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[It's been over a week since the mission ended, but Elizabeth has been watching over Gai like a hawk anyway. The virus had really done a number on him this time, apparently. Even though she lived with Booker, Robert, and now Rosalind in their, admittedly, much more spacious house, she'd still kept Gai resting and recuperating in her own room. Maybe it was rude, but she wasn't bothering anybody... right?]

[Friday morning, she comes back into her room to see if Gai is awake yet (it was still her house, and so she still slept in a separate room--for Booker and Robert, and honestly for Gai's sake too), and she's surprised to see the bed is empty and made. His clothes are gone too. She sighs and puts her hands on her hips. The least he could have done was tell her he was doing better and was going back to his apartment...]

[Still, she worries. Maybe Booker or Robert had said something to him and he'd packed up and left before he was ready to move again. Elizabeth gets dressed quickly and says she's going to get groceries--but she heads in the opposite direction to make certain Gai made it to his apartment alright.]

[When she gets there, she lets herself in the way she always does--by picking the lock on the door. But once it's open, she does announce that it's her and she's coming in because apparently someone couldn't be bothered to leave a note at least.]

[Gai's apartment was never the most decorated place... but Elizabeth immediately notices some things are missing. And when she goes into the bedroom it's even more apparent. She goes back to the door and checks the number, but it's definitely his apartment. Had he moved without telling her? Was everything just stuffed into the closet for some reason?]

[No... there's a chemise in one of the drawers, ripped right up the center. Elizabeth knows he wouldn't have left without taking it. Not voluntarily.]

[She sits down hard on the floor, staring at the destroyed garment in mute shock. There are tears, eventually, and she can't think any other thought besides 'Why didn't you just say yes?']

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[An hour or so later, Elizabeth feels as though she couldn't possibly cry again for at least another thirty minutes, she's so spent. So it's best to get it out now, before the message becomes garbled and emotional.]

Gai Tsutsugami... has been taken back to his world.

[And considering he had admitted to dying before arriving in Luceti, she can't even think about what that means.]

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[... now this.

Ever since the engagement Law had been riding an edge of euphoria that even the knowledge of what they'd done couldn't kill completely. Dim it considerably but...

Now his best friend (that was not his fiance) is gone. He sits and listens to the words over and over, and asks himself again why it turned out to be that so many that he cared for were dead.

Maes, Itachi, Gai... and others, though not as close. He can't tell himself it was better this way. There was nothing to go back to. Law can only numbly hope he's at rest and at peace. What else can you wish for for the dead?

Then he closes the book.

And walks to the bar to drink to him.]

Where are you?

[It's a mild voice, soft and careful. It's also solitary, one of the few times lately he's spoken as a singular unit. But this is something they'll each have to handle in their own way. Him, DeWitt, Rosalind.]

I'm in my room. [Elizabeth sounds a little flat and hollow, but mostly tired. And it's barely noon.] I came back in through the window, I couldn't... talk to anyone until now.

[That's all the prompting he needs. Robert puts aside his journal and the books he'd been using for his research.

After only a few moments, there's a soft knock at Elizabeth's door.]

May I come in?

[Elizabeth gets up and opens the door. She looks about how she sounded--a little pale, too.]

I knew, somewhere, that this could happen. But I wanted to ignore the possibility.

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[Gai and Selphie got off on the wrong foot but to learn that he was gone so soon after all the work he'd done to help them, just leaves her sad on the inside. Sure, he was a bit of a jerk but it takes all kinds of people to make the world work and at least he was honest.

What does she say though? Was there anything that she could do?]

Elizabeth? Do you need anything?

[She needs plenty of things, she needs Gai back ultimately. But Selphie probably couldn't give her any of those things, as kind as her offer was.]

Thank you for the offer, Selphie. I just need some time to think.

[Sadly, Selphie isn't a wizard or she'd try to get him back if it made her happy.]

Well don't think too much, okay? [It might things worse is what she's getting at.] Send me a message if you need anything.