[Gene nods and passes her the chocolate. He's deep in thought for a moment. He knows Bakura's past, and how much he's grown and changed since he's been in Konryu, and how much Pepper has come to care for him. And how much it would hurt to have him be the way he was when he'd arrived.
(That was always the fear - that someone you loved would disappear, but they would return not as who you knew, but as someone else. That would be worse than the disappearance.
Don't think about that.)]
People come back how they were all the time, [Gene says and pulls her close, trying to be reassuring.] We did. And people who disappear sometimes for a short while return how they were, too. [He's not going to say for sure that Bakura will come back that way, or that he'll even return. But he can, and Gene knows that.]
The Dreaming...we both know that it keeps people sometimes. And keeps them how they were, and who they were. We've had friends disappear like that. And they come back how they were. You knew Jackie, right? The guy who ran the Koi? He left sometimes, but he came back how he was. It's possible.
I don't want to give you false hope. [He sighs.] But I don't want you to have no hope at all.
[She's seen his apartment, and his one concession to hope. The person who's neck and neck with Bakura for having the least illusions about life and the world still holds on to hope, the last thing at the bottom of Pandora's box.]
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(That was always the fear - that someone you loved would disappear, but they would return not as who you knew, but as someone else. That would be worse than the disappearance.
Don't think about that.)]
People come back how they were all the time, [Gene says and pulls her close, trying to be reassuring.] We did. And people who disappear sometimes for a short while return how they were, too. [He's not going to say for sure that Bakura will come back that way, or that he'll even return. But he can, and Gene knows that.]
The Dreaming...we both know that it keeps people sometimes. And keeps them how they were, and who they were. We've had friends disappear like that. And they come back how they were. You knew Jackie, right? The guy who ran the Koi? He left sometimes, but he came back how he was. It's possible.
I don't want to give you false hope. [He sighs.] But I don't want you to have no hope at all.
[She's seen his apartment, and his one concession to hope. The person who's neck and neck with Bakura for having the least illusions about life and the world still holds on to hope, the last thing at the bottom of Pandora's box.]