Room 503, Monday Morning.

[dojima_hime]

Monday found Dōjima in her room, door open and music blaring as she worked on her packing. She wasn't leaving for good - not yet - but she had the 'letter' from her Father, ordering her back to Japan starting tomorrow for a week's orientation with the STN-J.

She was going to miss everyone leaving and the move to the cabins, dammit. If Yurika were a paranoid person, she'd think Father Juliano was doing this on purpose to try and alienate her from her friends.

Okay, so she was paranoid, and she did think that was a possibility. A rather strong possibility. Still, orders were orders, and therefore she was packing things into three sets; items for this trip, things that could be shipped home, and stuff for the cabins. It was just easier to deal with it all at once.



[Door & Post open, that she's packing is totes FB, any mention of sekkrit-agent-stuff or orders is NFB.]

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[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Hai!" she answered, grinning at him over her shoulder. "Apparently, I have to report to the STN-J on Wednesday morning, bright and early, for an orientation session with the team."

"I'll be back by Monday, but I figured I might as well get all my packing done at once."

[withoutverona]

Romeo pouted at her and slumped against the wall. "But you have to go, now? I thought you said they wouldn't have need of you until August."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"That's what I was told, too," she said, making a face. "But apparently they just got some new IT kid, a guy named Michael or something, and they'd rather make us both sit through the lectures at the same time."

[withoutverona]

"I can give you the lecture," Romeo said hopefully. "Don't steal paperclips, show up by nine, wear decent clothes. Done. Can you stay here?"

He was being terrifically mature about this.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Aijin," Yurika said warningly. "I'm not even going to be gone a full week."

[withoutverona]

"So says Father Juliano," Romeo noted, and let out a long huff of breath. "Forgive me if I find the man hard to trust."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"It's not in his best interests to lie about this," Yurika pointed out. "Do you want to come with? I assumed you'd want to stay around for the newbie picnic," and everyone that was leaving, "but we'd be back in time for you to open the store next week."

[withoutverona]

Romeo was very, very tempted by her offer, and was about to offer to run across the hall for his bags when he came back to earth.

"I think Rikku would kill us both, if neither of us were here to see her off," he said reluctantly. "But you know if you don't come to the store Monday to greet me, I will go to Tokyo and find you."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I will get food, and then I will meet you at the store," she negotiated. "I'll also have apartment leaflets and maps and such that I'll bring back with me."

"At least, I'm assuming you decided to come with me, since your father made a point of telling me that I can have you for two years."

[withoutverona]

"I meant to tell you that!" Romeo said, suddenly happier. "I need to go to classes, and we can't get married -- which I know breaks your heart -- but yes. I'm yours for two more years. Well, yours and Tokyo's."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Mine, Tokyo's, and your homework's," she corrected with a laugh. "If you don't take and pass your classes, your father might kill me."

[withoutverona]

"Business classes, yet," Romeo said, tone only half complaining. "My father drove a hard bargain; I suppose that's why he's a success."

He made a face. "I know it's my fate, but I still have a hard time imagining myself at the head of the Montague estate."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Why?" she asked, setting aside the packing for a moment to sit on the bed. "I know what your father wants, obviously, but what do you want?"

[withoutverona]

"If I knew that I'd have an easier time with all of this," Romeo said ruefully. "I want to be with my love. I want to be a good man. I want to live in Verona someday. That's as far as I get."

He gave her a look. "Do you mind that I'm so set on Verona?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"No, not really," Yurika replied with a wry grin. "I mean, I get it."

"Instead of taking Father Juliano's offer, I could have always run away. Started over somewhere that people didn't know me, where there weren't any expectations or baggage, but I didn't. Partly because I didn't have anywhere to go, but mostly because Japan is just as much a part of me as being a Dōjima is."

[withoutverona]

Romeo quirked a brief smile at her. "We'll have to figure that out, won't we, while I'm at school?" he said. "Your Tokyo, my Verona. I don't think we can give up either."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I'm not worried," she answered. "Oh, and your father says we have to come to Verona on visits."

[withoutverona]

"That ought not be so bad," Romeo mused. "You can work on your tan and talk to Rosaline, if you want."

He gave her a sad attempt at a smile. "I'll try not to worry, if you will not."