Needs more newspapers.

Like, come on, one person who can witness the sheer awkwardness that is Sabrina's thought process turning on itself, and she misses on it!

:p
 
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Sabrina's too angsty and not lulmechagurrenzillalagann enough.
Given that part of Sabrina was worrying that we weren't helping anyone just last damn week, I stand by the characterization. :p Especially since five minutes after the power of handwavium beat her up and kicked her into a universe without all her friends is not going to be the happiest time for her.
 
Homura drew in a sharp breath.

Her head was spinning -where was she-

A rustle in her ears -she felt weightless -where was up and where was down-

An imposible twist in mid air and her legs and hand struck the ground for a perfect three point landing, her lenghty mane of hair flowing to a stop at her side.

"What was that?"

Homura's eyes widened and she frantically jumped behind the tree from where she had fallen just in time before Madoka poked her head outside her window.

A moment passed in absolute silence, both in the nightly surroundings of the Kaname home and inside the half-mortified, half-panicking Magical Girl's mind.

A few seconds, or maybe hours later, Homura heard the window shut close.

A shuddering breath left her trembling.

How long had it been since she had screwed up something like that?

She shook her head. Sabrina was right, she probably needed more sleep. Madoka would be fine alone for just one night.

Rationalizations finished, the dark Magical Girl practically flew away -silently- into the night.


A huge yawn escaped her mouth. She couldn't help it.

Had she got no rest last night? She was so tired...

A flash of blue interrupted her thoughts. It was about time...

... Where was Madoka?

Homura rubbed her tired eyes, but nothing changed.

Sayaka walked alone.

Homura spared a thought to notice Sayaka didn't look very happy herself, a product of Sayaka not being as much of a pain as she usually was, lately, but her legs moved on autopilot towards the blue Magical Girl and her lips moved almost by their own will-

"Where's Madoka?"

Sayaka drew back, surprised for a moment, but quickly recovered:

"What do you care," she sneered, "Transfer Student?"

Homura blinked. What?

Before she could think to do anything, Sayaka huffed and simply walked past her.

... Was that all that 'good will' was worth?

Homura's thoughts took a dark turn, because of course Sayaka was an annoying, suicidal, stupid girl who couldn't stop endangering herself and Madoka...

But once more, Homura's thoughts were interrupted, this time by a more welcomed sight. A girl in a Mitakihara student uniform with her hair done in golden yellow ringlets sniffling over another, white haired girl wearing a simple blouse and pants and that was great, because Sabrina would know how to make sense of things and...

Mami was crying.

Why?

Once more, Homura Akemi felt out of control, her legs mechanically taking step after step, approaching the white and gold duo, only to stop suddenly when Sabrina noticed her.

And quickly looked away.

Homura frowned, wondering what had caused that -guilty?- shift in those blue eyes, and opened her mouth to say... something, anything...

"Sorry Homura," Sabrina beat her to it, "but Kirika said you're not cool, so we can't hang out anymore."

"Ee?" She was aware a piteous sound had escaped her lips but she couldn't care what with the crushing feeling that something had just smashed into her gut...

Sabrina was walking away, dragging Mami alongside her.

"W-wait."

Oh, how she hated how her voice trembled. But... but she had said Kirika, right? Then... Oriko must be behind this, behind... everything. That made sense, that had to be it.

Now, she only had to find out more so she needed to get Sabrina talking but how did she go about that, at least the two had actually stopped at her pityful cry...

"What's..." she groped around for anything to say, and Sabrina wasn't meeting her eyes, while Mami... "What's wrong, Mami?"

Was she actually concerned?

... Maybe. Yes.

At her question, Mami just buried her head into Sabrina's shoulder and let out a sob.

The white haired girl wrapped and arm around her, trying to comfort her silently while taking it upon herself to answer, though she looked up at the sky -away- while she did so.

"I guess as ex-good friends-" that nauseating, twisting feeling again- "I can tell you... My parents called me!" she suddenly cheered up.

"What." Homura's thoughts came to a halt.

Parents?

But Sabrina was excitedly nodding to herself. "Yup! My parents called me, and want me to come back to my home country-"

Mami shook, her whole body trembling hard enough to make Sabrina lose her footing, and to need a moment to catch herself. Her cheer dimmed for a moment as she tightened her hold around her friend, but not all of it was lost as she continued.

"So I'm going away this afternoon! I wanted to go earlier, like Madoka did, but the first flight to Asunaro isn't until the evening..."

Homura's world flipped upside-down on her, Sabrina was looking down at the clouds with Mami clinging sideways to her third arm which sprouted from a car walking by-

Madoka. She said something about Madoka. Ask about Madoka. Now.

"Madoka?" That single word seemed to give order to the world for a single moment...

"Oh, her mom found a job in America, so they left this morning."

... before it all crashed down-



Homura's eyes flew open. She couldn't see anything, couldn't see or breathe or feel her arms- she could feel her arms, could feel the soft linens wrapped around her and her chest was moving up and down madly -she was hyperventilating -stop.

She closed her eyes. She couldn't see because it was night time and the lights were off. It was dark. That was all.

Her heart still took a solid minute to slow down.

A nightmare.

Homura sighed. Of course it was a nightmare, even Oriko couldn't pull off all of that bullshit.

Mami not following Sabrina anywhere? Right... Homura shook her head, sitting up and kicking her covers off herself.

Asunaro being a country? She couldn't fathom how she could have believed that, even in a dream...

Parents? She got up and walked outside the room -Mami's guest room- turning on the light as she passed. Parents? What?

Silently, she padded over to Mami's room and, opening the door slightly, she peeked inside- what.

...

... Maybe she was still dreaming?

No. Mami could always use someone to hold her close.

She spared the matter no further though -or tried, as for a moment, just a moment, she faintly contemplated the blackmail potential on her friend, her phone was just in the other room, the little light from outside the room providing just enough illumination for...

No.

She closed the door, shook her head, and walked back to her room.

No zany plots.

She turned off the light.

She wasn't dreaming right now. Actually, she should get back to that.

With a heavy sigh, she lay back down on the bed, covered herself and closed her eyes.

Her last thought before falling asleep was of slight guilt for having even considered taking advantage of Sabrina like that. Really, taking a photo of her that she'd all too likely feel embarrased about later if she found out about it?

Sabrina would never do that.
 
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I don't know what you're talking about, we would never even consider that, how can you imply that, as part of Sabrina's mind, I can assure you that nobody here, much less me, never me, have ever tried to vote to take a photo of anybody, much less of Homura's super cute sleeping face.

How dare you, you monster.
 
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Yesterday, amongst other things, I randomly thought that Homu needed more hugs.

While other thoughts were completely discarded, this one and others stuck around somewhere in my mind, and my subconscious kicked it around for a while and somehow got into my head some idea about Homu having a nightmare and so... until I sat down in front of the computer today, started typing... and somehow time passed and there were words on the screen, so I checked for typos and posted what was in there.

That explains everything.
 
Yesterday, amongst other things, I randomly thought that Homu needed more hugs.

While other thoughts were completely discarded, this one and others stuck around somewhere in my mind, and my subconscious kicked it around for a while and somehow got into my head some idea about Homu having a nightmare and so... until I sat down in front of the computer today, started typing... and somehow time passed and there were words on the screen, so I checked for typos and posted what was in there.

That explains everything.
Very weird.
 
I thought that omake was going somewhere else. Like, Momura erased Sabrina's existence. Without memories of Sabrina bringing them together, Sayaka wasn't friendly towards Homura, and Mami's alive because actions can't be undone, but she feels so lonely and she's not sure why...

Then you brought in Sabrina and I realized I was wrong. It was all just a set-up
 
I thought that omake was going somewhere else. Like, Momura erased Sabrina's existence. Without memories of Sabrina bringing them together, Sayaka wasn't friendly towards Homura, and Mami's alive because actions can't be undone, but she feels so lonely and she's not sure why...

Then you brought in Sabrina and I realized I was wrong. It was all just a set-up
 
I don't know what you're talking about, we would never even consider that, how can you imply that, as part of Sabrina's mind, I can assure you that nobody here, much less me, never me, have ever tried to vote to take a photo of anybody, much less of Homura's super cute sleeping face.

How dare you, you monster.
De Nile..not just a river in Egypt...
 
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