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[cutting_edgex23]

X slips downstairs after her shift in the nightclub, half-glancing at the back door before she decides to forgo training for the moment.

It is more important to eat something. Just in case.

The fact that X-23 (and her soup) are settled at the bar instead of her usual booth is entirely unrelated to anything.

Except that she refuses to be uncomfortable in what is, for now, her home.

This is just proof of that.

[ooc: This post is open until it falls off the front page or X gets another EP, whichever comes first. Thanks!]

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[3nanashi]

Not much else to say to that.

For Trowa, anyway.

He doesn't need to. They agree, and they know it, and what's done is done and can't be changed.

(It's probably a good thing that no one in Trowa's world has discovered time travel.)

[cutting_edgex23]

X's world has it.

She does not like it much.

It always seems to result in things that try to kill her. And her friends.

[3nanashi]

It'd probably result in something similar for Trowa, sooner or later.

Saving the world is a stupid hobby to have, really. And yet.

The silence stretches. Trowa doesn't mind. (Trowa rarely minds.)

It's a few minutes later that he asks, "Will you go back?"

She doesn't have to answer.

Or know the answer.

[cutting_edgex23]

"Yes."

Beat.

"I do not know when."

[3nanashi]

Trowa accepts that.

He probably would in any case. But this he understands.

Sometimes you need time.

[cutting_edgex23]

X falls silent.

But she does not look away.

[3nanashi]

Trowa doesn't mind that, either.



He orders soup too, after a minute. He doesn't specify, so he gets chicken noodle.

Maybe it's a gesture. Or maybe he's just hungry.

Bar's a better cook than his sister, anyway.

[cutting_edgex23]

X, in what may be a gesture of solidarity, orders a glass of milk.

She sips it carefully.

And apparently she's watching Trowa eat.