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Fandom Post Office -- Monday [ 05/07 ]

Well. That whole school being blown up thing that certainly dashed Setsuna and Alphonse's plans for the weekend, and, come Monday, she was still rather mopey about the whole thing. To a point where she wasn't really paying attention to what she was doing, idly slipping letters and packages into the sorting machine. Perhaps too idly. There was almost a near-reprimand from Gladys when Setsuna almost put Not-Tiddles through it.

In retrospect, Setsuna rather felt like she'd almost done that with subconscious intent.

The Post Office is open!

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She's there. To be talked to. She might even get you stamps if you need them.

//"good morning Setsuna-chan!"// Ami said, as she came in with a letter.

"Hm?" Setsuna looked over from the string of letters she was dropping into the Sorting Machine. //"Oh. Good morning, Ami-chan."// She nodded her head a little in the slightest bow of greeting. Because some habits never went away.

//"How are you this morning?"// Ami placed the letter on the counter. It was addressed to her father in New Zealand. //"Were you at graduation? I had meant to go but got absorbed in a long book, and well... apparently the school is gone?"//

//"I'm doing okay, you?"// Setsuna asked in polite return before addressing the rest of Ami's inquiries. She took the briefest glance at the letter before dropping it into the Sorting Machine so it could go where it needed. //"And, yes, I was ~~handwavily because the mun was too busy to ping in~~ there."// She shook her head lightly, almost glad that Ami hadn't made it. Those aliens were entirely different from the other ones, true, but witnessing them doing that couldn't be good for her dreams. //"Hard to believe. I've seen the damage and everything and I still can't quite grasp it."//

//"I can't fully believe it either. It's... well, where are classes going to be? What's going to happen now?"//

Setsuna smiled a little wryly at that. Of course Ami's first concern would be where classes would be held. //"Well, I'm certain they'll rebuilt it up. And it's summer, so workshops can happen in the cabins if it isn't finished by the time they'd need it. I believe the danger shop in still in tact; half the classes will probably be held in there, anyway...."//

Ami nodded. //"That is good... I can't wait for workshops to start. Really i have been a bit at loose ends this past week, with little to do."//

Setsuna just sort of blinked at Ami. She'd been at loose ends herself, but it was more from things blowing up and burning down and killing your coworker (although she did come back) that...lack of something to do...

//"I suppose. The workshops are fun; it's sort of strange for me, really. Things have gone around full circle, because it was the beginning of summer that I first came here."//

//"Oh really? You have been here a full year? That must be exciting."// Ami smiled. //"I must admit"// she said, blushing //"THat i had not gone to check if the gym is still standing and if the practice swords are there... I should, need to practice attacking that dummy..."//

//"It was ~~handwavily~~ one of the first things I did."// Setsuna drew in a deep breath, remembering that panic she was feeling. Yes, she could easily get another nodachi, but she'd been with Yuunagi for six years now. And Eleanor was entirely unreplacable, having been a gift...but her ~~children~~ swords had all be blissfully in tact, though in need of a little bit of cleaning. //"The weapon's locker sustained the damage quite well. Almost wonder if it's made of the same stuff that danger shop is."//

//"Almost wonder why the rest of the school isn't"// AMi grinned, happy to know the locker was safe.

//"Perhaps something they intend to remedy with the rebuilding,"// Setsuna pointed out. //"It's an old school, so it's probably been built before all that."//

//"good point."// Ami grinned. //"but if the gym itself did not survive... where can one practice?"//

//"I'm sure they'd make exceptions for sessions being not in the previously acceptable boundries, considering the circumstances,"// Setsuna said with a nod. //"Why? Woudl you be interested in embarking on another practise sometime soon?"//

//"If you are up for it, sure. I... didn't really want to ask as you seemed not amenable last time..."//

//"Well, Ami-chan,"// Setsuna said, allowing a bit of criticism to leak into her tone, //"It is very frustrating to try to teach someone to fight when they won't fight you."//

Ami sighed. //"I am trying. I know that is not good enough."// She frowned getting slightly angry, which frankly for Ami was almost unheard of. //"It does not help matters that i can't for the life of me figure out where you and i stand, in relation to each other, beyond friendship."//

Completely missing the suggestion, Setsuna's head tilted in confusion. //"You mean our student/teacher relationship? Why would that be in question? You...you don't think..."// Worry started to escalate in her voice, //"that my teaching has created a rift in our friendship, do you?"//

Ami blinked. And she had thought SHE was oblivious. But really she had been slowly getting more and more frustrated with the situation, and she hadn't even realized it previously. //"That is not what i meant. At all."//

Behold the power of insistent denial. Which was failing to grasp on as the options of misinterpretation were cut down. //"...what....do you mean, then?"//

Ami's eyes narrowed slightly. //"Well, lets see. You told me that you liked me. And then we MADE OUT. And do not tell me that we were drunk, that fails to matter. Alcohol removes inhibitions, it does not create emotions!"// Ami was really frustrated with Setsuna-the-brick-wall. //"And then you refused to ever talk about it."//

Oh. Right. That.

Setsuna was instantly left flailing. //"But we were drunk! Ami-chan, please understand, I would never, ever, ever, ever do something so inappropriate and uncalled for it I'd have been in the proper state of mind!"//

Proper, of course, meaning the ability to hold back urges that went against what was considered appropriate by society. The society she'd grown up in, anyway. She whimpered a little, shoulders slagging. //"I'm truly sorry that I had to put you through that, Ami-chan, and, if you want, i will apologise until eternity to make up for it. To think that my actions would compromise your decency in such a manner...."//

//"You really don't understand do you?"// Ami asked, her eyes narrowing further.

//"Don't understand what?"// Setsuna asked frantically, because she didn't, she really didn't, and could tell that Ami was getting upset, but she'd apologised! She hadn't done anything like it again! Why was she mad? She was being good, holding everything back to not compromise her again like that....

//"You can't just say what you said, and do what we did and then say sorry you didn't mean it. You can't. Because... i did. I meant it. And i would have rather liked to do that again. Sober. Or you know, have had this conversation several weeks ago!"//

//"But...Ami-chan!"// Setsuna said, flailing more, before even processing the words, only the tone, and then stopped as she realized that...wait. Did...did Ami say that she wanted to...that she'd even like to...No. No, she couldn't have. Not Ami, because people just didn't feel that way about Setsuna, and Ami was good and sweet and would neever...and she had a boyfriend, and....she had to have imagined that. Her inappropriate desires conflicting with the way she perceieved things, making her head what she callously wanted to hear.

Yes. The denial was strong with this one.

Worse was that Setsuna was at work, so she couldn't run away like she would if this was any other situation. All she could do was flail more, since she certainly didn't know what else to say.

Ami shook her head. Denial was strong with this one. //"Well, now you know. I like you. And I hope you like me too. But if not, i hope you someday have the guts to actually just say that."// With that Ami spun on her heels and walked out.

Considering that Setsuna had just broken up with a boy so obsessed with her that he now thought love was dead because she didn't want to be with him and she still thought she was hearing things from Ami because there was no way anyone could really like her....yeah, Setsuna might have a small problem with denial.

"Ami-chan!" she called out after her, but it was too late, leaving her to just frantically flail in a circle for a while until Not Tiddles, annoyed with her being so loud and obnoxious hoped up on the counter and gave her a firm swipe of claws across her face.

"....Owwwwwwww....//Stupid cat."// She firmly pushed Not Tiddles off the counter. She landed on her feet, reered up and hissed at Setsuna before fleeing off to the back room.

She's keeping a close eye on the cat to make sure he doesn't mysteriously disappear again.

That's where she should have put the cat! In the mailboxes...

I have nothing clever to say here. Coffee needed first. I have no pie. Send pie?

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