zuko grabbed her by the arm, forcing her back down onto the couch. "We need to know what weapons they have - and you're the tester. You need to tell us exactly what they're testing on you so we can make sure no else dies."

Her eyes darted up to him. Typical of him, always to find her when she was trying to hide. He glared back down at her with his own golden eyes and scared face. Her eyes moved to the other side. "You saw what it did."

"It went for the nervous system." Rolo stated flatly, turning to to the others. "A direct assult but it took time to unfold. A time bomb inside to destroy the link between muscles and the mind."

"You mean a weapon directed at Qualifiers themselves?" Zuko looked at Rolo.

"Well they're as screwed up as the rest of the military." Maki said flatly... then paused. "No offense, Kyo."

"Kyo knows." The blond girl smiled, standing beside Zero.

"So then what are we gonna do? Just gonna sit around and wait for them to nuke our Qualifiers? I dunno about you guys but I kind of like my Frame." Duo spoke up as he waved his hat around.

"No. We obviously need to go and destroy it or get it on our side." Zuko folded his arms. "That Stark might know how to counteract it."

"I doubt it." Maki pointed her chopsticks at him. "The guy makes explosions, not smiles."

"Well they make him smile." Duo retorted.

Zero walked past them all, standing in front of her. Her eyes met his gaze - staring through the helmet that covered his mismatched eyes. He stood silent for a moment as she smiled.

"A liar's smile." He said to her.

"It's because I'm C.C." She said back. She tilted her head back as he turned away shaking his head. 'Look at what you did to your boy, Marianne.'

There was a long pause before she smiled again at the woman's answer.

'I'm still proud of him.'

OIC: in ur schoolz teaching ur studentz

2008-07-03T08:08:12Z

[OOC: Your resident Jibba needs to test out this muse, come help her >:\]

*Here, have a literature teacher taking his lessons very seriously. Very seriously. Wait, were you just now dozing off? Were you not paying attention? Well, too bad for you. You see all those unidentified objects? THEY'RE ALL FLYING TO YOU. Good luck avoiding them!*

PAY ATTENTION, DAMN IT! If you're not going to learn, why bother coming to school!?

OOC NOTICE.

2008-07-01T02:01:20Z

As said here, I'll be on a three week long vacation, starting from a family reunion and then from there, to Missouri and then to Arizona, then back up here. It'll take most of July, so I'll be back around July 25th or somewhere around there.

I love all of you and I'll miss each of you! ♥

voice post /o/

2008-06-27T04:57:08Z

*Help HH get CC down perfectly.

C.C. is laying on the sofa in your room. That's right. YOUR ROOM. Snuggling a pillow on your couch. That's right. YOUR COUCH.*

Dropping

2008-06-25T22:29:28Z

Sorry guys, I'm dropping out of the game. Maybe when I'm less busy I'll come back.

♥ ~

2008-06-07T06:21:31Z

For future plot purposes~ ♥

What do your characters think of Yuuko? How do they see her? A bitch, a witch, a mother, a lover, a mysterious woman, a babe, CLAMP's need to make more big breasted characters that smoke? Write it here!

It can be done with each character account or from the mun account and list the characters. Either way is fine for HH ♥

When boredom strikes!

2008-05-22T02:46:09Z

*Spinzaku's straight through the fourth wall*

The mun is bored and I can kick down walls better than chuck norris. LET US CONVERSE. I'm kind of in a limbo place...no beach or bikini's though...mm...sakura in a-...ANYWAY.

*He doesn't really have a gun, it's just spinzaku was a product of the standoff and i have no more iconspace*

In... The Twilight Zone.

2008-05-14T07:53:59Z

Picture if you will, a hypothetical situation of sorts. A world with no boundaries between story lines, without walls, without rules, and least of all without proper function. You find yourself dislocated from the rest of time and space it seems... free from everything you knew. For everything you know is the opposite in... The Twilight Zone.

(OOC: It looks like the Doctor broke space-and-time, again! Post with any character account you have in any rp! Maybe you can find your way out of the Twilight Zone? Maybe not. THREAD HOPPING IS A-OKAY. YOU WILL ALSO RECEIVE A NARRATION POST. Oh and some people from all_my_sees leaked as well :Db)

STOP LETTING MY PLAYER GET BORED!

2008-05-10T05:43:40Z

She beats up on me when you do! DDD:

[Product of boredom.]

Welcome

2008-05-04T04:57:03Z

Welcome to the OOC / OIC community for Ingakankei City (aka I CAN'T SPELL IT THANKS HINO). Here you can have random OIC threads, have OOC discussion threads of current events in the RP, post ideas or wants for future plots, or pretty much just rant about canon.

And of course random threads about Spinzaku.

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