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" 'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,/If your Snark be a Boojum! For then/You will softly and suddenly..." the Cheshire Cat recites, breaking off when it notices it has company. It's sunning itself, draped belly-up over a parapet of the castle, but with an unsettling upside down smile it vanishes and then reappears on the bridge, just to one side of where the transformation took place.

Katou lifts his head a little when he hears someone talking. He had thought death was going to be much quieter than this. He’s bandaged and his head’s bleeding, his leather clothes ripped pretty much to shreds, and his biomechanical arm is laying at his side, but it seems as though he has enough energy to look around a little.

"Well, h-hi there!" says a squeaky voice. Mickey, beaming, is coming up the bridge from the direction of the central plaza. "It's great to see you again! And isn't it a beautiful day!" He draws in a breath and seems to be a millisecond from zipadee-doo-dahing when the castle's portcullis rattles slightly and drops half an inch. He glances over his shoulder. "Cut it out, fellas! Just a minute..." He pats his newly appeared pockets.

Katou jumps a little when he hears Mickey’s voice, and then turns. There’s a memory tugging from the back of his mind, and then he realizes it’s Mickey mouse. “To see me again?” Katou asks. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before.” He frowns a little, realizing that he can’t really remember much of anything. “Have I?”

"If you were a book," asks the Cheshire Cat, apparently apropos nothing, "what book would you be?"

Katou can’t help but laugh at that a little bit. “I don’t really read,” he answers. He looks at the cat, frowns a little trying to place it, and then shrugs. “Looks like Alice in Wonderland right now, don’t it?”

Mickey has extracted his notebook, and clears his throat. "'Boxers or briefs?'" he reads aloud, and promptly blushes redder than a fire truck.

“Nothing,” Katou says, raising his eyebrow. “Listen, I thought you was a child’s cartoon character. Is that really appropriate?”

"Here's another," says Mickey. "List three things you'd do if you ruled the world."

Katou closes his eyes and tilts his head back so it’s facing the sun. He didn’t think he’d ever see it again. He was given the choice of reincarnation, and he chose to pass it up. He remembers that, strangely enough, despite the fact that he doesn’t even remember his own name.

“I’d make everyone be happy,” he says, because that is Se-chan’s dream, and Katou’s only dream right now is to let Se-chan’s dreams come true. “And I’d make incest legal, I guess. I don’t really know what else. And I’d make it so I didn’t have to go to school no more, and I wouldn’t give Kira back his CD.”

The Cat's eyes seem to be wandering in opposite directions. It says, "Is reality best described as (a) an absolute, not reducible to the sum of its parts, (b) the material or phenomenal world, as presented to us through our experiences, (c) fundamentally unknowable, (d) all of the above - please elaborate - or (e) fish?"

Katou pauses for a moment, seriously considering the question. “I don’t’ know what none of that means,” he answers after a while. “And I’m sure it’s not just because of the head injury or the fact that I can’t remember nothing. So I’m gonna say fish.”

Mickey raises one white-gloved hand as though measuring his own height. "Are you tall enough to go on this ride?"

Katou looks up at Mickey’s hand, then snorts. “What ride? Whatever, it don’t matter. I’m sure if I could stand I would be.”


((Katou, this time from post series. Meaning he's somewhat different than how he was before, and he's not going to remember anything that had ever happened in the park.

The shape Katou's in right now is something like this, please excuse the text on there, I don't have a clean copy on me right now.

To see how his biomechanical arm attaches to the rest of his body, check out here

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Katou doesn't hesitate for more than a second before he returns the hug.

"I don't remember," he says with his eyes. "There was a light... Uhm, something about the Egg of Wormwood?" He clenched his eyes shut. He had the memories swimming at the end of his mind, but he was just barely picking at them. "Destroy the world? I was going to so you could save it. Did you?"

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"X-Japan," says Katou. "Dahlia."

There's a pause. He knows that voice. He does. He opens his eyes, looks Kira straight in the face, and glares. He grabs Setsuna by the shoulders, pulls him behind him, and leaps to his feet (even if he doesn't look very steady on them. HJe walked only a couple of hours after his arm was severed, he can do the same now). Some part of him knows Shiranui - Kira's old sword, before he died - will not be able to stand up at all to Lucifer, especially since it's already broken in half, but his first priority is to protect Setsuna. Besides, if all else fails, he does have a claw.

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"Holy shit!" Setsuna blurts out, completely surprised by the fact Katou can even stand, let alone the fact he's trying to protect him. "Kat-chan! CALM DOWN!"

Oh yeah...this has to be the Katou from the time in the future, when Setsuna saved the world and all that. That explained everything.

"Kat-chan...." He places a gentle hand on Katou's shoulder and calmly says, "It's not Lucifer. Don't worry."

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Katou blinks, then actually looks into Kira's eyes. There's a moment where he processes what he's seeing, and then he half-steps, half-falls forward and hugs onto Kira very, very tightly.

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Setsuna is still staring at Kira, wide-eyed and a bit frightened. If Lucifer is so dangerous Katou of all people needs to protect him, then Setsuna isn't sure he wants to face that. But he will if he has to. His sympathy for Kira has settled some, seeing as Kira seems to be taking it quite well, and Katou's over the confusion.

To Kira's mouthed question, Setsuna nods his head, but he says out loud, "His aura is very different." Then he stands there, awkwardly, letting Kira and Katou have their moment.

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The thing about Katou's 'condition' and memory problems is that sometimes he forgets, and sometimes he remembers, and it seems that he switches back and forth so quickly that he doesn't even realize he's done it. It will probably get better once he adjusts, but right now he's confused and isn't really sure where he is or what's going on, just that Kira's alive and Setsuna seems different somehow.

"Sorry," he mutters. "I was going to return your CD at school tomorrow, but I don't got it on me. You don't mind, do you?"

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Setsuna stiffens for a moment, the look doesn't fade, and Setsuna looks warily at Katou as well.

"I think he needs help. Or at least rest."

He turns to Mickey and the Cat instead and demands, "You guys finish with him fast. He's in no real condition for this."*

[ooc: *Everyone feel free to ignore the hot-headed brat. 8D He's always this obnoxious.]

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Katou blinks. "What're you talking about, Se-chan?" Katou asks, pulling away from Kira and trying to sit in the most casual way he can, though it still looks somewhat pained. He was starting to get a little light headed, but all he needed to do was sit for a bit more, and then he'd be fine. "I'm fine. I'm in any condition I need to be."

He blinks, then looks at Mickey and the Cat. "Wait, what do they need to finish?" He hasn't actually forgotten the questions yet, but he still has no idea what's going on.

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"You look awful," Setsuna blandly tells Katou, almost accustomed to this sort of stupid stubbornness. Almost. He sighs and frowns at the cat and mouse duo, hoping this would, indeed, be quick.

Setsuna fumes a little remembering Hot Streak was staying in Katou's house and adds, "Yeah. That other jerk is probably still staying in Katou's old place, and he probably shouldn't be on his own just yet, anyway. We can do that." He wasn't sure if Katou would want to stay with them, but at least for the first few weeks, he wasn't being given an option.

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"Maybe, but hell, I lost my arm and I was fine, remember?" he said.

He blinked. "My old place? Don't know where that is, but I'd rather stay with you."

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"Well, at least that's settled," Setsuna says on the matter of living space.

Just one little thing to address. He turns to Katou and says, calmly, "Kat-chan, I can't 'member something that I've not seen happen. I mean, I can tell you've got a replacement now, but...." He trails off, not sure Katou's getting it.

Maybe it would be better to try explaining this later on.

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He blinked. "Of course you saw it," he said. "You were standing right behind me when it happened."

Katou's really not getting it. His memories are muddled enough as it is - though at least they're coming back to him easily enough - and he hasn't even considered the concept that this is a different Setsuna and Kira.

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"This is just too weird," Setsuna mutters, looking frustrated about it. "Kat-chan...the Katou I knew? Acted like he hated me half the time, and said it sometimes. He'd never protect me from anyone, least of all Kira."

Maybe that would help? Give Katou an idea of what Katou Setsuna was accustomed to?

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Katou blinked. "Fuck, that was a long time ago," Katou muttered, and would've ran his hand through his hair if his hair wasn't bloody and bandaged. "Yeah, I remember trying to kill you, but I'm your Guardian Spirit. I gotta protect you."

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This left Setsuna wide-eyed and simply moving his mouth for a moment. Wait, what?

"Katou...you're guardian to another Setsuna. Not me. I'm a different one. Can you understand that?" the kid asked, not sure if it would matter to Katou. This fact didn't matter to Setsuna in the reverse, after all.

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((Upon actually rereading the bloody chapter, I realized that Katou doesn't have Shiranui at all, so just forget he ever mentioned it. >_>;;))

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[[Yeah...I should have said something. XD Sets had it, then SOMEHOW, Luci-chan got his hands on it. >.> But he was Kira-esque mysterious about HOW that happened.]]

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((XDDD I didn't have my manga on me at the time, so all I remembered was him holding it when he stopped the gates from closing when Setsuna wasn't quite in. XDD;; And that's the picture that stuck with me.))