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» WHO? Tatsuya and Jun
» WHEN? End of Spetember-ish
» WHERE? Observation Deck
» WHAT? ROMANCE
» WARNINGS? None to start with! Will edit with warnings as necessary.

It's been a long time coming.... But Tatsuya had once thought it never would.

It's hard to tell just by looking whether it's day or night when you're out in space. It doesn't really matter, either. For them, it's dinnertime and Tatsuya's got a date planned. He'd hit up the replicator for dinner-- it might not be quite as good as the real thing, but it was a lot better than it used to be. They'd discussed the meal earlier: leg of lamb, carrots (chopped into coins), roasted asparagus, and baked potatoes with all the fixings. A nice meal, and-- Tatsuya hopes-- a nice date with his lover.

His lover. The thought still sends giddy thrills through him, and he can't help but smile softly to himself.

Jun should be here soon-- they'd agreed on a time, but he'd gone ahead early to set up. Tatsuya looks out to the stars, wondering where Earth is among all of them.

Maybe Jun will know.

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There's a complicated mix of emotions running through Tatsuya as he hears that. There's sorrow for a world he'll never see again, even a little jealousy... a bittersweet sense of happiness... and it's that last one that wins out, and he smiles softly.

"Rad, huh...?" Tatsuya tastes the word in his mouth. "I'm glad. It's our world, after all... It should be."

Jun felt that same mix of feelings for a moment once. It was hard to think of how... in that new world, he was a different person. He might as well be dead, because he was never going to be the same there as he was now, and... was that any different from being dead in the end?

"It should." He laughs at that, wiping at his face before leaning in to kiss Tatsuya's cheek. "And they're from... like... ten years in the future, right?"

Tatsuya's cheeks tinge a faint pink when he feels the light pressure of Jun's kiss. "Ten years.... it seems like such a long time."

More than half his lived experiences.... It seems inconceivable.

"But it's nice that it endures."

Despite his mistakes.

"It is..." He agreed. It endured for more than a decade at least. Jun wouldn't be there to see it, not with the eyes he had now, nor the context, but that it continued to exist made him feel a little less like he had failed... well, everyone.

"Hey Tatsuya. What are we going to do if we're here for another ten years?"

Tatsuya's quiet for a moment as he considers that.

"We'll just take things a day at a time," he says at last. "We'll have a life together. With you by my side.... anything's worth that."

He leans over to brush a light kiss against Jun's lips.

Jun gives a contented hum as Tatsuya kisses his lips and he gives him a little kiss back. It tastes kind of nice, with the flavor of the meal lingering on both of their lips.

"I wish we could stay here forever. Selfish, I know, but... I just want to spend time with you", he said, sighing. "Make up for lost time, you know?" For the time when he was in Kasugayama High, separated by false memories and an unruly Persona.

Tatsuya hums lightly at that.

"We probably can't have forever," he says, even though he wishes it weren't true. "But I'll do my best to fit in as much lost time with you as we can take. No one can take right now from us."

Not even Nyarlathotep.

That gets a little huff from Jun as he pouts. 'Can't have forever' he says. Well, he's probably right. "A shame we can't go to the planet or something for a walk outside. I do miss the open air after these couple of months."

He shrugs then, getting back to the food. "Oh, by the way, Okumura-san told me that she's harvested some plants from the garden. So there's a start to something like outside, right?"

Jun's lover is a realist. It's a pity, truly.

"I'm hopeful about the planet," Tatsuya says as he gets back to his own food. "Maybe someday, we'll be able to go down."

He pauses as he considers the rest of what Jun said, then adds: "Real food.... I miss the taste of real food."

Jun doesn't mind. Generally, he is a pessimist as well, he just... hoped. He wanted to be an optimist. "I heard there were some kind of ships in a hangar here somewhere. Maybe eventually we'll get access enough to them to get to the planet's surface."

He smiles at the though, wondering what they could discover down there. "Imagine it. The crunch of real carrots!" He laughs a little, still eating the ones that were here. There were fine, really! But in the end he'd really prefer some real vegetables.

Tatsuya's eyes sparkle. "I'd love to pilot a real space ship!"

A real one, not created by rumours or with any world-ending strings attached.... Tatsuya presses his hand to his chest and sighs. Imagine.

Jun laughs at that, smiling. "I think you could do it pretty well." Honestly, he isn't sure whether or not Tatsuya being good with vehicles was just rumor stuff or not, but Tatsuya isn't dumb, at least. He could probably figure it out with enough time.

"We'll have to keep our eyes on the hangar, and on the network for anyone else who is getting in there."

Tatsuya could actually answer that question-- yes, it is rumour stuff, but it's become a part of him regardless-- but Jun didn't ask it, so he doesn't address that.

"I can handle that," Tatsuya says with a hum. "Maybe I should help try and get to the space ships."

He really, really wants to fly one now that he's thought of it.

That was fine, really. Jun was happy with just wondering for now. And honestly talking about the rumor stuff was still not something he wanted to do if he didn't have to.

"Yeah! I think that'd be great. I really want to get to the planet... and maybe document the plants there? I don't know, just some fresh air would be nice."

Honestly, Tatsuya doesn't want to talk about the rumour stuff either unless he really has to-- it's still a deeply upsetting topic with a tangle of complicated emotions.

"Fresh air would be so nice," Tatsuya agrees with a soft sigh. "Do you think any of the plants down there might be edible?"

How do people even check for that, he idly wonders.