[Kakyoin doesn't remember this part, either, and there wouldn't have been much point in playing it all out in the VR pods just to get there. Some things need to be seen. Other things, it's enough just to recount them in soft words while holding your heart close.]
Jiji makes us all go. You and me and Polnareff. That damn old man, he's the only one who gets out of that whole night unscathed, can you believe it? His crazy luck again.
[He hums under his breath, tugging Kakyoin a little closer.]
They put us in separate rooms and it pisses me off. You spend a long time in surgery, but when you get out I tell them to let me see you and they won't. Star stops time so I can go anyway. That's the first time I stop time myself, instead of just being able to move in someone else's — Star does it so that go see you without anybody stopping me.
[Sweet, faithful Star. He always does exactly what Jotaro needs him to.]
When I get there, he's in the room with you. Checking your charts and stuff. But then Hierophant — he starts weaving himself around the bed. Like a net or a canopy or something. I guess maybe you were falling asleep, and he wouldn't let you unless he was out. Maybe he was worried, I don't know.
I'm watching through the door and he reaches out and touches Hierophant. Runs his thumb along him. Like...like he knows you got hurt because Hierophant got hurt, and now he's checking on him, too.
That's when I remember. He tells Hierophant he's missed him, and then I remember.
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[Kakyoin doesn't remember this part, either, and there wouldn't have been much point in playing it all out in the VR pods just to get there. Some things need to be seen. Other things, it's enough just to recount them in soft words while holding your heart close.]
Jiji makes us all go. You and me and Polnareff. That damn old man, he's the only one who gets out of that whole night unscathed, can you believe it? His crazy luck again.
[He hums under his breath, tugging Kakyoin a little closer.]
They put us in separate rooms and it pisses me off. You spend a long time in surgery, but when you get out I tell them to let me see you and they won't. Star stops time so I can go anyway. That's the first time I stop time myself, instead of just being able to move in someone else's — Star does it so that go see you without anybody stopping me.
[Sweet, faithful Star. He always does exactly what Jotaro needs him to.]
When I get there, he's in the room with you. Checking your charts and stuff. But then Hierophant — he starts weaving himself around the bed. Like a net or a canopy or something. I guess maybe you were falling asleep, and he wouldn't let you unless he was out. Maybe he was worried, I don't know.
I'm watching through the door and he reaches out and touches Hierophant. Runs his thumb along him. Like...like he knows you got hurt because Hierophant got hurt, and now he's checking on him, too.
That's when I remember. He tells Hierophant he's missed him, and then I remember.