tearmeanewone | onze + voice/action

[Voice]

Has anyone seen Booker DeWitt? Tall, sandy hair, typically frowning, has 'AD' on his hand? He's at Good Spirits usually, but I haven't seen him there in the past few days...

[She's been looking, too. Ever since that strange hole in everyone's memory, the destroyed wall in her bedroom, and Booker doing a disappearing act, she's felt very uneasy about his being missing. But all of his things were still in the house, so he couldn't have gone far...]

If anyone sees him, would you let him know that I'm-- that Elizabeth is waiting for him to come home?

[Action]

[In the mean time, there's a giant hole in her bedroom wall, and her bedroom is, of course, a disaster area. It's a little unnerving, truth be told, to not remember where so much damage came from, but she's trying to focus on Booker instead of her own memory. She's trying to distract herself with cleaning--moving chunks of wall out onto the grass outside, shaking out her bedding, attempting to put a curtain over the giant hole until it gets fixed...]

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[There's a moment of silence while Gai considers this. He'd do anything to keep her alive; of course he would, because she's the entire world to him. But at the same time, he also knows the pain of being the one who is left behind, and while he may want to protect her, could he really knowingly inflict that same pain on her? He isn't sure.

Instead, he just hugs her tightly.]

Then I guess that makes us both fools.

I've never felt idiotic loving you, not once. To me, it means we're trapped in a wonderful and terrible place--we can't live without one another.

[Finally, Elizabeth's tears spill over despite her desperate attempts to keep them under control.] I always wanted friends, and family... and lovers... when I was in my tower. I never stopped to wonder what would happen if I lost them. I never realized how afraid I would be once I fell in love with someone.

[Seeing her cry hurts him, of course, but not nearly as much as watching her try to bottle it up does. This at least he can deal with, albeit somewhat awkwardly, as he's still a novice when it comes to more emotional matters.

What he can do is hug her tightly so that she can cry into his chest and just press his lips against her hair. Hopefully that will help her feel at least a little better.]

That's part of why I always avoided getting close to people. I was always losing people, and I didn't want to put myself in a situation where those losses would hurt more than they already did. But I don't regret falling in love with you in the slightest. I'd do it over and over again if given the chance.

Even if you could lose me someday? And when you did-- it would hurt more than anything, probably. I know if I ever lost you, I would never recover. Life would be darker, and I wouldn't want to face it without you.

[Elizabeth presses her face into Gai's chest until her nose hurts, but she can't move her arms to hold him just yet.] I lived without Booker for months here. Why am I so scared now that he's not here again?

Even then. You've given me the most happiness I've ever felt in my life, and that's something I wouldn't trade for anything, no matter how much it might end up hurting me. It would still be worth it.

[He just holds her protectively, allowing her to press against him. She'll hug him back when she's ready, he knows that much, and so he won't push her on that.]

Because you got used to having him around, and now it feels like something is missing. That and the uncertainty of what happened. The imagination fills in the blanks in the worst ways possible-- believe me, I know.