I don't Wanna Battle from Beginning to End

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Characters: Valdis and Open
Date: Month of November
Location: Various
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: In headers


It felt like the walls were closing in. As if the sporadic mixing of the planes meant that the end was near. Valdis supposed it wasn’t strange for her to be there at the end, she’d just hoped she would find an end before everyone else did. There was nothing she could do to stop it, all she could do was live until it was over, one way or another.

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Even though the eternal creepy fog sucked a big one, Jackie was willing to put up with it for the sake of his own ghosts. It was nice, seeing some friends he'd thought he'd never see again, and feeling like he was at home.

Not everyone was quite as happy with their visitors. Jackie was walking through the gardens, taking a break from the semi-permanent reunion of the Water Street Boys for a while to breathe. He wasn't back home, he had to keep reminding himself. He was in Keeliai, he wasn't a gangster anymore. He'd gone...legit? Weird to think about, and his friends were teasing him, but none of them could really criticize him for it, especially after what he'd told them had happened to him.

He hadn't told them about Wei. They didn't need to know.

While he was busy remembering that he was in Keeliai, not North Point, he spotted Valdis in the gardens, fiddling with her arm. "Hey! ...you okay?"

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Valdis, Hila and Anani looked up in unison at the sound of Jackie's voice. Like so many others, she hadn't seen him in awhile.

"Jackie." She smiled at him, "One of my ghosts got a little out of hand, but I'm fine now. Hopefully he won't be coming back anytime soon."

She finished wrapping the gauze around her arm and then patted the seat next to her on the bench.

"How have you been?"