007 ⚜ Video ⚜ An apology

[paysdelamour]

[Francis comes on the communicators, a healthy glow on his cheeks that had been missing for the past few weeks - And despite all the scrapes and bags under his eyes from their ordeal, he looks more like he's supposed to. The only thing that looks completely unnatural is the frown Francis has on his face.]

Mesdames et messieurs... I feel I must apologize. I had no idea my plan would fail, and that all of us would be placed through... such horrid things.

[He pauses, looking guilty as he sort of shifts around.]

I apologize. For everything. For the boat, for our capture, for all the suffering you endured... désolé.

[Francis slowly reaches over to his nightstand, and takes what looks like a photograph into his hands. He stares down at it for a moment, before he sighs and looks back up.]

Anyone who has had their clothes torn or ruined because of this - I will fix them. If I cannot fix them, I will replace them myself. That is all.

[And he cuts off the feed.]

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Permavideo?

[femininetomboy]

[ Madoka looks at the screen in silence for a moment, not seeming sad, not seeming happy. She rethinks the past events. She'd been scared, really scared and seen things she never ever wanted to see, but.. ]

Whatever they have done to us isn't your fault. And we were able to gather valuable information in the palace.

[ She smiles, but she cannot look fully positive. Madoka was never good blending out negative things. ]

Permavideo! :3

[paysdelamour]

Non, I meant... making you do all this work, only to have it all go to waste, having to fight, having to put your life on the line...

[It's true they learned a lot about the palace - but how much of it can actually be trusted?]

[femininetomboy]

I don't mind! Personally, I mean.

It was really nice to be using my skills once again, I feel like I'm running in circles at this place...
[ She was a busy girl after all and here she was just being a kind of underage single housewife, which had only been a part of all her activities back at home ]

...the fights were cruel though...

[paysdelamour]

Merci, Madoka. You are too kind. [Then he shakes his head.] I admit, it felt good to be doing something... mais, the lives of everyone here, they are worth much more to me than a chance to escape. I should not have traded in one for the other.

[He then gives a weak nod, his guilt showing on his face again.] They were very cruel. And these nightmares... almost everyone had one, non?

[femininetomboy]

[ Even if she had harboured any bad feelings against France, at this moment they would've faded. It wasn't his fault. He'd been trying to help and do his best. If anything it was admirable, no matter how it ended. ]

Everybody I know had one, yes. But now we know they were just dreams, so everyone should be okay.

[ Even if she still had the images from her dream right in her mind and even worse, the images from G's dream. It wasn't easy to get rid of that, but none of it actually happened, so she shouldn't pay it too much mind. ]

[paysdelamour]

That is a shame, mais, the fact that everyone seems fine afterward... it is a small relief. [He gives a little smile at that.] I hope your dreams were not too terrible on you?

[He's never mentioning his dream to anyone, ever. Especially not to poor Madoka...]

[femininetomboy]

Well...

[ She shrugs vaguely, unsurely ]

I saw my best friend fall into his death... I organized his funeral and all. It was... awful. But none of that happened, I know he didn't fall and won his fight, so it's fine.

[paysdelamour]

N-nom de Dieu! You saw-?! [He can't believe she is so nonchalant about it all. Even if it didn't happen, he would have had a mental breakdown with something like that. Not that he didn't already, with his dream.]

That is a relief... mais, you promise you are all right?

[femininetomboy]

[ She's a child. Even if a realistic and sometimes pessimistic one, she surely didn't spent any time trying to think about that universe any further. It was a dream, nothing more. All she needed to do was belief in Ginga and that came easy to her. In order to stay functional she just went on with her life. If she was fine or not, it would maybe show later. Madoka smiles and nods, albeit a bit uncertain ]

Hmh, it's okay. I have memories of how these events actually went and all, so I really don't have to speculate about anything. There's other things to be done.

[ She had cried so much in her dream, it was enough tears for a friend who was waiting for her at home. All was well. ]

[paysdelamour]

Oui, I can see how... this would help. My dream was from my past, aussi. [He frowns a little bit thinking about his dream again. It had been on his mind a lot lately.]

You are right. I should not be so focused on this when I have other things to do, such as making replacement clothes.

[femininetomboy]

I can understand that it's hard to forget... and I'm sure everyone deals with it differently, but yes, personally I think it's easiest to just concentrate on the matters at hand and push it aside.

It hasn't been real.

[paysdelamour]

Non, ma petite, for me it was very real. It is almost as if I had jumped into the past... mais, even then, I survived through this, or I would not be here today. I am grateful it was all just a dream, even if it had its basis in reality.

[femininetomboy]

The important bit is that it's past though, right? While it has effects on the presence it's nothing you'll really have to go through again.
We're all here and whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it can be worked out somehow.

[paysdelamour]

[He nods, giving a bit of a laugh.] Ah, oui, that is a relief. I would really much prefer not to go through that event twice in one lifetime.

I am simply glad no one was hurt.