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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 0:05:30 GMT -5
After one of maybe a dozen routine examinations since her release in November, Cerise decided something altogether odd. She went to the ward where the I2 victims were and decided to talk to one. She popped her head in the room of a brown-haired man who was alone at the moment.
"Are you awake, sir? My name is Cerise, and I was blown to bits in November... I thought it would help... because they tell you they understand, but they don't. I understand, though. It happened to me."
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 8:09:53 GMT -5
"Kid, Will's asleep but if you want to talk to me, I suppose that could be alright with me... you sound like you got an interesting story."
Yet again, it was a situation that despite all of the suspicion, and perhaps because of it, Juliet had not left Will's side for a moment. Emrys had come to visit, and had certainly stayed as much as she could, but she still had her duties as a doctor. But, that didn't change the fact that Emmy and Juls had basically set up camp in Will's room, Emrys usually visiting when Will was dead asleep.
She rubbed her eyes with her left hand with a yawn. Juliet had been asleep too, before she had heard Cerise's voice. She now leaned on her knee heavily on the left side and made a smile at Cerise, before motioning with her head beside her.
"C'mon... sit down, we'll both wait for Will to wake up... not saying we're going to have tea and biscuits but hey, a nice conversation's a start eh?" She said with a grin.
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 12:15:49 GMT -5
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 12:45:35 GMT -5
"Veronica?" Juliet blinked and looked at her with a quiet chuckle. "No, my name is Juliet, Juliet Kruger." She commented and then she nodded to Cerise. "What's yours?"
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 12:53:08 GMT -5
"Cerise Morningway..." She blinked and rubbed her eyes, maybe it was the lights playing tricks on her. She was sensitive to light. But no. "And you're Veronica Morningway. Here, I'll prove it." She pulled her touchscreen phone from her pocket and displated her photo album.  "There. You. Veronica Morningway. Granted you've worn your hair a bit wilder lately, but it's you." |
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 12:57:54 GMT -5
She blinked at the picture, staring at it for a moment. Yeah, it did look like her, but...
"I don't think I've ever seen that shirt in my life." She said with a quiet laugh. "Yeah, I'll admit, it kind of looks alike, but that's not me miss, I garuntee it." She examined the picture again, blinking.
"Where is that anyway?" The blunt Canadian asked.
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 13:02:06 GMT -5
"Obelisk Dorms in Domino Academy. And that's just a bra. Aunt Veronica is a little... eh." She shrugged and after a moment settled on "Immodest. And she talks a lot like you, with 'kid' and stuff. You're so alike, even your voices sound the same. Ever thought of changing your hairstyle? This is a painting she did of herself fairly recently. She's quite the artist. She also plays violin." She skimmed through and found another picture.  |
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 13:15:38 GMT -5
"Yeesh, way you're making it sound she sounds like my long-lost twin or something." Juliet said with a laugh, and then she sighed. Great, there went her big mouth again. She had a habit of saying things before she really thought about them.
"Hairstyle? I'm not so sure about that..." She looked at her bangs cross-eyed. "With my job-"
That she may not have for much longer if the legal system were being asses.
"- I kinda have to keep... 'properly groomed' as they call it." Juliet said with a shock.
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 13:25:41 GMT -5
"Hey, are you adopted? You might be a Morningway after all."
Cerise said with a laugh at the expression and put her phone back in her pocket. She was highly confused, but for the moment she just accepted it for what it was.
"Were you in the explosion... umm...."
The urge to call her "Aunt" was a little high still.
"Juliet?"
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 13:32:56 GMT -5
She looked down at her arm in the cast and then she shook her head. "I honestly don't know, my parents haven't said anything if I have, but I don't talk to them much since I came to America." She commented.
Then she heard Cerise speak again and she snapped out of it, looking up.
"Oh!... well yeah, I was." She raised the cast slightly. "It wasn't too bad though. I was on the third floor when it blew, trying to get down the emergency exit stairs. I'm up near the top floor... or I was. I made it down about ten floors and then it blew, taking out the stairs. That was when I fell, fell really bad on my arm, and then to add insult to injury, rubble fell on my arm." She grinned and laughed. "But hey, it doesn't matter if I get injured."
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 13:37:44 GMT -5
"I was in the foyer, leaving campus for the day. All I remember is seeing a girl, a redhed with bells in her hair, sent back by the force of the explosion, then heat, then light... then I was in the hospital... Actually, there was a flash of something as the place burned, but it sounds mad."
She laughed a little and rubbed the back of her head.
"I swear, as I laid there with the fire closing in, a girl, not more than thirteen, appeared out of the smoke, took me in her arms, and we went into pure darkness, before we emerged from the dakrness a second later on the other side of the building, where the ambuliances were."
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 13:44:49 GMT -5
She looked on and then she realized it, and then she closed her eyes.
"So you were in the school bomb huh? I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm glad that you're alive kid. Life is too sacred to be thrown away, especially so young." It wasn't often that Juliet was sage-like. A rare thing indeed. Then she shook her head.
"There were a lot of kids in that bomb. In a way, I'm glad that I2 was the one bombed this time. If it had to be any place, make it a place full of adults."
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 13:52:39 GMT -5
She nodded and looked at William, thne at Juliet's arm.
"When you think you're dying, your life is supposed to flash before your eyes... but for me, I heard music. Wonderful, orchestral music... maybe the mind does whatever it thinks will calm you..."
She shook her head and snapped out of her trance-like state. She often got lost in those memories, and wished she had her violin wit her.
"I've lived my life in ways that made my father irate nad my aunt laugh. I like girls, which was a big thing for my dad, and I'm on the other side of the country. I ran so far toward the one person in my life I felt was my real family, an aunt who showed me unconditional love when my father wanted me to fit a certain image..."
She shook her head and tried snapping out of it again, but it seemed the last time failed, so why should this one work better.
"Morningway women, from what I know, are the kind to live for themselves. To love their sisters and mentor their neices. Morningway men are domineering, controlling and in competition with their sisters. We're like a terrible stereotype. But is it any wonder that I ran from an enviroment so strictly controlled to California?"
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 14:00:34 GMT -5
Juliet looked at her as she spoke and she couldn't help it, she almost thought that it sort of sounded like her.
"Nah, not at all. I'm pretty much the same way. I used to live in Ottawa, Canada. Went to school in Windsor, met an American in Windsor... we both ran away to California to elope. He wanted to work at I2, we both got jobs there... a year later we divorced because he was too eager with his secretary and jealous of my progress." She grinned and laughed. "But, I stuck around, just moved to the San Melina branch that was opening up, took his promotion... y'know, all that great stuff." She raised her fist in the air casually, the one that was casted. "Girl power."
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 14:05:00 GMT -5
"Well, at least I know you're not Aunt Nica. She's afraid of man-piece. I just think it's all a little too violent for my taste."
She said and rose her fist to join in the "Girl Power" gesture.
"Funny, My dad moved to Chicagoland from somewhere in Ontario. Maybe Windsor? My 'You're Juliet Morningway' theory doesn't seem so crazy after all."
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 14:11:03 GMT -5
She blinked. Violent? What was violent-...
"Well okay, if you think of it that way, I suppose it can get pretty rough." Juliet said, thinking about it for a moment. This next part she said with the hopes that the girl was as old as she thought she was. "But I dunno, if you're into whips and such, that could get pretty-.... y'know what never mind!" She said with a laugh.
She shook her head at the next part. "My family's all born and bred in the capital of Canada. I think I've got a couple of cousins a la Montréal, but when I went to school at the U of Windsor, I made sure I had no family there." She shrugged. "Besides, short of a DNA test, I doubt it's true, it's probably coincidence."
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 14:12:50 GMT -5
"As my aunt's friend Kelsey would say..."
She paused and rubbed the back of her head.
"Actually, I only understand about a third of what Kelsey says."
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 14:15:09 GMT -5
"Why's that?" Juliet asked as she leaned back in the chair. She actually liked talking with this kid. She was relishing the fact that she didn't have to focus on the end of the world or being suspected for her boss' attempted murder. And she didn't suspect that Kelsey was KC.
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Post by cerise on Apr 5, 2009 14:23:21 GMT -5
"Spacial-temporal duplicity?"
Cerise said and made a face of pure bewilderment, and then another example.
"Dimensional transcendence?"
She shook her head.
"She used a ton of phrases to explain things that didn't mean anything. Like she was always stuck in a bad science fiction novel."
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 5, 2009 14:28:36 GMT -5
"Oh GOD not Doctor Who Girl! Kelsey Chase?" She groaned and then facepalmed with her left hand. "My boyfriend knows her from their old school-days... and I know her through other ways but let's not go into that. From what he said, she's obsessive about Doctor Who... I swear if she ever met David Tennant she's have a fieldday and lock him in her basement or something." She said with a laugh. Obviously she was joking.... kinda.
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