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Ayanami Rei † 綾波レイ ([personal profile] second_first) wrote2010-12-28 10:32 am

014 | Action

[It's the middle of winter. It's cold outside.

So Rei is swimming inside. Now that the hippopotamus is gone, the pool is free again.

While she's swimming back and forth the length of the pool, she left her tape player sitting near the edge, where she can see it and reach it easily.]

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lithuania checks on the pool every once in a while, to see if someone is there. He doesn't want to be indecent, so he always has to wait for times when nobody, or at least no women, are present.

So no swimming this time. But he hasn't seen Rei since the asylum event, so he'd like to say something.]


Hey.

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rei looks up at him, treading water at the edge of the pool. After a moment, she grabs onto the edge and pulls herself out, mindless of the water dripping off of her, or of the fact that she might be embarrassing him with her almost-nakedness.]

Hello.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He averts his eyes and sits down with his back to her to give her the chance to cover herself properly. He knows that a lot of the women here think differently, but he at least wants to offer decency when he can. Every woman deserves that, no matter what they make of it.]

How are you?

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Given that Rei is used to standing around naked or in skin tight garments, she thinks nothing of her current state of undress. She does get a towel and start to dry her hair.]

I'm well. [A pause, while she realizes she's supposed to ask him in return.] You?

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine.

...If I did anything strange when we were at that asylum, I'm sorry.

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
No. [Nothing stranger than anyone else.]

It wasn't bad.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He stares at the wall for a while and then nods, sighing softly.]

No, it wasn't.

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rei sits down next to him with the towel wrapped around her shoulders.]

...Unhappy?

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-31 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
I ....had something there that I cannot ever have in reality. I'm trying to not think about it too much, but...

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-31 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Me and Poland had children of our blood.

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2010-12-31 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [She doesn't really have a response for that.]

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Even though they were only an illusion, it... it was nice. Despite everything.

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's quiet for a moment, arms wrapped around her legs.]

Adopt.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It would not be the same. [Nations are nations, and humans grow up and die much too fast.]

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a distinction she hasn't made and probably wouldn't understand anyway.]

No.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-04 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...Are you human? [It's a fleeting thought, and in this place, does not seem intrusive.]

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2011-01-05 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a long pause before she answers.]

Maybe.




No.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-05 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
Can your kind have children?

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2011-01-05 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. [She doubts it though.]

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
You never thought about it?

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You seem old enough to have children.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-07 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
But it is no ption for you?

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Why?

[She definitely does not look like a nun.]

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
You still have a chance in this place.

[identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's quiet a moment.]

Jack calls me mom.