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. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.
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. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.
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[His hands curled tighter in a white-knuckled grip, every inch of his back and shoulders held so rigidly that it almost looked painful.]
One of us could be.
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[Evidently this was just going to be the night of yanking Kakyoin bodily back into his arms, but in the face of something like that, he couldn't help himself.]
Don't. Please. Don't wind up that tight.
If I see one more person looking like that I might lose it, please. Noriaki.
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[But the more he relaxed, it became obvious why he'd held himself so rigidly--his shoulders had already started shaking.]
...I don't want to just not wake up one morning, Jojo.
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[He couldn't promise that. He couldn't in any fairness promise that and he didn't give a single solitary damn that he couldn't, because he was going to anyway, universe be damned, all universes be damned if he had to, he'd suffered enough and this was all he wanted anymore, just this. What did any of the rest of it really matter without the foundation that was this?]
That's not going to happen. I won't let it happen.
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[Evidently upset, but unwilling to protest, he fell silent and simply gathered Kakyoin in instead.]
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I'm sorry. [Kakyoin started with that, once he was sure his voice wouldn't crack however shaky it sounded.] I'm trying--I've been trying this whole time to believe there's another way, and I know there could be. I shouldn't be afraid--I'm not afraid to die.
[But when it came down to it, it was hard to let himself believe any of this mattered when it could just stop without warning. Ishimaru and Abbacchio...if they were back home, then they were just dead. There was no saving that.]
I don't want to leave you alone. I don't want any of you to feel like this.
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[So he said, with the authority and determination of someone who has done impossible things and learned, perhaps dangerously, his own capacity for achieving them.]
We're going home together. We're going home, and you're going to be grounded for years for fucking off like you did, and I'm going to have to sneak in your damn window just to see you — we're going to college, we're going to go to Italy and see Giorno, we'll find Morioh and meet Josuke again together, we'll go wherever we want because nobody will have any damn right to tell us we can't...
I'm taking you with me, understand? We did...we did so much shit that we never asked to have to do and now it's fucking time we did shit that we did ask to do. I'm asking for you. I want you and that's what's going to happen, I won't let it be any different —
Our damn chance to be happy isn't going to stop here, I won't let it!
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...
[But for just a second, he reminded himself that he already should have died once. It was 'impossible' for him to have survived, and yet he'd lived fifty days past that and now at least six months more.]
['Jotaro can't stand impossible things, so I'd guess that hearing the death of someone uninvolved couldn't be prevented just pissed him off enough to prove the opposite.']
[For just a second, he let himself hope that would be enough again--and he did everything he could to make that second stop and last forever.]
You're right--I'm in a hell of a lot of trouble when we get back. [Kakyoin murmured that absently against Jotaro's shoulder, with a hesitant and nearly inaudible laugh.]
...never been to Italy, though.
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[He'd make it so. He just would, beyond a shadow of a doubt.]
This isn't borrowed time. This is — this has been the start of what's going to continue from now on.
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When you're the one having faith in me, how can anything be impossible?
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...So. I'm going to take you anywhere you want, and then I'm going to take you home. And when you wake up tomorrow I'll be the first thing that you see. Got it?
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[He didn't pull away again, but looked up enough to actually make eye contact.]
That's a promise--for you as much as it's for me. I'll stay at your side, and you'll be at mine.
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[...]
Kiss me again.
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["Regret" was one way of putting it, probably, considering the force and authority with which Jotaro guided Kakyoin's mouth up to his own, wrapping him up tight in his arms as he proceeded to kiss the breath and living daylights right out of him.]
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[Regret was not the word Kakyoin would have used. He would, however, have made it all but a competition from the first second, more than willing to find out who would be willing to break it off before they passed out first.]
[...Probably not the ideal goal, but it was better than being miserable.]