#24 with ken/kari
This meme here.
((I have RP’d with several Hikaris on here, an excellent light one and a wonderful certain queen of the dark ocean, but since @mygentledarkness another dear friend just decided to remake, I’ll do it with that version of her. Sorry this took so long for me to get to.))
He’d had several drinks, but was still nowhere near close enough to drunk. She was on the barstool next to him, after volunteering to get him home safely when the bar closed.
Babysitting him to make sure he didn’t pull more shit, really. But he felt like antagonizing someone, and she was right there. “Why’d you fuckers stop me? I could’ve fixed it. I could’ve fixed him. And your Digimon, too.”
“That look in your eyes? It terrified me. You terrified me.”
He snorted at that.
Earlier that day, after discovering that, when Leafmon came back to him once more, he had no recollection of who Ken was--well. He had, understandably, lost it.
“I once wanted to start it all again. Do you remember that? Right before I realized it was real?”
“It’s hard to forget that moment, yeah.”
“Well some otherworldly bitch started it again. Deleted all the files from the big master computer off in the heavens somewhere and just--rebooted. But data is never truly gone. You can’t just drop that into the recycle bin and call it a day. I could have done it. I could have gotten their memory files back. I would have if you’d let me get to the fucking computer.”
“You would have died.”
Ken had to laugh. “Haven’t we covered this territory before, too? Without him--without Wormmon--you already know I deserve to die for all I’ve done, but what reason do I have to bother sticking around without him? He didn’t recognize me, for fuck’s sake!”
“You would have died without Wormmon ever knowing you at all,” she said softly. “Isn’t it better, to try to build again? Isn’t it better that he doesn’t remember all the suffering you’ve caused?”
“Shut up and take me home,” Ken said, slamming his empty glass on the counter.