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[better_than_aliens]

[If you look at the hangar, Christine's busy slumped over on a wall, looking like hell. This was the second time she sortied and ended up getting the short end of the stick. Even worse, this time, it lead to someone's death. Someone she knew and cared about on some level. Oh, sure, she wasn't as torn up about this as Laura certainly was, but still...]

Too weak, too slow, I let myself get the better of me... DAMMIT! What was I thinking?! I could have done something! Anything! Anything but what I did!

[She growls and buries her head in her hands.]

...What if that was Julia...? What if I couldn't have...?

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[curse_u_reflexes]

[Sounds like you need a pick me up from your alien lesbian girlfriend, Christine. She's not looking very happy, but at the same time she's going to at least try to comfort you.]

... If that had been me out there, I wouldn't have held anything against you if you did everything you could.

And...

[She pauses, giving Christine a heartfelt squeeze.]

Lily still might be okay.

[sonofgucun]

[Christine. Have a leader of the State of Gucun walk up to you and grip your shoulder. A little harder than he has to... but still.]

You did do something. Self Recriminations will not change what has already happened.

[Spoken from experience.]

Nobody on the field was prepared for what had occurred. Even if there were more of us, or we still had armament, we were still caught by surprise. There is no way of telling what could or could not have been.

[emorangerpink]

Like what?

[girlfriend_dot_exe]

[There's a computer monitor talking to you now. It has a handy little pink line to show when it's speaking. It talks with the voice of a girl, Alice's voice.]

You could not.