Office Hours, Tuesday All Day

[on_her_korhal]

Kerrigan had coffee and painkillers.

She also had a lot of wiring and was probably located under the desk fiddling with the computer for most of the day. Hey, you never knew when it was going to come in handy to get things a little more... up to date.

Especially with those students around.

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[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Sorry," Kerrigan said, letting go of the wires and climbing out from under the desk, "We've all got our problems."

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded quickly. "Yeah. That's ... I mean ... it's over, you know? At least Sin's gone. It's just rebuilding now. So I'm kinda lucky. I just ... don't feel lucky, I guess."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"We usually don't," she said, looking tired. "Best you can do is hope it all works out okay in the end. You caught the bad guy."

[the_merriest]

"Yeah. Totally." She shook her head. "Dunno why I'm still thinking about it. Sorry. Usually way more cheerful than this. Gotta move on, right? It's over."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"It's alright," Kerrigan said, taking a few steps back and leaning against the wall. "Thinking's the one thing we can't help."

[the_merriest]

"Any suggestions?" Rikku said, making a face. "You've ... been through this a lot, yeah?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Everybody's got their problems," she repeated, staring out the window, "Just gotta be worth it."

[the_merriest]

"Yeah," Rikku said, nodding quickly. "Sorry. Came in here to see your machina and got all ... whatever. So, uh, you're from the future?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Kerrigan said, smirking a little, "I'm from the future."

[the_merriest]

"Is it nice?" Rikku asked, bouncing a little. "I mean. You've got more technology, yeah? Do people - I don't know. Get along?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"More technology just means bigger bombs," Kerrigan said, her mood darkening a little as she strolled over to her chair and sat down. "People are people everywhere."

[the_merriest]

"Guess that was a stupid question." Rikku stood up and cracked her neck. "So ... why are you here, anyway?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Just following my orders."

[the_merriest]

"I'm trying to find out about machina, myself." She made a face. "I'm supposed to be. Really I think maybe I'm just not going back. It sucks back home."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Get out if you can get out," she replied, picking up her now-cold coffee and sipping it.

And making a slight face at the taste.

[the_merriest]

"That's not selfish?" Rikku asked, hesitantly. "Cable was saying ... that people need to rebuild, to make the future, and all this other stuff, and ... I mean, I see his point and all. But I'm just so tired of it. My whole world's dead and someone else can rebuild, right?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," she said. She seemed to be mostly talking to herself now. "I'd like to think the man in charge is a guy with a plan. He's gotta have a plan." Kerrigan paused, snapping out of it and glancing over at Rikku. "I'm still on it," she said.

[the_merriest]

"I don't like trusting the people in charge to have plans or whatever," Rikku said with a shudder. "'Cause everybody thought Yevon knew how to beat Sin, and that's how we got stuck with no technology for a thousand years. And having to take the whole system down and all the rest of it."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"If there isn't," Kerrigan said, leaning one of her feet on the desk, "Then a lot of things are worthless. So there's gotta be a plan, somewhere..."

[the_merriest]

"Maybe things are just worthless," Rikku said, shuddering. "Sorry. Your world's not my world. I guess some people have decent governments, and someone here's trying to convince me that religion's not always evil, but I'm not so sure I buy it. People ... people should think for themselves, but where I'm from it feels like they'd rather do just about anything other than that."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Someone saved my soul, once," she said, staring at the ceiling. "If that's worthless, then what's the point? People are always going to be pigs."

[the_merriest]

"Oh, wow," Rikku said, lowering herself onto the chair opposite Kerrigan's desk. "That's not worthless. I ... didn't realize, yeah. And people ... I think maybe they're scared. It's easier with someone saying 'do this,' 'do that.' Doesn't make it right." She shook her head.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"People are very good at never saying what they think," Kerrigan replied, moving the chair slowly from side to side as she stared at the ceiling. "You've got to accept that and move on."

She knew that better than anyone.

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded. "Yeah. Doesn't really help anything to stay bitter and all that, huh?"

She leaned back in her chair. "I went back home, and I laid roses on the spots where people died, and it kinda helped. And I've forgiven the Guado, at least I'm trying, and some of the Maesters. But I still screamed at the spot where we took down Yunalesca. I don't even know why."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

She paused, craning her neck back and locking her gaze on Rikku. "That's nice," Kerrigan said, quietly. "We don't all get that opportunity."