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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

Date: 2007-10-29 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
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?"

Date: 2007-10-29 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
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?"

Date: 2007-10-29 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
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!"

Date: 2007-10-29 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
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."

Date: 2007-10-29 01:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
"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.

Date: 2007-10-29 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
"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.

Date: 2007-10-29 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
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."

Date: 2007-10-29 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
Dick smiled again, giving a friendly nod to Setsuna.

"Hehe, yeah, he greeted me when I first showed up here. And..." he looked curiously to Setsuna and quieted his voice slightly as he asked, "...did...you hear from your missing friend, yet?" He didn't know if he should have avoided the question or not as he himself had yet to find anything regarding the missing girlfriend, but he was, admittedly, greatly concerned about the situation.

Date: 2007-10-29 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
Setsuna hadn't wanted the missing Sara situation to ruin Katou's arrival, but he couldn't hide his feelings well -- and didn't want to -- so he suddenly goes somber when Gumshoe asks. All he gives verbally is a quiet, quick, "No," while he tries to look away so Katou can't see how upset he looks.

Date: 2007-10-29 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
Dick looks from Setsuna and then back to Katou, and with a bit of a frown he says, "A uh...Miss Sara?"
He smiles to try to reassure the two men that he hasn't given up looking for her yet, despite having no luck in the search so far. He also was just more comfortable with smiling faces rather than ones filled with pain, even if he was used to seeing it.

Date: 2007-10-29 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
"Yeah," Setsuna says in a cracked voice, then decides to give the poor guy a break. He's just too...nice.

"Gumshoe, they tell you yet that people sometimes just vanish? I doubt you're gonna find Sara." He manages a little smile, but he does feel real gratitude Gumshoe cared enough. "But thanks for helping me."

Date: 2007-10-29 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
Gumshoe looked back at Setsuna, a bit confused, and said, "Vanish...?"
He, however, remained optimistic and smiled broadly as he said, with genuine determination, "Hehe, whether you think so or not, pal, I'm still going to give it my all."

He returned the grin to Katou and asked, "She a good friend of yours, too?"

Date: 2007-10-29 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
"They disappear. Leave no trace. Are completely gone," Setsuna supplies, looking sheepish. Gumshoe's determination is oddly endearing at the moment.

To Katou, Setsuna gives a weak smile and nods his head, starting to feel more hopeful about that. If Katou came back, anything is possible. Even if...it was a different Katou. He hoped, though, it wouldn't be a different Sara. He wanted his Sara back.

All the same, he squeezes Katou's hand, taking comfort in it as well, and feels better.

Date: 2007-10-29 04:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
Dick stared long and hard at Setsuna, trying to carefully take in what he said about the vanishing people. Finally, he spoke.

"...She doesn't have a connection with any magicians, does she?"

It was the only explanation he could think of at the time--people don't just up and vanish, afterall--though the last case he was working on in LA featured the murderer actually flying without the aid of a rope. That information in mind, he was sure anything could happen.

Date: 2007-10-29 04:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
Setsuna blinks for a moment, then shakes his head. "It isn't just her, though. Lots of people vanish. It's this place. Something about it."

Date: 2007-10-29 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoted-again.livejournal.com
"H-hey! I've heard of a man who could fly--it was a flying murderer!It could happen, it could happen to anyone, pal! What if...um..." he scratched his chin, shifting his eyes between Katou and Setsuna while he thought about it.

And then he had it.

"What if there was some evil magician lurking about and kidnapping everyone instead? HUH?! Did you ever think of that!?"

He knew his train of thought very well; even if it didn't make sense to them, it at least made sense to him.

Date: 2007-10-29 02:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swordandchalice.livejournal.com
Setsuna stares blandly at Gumshoe, then looks at Katou before sighing.

"Gumshoe, there are magic users here, and one of the persons that dissappeared was a magic user. I also happen to know demons, angels, a vampire, a goddess and some really weird time people. I really doubt someone could make them dissappear without one of these other pepole noticing. And I would have been more likely to dissappear than Sara if this requires knowing them."

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