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Axel didn't think that the self-given mission was going too badly, all things considered. Nobody in Midgar suspected a thing, that much was clear, not even Aerith. He listened to her, the apprehension and questioning near-disbelief in her voice and actions clear. Despite his desperation to get her and them out of there, he found it to be a fairly understandable response to such a suggestion. It wasn't exactly an easy story to believe. He had to wonder what he would have done or said in her position. Laughed, probably.

As for her question... that was a little more difficult to answer. He glanced at Saix, a disturbingly disguised Saix, at that, and scratched the back of his head.

"Not a lot," he sighed. Way to sound convincing, idiot. "Whatever they're going to do, they intend on blowing all of the reactors. When one went, it destroyed the residential area in the immediate vicinity, right?"

Of course, that wasn't the worst of it. Not this time.

"If they blow all of them ... the support pillars don't stand a chance and neither does anything below the plate."

Date: 2012-05-08 02:02 pm (UTC)
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Aerith looked aghast, covering her mouth with her hand for a moment before pulling it away to ask, "Who would do such a thing?" After a tiny moment she added the further, horrified question, "And why? All these people," she trailed off, feeling just a little sick.

Midgar was big, heavily populated city. The thought that someone would come along and just decide to snuff all of those lives out, as though they meant nothing, turned her stomach.

Date: 2012-05-08 08:04 pm (UTC)
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Aerith frowned, and glanced over towards Axel's unintroduced companion, still guarding the door. She trusted Axel, and she did believe him, but it was a lot to take in.

"So when is it happening?" She asked, turning back to Axel.

He'd come back to Midgar, even though they both knew how much of a bad idea that was, to warn her about this. It was almost sweet, but at the same time, it spoke to how serious it all was.

Date: 2012-05-08 08:48 pm (UTC)
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Aerith looked thoughtful, and then surprised when Axel said to come with them. During the celebrations meant it was so close, but it was still long enough away for her to do something. She wasn't sure, yet, what she could do, but....

"I can't leave," she told him, as though that should have been obvious from the start.

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Date: 2012-05-09 10:36 pm (UTC)
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Outside the church, Saix turned to Axel, the expression on his, still feminine, face being one of extreme grumpiness. "We're wasting time we should be using to get as far away from here as possible."

It was worse because he was sure that Axel was well aware of this fact, and still Axel was indulging the girl at personal risk.

Then there was what she'd said to him, which resonated uncomfortably up the proverbial rod up his backside and only served to make him grumpier.

Date: 2012-05-10 10:10 pm (UTC)
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"The last time either of us acted like heroes," Saix pointed out, coldly, "it didn't end well." For anyone.

Still, it struck a nerve he'd been all too ready to ignore before now.

"I'd prefer not fall foul of the mistakes fostered by thinking emotionally in these situations a second time. That's all." He scowled for a moment, and then almost grumbled, "And it would be much easier to knock her unconscious and drag her out."

Date: 2012-05-12 11:26 pm (UTC)
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Saix was silent for a moment, lips pressed together. He remembered that fight, but he held back the reply that they'd fought for their home because that was what Aerith wanted to do now. It wasn't conducive to his argument, and admitting that he might possibly understand her point of view revealed a weakness Saix wasn't prepared to voice. He was sure Axel remembered it well enough for himself, anyway.

"Failing to leave now risks more lives than doing so, unnecessarily," he pointed out, after a moment that had stretched just a fraction too long, "because it also risks ours. She is thinking of her home, and friends, and not herself. I would have expected that if anyone could convince her to think selfishly, it would have been you."

It sounded like a subtle dig, but it was hard to tell, with Saix.

"I have no intention of risking my life here," he added.

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Date: 2012-05-17 08:58 pm (UTC)
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When Axel arrived back the church was... busy with worry. Most of the people they'd accumulated were families, people who knew Aerith, and kids who knew her especially. Now they clustered, and the sound of worried mutter permeated the air.

Aerith stood at the edge of the flowers, hands clasped as though she was praying, but she stopped when Axel returned and dropped her hands to her sides.

"Is this everyone that would come?" She asked, leaving the flowers and approaching him. She'd explained things as best she could to people as they'd arrived. It hadn't been easy, and the numbers seemed so few compared to how many would die.

But she kept a lid on her own anxiety, and smiled at the children as they watched her. She didn't want them to be scared.

Date: 2012-05-19 01:33 am (UTC)
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It wasn't many, true, but it was better than nothing. Better than doing nothing and leaving people to die. She felt guilty that they couldn't convince more people, but no matter how many they did convince, there'd always be more to wouldn't believe them, and would die as a result.

Aerith frowned, knowing that, but she nodded. "Where's your friend?" She asked. "Isa?" That was what Axel had called him, anyway, but she wanted to check she had it right.

Date: 2012-05-27 09:43 pm (UTC)
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"Hmm," Aerith murmured. Saix, and Axel, and Saix was Isa with an X. Now wasn't the time, but she caught it, and recognised the significance and what it suggested.

She could ask about it later.

"He'll get here," she said, with quiet confidence.

Date: 2012-05-27 10:03 pm (UTC)
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Saix walked through the door, looking serious, which wasn't particularly informative on account of it being Saix. He cast Aerith, and the assembled ragtag slum dwellers they'd managed to convince, a brief glance as he walked directly up to Axel.

"We have a problem," he said, quietly. "The exits are under guard, and they are not the average guard." His breathing was a little fast, as if he'd hurried but not quite run.

Date: 2012-05-28 12:34 am (UTC)
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Saix appeared less pleased than usual to be delivering the news. He'd had to keep a low profile to avoid drawing attention, and while he was competent at it, he'd come to prefer smashing through obstacles when sidling around them wasn't viable.

Right now, he was concerned with how he and Axel were going to get out; everybody else they'd gathered could die in this pit provided they escaped.

"The previous guards were in military uniform," Saix pointed out, the ones they'd passed had been, at least, "these new ones are in suits. They seem somewhat overdressed for a simple perimeter guard duty, and much more alert than I'd like."

He'd been seen. Fortunately, he'd maintained the embarrassing but useful disguise, even though he had a strong desire to drop it and fight something.

Date: 2012-05-31 10:22 pm (UTC)
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"We're trying to be low profile," Saix pointed out. "My fighting style does not qualify." He sounded ever so faintly miffed that Axel held so low an opinion of him and his impulse control.

Even though they both knew such an opinion wasn't unfounded.

"I was seen," he admitted, although he was still disguised which was a mitigating factor, "so I took the long route back, as a precaution. Are you familiar with their type?" Axel seemed more concerned than he'd voiced, judging by his glance at the girl.

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Date: 2012-06-19 08:28 pm (UTC)
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Aerith smiled, brightly. "Thank you," she told them both, before she turned and headed towards the flowers. The small crowd gathered as if drawn by a magnet. Aerith was the one they knew, her name was probably why most of them were there.

She put her hands together and started to pray.

Date: 2012-06-19 09:06 pm (UTC)
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"That depends on the circumstances," Saix replied. There was a pregnant pause as he watched Aerith, casting his eyes back towards the exit, and frowned.

"I'm sorry," he muttered, endeavouring to sound grumpy even while giving a sincere apology, "for the way I treated you, and Roxas, back then. I'd forgotten too much of who I used to be," he grunted, "and now when I try to remind myself, it goes badly."

If they weren't about to, in all likelihood, die, then Saix wouldn't have said anything, but Axel, or Lea, was at least owed this much.

He straightened, though it was barely perceptible, and swiftly changed the subject. "If we're about to die, I would prefer to do so in something other than a dress."

Date: 2012-06-19 10:24 pm (UTC)
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Saix responded in kind, dropping the jutsu with silent relief and as much dignity as could be mustered when he'd just spent the last few hours parading as a girl. It was not a few hours he wished to remember.

Although it would be nice to get the chance.

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