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Mistaken Identities Righted and Pacts Made by Odango-light!
Date of Scene:	13 November 2023
Location:	Mitakihara General Hospital
Synopsis:	Usagi brings along one Mamoru Chiba to introduce the boyfriend otherwise known as Hematite to the wounded Hannah Steiner. She is not, in fact, Sailor V. Pacts are made for the future!
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Steiner, Usagi Tsukino, Mamoru Chiba

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Hannah Steiner has posed:
Ever the active sort, Hannah absolutely /loaths/ being forced to not do anything. And with the constant beeping of the hospital equipment hooked up to her? It's like the world's worst metronome. Part of her wants to punch the thing to get it to shut up, but she knows the consequences to any such fit of rage.

No, all she can do is listen to the television natter on about recent events. It's mind numbing. She wants to be out there, fighting youma, looking for her Uncle and now his little almost-assassin, helping out Kyouka.

Instead she has to do things like heal and rest. It's been a day and she's already going mad.

And so Hannah whips out her phone, determined to make herself someone's problem.

Namely, one Usagi Tsukino.

Txt to Usagi: By the Sankt, do they design hospitals to be miserable on /purpose/!? Beep beep beep beep, every single karking moment! Grrrrrr!

Txt to Usagi: Save me from boredom Usagi-chan!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi Tsukino has been busy, but not so busy that she hasn't heard about Hannah-chan's injury, even if she hadn't been able to get many details. When her phone starts buzzing, it only takes a moment before she's texting back.

TXT to Hannah: HANNAH-CHAN
TXT to Hannah: are you okay?!
TXT to Hannah: how long do you have to stay in the hospital?!
TXT to Hannah: do you want me to see you, i can come see you! you know, i could even bring my boyfriend and you could scare him
TXT to Hannah: you'd have fun with that, wouldn't you?

Sorry, Mamochan! It's not like he'd have any reason to be scared of Hannah-chan anyway - sure, she was a terrifying space German with a blade, and she'd thrown a flaming gravity motorcycle sword at him, but he was much stronger than her, and also, she was in the hospital, and also, he loved her and would be willing to engage in horrible social interaction with her.

Right?

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
The great thing is, Mamoru doesn't know Sailor V's name is Hannah. He knows that Hannah is a good friend of Usagi's, that's all. So of course he agrees to come visit her friend in the hospital! Stabbed is horrible! He should know, he stabbed Sunbreaker's hand and she sc--

Wrong mindset to be in when visiting Sailor V, who even in a hospital bed could eNd HiM. (She couldn't.) (But no she could.)

So imagine his surprise when Hannah is the name attached to the face that belongs to Sailor V!

Hannah doesn't have to imagine. She can see the color drain right out of his face as he walks in the door after Usagi, and it doesn't matter if he's dressed casually and fully teenagerly in jeans and a band shirt and a leather jacket, it doesn't matter if his shoes are beat up and his glasses are a little smudged. He draws himself up, pale as a ghost, and says with dignity--

"I'm sorry about Danburite."

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Txt to Usachan: For certain amounts of alright, yes. 'Stabbed in the throat' makes things awkard.

Txt to Usachan: Acht, too long! Toooo long! I am starting to learn the names of the nurses.

Txt to Usachan: You are a lady und a scholar! Come, Lyra und I miss you und I could use an outlet! I shall only menace him a lot! Promises the young woman.

Sorry Mamo. You're doomed!

And then they're here! Lyra instantly charges, ready to pop up on two legs and do a doggie dance until pettings and hugs and licks are happening! Bark-hiss! Watch that totally-not-a-space-dinosaur tail wag!

"You'll forgive me if mein memory is spotty - they say I lost far too much blood. Is that the one that stabbed me?" Groan. Her voice has this rougher shade to it, and that bandage around her neck is /big/. Whoever shanked this girl? Did a darn good job it.

"Und so this is the fabled boyfriend! Come, manners! Have you been treating Usagi-chan well? If naught I should be happy to enforce the consquences! Luckily you are already in a hospital mein freund!" Comes Hannah, trying her best to be chipper. She is /grinning/ towards Mamoru. She is relishing the ability to threaten Usagi's boyfriend in the way only someone who considers the blonde a little sister. A big ol' grin marks her face.

Yeah she might be bedridden, but the look on her face shows she'd happily brain Mamo with the EKG machine regardless if she doesn't like the answer.

"Hannah Steiner, herr Chiba, guten aben! You have much to live up to, for Usagi-chan is all but family. Und I protect mein family. Verstehen?" Oh yes this is theraputic already.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
TXT Hannah: but are you still stabbed up in the throat?!?!
TXT Hannah: didn't they fix it yet T-T
TXT Hannah: don't scare him too much though i really love him
TXT Hannah: but he can handle a lot!
TXT Hannah: but he's really nice so don't make him handle TOO much!!

But all that being said, she's glad to see Hannah's energy up, already, and she uses all of this as an excuse to get Mamoru in the room, having already told him that Hannah is one of her very good friends, that she loves her like a sister, that she wants to make sure she's well and promised she could terrorize him just a little as her boyfriend -

All of which is to say, she is not sure what or who or why Danburite comes up, or why Hannah's earned an apology for it.

"Ah... I don't think he's the one who stabbed you, Hannah-chan," Usagi says uncertainly, glancing from friend to boyfriend, taking note of his pallor, his obvious stiffness, but also - Hannah.

She's got no choice but to rush over to Hannah's side, offering Lyra a patpat and trying to squeeze Hannah into a hug without jostling any bits of her. "This is the fabled boyfriend! Hannah-chan, this is my boyfriend!" Is he Darien or is he Mamoru? They aren't the same boy, excpt for all the ways in which she loves him.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
This is even more clear on Mamoru's face:

WHAT?!

He stares uncomprehendingly at Hannah, trying to process what she's saying at the same time as he's failing to acknowledge that there's a barking dinosaur in the room, and at the same time as he's all gears-turningly 'obviously she isn't actually Sailor V after all' except--

Except thank the gods that Usagi is a social dynamo and also good at friends and good at people and good at everything and he's looking at her so affectionately for a second before something Hannah said to him comes out of the buffer.

Her name.

"Steiner? ...House Steiner?" he echoes a little blankly, and then focuses a little bit. "For the glory thereof? Do you have a sister named Trag-- wait, you're not Sailor V?"

Like nevermind all the threats. Nevermind all the questions. This is serious business he needs out of the way first! He is still not processing the dinosaur.

"Sorry, I'm-- I'm Mamoru Chiba, yes. Even if I'm Darien Shields at school. It's a long story. But I mean. You're asking about-- haven't you asked her how I treat her? I mean, you should believe her..." He's still sort of by the door, but he doesn't look afraid or stiff anymore, just confused.

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah Steiner is doomed to hugs, and is completely fine with this! She grunts a little, still definitely weak, but at least she's still Hannah! And you know, alive. Squeezing back, she lets that hug linger, somewhat undercutting her 'intimidate Mamo' efforts.

"Thank you for coming, both of you. I hate hospitals. Becoming far too familiar with this one as of late." She offers to the pair, happy to luxuriate in the affection of her favorite blonde.

Hannah tsk's at Mamoru as he's already asking about identities not a minute or two after they've officially met!

"How forward of you, herr Chiba! Already asking for all of mein secrets after we've just met? You certainly don't lack for gall!" And then she grins.

"I find that the way someone answers a question oft is telling about a person even more so than the actual answer. Which, by the way, answering a question with a question tells me you are the type to try to deflect pointed questions." Comes the young woman, happy to torture the young man just a litttle more. He's fun to mess with .

"Usagi-chan! On a scale of one to 'start making the wedding invitations immediately', where is he on your boyfriend satisfaction scale?" She asks, then blinks. Wait. Hold on.

"....However I also recall, mein dear, dear schwester." It's Usagi's time to get menaced!

"Another name thrown about in the 'boyfriend' category. What was is it? H E M A-" she starts, as it all kind of just clicks.

It's either a polycule or someone's being a bad bunny! Squeeeeeeze the odango. Menacingly!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Ahahahahahahaha oh no she's in danger. That's what Usagi's frozen face communicates, as Hannah swings the questioning around to her, makes her the subject of that which she so easily threw her boyfriend to!

"Well - I mean! I think the wedding bells are - ah! - " Can she say that? Without evening asking Mamoru? It's not just the two of them! And it's only been a few months! "We haven't been dating long enough for weddings, and I'm not an adult yet!"

Her blush is hot and bright and she's thinking about it now, about married life with Mamochan and sister-brother wifehood with Kazuo (was that how it worked?). Another, smaller part of her wonders if the wedding would get interrupted by a monster fight.

"I'm very happy with Mamochan, as I've definitely said! But. Um."

She had fully forgotten she had mentioned that Hematite was her boyfriend and now, she has trapped herself! But also... well, he was the one who brought up Sailor V, had he thought she was bringing him to meet Sailor V? Without a warning?!

Well. She wouldn't have warned him, so that's fair. But still!

"This is Hannah-chan, who is definitely not Sailor V," she says, and then sweats. "And this is Mamochan, who is, um, well!!!!!!!!!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Somehow Mamoru doesn't hit 'intimidated' again -- there's no way Hannah can be Sailor V if she didn't react to Danburite's name.

He stays confused, though, and being confused in a social situation is fairly anxiety-inducing-- and then Hannah says the bit about point questions and he relaxes completely and snorts. "Of course I deflect pointed questions. They're pointy. What I can't deflect, I dodge entirely."

Now Mamoru bends to hold out his hand to the overactive dinosaur, trusting somehow that it won't get bitten off. And he listens, and he hides his blushing in dino-petting. And he listens, and he smiiiiiiiiiiiles at where this just went.

When he straightens up again, Mamoru brushes his hand off on his jeans and then puts his hands in his jacket pockets. "Oh I know allllll about Hematite," he says cheerfully. "He and I go way back, don't we, Usako?"

~Usako.~

"I think we've both known you the same amount of time, more or less, haven't we? You met us both on the same day, and I ticked you off, but for some reason you liked him..."

He's openly grinning now.

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah is like a dog on a very juicy bone. She just...soaks in the social chaos. Now /this/ is more like it! Griiiiiiin!

"By the Sankt, Usagi-chan! Und some people call /me/ greedy! But yet you have me beat! Though there /is/ this frau Takumi...acht, I need to get you, her, und Amy all in one room! ...Takumi might fall over from embarrassment, she is the sort that does not do freunds." Smirk!

"So, we'll need to force the matter und triple freund her! Imagine dear frau Mizuno's level of social adaptiveness with several different sides of rough edge!" Sorry Ami, she still loves you, oh blessed roomie!

"Regardless!" She circles back to the main point.

She /claps/! "Fine work, Usagi-chan! You know, where I am from, polyamory is legal. Shall I officiate when the wedding bells ring for Usagi-chan, herr Hematite, und herr Chiba?" Oh yes, she's going to walk right into this morass of confusion with a smile and a laugh. She needed this.

"Also tell herr Hematite he is a jerk, a fiend, a back-alley hund, und a /charming/ hund at that! Keep a tight leash on that one!" It sounds almost...like she oddly likes Hematite despite burning motorcycles and hospital trips.

Lyra is definitely real, and after a pet? Oh yeah, she's on Mamoru like an over-affectionate puppy. Like a really weird golden retriever, trying to /hup/ and lick Mamoru right on the face! Feathers get everywhere! Oh gods dino drool! Such affection is Lyra's intention!

"But herr Chiba is our focus here! Come! Tell me about yourself! If I am to be your sister-in-vaguely-law one day, I should know allll about you! What are your dreams und hobbies, hm? ...Fencing perhaps?" A raised brow.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Eh? That awkward?" Poor Ami-chan! Taking so many shots, and with no hope of defending herself! "She definitely needs some befriending then and between the two of us, we can definitely do it and hey!... and okay, I'm a little greedy, but so is Mamochan!!! He has a boyfriend too!"

If Mamoru thought the tables were going to turn on her alone, he was wrong. The turns are already tabling once more!

"Polyamory?"

Has she been doing it without knowing what it's called? Absolutely. Completely. With absolutely no hesitation.

"But the thought of marrying both Mamoru and Hematite - knowing full well that they're the same person but briefly imagining that they might not be... at this rate, the blush is never going to leave her cheeks! She pouts at Mamoru, knowing he's enjoying this entirely too much, and crosses her arms. "He and Hematite are only alike in that they're both horribly, terribly cute and they know it. I met them on the same day, but Hematite was a perfect, charming prince, and Darien was a rascal and I couldn't stand him! ...At first."

And even then she'd thought of him. And even now she's smiling fondly.

"He does like fencing. He's good at it! He won't give Adrien a match, because he's taller and he thinks it's an unfair advantage."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Adrien says I should anyway, because I'm about the height of his old instructor. But listen-- my boyfriend isn't my boyfriend yet," Mamoru tells Usagi earnestly, "I have to get rid of the dark energy first."

He stops.

He looks slowly to Hannah, and then he takes a bow. "Hematite's not dastardly, but he is a horrible troll, and he's standing in your hospital room. You'll find out eventually, so it may as well be from me. I had nothing to do with your stabbing, and I wish I knew who did."

He is REALLY DETERMINED not to talk about himself and his hobbies, isn't he!

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah laughs. So much that it actively hurts, and then she's coughing and the EKG spikes briefly as she tries to calm down. "Oh...oh Sankt Olivie be praised! Ow. That...hurts. Nngh. No laughing for a while unfortunately...Gah." She's smiling, even if her voice drops to rubble levels of rough as her wound comes back with a vengeance. Like a good older sister, she gives Usagi a comforting squeeze at the shoulder to let her know she's...if not /okay/, but will be.

"Your heart is big enough to embrace so many people, Usagi-chan. In freundship und in romance. A trait we have in common, if for different reasons. Cultural quirk in mein case. You? Well. You love so easily und that gives me hope." Offers Hannah gently to Usagi, with a little nod.

She almost starts laughing again as Mamoru reveals he's also a Hematite!

"Hah! Come now, dastardly is different from murderous, und it can even be charming! Mein mutter was head over heels for this absolute /villain/ of a prize fighter back home! ...Mein vater too I think. Still unpacking that one." She rubs her chin curiously, but shakes her head before any threat of memories surface that might bring down her mood.

Mamoru lays it out just like that.

"Usagi-chan trusts you, und thus I do. Acht, this is a terrible decision und I know, but being young is the domain of the foolish!" She can't exactly bow right about now, but she does offer her hand towards the sound of Mamoru's voice.

"I fear I have not been honest, und thus I shall return your own. Countess Palatine-Apparent Hannah Emilia-Lina Araki-Steiner the Fourteenth, rightful ruler of Independent Administered World Tharkad, und Head of the Ancient Belkan Merchantile House of Steiner. Or as you also know me, Trager-chan." Pause.

"Nein, I am not apologizing for the motorcycle, I feel justified in using it even if you were on fire!" She huffs a bit!

Then she chuckles at Usagi! "Pressure him into a fencing match with me, hm? Once mein throat is less perforated. I shall require Lyra, so, any height advantage is negated!" Firm nod. This totally makes sense in her view.

Then she grows serious. "It goes without saying, but say it I shall. Usagi-chan. Herr Chiba. Ask me anything in the quest to rid yourself of that corruption, und you shall have it as I am able to provide, as Sankt as mein witness." Comes Hannah solemnly, only to devolve into another coughing session.

"...Forgive me." She really is in a bad way right now.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Ah! Hannah-chan! Don't laugh, you'll hurt yoursself!" Yeah, stop laughing! Even if it was funny, it's not worth it if you're going to get hurt! Usagi is right at her side, reaching for her hand. That comforting squeeze to her shoulder instead is enough to make some of the fretful tension fall.

"It's not anything special," she says flapping her hand, "It's just - I don't know how to be anyway else, you know? And... I'm glad we've got something else in common."

She's smiling, eyes bright, even as she blushes.

And then Hannah is telling them something about her parents, and it makes her eyes widen, and her smile too, because for Hannah to speak so freely of them makes her happy. She'll never have get to know them - but - she can know them through Hannah-chan. And she's no expert on grief, but being able to talk about the people you lost fondly seems like a good thing, right?

(But also, her parents were after a prize fighter?!)

"He can be awfully dastardly," she says looking right at Hematite.

And of course then he revealed himself and Hannah was luckily not even angry and -

"Oh thank goodness, I am so glad we are done with the secrets, I am so bad at the secrets!"

Wow she did not even give that moment a second to be serious, huh? But she'll try to recover that now -

"Hannah-chan, I don't know who stabbed you, but when I find out, they'll regret it. You could have died. You -" when she thinks about it she feels cold to her bones. "This isn't something I'll let stand. Hemachan is... I trust him with my life. He wants to be better, and I want him to be better too. Just like I want you to be better."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"You-- oh god, I'm sorry, do you know that Coco just interrogated me on that? But I'm sorry, I couldn't play fair, there was no way that anything would have been fair, you against me," is the first stupid thing to come out of Mamoru's mouth, and the second is, "Of course you should have used the motorcycle, I mean, I threw it at you after all! I just really hate fire, and people being on fire, and people getting burned, and your hands were getting burned--"

He's had better kneejerk blurting out truths before.

And then he comes over, wiping drool off his hand again, and he leans against the bed a little. Just a little, next to Usagi. "I'll fence with you," he allows, his tone gentle, warm. "But you definitely have to get well first. And I'll take you up on that help-- also after you heal. Maybe Yellow Pearl Voice can come sing to you."

He reaches over and puts a hand over Usagi's, just for half a second. "Don't let it stand. But let me know if you need a rose for return-stabbing."

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah manages to hold in the 'guffah' about not being special. "Usagi-chan, that is the most adorably incorrect I have /ever/ heard anyone be!" Griiiin. She mouths the word 'special' shamelessly, happy to help make Usagi's embarrassment grow a bit, or at least work up that smile more.

As the moment of serious comes, though? She nods. "Acht, even knowing you would say something like that, it eases mein heart to hear it, Usagi-chan. When I am moving again? We find them and show them a good beating for it! By the Sankt I am tired of being on the receiving end of fights without any sport to them! Stabbing someone in the middle of praying, whom does such a thing!?" Oh yeah, there's some of that righteous Steiner fury coming out.

Then she huffs, and smirks. "But not /too/ better~. Ja, herr Dastardly Rake?" Teases Hannah on Mamo! Twitch. "Keep harping on the fire thing und I shall make a Device /specifically/ that uses fire out of pure pique!" She threatens briefly, before she deflates.

Offers of fencing and Mamo accepting help does much to quell the fickle noble, and so she finally nods.

"Agreed und done, herr Chiba. You shall have mein talents und blade, that we might save you und anyone you are attempting to rescue from Obsidian's clutches." She vows, before finally relaxing back into her bed. The beeping of the EKG didn't seem so annoying now.

"Now, I want you two to go und do something /fun/, hm? I have enough 'bodyguards' as it were for now, und if I do not sleep I fear mein girlfriend may well just pillow me to unconsciousness." Smile! She reaches out, squeezing Usagi's hand in turn, and forces herself to shut her eyes.