1938/Believe in the Unbelievable.

Believe in the Unbelievable.
Date of Scene:	16 September 2016
Location:	Mitakihara/Pikarigaoka - King Penguin Park
Synopsis:	Lacrima and Natsumi have a talk about things like happiness and being made of dark energy and also love.
Cast of Characters:	Norie Okana, Natsumi Matsumoto

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Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima wanted to talk to Natsumi-chan. Really badly. But it's been hard for her since... the Kunzite draining. And then the Mamoru draining and then she got purified and had to put herself back together over a few days in her head.

Sometimes she wondered things about this, but she didn't want to think about that right now.

She's laid out an old blanket under a tree and there are five boxes of donuts. She is busily eating one box by herself.

It's just dusk. After school, and you can still see the glow of the sun over the horizon but it's slowly turning into the early nighttime.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi checked her phone after school every day, and it was a blessing she did today. She saw the text from Norie, and ran back up to the club to toss the stuff she was taking home and instead pull out spare clothes, nice casual ones, from one of the closets. She jumped down the hall on one foot, a shoe hanging from her mouth and tugging a sock on a bare foot.

She came out of the door in a loose skirt, star-decorated knee-socks, trainers, and a nice loose long-sleeved blouse. She smiled softly before she started running towards the park.


Magical girling had not made Natsumi any more athletic than she was before, and so when she ran up towards the tree, she was huffing and a puffing like an old steamboat tugging a cruiser liner. "H-hey... Norie-chan.". She smiled brightly at Lacrima. "I thought... You'd maybe left me behind.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima is eating donuts as she waits and she looks up, and blinks. "No..I..." she pause. "Just been... dealing. With things." she says quietly. "Been really scared." she says quietly. "I'm sorry." she says as she gently pushes a box toward's Natsumi.

She kind of looks down a bit.

"I'm terrible, I'm sorry." she says. "I'm sorry." she says as she sighs.

She repeats herself a lot.

"I got us donuts." she says quietly, motioning to the boxes.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi flops down on the blanket and takes a donut from the box, lifting up Lacrima's hand and then slipping the donut on a finger, She repeats the process herself. "There, now we'll always be there for one another, as long as there are donuts to be had. Even if we aren't actually there.". She smiled brightly at Lacrima.

"I understand how things can be, and I want to help you if you'll let me. With anything at all, I promise I'll be there for you. I care about you a lot, Narie-chan. So much more than there are stars in the sky.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima softly blinks as her hand is taken a donut slipped across it. She purses her lips and looks back up to Natsumi with a confused blink, deadpan, as always. She decides to however, eat another donut than that one.

She sighs. "I don't know if you can help me Natsumi-chan. I think I'm stuck in certain ways and there's nothing I can really do... about it..."

"I've lost control twice in recent memory, of my actions, and then I had to 'put myself back together' after getting purified." she says silently.

"Finding out.. what exactly 'I'm eating' from people, when I feed, hasn't helped matters really, either." she says silently. She gently sighs.

"I think Jiaying's at the end of her rope with me on a lot of things and I'm afraid I'm going to hurt her or she's just going to end up hating me."

"I'm afraid of hurting you now, too..." she says quietly.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi Matsumoto looks Lacrima in the eyes, her expression somber in this moment. "You can never hurt me so much as you could leaving me. I will stand by you, even if you turn out to be a raging she-demon bent on destruction and can't stop yourself any more. If I have to.... I'll stand before you, and I'll do what has to be done if you ask me to.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima sighs. "I just. I eat... 'humanity'? I feed on someone's personhood. More or less." she says. "It's why... like. I can't drain animals. Or plants. Or stick my finger into a light socket." she says quietly.

"I just. There's this.. boy who. Tried to help me figure things out about that. And he just... fed me that... directly. And I lost control. I started.... 'demanding it back'..." she says.

She sighs. "Also. After I was purified I ate all sorts of silly things for no reason. Pickles with Whipped cream. Really." she says.

"But those phases pass." she says.

She leans forward and tries to lean against Natsumi. "If that happens, I don't want you to hesitate. I don't wany anyone to hesitate." she says quietly.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi supports Lacrima easily, heaving a small sigh with an upheaval of her chest. "I promise I won't, but I will cry and scream, and lots of emotional stuff. Because I'm going to be sad and mad at the same time. Sad I have to do it to you, and mad at the world for making me have to do that.".

She adjusts herself so that Lacrima is leaning back against her chest, so she can coil her arms around the purple-haired girl. "Maybe you'll be like a phoenix, and when the darkness is gone you'll rise as the opposite of it.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima frowns. "I don't think that's what's going to happen." she says silently. She says 'think', but it's definitly a 'she knows it isn't going to happen'. Part of her just doesn't want to say it to Natsumi.

She sighs and just leans. She's cold and clammy, but that isn't new. She's always cold and pale.

"I know you'll be upset." she says softly.

"I'm sorry we need to talk about this." she says.

"I've still been staying with Jiaying. But. We found this nice abanonded manor I've been working on taking over." she says.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi lays her head on Lacrima's shoulder. "I do. I won't even ask the stars about it, so I can always be sure of it." She smiled softly, showing a little teeth as she does so.

She feels the coolness of Lacrima's skin, but doesn't mind and after a few minutes of resting against her, she doesn't even notice it all that much anymore.

"I'm happy to talk to you about anything, don't worry. So. Are you going to become a Countessa of the Manor?".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima head tilts. "I dunno." she says. "I seem drawn to... have something like that." she says quietly. "Like a manor... or a castle. Or... something." she says. "I dunno what that means." she admits. "But I know the person who had the first iteration of my power had such a locale." she says softly.

"I do feel comfortable there though. Though it was old and musty and dirty." she says. "Lots of moths and bugs." she says quietly.

"But some rooms were recently used. It used to belong to someone who is deceased. Someone named.. 'Melanite'." she says.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi nods, completely oblivious to who that is or was. "That sounds like an awesome place for a spooky sleep-over. Do random rooms light up at night and stuff?".

She leans back, lifting up her hands to toy with Lacrima's hair. She started to casually braid it into a single long braid, listening to Lacrima attentively as she did so.

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima seems to let this happen. She does head tilt. "Why are yoou doing that?" she asks. She doesn't seem to stop it. Or mind it, but she's asking all the same. She purses her lips a bit as she seems to think.

"It's not really spooky anymore. There was some sort of cat demon there but we chased it off." she says.

"It isn't haunted." a pause.

"At least that's what Jiaying said." she says softly. "And she knows her ghost stuff, I think." she says.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi Matsumoto starts humming softly as she braids Lacrima's hair, stopping only to reply. "I want to, and I'm glad everything is okay now. I'd love to come by sometime. Does it have a ballroom?". She twines Lacrima's hair slowly, and upon reaching the bottom she holds the braid with one hand and digs around in her bag for a band.

She binds the end with it, a little crab charm similar to the one on her charm bracelet hanging from it. "There we go. Now you'll look like a princess for everyone, and not just me.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima nods a bit. "There isn't a ballroom? But there's like a small.... 'function' room? That looks like it could be converted to a dance floor, if the situation called for it. It's a nice manor... but it isn't a mansion. It looks like it used to be opulent, but not ostentatious. Like it was some rich hermit's summer house." she says curtly.

She blinks a bit at the charm and the words and..does blush, a little. Which looks weird perhaps on her deadpan neutral face. "Thank you, Natsumi-chan..." she says quietly.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi Matsumoto coils her arms back around Lacrima in a hug. "A dance floor sounds like something wonderful. We could dance together, I could watch you, or I could dance for you to make you laugh.". She ponders, before giggling at an image in her head. "A rich hermit. The finest silk hermit robes, woven by a thousand maidens.".

She presses her lips to the blush gently, pulling back with a very warm smile directed at Lacrima.

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima softly bites her lip as she gets kissed on her cheeks. Her cheeks are a little warm and it stands out with the rest of her being kind of cold to the touch. "Dancing is best...when it's with other people." she says quietly. "Dancing by yourself is unfilling. And watching dancing just makes me wish I was dancing too." she says softly.

She sighs a bit. "But. The Manor will.. give me a place. That's my own. At least. Away from people. So. I have someplace. To retreat to. If I have to." she says softly.

"In case I become dangerous, or something." she says.

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm going to becoming poisionus one day. or something like that. Just to be around."

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi lifts a hand to tuck a lock of her own hair behind an ear. "Well, I'll dance with you whenever you want. I wonder if we can learn to tango... It takes two to do, right?". She giggles softly, watching the reddening of Lacrima's cheek after the kiss with rapt adoration.

"You know you could always come to my house. My mom is barely there lately, apparently they discovered something near the Adromeda area that might be a potentially habitable planet, so she's been working and sleeping at the observatory lately to full document it before they release the information.".

"If you become poisonous, or venomous, or anything like that, I'll find a cure so I can be around you all the time. Okay?".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima head tilts. "I know I'm welcomed there." she says softly. "But I don't want to intrude all the time. And the past few weeks have... been really.. hard on me, Natsumi-chan." she says quietly. "In a lot of ways. Bad ways. Confusing Ways. Good Ways." she says.

"Jia-chan and Kunzite says there's.. 'still hope' to save me. Because I'm trying to... keep myself under control. That I don't want to hurt people..." she says.

"And I don't." she says quietly.

"But I have to. Because I need to feed. And because of what I feed on... it's... it can't just be replaced with like a -- 'substitute'." she says.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi presses her forehead against the back of Lacrima's head, sighing softly as she gathers herself for a long, drawn out, and silent moment.

When she she finally speaks, her voice is soft and low as she speaks to Lacrima, love and concern thick in the words. "I think there is hope for you, because how could someone so beautiful be all that bad? How can someone who cares so much, be doomed to hurt so bad? Not just others, no, I know you're hurting too. Nothing in the entire star system could truly be that cruel. So cruel as to doom a caring girl to be a suffering monster.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima looks down. "I was happy. Two weeks ago." she says, as Natsumi presses her forehead against the back of her head. "Like. Not... remembering it. Not a memory of it. I was.. happy. Glad. Something...I'd not.. felt.. since this whole thing started." she says softly.

"But.. it was because... because... I was happy that... someone who I think wronged me was upset I was hurting someone they cared about at the time-- when I tried to feed that night." she says.

"Like.. I was happy... that... they were hurting because they wronged me." she says.

"I don't feel happy. When I think back on it. But at that moment I was a little unhinged anyways." she says quietly.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi keeps her head resting against the back of Lacrima's own. "I don't know what to make of that, but if you like that can be happy, what is to stop the you you from being happy too? I mean, it is clearly still there, the ability to be happy. Maybe if you get happy enough as you you, it'll get rid of you like that.".

She toys with the braid of Lacrima's hair, pursing her lips. "I think that'd be worth a try, and if it didn't work, at least you were happy right?".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima sighs. "I don't know." she says. "I..."

"I don't want to hurt you...Natsumi-chan." she says softly. "I'm not... 'happy' right now. Sitting here with you. Being close like this." she says softly. "It isn't you. I remember that I should be feeling happy. Just the memory of it." she says.

"Please don't feel bad." she says quietly. "It's just... this dark energy. I'm made up of. Or something." she says.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi nods softly, hugging Lacrima. "That's all okay, but I wonder... If right now you are made of dark energy, why can't we make a light energy Lacrima? Wouldn't be the weirdest thing to try. I mean, we're magical after all.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima frowns. "I don't wanna be any energy! I just.. I just want to be...human... again." she mutters. "I know it's a stupid thing because... I don't even have a physical form." she says quietly. "And right now...'light energy' is straight up poison to me." she says. "It'll kill me. Make me not exist." she says softly.

"For all I know it's being purified repeatedly that's... making me change in small ways." she says. "I feel parts of myself being...ripped apart and if I survive I have to put them back together." she says softly.

Natsumi Matsumoto has posed:
Natsumi Matsumoto sighs softly, deciding she'd just hold Lacrima and comfort her without words. She'd not give up, but she knew that she wouldn't get through to the hope tonight. She'd keep it nestled in her own bosom, a burning hope that they'd figure something out for Lacrima.

She did speak a sentence that she wanted to be sure Lacrima knew, though. "Just don't ever forget that I love you.".

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima softly just sits there and sighs a bit. "If you want to help...you're better off working with Jia-chan." she says softly. "With stuff in regards to me." she says. "Because she's trying to." she says silently.

She then pauses and sighs. "I won't. I don't think I can forget that. Not easily." she says. "I can promise that much." she says as she closes her eyes.