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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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Date: 2007-10-29 01:24 am (UTC)*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?"no subject
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Date: 2007-10-29 01:33 am (UTC)"Everything okay, Kat-chan?"
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Date: 2007-10-29 01:40 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2007-10-29 01:43 am (UTC)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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Date: 2007-10-29 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-29 01:59 am (UTC)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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Date: 2007-10-29 02:04 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2007-10-29 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 02:15 am (UTC)"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.
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Date: 2007-10-29 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:05 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:10 am (UTC)"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."
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:12 am (UTC)He grinned at Dick.
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:22 am (UTC)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?"
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:28 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 04:34 am (UTC)"...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.
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:58 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-29 02:42 pm (UTC)"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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