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[passingthrough]

[Kitty is currently exploring her new prison and looking for anyone she might know by walking through walls and dropping down through ceilings or rising up through floors in a building near you! She'll be doing this a lot through the hotel, but she's abusing the laws of physics all over the place, so keep your pants on just in case! Honestly, if you don't give a girl a network, you deal with the consequences. Or, more accurately, the people you trap her with do.]

Coming through. Anyone relevant to my interests here?

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[passingthrough]

[She catches sight of something else with her in the room when she enters. She assumes it's a local animal for a split second, but the familiarity is too strong and her eyes widen as she drops down to better pet the cat.] Kuroneko? Did you come with me [Seeker and Pixels had arrived with her. She stashed them in a room she felt was reasonably safe. She didn't want to put the stress and strain on them of being phased around and she couldn't sit still without exploring.]

Or... [She looks around as if she could have simply missed the gunfighter somewhere in the shabby surroundings.] Vash? [She stands again, stepping toward the door to poke her head through it. She doesn't like this. She's getting her hopes up and this is not a time or place for hopes. But she did find his cat so maybe?]

[goldenglasses]

[Kuroneko purrs happily. Leaning into that petting and loving the attention. Although she's not so happy when it stops. Possibly an unknown benefit to being able to make yourself intangible is that Kitty will have an easier time not stepping on the cat when she tries to get underfoot. Who said you could stop showing her attention?!

He's not immediately outside the door when she looks out, but given another moment or two he comes around the corner. One arm full of strange looking fruit and the other currently turning one of the pieces over and over. An arm that has a bracelet she should recognise on the wrist.]

Do I really think these are safe to eat? [He muttering to himself as he walks down the hall. Suddenly coming to a complete halt when he notices someone half coming out of his doorway.

His heart leaping into his throat his eyes immediately go to Kitty's throat and starts thumping louder when he spots the necklace she treasured so much around her neck. Although she might not remember him still.

Please let her remember me.]

Uh... hi? [Crap that's not what he wanted to say.] Do-- do you remember me? [He told himself if she showed up he'd take it slow and easy. Try not to freak her out in case the worst happened, but damn it was hard to not just run up and hug her right now.]

[passingthrough]

[She was ready to duck back in the room to figure out her next move when she caught sight of a flash of red and then the man the red coat was attached to followed closely after. And a second after that the most important realization hits.

It's him.

Not a version of him. Not a him with different memories. But him him. The one she gave that bracelet too. The one whose cat likes her. The one who isn't looking at her like a ghost but as her.

And the part where he asks if she remembers him doesn't hurt. Those words break her free from her frozen position and she bursts fully out of the door and does the very thing he's trying not to do. Alien fruit be damned, she's coming in for a jump hug, Vash!]

[goldenglasses]

[What fruit? It's immediately dropped from his arms the moment she starts to run towards him. It's enough of an answer for him as he hurries to meet her halfway. Laughing with absolute joy in his voice he easily catches her in his strong arms, but it's not enough to expel his joyful energy so he begins to swing them in an erratic circle.]

Thank God you're here! I don't know what I would have done if you didn't remember me. [He can't stop grinning as he starts to wildly kiss at her face. Too excited to worry about aiming for her mouth. It's just a bonus when he hits it.

She was here! She was alive! And she remembers him! For this moment Vash can't remember a time being this happy.]