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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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Dick tried to walk past and ignore what was going on--he did have to be going somewhere...which really wasn't anywhere but what was considered 'home' with Leon, and he wanted to cook dinner tonight. However, the group of people surrounding the somewhat bloodied man was enough to distract him--which wasn't that hard to do to begin with. He carefully squeezed through the people to see that this guy was someone he did not recognize.

"Hey, pal!" he belted out, and then went to say something else...but then didn't. He wanted to ask if he needed help at all, though the man seemed to be...okay...?

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"Hi," said Katou, blinking up at Gumshoe. "Do I know you, too?"

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Dick stared blankly at Katou for a moment, and then grinned as friendly as he could, spreading his arms wide.

"I don't think so, your face doesn't look too familiar...how are you? You need any help?"

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"I'm okay," said Katou. "And naw, I think I have more help than a guy can use."

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"Alright, then!" he continued smiling and thought he should probably be leaving. In fact, that was what he was going to do right now, at this very instant, in that moment...

And instead he curiously leaned in closer to inspect Katou and asked, "So....what happened to you?"

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Katou shrugged. "I was caught in a war," Katou said. "But my part in it ended, so now I'm here."

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Gumshoe was silent for a long time. During this long silence, he stared at Katou, trying to come up with something else to say.

In the end, instead of asking anymore of Katou's physical condition, he just started asking random questions in an attempt to get to know him and, possibly make a new friend; he wanted more of those.

"So, pal, what's your name?" he asked, a big grin on his face again.

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Well, Gumshoe was lucky he had asked this after Kira and Setsuna had talked to Katou, otherwise Katou might not have known his name.

"Katou Yue," Katou said. "But if you're from America, which I'm sure you are, it'll be Yue Katou. Just call me Katou. How about you?"

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"Dick Gumshoe, sir, and I am from America!"

How did Katou know that? Perhaps it was the way he dressed that had made it too obvious? Maybe it was his friendly personality.

He reached his hand forward in a warm welcome and then asked, "Hey, have you been here awhile? I haven't seen you before but I haven't quite met everyone yet..."

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Katou could hear his American accent, that's what. It was either America or Canada.

"Been here for a bit," he said. "About, oh, half an hour or so, maybe. I've been told I was here before, but I don't remember it." Katou took his hand. "So, are you a cop?"

Now that was because of the way that Gumshoe dressed and felt.

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"...Oh..." Gumshoe had no idea what else to say to that besides, "I've been here for...I think a week or something...but you don't remember if you've been here before? At all?"

However, he proudly stood as big and tall as he could when Katou asked him if he was a cop.

"Hehe, I was a detective where I came from! It...isn't like that anymore, though..." the whole of him drooped slightly as he said it, though he probably shouldn't have been too upset by the "loss" of his job--he should have been used to being demoted or fired back in LA.

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"Not a bit," said Katou with an easy smile.

"Oh? Why not? Get fired?" he asked. He was a lot happier that this guy was an ex-cop than a real one, but on the other hand sometimes the ex-cops were the most gungho about preserving the law, and were usually quite grumpy.

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He rose suddenly in defense, fiercly spitting out "What, pal?! That's not it at all! Nothing like that happened, it was just...!"

He backed off then, it wasn't really fair to be so mean to someone like that, and it wasn't like Katou was meaning anything offensive by it...right? He frowned and toed at the ground as he finished with, "they just...don't really want a police force here, is all..." Even if he should have been used to being fired, he didn't want to start thinking that he was "fired" from Disneyland, not that he had 'officially' started work to begin with. He had to admit, without the police work, he was quite...more lost than usual.

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Katou held up his hands in a 'woah buddy, I was just asking' kind of position.

"Oh," he said. "Well, that's good."

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Wait, did he hear that right? The huge man stood there *CHEST HEAVE CHEST HEAVE*, wide, sad eyes staring straight at Katou. He lowered his head and asked, "Well...why is that good? A police force should be good to have around, right?"

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Katou shrugged. "When I was alive, I didn't really get along with the cops. I don't see why that would change here."

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Setsuna puts an arm around Katou protectively and looks at Gumshoe, barely recalling him from his arrival, with narrowed eyes. He'd caught some of Katou's reactions and was worried.

"Everything okay, Kat-chan?"

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Gumshoe wasn't sure if he should take more offense to that comment or not. He looked back up at Katou and tilted his head to the side slightly.

"But...what if you made friends with a cop? You know how handy that would be? You would know who to turn to the minute something went wrong and all!"

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"Everything's fine," said Katou. "This guy's an ex-cop."

He blinked when Gumshoe mentioned something about making friends with cops, and couldn't help but laugh at it. "At least then I'd have someone on the inside who could bail me out," he said. "I sold drugs back home, I don't think I'd be turning to any cops when things went wrong with me, just my gang."

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Dick couldn't help but cough at the drug comment. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked away, but then tried to smile again as he said, "I don't know about bailing you out, pal, but I think they would still make really neat friends--loyal, tough, and always ready to be there for you and all."

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"He doesn't like cops. Get it already," Setsuna hisses a little at Gumshoe. He might think the guy is okay, but Katou's in no shape to have to deal with this, as far as the blond is concerned.

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Katou looked up at Setsuna, his eyes a little wide. "Se-chan, calm down," he muttered. He hadn't thought Gumshoe had done anything wrong, really. "Anyway, the friends I have now are tough, loyal, and always there for me."

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"Huh? But...I'm...not one anymore...sort of...I think..."

He doesn't really understand what the deal is with the two men--he always thought cops were cool, anyway--his face doesn't show hurt as much as it does confusion at the moment. He figures that if Katou has apparently been around for only half an hour, he probably needs a friend or two, which only makes this more confusing to the big man.

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This, and Katou's comment, make Setsuna soften a little. After all, he DID like Leon before Leon went and established a police force without asking anyone if they were okay with it first.

"It's okay. Katou says you ain't doing no harm, then you ain't. I'm just worried because he was acting pressured, and he just got here in bad shape. I've not seen him in a long time, and I'm worried. That's all, Gumshoe. Nice to see you again, by the way."

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"You two know one another?" asked Katou, looking from one to another. "Huh, go figure."