[She reaches up and brushes her fingers against his cheek with a tiny, genuine smile, because he's right. She has him, and her friends here that she has left, and even if they don't remember her here, she knows Ken and all the rest do remember her back home. So it should be fine, shouldn't it? She'd been ready to go back then. Minato still feels that way, she thinks.
When she'd first arrived, she'd just expected that any day would be her last, so why not have fun while she was here? Make friends like she always did, but not let any of them get too close, so it wouldn't hurt so much when she did leave. But the longer she spent here, the harder that became; somehow, it's different than her time with SEES. Everyone in SEES had been counting on her as a leader -- all of her other social links had been depending on her to help them with something, or they were there to teach her something, always some kind of loss. The people here were different. Scott was different.
Her fingertips brush lightly over his lips, as if that gesture alone could make him smile. She doesn't want him to cry because of her.]
Just talk to me? [It's a quiet request as she cups his cheek and smiles up at him.] I just want to listen to you talk. About anything. Stuff at home, stuff here in Aldrip... whatever.
[She's too tired to want to carry a conversation herself, and maybe now for the first time, she understands why Shinji -- her Shinji -- had wanted her to talk about all the mundane stuff going on in her life, all the way back then. There's something nice about hearing about someone's normal life when everything seems to be too difficult in one's own.]
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[She reaches up and brushes her fingers against his cheek with a tiny, genuine smile, because he's right. She has him, and her friends here that she has left, and even if they don't remember her here, she knows Ken and all the rest do remember her back home. So it should be fine, shouldn't it? She'd been ready to go back then. Minato still feels that way, she thinks.
When she'd first arrived, she'd just expected that any day would be her last, so why not have fun while she was here? Make friends like she always did, but not let any of them get too close, so it wouldn't hurt so much when she did leave. But the longer she spent here, the harder that became; somehow, it's different than her time with SEES. Everyone in SEES had been counting on her as a leader -- all of her other social links had been depending on her to help them with something, or they were there to teach her something, always some kind of loss. The people here were different. Scott was different.
Her fingertips brush lightly over his lips, as if that gesture alone could make him smile. She doesn't want him to cry because of her.]
Just talk to me? [It's a quiet request as she cups his cheek and smiles up at him.] I just want to listen to you talk. About anything. Stuff at home, stuff here in Aldrip... whatever.
[She's too tired to want to carry a conversation herself, and maybe now for the first time, she understands why Shinji -- her Shinji -- had wanted her to talk about all the mundane stuff going on in her life, all the way back then. There's something nice about hearing about someone's normal life when everything seems to be too difficult in one's own.]