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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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[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Hmm?" Fay sat down next to Katou and stretched, shaking his head a little to make his hair move out of his eyes. "What's strange~?"

He looked back at Katou for a few moments, but there wasn't even a flicker of recognition there. "You do know me," he said. "You were one of the people to greet me when I first arrived here. You kept calling me a faggot," the mage laughed. "You were here before, Katou-nyao. Then something happened to you, and you just weren't around any more. It happens here quite a lot, unfortunately." He looked away with a faraway expression, thinking of dear Sakura-chan.

"Your friends will probably be able to tell you more," he added. "Do you remember Setsuna-kun and Kira-kun?"

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He frowned. "I don't think I've been here before," but he was thinking very, very hard about it. Pieces of everything were coming back to him, but Disneyland wasn't one of them. "Do people ever come back?

"Course I remember Se-chan and Kira," he said. "Se-chan killed me and I'm his guardian spirit, and Kira's my best friend."

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"You're the first, as far as I know," Fay said honestly. "Maybe this means more people will come back. I hope so."

He gave Katou a lopsided look. "He killed you? That sounds odd for Setsuna-kun...?"

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"Well," Katou said. "He didn't have much of a choice. I was possessed so to let me go to heaven he killed me and guided my soul to Hades. I don't really hold it against him, my life took on a big improvement afterwards."

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Fay was torn between frowning and raising an eyebrow at Katou. "... Sounds interesting," he replied lamely.

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"So," he said. "I don't think I caught your name. You don't want me calling you faggot all the time, right?" There was a beat. "I mean, if you want to, just say so. I know that gets some people off."

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That made Fay laugh again. "Fay D. Flourite," he repeated. "Fay-san's fine. Do you mind if I keep calling you Katou-nyao? It used to annoy you so much~." Fay's tone answers why he kept doing so: because it had annoyed Katou so much.

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Oh, that was too good. Too, too good. If his name was Bob, then it wouldn't've been as good, but dammit.

"Not at all, Faygot. Go for it. I've been called much worse."

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There was a pause. Then Fay laughed so hard he bent double and his eyes watered.

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Katou couldn't help but grin. He really was the comic relief, and though he had gone through a rather uncomedic phase while Lucifer was running wild, Kira was back now so he could get right back into the swing of things.

Of course, laughed was contagious, so after a few moments he started laughing as well, even if it hurt to do so.

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That, of course, only made Fay laugh harder. He flopped back onto the ground and tried his best to calm down, but he couldn't really see a reason to. It was more than just Katou's nickname: it was the relief that someone who had disappeared had come back. So, perhaps, others could too.

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Katou did have a reason to calm down though, and that was mostly the fact that it hurt to laugh, so after a few more moments, he managed to calm down enough to say, "it wasn't that funny you know."

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Fay's laughter eventually subsided, but he did not sit up, instead preferring to stay lying down feeling the warm Disneyland sun and taking deep breaths. "Was," he insisted.

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"Was not," Katou said, rolling his eyes. "That's more like the reaction that one of those crazy girls..."

He frowned. "Hey, Faygot..."

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"Was too," Fay repeated, grinning at the childish argument.

He sat up at the tone of Katou's voice. "Yes, Katou-nyao?"

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"You're not trying to pick me up, are you?" The girls that he used to hang out with before he died always laughed too loud at the guy who they thought were hot's jokes. "Because I'll tell you now, you're not really my type."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay smiled and held up his hand, wiggling his fingers so his engagement ring sparkled. "I'm spoken for, I'm afraid," he replied. "And Kuro-pon's definitely the jealous type. He's a ninja," he added in the kind of voice that no one could wish for anything else in a fiance. The blonde flopped back onto the grass and smiled at the sky. "I'm going to marry Kuro-rin."

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Katou frowned. "Is that legal?" he asked. Then he shook his head. "I don't think we've got ninja's around no more."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"Here it is," Fay answered. "We just need to sign some papers from Adams-san, and we'll be married. But we are going to have the ceremony, just because." He smiled and closed his eyes. "You'll have to meet my Kuro-pippi so you can know what a ninja looks like. There weren't any where I'm from, but apparently there were a lot in Kuro-chan's country."

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"I know what a ninja looks like," said Katou. "I come from Japan. We had ninjas all over the place once."

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"Ah, but you don't any more, do you?" Fay opened an eye to grin at Katou. "Kuro-pii is a real-live-flesh-and-blood-and-lots-of-muscles ninja. With a very large sword."

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"Thanks..." Katou mutters. Why he needed to know about this guy's 'sword' is beyond him, but now that he's got the information there's really nothing he can do about it.

"Anyways, you sure he's not a samurai? I think ninjas were supposed to be smaller, not bigger," because that's how he interprets 'lots of muscles.' "So they could sneak around easier, you know?"

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure," Fay answered. "Kuro-chii says he is. He can be very sneaky and can run very fast and sometimes moves so quietly and has these special attacks he uses sometimes that make things explode. And he's so stubborn," he added after a pause with the slightest hint of a smile. "Very stubborn.

"Besides," he sat up to look at Katou, "what's a samurai?"

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Katou grinned at that. "Samurais were around the same time that ninjas were, and ninjas and samurais always fought eachother, and samurais were better. Ninjas were sneaky and stayed hidden, whereas samurais were all about honour so they refused to sneak up on their enemies to kill them but instead did it up front, and if they failed in a mission they killed themselves."

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay's eyes were wide by the end of that, like a child listening to a new story. "That's silly," he decided. "They probably would have succeeded in the next mission, which would have cancelled out the failure. And Kuro-piyuu's honourable! Just this morning he brushed Chii's hair so I didn't have to rush our breakfast!"