25th: The Defense of Haruhi Suzumiya

[godbent]

[Voice]

Okay, so listen up, everyone. There's a new girl in town who I want you all to recognize and keep something in mind when dealing with her!

[And then to the book, she holds up a picture of Mikuru (tpdd). Taken with the journal and ripped out - namely, it's just her making tea in a cute pink yukata. Something simple and non-invasive for the time being]

This is her - Mikuru Asahina. She's cute, right? Of course she is!


[And then this face]

If any of you guys are harassing her or hitting on her or whatever and I hear about it I'm reserving the right to pepper stray or taser you. You got that? I'm serious too, don't you doubt that for a second.

[...Okay no with that done with back to smiling! She laughs where briefly before-]

Now! If you want to see her or you just want to helped out - particularly all you New Feathers, bonus points if you have something interesting to show us - recall that the SOS-Brigade is open to taking requests even now. Now that the holidays are over and the winters settling in on us, now's the prime time to do it! Got some stuff which needs investigating? Some emotions you can't deal with, some other inane task we can mend when it comes to interpersonal issues?! Sign right up! the HQ's right in the center of town, you can't miss it.

[... Hm. Yeah that should do it Request post for the Brigade is here, just recall!]

-And for today anyone coming to see Mikuru I'm screening first.

[EDIT: For the record if anyone wants action threads with Mikuru (or Haruhi! or both!) for whatever reason both are at the HQ right now.]

Comments

Voice;

[menial]

...What's "maybe" supposed to mean, exactly?

['I hope she took good care of her.']

Voice;

[godbent]

...It was a while ago, okay!

voice;

[menial]

Okay, okay, whatever.

...Guess it must be kind of weird for you, huh?

voice;

[godbent]

What do you mean.

voice;

[menial]

Just what I said. If you've been here so long without her around, it must be weird to have her back all of a sudden.

voice;

[godbent]

. . . I guess you could say that.

voice;

[menial]

She's from around the same point in time that you are, at least.

['Well, if you don't count the fact that she's not from the same point in time in our actual universe. Funny, those are words I never pictured saying to Haruhi.']

That should make it easier, right?

voice;

[godbent]

Yeah... I guess so.

[But that point was a long time ago. Plus additional memories between there... hnngh]

voice;

[menial]

['...Yeah, that clearly doesn't satisfy her.'

Making a slight logical step:]

...Someday you should probably tell me about all the stuff that's happened to you here.

voice;

[godbent]

[ / :I ]

Yeah, maybe.

voice;

[menial]

['Sounds like a no to me. I don't want to go after anything I don't have to know, to be honest, but the more I hear about it, the more I feel like if I want to get to the bottom of this place, and to the bottom of this business with Haruhi, I'll have to find out.']

...Do you have some time to do that?

voice;

[godbent]

Don't go orderi- .... I guess I do. Later.

voice;

[menial]

['Right, because a question is an order...']

Uh, okay.

['When's "later"? But should I push it?']

voice;

[godbent]

... I can show you something, tonight.

voice;

[menial]

Okay, sure.

['...Haruhi sounds like Nagato, Asahina-san, or Koizumi before they had conversations with me. Hopefully this won't go in that direction. Cause I don't really need to hear about three, or four, or seven years ago from her, too.']

voice;

[godbent]

Yeah uh... meet me at my house. We can do it there.

voice;

[menial]

All right. See you, Haruhi.

[godbent]

[AND SHE SIGNS OFF. To let a lot of people meet Mikuru and then wait for Kyon that night. Or well, wait in her house, make everyone dinner, then wait]

[menial]

[Much later, then, he'll be knocking on her door, not without trepidation.]

[godbent]

[There are three other people here, but Haruhi makes sure to answer first. she was sitting in the living room reading a book, so. Door! Open. And come on in]

Yeah, come in.

[menial]

[And so he does come in, glancing at her book and looking around. It's snowing outside tonight, so he brushes it off before entering.]

Yo.

[godbent]

Good. I mean, good you made it. After all...

[She sighs. No, that's awkward. She shakes her head and expecting him to put his coat somewhere and kick off his shoes, she just makes her way over to the center couch (worth noting is she has a TV and DVD set up, and his snowflake gift is on the far side of the room on display - basically see here. Anyway. On the table right now, though it doesn't stand out with all the other stuff, is a shoebox with a piece of hand-written paper on top]

[menial]

Right.

[To save her any further awkwardness.

After following decorum, he steps into that room, also. He notes the snowflake with some rather complicated mixed feelings, and he goes over to where she is.]

So what's up here?

[godbent]

You wanted some explanation, remember?

[menial]

Yeah, I know.

['But sometimes normal people engage in pleasantries before they get started, Haruhi.']

Okay, go ahead.