13th: The Choices of Haruhi Suzumiya

[godbent]

[Voice]

[This post comes up about an hour after the draft announcement and her reaction to it. It's cool, simple, to the point. Whoever wants to run into her will run into her during the course of the next day or two (and feel free to action that!) when she goes about "business as usual." Fur now, she's been training in magic and hand to hand, but neither is going to be efficient here, so-]

Someone teach me how to shoot a gun.

[And who knows, maybe people will reply to her about unrelated garbage too. She's still trembling, sitting on the roof of her house tonight

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[godbent]

Can you help me or not? [He's from a world of magic and warriors and... well, it doesn't bode well in her mind for him being useful]

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[consultmybooks]

If it's an Earth brand pistol, rifle, or shotgun?

Yes, I can.

[Vampires don't die from bullets. People do. It's a distinction that has come up.

He jots down a list of a few models he knows, adding the weapon type in parenthesis.]

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[godbent]

[Models? She doesn't know- she frowns, and snorts]

Guess it doesn't matter what world it is - America's full of guns.

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[consultmybooks]

...mostly America, yes. I was...impressed and horrified, at times.

Anyway. These are good makes. If you ask for something specific, they seem to have a better time of getting it.

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[godbent]

[...Haha. So that's what it was]

I'm a normal girl, old timer. I just need a pistol just... just in case.

[And it hurts to admit that]

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[consultmybooks]

You'd knock yourself over trying anything bigger.

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[godbent]

No duh.

[And she's never killed any... one. Anything? She doesn't want to start]

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[consultmybooks]

You would be amazed how many teenage girls want a gun without knowing about recoil.

Anyway. If you can get your hands on something before we wind up in the rain forest, I can manage a quick lesson.

[He doesn't doubt that this is the case. And he has all the sympathy in the world for Haruhi, but in a war he can't keep blood off of everyone's hands.

It hurts to admit as much to himself, even now.]

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[godbent]

I've got a trainer, but if they suck I'll call you, or maybe I'll see both of you.

[She doesn't know. Two days. She has less than fifty hours to master the use of a pistol enough to defend herself]

-Which of those models has the least recoil?

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[consultmybooks]

Let me know if you need me, then.

Beretta. Ask for a pistol grip to take even more of the edge of, if you can.

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[godbent]

Anyone ever tell you that you're a scary old guy?

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[consultmybooks]

With remarkable frequency, actually. Can't think why. Faith used to tell me what felt like every other day, and she was once in jail for multiple murders.

[...not exactly comforting, is he, Haruhi?]

Benefits of a Sunnydale education.

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[godbent]

[She laughs at that, weakly. It's not at all comforting. It's not funny either, but she feels like that was supposed to be a joke, so she might as well humor him]

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[consultmybooks]

[It was meant to be a joke. It's how they cope, back home, it feels like that's how they've always coped. Gallows humor on the way to the gallows.

But he knows it doesn't translate well, and he appreciates her humoring him.]

...how are you feeling, Haruhi?

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[godbent]

["How do you think?" "Terrible" "Scared"]

You're not my uncle, you know.

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[consultmybooks]

[That? That does sting. But Giles doesn't show it.]

I didn't intend to suggest that I was.

Just a soon-to-be-fellow-soldier, thanks.

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[godbent]

[ . . . She sighs]

Right, whatever. [...] I'll be fine.

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[consultmybooks]

...I'm sure you will be. But don't be afraid if it takes a while.

Staying safe is a good start. [Staying safe. Not killing people. There is a difference, although not always. But he can tell by her tone that that's not what she's after, and so he won't say as much.]

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[godbent]

[...]

What about a tazer?

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[consultmybooks]

...much less training required.

[Much less lethality involved.] Requires you be closer to your target than a pistol, but I'm not sure how much difference that would make in a rain forest. Same for any mechanical difficulties.

It's worth looking in to.

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[godbent]

I actually meant those tazer-guns. Whatever they're called - the ones with the eletric wire things.

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[consultmybooks]

I know what you meant - all Tasers can be ranged.

Maximum range of thirty five feet for standard late twentieth and early twenty first century models.

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[godbent]

...

I wonder if I can requisition a Star Trek phaser.

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[consultmybooks]

[...give him a second to remember "Star Trek"...Buffy's explained to him once or twice.]

You'd be better off asking McCoy about something like that.

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[godbent]

Well duh that-

[...wait there's- ...Shaking that off]

I meant if they'd let me.