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[ Shortly after Lucy enters the park, Katherine is deposited by an uber, having decided to save time over money this time around. Its a rather good reason to her, honestly.

She walks in, keeping an eye out for a familiar pink-head of hair or a young girl that had shared enough features with her and Lucy to have set something off the first time she'd seen her.

.....Would Luna be okay with this? Would her sudden appearance cause whatever was going on between her and Lucy already to grow worse? Should Katherine even be there to start with? Her mind slowly but surely devolves into a process of second0guessing and nervous speculation as she falters in her search. Then the what-if's turn to Lucy, her thoughts wandering to a particular part of her text,

"when my foster parents gave up on yelling they just dragged me away from places I shouldn't be-"

Her thoughts, and a bubble of guilt in her stomach, are stopped immediately by the crunching of leaves, head turning to see a familiar head of pink hair. ]

......Hey Lucy.

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[Lucy's footsteps stopped and she looked up. Katherine wasn't hiding, it was no trouble at all to find her. Lucy didn't approach any more, though, staying two meters away.]

Katherine.

[Being proven wrong was...not so terrible, for once. For one sister, anyway. Where was the other one?]

..........Its good to see you.

[ There isn't much to say after that, at least nothing that Katherine feels confident saying. Anything practiced in her mind seems either pointless or ignorant now. ]

........If its okay to ask, how long have you known Luna?

[Luna wasn't sure why she agreed to this. Okay, Minako and Freya had raised a good point, probably, but she didn't actually owe Lucy anything. And even if Lucy hadn't meant to scare her, she had. She had to know what a moment like that was like she'd been in the damn system too.]

[Yet there she was, tromping through the park, hands stuffed into the pocket of her hoodie. She paused when she spotted Lucy's pink hair...hard to miss, and...]

[She was with someone else? What? Who the hell was that? She stopped, a decent distance down the path, watching them for a moment, trying to figure out whether she wanted to keep going or leave...]

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[Lucy shuffled a bit on her feet, crumpling more leaves underfoot. It was still strange to hear, that someone was happy she was around. She didn't meet Katherine's gaze head on, glancing over her sister's shoulder.]

Met her four years ago before they split us up. Lost contact until recently.

[There was someone coming down the pathway. Someone small, in a hooded jacket, and someone Lucy recognized instantly. But she didn't move, locking her knees into place. She didn't call out, though she wanted to.

Unthinking movement was what got her into this mess to begin with. She'd made Luna feel trapped. If Luna still wanted to run, she could. Lucy wouldn't keep her there.]

I can only imagine what kind of shock it was, realizing you had another sister. [ It makes sense, in a way; pairing up the siblings to help through a number of developmental milestones and give some form of support, someone to help the development of one's identity as a person......and then they were "split-up".

Katherine is about to speak up again when she notices a change in Lucy's focus, following her eyes to the nearby figure. It doesn't take her even a second to know who it is. She's seen her picture before, of course, but there's just that immediate feeling of recognition that "Takada" look that she gets when she looks at Lucy.

She goes quiet like her sister, though she herself makes a nod of greeting to Luna, trying to at least come off as somewhat warmer. Its Luna's move, now. ]

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[Luna had hoped they'd keep talking, give her time to decide what she wanted to do, but Lucy had spotted her almost immediately, and now both women were looking her way. Who was the other one? There was a vague feeling of familiarity there but...]

[Oh whatever. She sucked in a deep breath through her nose then let it out in one burst of air from her mouth, fidgeting her hands in her pocket for a moment, and then another breath, more normal, before she started walking again. She took her time though, it was a good thirty seconds before she was close enough to the two older women to talk.]

Hey. [She directed this at Lucy, grey eyes glancing towards the other for a moment before they settled back on her sister.] Your roommates tracked me down. Said I should come talk to you. What do you want?

[It wasn't rude, exactly, but it wasn't polite either...]

[Lucy kept her eyes fixed over her sister's shoulder, only half listening to Katherine. When Luna continued approaching, even after looking up, all of the pink haired woman's attention was on her. She didn't say anything, only listened.

Lucy was...a bit surprised, still, hearing that Freya and Minako had done the talking. But it wasn't surprising at all, at the same time.

...and now she needed to talk. She needed to be responsible, and say something. Lucy shifted on her feet.]

I'm sorry.

[ Katherine goes silent as Lucy begins to talk, realizing there isn't much reason for her words at the moment. Right now, this was between Luna and Lucy. She would likely come into this later.

Her glance consistently changes from one to the other, quietly gauging their reactions. ]

[Luna raised an eyebrow a that. Really, Lucy? That was it? She could've just said that over the phone, couldn't she? Would've been easier for Luna to ignore anyway.]

Uh huh.

[She said, her tone clearly skeptical, even as her gaze flicked towards Katherine again, then back to Lucy.]

Who's she?

[That didn't work. Somewhat expectedly. But she still felt indignant all the same, grinding her teeth together and stiffening her shoulders. That threw off what else she was supposed to say, too, and Lucy didn't know which way to turn next. This was unfamiliar ground.

Well, mostly. Katherine was still familiar. Like so many times when she was younger, Lucy kept close to her, even if now it was more in a metaphorical sense. Physically she stayed rooted to the spot.]

My sister. Your sister.

[ Katherine doesn't have the confidence nor the time to comment on the shot down apology, as Lucy suddenly lets her be pulled in. Not the best way of breaking this to Luna, but it was going to happen eventually. She just wishes she didn't feel like such an outsider here. ]

...I guess thats one way of putting it. [ She's not intentionally criticizing Lucy's lack of "our", just commenting on it.

With that, her full attention turns to Luna, nodding to her as she begins, trying to make herself look as non-intimidating and approachable as possible; not a smile, but a neutral, accepting look. Luna might recognize her from their talks on Retrospect, but now she might be making the connection. ] Sorry if this is a bit blunt, but...Lucy insisted that I be here.

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[Luna couldn't hide the surprise that flashed across her face, eyes a bit wide, turning to really look at Katherine again. Her sister. Their sister? What?]

[That was ridiculous. Though maybe she could see something there around the eyes but...no. No this was stupid.]

[She made a frustrated noise through her teeth and looked back at Lucy. Sorry Katherine.]

I don't know what you're trying to pull here...

[Lucy's hands curled more tightly into themselves, nails pressing semicircles into her palms.]

You asked who she was, I told you.

[She couldn't keep the frustrated snap out of her voice, even as she willed herself to be still, to stay in place.]

I fucked up, okay? I fucked up a lot. I'm sorry.

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[ Katherine is silent this entire time, though she does shift uncomfortably in place, watching the two carefully with the worry of things going downhill. ]

Lucy... [ ...She wants this to work out. She barely knows Luna, part of her not even knowing what to feel about her. But she really wants this to work out.

She readjusts her standing one last time, giving her sister a reassuring look and a nod, before turning to Luna. ]

Luna, I understand that this all a really, really out there for you. [ She barely knew she was related to Luna until a few days ago. ] But Lucy isn't lying, she doesn't really have a reason to lie about this sort of thing. Could you please at least hear us out?

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[Luna took a step backwards at the frustration in Lucy's voice, but her expression was more of anger than fear.]

That...

[And the she looked at Katherine. Her face looked familiar.]

I talked to you on the phone the other day. You didn't say anything then about being some kind of mysterious sister. Why should I believe you now?

[Lucy stayed rooted in place, but she didn't stop talking. She still had more to say, lackluster apologies notwithstanding.]

Katherine didn't know until yesterday. I was going to tell you years ago. And then I—

[Her teeth clicked together, and she took half a step backwards as she broke eye contact.]

...then I fucking left.

[Lucy hadn't been able to tell Luna then, and then they'd lost contact. She thought she was never going to see Katherine again either and so didn't tell her, because what was the point?

And yet here they all were.]

[ ...Whatever response or reasoning Katherine is going to release is cut off by Lucy explaining for her. ]

...I wasn't exactly sure what to say to you then. I didn't want to sudden spring it on you.

[ She's not used to popping things on people like that: in her experience, surprises have never been easy. Especially with Luna's apparent issue with Lucy as it was. ]

I guess I failed at doing that.

[This was way more than Luna was prepared for, honestly. She'd expected just Lucy, expected to be a jerk about deflecting her apologies until she decided to forgive her, just so she had to suffer a little bit. Instead there's suddenly some other sister and Lucy was berating herself more than Luna had actually expected.]

I-

[She took another half-step backwards.]

This is all crazy, you get that right? You can't just be my sister, somebody would've told me before now!

[Even if Lucy said she meant to. Could people really keep secrets like this?]

[After all the snapping, Lucy fell quiet. If this didn't work, she would...she didn't know. She couldn't just keep asking Minako or Freya about this.

The pink haired girl scuffed her feet again, glancing back towards her younger sister and away at some uninteresting tree across the path.]

[ Luna's doubt is completely understandable, and neither she (herself) nor Lucy really seem to be getting to her. Honestly, going into this, Katherine had had little mental or social preparation for what would go on. Now she's starting to wonder if her presence is just messing things up, adding to the conflict at hand. ]

Again, I am very sorry if this is a whole lot to spring on you, especially at a time like this. I can't blame you for calling this all crazy.

[ But crazy was becoming the norm as of late, and if Katherine was able to be barred from any information on her sister for 13 years, its not surprising that any half-siblings would be completely unknown to her. ]

But despite how crazy it sounds, I'm being honest: We all seem to share at least one parent.

[Something about that brought her up short. She didn't know her parents, but she remembered listening to Lucy complain about their father. And they had a different mother, really, so...]

[She falls quiet, trying to process it all. She doesn't bolt though, it's still kind of obvious she wants to from the way she seemed to be shifting, almost vibrating, in place.

It's completely nuts. [She agreed, looking between the two of them.] So if Lucy has an older sister and, what, same Dad? How'd she end up getting stuck in foster care huh?

[Looking for holes in the story...]

[Lucy pulled her gaze away from the tree, shoulders tensing up again.]

My mom threw me out after dad left. Katherine too, but she took her back.

[They'd be together again soon, the employees said, all to shut up a distraught child. They didn't mean it, in Lucy's bitter recollections.]

[ Something coils in Katherine's gut when the topic of their mother and separation is brought up. Katherine visibly tenses as the guilt pulses in her stomach, and lets out an uncomfortable exhale, though she does so into her sleeve to mask it as a yawn. ]

Thats... [ She cuts herself off, her voice taut and struggling to appear calm; She's had this argument with Lucy before multiple times, and has never really felt honest about going against her because of it. It was just that damaged attachment she still had to her mother that had spurred it. ] I didn't properly know about this until after we were separated, but Lucy was legally surrendered shortly after she was born. We were in the same orphanage together until I was sent back.

[ There's a somber weight to her voice, guilt making it hard to talk straight, and its now Katherine's turn to avert her gaze, opting to look at the ground.

"Mom, when is Lucy coming home?" ]

[Luna didn't know how to process this. It was all ridiculous and impossible and just forgiving Lucy was supposed to be her big deal for the day not that and...and another sister?]

[Another sister who hadn't ever really been a part of her life. It was like she was starting a collection.]

Yeah that's all great. [She managed, as if the explanation was somehow nonsense or impossible or she didn't care. She was falling back into her defensive sarcasm it seemed.]

But why are you here? Why did you bring her? Why now?!

[Another half-step backwards as she talked.]

[Lucy didn't look at Katherine. Her older sister didn't make any denials or argue with her this time, which...should have made Lucy feel better. It didn't.]

I asked her to be here. I didn't know shit all to say.

[The pink haired girl took half a step forwards, lurching a bit at the shoulders before she stopped again.]

Just—don't go.

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[ Kath honestly doesn't know what to think of Lucy's reason for having her there. On one hand, she's touched that her sister had wanted her there for support. On the other hand, it hasn't really done much for them: honestly it still just feels like she's just getting in the way of things.

Not wanting to leave the wrong impression, she lists her gaze back up to the two, just in time to see Lucy lurch forwards in a step. ]

[Luna didn't like that she could feel herself panicking like this. It was just too much, that was all, and something this big just...just being dropped on her. She'd thought she had the upper hand, mess with Lucy a bit before finally forgiving her, and instead this...this.]

Couldn't just apologize on your own, huh.

[She muttered, and tensed up visibly when Lucy took a step towards her. No. No she wanted space, she needed space between them, it helped her think, she needed to just back up, anything to make her...]

Mm.

[It hit her like a wave, a kind of a sudden sense of draining, and the air around her suddenly swirled int a black, chaotic vortex, but only for a few seconds, before a dog thing suddenly burst into existence, pouncing forward to take up the space between Lucy and Luna.]

Ahh!

[Luna let out a shocked sound as she fell back onto her butt, eyes wide. The dog just stayed right where it was, head held towards the ground and tilted slightly to the side as it stared at Lucy, growling out a warning.]

[Whatever Lucy had been going to say, to do, all of that was immediately forgotten in the face of too many teeth too close—

Lucy shouted in alarm, scrambling backwards. Her vectors crunched some of the leaves underfoot into dust as Lucy backpedaled another two meters away.]

What the fuck is that?!

[ The weighing guilt in her mind is immediately overthrown by a new feeling of dread as she watches the air turn black and swirl around Luna, instinctively stepping back, eyes widened and glued to the younger Takada.

They don't stay stuck on her long, however, as the monstrous dog comes into existence. Katherine stumbles back with a look of horror on her face, the memories of monstrous creatures still fresh in her mind from June. ]

SHIT! Look out!

Ahhh!

[Luna made another shout of fear and surprise, scrambling back away from the dog on her hands and feet until she bumped into a trashcan.]

[The beast stayed where it was, though it turned it's head to stare at Luna for a moment before looking back at the two other Takada's and letting out another growl. It took one aggressive step forward, claws scraping at the sidewalk, but didn't attempt to attack.]

[ The moment the beast turns to look at the smallest of the trio, Katherine's dread turns wild as she cries out for the younger Takada. ]

Luna, run!

[ Some small amount of relief comes to her when the beast chooses to ignore Luna, thankful she isn't in danger for now. On the other hand, the canid's behavior is still absolutely terrifying, Katherine backing up in response to its approach, yet not fully bolting like her instincts were screaming for her to do, unable to imagine leaving the other two on their own. ]

[There was a spike of alarm in Lucy's chest when the creature turned, but it didn't go after Luna. After looking at her it ignored her presence again, and it didn't charge at them, either. And it was farther away now. Not...quite a safe distance, there was no safe here, but it'd have to get closer if Lucy was going to hit it.

Lucy stood still, eyes narrowed suspiciously and vectors curling agitated over her shoulders.]

[The dog seemed intent on staying right where it was between the two sisters and Luna, still giving off that low, threatening growl. Luna, behind it, finally scrambled to her feet, holding onto the trash can she had bumped into to steady herself.]

[Her eyes were wide, looking from the dog to Lucy and Katherine and back, as if she didn't know what to do. But finally Katherine's instruction finally kicked in, and she turned and took off down the path.]

[Unfortunately, about twenty seconds later, the dog gave a final growl and then turned and loped after her.]

[Luna was running away. From Lucy, from both of them, from the monster. She felt regret twisting cold in her chest and anger at Katherine, for telling Luna to run away. Lucy didn't get time to dwell on that for long; more happened, a neverending cascade of events.

With a startled shout Lucy broke from her spot, desperately chasing after the monster. Leaving the thing alone was a mistake, a stupid mistake.]

Shit—Luna, it's after you!

[ Whatever hesitation of movement she had before disappears, as Katherine bolts after them. ]

No, no, no, no-!

[ She fucked up. She shouldn't have told Luna to run; of course a monster would go for the smallest one of them, especially if she bolted first. Screaming for her to run, it had been out of instinct, long-dulled instinct, to be exact. ]

[By the time the two catch up, the animal has Luna cornered. She's got her back pressed up against a tree, staring down at the dog, which has stopped a few feet from her, still on the sidewalk. But it's just watching her? It's not growling, back isn't arched or anything.]

[She looks up, her eyes wild, when the two sisters come racing up the trail, and the dog immediately spins around to face them again, leaning low and growling once more.]

[Lucy didn't stop. She recklessly charged forwards, the air above her shoulders distorting before she was even in range. Four spectral hands grasped for the creature, trying to slam it into the ground./small>]

Luna, are you-!

[ She's cut short as Lucy descends upon the monster, Katherine's heart dropping in horror, and then shock, not exactly having any proper words to describe what she's seeing at the moment. Katherine stops for a moment, eyes widening as she finally gets a look at the spectral hands she'd caught a glimpse on at the beach. ]

Lucy...

[The dog barely had enough time to brace for a pounce before Lucy was pinning it to the ground, and it let out a guttural yelp as she did so. Luna immediately bolted from the tree and halfway over to Katherine, only turning back when she was sure the animal couldn't pounce on her.]

W-what is it...?

[For this, at least, Lucy's concentration didn't falter. She bore down against the creature's struggling, holding it down against the concrete. Her side prickled with long-healed phantom wounds from the last time something with the same teeth tried to take a chunk out of her. Lucy would rather not repeat that.

She didn't answer Katherine immediately, at least not intentionally.]

I don't know what it is!

[The dog struggled, but seemed to be calming down as it was pressed so firmly into the ground like that. Luna was calming down too, if only because Lucy seemed to have the creature contained, and she hesitated before stepping a bit closer.]

It looks kind of like a dog...

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