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Forge Contact II
You've reached Priscilla. Please leave your message as you prefer. I will absolutely return your contact, especially in the case of business concerns!
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I'm sorry I left that terrible message up for so long!
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I'm sorry I left that terrible message up for so long!
[beep!]
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But we did spar in there, Priscilla.
Afterward.
[ And then his tone becomes dry and serious once more... as though never amused at all. ]
That is to say, after we discussed a promise she wanted me to make to her. It was... almost an echo of your own, you might say.
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[Her voice trembles.]
She... what? Why would she do that?
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Nevertheless, her answer was the same as the one that I provided you with.
...1/2
O-oh. [A short breath. She nods.]
She must have wanted to help me. I should ask her. I--
[dot dot dot. Silence. And then, all at once...]
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[ THE INNOCENT FACE. WHAT IS IT EVEN. ]
THAT FACE IS A LIE. Also, that whole last paragraph is Priscillaspeak
I just wish people would...
Everyone treats me like a child. And its... annoying, and--
Teresa used to call me little girl. She left before you came here. Or... around the same time. And now she's back, but also not back. I mean it's not the same Teresa. But she's just as... Teresa.
...And yet Isley understands it PERFECTLY. Somehow.
[ Not the same Teresa. But still as Teresa. ]
[ It's the same thing he's been telling you all along, that you may not be the same Priscilla, but you are still... Priscilla. ]
[ He sighs. ]
You're not a little girl anymore, although you don't need me to tell you that. Sooner or later they'll see, and they'll come to appreciate how far you've come, just as I do.
[ A pause. ]
Irene meant well. I know she did. This Teresa, however... What's her business with you?
It's an acquired skill!
Teresa is...
[...wow what a long story. Teresa is her idol and her nemesis, the warrior she measures herself agains - someone she hated and cared for and, ultimately, killed. She bites on her bottom lip.]
Um. She was my immediate superior when I was with the Organization. She was Number One. Like you.
When I was training... the Organization would tell me that I was the one who would surpass her. The next Number One. And when I finished training, I became Number Two - which is how Irene became Number Three, you see? She was Number Two before me.
And then Teresa wiped out a group of humans and, instead of facing her execution, she disabled the warriors sent to take her head and became a fugitive. And so we were sent after her - Irene, and Noel and Sophia and I. Numbers two through five.
But we couldn't do it. Teresa was too strong, even for me. The last thing I remember before coming here was her standing over me, ready to take my head off. She didn't kill the others, but me--
--I guess she changed her mind, after, because I know what happened after that from Clare. She says that I pursued them, and killed Teresa, but--
Teresa is a lot of things.
She's the reason the me that you knew existed to begin with. The reason "I" awakened.
[She takes a little, shaky breath.]
The first time she was here, it was from... an earlier time. She wasn't yet a killer, and I tried to know her, a little. But she's hard to talk to. Hard to know.
But this Teresa... she remembers her death. So things are different, now.
Pris is gonna make Isley wanna fight Teresa XD it's a Number 1 thing, I think
[ Interesting. ]
Is there nothing I can do to help cut the tension in half?
[ lol. cut. ]
WHY SO COMPETITIVE, ISLEY?!
Oh! That reminds me, um. I might be... late or... absent or... something. Tomorrow.
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From our patrol! And... everything else, depending on how things go.
HE IS A GUY?
I don't think you will be.
GDI chromosomes and testosterone.
She wants a rematch. I'm not sure how it will go.
^^;
I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you.
Have your match, but if things get out of hand... I will step in. Even if it makes you angry with me.
Aizen's not competitive! He's too smug to be competitive.
Isley says he has nothing to be smug about. ^_^
My motivation is slightly more personal. I can't risk losing you. Whether or not this is your fight, if she somehow managed to kill you, I would be forced to take her life in turn.
That would lead to some rather unfortunate circumstances, I'm afraid... so it is best that things not escalate that far to begin with.
Please, try to understand.
Aizen considers his ABSOLUTE SUPERIORITY OVER EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING to be cause ^_^
[Well. That, at least, is something she can understand. She goes quiet for a bit.]
Isley. ...would you... go with me to that carnival?
[Change of subject signals acceptance!]
Isley can't help but laugh at that. So amusing. ^_^ Were you some kind of clown in a former life?
Aizen is glad Isley is enjoying himself! ^_^ It's always nice to see people's inflated egos at work!
[She smiles a little.]
It came last year, too. There are tests of skill and rides and... well, there are some things you might enjoy if you let yourself.
Will you try?
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When you say things like that, I-- [wonder if you mean them comes to mind. But it's such a pleasant moment, so instead...] Well. It makes me smile.
[Which is also true.]
[She goes quiet for a moment, fiddling with her sleeve. Biting her bottom lip.]
I told her I loved you. Irene.
If I think about it, she was probably trying to help me by helping you.
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[ He imagines that she kept her cool, but the whirlpool of obscenities that no doubt would have flashed through her mind... well, Isley almost wishes he could have heard them. ]
...I think Irene's bracket was something like, "SHE HAS NOTHING FOR THAT." ;)
[...hm.]
I guess she changed the subject.