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Post by Micaela on Jan 29, 2009 16:16:32 GMT -5
*Okay. Yeah. Mothering instinct? Full swing.*
"Alright, Azula, I know it's going to sound really weird, but you're in Paris, in a country called France, in a world that's entirely different than the one you came from." *She explained tentatively, not wanting to freak her out too badly, but there really was no other way of explaining it.*
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Post by Dr. Horrible on Jan 29, 2009 16:21:21 GMT -5
"We can get you to a doctor," Billy offered, but paused as he realized that 1) he didn't know where the hospital WAS, 2) they might not accept anyone as unstable as Azula looked, and 3) he was still REALLY uneasy around her. "Or someone else with the right knowledge."
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Post by Azula on Jan 29, 2009 16:31:42 GMT -5
"NO!!" barked the fallen princess at Dr. Horrible's, perceptively-horrible, suggestion, stepping and dropping back into a full guard, shaking as the thoughts tumbled through her head. Doctors meant waterbenders. Waterbenders meant the Avatar. The Avatar meant Zuko and the island prison. No.
Then what the girl had said sunk in to her skull and she forcibly calmed herself, hoping it was true, that her skills hadn't slipped that far, voice a whisper. "I mean... No. Just somewhere safe to rest. One of you? Please? If it's... You, I won't resist."
She dropped her guard and averted her eyes, breathing heavy as the fire glowed brighter in her mind under the presure of this increasing strange nightmare-dream world.
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Post by Micaela on Jan 29, 2009 16:47:00 GMT -5
*Micaela turned to Billy.* "She's probably not going to be okay with any sort of doctor... I know her backstory, oddly enough, chalk it up to the same reason I fell out of the sky."
*She turned and extended a hand to Azula.* "Come on, we're on our way home. Nobody's going to hurt you, and there aren't any benders around here."
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Post by Azula on Jan 29, 2009 17:11:15 GMT -5
Azula frowned at the 'no benders around here' statement, eyes still reflexsively scanning her surroundings for threats. Her Bending didn't feel any different than usual... So maybe, that statement was 'no benders around here *except you*'. A much more palpitable idea that managed to bring a fragile smile to her lips. Test that later when she was alone.
"...Okay," she murmered, looking up at Micela, thoughts still roiling behind her eyes and across her expression uncertainly. Azula took the hand with her own, gaze shifting between her erstwhile helpers, trusting them by a great act of will.
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Post by Dr. Horrible on Jan 29, 2009 17:22:00 GMT -5
"Benders?" Billy whispered to Micaela.
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Post by Rinoa Heartilly on Jan 29, 2009 18:07:39 GMT -5
After introducing herself, Rinoa had pretty much been smiling and nodding until a half-crazed, (probably) freshly tortured young woman appeared from within an alley. She vehemently refused to go to a doctor upon asking, so Rinoa thought for a moment and then remembered she always kept a potion on her just in case.
This was definitely just in case, so she cleared her throat and spoke up, "Um, if you don't want to go to a doctor I have a potion that might heal the worst of it..." She clasped her hands behind her back, since she didn't know how this new person would react to something just appearing in her hands, then concentrated hard and felt the bottle materialize in her hands.
"Here you go! Just drink it all and you'll be okay."
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Post by Micaela on Jan 29, 2009 18:59:24 GMT -5
"Benders?" Billy whispered to Micaela. "People who can manipulate the elements." *She replied, though then she was distracted by Rinoa. She blinked. Maybe she'd fit in around here better than she thought, if one of the first people she met was a firebender and another could call up healing potions. Micaela had the sneaking suspicion she came from a video game.* *Comparatively, her powers seemed pretty useless.*
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Post by Dr. Horrible on Jan 29, 2009 19:14:07 GMT -5
"What, like..." he paused to watch Rinoa get a potion out of nowhere. "Like magic or something?"
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Post by Micaela on Jan 29, 2009 19:16:57 GMT -5
"Something like that. Azula," *she gestured to the girl,* "I'm pretty sure, can manipulate fire. Throw it around and control it and things. It... yeah. I said there were sues in this world? Really that means there are characters from a lot of different canons here, and in Azula's canon, there are benders... Paris is kind of the hub of sue activity."
*She figured once the potion deal was over, they'd walk over to the apartment and she'd let them in before teleporting over to Renn and Eponine's to tell Eponine they were there. Now that the secret was out, she figured it couldn't be too weird to see her popping around from place to place... she only hoped she could pop into the right place.*
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Post by Azula on Jan 29, 2009 19:28:48 GMT -5
Azula, too internally distracted to note the conversation clearly, nodded cautiously at the girl in blue, not letting go of Micaela's hand now that she had it, personally surprised by the... subtle sense of relief she got from the simple gesture, actively supressing the angry thought that a lack of such strength is what allowed Zuko and his little peasant wench to beat her.
The bottle was taken in her free hand, sniffed for signs of any poisons or sedatives she might recognize, failed to do so, and ingested. Her body did seem to flush with new energy, startling the fallen princess. If she didn't know any better... No, waterbending didn't work that way... Azula drew herself up more and let go of the hand, gold eyes still flickering around for threats in a way she hated but couldn't quite make herself stop. "Where are we going?" she asked uncertainly.
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Post by Micaela on Jan 29, 2009 19:38:33 GMT -5
"The apartment Billy and I live in. You need to lie down and be fed properly." *She said decisively.* "Shall we?"
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Post by Dr. Horrible on Jan 29, 2009 21:25:30 GMT -5
"Sure..." He turned to Rinoa in an effort to regain normality. "You wouldn't happen to need a place to stay too, would you?"
So, Sues were perfect people from different places and... shows? Whatever that meant, it could only mean someone like Captain Hammer.
Only, a girl version of Hammer. (Lots of girls.)
This might throw a problem into his plan to rule the world.
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Post by Rinoa Heartilly on Jan 29, 2009 22:12:47 GMT -5
"I have a hotel I'm staying at, actually," Rinoa replied. "But if you need medical attention I have one more potion and an antidote and various... other..." It occurred to her that being a sorceress in this world might not be shunned after all, but she still decided to be vague. "Abilities which can help you out. Totally."
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Post by Dr. Horrible on Jan 29, 2009 22:59:07 GMT -5
Oh, good; one less person to worry about--until he took over the world.
"That's nice," was all Billy managed to say.
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