Reaching Salvation: Post-Acer Part 8

"I-i'd e-explain it t-to her," Melaney mumbled.

"Kriska?" Tom asked hopefully. "Thanks by the way, Heidi."

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Luke put a comforting hand on hers as the medic left.

"No, now fight me." Nathan said calmly.

Melaney nodded, he shadows flaring up around her. However, he demeanor seemed to change. "Well it's a please to meet and fight you today, Mr. Nathan~ My name is Rose and I shall be one of your opponents~"

"One?" Nathan asked as he waved his hand and a lance of lightning appeared in his hand.

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OOC: Think Ulquiorra's lightning lance.

Kriska frowned, not recognizing Tom.

"S-Sorry..." Kira mumbled to the medic as he left, leaning on Luke a bit for support. "I'll...be better by...by tomorrow," she promised her boyfriend, quickly sitting back down on her bed, shivering from her fever.

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Heidi sighed. "Don't thank me yet," she muttered. "But I need to go check on Benji. Have fun on your trip down memory lane."

"Of four," Rose grinned, whipping out a pistol and shooting at Nathan, a shadow barrier rising in front of her.
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"I'll come with you," Paul told Heidi.

Heidi nodded in acknowledgment to Paul, continuing back into the church. Why did stuff like this have to happen to her?

Paul followed along behind her, blinking at the power surge in the direction of Sage's house.

Erika searched for Joey throughout the village.

Joey left the Chruch, having finished whatever it was he needed to do.

Heidi walked back into Benji's room, sitting back down beside his bed, a tired expression on her face.

OOC: Heidi was going to have Percival throw up a barrier, but he didn't get there in time.

Erika saw her husband and called out. "Joey."

"What's wrong with Benji?" Tom asked, wondering why Kriska didn't respond.

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"Don't worry about it. As you'll be fine, I'm fine," Luke told her relaxedly.

Paul sat outside the room, leaning against the door frame.

"How are they doing?" Sage asked, walking back into the church.

Unfortunately for Tom, Heidi was already gone.

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Kira blushed slightly, though it was hard to see through her fever. "O-Okay..." she murmured, reaching under her bed and pulling out a bag. "Can you help...help me hang up the pictures...?"

Joey turned and saw his wife, and frowned slightly. He was really hoping to avoid this...

But he headed ovey to her, knowing that it was not a subject he could avoid forever.

"Yeah, sure," Luke replied with that same reluctant hint in his voice as he saw the pictures.

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Tom turned to Kriska with a weary sigh. In the Illuminati's village, a message appeared on Jayden's wall. It said 'Kriska has reappeared at the gates, she doesn't seem to recognise me. Come quick.'.

"Have I done something wrong?" Tom asked in case he had misinterpreted her silence.

Jayden scowled at the message, and pushed himself up. He grabbed his rapier, just in case, and his water canteen. And set off to the Acer Village.

"Can we go soemwhere and talk?" Erika asked the man.

Paul shrugged. "Dunno," he said to Sage.
OOC: Hope he's at the church. o3o

Joey nodded. "Of course..."

"Eh? Um, no," Kriska said. "Sorry, but I don't remember you..."