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[sunflowering]

Don't. I know what you are thinking. You've always just done whatever it is that you want, but this time I can't sit quietly. After your initial reaction I didn't think I'd have to worry, but...

I'm happy in that place together. What I've done at home is out of necessity, but don't interrupt my remaining happiness there. If that is truly our last journey together, then I want it to be a happy one. Stop trying to have him go home, only to forget or realize.

And no more. You don't need to send me alone anywhere again. Let things remain as they are, why don't you? That's all I'm asking.

I just...want to be happy for a little while longer.

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[ancestuous]

We've both decided what we'll do, and all that's left is to do it.

Until then, however... Time is yours. [There's a vague hint of amusement. He's not insincere.] Be well where you are.

[sunflowering]

[No. No No. It's because of that path that she's forced on her current one. Even now she doesn't know how all of this came to be.]

And you? I never saw a future like this one. I never wanted it to end up this way.

[ancestuous]

[For him? Who knows. Once upon a time, he saw a young vampire name a weapon after the moon. What more he may have seen or hoped to come pass is anyone's guess.]

What could have been no longer matters.

[Mind whatever shades of hypocrisy is in that.]

[sunflowering]

And you're content with that? With things as they are?

[It's never too late to change. No one else has to get hurt.]

[ancestuous]

Would someone who is content have done the things I have? [And will do?]

If this world had been just you and I...

[sunflowering]

It's never been just us. But that doesn't...mean that it was necessarily a bad thing.

[Even now he still has that same, hopeless sadness that she's never seen him without. Is the world really so dark?]

They're just a different me and you.

[ancestuous]

No... it was not a bad thing.

[His voice is quiet.]

When we were children, what did you imagine the world outside to be like?

[sunflowering]

[Why such a thing now? Slowly she shakes her head, gaze falling inward back to the time. By now it was so long ago, but the memories remain clear.]

I-- can't say for sure. My thoughts were mixed, innocent, and confused.

[Eyes lifting back to his]

I wanted to be part of the world where my oniisama existed. Because I was never allowed to leave, I thought it must be a beautiful and dangerous place. [Father had been firm on his stance that it was best she remain there. Even when it was Kaname himself who asked for her to go to the surface.]

I wanted to understand what it was like to feel the warmth of the sun, or to feel the cold of the snow, or see a flower for the first time.

[Closing her eyes, swallowing]

I thought that it must be a magical place, like a fairy tale.