Scene #1795: Together Again, In Paris

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Sailor Uranus	Haruka, Michiru, and Rashmi are standing on the observation deck of the most famous landmark in Paris - the Eiffel Tower. Haruka is not draped over Michiru out of respect for Rashmi - Chrono is off somewhere, and it would feel rude. She looks at her watch. "Setsuna and Hotaru should make their way here soon, I think." she says, looking out at Paris. "It's interesting. There's a ton of people in Paris too, but it feels so much less packed than Tokyo, especially looking out further. It's always weird whenever I go somewhere else, because it all feels so empty, by comparison. On the other hand, you can actually drive on the streets." she notes. "But you know, growing up in Tokyo it's easy to not realize just how weird it is, how many people we've got packed into every block, till ya leave."
Michiru Kaiou	Haruka may be respectfully not draped over Michiru, but the aquanette ''does'' have her arm hooked thru the blonde's arm. That's perfectly respectful. "Yes, I expect so. They were wheels down a little while ago," she says. The Captain had been texting her status updates. Looking out over the city she nods. "If you think this is spread out, you should see the cities in America. New York City is probably the most like Tokyo, and it's still more spread out than this. Los Angeles is even bigger." She's been to exactly two places in America, and it's the places where they film TV shows.
Rashmi Terios	Rashmi, by contrast, has barely ever been out of Tokyo, and once the worst of the trauma was carefully packed up and put in its little box to be sorted later, Paris called to her. The City of Lights. The Most Romantic City on Earth. As Long As You Ignore The First Impression of Skulls In The Walls. By mutual agreement, she and Chrono had separated to do their individual gift-buying, and of course there would be gifts for each other. It's just how those two doofuses roll, after all. Currently, she's doing her best to not hang off the guardrails, but enjoy the view as completely as possible. "It really is so open!" she breathes, her phone making muffled click-click sounds in her pocket. Devices can make being a tourist at once more subtle and much more densely packed, if paired with an average cell phone... And Rashmi is determined to unabashedly play the tourist. "I mean I get it, there's way more room in France than some islands, but still... wow. ....Oh look it's... um. Thank you Nico-kun, it's the Ark da Triumph! ...Look Rashmi has three languages in her head, two are technically from space, and none of them sound like each other. Asking her to get used to French pronunciations on the day of is something only Beryl would do.
Setsuna Meiou	After landing at Orly a short while ago, Setsuna worked a bit of administrative magic to take care of Customs, then, after a moment's consultation of her watch, headed into the heart of the city with Hotaru in tow. Fortunately, the Eiffel Tower is such a destination that trips to it from Orly International Airport are EXTREMELY easy to arrange. Thus it's not very long at all before the two polearm-wielding Outers are stepping off the elevator onto the observation deck. After a wink at Hotaru, Setsuna turns and starts sneaking up on her housemates that are rather easily spotted nearby. Despite being often the tallest person in the room...strangely enough something that's as true in France as it is in Japan...Setsuna can move very very quietly when she wants to. Despite wearing almost exclusively wearing three inch heels. Having LOTS AND LOTS of time to practice helps. Thus, there will have been no AUDIBLE clue of the taller woman's approach...right up until she responds to Michiru's comment from JUST behind the two, "Most American cities ARE rather more spread out than here or Japan. Especially here in the inner city that long predates cars."
Sailor Saturn	Hotaru Tomoe was... was not quite as quiet. And, when she realized that Setsuna was going super quietly... She'd started to hum her own spy music, sneaking up after the other girl. Fortunately, they had been on the bottom of the tower at that point and so Setsuna had been able to nip it in the bud before she could give them away and by the time they got to the floor with Michiru and Haruka. So her arrival would be uncontested! She even walked quietly back, hanging behind a bit while Setsuna startled them... And then RAN AHEAD! "Oh my gosh you can see EVERYTHING from here!" she called, standing up further on the rails, leaning forward and a little over the edge in a way that would make many parents instinctively hold their own children a little tighter. "How far do you think it is from the ground? If we jumped off, how long do you think it would take to hit the ground? Do you think we could do it faster if we henshined?" << Forbidden action >> her necklace chimed. Immediately.
Sailor Uranus	Haruka's certainly not one to judge anyone's language skills. She's good enough of Japanese and after that she lets her crew and manager do the talking, or Setsuna and Michiru. "You know I've been to America, it's just a lot of the tracks I've been to aren't in the cities." she explains, casually. Like that's a normal thing. Haruka startles but it's a quiet sort of startle, a stiffening of her body that only her close friends would notice. But they're all here. Beyond that she acts like Sudden Setsuna is not a surprise at all. "Yeah, you can really tell America was car-designed." Haruka agrees. Haruka just casually scoots closer (still with Michiru arm-in-arm on the other side) to Hotaru and puts a hand on the back of the littlist Outer's shoulder. "You'll give three women and a device heart attacks if you try. Please do not." she says. Even though she understands. Now she's wondering it too. And she imagines Michiru telling her Forbidden Action in response.
Michiru Kaiou	Michiru looks across Haruka toward where Rashmi is snapping her photographs and smiles. After everything they just went thru, she's glad Rashmi is finding joy in this. She is certainly enjoying herself. She does not startle because she is not surprised. The others may not have heard her, but even out of her henshin, Michiru can feel the currents and eddies of magic that surround them. And when two planets move through those currents, those ripples are felt. At least, they are as soon as the elevator doors open, but Michiru loves little more than trolling her girlfriend, and so she just silently acts as if she's completely oblivious. A small, satisfied smile creeping onto her lips when she feels that subtle jolt. She's holding onto Haruka's arm, after all. "Oh yes. As I understand it Los Angeles isn't even the worst, and it's terrible," she says. Then she laughs. "I'm so glad we just flew in a helicopter."
Rashmi Terios	"UWAAAAAH!" Haruka and Michiru might be too cool to startle. Rashmi... not so much. The redhead flails for a moment upon hearing the first words of Setsuna's Fun Fact, but she recovers in time to hear the last of it, clutching at the railing and panting, and experiencing just the tiniest twinge of envy that her friends have Gone So Many Places-- And then Hotaru is Hotaru, right next to her, and the completely inadvisable question, and the immediate answer from Luminous Tital, gives Rashmi something else to think about. "...Well I mean we're way farther up than my old bedroom, and I got kinda used to jumping out the window and henshining before I hit the ground, but... Prooooobably not best to try it here, yeah. Also hi, you two! It's so good to see you!" And Rashmi suits word to deed, giving Setsuna a brief, but as crushingly tight as the noodly-armed Mage can give. And another, slightly less crushy, for Hotaru. "Seriously... you have no idea how good it is just to see you both."
Setsuna Meiou	After giving Haruka a light startle, Setsuna takes a moment to wrap her arms around the couple and give them both a hug...and then kisses each on the top of the head before pulling away so that she can catch the incoming redhead's hug and return it. She lets Rashmi go so she can hug Hotaru, then straightens up, "Well, I figured that after a big battle like this, at least some people would probably be too tapped out to do a return intercontinental teleport. Fortunately, I got a nice business jet a while back and have been having it refurbished these last few months. We landed over at Orly one hour, ten minutes, twenty seven seconds ago." She looks around, "I figure we can all take a little time to relax and see some sights, get some shopping and dining in, then fly back whenever."
Sailor Saturn	Hotaru Tomoe giggled a little and nodded. Leaning into the hand by Haruka's, before giddily hugging Rashmi back. "Hiiii! Did you guys have fun? I'm sorry I couldn't come, but..." Too big a risk and all. "I wish I could have helped." "You all seem to have done well, though. Not a scratch on you!" she said proudly, before leaning back against the railing. "I won't jump though, honest. So, have you all been going on daaaaaaates?" she asked in a teasing tone. "Did you all have fuuuuuuun? Get lost in the catacombs together, h-o-l-d-i-n-g-h-a-n-d-s?" She did, in fact, sing that.
Sailor Uranus	Haruka absolutely prefers looking out at the Paris skyline with her friends to sacrificing herself to kill some crazy demon lady. Setsunastartle and all. She reaches out and ruffles Hotaru's hair. "Like Rashmi-chan says, it's so good to see everyone together again." She says, and looks out at the skyline. Honestly... it's good to see the sun still in the air and Paris not a ruin. "You know. Beryl's dead. Gone. The witch who did all of that destruction is gone. I don't think I've processed it yet." she says, leaning out over the railing a bit herself. Then she grins at Hotaru. "Yep, everything went great. And really, we are pretty much always on a date." She says, leaning against Michiru a little bit more. "I'm glad you didn't come because I would have worried about you every step, lil'moon. Well, more than I did." Haruka admits. "Thanks for keeping watch back in Tokyo, Setsuna-san."
Michiru Kaiou	Michiru leans into both Haruka and Setsuna when the tallest senshi hugs them. Her eyes are closed and she makes a pleased sound when she's kissed on the head. "Yes, thank you, Setsuna-san," she echoes. She lets go of Haruka, stepping around to bend down and give Hotaru a big hug. Then she glances toward Haruka and back to Hotaru, saying, "I let go of her hand for ''one'' minute, Hotaru-chan. Just one minute, and she went chasing after some youma and we got separated from the others. ''One minute''. So yes. We got lost in the catacombs together, and we held hands the ''entire rest of the time''." It's almost true. They died holding hands, but there was that brief bit of fighting in there where they were both busy. She, too, ruffles Hotaru's hair, and then steps back to Haruka, sliding her hand through the blonde's ''other'' arm. They just died. She's a bit clingy.
Rashmi Terios	"It was... not fun at all, Hotaru-chan," Rashmi says simply, turning and leaning back against the guard railing. "Also the catacombs... brrr. I was not ready for what it meant when I was told there was a place with bones and skulls making up the walls. I know I screamed. A couple times. Once right into Chrono's ear, poor boy. I'm just... glad everything turned out okay, and for as long as we're gonna be in Paris I intend to have as much fun as possible to make up for it all." Fun, you guys, is serious business. Tasking in a breath, she pushes away the memories that threaten to come up of why she needs that much fun, and shakes her head. "Basically I think you have the right idea, Setsuchan, and I would love to get started on that."
Setsuna Meiou	Setsuna rolls her eyes a little at Hotaru's singsong...but she's grinning up a storm while she does it. She then steps to the railing and looks out over the city, "...hrm...it DOES look rather different from this angle. Then again, it's been rather a while since I was last here." At Michiru's commiseration about Haruka, the taller woman snorts a bit and shakes her head. Given the situation and whom is being mocked...she's certain enough that Michiru is, for the most part, only embellishing the truth. Details being left out? Well, she'll have to find out about them later. She looks back out over the city, "Well, there's the Musee d'Orsay over there...and across the Seine from it is the Louvre...they hadn't made it a museum yet the last time I was here...it could also be nice to see if they restored Notre Dame to what it looked like back then, too..." She frowns, "...as far as food, I couldn't really tell you where the best places are..." She glances at her watch, "...at some point I should probably also go track down Sailor Moon and let her know to get together the girls and our allies who came over at Orly when they're ready to go...but that can wait a bit."
Sailor Saturn	Hotaru Tomoe gave a small nod, staring out over the horizon. She sighed and closed her eyes, letting the breeze wash over her. "That's... good. Beryl... was not a nice lady. Like, there are a lot of not-nice people in Obsidian. But she was really bad. But... you really should have kept holding her hand, Haruka-senpai. You're gonna get in trouble," she said in a teasing tone. "I'm happy you're okay. I... didn't want to say anything. But... that first day... I just... it was like... for a moment? I swore I could feel you die. I... I know that's silly. Feel you die? That doesn't make any sense, right?" she asked with a chuckle. "I tried to... ignore it... but... It was like... two little candles in my heart went out. And I could... feel it. Then like they flickered back on later. I was so happy to get your call. Being all anxious and worried sucked," Hotaru said, shaking her head. She then looked to Rashmi, eyes going wide. "Bones and skulls EVERYWHERE?! C-can we go there? While we're here? Please? Please?" she asked, turning around to Setsuna. Giving the 'pretty please' eyes. "Please? I wanna show Yochu!" ... Yochu... hadn't... come with them. Or at least, Setsuna hadn't seen her... right? But oh dear... No doubt she was back at their room, now. "Oh! Um, if we see Sailor Moon, do... do you think I'll be able to make a good impression on her before she knows who I am?"
Sailor Uranus	Haruka puts a hand behind her head and laughs. "Well, Michiru-san, it was better for us to keep coming up behind people than for the youma to do it, right?" she says, and her laugh isn't even remotely uneasy. She knows who she is. She knows what her role is. And sometimes that means the others have to hold her back. "I would absolutely like to find some of that French food people talk about. Not the snails, though." she says, making a kind of grossed out face. Then Hotaru talks about dying and THIS TIME when Haruka laughs, it's uneasy. She doesn't want to get into it with the little moon, but also she doesn't want to lie... "It was dangerous down there, but we got out okay." She says, after a moment, very non-commitally. And then, AN OUT. "I will take you down there even if nobody else will - but I think Rashmi-chan spent enough time since she spent longer down there than the rest of us helping a group of very annoying girls get out." she says, with a lot of sympathy to the other girl. "... Yeah at some point I'd like you to meet Sailor Moon with us." She was very clear about the With Us part, though. No way was she letting her unload verbally or otherwise on Hotaru.
Michiru Kaiou	A memory from inside Beryl's bubble flashes thru Michiru's mind. She sees Saturn walking down the corridor where the mirrors showed the fallen senshi, and speaking her eulogy for each of them. Of course Hotaru felt them die. She hadn't even thought of that. Of course, even if she had, she still would have done it. "We are clearly not dead," Michiru says matter-of-factly. Definitely not a lie. She squeezes Haruka's arm just a little. "Which is good, because Beryl was not the woman I've been seeing in my visions. We'll need to be alive to fight ''that'' end of the world too." There's a glance up to Haruka and Michiru blinks, then she looks back to Hotaru and smiles, "Let's be sure to get some good flickery candles before we take her down, my prince. I can even play some spooky music. It'll be a real ''mood''." Because the only way to face that shit is to make it ''silly''.
Rashmi Terios	"Yoooou guys have fun with that," Rashmi says, laughing nervously. "Once was more than enough for me, I can't stand spooky stuff when it's fake, the real thing near gave me a heart attack." Is she being a coward? Maybe. But she sacrificed, if not her actual life, then any hope at a life among friends and family. That someone else took it back doesn't mean that in this time and place, she deserves to indulge in a bit of cowardice. "Also I need to get something for Chrono, I've already done shopping for the others... I'm just having trouble finding a good gift for him, y'know?"
Setsuna Meiou	Setsuna shakes her head and holds her hands up, "You three can get to it. I've been in the Catacombs before. Granted, last time there were a bunch of creepy priests being all snitty about it, but I can't imagine they're any different than last time." She smiles, "Still, I can check on Moon and the others while you're at that." At Rashmi's lament about trying to find a good gift for Chrono...she hrms, then looks down at the redhead, tapping her lip. A few moments later, she smiles, "I have an idea. I imagine that Nicomachea has scans of Chrono? He can use those to get Chrono's measurements and you can go get a tailored business suit for him. I think he'd appreciate that." She twirls her fingers, then produces a credit card that she hands to her bespectacled friend, "Use this to pay for it...and if you want to get him something more personal from just you, get whatever you want and you can just pay me back if you feel the need." She leaves out the part about how she'll just conveniently 'forget' and otherwise dodge ever getting paid back.
Sailor Saturn	Hotaru Tomoe nodded, before leaping at Haruka and Michiru, an arm around both of them and, well. If she had any actual weight, she might almost knock them over. As it was? "Yessss! Catacombs! Catacombs! Catacombs! I've always wanted to see them, it'll be so fuuuuun! Do you think we'll see a ghost? Ohhhh, or a monster? Even a demon? I'm not picky! And I can do the music! Luminous Titan has all kinds of music, he used to do my theme music!" She quickly gave Setsuna and Rashmi a wave, planning to follow the lovers to the catacombs... ... She was totally going to recite Shakespeare to a skull. Nobody could stop her. Who would?
Sailor Uranus	Haruka puts a hand to her chin. "Not sure what I'd get Chrono-kun. If I thought he was capable of relaxing I'd get him something to make that more possible, but I've only ever seen him relax based on how close he is to Rashmi." She pauses. "I kinda understand that." she adds, casting a look at Michiru. "Oh, I bet he ''would'' like a suit he could look sharp in that didn't have JRPG villain spikes, yeah." Then she sighs and looks at Michiru. "Yeah, I guess we can't just call everything over yet." She's a little grouchy about that. "But for now I'm gonna enjoy the peace." "You don't have to come but I understand Hotaru-chan wanting to come. After all, if you've seen her movie collection, she'd be right at home." she says, grinning. "Oh. I guess we're going... now." she says, looking at Hotaru, then the others with a sort of 'well, I have no choice in this' look. But before she leaves (with Michiru? And Hotaru) she gives everyone a hug (including anyone coming on the trip). A close one, because all of them are family.