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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[the_merriest]

Rikku grimaced. "Religious thing. Yevon said that bad things happened because we had too much technology and most people bought it. Destroyed all their machina, burned the books that explained how it all worked, all kinds of crazy stuff. My people thought it was crap, so we were heathens and had to go live on an island. People are really stupid."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's just stupid," Kerrigan said because she was good at the obvious and moved out of the way to grant Rikku access to the computer. "You guys deal with it?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku leaned in, still hesitant, not wanting to start yanking out wires that might be important. Neat to see how it all lined up, though. "Yeah. Kinda meant saving the world and taking out this thousand-year-old monster and the whole stupid religion? But, uh, you do what you gotta do, you know?"

She scooted in a little closer. A fan - this thing had its own self-cooling? Pretty useful. She wondered why none of the droids ever had that.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"...A thousand-year-old monster?" Okay, so the girl's brain said that was right. "Congratulations," Kerrigan said, "Must've been hard."

She was also keeping a close eye on Rikku to make sure she wasn't actually touching anything vital.

[the_merriest]

"It sucked," Rikku said, still tracing wires with her fingers. Not removing anything. Just seeing if she could see what plugged in where. "He had this whole city going and you had to fight through it. I mean, that was after we got to Zanarkand and were supposed to be executed for treason and Seymour went crazy and had to take down that stupid bitch Yunalesca. Everybody acts like, whoa, that had to be so cool, and you're going, yeah, it was really cool. The bits where my friends died and some undead head thing slashed me up, that was awesome."

She looked up, flushing. "Sorry. Uh. Kinda bitter."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

It took her a moment to process all of that. Kerrigan blinked for a moment. Finally, she grasped one strand that had connected and said, "You fought an undead head?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku shuddered, sitting up again. "Kinda-sorta. Uh. She was an undead psycho and we thought we killed her, then she grew these weird tongue-things out of her feet? And then we thought we killed her, and this head came out of the ground. With these ugly nasty gross tongue-swipes and ugh. No idea what was gonna be next. Here, I'll grow a few chocobos out of my undead head, but evil ones!"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"How the hell did you beat that?" Kerrigan sat back a little further, now, her head thunking mildly against the chair. "Sounds like a nightmare."

[the_merriest]

"Kinda was. We just ... hacked away at her until she stopped." Rikku hugged her knees. "I think so, anyway. I never asked. The, uh, the tongue-swipes kinda ... got me. Wakka went down and someone screamed so I turned to look and wow, talk about stupid. Next thing I know Yunie's healing me and everything hurts. They weren't so sure Wakka was gonna wake up. Uh, me either, apparently."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Those are close to the worst," Kerrigan said, quietly. Then leaned back towards the computer, herself. "Bad stuff happens all over the place."

[the_merriest]

"You've had that, too?" Rikku asked. "Isn't it terrible? It's ... you know, it's funny, I had this split second before I blacked out and I ... I really thought that was it, you know? And instead of thinking of all the stuff I'd miss or whatever ... I was kinda feeling like, I failed. We were gonna lose and that was it and it was all for nothing. Did you ever ..."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I'm a soldier," she said. "A good one." Kerrigan began gently moving wires again; she liked it better when her hands were occupied. "I've seen my share of hopeless situations..."

[the_merriest]

Rikku watched Kerrigan's hands playing with the wires. "Guess they weren't really hopeless, if we're still here, right?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Depends on who it's hopeless for," she said, shortly.

[the_merriest]

She was silent for a long moment. "Yeah. There's ... there's that."

[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?"